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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAppendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13.26 Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 1 of 21 Appendix A January 13, 2026, Hearing Transcript Rention High School Replacement and Site Expansion File No. – LUA25-000343, PUD, CU-H, LC Note: This is a computer-generated transcript provided for informational purposes only. The reader should not take this document as 100% accurate or take offense at errors created by the limitations of the programming in transcribing speech. A recording of the hearing is available from the City should anyone need an accurate rendition of the hearing testimony. Examiner opening comments omitted. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:04:28): The photographs and finally Google Earth. So a total of 30 cents. Like I said, a lot of work goes to these things. Does anyone need to see any of these documents or have any objection to their entry in the record? Okay. Hearing, seeing none, we'll go ahead and admit Exhibits one through 36. Finally we get to Mr. Morro. You can tell us what this big project is about. Mr. Morro, let me swear you in this raise swear again. Do you swear affirm to tell the truth about the truth this proceeding? I do. Okay, great. Go ahead. Planner Morganroth: (00:04:54): I just wanted really quick make sure we had an issue with people hearing on mine. Just want to make sure. Speaker 1 (00:04:58): Yeah, I want to just to double check to see if anybody can hear me. Mr. Feldmeyer: (00:05:10): Yes, we can hear now. Speaker 1 (00:05:13): Okay, Ms. Klein: (00:05:14): Thank you. Yeah, we just joined so whatever the preliminary remarks were, we missed it. Speaker 6 (00:05:23): Thank you. Yeah, we are recording this so it should be available after the hearing as well. Planner Morganroth: (00:05:29): Thank Speaker 6 (00:05:30): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 2 of 21 You. Planner Morganroth: (00:05:31): Alright, Ms, pull up the PowerPoint. Yes, Speaker 1 (00:05:34): I'll do that. Planner Morganroth: (00:05:55): Awesome, thank you. Well thank you Mr. Examiner and principal plan with the city going to be making a staff recommendation for the Renton High School replacement and site expansion project. Thanks for making the time to come down here in person. Like you said, we like to do these bigger projects that have more interest in person just to give everyone an opportunity to have their voices heard and so this is a hybrid meeting that are folks, folks online didn't hear. There will be an opportunity to comment for anyone coming up during something you couldn't hear the earlier discussion so that will happen later in the hearing. Okay, cool. So a little bit about the project site. So it's highlighted there on the right. It's at 400 South second Street is the technical address and includes the original parcel that's there right now as well as 42 additional parcels that the school district either owns or is in the process of owning. (00:06:54): The site area right now is 33.2 acres and it's a center downtown zone commercial arterial zone and then residential aid, so R eight zone, it's in the urban design district A and D overlays. It has two comp land, land use designations and that's commercial mixed use and residential medium density. That's kind of the north side of the site there. The existing site used to developed with the Renton High School as well as the area that's being added to the site. The site expansion of north was predominantly single family homes as well as a little bit of commercial along airport way there. Critical areas on the site. I got a high size in the cabinet area like most of this area here downtown as well as two welded protection areas which would be a map later. So it's our two zones. So where afer are zones one and two, it's kind right down the middle of the site. Be good coming up there. (00:07:56): So we'll zoom in on the zoning and complement designations in the surrounding areas. So this whole site is split zone, so it's center downtown commercial arterial and then R eight zones. Now you can see the RRA is that little pocket there of the north. You've got the rent municipal airport which is the industrial zone to the north there you've got CDs our center downtown zone to the east and south towards rent's core downtown area and then you've got ca R eight zoning, a little bit of RRA west of the middle of the size there. And then commercial arterial which is generally concentrated along area near corridor to the west. There it is in the airport influence area being just south of the airport there. So it is subject to height review by the FAA and just some extra just height limits and regulations around that overlay headed there. (00:08:50): This is the use falls under the K through 12 educational institution use in our code, which are permitted in all three zones with a hearing examiner. Additional use permits, so you allow schools with a approved CP conditional use permit in any zone in the city. So that is one of the titles being asked for as part of this process please. So critical here, like I said before, split zone, split zone split between the weld protection areas, zone one and two kind of right down the middle of the site running north south there and it's also in a high size of the hazard area. So they did submit sub-service exploration and geologic Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 3 of 21 has a geotechnical engineering report that we evaluated as part of the application. There's also, there's rules around fill and what they can bring into the site making sure we're not contaminating our aquifer about the project proposal itself. (00:09:54): So the existing campus, I'm sorry about should be 34 acres and they're adding out about 10 acres a little more. So roughly 44, 45 acres total at the end of the campus build up there. The existing development, you've got the 1931 storage school building which is right along south second there. Very, very neat building that is going to be retained. You got the annex classrooms building the gymnasium, the IKEA center, the performing arts or iPad also can be retained. You got a vocational slash warehouse building and then you've got athletic fields at various surface parking lots. So the proposed developments keeps some buildings, removes others and expands the site as a whole. So preserving and renovating the 1931 building and then the iPad demolishing the remaining structures on the site which typical includes annex classroom building to a smaller structures associated with the athletic fields. And then you've got a new little over 300,000 square foot three story classroom building that kind of runs mostly nort h south along Logan but then also expand along south side of there. (00:11:00): And then you've got a total build out of about 410,000 square feet and that was also a few accessory structure still be located near the fields spot for maintenance and other activities like that for phasing. And I just want to be clear, this is not a phase PUD which our code allows for which has other stipulations as far as what needs to be done when this is just there. PHA schedule not. So this says again combined PU with no formal phasing. That's not a phased PUU but this is their rough construction schedule essentially. So I wouldn't read all this. We've got phase 1 26 to 27 so this year and that's west parking lot front in front of improvements working on that obviously they need to keep students at the school, built the new one and then students in there. So there's a lot of all of 'em. (00:11:49): The applicant was their turn. I think I'll go into a little bit more about the construction phase two. So construction of the high school, 26 to 28, that's the new three story building a new softball baseball field, phase 3, 28 to 29. That's demolishing the existing school building. So moving kids into the new building and demolishing the old one, renovating the existing track and field, renovating the historic building and the I iPad. Then constructing service entry, teacher park, things like that. And then a couple final things in the final phase with food and service facilities and competing athletic facilities. (00:12:27): Just want to go quickly over public noticing just again for projects with this size. So we do require neighborhood meetings for project large over 10 acres. So there was a meeting held on August 6th, sorry 2025. It's not held in the future. August 26th or August 6th, 2025 at the rent high school which I attended. SAP attended as well as the applicant probably had 10 to 20 folks there. Our textual team, traffic team from the school district. The school district did their own CIPA noticing and review which was completed prior to Septi land use. Here it's a little different since they do their own receipt reviews as opposed to the city doing it. We then, once the project was accepted we followed our standard noticing procedures which include sending out notices with property within fingered feet. We put the theory, publish it in the paper to all of our standard stuff. (00:13:29): We did get about 10, probably 10, 15 comments on the project. Some of them very recent which is why they're included as exhibit third and third as constant Additional comments. We got a few at the end there. So a lot of the comments had similar themes. I kind of outlined a few of those which I'll give into Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 4 of 21 more. One is just how the project relates to our comprehensive plan and parents with our showing code. I went into a little bit about how it's being considered CP for the three zoning districts, tree retention being available bit more. They are not meeting our 30% tree retention do obviously a lot of alternatives to being able to comply with that section which I'll give it to a bit later. Traffic and bus lane concerns sees later when the bus blink are showing a Logan there. Just concern the overall traffic patterns in the area. (00:14:30): The street vacation. So separate from this process the applicant is under must in the street vacation of a portion of Togan Street which goes through the site that is considered by council. It's not part of this recommendation. They don't formally submitted the council yet, but that'll be a city council to make if for some reason that street vacation. So this proposal, this review was based on that street vacation being approved just because that was the site plan that they submitted. If for some reason it's not approved council denies the vacation, it would require a modification or revision to the PUD. So other comments were just about the overall acquisition process that the school district used, which again was not something that staff was reviewing as part of this project. (00:15:27): Okay, here's a nice overall site plan just to show you where some things are proposed here. So you can see the main high school building L-shaped there at the southeast corner of the property. So fronting on South second Street and then Logan Avenue South. You've got the existing track and tennis courts up there that they're renovating. You've got can see the portion where South Token street ends and that's where it currently goes. Currently public right of way all the way over Logan there. That is the portion they're going to be requesting a vacation that'll continue to be used for fire access and it'll be gated the South Tobin Street entrance there, but that is, you can see that the driver are shoved there, kind of follows the contours of the existing street. You've got the baseball field, the softball field, the corner airports way and Logan there. That is completely new. That's the largest chunk I guess of the site that they're adding to, adding to thephysical size of the whole. You can see various surface parking lots, staff parking, student parking, added some new parallel parking between the existing iPad building or sorry, historical iPad and historic building there. Seed labeled there accessing labeled existing building renovation. So there's some a turnout there essentially is to allow a parallel marketing drop off which is new. And then you've got the multipurpose field that is north of the stat parking lot. That's all season. (00:17:02): Here's some floor planning, obviously much easier to see. The one on month is part of the exhibits, but floor and floor one you've got some admin space, the gym, some other classrooms. I would say a lot of classes are concentrated on floors two and three. The floor three is only on I guess a portion of the main corridor. That's a long and main spine. That's one vogue in there to see. Yeah, I would recommend taking a closer look at those. We only flow a little hard to see here showing those that part of what these is. (00:17:40): There's a couple renderings which give a little better perspective of the scale there so you can kind of see it is more on the left there. That's a view from south second on the right side of that picture there. That's the intersection with Logan and South second. So doing kind of a plaza area there along south second. Make sure this is right adjacent to our downtown core near side of the road. So just making sure that there's a continuity again between our core and then the civic use that is the school. So they both have the main student access off of, you see right in the middle of that picture there. South second, that's the main student access to there off south second you can see the existing iPad on the left side of Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 5 of 21 the screen and historic building further. So that would be where the new drop off and parallel parking access will be taken from there. (00:18:35): And then on the right side that's just looking south from I guess would be if you had a drone over the pose fields looking back and have the inside of the L shape there. So you can see a lot of natural lighting and modulation of different materials. I will say there they weren't required to but they were trying to kind of tie in the materials used to what was used for the sort school sort 1931 building as well as the iPad. So to let it look new and function and a lot of 'em more glazing obviously but still fit into that existing build context on the site. (00:19:16): A little bit about transportation access. So primary access will be from south second Logan Avenue, south Lake, avenue south with internal circulation, separating buses, staff and students. That was again, a little more clear on the site plan there, but the bus dropoff is proposed along Logan Avenue South. They're going to be adding a lane there, a travel lane and then also the bus parking so the buses can be off the road without impacting traffic there. Stopping traffic. The student parking lot, the new student parking lot will be accessed from South second Lake Avenue South. Staff parking lot is located just west of the main building and could be accessed to the same, same way there. Parallel visitor parking, we talk about the four for the iPad frontage along south second and they do a lot of performances there. So these attend of that is to provide a place for people to drop off. Maybe folks that aren't as mobile that don't have to walk all the way from the student parking module. Staff parking lot in the parking for events as well as provide sub a DA spaces are easily accessible spaces right along there. As mentioned before, the South Token Street, the partial vacation will be considered by Rent City Council in early 2026. Probably the next month or so is want to get through the land use process first. Proposing substantial frontage improvements along South Second Bogan Avenue, south Airport Lake, lake Avenue South Sidewalks, new curb ramps New Street. (00:20:49): Going to be doing new companion crossings on the other side of Logan to make sure those are also EDA compliant. There'll be a new midblock crossing as Logan for students centered are crossing over maybe to walk downtown or walk to the stadium. So yes, tangible front improvements through the PD process. They're modifying those a bit, which are all in staff report specifically along Logan where they're doing the bus partnering. Obviously that's outside of our standard but what they're proposing new support as it gets the buses out of the travel links there analyst to get off close to the school. (00:21:28): They submitted a traffic impact analysis. I know that they do have their traffic consultants with us so if there's the weeds questions on that. I also have our engineer, you're here, get into that more. But real quick just to summarize mrs. An existing school being replaced by a new school is actually not going to be big increase at all of capacity thinks the a speech that a couple hundred students, but this is again a replacement of existing schools. So there wasn't a lot of new trips. Approximately 610 daily vehicle trips, 18 new trips in the morning arrival period by reduction of 15 trips in the afternoon school dismissal. So it does resulted in some ways in a reduction that little bit of an increase in the am. We did review their report and there were no changes in level of service at the nearby intersections and the project did pass the transportation some tests that the city does for projects of this scale. (00:22:29): So these are all go through all of these in the staff report. We'll just run through so planned urban development, but the intent of that is to allow some flexibility of some of our standards on sites that Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 6 of 21 maybe have challenges like being split zone or uses that have to request a number of modifications from our code. This allows them to make that request if they provide a public benefit. So we use this for other projects as well. In this case because it's split zone, one of the request was to apply basically the CD zone site-wide. It's very difficult to do any kind of staff analysis when you're looking at three different zones and buildings across and zones. So that was something that we supported with applying that CD zoning as well as the Urban Design District A standards which are very similar to design district D, just a couple variations there. (00:23:24): It's a little more set up for the compact urban development that's near size there. Building light pole heights, some run things quick, we can come back to any of 'em. Expanded in variable setbacks and buffers for field plazas, fire access, parking, parking screening, plaza seating, ground floor transparency on field facing facade, more variable sidewalk and landscape widths. Part of that is from the bus drop off area, some taller fences in the fields and then refuge refuse enclosure, modifications to the gate size in there and then tree retention. So I talked about that a little bit before there was, I can't remember this guy number. It was 222 trees on the site and they're proposing to retain I think about 10% of those, which is obviously far less than our 30% in our code. Our number one choice obviously is the preference to have to say trees on site. (00:24:25): Number two would be replacing those trees with new trees on the site and making up for those trees lost. And then number three is paying a fee in blue in this case through the PUD process. Another alternative that we presented is a recommendation of approval would be to plant trees offsite on other school district properties. We found that it great to pay into the tree and our fund is great so it might be a combination of paying fund and doing that, but if we can get new trees on school, other school sites or government sites, whatever it is, we find that those are retained a lot better than those plants that un finding property. And so that was one we just wanted to give them a little more flexibility. So there'll be some tree replacement onsite, probably some tree fee in lieu of they approach as our tree fund, which we use in the plant with trees in the area and then some offsite tree planting that maybe some as our other canvases was city limits. (00:25:21): So that was one recommended condition of approval there. The public benefit is I think pretty clear it's a modernized public high school campus compared to what's there now. It's upgrade, athletic field play, roof pedestrian safety both for students and for members of the public. This is going to improve the sidewalks on all four sides of the site. You'll add a number of crossings, complete some a DA improvements, enhance stormwater utility fire infrastructure there. It will improve site security, emergency access compared to what's there know which is partially very important these days with schools landscape buffering, visual screening between school activities and nearby neighborhoods. And then obviously it's just a long-term mode investment and a civic institution that been in downtown for a long time. (00:26:15): So additional use permit analysis can be found in one of the findings in the code. So again, in the staff report. So again the K through 12 educational institution, which this high school falls under that land use category does require a hearing examiner, conditional use, permanent all zones. So that's across all three zones. That's something we can modify through the PD process is anything. Our zoning use table in title four, chapter two. So in this case they did get CUP to have a high school in all those zones. We did find it consistent with plans and regulations such as the comp planning and zoning code did find that it's Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 7 of 21 appropriate location doesn't result in a detrimental over concentration particular use. A lot of that is the use sort there. There's not our school right nearby there. I've done adjacent properties resulted substantial undue adverse effects on adjacent property compatible to scale and character of neighborhood and I do think this certainly represents a larger building and a larger site overall, but compared to what's there now. (00:27:21): But I think carefully keeping the old historic building, blending the new building into that and locating along as near our downtown core as possible away from airports and away from the commercial arterial strict commercial along right here. There lens to that parking is provided. They're providing full parking required by code. Then we reviewed the traffic impacts with their traffic impact analysis and found no issues there. Noise lane clear was evaluated and then landscaping was also evaluated. This will result in tree removal but it'll also result in a number of areas that weren't landscaped before being landscaped like the seed parking lots. The overall long term there will be more landscaping on the site and then hopefully we'll working with them to get some of the additional trees offsite, which is not a part of the conditional use permit analysis, but that will improve citywide tree canopy as well. (00:28:27): So if you the integral project features, this is just kind a summary of the main high points here. So compar of project represents comprehensive canvas modernization, the new academic building, athletic fields and support facilities. It's got the centralized main entry public plaza on south second Logan Avenue, which is what we want. We want that to be kind of a pedestrian friendly environment that's right adjacent to our downtown there. Got the joint use parking. So essentially they have one of need for parking during the day and also for events at night, there's the stadium nearby. So you utilize the joint use parking strategy to limit impacts in neighborhood. They've got the athletic complex, you got new fields, new lighting for the afterschool sports. The big one is that they're improving pedestrian network in the area. So there are sidewalks along the Logan Southside now, but this will again add new crossings, more a DA access expanded sidewalks and so it will result in overall that's during safety. (00:29:36): We've got the integrated landscaping and buffering along the streets along the building facade, especially amongst Logan Avenue sells there. You've got new stormwater utility fire upgrades, you've got the FA approved building. They did get that. That's an exhibit that FA did a prudent building heights there. And then just those get the long-term adaptability to support future educational programs at the sites. Gives them this expansion and then the new school will give them students a lot of opportunity for things they maybe couldn't do in their older building as well as the new fields. Not any bus stuff off sites for that. (00:30:22): So staff is recommending approval of the rent, high school replacement, site expansion, bind, preliminary PD ED and final PD as well as the conditional use permit. Something to the seven recommended conditions below. I won't read through each one of these, I'm sure we'll come back to 'em, but we've got compliance with cepa mitigation measures, the school district issues parts part of their MD MS you've got, we want to have a lot combination completed to make sure that there's no building or lot lines or anything like that and just makes it easier steer our code. Just one big lot. Got the tree, the tree credit, sorry, the visual wave, the tree credits, the tree density that allow 'em to do maybe some offsite planting there. So trying to make it pretty flexible there. We've got for service bond utility plan, just making sure that we're screening any utility, you've got a nice branding building. (00:31:19): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 8 of 21 We want to make sure there's not something either ground or rooftop for mechanical equipment or PSC transformer that takes away from that. We want to have 'em submit a construction outreach and traffic communication plan done. Other school projects too. This is a big gas, some construction traffic temporarily when they build construc this. So I want to make sure that roadway destructions are at a minimum and people are aware of if there's any detours, things like that. Asking for a pedestrian oriented space plan, civil construction permit. Just making sure we're getting all those mounts that are in the code as far as requirements for open space as lightning of that nature and those will get tweaked as they get closer to the opening permits. So we have a condition, typically an non product like this as they kind of figure that stuff out and they get closer to submitting a building permit and then just submitting a supplemental geotechnical meran just documenting that they are following everything else that they probably high seismic hazard area. Want to make sure they're meeting those recommendations that are as part of the report. I'm happy to answer any questions. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:32:34): I think most of that I have of the applicants couple for you that I take, there's a light spill plan conducted, right? I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Basically there's no light spill over beyond property boundaries, is that right? Yep. I mean we are the closest residences to the going to be to the sports fields once this the start. Planner Morganroth: (00:32:52): There's a couple residences that will still be to the west there. No, Jake, can you go back to the main and then Yes, then east across Logan. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. That's fine. So there's still some in the rra, so there's kind going to be a little bit of single family between that the ca zone portion. So it's a close by and all the app can talk a little more about their programming for the eza. Typically they don't run past 10 that they're downward facing Examiner Olbrechts: (00:33:26): And then the light still over on those finished properties. So that was the fun. Planner Morganroth: (00:33:30): Yes. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:33:30): Okay. Okay. And also, I mean how much of a light or hyper variance are they asking for under the PD criteria? Planner Morganroth: (00:33:38): So the lights, I believe were at 77, Ms. Tomlin: (00:33:44): But I think they're going to end up being 71 71 Planner Morganroth: (00:33:47): Feet. Yes. So that was so they to submit to the FAA as well as the school building as well. So again, this is all validated under the CD zone, which has a mass height and I think it's 50 feet for so little bit of Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 9 of 21 Examiner Olbrechts: (00:34:03): A, so now in terms of applying the CD zone to the entire project side, is that going to result in any difference in the uses that are allowed at all or we just talking about bulk and Planner Morganroth: (00:34:14): That just applies to this budget? Yeah. Oh okay. Yeah, it's not actually changing the zoning. Underlying zoning by standards. Yeah, the bulk modified amount how to use. Okay, Examiner Olbrechts: (00:34:29): Perfect. Alright, thanks this board. Alright, let's move on to applicant's. The applicants want to say anything at this point? It looks like we've got a couple here in the room. So yeah, just coming off to the microphone there at the podium, I'll swear you in. Let us know your names and how to spell it for the record. Go ahead. So SRE right hand, do you swear affirm to tell the truth, nothing about the truth in this proceeding? I Speaker 8 (00:34:50): Do. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:34:50): Okay sir, what's your name for the record? Speaker 8 (00:34:52): I'm Matt Feldman. That's F as in Frank. E-L-D-M-D-Y-E-R. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:34:57): Okay, Mr. Feldmeyer: (00:34:59): Go ahead Mr. Feldmar. Speaker 8 (00:35:00): Okay, we have a PowerPoint that I believe Lisa Klein was going to host Kristen Zoom. Oh great. Speaker 1 (00:35:06): I Speaker 8 (00:35:18): Present interview Lisa. Ms. Klein: (00:35:20): Sorry, I got the wrong screen probably, huh? Speaker 1 (00:35:25): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 10 of 21 Yep, different screen. There you go. Okay, Speaker 8 (00:35:37): Just wanted to kind of present a little bit of how we got here and why this project is very important to the school district. Go ahead to the next slide Lisa. So from a timeline standpoint, school buildings last for 50 years. Well I county that line. They're very difficult to go in and update systems and do what I would call building surgery to keep them functioning as modern learning environments for current students. As you can see in this timeline, this is all our middle and high schools. Red high school is our oldest building in the district. It has had some additions and major remodels over the years, the last one being 2002, 2003 timeframe. When we get to that 20, 25 year line on building systems, we start to realize they need to be updated again and brought up to modern codes and we were starting to hit that with running high school and realizing we put a lot of money into remodeling the historic building last time and got less than we'd hoped for just because of the difficulty of remodeling the historic building. So we started to contemplate is this site the right site for school? We need to consider relocating it to the site where we could build a new modern building going to the next site or slide there Lisa. (00:36:58): And the reason we consider that is this site is a very difficult site to work with. It is surrounded by the airport and a lot of FA restrictions. It is a very well known and documented archeological site for the Duwamish crud and it's small, it's much smaller than our other high school sites and much smaller than the high school sites for our peer districts, which came with limitations on what we could do for the students on this site. So we went ahead to the next slide. Lisa started talking to a realtor in May of 21 about potentially finding some new properties and getting some data on where the properties might be if we could move to high school knowing that we would be coming up with a bond to try and get some funding to either redo the current high school, expand the current high school or move the high school and would need to form a citizens facilities advisory committee and provide them with some information on what would be essentially the best plan for that. (00:38:00): So we worked with the realtor throughout 21. We started meeting with our citizens group and reviewing our older schools and identifying some of the projects we needed to do with the upcoming bond and ultimately went to the board and recommended with that citizens group that we relocate the high school to another site. We then spent from May of 21 to April of 23 I believe it was, well June of 23, basically two years trying to find another property. Some of those properties we were considering are on the map on the right side of the screen and just realized that all of the ones we were finding that were 30 acre plus sites that could post the high school program weren't really doing what we were hoping for this high school. So we went back to the board in June and said we'd like to consider expanding on the current site rather than moving. They asked us to put together some feasibility studies between June and October we did. We went back to 'EM and in October of 23 they passed the resolution to move forward with the project in its current site. Go to the next slide, Lisa said. (00:39:11): So you can see the red kind of yellow, orange and blue are current high school site. The red is 5.5 acres. We can nothing away because it's in the runway protection zone implemented by the airport. The yellowish orange has extremely strict height requirements that really limit us from doing anything but grass fields and parking lot with very low height parking lot lights. So the blue area is all we had of our high school site that we could develop or modify an athletic program, a high school building, et cetera on. So we presented the board with the 8.37 acres to the north and 1.3 acres I believe it is to the east, and then move forward with starting to purchase those properties based on their guidance. In Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 11 of 21 November we selected a construction partner in early 2024. Then we started having community meetings with those affected by us purchasing the properties as well as adjacent neighborhoods for what the project would meaning for the area. Go to the next slide Lisa. (00:40:22): So where we are now with the site plan that you saw from Mr. Morgan off a moment ago is working with the city. They really wanted us to push the main entry to the new school towards the second Logan intersection. That's the asterisk you see there on the southeast corner. Well with school sites we've got four to five different traffic and transportation systems we have to kind of overlay with each other. We have student parking in the case of the high school, we have staff parking, we have bus drop off, we have parent drop off and we have special ed bus drop off in an ideal design. All five of those are subgrade from each other, which is always very hard to do because you then have five set entries and exits and drop-offs and parking lot, et cetera. So we try to work a little bit with what we have now and prove it Currently the lot that you see that is new over to the west side of the school building. (00:41:16): South of the track is a student parking lot and what will be the student parking lot in front of the design currently that is over on the second loaded corner. So we're basically just flipping that to the other side of the building and putting staff parking kind of behind the building free from the streets as much as we can. But currently our bus entry and exit is off of Logan right in the middle of the street and pulling in and out off of Logan into our current bus loop is difficult. Logan is a very busy street, but getting the parking as parallel on the street gives us a lot more opportunity for high visibility as those buses turn in and out of the street rather than turning 90 degrees right or left into traffic with a large vehicle. So we proposed to the city as part of this design, can we move a lane over, create a new parallel parking lane and give our buses some area in the 20 to 30 minutes in the morning the afternoon to still be close to the main entry of the school on the southeast corner but also not be pulling out onto a busy road, which there are many up in this area. (00:42:23): We also have a shorter pairing drop off to the south currently, which backs traffic up onto second all the way back a couple blocks. Typically during the morning drop off and afternoon pickup, we are trying to extend that drop off loop as part of this project and that's part of what you see on the south side of the site currently. And then you can see we're going for a student entry exit off the second as well as more off lake and staff entry exit off of SHA and Tobin and the rear move that traffic off the main roads to separate from those other big pieces of the transportation puzzle. The last piece we the special ed buses which we're planning to do to the staff parking. So that's kind of how we're trying to solve the transportation equation for this project and some of the logic for how we ended up where we are have Rayanne Tomlin explained a little bit of the design and where we are ing. Okay. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:43:20): Ms. Tomlin, did you swear yourself in when I got Mr. Meyer or do Ms. Tomlin: (00:43:23): I Speaker 8 (00:43:23): Not yet. Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 12 of 21 Examiner Olbrechts: (00:43:23): Okay. Do you swear affirm to tell the truth, nothing but the truth and this proceeding? Ms. Tomlin: (00:43:27): I do. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:43:27): Okay, great. Go ahead. Ms. Tomlin: (00:43:28): And that's T-O-M-L-I. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:43:30): Perfect. Thank you. Ms. Tomlin: (00:43:32): Okay, so just Lisa back one slide real fast. I just wanted to address a couple of the questions that I've heard come up today. One is about the lighting at the ball field. So those are going to be specially designed lights with FA input on high cutoff fixtures, make sure we're not affecting runway visibility or incoming aircraft visibility. And that also helps address the spill question. And then just wanted to confirm, the height of the new school building is supposed to be 64 feet, which has already been approved by the FAA as Mr. Mor Roth mentioned. And then I just also wanted to share that the district went through a voluntary process hiring a consultant to do a crime prevention through environmental design review, Ted, to give us input on our landscaping, our site lines, site supervision, make sure we're really reinforcing those ideas of site security and pedestrian safety that were brought up in the city. Okay, next slide. (00:44:41): Matt touched briefly on some of our neighborhood outreach meetings. I just wanted to also share that we in cooperation with our design partners did a very robust staff student and family community engagement process. We know especially at a school like Redmond High where there's high community need that this building really functions more than just during the school day. It's really more of a community center. There are families needing services, there's a HealthPoint team clinic onsite. And so we really wanted to make sure that the site design was not only accomplishing the goal set forth in the PUD, but also making sure that it was really serving the needs of both our school community and those that access those services. Next slide. And while it's not part of the PUD process, we did get several questions about our cultural resources during both CIPA and through the PUDI think so I just wanted to share a little bit about, we have hired historical research associates as a consulting firm to do site investigations reports and monitoring for both the archeological side of the cultural resources as well as the built environment, which is historic preservation side of things. (00:46:04): So it's a timeline on the bottom of the various investigations we've done, the reports that have been submitted to DAP and the tribes for preliminary review, where we are at today is that any site demolition occurring on our acquired properties is being monitored by both HRA and tribal representatives as they're available with a monitoring and discovery plan in place. And we are preparing our archeological permit submittal to DAP and targeting a submittal of next month for that. Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 13 of 21 (00:46:41): Next slide, Lisa. And these are just the high level takeaways of that process. As Matt mentioned, there's been identified sites on the rent and pay property for many years. We have had several meetings with both tribal and DAP representatives to discuss mitigation avenues for those. We've taken their feedback into consideration as we talk to the school about what that may look like and we'll continue to make sure we're doing all required monitoring and reporting as we move forward. And then I think I will just address two things quickly. We wanted to clean up a couple of things we saw in the staff report, which Lisa will mostly do, but I just wanted to address a couple of comments about the trees. I know we got some public comment and Mr. Morgan wrote the address, the overall tree quantity. One of the things that was in consideration, like Matt said, was the configuration of the site oriented towards downtown, which really is kind of the guiding force behind the location of the athletics field. (00:47:55): So athletic fields obviously have limitations for tree placement, but in addition to that th coordination with the FAA, we discovered that many of the trees north of Tobin are what they consider existing nonconforming in terms of height being in violation of the part 77 threshold. So it became more difficult for us to propose keeping some of those when the FAA had stated up taking offense to some of those locations. So we needed to keep some of that in consideration as well. And then we got a public comment about specific tree on the south side of the cycle on second, which when we studied it, I spoke to that gentleman at a neighborhood meeting this summer about it. We reviewed the location, which is not shown on this plan, but yeah, the approximate location that Lisa it is showing, and unfortunately it was right in the middle of that extended dropoff and we knew through our coordination with the city, that was pretty important. Traffic mitigation location on site, really extending that drop off to make sure we're alleviating backups. So that tree was not going to allow us to do that, but we are, there are a couple other significant trees on the site that we are going to access to save. I'll hand the rest of that final slide over to Lisa and then Matt and I are available for questions. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:49:19): Okay. Ms. Klein, you're handing it over to? Ms. Tomlin: (00:49:23): Yes. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:49:24): Okay. Ms. Klein, let me swear in. You're going to testify, is that correct? Ms. Klein: (00:49:28): That's correct. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:49:29): Okay. Do you swear affirm tell the truth, nothing but the truth in this proceeding? Ms. Klein: (00:49:33): I do. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:49:34): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 14 of 21 Okay, great. Go ahead. Ms. Klein: (00:49:36): Okay, I stopped sharing just because I couldn't figure out how to do the Examiner Olbrechts: (00:49:41): Screen. Okay, Mrs. I think is there some way we can increase the volume or, Speaker 1 (00:49:46): Yes, I'm having actually some issues with sound. Just give me one second. Okay. Speaker 6 (00:50:11): Okay. Do you want me to try testing? Is that any better? Okay, can you try again? Is this any better? Yes. Ms. Klein: (00:50:27): Okay. So a couple of just final comments to be made. First of all, we wanted to thank Alex Morgan Roth for the staff report and it's all a great summary of the volumes of material we submitted. The district does not have any issue with the conditions as they're presented. A couple of other cleanup things. We didn't have audio at the beginning, so I don't know if Alex, if the Heffron memo got submitted as an exhibit, it wasn't included in the exhibit package. So if not we should get that submitted. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:51:15): Mr, is that in the exhibit list? Yes, it's in a Planner Morganroth: (00:51:22): Response. Oh, okay. Yep, Ms. Klein: (00:51:25): You'll see it. Okay. You'll see it. Okay. And then we also have this PowerPoint presentation that we emailed to the district, so that should be entered as an exhibit. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:51:37): Okay. And I take it Mr. SROs, that's not in the record, right? Ms. Klein: (00:51:41): It's not, Examiner Olbrechts: (00:51:41): Okay. Any objection over the PowerPoint that Mr just presented? Okay, hearing on, that's admitted as exhibit 37. Ms. Klein: (00:51:50): Awesome. So just a couple of cleanup things. There has been some adjustment to the construction timeline as it's described in the staff report. And basically the of note is that at this point in time, the Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 15 of 21 students will be starting in the new building in the fall of 2029. The staff report says 2028. There have also been some revisions to the grading and this is as a result of meetings with DAP and the tribes on the cultural resources. And so the cut and fill quantities, that's actually the fill quantities have increased and this is in an effort to try to avoid disturbance to cultural resources. So the new fill number is 40,000 cubic yards cut remains at 4,900 cubic yards. And then a couple of comments on the street vacation, which is not a part of this application, but there's definitely lots of public comment about it. (00:53:01): We have submitted that application request we did in December, and so city staff is currently looking through our application. There will be a public hearing on that with council, but that has not been scheduled yet. So we don't have that. If that should be declined by city council, if they don't approve it, it would change the site plan. But the process or the school still this expansion would still move forward. There would be some safety concerns about traffic going through the campus in that location, but it wouldn't stop the project. Just want to make that point. Other than that, I think that concludes the applicant presentation. So we are available for comments and the full team is here. You've got a cadre of professionals that can answer any specific technical questions. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:54:01): Okay. Yeah, just that one. It was about Tobin actually, so I guess that would be for Mr. McBrien. Kind of an interesting point raised in at least a couple comment letters was that Tobin is used as a shortcut and that if it's vacated that will add to the traffic on the surrounding network. I was just kind of curious, was that a factor that was included in the analysis of the level of service analysis? Mr. McBrien, let me swear you in. Just raise your right hand. Do you swear affirm to tell the truth, nothing but the truth in this proceeding? Mr. Feldmeyer: (00:54:32): I do, Examiner Olbrechts: (00:54:32): Yes. Okay, great. Yeah, go ahead. Mr. Feldmeyer: (00:54:36): Yes. So the answer to your question is yes, absolutely. The potential vacation was accounted for. We conducted multiple counts on Tobin, both intersection turning movement counts with video at multiple times a day, over three different count periods, including spring of 24 and 25 as well as during the summer of 24. So we have a lot of data. We also conducted multi-day machine counts along Tobin three times over that period. And so we have a lot of data to understand how Tobin was being used and we reassigned all of that traffic. Some of it was clearly generated by the school as there's a couple of access points off of Tobin that were being used, but there was also other traffic, probably some generated by the uses that would be displaced by the site expansion and probably some other trips that were using Tobin as an alternative to airport way. But all of that traffic was reassigned to airport way as part of the project traffic reassignment and accounted for in the level of service analysis. And it all demonstrated that the project could accommodate that shift in traffic from that local street if it's vacated. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:55:55): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 16 of 21 Okay, perfect. Great. Thank you. That was really helpful. Thank you Mr. McBrien. Alright, finally, now we get to public comments. Like I said, we'll start off with people here in the meeting room and after that we'll move on to people participating virtually. And I don't think I explained to the people participating virtually if you had any objections to any documents how to be heard on that. I mean it would've been click on the virtual hand at the bottom of your screen if it's a heart so that some Zoom programs use a heart. You click on the heart, there's a little hand that pops up and you click on that. But anyway, if you did object to any of the documents that were in as exhibits, just take the opportunity during the public comment portion to voice your objection. I mean the grounds for objections are pretty narrow for this kind of thing. (00:56:38): It's just you find that your position is that the document isn't relevant to this proceeding or the document may not be authentic. I mean if you just disagree with the conclusions in the document, that's just an issue to testify about. It's not a reason to exclude the document. But anyway, let's move on. First of all, I'm going to just, I had one person who actually signed up to speak, so I'll start with her. That's Ms. Becker. Ms. Becker, come on up and I'll swear you in and every person who's going to in the meeting room is going to testify. I just need you to go to the podium there. I'll swear you in. I'll need to know the spelling of your last name. Ms. Becker, that's B-E-C-K-E-R for you as I take it? That's right. And then you can go ahead and make your comment. So just raise your right hand. Do you swear affirm to tell the truth, nothing but the truth in this proceeding? Ms. Becker: (00:57:20): I do. Examiner Olbrechts: (00:57:20): Okay, great. Alright, go ahead Ms. Becker. Ms. Becker: (00:57:22): Okay, thank you for this opportunity, Mr. Examiner. So I was taking some notes as the meeting was proceeding, so I have some comments to say before my actual comments that I came with. But one was I appreciate the input from the person who did the traffic study. I have some concerns that the traffic study was done in the summer when school is out. I think that would give lower traffic flow counts also spring for traffic studies is also a lower traffic flow count as enrollment in schools tends to decrease as the school year goes on. So I think traffic counts in the fall would raise higher, more accurate counts of traffic on Tobin. So I just wanted to bring that up also. I appreciate Mr. Meyer clarifying and bringing in a little bit of a history of the Renton High School project. I want to add that when the initial bond was passed in the city of Renton voters passed that bond. (00:58:31): We were under the impression that the school would go to a new location and that was in 2022. And it wasn't until 2023 that the school switched gears and decided to remodel at the current location. And I think the public was blindsided about how the expansion was going to affect the city and take some resources that we had seen in the city of Renton planning that we were going to have high density in the downtown area for commercial and residential. And now that is some of that is being removed with the expansion of the school to create ball fields north of the school. So we're losing a lot of the housing that we have in that area. (00:59:25): Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 17 of 21 Let's see. Also, it was also a comment earlier that the 1931 building is being remodeled for use. It was my understanding at one of the public meetings I went to that the 1931 building is not being remodeled for student use, that it is being kept there because it's a historic building, but it will not be used for students and that it's going to be left for admin uses in the future and that the students will only be using the new school. That's just a side comment and that was my understanding. That may have changed since I had that information. Okay. So the comments I came with, again, I had written in some written public comment concerning zoning of the residential north of the school and wanting it to keep zone eight and how that the school plan to convert that land into ball fields does not coincide with the 2024 City of Renton comprehensive plan for maximum use of that area for the residential and high density, or I believe it's medium density use. (01:00:38): And commercial zoning also had written in regarding the landmark trees, the significant trees and not keeping up with the 30% retention. And I also wrote in about use of Logan and second as primary access points. So I won't delve into those too much. I did want to add some more comments regarding traffic. So the use of Second Street as a primary access point, it's my understanding that the city of Renton will be converting Second Street right now. It's a one way street. We'll be converting that to a two-way street in the near future. Well, nearest projects go for doing such as a project like that, but in the future they're going to turn into two-way street, which would mean that traffic on second would have one lane going down second for access point. So if people are slowing down to turn into a primary parking lot at the school and only one lane of traffic to do that, it is going to cause a lot of backups and especially with Tobin potentially being closed as a through street. I just foresee a lot of issues with that. Mr. Feld also mentioned in his presentation that there currently is noted backups on Second Avenue as it already stands. So to keep second as a main access point to the parking lot I think should be reviewed. There is the option of having the accent point off Lake Avenue, which was shown in one of the slides. So I believe that could looked at as to maintain that as a primary access for parking and not have it on second. (01:02:27): Another comment was that they want to keep Second Avenue pedestrian friendly. So if they want to do that, I don't understand why they're making it a main access for parking lot. I believe those are my main concerns. Oh, the buses on Logan. Yeah, Logan is an issue too. That's the first I heard about a mid-block car crossing on Logan. So now we have a highly trafficked street with buses and crosswalks and I just foresee we've already had some accidents at the Sartory school, which is also a downtown elementary in Renton because of traffic in residential neighborhoods on busy streets. So I just foresee that could cause some issues having the access on Logan for the buses. And I don't understand why that can't be moved to Lake Avenue, which is a side street that does not buzz but up to residential and it is not through street for a lot of traffic. I would request that those access points for the parking lot, for the buses and for student parking be revisited, see if they can be located on Lake Avenue for the safety of students and for the citizens of Renton to have more better flow of traffic as this project continues. And I think that's it. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:04:01): Thank you Ms. Becker and Mr. McBrien. I hope you heard all that. I'd love to hear your response to Ms. Becker's questions about the street access, that kind of thing. We'll get back to you when we go back to applicant. Final word there. Okay. So anyone else in the hearing room want to testify at this point? Any note takers? Okay, let's move on to virtual. Like I mentioned, if you're participating virtually you want to say something, click on the raise hand button at the bottom of your screen. Or it might be, like I said, a heart, in which case you click on the heart and then you'll see a raise hand and you click on that. Mr. Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 18 of 21 Ros, do we have any takers? Looks like you got one there, Mr. Hunt. Is that him? Yes. Okay. Mr. Hunt, looks like your audio is working. You want to say something so we know you're there Mr. Hunt? So Mr. Ros, it doesn't look like he's, Speaker 1 (01:04:56): But not because of the sound issue earlier as well. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:05:01): Alright, well Mr. Hunt, yeah, we're not hearing from you and you're not muted. So if you did want to say something, just send an email to Mr. Cisneros, she'll show you what her email address is and then I'll let LA staff and applicant to respond. Do we have any other takers participating virtually today? Nope. Okay. Well that's just fine. Like I said, we did get a lot of public comments and that's going to give me enough to think about and focus on there. If anybody isn't able to participate today, they couldn't figure out how to be heard, you go ahead and send an email to Ms. Cisneros, just be sure to mention it's because he had some technical difficulties, what they were. And then we'll let you get your comments in if you can get 'em in by 5:00 PM tomorrow. And Mr. Ros, do you want to maybe put your email address in chat or something so people know where to send it to? Speaker 1 (01:05:49): Yes, I can do Examiner Olbrechts: (01:05:50): That. Alright. Oh, do you already do that? Speaker 1 (01:05:53): I can do that. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:05:53): Oh, okay. Yeah, so she'll take care of that there. Okay, well let's move back to Mr. Morgan Roth. Any responsive comments you want to make at this point? Planner Morganroth: (01:06:01): Sure, yeah, I can address a couple things. So first, and these are kind of related to all the comments we've gotten because a lot of 'em are have similar themes, but just to respond to Ms. Becker's comment on the night, the historic buildings just want to be clear, that wasn't a requirement to save from the city. We don't have a landmarks ordinance or anything. The school district decided to keep it. I think they got a lot of community feedback and they can speak more to that about just kind of preserving the history there. And that is correct, is going to be used for admin functions is my understanding too, and not for students there. So just a point of clarification there. As far as the zoning, the comp plan, so again there is a portion of the site zone residential eight, so R eight zone, which has predominantly historically been single family, although now does allow multifamily town homes with the new state regulations that came into effect. (01:06:53): But that being said, we do allow a number of uses like schools, churches, government buildings, stuff like that in residential zones, civic uses that sometimes are appropriate to be in those zones. So it does Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 19 of 21 require the conditional use permit, but I feel like it is a residential zone. But we do also allow these other uses through the conditional use permit process because they can have bigger impacts than maybe what you think of as a traditional use for residential zone. As far as the comp plan, same thing it is in the residential, there's a portion of it in the residential medium density. This is obviously not a residential project, but the comp plan does lay out preferences for against civic uses that serve neighborhoods such as schools, churches, things like that in that land use designation as well. And then I'll let the traffic consultant talk more about the traffic stuff, but just really quick, the bus along Logan, I think that is something that was looked at early on or at least we looked at from the cities. (01:07:56): Could that be pushed somewhere else? The Lake Avenue is, it would be almost a quarter mile walk for students to get from the buses over to the new building there. So I think that's i'll of them speak more to why that was chosen. I think Matt already addressed that a little bit, but it was something the city did look at very, very early on and it's far away is kind of the main challenge there as far as pedestrian safety, certainly with the buses there, there's going to be those vehicles along Logan, but the Midblock crossing is not just going to be a crosswalk, it's going to have the flashing lights and stuff, so there's going to be a formal midblock crossing. So yes, there's certainly going to be a lot going on in that street, but the intent is that some of this infrastructure improvements they're proposing will result in a safety improvement over what's there now. (01:08:41): And then lastly was just having the lots off of access off of South second. There's just really the site this large that takes up such a big area, four different frontages. It's not possible just to have all the access to be off of Lake. We did have them push that as far west as possible. So it is kind of away from the downtown core as much as possible. And then lastly, as far as the two-way conversion, there's no no set and date planned for that yet. That is the intent I think for that to happen. But the traffic analysis did incorporate that. That's going to happen eventually into their analysis and I'll let he can talk more about that, but that was captured as part of this too. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:09:23): Okay, thank you. Perfect. Thank you Mr. Morgan Roth. Alright, applicant, you get final word there. So any comments from the applicant Ms. Klein: (01:09:34): Prior to passing this over to Todd? I was just going to add that I think that between the staff report and the follow-up comments by Mr. Morgan Roth that the comments by the public have been responded to. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:09:52): Okay. Mr. Feldmar, was there something you wanted to add? Speaker 8 (01:09:55): Just a couple of clarifications. One is that the use of the historic high school building is still to be determined, but definitely being considered to support both the high school and the district as a whole. So there will definitely be some opportunity for that to be used by students, but it is not intended to be used as the new high school. The second is the second street frontage as we've been working with the city is going to be greatly modified as part of this project and there will be a lot of additional pedestrian and bus lane improvements made down the road we believe. And we're setting aside frontage for that Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 20 of 21 purpose based on our conversations with the city. So we wanted to make sure that it was acknowledged that the traffic pull off from parent drop off the future bus lane, future sidewalks, all of that is being considered to make this a more pedestrian friendly environment as part of the project. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:10:51): Okay, thank you sir. And finally, Mr. McBrien, if there's anything else you want to add. It looks like a lot of the questions were already answered, but if you have anything else, especially the turning movement impacts on the adjoining streets, that seemed to be a pretty important issue. Mr. Feldmeyer: (01:11:06): Yes. Yeah, absolutely. A couple of things, just to clarify from Ms. Becker's testimony, she had mentioned the counts and data collection that occurred during summer. As I mentioned in my earlier testimony, we did collect some data during summer. In fact, we collected data at all of the study area intersections and roadways that was mostly used to understand what traffic conditions were like when school was not in session. We also collected data in the springtime, as I mentioned in April and May. Those were the data that we used to actually conduct the analysis. And in each of those cases, we selected the highest volume of the counts that were performed as a worst case. We also, in coordination with the city, assumed a 3% annual growth rate on all of those background trips for 3% per year from the time that they were counted out to the year 2030. (01:12:07): And in addition, we accounted for pipeline development traffic within the area that the city provided to us, so other developments that would generate traffic. So we have accounted for lots of increases in traffic, not just the change that would be because of the school's increase in capacity. And with all of that and the conservative analysis approach that we took, we still found that the project could be accommodated without any adverse impacts. Secondly, she mentioned the future potential conversion of second to a two-way back to a two-way operation. The city is still designing that. They did not have enough information about how that would be designed for us to evaluate it and did not have us evaluate that. Once they move forward with their design of that project, they'll evaluate how that street would operate with the school course being part of it. In terms of the backups that occur on second, a lot of what this project is doing are intended to help that. (01:13:10): If you are familiar with the site at all, there's a driveway that serves the student parking lot currently on second. It's located about 170 feet west of Logan. And that proximity actually is part of what causes backups to the intersection. That driveway will be eliminated and the student access parking lot will be much, much further to the west. So that should help. In addition, as Matt mentioned, the onsite student dropoff loop will be extended substantially. And so that again will help minimize the traffic over spill. On the second, because of pickup and drop off, there is a driveway proposed on Lake as well to serve student parking. I know Ms. Becker mentioned that, so I just wanted to point out there is an access that can be used to that parking lot as well. And then finally, the buses on Logan. She mentioned the challenges with buses using Logan. (01:14:10): As Matt noted, the buses are already turning in and out of Logan from the bus driveway that exists there. They're making left turns in both directions, both entering and exiting. So this plan actually would eliminate those movements since all buses would have to approach from the north in the southbound lane and pull out. So this will improve bus operations there and the bus loading area proximity to the Appendix A -- Renton High School Trans. 1.13 (Completed 01/29/26) Transcript by Rev.com Page 21 of 21 building will hopefully make it more attractive for students to use the school bus. I think there's also the midblock crossing. I think Mr. Morgan Roth mentioned that the midblock crossing of Logan will be, have a signal of some sort. The city is still determining the exact type of signal. It may be a full stream signal or what we call a hawk beacon, which looks like a red light for drivers that pedestrians push. It may also be rapid, rectangular, rapid flashing beacon. So those things are still being decided as part of the design improvements. I think that's it. Examiner Olbrechts: (01:15:15): Oh, great. Okay. As usual, very helpful. Thank you Mr. McBrien. Of course. Okay. I think with that I can go ahead and close the hearing. And like I said, there are a few concerns out there and like I said, I'll certainly take a close look at them. I think the public probably already understands there are two issues outside of the scope of this hearing outside of my authority. One is whether or not to vacate Tobin that's going to be, as Mr. Morgan Roth said, something that will be decided by the city council after another public hearing. So you can certainly let the council know about that. And the other issue that's really not considered relevant to my review is the school district decision making on the use of eminent domain and taking property, that kind of thing. That's kind of between the public and the school board probably of the Renton school district. (01:16:04): I just focus on the impacts to the neighbors and in terms of traffic and noise and building height lights, spillage, all the things that go hand in hand with school development. I always say that the Renton community is, I've worked for 35 communities and City of Renton has some of the most detailed, I think and fairly strict to design standards. And I mean they cover everything. If you can meet their standards, that's about as much as you can reasonably expect of any developer. And Mr. Morgan Roth has done a pretty good job of explaining how those standards have been met, though very good chance the project will be approved. And I was happy to see the Heffron Transportation engineers involved in this. I've held a lot of hearings for Seattle Public Schools and they always use Heffron. So Heffron sort of has a lot of expertise and school traffic impacts both in terms of the offsite parking, which is a big deal in the city of Seattle, as well as the kind of impacts that you have here. (01:17:05): So I think at least you might not like the fact this is coming in, but it sounds like you had some good consultants working on it along with your very capable of rent and planning staff. So I'll have a decision done in the next couple of weeks, and as we mentioned earlier, that's appealable to Superior Court. If any of you want a copy of that, be sure that Ms. Cisneros has your email address so we can be sure to get that out to you. And also, I always like to put the developer in the spot in big projects like this and just ask if you stick around to answer questions from the public. Is that okay? Yeah. So you've got their traffic consultant here and you have the applicant. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask them. Now would be a good time to do it. So I appreciate you all taking time off your busy days in the middle of the day to express your concerns, that kind of thing. And like I said, I'll be taking a close look at all that and I'll explain how your concerns are addressed in my decision. So anyway, thanks again for participating and we for this afternoon.