Kevin Wallace Response to Sound Transits Points:

MOU calls for 1.2M square feet of TOD development.

o Proposed revision actually increases gross floor area above 1.2M.
Sound Transit has no interest in revisiting its planned designs.
o The concept designs were developed in a confidential RFP process and not
revealed to the council or public until June, 2017.
o The city council and public has had no opportunity to respond to the design.
o This is the earliest and most appropriate time we could be discussing a solution
to the inclusion of Bellevues railspur parcel into the TOD plan.
o Changes to the south end of the TOD site have no impact on Sound Transits
construction of the maintenance facility. It can still start next summer as
planned.
o The discussion must happen because Bellevue has made no commitment to
transfer its railspur parcel to Sound Transit, and that transfer, or Boundary Line
Adjustment, must happen for the TOD site to work, or for that matter for Sound
Transit to use it for construction staging.
The Implementation agreement and MOU must be honored.
o Nothing about this proposal is inconsistent with either agreement.
Late breaking introduction of a shelter into the OMF-East development
will undermine the chances of realizing the envisioned TOD.
o The proposal is not calling for the introduction of the shelter into the OMF-East
development, nor is it late-breaking.
Cant recommend we endanger the TOD vision by issuing an RFP for
developers that includes, or seeks to incentivize, a shelter.
o The RFP would not include the shelter. It would be built on city property after
completion of the BLA that is necessary for the TOD.