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Christina, a Planning Department staff member, reviewed two draft options and recounted staff and mayoral concerns about allowing boards and commissions to bring items forward without limits. Christina said staff and council sought a balance that would let commissions raise issues while allowing staff to evaluate budget and staffing impacts.

Commissioners favored a simple, clear approach that sets an annual deadline for a work plan to be provided to city council in time for budget consideration. Several commissioners suggested holding a work-plan meeting in July each year and asked staff to draft a short code provision that captures that schedule; commissioners said simpler language was preferable to the two more prescriptive draft options that had been prepared.

A motion to authorize staff to prepare and circulate draft code language passed by voice vote with no opposed votes recorded. The motion directed Christina to circulate the proposed language to commissioners for comment and then transmit the revised language to City Council for consideration.

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Carla, staff lead for the comprehensive plan update, told commissioners that Leland Consulting has been signed to perform the land capacity analysis, housing needs assessment and economic and housing market studies. She also said staff recently submitted the major deliverables for the Washington State Commerce planning grant and the Climate Planning Grant; only one grant deliverable remained outstanding.

Commissioners methodically reviewed the chapter pages. Suggested edits included removing the adjective \"diverse\" where commissioners said it was redundant (for example in a policy that already used \"intergenerational\"), and removing an explicit callout naming The Granary to avoid singling out a private property in policy text. Commissioners also asked staff to provide a clear graphic or map defining what the plan means by “downtown” (several commissioners suggested Fifth Avenue to Brown Street as a working descriptor) and discussed whether policy language should call out downtown or a broader set of economic hubs and corridors.

Carla and Travis said the Community Character chapter is intended to work in tandem with the land use element and other plan chapters. Staff described an outreach and review schedule that will route chapters to boards with related purviews — for example the Arts Commission and Parks and Recreation Board — and will color-code edits from each reviewing body so commissioners can track changes.

On environmental review, staff said the project team had not yet finalized the SEPA/EIS approach; they anticipated a decision on environmental-review scope and whether to pursue a supplemental EIS by September.

Commissioners also discussed the commission’s annual work-plan process for forwarding priorities to council. Several commissioners said the commission has not consistently used the work-plan process in prior years and recommended scheduling a work-plan meeting in July so staff can evaluate budget and staffing impacts ahead of council’s budget process. Staff agreed to prepare draft code language for consideration that would set a clear annual deadline and to circulate draft language to the commission.

Commissioners thanked staff for the chapter and for progress on grants and consultant contracting. Carla said the draft climate and resiliency chapter was complete and would be reviewed next by an internal sustainability committee before being brought to the commission.

","The commission reviewed the draft Community Character chapter for Sequim's comprehensive plan, suggested edits (removing an individual site callout and reducing duplicative wording), and heard staff updates that Leland Consulting is under contract for land-capacity and market studies and that state grant deliverables are largely complete.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6200023,"Planning commission backs Sequim 2026–2031 TIP, recommends council hold public hearing",2562,732000,3294000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3819856-e0f8f0a421d284d3a6aea3c79d739a6b&start=732&end=3294","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3819856-e0f8f0a421d284d3a6aea3c79d739a6b/thumbnail_732000.jpg","/articles/6200023/Sequim/Clallam-County/Washington/Planning-commission-backs-Sequim-20262031-TIP-recommends-council-hold-public-hearing","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6200023-c6db09ed9036b8d2a7c0b10180e01e4d/orig.mp4?Expires=1770448214&Signature=IhMt7GJliLmuqpYX1TcKhO2h0HwVBlDt~kx0JDXRkTVN75MRHLCg4HiiLtDpFinC~AtbUpdNKCL3fbkdf086g-~~~qMPDh7fkNwUP5wW0FLo0MrhW8~MKQ3ng8vLUPBuGeOZbqW7CkXOcQyRoje4VdTQBN2im74GNDq6yVquaxnSo3EowIYklr4YMSoet2AvC8voZF9bolMqMT4nxHZbO~~kbDV3VE0yc-LQ~QaUI2yjoX-c9MANWtvPPtcU3olfpLumyr9ANSdc~HeD8DiWzL0RdPM6xfliE3nLHG6DfCqjkV1REul28ydAeuXEVkD9pXRe0kciAfFM65lJboqjgQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Sequim Planning Commission voted to recommend that the city council find the proposed 2026–2031 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) conforms to the city’s comprehensive plan and to schedule the plan for a city council public hearing.

The recommendation came after a presentation by Nick Doste, the city engineer and deputy director of public works, who reviewed recent work and projects programmed for 2026–27 and later funding-dependent years. The commission moved the TIP to council by motion and recorded a roll-call vote in which commissioners voted in favor.

The TIP presentation highlighted two completed projects from the previous year: an overlay of North Sequim Avenue and adjacent pedestrian and bicycle improvements that added ADA-compliant sidewalks and ramps, bike lanes and pedestrian-level lighting; and a signal project that installed cameras and new controllers to allow corridor coordination along the Washington corridor.

Doste told the commission the 2026–27 portion of the TIP focuses on projects with identified or secured funding; later-year projects (2028–31) are funding-dependent. He described two broad pavement-preservation tracks for the city going forward: an arterials-and-collectors program intended to pair with STBG (Surface Transportation Block Grant) match funding and a separate citywide program for local streets that would use lower-cost treatments such as chip seal or slurry seal.

Doste called attention to Project 15, North Third Avenue Complete Street (north of the state highway), which he said is estimated at about $4,700,000 for an initial phase. That project was developed from the city’s Local Road Safety Plan and the adopted Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) to target pedestrian and bicycle safety along a route that serves schools and parks. He described the CSAP as a required document for some grant programs and a component that positions Sequim to apply for larger federal demonstration grants such as Safe Streets for All.

Doste noted other funding and match strategies: using about $155,000 in city funds to match more than $700,000 for reconstruction of 62 ADA ramps (Project 67); pursuing STBG funds through county allocation for arterial rehab; and pursuing federal RAISE grant funding for feasibility and design work on the Keeler Road multiuse path to connect to the Olympic Discovery Trail.

Public comment came from Theresa Miller of Sequim, who said she had read the TIP cover sheet and asked why the packet indicated both that a public hearing is required and that it is not required. Miller also asked who would make any motion to forward the TIP to council. Staff clarified the language in the packet represented recommended motion language and that the public hearing is not required at the planning commission meeting; council will schedule the hearing.

After questions from commissioners about funding timelines for STBG, the role of the CSAP in accessing Safe Streets for All funds, and the status of intersection and corridor studies (including a Sandy Williams grant for East Washington feasibility), a commissioner moved to approve the TIP’s conformity with the comprehensive plan and recommend council schedule a public hearing. The commission then took a roll-call vote: Commissioner Coates — yes; Commissioner Cummings — yes; Commissioner Fain — yes; Commissioner Hewitt — yes; Commissioner Lefebvre — yes; Commissioner Michalek — yes. The motion passed.

Next steps: the commission’s recommendation will be transmitted to Sequim City Council for its review and scheduling of the formal public hearing required by the city’s adoption timeline (staff noted a July 1 deadline for adoption to meet certain regional processes). Staff said city and county funding matches and grant applications will continue to be pursued for design and construction funding for the larger projects.

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