CARS | Kirkland City Council tackles residential parking ordinances [5] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING Coffee | New Kirkland business near Juanita Beach Park brings rare Hawaiian beans to Kirkland connoisseurs [6] R EP O RTER .com KIRKLAND NEWSLINE: 425.822.9166 BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected] A financial education website has named Kirkland as the sixth best city in the state for “millenials” seeking jobs. But local officials sug- gest this pertains mainly to those who work the city’s many hi-tech companies - at least for the time being. According to the study conducted by NerdWal- let, Kirkland experienced nearly 40 percent growth in millenials, people between the ages of 28-33, between 2010-2013. For their list of top cities, which placed Redmond as the best city for millenials seeking employment, NerdWal- let examined the city’s unemployment rate, rental and housing affordability, as well as the prevalence of Science Technology Engi- neering and Math (STEM)- related jobs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kirkland has a 4.2 percent unemploy- ment rate. Trulia reports the median sales price for homes in Kirkland between Oct. 14, 2014 and Jan. 15 was $445,975. Trulia also reported that sales prices have appreciated 14 percent during the past five years. Bruce Wynn, executive director at the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, said the growth spurt of millenials can be attributed to hi-tech industries and companies like Google, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in Kirkland during October. With one campus in the Moss Bay neighborhood off of 6th Street South, company officials are currently add- ing a second campus site adjacent to it in anticipa- tion of an additional 1,000 workers. is is on top of the 1,400 full-time employ- ees they have in the state. Wynn added that Google also hosts two chamber luncheons a year to attract students interested in STEM. “ere is a lot of money pouring into the school foundations and chamber to keep that on the front burner,” he said. Yet, he said Kirkland’s ap- peal for millenials is really dependent on what they do for a living, especially if they intend to live in the city. “Technology and sci- ence rule, and that is a big priority here in Kirkland,” he said, citing the move by other major companies such as Microsoſt, Costco and Bluetooth into the city due to its growing reputa- tion as a center-hub for technology-focus indus- tries. Millenials flock to Kirkland for high-tech jobs, housing [ more JOBS page 9 ] Planning Commission OKs Parkplace zoning changes BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected] e Kirkland Planning Commission has voted to recommend to the City Council several changes to zoning at Parkplace and amend the Kirkland Parkplace Master Plan and Design Guidelines. e commission’s vote on Jan. 29 sent the proposals to the council, which took up the issue at a public hearing at their Feb. 17 meeting. e new master plan, submitted in October by Talon Private Capi- tal, would require several zoning changes to allow for more residen- tial space. Right now, the zoning code limits residential develop- ment to 10 percent of the allowed gross floor area for the master plan, which Talon is asking to be in- creased to 30 percent. e plan is to build 300 units, 10 percent of which would be affordable housing. is will be offset, they have said, by reducing the size of the overall site from the 2.75 million square feet permitted by zoning to 1.2 million. e new master plan reduces the overall size by 34 percent and the amount of office space by 50 percent from the original master plan. It also sets aside two acres of open space and plazas. Another proposed change is to have the movie theater count as 20 percent of the total retail/restaurant use required instead of 10 percent. According to city of Kirkland Senior Planner Angela Ruggeri, they need to have 25 percent of office square footage, and many residents requested the change so that the devel- oper would keep movie theater. Ruggeri said the re- vised master plan will have fewer but taller buildings, some of which will be up to eight stories, the maximum al- lowed by zoning (115 feet). e other proposed change would permit a drive-thru facility to be built 6th Avenue. A drive-thru bank currently sits on Central Way but was grandfathered in aſter the zoning code was altered to prohibit it on the property, according to Ruggeri. Ruggeri said the reduced size of the master plan means there will be less of a traffic impact than the previous version which is reflected in the new State Environmental Policy Act addendum (SEPA). It is the first attempt at redevelopment of the site since 2010, when [ more ZONING page 3 ] Smiley’s friendly skies Pilot Philip Smiley, seen here with his grandchildren at his Kirkland home, was honored by the Federal Aviation Administration for a perfect life-time flying record. For the full story see page 8. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected] A new bill introduced to the State House would remove personal exemp- tions for vaccinating children who attend public schools, including in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD). House Bill 2009 (HB2009) would remove a clause that says allows for “a written certification signed by any parent or le- gal guardian of the child… that the signator has either a philosophical or personal objection to the immuni- zation of the child,” leaving only medical and religious exemptions in place. Introduced by Rep. June Robinson, a Democrat from Everett and member of the House Health Care and Wellness Commit- tee, the bill came out in response to a reported outbreak of measles at Disneyland in January. In 2011, the State Leg- islature passed a law that required parents to get a doctor’s signature in order to exempt their children from vaccination for medi- cal reasons. All but two states allow for religious exemptions for vaccina- tion of children attending public schools. According to King County, Washington State has fewer than 10 cases of measles reported a year. In 2013, only four were reported in the county. e State Department of Health reported that LWSD had a 6.13 percent exemption rate. Out of the 1,258 reported, they were overwhelming for personal reasons, at 87 percent. Ap- proximately nine percent were for medical, while approximately four percent were for religious reasons. e school with the highest exemption rate in LWSD was Emerson K-12 which, according to 2011 stats obtained the DOH, had nearly 40 percent of students exempted from House bill would narrow exemptions for vaccines in schools [ more BILL page 3 ]
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A � nancial education website has named Kirkland as the
sixth best city in the state for “millenials” seeking jobs. But local o� cials sug-gest this pertains mainly to those who work the city’s many hi-tech companies - at least for the time being.
According to the study conducted by NerdWal-
let, Kirkland experienced nearly 40 percent growth in millenials, people between the ages of 28-33, between 2010-2013. For their list of top cities, which placed Redmond as the best city for millenials seeking employment, NerdWal-let examined the city’s unemployment rate, rental and housing a� ordability, as well as the prevalence of Science Technology Engi-neering and Math (STEM)-
related jobs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kirkland has a 4.2 percent unemploy-ment rate. Trulia reports the median sales price for homes in Kirkland between Oct. 14, 2014 and Jan. 15 was $445,975. Trulia also reported that sales prices have appreciated 14 percent during the past � ve years.
Bruce Wynn, executive director at the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce,
said the growth spurt of millenials can be attributed to hi-tech industries and companies like Google, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in Kirkland during October. With one campus in the Moss Bay neighborhood o� of 6th Street South, company o� cials are currently add-ing a second campus site adjacent to it in anticipa-tion of an additional 1,000 workers. � is is on top of
the 1,400 full-time employ-ees they have in the state. Wynn added that Google also hosts two chamber luncheons a year to attract students interested in STEM.
“� ere is a lot of money pouring into the school foundations and chamber to keep that on the front burner,” he said.
Yet, he said Kirkland’s ap-peal for millenials is really dependent on what they
do for a living, especially if they intend to live in the city.
“Technology and sci-ence rule, and that is a big priority here in Kirkland,” he said, citing the move by other major companies such as Microso� , Costco and Bluetooth into the city due to its growing reputa-tion as a center-hub for technology-focus indus-tries.
Millenials flock to Kirkland for high-tech jobs, housing
[ more JOBS page 9 ]
Planning Commission OKs Parkplace zoning changesBY TJ MARTINELL
� e Kirkland Planning Commission has voted to recommend to the City Council several changes to zoning at Parkplace and amend the Kirkland Parkplace Master Plan and Design Guidelines.
� e commission’s vote on Jan. 29 sent the proposals to the council, which took up the issue at a public hearing at their Feb. 17 meeting.
� e new master plan, submitted in October by Talon Private Capi-tal, would require several zoning changes to allow for more residen-tial space.
Right now, the zoning code limits residential develop-ment to 10 percent of the allowed gross � oor area for the master plan, which Talon is asking to be in-creased to 30 percent. � e plan is to build 300 units, 10 percent of which would be a� ordable housing.
� is will be o� set, they have said, by reducing the size of the overall site from the 2.75 million square feet permitted by zoning to 1.2 million. � e new master plan reduces the overall size by 34 percent and the amount of o� ce space by 50 percent from the original master plan. It also
sets aside two acres of open space and plazas.
Another proposed change is to have the movie theater count as 20 percent of the total retail/restaurant use required instead of 10 percent. According to city of Kirkland Senior Planner Angela Ruggeri, they need to have 25 percent of o� ce square footage, and many residents requested the change so that the devel-oper would keep movie theater. Ruggeri said the re-vised master plan will have fewer but taller buildings,
some of which will be up to eight stories,
the maximum al-lowed by zoning (115 feet).
� e other proposed change
would permit a drive-thru facility to
be built 6th Avenue. A drive-thru bank currently sits on Central Way but was grandfathered in a� er the zoning code was altered to prohibit it on the property, according to Ruggeri.
Ruggeri said the reduced size of the master plan means there will be less of a tra� c impact than the previous version which is re� ected in the new State Environmental Policy Act addendum (SEPA).
It is the � rst attempt at redevelopment of the site since 2010, when
[ more ZONING page 3 ]
Smiley’s friendly
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Pilot Philip Smiley, seen here with his grandchildren at his Kirkland home, was honored by the Federal Aviation Administration for a perfect life-time � ying record. For the full story see page 8. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
BY TJ MARTINELL
A new bill introduced to the State House would remove personal exemp-tions for vaccinating children who attend public schools, including in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD).
House Bill 2009 (HB2009) would remove a clause that says allows for “a written certi� cation signed by any parent or le-gal guardian of the child…
that the signator has either a philosophical or personal objection to the immuni-zation of the child,” leaving only medical and religious exemptions in place.
Introduced by Rep. June Robinson, a Democrat from Everett and member of the House Health Care and Wellness Commit-tee, the bill came out in response to a reported outbreak of measles at Disneyland in January.
In 2011, the State Leg-islature passed a law that
required parents to get a doctor’s signature in order to exempt their children from vaccination for medi-cal reasons. All but two states allow for religious exemptions for vaccina-tion of children attending public schools.
According to King County, Washington State has fewer than 10 cases of measles reported a year. In 2013, only four were reported in the county.
� e State Department of Health reported that
LWSD had a 6.13 percent exemption rate. Out of the 1,258 reported, they were overwhelming for personal reasons, at 87 percent. Ap-proximately nine percent were for medical, while approximately four percent were for religious reasons.
� e school with the highest exemption rate in LWSD was Emerson K-12 which, according to 2011 stats obtained the DOH, had nearly 40 percent of students exempted from
House bill would narrow exemptions for vaccines in schools
[ more BILL page 3 ]
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Virtual open house, questionnaire on proposed Kirkland ARC
� e city of Kirkland is conducting broad public outreach on the proposed aquatics/recreation/com-munity (ARC) center. One key goal is to identify the community’s preference to locate the facility on city-owned or privately-owned property. Comprehensive background information and a brief questionnaire are available at the Kirkland ARC Center “Virtual Open House,” http://kirklan-darc.publicmeeting.info/. Community members are
encouraged to visit the online site to learn about the proposed facility and to complete the questionnaire by March 31.
� e online open house provides detailed analysis of what factors the city has considered in � nding the most appropriate site for the multi-purpose facility and what program and building features the public desires.
In the initial phase, the siting study primarily con-sidered city-owned property to minimize overall costs. Based upon siting criteria, such as land size, access, zoning, neighborhood com-patibility, two city park sites were deemed suitable for an ARC facility. � e north side of Juanita Beach Park was identi� ed to be more appropriate than the North Kirkland Community Cen-ter site. Artist renderings posted online are intended to show that Juanita Beach
Park (north side of Juanita Drive) is of su� cient land size to accommodate an 86,700 square facility and parking, while maintaining open space and compatibil-ity with the neighborhood.
During its consideration of the two park sites, the City Council also directed that additional public feed-back be sought on the pref-erence to locate the facility on city owned or privately owned property. � e search for potential privately-owned sites is ongoing. Sites identi� ed include: Property in or near Totem Lake Mall; property in the PAR MAC industrial zone; property west of I-405 in the Totem Lake Area; and property near the Kirkland Justice Center. Acquiring privately owned property of su� cient size is estimated to cost between $10-20 million.
Kirkland’s two commu-nity centers, the Peter Kirk Community Center and the North Kirkland Communi-ty Center, are programmed to capacity and lack many of the features desired by us-ers, such as � tness facilities, gymnasium, and meeting space. In 2007, the Parks and Community Services Department, working with citizens and community groups, developed a proto-type plan for a future multi-use community recreation and aquatic facility that could better serve the rec-reation and aquatic needs of residents of all ages. � e need for such a facility was also identi� ed during a survey of residents in March 2014. In that survey, 82 percent said they strongly support or somewhat sup-port an aquatics, recreation and community center.
In addition to the Virtual Open House, the city will conduct a random tele-phone survey of Kirkland residents in the coming weeks.
To receive updates via email on the proposed ARC Center, visit www.kirkland-wa.gov/kirklandarc.
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Touchstone’s master plan was approved by the city. The project was ultimately stopped due to financial reasons and the property sold.
Jim Neal and Bill Pollard, the principals of Talon, said their new master plan is in-tended to complement the surrounding community, taking advantage of ameni-ties already present while providing an urban center for people to live, work and play in the same area.
Pollard said that the mas-ter plan was deliberately designed not to maximize the total density allowed by zoning in order to create
a more intimate feel and reserve open space for community events such as farmers markets.
Pollard said that with Peter Kirk Park adjacently located, the apartments will work well for young or small families. The plans also call for walkability in order to reduce parking and traffic issues, and the hope is to take advantage of the Cross Kirkland Corridor.
Although there will be less office space, both Pollard and Neal said the redevelopment would allow growing companies to take root in Kirkland rather than leave once they outgrow their space.
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vaccines, mainly for per-sonal reasons. Out of the 218 enrolled, 30 percent were exempted for mea-sles. According to LWSD Spokesperson Kathryn Reith, the school is a partnership between the district and home school families. Under the new law, however, students at the school may be affected, as the Office of Superintendent for Public In-struction has it categorized as a public school.
Reith said the district policy would only pro-hibit vaccinated students who have the proper documentation from attending class if the student contracts a particular disease.
The school with the lowest vaccine exemption rate in Kirkland was Holy Family Parish School, a private school, at two percent. Private schools are not required by law to provide religious or personal exemptions.
When it comes to the stance of local politicians, State Sen. Andy Hill says he supports the goal of having 90 percent of the state population vaccinat-ed but declined to com-ment on the bill specifi-cally, saying he hasn’t had a chance to read it. State Rep. Larry Springer said he supports the idea, but is waiting until it passes through committee before he decides how to cast his vote.
“You never know what the language is going to be when it gets out of com-mittee,” he said.
Either way, he feels the personal exemp-
tion should be removed, though he believes parents have a right to exempt their children for religious and medical reasons.
“If there is a medical reason not to inoculate you shouldn’t vaccinate,” he said. “Parents have had very legitimate and defensible objections on religious and spiritual grounds. I respect that.
But when you have someone who can say ‘I just have personal rea-sons’…if those personal rea-sons dictated a decision that only affected their child, that would be one thing. This is a public health
issue and I just want to make sure we don’t see a continual rebound of dis-eases we thought we had gotten rid of long ago.”
Springer added that he is alarmed at the number of elementary school students who are not vac-cinated.
“It’s astounding… I was shocked at the percentages of the student population around the state that are not vaccinated. That is just a public safety issue, a public health issue that we can’t ignore.”
State Rep. Roger Good-man said he also supports the bill due to what he be-lieves is the solid scientific research behind vaccines. He also said that he con-siders places like Vashon Island, where 20 percent of school children are not vaccinated, at risk for an outbreak in measles.
“I don’t believe there is a basis for anyone to deny a vaccination for their children for per-sonal reasons that are not supported by science,” he
said. “There’s been some sensational claims that vaccines are linked to autism or other disor-ders but this has been completely debunked… we don’t let peanuts into schools but we let children who haven’t been vaccinated into schools. I’m not sure that makes a lot of sense. We’re paying more attention to peanut allergies.”
One of the potential problems with the bill, however, is that parents who previously opted for personal reasons can just switch over to religious exemption.
“I suppose if this bill were to pass and we looked three years from now and we have the same percentage not being vac-cinated and the religious has replaced the personal one, we’ll have to look at that,” Springer said.
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“it’s astounding… i was shocked at the percentages of the student population
around the state that are not vaccinated. That is just a public
safety issue, a public health issue that we
can’t ignore.” Rep. larry Springer
City to host Spring Tourism networking meeting
The city of Kirkland will host a Spring Tourism Net-working meeting and lunch at Heritage Hall from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on March 26.
City staff will provide updates on the Waterfront Optimization Study, Cross Kirkland Corridor and new developments in Kirkland.
Those in attendance can share their spring and sum-mer promotions and events. Lunch will be provided.
Heritage Hall is located at 203 Market Street in down-town Kirkland.
To RSVP visit https://spring2015tnm.eventbrite.
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Alliance of neighborhoods to host State of the City Address
The Kirkland Alliance of Neighborhoods will host the “State of the City” address for Kirkland residents from 7-9 p.m. on Feb. 25.
Mayor Amy Walen and City Manager Kurt Triplett will share the latest updates on the City Council’s Work Program and other major initiatives:, including the Cross Kirkland Corridor, Totem Lake Business District Revitalization, proposed North Kirkland Fire Sta-tion, Aquatics/Recreation/
Community (ARC) Center, Kirkland 2035 – Comprehen-sive Plan update, Downtown Parking Assessment Study and the 2015-2016 Budget.
The two hour session will be videotaped and posted on the city’s website at www.kirklandwa.gov and search Kirkland Alliance of Neigh-borhoods.
For more information, contact Kari Page, Neighbor-hood Outreach Coordinator at [email protected] or call 425-587-3011.
The presentation, includ-ing question and answer ses-sion, will be videotaped and aired on the City’s K-GOV channel (Comcast Channel 21/Frontier Channel 31) as well as posted to the city’s on-demand webpage.
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No tra� c safety in Kingsgate
In response to your article about tra� c safety in the Kingsgate neighborhood, I would like to respond: � ere is none! I live on 116th Avenue two blocks south of the Lutheran Church. For over 26 years my husband and I have peti-tioned the King County Sheri� ’s O� ce and now, the city of Kirkland, for increased patrols on 116th. Cars going both north and south use 116th as a speedway. Vehicles traveling at or near 50 mph is the norm. Crossing the street to access our mailbox is “Hail Mary” time.
If the Kirkland PD policed this street on a regular basis the city income from tra� c cita-tions would balance the budget. � e sad truth in this matter is the city of Kirkland does not care about tra� c safety in Kingsgate.Irene L. Parrish, Kingsgate
Criticized for not being nice I’ve been criticized by many that I’m always
not nice. � ere’s a reason.Is it nice for Mayor Walen and Councilmem-
bers to raise fees and taxes at a rate four times higher than our cost of living? Is it nice for them to bust through their adopted budget by an average of $15 million a year? Is it nice for them to divert money from essential services to create arti� cial shortfalls that are then used to ask for tax increases?
Is it nice that our council and planning de-partment promotes more tra� c jams? Is it nice for them to pass an ordinance that prohibits the citizens from speaking on tra� c concur-rency? Taping our mouths was not good. Was it nice the citizens of Kirkland were prohibited from speaking on annexation?
I will be nice when Mayor Walen and the council do something nice for the citizens who currently live in Kirkland and pay the bills. � ey need to represent us. I will commend them when they do. Until then, I will continue to criticize what they do. Unfortunately for them and for us, most of the time it’s not nice.Robert L. Style, Kirkland
Supreme Court decision may not be the end of the � ght
Of course we are pleased to have the decision of the Court of Appeals [on Potala Village] upheld by the Supreme Court’s denying to review the case. It has been hard for us to even understand how someone would use a permit that only evaluates a minor portion of a project to somehow vest to a project that has numer-ous other applicable codes. We have always believed that vesting occurs, � rst with the � ling of a Complete Building Permit, and second when the building permit that is � led is code compliant.
Our next steps will be to participate as this goes through the design review process and make sure [the developer] correctly � nishes the environmental cleanup. Also, the driveway issue is still a big point.
FEIS indicated that the project was still incompatible with size, scale, character with the neighborhood. Since then, the projects that he’s proposed have been even bigger (bigger footprint) and/or taller (mis-construing new zoning codes). Etc. Even with fewer units he made the building bigger.
Also, while [the developer] cleaned up the contamination on-site, he needs to clean up the contamination from the gas station that migrated o� -site. Apparently this is necessary before the DOE issues an NFA letter. Tradi-tional lenders and/or insurers are supposedly
not likely to participate with this property until there is an NFA (“No Further Action Required) letter... It is unclear what he could do with non-traditional EB-5 funding (or other). � e Path America website seemed to indicate that [developer] Lobsang Dargey has been given NFA for the site, but checking with Depart-ment of Ecology, this does not appear to have been granted.
� ere is always a chance that the neighbors will need to use the court to make sure Dargey and the city don’t compromise the controls that should be on that property.
� e Supreme Court decision is great news, but may not be the end of the story.Karen Levenson, Kirkland
Disingenuous to say city led � ght against Potala project
I think it’s disingenuous to say “the legal battle between the city of Kirkland and Potala Village...” � e problem was caused by the city and it’s incompetent elected o� cials in the � rst place.
� e citizens had to spend an enormous amount of time and money to even get the city’s attention that this was not an acceptable development, let alone to this point of correc-tion.
We were met with resistance from the start, as elected o� cials and city employees tried to sweep this under the carpet. � ere was either corruption or such dereliction of duty that sta� should have been discharged.
Instead, people kept their jobs, elected o� -cials were re-elected or sent on to higher o� ce, and Dargey will still get to build the develop-ment from hell... only smaller.
Let there be no mistake: this was a battle be-tween a developer and the citizens of Kirkland, with the city doing a CYA. Lee Obrzut, Kirkland
City does not care about annexed area
I cannot believe that the city of Kirkland would allow Goodwill to put their store into the old Albertsons store on 132nd street.
� is prime residential/commercial property should not be used for this type of store. � e whole corner of 132nd and 100th looks dis-gusting and an embarrassment to the Juanita/
Kirkland area. Totem Lake shopping center is an embarrassment as well.
What is wrong with our civic leaders that they cannot get these prime properties devel-oped to suit the Kirkland area in a better way? � e city of Kirkland found it so important to annex this area yet they haven’t done a thing to develop it in a better way.
I guess the downtown area is only what mat-ters to them? It doesn’t make any sense there is no good retail shopping area in Kirkland and we � nd ourselves always having to go to Wood-inville or Redmond.Helen White, Kirkland
LWSD complied with law, Reporter requests
The Kirkland Reporter’s February 11 edito-rial states “LWSD officials told us they were unable to release any information because of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).” Actually, the district did release a considerable amount of information to the Reporter regarding the assault of a student at Juanita High School. We answered all the questions we could and we have provided 769 pages of documents in response to five public records requests.
� e editorial further notes that the names of the suspects were included in the charg-ing documents. It implies the school district should have provided that information much earlier. � e district in fact must comply with student privacy laws or face the consequences. � ose consequences could include spending thousands or even millions of taxpayer dollars to defend against lawsuits and potentially pay damages.
I completely understand the Reporter and the community’s interest in knowing more. I also know that more information will be provided through the legal process, which has taken a long time in this instance. � e Kirkland Police Department and King County Prosecutor do not have the same legal requirements to protect student privacy that the district does. � ey are not only free to provide more information than the school district can but it is part of the legal process. Kathryn M. Reith, Communications Director Lake Washington School District
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statisti-cal round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police o� cers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Feb. 6-12, there were tra� c incidents, tra� c accidents, three DUIs, 21 general traf-� c incidents, 38 alarm calls, 16 abandoned vehicles, � ve burglaries, 12 incidents of fraud, 15 civil incidents, six cases of harassment, 13 thefts, 13 vehicle prowls, two vehicle thefts, 13 warrants served, 12 noise complaints, one animal call, nine incidents of domestic violence, four incidents of malicious mischief, 10 disturbances, three trespass, two assaults, � ve hit and run and 22 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Feb. 12
Protection order violation: 5:14 p.m., 12300 block of NE 150th Ct. A 25-year-old woman was arrested for violating a domes-tic violence no-contact order.
Feb. 8Assault: 11:01 p.m., 11230 block of NE 132nd St. A 33-year-old man punched his 60-year-old mother repeatedly in the face af-ter getting drunk. Police found her with marks and bruises on her hands from defending herself. The son was arrested for domestic violence.
Feb. 7Assault: 9 p.m., 700 block of Lake St. A 38-year-old man got drunk with his 38-year-old ex-� ancee, returned to his condo and began yelling racial slurs in the hallways. He went into his condo and passed out. The ex-� ancee fell asleep, then woke to � nd the man holding a pillow over her face. During the ensuing struggle he smashed her � at screen TV. The woman eventually called her 59-year-old mother,
who physically detained the man until police arrived and arrested him for mali-cious mischief and assault.
Trespass: 8:40 p.m., 13200 block of 116th Ave NE. Police were
called to a construc-tion site after secu-rity cameras showed a 32-year-old man with his 56-year-old father inside the gated yard. They were arrested for
trespassing with the assistance of a K9 unit and
Guardian One.
Feb. 6Warrant: 8:53 p.m., 14300 block of
132nd Ave NE. A 39-year-old man was reported for unwanted contact and arrested on an outstanding warrant. He was also issued a one-year trespass warning from the property owner.
Theft: 12 p.m., 12200 block of 120th Ave NE. A 55-year-old woman stole $37.20 worth of products while working as a vendor at Fred Meyer and was arrested. She had no ID card on her at the time.
CRIME ALERTThis week’s…
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Fresh skepticism and concerns have been injected into a proposed ordinance that would lower the number of parking stalls required for multi-family developments.
During a study session by the council at its Feb. 4 meeting on a right size parking ordinance pro-posal, councilmembers questioned the � ndings of a study the Planning Commission is using to justify the ordinance. � e study purportedly found a surplus of parking stalls in residential developments. � e study itself was based on the King County’s Right Size Parking (RSP) project, which discov-ered the same surplus.
� e ordinance would reduce the number of parking stalls required for multi-family developments, and is intended to reduce the number of single-occupant vehicles (SOV) on the road. � e goal is to have 65 percent SOV and 35 percent transit or other modes of transportation by 2022. Kirkland is expected to have 7,300 new multi-family housing units by 2035, according to the King County Growth County-wide Planning Policy growth targets.
While discussing the proposal with the council, Senior Planner Jon Regala attempted to clear up some possible misunderstandings about the study, saying it
only examined apartments and did not address com-mercial parking. He also acknowledged that the vast majority of public feedback on the proposal has con-veyed trepidation over the negative e� ects of reducing parking. Public comments also criticized the study itself and that the meth-ods used to gather data were � awed. Chief among concerns was the fear of spill-over parking from developments into adjacent neighborhoods.
Councilmember Toby Nixon was among those on the council who questioned
the study, saying whenever he
has driven to apartments in North Kirk-land he has had di� culty � nding a visitor park-
ing spot. “It’s almost
impossible to � nd parking when I go to
visit people,” he said. “� is leads me to believe that the data collection that show 20 percent of space is available can’t be accurate. � ere’s something going on. I’m not sure what it is.”
Nixon also inquired as to the methods used in the study, to which Regala replied that they use a decade-old method still employed by the Institute of Transportation Engineers in which they count vehi-cles per residential dwelling unit during the night.
“We decided we didn’t want to recreate the wheel,” Regala said. “I believe in the integrity (of the study)….we were consistently � nding oversupply. � e numbers spoke from our
perspectives.”Deputy Mayor Penny
Sweet also said she was skeptical of there being a parking surplus in Kirkland.
“One of the oldest prob-lems, particularly down-town, is the lack of park-ing,” she said. “It’s really hard for me as a business owner downtown to accept that we have adequate park-ing during the other hours of the day.”
Regala replied that this was probably true but isn’t re� ected in the study because it only examined apartments and not the commercial properties, though Penny said mixed-use developments would include both commercial and residential.
� e majority of the city’s multi-family zones require 1.7 stalls per unit and up to .5 stalls per unit of guest parking, according to a Jan. 8 city memo.
In addition to council-member’s apprehensions, the Kirkland Alliance of Neighborhoods has come out against the ordinance, or at least in its current form. During public com-ment a� er the study ses-sion, KAN’s Secretary Kar-en Story said the ordinance needs additional scrutiny and also said that resident input needs to be taken seriously. She suggested the council have another study session with KAN and other local stakeholders who would be a� ected by the new requirements.
“� ey need to feel their input matters or they will become discouraged and apathetic and stop par-ticipating in the public process,” she said. “Parking is the hinge upon which land use and transportation
swing and it’s critical to en-sure these two pieces work together peacefully.”
Last year, KAN voted unanimously to request public comment be extended to allow more input from neighborhood residents on the proposal.
Another person who commented at the council meeting inquired as to who determined parking avail-
ability to be a problem.“Nobody has determined
where this problem came from,” they said. “� e study was incomplete and those who did the study wished they had the dollars to do it more completely. Of all Kirkland sites in the study, zero were condos. All were apartments. � is cannot be applied to both hous-ing buildings. A lot more
thought needs to go into the di� erent type of hous-ing this is going to apply to.”
Another person who spoke during public com-ment warned that lowering requirements would lead to spillover into neighbor-hoods where the streets are not designed to handle cars on both sides of the road.
“� ere is already insuf-� cient parking,” they said.
Although councilmem-bers like Jay Arnold do not necessarily support the right size parking ordinance
Parking issues continue to be hot topic for city
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A new Kirkland coffee store offers residents the taste of imported coffee from Hawaii, the only state in the union to grow it.
Kameha’s Coffee, which opened in December and is located at 11451 98th Avenue NE, offers people chance to get roasted beans imported from cof-fee farms on the Hawai-ian islands. The store is a family-run operation, owned by Mark and Ve-ronica ColÕn, who live in Hawaii, while their adult children Jessica, Monica and Michael work at the store.
Separating Kameha’s from other coffee shops is the obvious Hawaiian decor that reflects the family’s affection for the islands. A painted mural of Hawaii covers the ceil-ing, while surfing videos and documentaries about the islands run on the two TVs for customers who have never visited
the islands. But the real attraction is the selec-tion of pure Kona coffee, which even tourist sites in Hawaii don’t offer, opting for mixed beans instead. Among the flavors Ka-meha’s offers are Yellow Caturrai, Kona Oahu and Maui Mokka. In addition to coffee, they also offer Seattle-based Macrina Bakery products and bags of different coffee beans.
The diverse selection also varies in the islands they originated from, including Maui, Kona and Kauai. Each of the islands offers a variation on the same coffee bean due to the distinct soil the beans are grown in as a result of the local volcanic activity.
Jessica ColÕn said they first visited Hawaii in 2000 with their extended family, and after return-ing numerous times dis-covered the coffee farms. While people can ship Kona from the islands themselves, she said, it is usually expensive to do so.
The family purchases
the coffee directly from the farmers and then it is roasted in Seattle, another way their coffee differs from coffee where the beans are burned in keeping with the tradi-tional Italian-style. Jessica ColÕn said roasting it preserves the coffee’s flavor.
When the ColÕns finally found the right place for their shop they
settled on a vacated build-ing formerly occupied by Jack-in-the-Box across from Michael’s near Juan-ita Village. Mark Colon, a contractor, remodeled the interior.
Coffee orders can be made online at squareup.com/market/kamehas-cup#map. Visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Kamahas-CupCoffee.
The ceiling of Kamehsa’s co� ee, located near Juanita Beach Park, is painted to look like a map of Hawaii, where the business gets all of its co� ee beans. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
New coffee shop brings the taste of Hawaii to Kirkland
LW Symphony Orchestra presents concert
The Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra will give its spring concert “Pictures at an Exhibition” at 3 p.m. on March 8 at the Kirkland Performance Center. The program will include Weber’s Euryanthe, the Bruch Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra featuring internation-ally acclaimed violinist
Elisa Barston, and Mus-sorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Tickets are $30 general admission, $25 for seniors and $15 for students. Children aged 12 and under are free.
Spring concert tickets are available now through Kirkland Performance Center www.kpcenter.org/per-formances/pictures-at-an-exhibition.
The Kirkland Perfor-mance Center is located at 350 Kirkland Ave in Kirkland.
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as proposed, they believe it has raised other prob-lems within current city code, mainly the lack of uniform parking require-ments throughout the city. In 2000, the city modi-� ed the North Rose Hill and Totem Lake Business Districts so that the parking requirements would be decided on a case by case basis. An example of this type of development is the Juanita Village. According to Senior Planner Angela Ruggeri, the study for the development determined there would be a parking stall for every 300 square feet of commercial use. � e residential parking was more speci� c and required one stall for each studio unit, 1.25 stalls for one bedroom unit, two stalls for two bedrooms, three stalls for three bedrooms.
In other districts with speci� c parking require-ments, Arnold said, parking modi� cations allow devel-opers to build below not only below what current zoning requires but also be-low the proposed require-ments as well, something he
thinks should be addressed. According to Regala, in
these districts with speci� c parking requirements, a developer can propose a lower parking rate if they are able to show they can support the reduction based on similar sized buildings via a parking study. � e developer hires a transportation consultant to do a parking demand study at two or three other sites. � e study is then reviewed by the city’s transportation engineer for approval.
According to the Jan. 8 city memo, developers can also get parking require-ments lowered by including covered bicycle storage or if the building is an a� ordable housing unit.
Rather than lower the current requirements, Arnold said he thinks the council should instead remove most parking modi� cations and create a uniform standard.
“� e problem is, not a lot of developments are using the requirements in the code,” he told the Reporter. “� e question is, ‘Do we have a what’s being built right now?’ I’m concerned there is no standard being
built to. � ey can use a parking study to reduce their required parking…in business districts almost all are getting parking modi� cations. It was less than what would have been built on the right size park-ing model. So i think the right size parking model is a good starting point, but my concern is we have no standard in place…”
Among opposition to the the planning commission’s recommendations in the proposed ordinance came from the Houghton Com-munity Council, which opposed the recommenda-tion at its Sept. 22 meeting to provide a reduction in parking if a development is within half a mile of the downtown transit center, as well as have the parking re-quirements apply to condo and apartments. When the Houghton Community Council examined the issue with the planning commis-sion, both concluded that the city should not get into managing parking arrange-ments on the properties, such as whether or not parking should be included in rent or where spots were assigned.
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Kiwanis announces scholarship availability for graduating seniors
The Kirkland Kiwanis Foundation announced on Feb. 3 that it will award up to nine schol-arships available to graduating seniors on the Eastside. The awards range from $500-2,500. Students, or their parents, must live or work within the attendance boundar-ies of Lake Washington High School or Juanita High School. This in-cludes Kirkland and parts of Redmond and Woodin-ville. Students may attend any public or private high school, so long as they or their parents live or work within the designated area. Applications for general college scholar-ships are due April 15.
The Kirkland Kiwanis Scholarships are awarded in honor of Kiwanis members who have exemplified the Kiwanis tradition of service to the community. “Supporting
education for youth in our community is one of the principal purposes of Kiwanis,” said Bill Ward, president of the service club. “The Kiwanis Schol-arship Program is just one of our programs that as-sists young people in our community.”
The scholarships are based on a variety of fac-tors, including academic performance, financial need and community service.
The Kirkland Kiwanis Foundation also sponsors the Bill Petter Memorial Scholarships, $2,100 in awards, for graduating seniors who will pur-sue automotive-related studies at Lake Washing-ton Technical College. Applications are due on April 21.
“The number ‘21’ always had a special place in Bill Petter’s life,” Ward said.
The award amount and due date both are set in recognition of that number.
Kirkland Kiwanis and the Kirkland Kiwanis Foundation support many programs in the com-munity including Special Olympics, Eastside Baby Corner, Attain Housing and sponsors Key Club service organizations at Lake Washington High School, Juanita High
School, the International Community School and a Builder’s Club at Kirkland Junior High.
For additional informa-tion, or to obtain a schol-arship application for either program, interested persons should contact John White, the Scholar-ship Committee Chair-man, at [email protected]. Additional information about the scholarships and Kirkland Kiwanis or the Founda-tion may also be obtained at www.kirkland.kiwanis.org.
Coach, player from Juanita selected to 2015 Senior All State Volleyball Series
The Washington State Volleyball Coaches As-sociation announced its 2015 Senior All State Volleyball Series player selection and two in-dividuals were selected from Juanita High School. Rebel senior Sarah Bren-nan and coach Jeff Curtis will take part in the series.
The event will be held at Auburn-Riverside High School on March 14.
Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students with ASB.
CommunityBRIEFS
Since the 1950s, we have been fed (mis)information that has
led to the premature death of millions of Americans: fat causes heart disease. � is “fact” went virtually un-questioned for years and is one of the major contribu-tors to the health care crisis our country faces today.
It’s time to come clean and move away from disease and illness, and towards better health. Fat is not the enemy. Despite the explosion of fat-free, low-fat and reduced-fat products, our country has become fatter and sicker.
Fat is an essential nutri-ent for our body. We use it
to transport vitamins and minerals. We use it to form brain and nerve cells. We use it to produce hormones. Why would we want to eliminate this from our diet?
Doctors and scientists have done multiple studies over the last ten years reviewing and analyzing all of the previous research on this topic. And the conclusion is clear: there is simply no signi� cant cor-relation between saturated fat and heart disease.
� is does not give us permission to start downing sticks of butter with every meal, but it should give us a better perspective on what types of food we should not fear. Don’t fall into the trap of always selecting low-fat options. O� en times food manufacturers remove fat and replace it with sugar, sodium and chemicals.
We must also keep in mind that not all fat is created equal. We should still avoid trans fat, most commonly found in baked goods and some cooking oils. We should also limit
our consumption of vegetable oils like corn, canola and soybean oil. Fat that comes in pre-packaged food can almost certainly be put into the “bad” fat category.
� e key to any healthy eating plan is to stick to real foods - foods that were once living. Was a Twinkie ever alive? Was a bagel ever alive? Unprocessed plant and animal sources should make up the majority of our foods.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
To be in a plane � own by Kirkland resident and retired Navy cap-
tain Philip Smiley is to be in good hands, and he now has the award to prove it.
Smiley, a member of the Rotary Club of Downtown Kirkland, received the Wright Brother’s Master Pilot Award from the Federal Aviation Administration in recognition of his 50 years in the skies without a single accident. Since he � rst sat behind the controls he has logged in 1,500 hours as a civilian pilot and 1,600 hours as a Navy pilot for nearly 30 years.
Smiley’s love for the skies started early on, growing up in Bangor, Maine. His father, a foreman at a local Air Force base, � ew him around in their Piper J-3 Cub and visiting the regional airports. During the winter, his father would put skis on the plane and land it on the frozen lakes. For Smiley, the freedom of exploration that � ying o� ered was irresistible.
“It was the view you get,” he said. “It’s a whole di� er-
ent world. � ere are more restrictions today, but (back then) you could � y almost anywhere.”
Fortunately, his extended family also supported his desire to become a pilot. Af-ter his family moved to San Diego, he took � ying lessons in a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, which cost $16 an hour to rent. � e instructor charged $5 an hour. In 1963, he made his � rst solo � ight and was awarded his private pilot’s license in 1964.
His uncle o� ered to pay half for an airplane when he was in high school. Searching for one that � t his budget, Smiley chose a Aeronca 7AC Champion that cost $700, plus $150 to overhaul the engine. � e plane was a manual, with no electrical system, but it was su� cient to keep Smiley up in the sky.
By the time he gradu-ated from high school, the country was in the midst of the Vietnam con� ict and he faced the military dra� . Rather than wait to be con-scripted, he looked into each military branch and then signed on with the Navy, which he said was the only one that would guarantee
him � ight school. � ere was also an adventuresome appeal to being a Navy pilot, he added.
“I thought it’d be fun to � y on a jet and land it on an aircra� carrier,” he said.
Graduating from � ight school, he was designated as a military pilot on Oct. 23, 1970. � ough he had � own in civilian aircra� , he said learning to � y military planes was more di� cult because of the speci� c purpose for the � ight. On top of just � ying the aircra� , he said, pilots also have to be concerned about formation � ying with
other planes, low level navi-gation for evading enemy � re in combat zones, handling a jet � ying eight miles a minute at 40,000 feet and the proper procedure for landing on a carrier. His � rst landing, like all landings on aircra� s, he joked, was a “controlled crash” in reference to the rough abrupt stop once the jet touches down.
“Military � ying is much more precise than civilian � ying,” he said. “You’re � ying a weapons platform instead of � ying for fun.”
Yet his training also taught him how to remain self-composed during stressful situations common to an environment where he o� en had to land planes on an aircra� carrier in extreme conditions. He recalled one such landing at night in the middle of a rain storm as being his most di� cult.
But, he said, � ight school had prepared him for the situation.
“You’re trained for any-thing that goes wrong,” he said. “You always have ‘plan B, C.’ It’s more of ‘� is hap-pened, so I’ll do this and this to try and recover.’”
As a retired Navy pilot,
Smiley says he enjoys the 1986 � lm “Top Gun” star-ring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer - in fact, he said some of his friends � ew the F-14 Tomcats featured in the � ight scenes - but the situations portrayed “don’t happen.”
A� er 26 years in the Navy, Smiley � nally retired at the rank of captain without a single accident. Working as a defense contractor, he later served on the sta� of the Sec-retary of Navy and Defense during the early 1990s as a special assistant for safety in acquisition.
Besides his extensive ex-perience in aviation, Smiley also earned a BS at San Diego State University, his master’s from the University of South-ern California, and doctorate of education from George Washington University.
Among the things that have changed since he � rst stepped into a Navy jet, he said, is how drones have made the need for a pilot actually inside the aircra� obsolete.
“Technology now enables a pilot to shoot a missile over 100 miles and � y in through a window,” he said.
He and his wife, Robin, moved to Kirkland in 2010 to be close to his daughter, who lived across the street. Since moving, he has earned
a single engine sea rating that allows him to � y seaplanes, and joined the Boeing Em-ployees Flying Association.
Back as a civilian a� er nearly three decades, he had his certi� ed � ight instructor rating reinstated and � ew with the Paine Field Civil Air Patrol. Having � own for 50 years with no accidents, Smiley said there were some obvious ways to avoid prob-lems by looking outside so no mid-air collisions occur and avoiding icing of the plane and thunderstorms.
“� e � rst one is showing o� in an airplane,” he said. “You shouldn’t be doing that. We say the � rst thing in � y-ing is safety.”
Two other big ones, he added, were a good pre� ight plan and resisting “get-home-itis,” a hazardous attitude that causes a pilot to ignore bad weather, conditions or basic � ying safety precautions in a desire to get to their desired destination.
Smiley’s love for � ying has not dampened with age, though he said he’s been grounded for the time being due to health reasons, albeit he hopes to one day get back in the cockpit and continue � ying, and safely at that.
“It’s fun to be able to � y around like a bird,” he said.
Smiley’s friendly skies lead to honor
PHILIP SMILEY
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The emphasis on tech-nology is reflected in new chamber events. One exam-ple is the Kirkland Startup Weekend Makers Edition, where participants attempt to create a company from concept to the final pitch to potential investors within a weekend. Samantha St. John, director of marketing and communications for the chamber, said the most recent startup weekend event was overwhelmingly comprised of millenials.
“It was amazing how many were under 25,” she said.
The increase in milleni-als is also reflected in the chamber’s creation of a new young professional group for people under 40 that helps provide feedback on what would make the city more attractive to their demographic.
“More gathering spaces is one of the things we’ve heard from the under 30 crowd,” St. John said. “Dif-ferent interesting nightlife has been expressed… but there are certain things they want to stay the same, like the look and feel of the city. It doesn’t have lots of skyscrapers, it has that charm to it. It has small independent businesses and boutiques.”
One company that seems to represent this hybrid of millenials and hi-tech industries is BitTitan, an IT change automation com-pany specializing in data migration and onboarding, which recently opened their Kirkland office at 3933 Lake Washington Blvd NE. The company works with clients such as Microsoft, Rack-space, Wowrack, and Go Daddy using products like MigrationWiz to move data from one cloud provider to another and from an on-premise solution to the cloud. These migrations, according to CEO Geeman Yip, used to be a cumber-some ordeal back in 2007 when BitTitan first started, in which as they had to be done manually. Now, the
process has been stream-lined and no longer requires downtime for the client.
According to Yip, Kirk-land’s geographic location and atmosphere is what attracts tech companies.
“Kirkland is a place where you can live, work and play – all within a one-mile radius,” wrote Yip in an email interview. “It’s great for attracting new talent and is easily acces-sible to all of our employ-ees – North, South, East and West. Kirkland has one of the largest Park and Rides less than a mile from our office. We even have corporate housing here in Kirkland, which is great for out-of-town guests as well as remote employees visiting the office - they can walk to everything.”
Not only has the com-pany seen tremendous growth, with the number of employees tripling in 2014 to 77, but nearly half of them are under 33.
The company says along with the appeals Kirkland has to offer, it seeks out millenials through career fairs, while retaining cur-rent employees through quarterly events specifi-cally catered toward them and an updated bonus pay program.
For millenials who work in a field out of these industries, however, much of what makes Kirkland an appealing place to work and live is beyond financial reach, according to Wynn.
“If they work at Google - most of the millenials are going to be there and Tab-leau Software and Radius, large companies here that are hi-tech - they’re doing great. They’re making close to six figures and can afford to buy a house and rent
and enjoy everything that Kirkland has to offer.”
“If you’re working at the medium income level,” he continued, “you’re not going to be able to buy a house or even rent in Kirk-land. But if you’re in the higher bracket, which the high-tech companies can provide, then you’re going to be fine.”
The difference for people who just work in Kirkland and those who live and work changes as they get older, Wynn said, and this is indicated by Google’s campus expansion.
“They find that people want the energy of the city, but if you’re older than in your 20s or 30s and you’ve been there for a while, Kirkland is the town to buy a house in and live in,” he said.
St. John said Kirkland’s Octoberfest and Summer-fest events, along with the numerous coffee shops, are also drawing younger people to a city that has yet to add any skyscrapers to its downtown area.
“A lot of people come here because of the culture of our communities,” she said. “Coffee shops are filled with millenials working from their laptops. That’s one of the things we’ve noticed… there’s big busi-ness but it hasn’t built up to where it doesn’t feel like a community. It still has that tight knit community feel. We have that nice blend.”
While the high rental prices can prevent mil-lenials with lower incomes
from living in the city, this may change as apartments become smaller, some-thing which, according to Kirkland native Cassandra Joyner, fits with their prefer-ence for smaller, urban living spaces.
Joyner, who works at So-theby’s International Realty, said the trend for millenials who move to Kirkland now is typically when they are in their 30s. By then, they have either reduced or elimi-nated their student debt and acquired a higher paying job, but low interest rates have also enabled people to make a down payment on a house earlier than they would have otherwise.
This might change due to micro-apartment complex-es, such as the one currently under construction at 450 Central Way developed by Natural and Built Envi-ronments. At an October Kirkland Chamber of Com-merce luncheon discussing housing in Kirkland, Robert Pantley, head of Natural and Built Environments, expressed his belief that these apartments, priced at around $795 a month, will make it possible for low income individuals to live in the city. Joyner said these micro-apartments, which consist of a master bed-room-sized apartment and a shared kitchen commu-nity area, fit better with the average millenials’ lifestyle that involves far less living space than previous genera-tions. Also, companies like Google offer so many ser-vices, such as food, fitness
classes and gyms, making it more convenient to have a smaller residence.
“I think that we are more open to the idea,” she said. “The more traditional idea of what housing needs to be - property, living space - now, with our generation it’s being geared towards a community where you can do all these things. I think older clients want more space and a yard and other things to use, but the younger generation is more open.”
As a millenial growing up in Kirkland and now living here, she said the things she enjoys about the city often come up when speaking with a potential customer.
“I highlight [that] I love living in Kirkland,” she said. “It’s very centrally located. It’s easy to jump across to Seattle. I think just having a sense of community. You have everything you need, entertainment, restaurant, hi-tech businesses in the area.”
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