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Kenmore planning commission reviews PROS plan and survey, debates financing options
Summary
Commissioners reviewed the draft PROS parks plan and a resident survey, debated whether the draft presents a menu of options or a recommended package, and discussed funding approaches — impact fees, REIT allocations, levies/bonds — before cancelling a December meeting and scheduling further review.
Kenmore’s Planning Commission spent most of its Nov. 20 meeting reviewing a draft parks and recreation plan and the results of a mailed resident survey, with commissioners divided over whether the draft should read as a menu of funding and project options or as a more directive recommendation to the city council.
Consultant Tom Beckwith presented the plan’s existing level-of-service analysis and financial worksheets, saying the city is “land rich and facilities poor” and showing projected asset values and shortfalls if current ratios are maintained. Beckwith translated those values into per-capita figures, noting a 2025 population of 24,520 and a 2050 projection of 33,491, and giving example estimates such as a $4,970.13 land value per resident and a combined land-and-facility asset value of about $5,913 per person.
The presentation laid out four broad approaches for closing the funding gap: raising recreation cost recovery through fees, increasing park impact fees (example scenarios…
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