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PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION The Planning Commission held a public hearing on October 11, 2017 to review and provide a recommendation to the Council on the JDEDZ. Four members of the public spoke on the project, and all comments were supportive of the project. In addition, staff received approximately 56 emails subsequent to the publishing of the agenda report for the hearing (Attachment 9). Fifty three of the emails were supportive of the project while three emails expressed concerns related to traffic, infrastructure costs, noise, air pollution, and increased crime. The Commission focused its debate on the proposed uses list and ensuring those uses would generate substantial tax revenue to the City and promote the overarching economic development goals of the JDEDZ. Accordingly, the Planning Commission made revisions to the proposed uses list which is attached as Attachment 4, Exhibit A. In particular, the Planning Commission recommended: adding personal service uses as a permitted use; making tutoring, massage, and theater uses conditionally permitted uses (they were initially identified as permitted uses), and eliminating nursing homes and laboratories as uses that would be allowed in the JDEDZ. For further discussion on these topics, please see the draft Planning Commission meeting minutes (Attachment 7). After listening to public testimony and discussing the project, the Commission, on a 5-0 vote, voted to recommend certification of the FSEIR and approval of the proposed General Plan Amendment and PUD Rezoning, subject to recommended conditions of approval, to the City Council. Please see Attachment 7 for more details related to public testimony and Planning Commission discussion. Staff concurs with the Planning Commission recommended revisions made to the proposed uses list as described and recommended in Attachment 4, Exhibit A. PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL ACTION The City Council held public hearings on August 29 and September 18, 2017, to discuss, and ultimately support a tax -sharing agreement with Costco to finance the necessary transportation network improvements for the JDEDZ. Additionally, the Council unanimously supported flexible development phasing for the JDEDZ in which Costco could build their facility but not open until all traffic improvements are in place and the potential hotels would be permitted to build and open immediately without any of the traffic mitigations in place. PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENTS Notice of these applications were sent to surrounding property owners and tenants within a 1,000 -foot radius of the site, all property owners and tenants within the Val Vista, Stoneridge, and North Muirwood neighborhoods, and to all interested parties that have contacted staff directly at the various community meetings/public hearings and/or by email/phone. Staff has provided the location and noticing maps as Attachment 11 for reference. At the time this report was published, staff had not received any new public comments regarding these applications. Page 20 of 22