Operations & Maintenance Facility (OMF) South Board of Directors 05/23/19
Why we are here • Review OMF South scoping summary • Review System Expansion Committee recommendation • To inform today’s decision to identify site alternatives for further evaluation in the EIS. 2
OMF South Next Steps May 23 June 6 Board action to identify System Expansion sites for evaluation in Committee EIS Phase 2 Contract for Draft EIS 3
OMF South Requirements • Included in ST3 Plan • Accommodate 140+ light rail cars • 30+ acres required, depending on • One of four OMFs for the region, site conditions one in each corridor • Needs to connect to active line by • Location, size and timeline 2026, either by: supports system expansion of o Connecting to Federal Way multiple projects Link Extension guideway, or o Building up to 1.5 miles of Tacoma Dome Link Extension guideway 4
OMF South Evaluation Process Results of Alternatives Evaluation: • Narrowed to 6 sites • All sites present trade-offs • Sites in Federal Way, Kent, or Sound Transit t Board d Iden enti tifies es unincorporated King County Sites es for Study dy in Draft t Environmen menta tal Impact t Statem temen ent • Sites under consideration were included in scoping Prepare Draft EIS 5 5
Sites Included in SEPA EIS Scoping S 240th St and SR 99 Midway Landfill and I-5 Midway Landfill and SR 99 S 316th St and Military Rd S 336th St and I-5 S 344th St and I-5 6
Station Areas with Half-Mile Buffers 7
Scoping by the Numbers 370+ attendees at two 2,500 individual comments open houses within 1,450 communications participants in the 3,400+ comments received 2,000+ online open house before scoping from January to February 2019 74,000+ mailers sent along social media user 950+ the project corridor clicks and engagements Mailed to homes, apartments, and recorded on Sound Transit’s Facebook and Twitter pages businesses 8
Summary of Public Comments Four general themes: • Opinions on Sites • Property Acquisition/Residential Displacements • Economic Impacts • Neighborhood and Community Impacts Additional comments: potential environmental impacts, new/previously-eliminated sites, design modifications, and other topics. 9
Comments from Tribes, Agencies & Jurisdictions Agencies Tribes • King County Metro • Puyallup Tribe of Indians • Federal Way School District • Muckleshoot Indian Tribe • Seattle Public Utilities • WSDOT Cities Elected Officials • City of Kent • King County • City of Federal Way Councilmember Upthegrove • City of Des Moines 10
Distinguishing Criteria Between Potential Site Alternatives S 240th St and SR 99 Midway Landfill and I-5 Midway Landfill and SR S 316th St and Military Rd S 336th St and I-5 S 344th St and I-5 Kent Kent 99 King County Federal Way Federal Way Kent • Residential (3); • Midway Landfill • Midway Landfill • Residential (29) • Church and religious • Commercial (11); 1 parcel: Property Impacts • Commercial (1) • Commercial (13) • Other (16) including 30-40 unit center (1) 67 units & 56 owners (Economic, • Residential (1) • Long stay /motel • Residential (1) • Automotive mobile home park Parcel & • Commercial (4): home • Other (9) • Manufacturing/ • Other (5) • Business park Neighborhood) • storage • Church improvement, • Residential (2) • Food Processing restaurant, trucking / • Other (13) • Residential (14) transportation • Other (11) • Other (11) TOD Potential: Yes No No No No No located within ½ mi of planned Link station? Hazardous Medium Major: Superfund Major: Superfund Minor to none Minor to none Medium Materials/ landfill landfill Brownfields Operability & Mobile home park Construction on a Construction on a Construction on and over I-5 Construction of 1.1 miles Construction of 1.3 miles of Construction acquisition and landfill landfill of TDLE extension TDLE extension Schedule Risks relocation Prelim. Capital $800 million $1,300 million $1,400 million $750 million $750 million $800 million Estimates Operating Medium Low Medium High Low Low Estimates • Majority of • Majority of • Majority of comments Public Large majority of Nearly equal number of Majority of comments Scoping comments opposed and comments opposed comments support comments support continued study opposed continued study Comments supported continued study due continued study due to: continued study due support continued due to fewer property due to: to: • Dick’s Drive -In & • Impacts to Garage Town, to fewer business study impacts • Concern about residential Lowe’s • Note: some • Note: some concerns impacts Ellenos Yogurt and other displacements, I-5 crossing • TOD potential • Note: some concerns concerns about about impacts to businesses and natural enviro. impacts • Neighborhood • Traffic and noise about hazardous hazardous Christian Faith Center • Fewer business 11 impacts materials and materials and Church concerns displacements development cost development cost
Recommendation from System Expansion Committee Three sites for study in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Midway Landfill S 336th St S 344th St and I-5 and I-5 and I-5 12
Environmental Review Timeline* 2020 2021 2019 Fall 2020 Late 2020 Mid/late 2021 May 2019 Draft EIS ST Board Final EIS ST Board identifies issued; identifies issued; sites to public, tribal, preferred ST Board agency site selects project study in the Draft EIS comments to be built *dates are subject to change 13
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