March 6 Recap

  • Seven members of the community joined our inaugural discussion at Luther’s Table.
  • Several staff members were on hand to assist guests and to provide subject matter expertise, if needed.
  • The event lasted just over an hour.
  • Topics discussed:
    • HB 1380 | the impact if passed by legislature. More information about this can be found here. Ed urged folks to learn about the impact and voice their opinions to their legislators.
      • For more information, the city has a page on this here or you can follow the legislation with the state here.
    • HB 1110 | passed last year, and the impact we are seeing – click here to see our efforts around informing the community on these state-mandated changes, which impacts all future development, including parking.
    • World Cup | as the HQ for Sounders, we will experience an influx of guests from the home country of the team that selects Renton as its basecamp | some attendees raised concern about traffic and parking during the high-impact period which the city will be working to mitigate as well as possible.
      • We will be updating our website with Renton-specific information as it becomes available from FIFA.
    • Downtown Core updates – new tenant in Pavilion, Pavilion Park will be improved to allow more flexible (and frequent) activation of the space (driving more foot traffic downtown and into area businesses) | some attendees did not like the changes underway.
      • We will be adding more information about these three, parallel projects underway on our website.
    • Asphalt plant | The city shared information, and several attendees expressed disagreement on how the city could legally respond..
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