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Northeast Recycling & Transfer Station

Welcome!

Thank you for joining us this evening to learn more about the Northeast Recycling & Transfer Station project.

Introductions

Interpretation

Spanish and Mandarin interpreters are available for this evening's program.

Español

Spanish

Spanish

Chinese

Chinese (Mandarin)

Zoom Overview

Video and audio is only enabled for presenters

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Questions can be submitted by typing using the Q&A button or by speaking to the presenters by using the hand raising button.

Penny Mabie

Facilitator

Pat McLaughlin

King County Solid Waste Division Director

Mary O'Hara

Project Manager

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Tonight's Speakers

Annie Kolb-Nelson

Communications Manager

Melissa Wu

Technical Consultant, Jacobs

Dan Pitzler

Technical Consultant, Jacobs

Meeting Agenda

Welcome & introductions

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Pat McLaughlin

Penny Mabie

Project background & overview

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Meeting Goals

Mary O'Hara

Annie Kolb-Nelson

The goal of this evening's meeting is to share information about the NERTS project, including next steps, and to answer your questions.

Community Q&A

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Penny Mabie

Panelists

Where we are now

Current

Houghton Station

Modern Stations

Built in the 1960s, the Houghton Transfer Station is outdated and has outlived its useful life.

The layout prevents many recycling and garbage services offered at most modern stations.

Moving Forward

The County is committed to building a new, modern facility to meet the community's needs, as outlined in the 2019 Solid Waste Division Comprehensive Plan.

Moving Forward

New Station Benefits

  • More recycling and garbage services
  • More convenient and accessible
  • Keeps more materials out of the landfill

What is a transfer station?

A transfer station is a facility where garbage hauling companies, businesses and King County residents can bring their waste and recycling for handling.

Modern Stations

Waste is sorted and compacted for efficient transport to the landfill.

Recyclable materials are sorted for pickup by recycling processors.

Don't they all look like this?

NOPE

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Before modern design advances, transfer stations were often called dumps, and were often just that - a place to dump your trash before it was taken to the landfill.

Controlling Odor

Older facilities are often open-air structures and lack odor control features.

Modern stations feature walled-in structures to contain air flow and retain odors primarily within the facility.

Odor

Misters are also used to suppress dust and odors. Non-toxic odor-eating enzymes

can also be added to the system to further reduce smells.

Containing Noise

Transfer stations are home to industrial machinery and heavy-duty vehicles unloading materials throughout the day.

Noise

Modern facilities reduce noise pollution from equipment and vehicles by using enclosed-structure designs, landscaping and setbacks. Additional features such as sound barriers reflect sound inward.

Mitigating Traffic

Traffic

Newer stations feature additional space for compacting machines that allow trucks to carry more, reducing the total number of trips required to carry waste to the landfill each day.

Additional inbound and outbound lanes, as well as a larger drop off area, allow vehicles to move quickly to and from the site - reducing traffic congestion at the station.

Today's Stations

Seattle North Transfer Station

Up Close

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Modern stations are designed to fit the feel of their neighborhood and reflect their surroundings.

Buildings can look like business facilities or even community centers and offer neighborhood amenities.

Impact

Transfer stations play a central role in reducing a community's environmental impacts by reducing waste and increasing possibilities for product reuse.

Let's take a closer look

Modern facilities focus on redirecting recyclable content from our waste streams and preventing hazardous materials from contaminating the environment.

Bow Lake Transfer Station

Use of solar panels along the roof line, recycled building materials and eco-friendly fixtures at some facilities help create a carbon-neutral facility.

Compacting equipment reduces the number of trucks making trips to the landfill daily, reducing overall carbon emissions and transportation costs.

Dedicated space for recycling services prevents paper, glass, plastic, yard waste, scrap metal, wood, clothes, styrofoam and more from filling landfills and puts them back to use, reducing the need for raw material production.

Let's take a look

Additional space provides options for safely handling waste during a major regional emergency, such as an earthquake.

Additional vehicle lanes, as well as a larger drop off area, reduce congestion on neighborhood streets.

Green stormwater infrastructure reduces runoff. Wheel sprays prevent trucks from carrying litter off-site.

Community Focused

Walking trails & sports courts can be incorporated into design

Transfer stations serve as a resource to their communities.

From parks and public art displays to educational space and event venues, these facilities are integrated into the neighborhoods they serve.

Let's take a closer look

Public art is used to emphasize the community elements surrounding it

Wheel wall public art

Children's learning

room & viewing area

Study Area

Illustrative map of project study area

Siting Process

Core Cities

Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish

& Woodinville

Directions

Developing

CRITERIA

King County Solid Waste began meeting with the Core Cities in late 2019

The County worked with the Core Cities to refine criteria used for previous stations and adapt it to the needs of northeast county residents.

Refining the

Established process from previous projects

Process

Question

Working with the project team and regional stakeholders, a six-step process was developed by the group to narrow down sites to the best possible options for locating a transfer station.

Refined for

northeast King County

Six-Step Process

The County has used a six-step process to evaluate and eliminate sites in order to narrow to the best possible options for a final decision.

Directions

Where we are now

Final Decision

GIS

Geographic Information System

Materials

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology was used to identify parcels within the study area using information from the County Assessor map.

519

The Process

372

Narrowing the Parcel Options

70,000+

Test

358

Viable parcels were narrowed down using the criteria

294

288

136

519 Parcels

In order to provide adequate space for transfer station operations, the new station should ideally be between 8 and 20 acres.

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Using this criterion, the project team sorted the data to remove any parcel smaller than 8 acres, leaving 519 remaining viable parcels.

More than 69,000 parcels were removed from the selection for not meeting size needs.

372 Parcels

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A map of locations meeting the size needs for the new site was then compared with the next criterion: being located in the developed areas of King County's Urban Growth Area boundaries.

Of the 519 parcels evaluated, only 372 met the criteria.

Urban Growth Areas

Designated areas in which development is permitted.

358 Parcels

Once parcels within the Urban Growth Area were identified, parcel locations were further refined by removing those that did fall within one mile of a highway or an arterial.

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Maintaining close proximity to highways reduces fuel use for trucks and keeps neighborhood roads clear.

294 Parcels

To ensure the long-term sustainability of operations at the new location, a criterion was established that parcels must not fall within the 100-year floodplain. Sites in these areas were removed from consideration.

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Hundred Year Floodplain

Any area that has a one percent chance of experiencing a flood in any given year.

288 Parcels

The remaining parcels were

then further refined based on the

criterion that a site must be free

of historical markers and not marked for open space preservation.

Parcels with archeological or cultural designations were also removed.

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Sites with historical, archeological or cultural designations are areas that illustrate the heritage of our region and have been protected from development.

136 Parcels

Zoning for the remaining parcels was then analyzed. Criterion for the project required that parcels with residential or agricultural designations could not be selected.

These sites were removed from the list, as well as tract parcels.

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Tract parcels are pieces of property used for purposes such as access roads, ingress/egress, or utility facilities.

One last look

To further ensure that no viable locations were overlooked, the project team applied the same criteria to the parcels ranging in size from 2 to 8 acres that had first been eliminated.

Although the parcels would not work on their own, if adjacent to one another, they could be combined into a cluster to meet the acreage criterion.

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After meeting all other criteria, 96 clusters of parcels were found to have potential and were added to the list of possible site locations.

The final analysis

205 Sites Remain

After applying all criteria to parcels within the project area, 205 sites remained.

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109 single parcels larger than 8 acres and 96 parcel clusters

Under further consideration

Houghton Park & Ride

Discuss

Although smaller than 8 acres, the park & ride was considered following a suggestion from the City of Kirkland because it is underused, minimally developed and in a good location near the current transfer station and a freeway.

With the addition of this site, 206 sites were then under consideration.

FURTHER NARROWING

After narrowing the list down to 206 potential sites, the NERTS team conducted a desktop review of the remaining sites to narrow the list further.

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Land Use Restraints

Broad Area Site Screening

These remaining sites were evaluated by the project team against five additional criteria.

Environmental Constraints

Cost

After applying these criteria, the list was narrowed down to 15 sites.

Nearby

Sensitive Receptors

Site Characteristics

Functional

Site shape, size and characteristics

Criteria

City economic impact/zoning

Location does not impact off-site receptors

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The next step in the process was Focused Site Screening (FSS) using a set of functional criteria developed by the project team and regional stakeholders.

Equitable distribution of facilities

Transportation

Few traffic impacts

City master plan alignment

Best travel times

SAG Community Criteria

No more than 10 miles from any point

Minimal impacts to underserved communities

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Minimal impacts to sensitive areas

In addition to the functional criteria developed for evaluation, other areas of consideration were developed by the Sighting Advisory Group (SAG)

Fewest potential community impacts

Reasonable cost

Least impact on residential or commercial use

Comparative

Evaluation

It was clear that there was no perfect site. All sites included trade-offs and benefits that needed to be considered.

With that in mind, three sites were chosen to move forward to the environmental review process.

The remaining four sites were then considered based on their scoring results from the focused site screening, as well as input from the Core Cities, Siting Advisory Group and the community.

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Final selection

After the selection of the three remaining sites, the locations were presented to the Siting Advisory Group (SAG) on April 28, 2021.

Community Involvement

Houghton Transfer Station/Closed Landfill

During the evening's presentation, an additional site in Woodinville was suggested by a member of the SAG.

11724 NE 60th St, Kirkland

7024 116th Ave NE, Kirkland

16111 Woodinville-Redmond Rd NE, Woodinville

Houghton Park & Ride

Site of Winsome Trading and an adjacent property owned by Northwest Utilities

Let's Investigate

Woodinville 2

After review, the site recommended by the SAG member was found to be just south of the proposed Woodinville site.

15801 Woodinville Road, known now as

Woodinville 2, had been one of the original 96 parcel cluster sites but had been removed from consideration because it was further from the study area centroid; however, it met the other criteria.

Additional Review

78 parcel clusters were reviewed following the discovery of the Woodinville 2 site.

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Core Cities Analysis

After the community and Core Cities representatives expressed concern around the selection process, the County turned over all data to allow the Core Cities to conduct their own review.

Brickyard Park & Ride

After independent review, the Core Cities requested that the County conduct a second evaluation of the Brickyard Park & Ride location.

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15360 Juanita Woodinville Way NE, Bothell

This parcel was previously eliminated from consideration because it overlaps a highly-utilized park and ride.

The location was ruled out by the County due to environmental concerns.

Convening the SAG

Fall 2020

A community-based group that advises King County on how and where to site the new station and what to consider when making the decision.

Community Involvement

24 MEMBERS

Comprised of members representing different interests, organizations and neighborhoods. Meetings are open to anyone in the general public.

Let's Investigate

Initial Outreach

11 stakeholder interviews conducted

Informational mailers sent to 115,000+ homes

Press release sent to local and regional news outlets

E-newsletter updates sent to project subscribers

Updates shared on social media channels

Broad Area Site Screening

Community Engagement Efforts

Fall 2020 Community Survey

Informational mailers sent to 115,000+ homes

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Advertisements in northeast King County

E-newsletter updates sent to 1,000+ project subscribers

Updates shared on social media channels

Focused Site Screening

Community Engagement Efforts

Updates shared on social media channels

Winter 2021 Community Survey

Postcard mailer to 115,000+ homes to invite survey participation

Community Briefings

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2,431 survey responses

South Rose Hill Neighborhood Association

Houghton Community Council

Woodinville Wine Country Board of Directors

Rotary Club of Downtown Kirkland

Continuing e-newsletter updates sent to 1,000+ project subscribers

Two press releases to local and regional news outlets

State Environmental Policy Act

Environmental Review

The SEPA process identifies and analyzes environmental impacts associated with governmental decisions.

First steps in the SEPA Process for the project

Next Steps

Develop alternatives

Draft determination of significance notice

SEPA Public Participation

Scoping process

Community & agencies will be able to comment on:

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The range of alternatives

Areas of impact or benefit

Possible mitigation measures

King County will:

Formalize the alternatives

Narrow elements of build and natural environment to those that may be significantly impacted

Preparing the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

The project team will

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Analyze alternatives for impacts

Identify significant adverse impacts for each alternative

Identify possible reasonable mitigation measures

Document the findings in a draft EIS statement

The Decision Making Process

Environmental Review

Finances

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King County Solid Waste Division Director

Equity Impact Report

Socio-Economic Impact Assessment

Next Steps

Continue to study narrowed sites to select best option for environmental review

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Continue work with neighbors, stakeholders, and community to share information & answer questions or concerns

Question & Answer Session

Questions can be submitted by typing using the Q&A button or by speaking to the presenters by using the hand raising button.

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