During the May 8 meeting, a staff member identified as Christine provided a city-council update saying a site plan for a transit-oriented development adjacent to the Issaquah transit center has been submitted and will go before the development commission.

"It is a joint venture with King County Housing Authority and private developer," Christine said, adding the project will include both market-rate and affordable units. She cautioned the unit counts were still changing but described the overall plan as "around 165 affordable and 155 market rate" with some transitional units and a central shared space.

Christine said the project will involve requests for deviations from city standards to make the mixed-income development feasible. She said the site sits next to the transit center on a parcel that previously hosted utility infrastructure and that the proposal will proceed through the development commission with additional review and council consideration.

No formal action on the project was taken at the Planning Policy Commission meeting; the update was informational. Staff did not provide final unit totals, specific developer names, project schedule milestones beyond the development-commission review, or final deviation requests at the meeting. Commissioner reactions were not recorded as formal positions.