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Regional Centers Framework Update Project Stakeholder Working Group July 27, 2016

Agenda • Welcome + Introductions • Special Topic: MICs • Break • Discussion: Framework Alternatives • Next steps 2

Why this matters: The Regional Centers Framework is how we focus and support growth in the region.

Project Timeline  Stakeholder Working Group: June - December Discuss findings from research phase • Develop alternative frameworks • 4

Special Topic: MICs

SWG MIC Discussion Understand implications of findings • Hear from different perspectives re MICs • Discuss changes to framework to • address findings Give staff direction to develop draft MIC • framework alternatives for September SWG meeting 6

Findings 2: Manufacturing/Industrial Centers, industrial lands, and emerging job centers

2A. Center Type RGC activity/acre MIC jobs/acre 8

2A. Center Type RGC transit MIC transit 9

2A. Center Type Question: How should the framework • differentiate manufacturing/industrial areas from mixed-use centers? 10

2B. Growth & Scale Current MICs Candidate MICs 11

2B. Growth & Scale Questions: How should the framework recognize • and support different scales of manufacturing/industrial areas? How should the framework address • discrepancies between existing MIC performance and expectations for new MICs? 12

2C. Infrastructure & Resources Outside the Inside the framework: framework: Deep sea Existing ports incompatible uses Freight road corridors Protective zoning? Intermodal connectors 13

2C. Infrastructure & Resources Question: How should the framework best • preserve the lands, infrastructure, and resources that are most critical to sustain industrial and manufacturing sectors — both within and outside of MICs? 14

SWG Discussion How should the framework address… • Additional criteria? • Tiers? • MICS below current threshold? • Incompatible uses? • Other key infrastructure? • Transit access? • Environmentally sensitive areas? 15

BREAK

Discussion: Framework Alternatives

SWG Discussion Understand components of a • framework Discuss changes to framework to • address findings Give staff direction to develop draft • MIC & RGC framework alternatives for September SWG meeting 18

Key questions for the Stakeholder Working Group : • How should the framework shape the review and classification of centers? • What should be the criteria and thresholds used for eligibility, classification, and evaluation of centers?

Criteria : measurable characteristics of a center that may be used to assess and classify a center. • Minimum eligibility criteria • Classification criteria • Performance measures Tiers : the number and type of categories, and the criteria thresholds that distinguish categories from one another. For example, based on density: • Super-regional: minimum xx activity units per acre (au/ac) • Regional: minimum xx au/ac • Subregional: minimum xx au/ac • Local: minimum x au/ac

SWG Discussion • Criteria for tiers? • Transit service measures? • Approach to findings: additional concepts? 24

Next meeting: September 21 st For more information… Please contact Sara Maxana (at smaxana@psrc.org or 206-971-3288) or Liz Underwood-Bultmann (at lunderwood- bultmann@psrc.org or 206-464-6174), or visit http://www.psrc.org/growth/centers/update/. 25