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City of Shoreline Hearing Examiner CITY OF SHORELINE HEARING EXAMINER FINAL FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND DECISION APPEAL OF CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT ________________________________________________________________________ PROJECT INFORMATION SUMMARY APPLICANT: The Highlands, Inc. and The Highlands Sewer District LOCATION: Northwest 155th Street and Second Avenue Northwest PROJECT NUMBER: 201577 SEPA THRESHOLD DETERMINATION: Determination of Nonsignificance APPELLANTS: Greg Logan, Robert Barta, Nina Gettler, Allen Bennett and Dan McKnight For purposes of this decision, all section numbers refer to the Shoreline Municipal Code (SMC or Code) unless otherwise indicated. BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Decision The Director of the Department of Planning and Development Services (Director or Department) issued a Notice of Decision and SEPA Threshold Determination of Nonsignificance on March 15, 2007 for a conditional use permit (CUP) to consolidate “legally non-conforming maintenance and utility facilities, including construction of the maintenance building, utility yard, grading, and drainage facilities.” The Department issued a revised Notice of Decision and SEPA Threshold Determination of Nonsignificance on March 29, 2007. Prehearing Matters The Hearing Examiner held a prehearing conference with the parties by telephone on May 25, 2007 to clarify the issues raised in the appeal and identify exhibits and witnesses. The Examiner issued a prehearing order that same day, setting forth the witnesses each party intended to call, a schedule for filing and exchanging exhibits, and the issues the parties had agreed were presented for decision. Final Hearing Examiner Decision Project 201577 Page 2 of 13 Hearing A hearing on the appeal was held on June 1, 2007. The Appellants were represented by Greg Logan; the Department was represented by Ian R. Sievers, City Attorney; and the Applicant was represented by G. Richard Hill, attorney-at-law. The Examiner visited the site on June 5, 2007. The following witnesses offered testimony at the hearing: For the Appellants: Greg Logan For the Department: Glenn Pickus For the Applicant: Paul Konraddy, Bruce Dodds, and Jason Walker After considering the evidence in the record and inspecting the site, the Hearing Examiner enters the following findings of fact, conclusions and decision on the appeal: FINDINGS OF FACT Applicant 1. The Applicant consists of The Highlands, Inc. and The Highlands Sewer District. The Highlands, Inc. maintains and operates a water district for The Highlands, maintains the private roads and other facilities in The Highlands and handles contract obligations for franchise utilities within The Highlands. The Highlands Sewer District, a public utility, owns and operates the sanitary sewer and storm drainage systems within The Highlands. Site and Vicinity 2. The project site is located in the northeast portion of The Highlands Tracts subdivision at approximately the intersection of Northwest 155th Street and Second Avenue Northwest, and is immediately west of the Highland Terrace subdivision, which includes the Appellants’ homes. (Exhibit 36) The project site is a portion of what is referred to as the “Forty Acres,” or "[t]he unplatted tract north and east of the school, [that] encompasses the dumping area, the Superintendent's house, and maintenance facility. In actuality, it covers about 35 acres after deducting for the school and roads.” (Exhibit 25) 3. The Forty Acres is zoned R-4, the lowest density residential zone, which allows 4 dwelling units per acre. The purpose of this zone is "to provide for a mix of predominantly single detached dwelling units and other development types, such as accessory dwelling units and community facilities that are compatible with existing development and neighborhood character.” SMC 20.40.030 A Final Hearing Examiner Decision Project 201577 Page 3 of 13 4. The project site is the eastern part of the Forty Acres, between Willard Road and the eastern boundary of the property. It is heavily forested and largely undeveloped. On the southeastern corner of the property, just off Northwest 155th Street, there is a single- family residential structure, presently used as The Highlands’ maintenance office, a residence for The Highlands’ Superintendent and for meeting space, mail services and record storage. Just north of the residence is a 2,250 square-foot garage/maintenance building, where various maintenance and landscaping equipment is stored and maintained. Beneath the trees to the north and east of the maintenance building is a small, outdoor storage area, (considerably smaller than is represented on Exhibit 18), that is used for maintenance equipment and materials. A large ditch, resulting from work on The Highlands’ water lines, runs north/south near the east property boundary shared with the Highland Terrace subdivision. 5. Willard Road, located to the west of the existing structures and storage area, generally runs north/south through roughly the center of the Forty Acres, intersecting with Northwest 155th Street on the south, and Kerry Drive on the north. (See Exhibit 15.) To the west of Willard Road, at its northern terminus, (outside the project site) is the large site referred to as “the dumping area” that is used for stockpiling yard and other green waste from residences in The Highlands, and for storage of various building materials and packaging. The Applicant reports that centralized collection of yard waste began in 1993. Approximately once every two years, a grinder has been brought in to grind up woody debris at this site, causing significant noise in the surrounding vicinity. 6. South of the green waste site on Willard Road is an attended recycling area for non- organic materials such as glass, metal, and plastics. It consists of three large bins for the exclusive use of The Highlands’ residents. The Applicant reports that centralized collection of these materials also began in 1993. 7. Cascade Drive generally runs east-west through part of The Highlands and at its eastern terminus, intersects with Willard Road. (See Exhibit 15.) A large utility storage yard is presently maintained by The Highlands outside the project site, north of Cascade Drive and well to the west of Willard Road. This area is used for a shack/tool shed and storage of heavy equipment, including three dump trucks, a generator, a road grader, concrete Jersey Barriers, large spools, pipes, catch basins, and the like. 8. The property does not contain slopes greater than 40%. The project site is flat or gently sloped throughout except along the northern boundary, where slopes are approximately 20 percent. 9. Property to the north of the project site is zoned for, and developed with single-family residences. 10. The Highland Terrace neighborhood, located uphill to the east of the project site, is zoned R-6, except for the lots along 2nd Avenue Northwest and adjacent to the project site, which are zoned R-4. Development is generally consistent with the zoning. The distance between existing development and storage on the project site and the boundary Final Hearing Examiner Decision Project 201577 Page 4 of 13 line with adjacent lots in the Highland Terrace neighborhood is approximately 40 to 60 feet. This area is forested, primarily with evergreen trees, and includes an understory of various shrubs and berry vines that obscure most of the Highland Terrace residents' views of the project site during the spring and summer months. Noise from operations at the existing shop at the project site is clearly audible to a person standing in the adjacent backyards in Highland Terrace. 11. A background review and site reconnaissance performed in February of 2005 by the Applicant's consultant determined that the property provides habitat for songbirds and cavity nesting birds, and that pileated woodpecker foraging stations exist in the standing, dead trees throughout the property. Pileated woodpeckers have been seen in the vicinity by nearby residents, but no nesting cavities were identified in the February 2005 reconnaissance or by the Appellants. 12. The only known stream in the area is Boeing Creek, which runs along the northern portion of the west part of The Highlands, and is located approximately one-quarter mile from the project site, and more than 900 feet from the boundary of the parcel. The project site drains to the south, toward the Seattle Golf Club. 13. The Applicant offered the following documentation of its historical use of the site: 1) board meeting minutes for The Highlands, Inc. from September of 1908, which reflect planning for work on Macadam Road and a pump house (Exhibit 41); 2) board meeting minutes for The Highlands, Inc. from March of 1909, which reflect that a motion was carried for the "entire Board of Trustees go to the property and pick out a suitable place for storehouse, office and supplies, and to construct suitable improvements for properly caring for same;" (Exhibit 41); 3) declarations from four Highlands’ residents, each of whom states that he or she has lived in the Highlands for a considerable period of time, (one dating back to 1918), and that the Highlands has always had a maintenance facility that included equipment storage and a staging area in the approximate location of the present maintenance shed (Exhibits 37 through 40); 4) aerial photographs from as far back as 1936 which show structures at the approximate locations of the existing residence and maintenance shed on the project site, and a cleared area in approximately the location of "the dumping area" on the Forty Acres (Exhibits 15 and 20 through 23); and 5) a building permit issued to “The Highlands Water District” by King County in July of 1993, for a “small commercial building project” for a "storage building and re-gravel existing driveway” (Exhibit 7). The King County permit lists the zoning as RS 1500, a residential zone. The Applicant also offered testimony from its civil engineer that the small, outdoor storage area on the project site has been used for some unknown period of time as a contractor lay-down area (storage of construction materials and other project- related items) for both community and private projects.
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