The applicant is requesting site plan approval and a zone change from R-12 to R-22 to allow higher density for an 18-unit apartment complex called Felida Terrace. The primary dispute involves a denied road modification regarding cross-circulation and street access, which the applicant argues imposes disproportionate frontage improvement requirements. To justify the current proposal, the applicant's engineer noted that a previously approved 11-lot subdivision for the site would have generated the exact same traffic impacts as the proposed higher-density apartment complex.
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Clark County Land Use Hearings · Aug 13, 2026 · 13:56–16:20 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: subdivision zoning density concurrency
What was said
12:55 How about now? - Let's see. - Public hearing? - Yep. - Okay. Good deal. All right. Tonight's during this presentation, staff is gonna try to give a rundown or a brief summary of the report and recommendation. We'll go to applicant's testimony and then public testimony. And then the applicant's rebuttal. The hearing examiner already covered this, so I'm gonna move forward. The case tonight is the Felida Terra site plan and zone change. The case number is PSR 2026-00021. The request is the applicant's requesting site plan review approval to construct an 18 unit apartment complex on 0.88 acres. Additionally, as part of this proposal,
13:54 the applicant's requesting to rezone the site from the current R-12 zoning to R-22 to allow for greater density. The applicant's Songbird Homes. The contact is PLS Engineering and the owner is Osprey Ventures, LLC. The location is 3511 Northwest 119th Street, Vancouver, Washington 98685.
14:19 Okay, as I said before, my name is Brian Matson. We also have a review engineer here for Alistair Dawson, who will talk about onsite transportation, probably get into the road modification issues a bit. We have a concurrency engineer, Craig Cottle and senior deputy fire marshal, Jason Noble also reviewed this for code compliance. As I said, I'm the review planner for this project. During our presentation, we're gonna provide the overview summary of the proposal, identify any major outstanding issues or concerns and ultimately make our recommendation to the examiner. Okay, on the vicinity map here, the subject property is identified by the black dot. If you can see my cursor, it's right here. North is oriented to the top of the page. The subject site lies south of Northwest 119th Street and east of Northwest Lakeshore Avenue and west of Northwest 35th Avenue.
15:18 Of note, here is Jefferson Middle School here. We also have the Volita Village mixed use development, a kind of kitty corner at the intersection of 119th and Lakeshore has some commercial uses here. And then Raspberry Fields Park is to the southwest here. The zoning map shows kind of the partialization of the surrounding lots. The site is highlighted here in red. The site and the parcels to the east are all zoned R-12. The parcels to the north across 119th Street are zoned R110. We have a single parcel zoned neighborhood commercial across the street to the west. You have the mixed use where they have the village, Volita Village mixed use development. And then to the southwest, you have R1-7.5, which is a single family zoning. - So a question, Brian. - Yes, sir.
16:16 - How close is the nearest R-22? - I don't, I don't have that information right here. I could break free from this presentation and find-- - That's okay, that's okay. Think about that maybe later. - Okay. I've got here, I've got an aerial map, an aerial photo, aerial photogrammetry of the site here in blue. You can see the school here off to the east. You can see both the arterials, Lakeshore Avenue and 119th here. These three buildings are the Volita Village mixed use development. And you can also see a lot of the single family residences that surround the area. I did, I put this one in also in case we wanted to talk about something in more detail because the last one was zoomed out so far, just in case somebody wanted to talk about 118th street,
17:14 which I anticipated would be a topic. This is just a blown up version of what I had there before.
Evidence (2 matches)
direct keyword 13:56–14:05 subdivision, zoning, density, concurrency
PSR 2026-00021. The request is the applicant's requesting site plan review approval to construct an 18 unit apartment complex on 0.88 acres. Additionally, as part of this proposal, the applicant's requesting to rezone the site from the current R-12 zoning to R-22 to allow for greater density. The applicant's Songbird Homes. The contact is PLS Engineering and the owner is Osprey Ventures, LLC. The location is 3511 Northwest 119th Street, Vancouver, Washington 98685. Okay, as I said before, my na
direct keyword 16:12–16:20 subdivision, zoning, density, concurrency
R110. We have a single parcel zoned neighborhood commercial across the street to the west. You have the mixed use where they have the village, Volita Village mixed use development. And then to the southwest, you have R1-7.5, which is a single family zoning. - So a question, Brian. - Yes, sir. - How close is the nearest R-22? - I don't, I don't have that information right here. I could break free from this presentation and find-- - That's okay, that's okay. Think about that maybe later. - Okay. I