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1) Interim regulations lack a supporting work plan.

The City's own code requires a work plan be in place in order to establish interim regulations. The city proposes interim regulations that affect all industrial land in the city, when there is no work plan in place for the entire city. And, even after 13 weeks of negotiation - there is still not a work plan in place for the Tideflats.

The city should initiate an Industrial Lands study rather than a Tideflats subarea plan. Subarea planning is intended to provide a unified vision for a neighborhood. The Tideflats has a unified vision to "Create Sustainable Jobs".

While we understand that land use and transportation planning efforts are beneficial, that planning should be accomplished in consideration for, at a minimum, all city industrial lands. Land use policies for designated Manufacturing and Industrial Centers (M/IC) should preserve these areas for ongoing industrial use and discourage the conversion of property to non­industrial uses.

A 'pause' doesn't preserve the status quo. Pausing certain types of uses on industrial lands without proper vetting has the potential to do quite the opposite of preserving the status quo. The interconnectivity of industrial uses within the region is a fact that cannot be ignored. The city planning director reminded me of this in a meeting yesterday when he mentioned the new cold storage facility on Orchard Street in South Tacoma which is operated by Trident Seafoods, a Tideflats business.

2) Fossil Fuel Export. Port of Tacoma Commissions have clarified that NEW international fossil fuel export facility development will not occur on port owned property.

The city must recognize that federal commerce laws require that a port district must allow conveyance of any commodity through port terminals, and that neither the city nor port controls commodities that are transported by rail.

Additionally, the city should embrace redevelopment of existing fossil fuel businesses that are making changes for cleaner fuels - our future.

3) Buffers. The city code recognizes a need for transition areas between industrial uses and residential.

Buffer areas for Industrial lands need to be protected. The city is working on an open space plan. We encourage the city to protect associated steep slopes from development which is incompatible with Port and industrial uses such as those on the north side of the Tideflats.

The port supports the amendment proposed to require title notification for new residential development near industrially zoned property. Please make this a requirement.

4) Notice of projects

The city should implement an easy to use webpage that citizens can sign up on for notification about certain types of projects, or projects that are happening in a certain area.

Socialize this opportunity widely and avoid the high cost of sending notice to lots of people (2,500 feet from the edge of the industrial areas) that may very well not want the extra mail.

Comments for 11/14/2017 City of Tacoma Council Public Hearing on proposed Interim Regulations

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To members of the Tacoma City Council November 14th, 2017

I am speaking to you on behalf of the Tahoma Audubon Society, which has been working with local agencies to protect our environment for 50 years.

We would like to thank the Planning Commission for the work done developing Interim Regulations protecting the lands at the mouth of the Puyallup until subarea planning can be completed. We would like to thank the City for recognizing that the citizens of Tacoma demand a transparent process that will allow us all to decide what type of industries we want for the Puyallup Tideflats.

In 2016, bird watchers were shocked to see white pelicans migrating to Puget Sound waters. In living memory, none of us can recall seeing them except on lakes east of the Cascades, where the birds typically nest and raise their young. Those lakes are drying up, which has likely forced the birds into the Salish Sea, where we live. The pelicans may or may not survive the change. The drying of the lakes is a part of the climate change we are seeing throughout our country, and in our own back yard. This past summer we spent two weeks breathing smoke from Canadian forest fires, prompting official declarations that the air in the Puget Sound basin was unhealthy. That's new. That's real.

The climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels . Which also is real. We do not want to contribute to this problem, and we believe the citizens of Tacoma have a right to decide whether we do or not. The problem has been sanctioned by existing pennitting protocols, and we believe the subarea planning process can allow us to develop more effective rules for preventing pollution, and a better vision for how the Tideflats are used.

Interim Regulations, which should require annual renewal, will prevent the fossil fuel industry from opening new and expanded operations, thereby doing an end run around our public review process. We are pleased that the Port Commission is considering its own restrictions on fossil fuel projects, but those would not cover Tideflat properties outside of the Port, nor expansion of existing projects, and they remain an intention. It's our city, and we should enforce our own vision of what we want our home to look like. We encourage the City Council to adopt the Planning Commission's proposal.

Thank you, Bruce Hoeft ffl~ Conservation Committee Chair Tahoma Audubon

11/14/17

To: Tacoma City Council From: Barry Buchanan, Todd Donovan and Ken Mann, members of the Whatcom County

Council RE: Tacoma's Interim Pause for Industrial Development in the Tideflats

Good Evening Council,

The three of us are members of the Whatcom County Council. We are writing to express our support for the proposed Interim Regulation on fossil fuels and to offer solidarity with Tacoma as you consider long-term planning in the Tideflats. We are enthusiastic about working together with Tacoma and our other neighbors as we all move toward a shared regional prosperity that is not dependent on exporting fossil fuels.

As you may have heard, our community recently adopted a measure similar to the one before Tacoma City Council today. In Whatcom County we have seen a series of proposed and contemplated fossil fuel export projects. Many members of our community are concerned these projects would have serious negative impacts, including risk of spills in the Salish Sea, climate change, air and water quality degradation, health impacts, job losses, and many more. These projects include coal export, crude oil transport by trains and pipelines with the potential for export through existing piers, propane trains and liquified natural gas. We know that our community is not alone; there have been many similar proposals around the region as the same economic pressures and geographic constraints are applied in other communities. Our experience also leads us to the conclusion that even denial of these specific proposals, without changes to the underlying rules, would only mean another set of similar proposals in the near future.

Based on these concerns, we brought for,vard and passed an emergency moratorium on accepting new major project permits in the Cherry Point UGA that would increase shipment of unrefined fossil fuels. The Cherry Point UGA is zoned for heavy industry. We have renewed very similar language as an interim ordinance every six months since then. This Spring, we updated our Comprehensive Plan with the policy foundation that sets the stage for a more permanent code change, and we have begun a legal review of the options for permanent action that will protect our community from these kinds of projects.

Throughout this process, we have held half a dozen public hearings, and although we heard concerns from the oil and coal companies about the potential impacts on those industries, we also heard from many, many more community members who support these measures. More than a year later we can report that the economy in Whatcom County continues to thrive with recently published data showing the addition of 800 local manufacturing jobs and 400

construction durring the period in which the moratorium was in place (http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article180703946.html). And although those of us up for election were opposed by the fossil fuel interests this year, three Whatcom County Council members who supported these policies just won re-election.

We are eager to collaborate with other communities implementing similar measures. We are aware that our refusal to allow these projects in our community likely increases development pressure on our neighbors for similar energy projects with significant negative impacts. This makes collaboration all the more important. We view a shared strategy as a wise approach and

we would be happy to share the final results of our legal analysis when it is complete. In the meantime, any of us would be pleased to have conversations with any of you about this or related matters.

In Solidarity,

Todd Donovan

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From:                                         BRYANT MULLIN <bryantkmullin@yahoo.com>Sent:                                           Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:07 PMTo:                                               Inet‐ City Clerk; Planning; Strickland, Marilyn; City Manager; Blocker, Keith; Campbell, Marty; Ibsen,

Anders; Lonergan, Joe; McCarthy, Conor; Mello, Ryan; Thoms, Robert; Walker Lee, Lauren; Boudet,Brian; Wung, Lihuang; coalition@placeforjobs.com

Subject:                                     Proposed Interim Regulations   Good Afternoon,              I would like to submit a comment on the interim regulations. I grew up in Tacoma , went to school in Tacoma, got my firstjob in Tacoma, and since starting my electrical apprenticeship in 1992, I have been a member of IBEW local 76 in Tacoma. Duringmy time as an Electrician, I have done lots of work on the tide flats and inside Tacoma's city limits.             I would like to go on record as opposing the interim regulations.Tacoma needs family wage and construction jobs and theinterim regulations would be an obstacle to obtaining them. Thank you for your time.    Bryant  Mullin 

From:                                         Suzan Lakin <suzanl@ibew76.org>Sent:                                           Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:42 PMTo:                                               Inet‐ City ClerkSubject:                                     Interim RegulationsAttachments:                          20171114162309353.pdf Letter from our Business Manager. Suzan LakinI.B.E.W. Local Union #763049 South 36th, Suite 101Tacoma, WA 98409(253) 475‐1192(253) 475‐0844 ‐ Fax 

MIKER. CHURCH, President TIMOTHY K. O'DONNELL SR, Business Manager JENNIFER L. FOSTER, Recording Secretary

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Good Afternoon:

I am writing to you regarding the proposed Interim Regulations. Local Union #76, I.B.E.W. would like to reiterate our opposition to these regulations.

Local Jobs Matter! The proposed Interim Regulations put jobs at risk. We need more family wage jobs not less.

Sincerely,

Timothy K. O'Donnell, Sr. Business Manager

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From:                              Bruce Hoeft <brucehoeft3@gmail.com>

Sent:                               Tuesday, November 14, 2017 7:18 PM

To:                                   Inet‐ City Clerk

Subject:                          comment on Planning Commission Interim Regulations

Attachments:                 11‐14‐17 IR testimony.pdf

 

Comment is attached.

 

Thank you, Bruce Hoeft

________________________________________________________________________________________

2917 Morrison Road, W. University Place Wa. 98466 (253) 565 9278 To members of the Tacoma City Council November 14th, 2017 I am speaking to you on behalf of the Tahoma Audubon Society, which has been working with local agencies to protect our environment for 50 years. We would like to thank the Planning Commission for the work done developing Interim Regulations protecting the lands at the mouth of the Puyallup until subarea planning can be completed. We would like to thank the City for recognizing that the citizens of Tacoma demand a transparent process that will allow us all to decide what type of industries we want for the Puyallup Tideflats. In 2016, bird watchers were shocked to see white pelicans migrating to Puget Sound waters. In living memory, none of us can recall seeing them except on lakes east of the Cascades, where the birds typically nest and raise their young. Those lakes are drying up, which has likely forced the birds into the Salish Sea, where we live. The pelicans may or may not survive the change. The drying of the lakes is a part of the climate change we are seeing throughout our country, and in our own back yard. This past summer we spent two weeks breathing smoke from Canadian forest fires, prompting official declarations that the air in the Puget Sound basin was unhealthy. That's new. That's real. The climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels. Which also is real. We do not want to contribute to this problem, and we believe the citizens of Tacoma have a right to decide whether we do or not. The problem has been sanctioned by existing permitting protocols, and we believe the subarea planning process can allow us to develop more effective rules for preventing pollution, and a better vision for how the Tideflats are used. Interim Regulations, which should require annual renewal, will prevent the fossil fuel industry from opening new and expanded operations, thereby doing an end run around our public review process. We are pleased that the Port Commission is considering its own restrictions on fossil fuel projects, but those would not cover Tideflat properties outside of the Port, nor expansion of existing projects, and they remain an intention. It's our city, and we should enforce our own vision of what we want our home to look like. We encourage the City Council to adopt the Planning Commission's proposal. Thank you, Bruce Hoeft Conservation Committee Chair Tahoma Audubon

From:                              Kat Wood <kwood66@gmail.com>

Sent:                               Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:38 PM

To:                                   Inet‐ City Clerk

Subject:                          Proposed Interim Regulations for the Port of Tacoma

 

My name is Kat Wood and I am writing as a concerned community member and a member of the Protect Tacoma's TideflatsCoalition.

I am deeply disappointed with the removal of the proposed pause on existing fossil fuels in the Port, and honestly believe it to be ahuge give away to corporations over the safety and well being of your constituents. While the interim regulations are meant toprotect our environment and economy while the Subarea Plan is worked on, the weakening of those regulations is a giveaway tocorporate interests over the quality of life, air and water of each and every Tacoman.

While job growth and creation is necessary, it needs to be balanced with protections for Tacoma and its natural resources. Wehave a responsibility to our neighbors and all future Tacomans to protect the tideflats and to push for a greener economy thatserves us all, not just corporate interests. In addition, job growth in fossil fuels is severely limited compared with jobs in renewableenergy fields. We should not be putting the health and well being of our entire region on the line in order to protect a small numberof jobs in a dying field. Instead we should be supporting the burgeoning renewable energy industries in Washington State.

I am writing to urge you to pass a requirement of Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) for fossil fuel expansion projects in the port.This requirement will allow the city to have flexibility and transparency in future projects. The CUP will allow for contentiousprojects to be reviewed by the city in light of how they may affect public health and environmental concerns and can be reviewedover time as needed. As a healthcare provider I am very concerned about fossil fuel projects and their possible ramifications onpublic health. We share the air we breath and the water we drink, and I believe those are rights that we have as people and asresidents of Tacoma that should be weighed heavily against the possible monetary gain of corporations.

I thank you for your time and I truly hope that you reconsider adding a pause for all expansions of fossil fuels in the Port ofTacoma. I also just want to remind you that you are here to serve Tacoma and the best interests of its residents. I believe that yourchoice to place your constituents in danger to give the fossil fuel industry more money and power will come back to haunt youwhen you next ask for our votes.

 

Sincerely, Kat Wood

Tacoma, WA

From:                                         Bruce Kendall <bruce@edbtacomapierce.org>Sent:                                           Friday, November 17, 2017 3:13 PMTo:                                               Strickland, Marilyn; Blocker, Keith; Campbell, Marty; Ibsen, Anders; Lonergan, Joe; McCarthy, Conor;

Mello, Ryan; Thoms, Robert; Walker Lee, Lauren; Inet‐ City Clerk; City Manager;coalition@placeforjobs.com

Subject:                                     Tideflats interim regulations ‐ Please pass as amended on November 14 Dear Tacoma City Councilmembers – The EDB recognizes that compromise is important as you consider conflicting viewpoints. In that spirit, we support the Tideflatsinterim regulations ordinance as amended by the Council on November 14 and urge you to pass it with no change on November21. It does not satisfy everyone, but that is the nature of compromise. It is particularly important that the council continue to support the amendment that removed the limitation capping growth at10% for existing businesses and requiring a conditional use permit. Your decision to rely on current law under SEPA was theright move. Please remember that: 

Tacoma businesses already operate under some of the country’s toughest environmental regulations, includingstringent air and water quality rules.Expanding the interim regulations puts jobs at risk with no demonstrated social, economic or environmental benefit anda host of unintended consequences.Overreach on the interim regulations would mire the city in a costly legal challenge of its constitutionality, ignoring therecent ruling that a similar ban in Portland violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution because it interferedwith interstate commerce.Overreach on the interim regulations threatens current family‐wage jobs, quality of life, and security of Pierce Countyfamilies.Overreach on the regulations threatens JBLM’s readiness, hampering our armed forces’ ability to respond to threats toour security.We will make progress as a South Sound region not when we listen to extremists but when we work together to furtherour shared interests in our economic, social and environmental wellbeing.This will take citizens, elected officials, community leaders and business leaders working together for meaningfulchange to build a better city.

  Thank you.  Bruce Bruce kendallPresident & CEO 

w: 253.383.4726d: 253.284.5890PO Box 1555, Tacoma, WA 98401‐1555www.edbTacomaPierce.org | bruce@edbtacomapierce.org

 

From:                                         Jenn Adrien <jenn@edbtacomapierce.org>Sent:                                           Friday, November 17, 2017 3:46 PMTo:                                               Strickland, Marilyn; Blocker, Keith; Campbell, Marty; Ibsen, Anders; Lonergan, Joe; McCarthy, Conor;

Mello, Ryan; Thoms, Robert; Walker Lee, Lauren; Inet‐ City Clerk; City ManagerSubject:                                     Please pass Ordinance 28470 as amended on 11/14Attachments:                          doc05443620171116131644.pdf Mayor Strickland and Members of the City Council: I’m writing one last time to urge you to pass Ordinance 28470 as it was amended earlier this week. The removal of the 10% capwas a key compromise that will allow our city’s economic drivers to rely on existing environmental laws – already some of thestrictest in the nation – and not be subject to conditional use permits. We are eager to move forward with the Tideflats Subarea process, and confident that the interim regulations as amended thisweek will allow that to happen. JENN ADRIENVice President, Communications 

w: 253.383.4726d: 253.284.5888950 Pacific Ave. Suite 410PO Box 1555, Tacoma, WA 98402‐1555edbTacomaPierce.org | jenn@edbtacomapierce.org

 

November 14, 2017

Marilyn Strickland, Mayor Members of the City Council Tacoma Municipal Building 733 Market Street, Room 16 Tacoma WA 98402

Dear Mayor Strickland and members of the City Council:

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950 Pacific Avenue, Suite 410 Tacoma, WA 98402

253.383.4726 edbTacomaPierce.org

There has been much debate about whether or not interim regulations create uncertainty. Without a doubt, the mere threat of interim regulations and the conditional use permit has already generated uncertainty. The proposed interim regulations, with their requirement of a conditional use permit for 10% growth and lasting an indeterminate length of time, are fickle in both application and duration.

Simply put, business owners will not invest in a city whose regulations are indefinite and subject to expensive challenges in court. And it's not just industry that will shy away from investment: an out-of-state business owner who runs a tech company recently disclosed that he would not even consider Tacoma because of the proposed interim regulations.

There is no demonstrated benefit to creating a conditional use permit that would limit existing businesses. The Planning Commission and Staff have not proven that State and federal regulations are insufficient in protecting the environment. In fact, the Tideflats are some of the most regulated lands in the country. Imposing additional regulations will result in expensive litigation and loss of the very type oflong-term investment our city should be working hard to attract.

I respectfully urge you to reject these costly recommendations. Now is the time to focus on finalizing the interlocal agreement to make progress on the Tideflats Subarea Plan.

JennAdrien Vice President, Communications

Cc: Elizabeth Pauli, City Manager Steve Atkinson, Planning Services Division