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Kirkland staff outline changes required by state design-review law and role for Design Review Board
Summary
City planners briefed the Planning Commission on House Bill 1293-driven changes that would replace flexible design guidelines with clear, objective regulations, limit public meetings to one, and create an "alternative compliance" role for the Design Review Board; staff said detailed code changes will be presented at a Dec. 11 hearing.
Tony Levitt, senior planner in Kirkland's planning department, told the Planning Commission the state's House Bill 1293 "requires that the city apply only clear and objective regulations to the exterior design of new development." The change, Levitt said, means many design guidelines will be converted into prescriptive regulations and that the design review process must be concurrent with permit review and "may not include more than one public meeting."
The briefing walked commissioners through proposed amendments to Chapter 92 of the zoning code. Staff proposed keeping the Design…
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