FINAL MEETING SUMMARY Terminal 91 Neighbors Advisory Committee July 15, 2015 Terminal 91 NEIGHBORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Magnolia Community Club Queen Anne Community Council Port of Seattle ATTENDANCE: Magnolia Community Club: Fred Rapaport Tom Tanner Janice Traven (Alternate) Queen Anne Community Council Charles Bookman Ellen Monrad c/o Rosie Courtney Cruise Public Affairs Port of Seattle P.O. Box 1209 Seattle, WA 98111 Wk 206-787-3414 Fax 206-787-3280 Email: Courtney.R@portseattle.org http://www.portseattle.org/supportin g-our-community/community- Engagement/Pages/NAC.aspx Chair: John Kriese POS: Rosie Courtney, Public Affairs Greg Englin, Terminal 91 Operator Paul Meyer, Senior Environmental Manager Hilda Ballard, SoundEarth Strategies Inc., Environmental Consultant The regular meeting of the Terminal 91 Neighbors Advisory Committee (NAC) convened on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 in Conference Room 5, Pier 69. PREVIOUS MEETING SUMMARY April Meeting Summary Charles wanted to have Commissioner Gregoire clarify her statement from the April meeting minutes on page 1 in regard to using the NAC model in other neighborhoods prior to holding a vote to accept the meeting minutes. Rosie has not been able to get a response from Commissioner Gregoire about the sentence in question because the Commissioner has been on maternity leave. Fred suggests deleting the sentence and approving the April meeting minutes with a tabled action item to action item to follow up on it and amend if necessary. Fred moved and Tom 2 nd and the motion passed to accept the April 2015 meeting minutes with the deletion of the sentence in question with the option to follow up with an amendment later if necessary.. May Meeting Summary Tom moved and Fred 2 nd acceptance of the May 2015 meeting minutes. - 1 -
SPLASH BOXES AT TERMINAL 91 Paul Meyer said that the Splash Box idea was brought to the Port of Seattle because Commissioner Bryant saw this as a way to control and clean stormwater at the Port of Tacoma. The King County Conservation District was funding different stormwater projects and the consultant hired to test this particular type of water cleansing technique wanted to measure influent/effluent and concentrations of metals. They came to the Port for a location that needed clean-up of metals because they have a lot of space. The old Snider Petroleum building has exposed metal surfaces and the Port knew there would be input of zinc and probably copper and those are significant contributors to contamination. This is an opportunity for a planned demonstration project to provide empirical evidence that it works or doesn t work. Paul showed a video of how the SPLASH boxes work. Paul said the boxes will stay in place and the Port will contemplate purchasing them from the demonstrator and evaluating whether or not it stays there or goes some other place that has a larger need for it. A question and answer time followed. LIGHTING UPDATE Greg said the Port completed the adjustments of the Pier 91 fixtures. Following the completion of the fixture installations, he will schedule the commissioning of the lighting controls. Rosie suggested that Greg get a confirmation from Robert when the fixtures and controls are in place and then Rosie will send an email out to NAC members to let them know. Greg will schedule an opportunity to meet and review the changes with both Port operators as well as NAC members Don and Nancy when everything is in place. He will wait until the completion of the cruise season at the end of September to avoid interference with cruise operations. Tom reminded the group that there are protocols in the action items and a commitment to discussing them once everything is installed and connected to the controls. FRIENDS OF PIER 86 UPDATE Charles provided an overview of the Friends of Pier 86. Friends of Pier 86 received a neighborhood matching grant to hire a consultant for a feasibility study for artwork at the grain terminal. The consultant was selected and the 6-month study is underway. The steering group Friends of Pier 86 consists of neighborhood and arts community leaders (see handout). The lead for the consultant team is Lesley Bain from Framework Cultural Place. She assembled an outstanding team with special knowledge of the site including an artist from Velocity Made Good who also chairs the City of Seattle public art advisory committee. Other members of the team include engineer Paul Detrich who specializes in engineering related to public art and worked on the helix bridge railroad tracks and has intimate knowledge of the surroundings. Another member is architect Steve Johnson, the lead planner for the Amgen campus (now the Expedia campus). Steve worked a decade ago with Lesley on a study of the Magnolia bridge relocation alternatives. Their work plan has four task areas as shown on the handout. There will be two public meetings during the study. The first meeting is in September. The second public meeting is in November and they will solicit public comments on design parameters and the public process for implementation. There are other avenues for the public to share their ideas with the project team. Ideas have already been solicited at the Magnolia Farmer s Market and will be solicited at the Queen Anne s Farmer s Market on July 23 rd. Information is available on Facebook or at www.fap86.com. The study team and consultants met last week with the grain terminal operator and toured the property. The feasibility study will result in final report (a public document) that will be turned over to the Dept. of Neighborhoods and the Port. The ball Page 2
will then be in the Port s court for further action. Charles explained that the park land in front of Pier 86 is a Port centennial park. That does not mean that others do not have an interest or say in what happens at the property. Rosie asked Charles what expectations the Friends of Pier 86 have of the Port. Do they expect the Port will submit it to the art committee? Charles said the expectation is that the Port commissioners will want to be briefed on the outcome of the feasibility study. He said it is a complicated and extended process involving fundraising and a call for artists. Fundraising cannot happen without the support of the people who control the property or of the City because it is proposed to be public art in the City of Seattle and on Port property and a major part of the waterfront. There is a political process that needs to take place coincident with moving into a fundraising phase. Tom said that the community councils may or may not want to weigh in on the study. He doesn t know how the Magnolia Community Council will decide on this. He said that NAC may be asked to take a position and may be uncomfortable doing so. He said it sounds like there is great team to work on this and more information will be available later. Charles pointed out the roster of the steering group is represented by Magnolia Community Club, Queen Anne Community Council, Belltown Community Council and the most effective alliances. It is clear that the Port commissioners will look to NAC for some expression on the plan. He asks that he can continue to feed information to NAC as the process unfolds and that NAC members talk with the people aligned with Friends of Port 86 before they take a position. Rosie said she organized a tour of the site for about 10 people and thought the Louis Dreyfus company staff was very forthcoming. She did a pre-brief for the group to cover how the industry and facility works to make the most of the hour and thought the general manager shared a lot of information and got them up close to everything. NORTHWEST HARVEST BUILDING DEMOLITION Paul Meyer said the Port plans to demolish the old Northwest Harvest building (W-50) that was built in 1942 at Terminal 91. The Port provided an evaluation regarding its historical significance but the building is unsafe and has not been occupied for the last 3 years. The building has lead paint and asbestos materials that will be removed as per standard operating procedures. The site can be better used just for marine maintenance. The SEPA checklist and determination will be issued on July 31 st and the Port hopes to have the demolition complete by the end of the year. It will be removed with the slab left in place. There is no change or expansion in use. There may be a new modular building added but there is no new lighting proposed. TERMINAL 91 AND BIKE PATHS TOUR Rosie said members previously expressed an interest in understanding about Terminal 91 and the bike path on one side, a new park, and another community project that is looking at 32 nd. The Magnolia community wants to turn it into an extension more like a bike path. The Port is planning to put together a tour and it will most likely be on a Friday morning between 8:00-9:30. The goal is to have the tour at a very busy cruise terminal and bike time. She has until mid-september as a time frame and will invite Seattle Parks and the Department of Neighborhoods staff to attend. Tom suggested inviting SDOT. Bruce asked for 3 seats on the bus and Charles and Tom are also interested in attending. SEAFAIR EVENT DATES Page 3
Rosie said the invitations for the Seafair event will be sent to NAC members soon. The invitation is for a NAC member and a guest. There will be two vessels at Pier 66. Vessels will be arriving on the 28th and 29 th.the parade of ships is Wednesday and the tours and the flow of traffic towards Magnolia will start Thursday, the 31 st. The tours are Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun. OPEN FORUM Tom said there are two public meetings in July for the Smith Cove Park that will meet tomorrow evening at the Queen Anne community center. There is another meeting July 28 th at Lady of Fatima church at 7PM. Tom said there were about 200 people at the first meeting. Charles asked that the lighting issue be brought up and have Greg close the loop on it. The status of the traffic study was brought up. Rosie said that Christine Wolf from the Port staff normally supports us on the transportation study. She will try and get the study done for September. Ellen made a motion to have the traffic study conducted in September. Tom 2 nd. Fred, Tom and Charles all agreed that the traffic studies need to continue. The motion passed. Ellen made a motion to cancel the August meeting and it was 2 nd. The motion passed. Rosie will send out a reminder to everyone that the August meeting is cancelled. Adjourn ACTION ITEM UPDATE Discussion of what items should be removed from or added to the Action Item update. Action Item 1. A subcommittee on lighting will meet one more time and Rosie will send out information to convene the next meeting. 2. The Port will provide their lighting plan for the rest of the area and a schedule before they start work north of the bridge (upland lighting) 3. NAC will read the document about emergency access and decide how to proceed at a future meeting 4. Two protocols to discuss: -How to control the new lights with written standards or protocols on how to manage the controls depending on what is going on in the area. -How to control lights from the boats/ships. Can the Port include lighting guidelines to ship captains to minimize lighting impacts to the neighbors? The Port staff will come up with a timeline for the discussion of the protocols. 5. Rosie will work on a walk-through of the property from Amgen to Elliott Bay. 6. Potential amendment to April meeting minutes upon follow-up with Commissioner Gregoire for clarification. Schedule Page 4
Upcoming NAC Meeting Schedule September 16, 2015 November 18, 2015 October 21, 2015 December 16,2015 Page 5