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BY TJ MARTINELL

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� e city of Kirkland has narrowed the possible sites for Fire Station 24 to two, both of which are within .7 miles away from Station 27.

What will prove dif-� cult, however, is closing the gap between the city’s current funds and the costs of purchasing the site and constructing the new � re station. Both sites

are located in the Juanita neighborhood. � e council will discuss the matter during a study session at its Nov. 18 meeting.

� e two sites being con-sidered by the city, 9950 NE 132nd St and 10007 NE 132 St, are located roughly two miles away from where Sta-tion 24 is now, just west of Fairfax Hospital and north of Juanita Elementary. � ey are .6 and 1.4 acres respec-tively. � e � rst site would

cost $6.7 million to pur-chase, while the second site would cost approximately $7.8 million. � e cost to build them would be $5.6 million and $5.8 mil-lion respectively.

While the consolidated station option would provide better cover-age and service to most people in Finn Hill, the study concluded

areas around Holmes Point, where Station 25 is located and receive fewer calls, would have reduced response times.

� e plan ultimately recommended the

dual option be-cause it provides “improved service to north Finn

Hill, while main-taining the current

service to south Finn Hill,” according to the July

2014 city memo. Kirkland Fire Chief

Kevin Nalder also said the long-term plan is to relocate Station 27 east of I-405, where there is only one station currently. In the event of a disaster cutting o� access to the eastside of the city, he said it would signi� cantly impact the department’s ability to respond.

He also said the new station would be the most

strategic in the city in what he described as the epicen-ter of call volumes. Station 27 currently receives more calls per year, 3,800 ac-cording to Nalder, than any other � re station in King County.

“It’s in the need of some support,” he said. “Even in the interim, the support will take a bit of the burden o� of station 27 until we can move forward with our

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BY TJ MARTINELL AND MATT PHELPS

Kirkland Reporter

An official with the Kirkland Police Department has

confirmed that the victim

of a sexual assault at Juanita High School on Oct. 22 is a special-needs student.

Four Juanita High School students have been arrested for allegedly as-saulting the 18-year-old

male student in a locker room. Kirkland police are still investigating the incident but have also referred the case on to prosecutors for charges.

A district employee, who did not want to be

named and was the first to confirm to the Re-porter that the victim is special needs, also said that the suspects are all freshmen at the high school.

The arrests were made

Oct. 23 after the vic-tim and his family told police officers that he was assaulted by several younger male students. The male students were identified and arrested. They were interviewed and released to their par-ents later that day.

“Students who inter-rupted the situation put a stop to it, as well as reporting it to adults,” Juanita High School Principal Gary Moed said in a letter to parents. “On Thursday morning, the Kirkland police depart-

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New store offers style with a purpose

Manager Bri Welk helps stylist Gabby Bontrager try on di� erent clothes at Purpose Boutique’s new store in downtown Kirkland o� Central Way. It is the second store for the business, which � rst opened in Bremerton last year and specializes in o� ering a� ordable clothing and jewelry while being ethically responsible with the source of their products. The owners also donate a portion of the pro� ts to charity. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter

BY TJ MARTINELL

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Purpose Boutique’s owners hope to repeat their successful combina-tion of clothing and chari-table giving in Kirkland as they’ve had in Bremerton.

� e grand opening of their second store is an indication of the business’ popularity a� er being open for a little more than a year at its � rst location. Founder Christie Johnson and co-owner Amy Welk believe the a� ordable clothing and strong focus on the organizations they support will appeal to Kirkland residents looking to make more ethical and responsible purchases. Both Johnson and Welk described the clothing selection as ranging from

stay at home to cocktail dresses, and the styles carry a blend of southern formality and northwest-ern edginess, according to Johnson, a native of Charlotte, N.C.

Johnson said she � rst opened Purpose Boutique with her husband, Flip, and friend Ashleigh. At the time, she had a one year old and three year old to take care of, which she said proved to be a challenge, especially when Flip, who is in the Navy, was gone on deployment.

Eventually she opened a store when she felt there was enough sup-port, but also felt it was a step of faith - a step that found solid ground. She said they met their � rst month’s sales goals within

Juanita High students arrested for sexual assault

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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representa-tive of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.

Between Oct. 17-24, there were 264 traffic incidents, 39 traffic accidents, two DUIs, 36 general traffic incidents, 28 alarm calls, 15 abandoned vehicles, 10 burglaries, 12 incidents of fraud, 13 civil incidents, 14 cases of harassment, 14 thefts, 16 vehicle prowls, six vehicle thefts, 26 warrants served, 16 noise complaints, seven animal calls, seven incidents of domestic violence, three inci-dents of malicious mischief, 11 disturbances, three assaults, three sex offenses and 19 incidents involving at least one arrest.

Oct. 22Violation of order: 7 p.m., 12200 block of 112th Way NE. A 49-year-old man was arrested for violating a pro-tection order filed against him by his 51-year-old wife. He had previously been arrested for assaulting her in front of their 14-year-old son.

Assault: 11:04 a.m., 10200 block of NE 132nd St. A 26-year-old man was ar-rested after sucker-punching a 22-year-old man. The victim was knocked uncon-scious and suffered a skull fracture after hitting the ground. Both were patients at Fairfax Hospital.

Violation of order: 12:34 p.m., 600 block of 12th Ave. A 21-year-old man was arrested for violating a domestic violence no-contact order between him and a 19-year-old woman.

Oct. 19Assault: 5:30 p.m., 12200 block of 112th Way NE. A 49-year-old man was arrested after he got into a fight with

his 51-year-old wife over disciplining their 14-year-old son, who witnessed the incident. She told police she stabbed him with a knife and the man was found to have a superficial abdomen wound. However, officers determined him to be the primary aggressor after the wife and son said they were afraid of being as-saulted by him.

Oct. 18Assault: 6 p.m., 11400 block of NE 132nd St. A 29-year-old man was ar-rested after grabbing the neck of a 25-year-old woman. He also scratched her neck and broke her cell phone. The two live together have a three-year-old child, who witnessed the incident.

Oct. 17Assault: 11:39 p.m., 13000 block of NE 70th Pl. A 26-year-old man and 27-year-old man were arrested for assaulting a 40-year-old security guard after he asked them to smoke away from the building.

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ment began an investiga-tion of the incident. We are cooperating fully with the Kirkland police, who arrested four students on Thursday afternoon. We also began investigating the situation with regard to school discipline.”

Because of student privacy laws, the school cannot divulge further information, including discipline, according to Moed.

“However, I can assure you that we have already taken action with regard to the safety of students and staff at Juanita High School,” Moed said.

The Kirk-land Police Department in a release stated that the Lake Washing-ton School District has taken action against the four students per dis-trict policy. Students are given an emergency expulsion

if the district believes they impose a danger to other students or faculty members, according to Lake Washington School District spokesperson Kathryn Rieth. They can later be allowed back to school if they are no longer determined to be a danger.

“This incident is the exception to the Juanita High School way,” Moed said. “As a school, we are working hard to create a safe, caring and an inclu-sive environment. Last year, we implemented the

Safe Schools Ambassadors program. Our staff and student lead-ership have worked hard to make Juanita a safe place for everyone.

“I am truly saddened that this incident could occur at Juanita but am also proud of the students who stepped in to stop it. I plan to do ev-

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[ assault from page 1] the first week, and by the end of the month they had tripled their original goal.

One of the things that draws people in, Johnson said, is the customized styl-ing experience where the stylists help customers pick out clothing.

“People love that when they come in, we are there to give them the best customer service,” she said. “My natural gift is styling. One of the goals was to let women participate in style

no matter where they are.”“The service you nor-

mally pay for, we give it to them for free,” Welk added.

Another goal was to be more conscious of where their money went. In addition to clothing, they also offer jewelry made by women from Third World countries, allowing them to earn a viable income. They also donate profits to Hope for Our Sisters, which helps women in An-gola, and Rescue Freedom

International, an organiza-tion that rescues victims of human trafficking. Welk, a former consultant for the Gates Foundation and

friend of Johnson, said she first started out as a customer of Purpose Boutique, then acted as an

advisor and finally joined after Johnson

convinced her. Welk said her time spent in East Af-rica showed her the value of creating dignified work for people there.

“A business can create so

much value,” she said. “Our goal is to have every piece of clothing and jewelry made by people that are dignified for it.”

To that end, they intend to start their own cloth-ing line in the near future, which they said will provide jobs for refugee women.

A selection of their clothes and other information about Purpose Boutique can be found at purpose-boutique.com.

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“this incident is the exception to the Juanita

High school way. as a school, we are working

hard to create a safe, caring and an inclusive

environment. last year, we implemented the safe

schools ambassadors program. our staff and

student leadership have worked hard to make

Juanita a safe place for everyone.”

Juanita High school principal Gary Moed

CorrectionI-594 would require background checks for all gun

purchases and transfers in the state, not as described in the third paragraph of the story in the Oct. 4 issue of the Reporter. A typo misidentified the initiative in the beginning of that paragraph only.

Also, all indivuduals selling firearms at Washingtom Arms Collectors gun shows must be registered mem-bers and pass a background check. Membership is also required to purchase a firearm from vendors, but not from non-vendor members.

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A third bridge or tunnel across Lake Washington should be privately funded

In reference to the story on the front page of the Kirkland Reporter on Oct. 10, a train over or under north Lake Washington is a smashing idea. And so is a third car bridge - from Sand Point or Magnuson Park to Juanita.

But instead of letting the government mo-nopoly Sound Transit do it, I’d let a private consortium do it, and do it for both trains and cars. Wild idea? No, its actually been done in France.

There is a beautiful four-lane toll bridge, the “Viaduc de Millau”, in France privately built in 2005 by a Paris-based international consortium. Why can’t the bridge, or tunnel, over north Lake Washington be a private, for-profit one? And include trains and cars? The other two bridges across Lake Washing-ton, I-90 and SR 520, are public monopolies - one federal, one state - so why not let a third private one compete?

The for-profit, private consortium in France, Eiffage, built the bridge with private financing and leased it, with toll collection rights, from the French government for 75 years. It was built on time and within budget, something governments never do. The Chi-

cago Skyway outside of Chicago, organized in 2002, is a similarly leased private tollway.

A fourth bridge across Lake Washington might take four years to complete and the car toll might be $50 for the first four years, but then the toll would come down — and in the meantime there’s a natural financial incentive to take the bus.

Further, in the short run we can create water taxis and legalize private ferries across Lake Washington — both passenger and car.

The future of transportation in the Seattle area should be private and toll based, rather than government and gas tax based.Jeff Jared, Kirkland

On plastic bags, forced compliance is not following

The city of Kirkland paid tax dollars for a survey regarding a plastic bag ban ... and then flat out ignored the results.

PCC Natural Markets’ spokeswoman Diana Chapman advises us “...if you legislate it, people will follow.” Forced compliance is not “following.”

The proposed plastic ban and charge for paper bags is a ripoff based on faulty science. The cost and carbon footprint of keeping re-

usable bags clean is higher than that of using new plastic bags.

The proposed 5 cent charge per paper bag is just another tax that hits lower income people the hardest.

Stores provide a clean environment and clean bags (plastic and paper) for purchases. With flu, bacteria, viruses and Ebola float-ing around, it would be so reassuring for the city and PCC to order us to bring dirty, used cloth bags into stores.Virginia Costanzo, Kirkland

Wait for food at Oktoberfest was horrible

My husband, Ralph, and I attended the Ok-toberfest in Saturday, Oct. 27 at the Kirkland marina.

We didn’t mind being “carded,” even though we are in our 70s. The beer was good and the music was good. However, there was only one food vendor and the wait to purchase food was close to an hour. We didn’t just want to have a beer and leave, so we waited it out and ordered the bratwurst. We decided not to attend this function in the fu-ture unless we can be assured that there will be more than one food vendor to cut back on the wait.

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Halloween has always struck me as a rather peculiar holiday.

It’s a holiday in which parents dress their kids up to resemble vicious blood-suck-ing creatures and other souls that have long kicked their air addiction, splatting their faces with fake blood and fangs as they tell Johnny to stop hitting Suzy with his plastic battle axe. Meanwhile, other parents will dress their girls up in bright pink princess dresses evincing the epitome of grace and gentility, while the boys get Army cams with black and green face paint and a toy AK-47 so they can reenact Dad’s favorite scenes from “Red Dawn.”

� e parents then walk the kids around the neighbor-hood and, regardless of their religious persuasion, they will avoid the houses that appear the most safe, and boring, in favor of the scariest possible, complete with grue-some monsters, cobwebs clouding the front porch and spooky music booming through speakers. � ey knock on the door, then give the owner - who may or may not answer with a chainsaw in hand - one of two options, trick or treat, fully expecting them to choose the latter.

� e mission, which the kids always choose to accept, is to consume as much candy as pos-sible before tooth decay takes hold.

� e next day, however, Johnny will reenter a world where suddenly it’s not okay to scare the living daylights out of his sister, candy is reserved only for special occasions, nothing is for free and a SWAT team is called to his school if he happens to point his � ndex � nger at another student, because it’s apparently “too violent.”

It’s the sort of surreal scene Lewis Carroll might have originally put in “Alice in Wonder-

land” before removing it in the event someone of political importance thought him worthy of the loony bin, replacing it with the mad tea party scene in which Alice is told there’s no more room at a huge table with an empty armchair sitting right in front of her.

Don’t get me wrong. As a kid, I loved getting the free candy, but the whole thing was con-fusing. Being moderately rational, I couldn’t understand why one day I’m told to avoid scary looking strangers who o� er me candy, yet on Halloween I was supposed to be eager to knock on the door to a house that looked like it’s occupied by Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man and the IRS and ask them for a � ree Musketeers bar.

But what I really, really don’t get is how the same day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety Five � eses to a church door is now used by full grown adults as an occasion to celebrate their arrested development. I go to Value Village and Goodwill and see a ratio of 10-to-one adult

costumes versus kids. What gives? And half the costumes seem more appropriate for a Lover’s Package store.

Lucy van Pelt of Peanuts fame said that a person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to their own personality. If that’s the case, we’re a nation of celibate Amish. � en again, Lucy did proceed to put on a witch mask a� er saying that.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole trick or treat aspect of it was conceived by the American Dental Association in order to maintain its powerful monopoly. Call me a 10/31 Truther. Just how many kids do you see dressed up as dentists when you answer your door on Halloween?

Or maybe I should stop trying to make sense of Halloween and just enjoy it for the mad tea party it is.

TJ Martinell is a reporter with the Kirkland Reporter.

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Please put dog poop bags in trash

Please allow me a brief rant.

The Instructions read: “Take a bag. No poop please. Use trash con-tainer.”

Our parks depart-ment has kindly installed self-service dispensers for plastic bags, which a citizen has even labeled “No Dog Poop” so dog-lovers can help others pick up after their dogs and keep our parks free of dog poop.

People - truly stupid people - are putting full bags of dog poop into these containers - right on top of the supply of clean bags. Some contain-ers (e.g., Heritage Park) are only inches from a trash can, yet people put dog poop in the “bag dispenser.” Who do they think empties these con-tainers?

The program is great, but needs to be modified so dogs can explain it to their owners.

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Support plastic bag ban in Kirkland

We are blessed to be a rich nation with more material goods than most of the rest of the world. We also create more trash, garbage and waste than much of the world’s people put together.

If we look to Japan, Great Britain and Europe, who have lived for centu-ries in limited space with limited resources, we see people that own and carry their own shopping bags. Even living in Venezuela in the late 1950s, I saw no one being supplied with a bag (or sack if you prefer) when they shopped. All carried ‘string’ bags or some sort of reusable cloth bag.

Each of us have the freedom to vote our choice in the upcom-ing election. We are so blessed to be able to do that. I point out to Albert Hern however that there are cloth and collapsible reusable bags available for a small amount in stores, catalogs (see LLBean) and places like Value Village and Goodwill, that can be used practically forever and washed. You have a multitude of choices of handles that are most comfortable. And to Laura Neff - you may opt to drive to another town to shop a store offering plastic bags, but instead of utilizing a petroleum product you are using more petroleum or energy of some kind to get there. You are to be applauded for reusing and not just

trashing your current plastic bags. Exercise your deciding option with your vote and then be happy with what you have instead of being unhappy until you get something else. Most of us here have so much.

Vote your conscience on all issues and then volunteer somewhere.Nan Jorgensen, Kirkland

Paper or plastic in Kirkland

I am amazed to read that the Kirkland City Council is spending time and city resources on consideration of an or-dinance to outlaw plastic shopping bags.

Ordinances such as this are an intrusion in the life of every citizen and business in Kirkland and an infringement on our rights to make our own decisions about shopping bags, or any other article in the market place, based on our own economic, practical and moral considerations. Such an infringement by govern-ment should only occur when there is a compel-

ling interest in the matter for the protection of the citizens.

By no stretch of any-one’s imagination can my selection of “paper or plastic” be considered one in which the city of Kirkland has a compelling interest.

Council members, please use my taxes and your time for matters of importance to the city and not in trying to run the details of my life for me.Jim Peterson, Kirkland

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The Kirkland City Council has adopted interim regulations

to control marijuana odor in anticipation of new business-es moving into the city.

� e six-month ordinance prohibits marijuana odor from being detected beyond the premise and requiring growers and business own-ers to install ventilation systems.

� e interim ordinance will allow the city sta� to dra� permanent zoning code amendments concerning retail marijuana and manufacturing within the areas already permitted.

Planning director Eric Shields said while the city has not yet approved a business license from a marijuana grower or retail store, they took action a� er citizens contacted them about similar problems occurring in Colorado, where recreational marijuana is also legal.

Before they obtain a city

business license, marijuana businesses must receive a marijuana license from the State Liquor Control Board. In May, one such business � led an application at Totem Lake.

Shields said the city has, for now, taken a reactive stance to the changes caused by legalizing recreational

marijuana in the state because their sta�

is mostly devoted to working on the compre-hensive plan as part of its “Kirkland

2035” initiative. “It has been

challenging, and it’s challenging in part because it’s not something we had planned on sta� ng up for,” he said. “We’ve been in the midst of our comprehensive planning update. If we get into this would we discover other things we haven’t an-ticipated right now? At this point in time we’ve been a little more reactive than proactive.”

Putting interim regula-tions in place for the next six months, he said, would allow sta� the time to create more

permanent zoning codes that could be put into place sometime next year, allowing them to focus for now on Kirkland 2035.

In September, the council voted to extend the in-terim regulations for retail marijuana for another six months. Previously, they voted to prohibit marijuana businesses from opening up in the Norkirk, Moss Bay and Everest neighborhoods and light industrial zones where 50 percent or more of the zone’s boundaries are with commercial zones. In March, the council imposed a moratorium on marijuana stores in the Market Street Corridor and other neigh-borhoods like Norkirk a� er residents complained about the potential impact on tra� c and crime.

Properties that are located next to the designated Kirk-land School Walk Routes are also exempt from having marijuana shops.

More information about Kirkland’s interim zoning regulations for the retail sale of marijuana can be found at www.kirklandwa.gov/marijuanainkirkland.

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A Kirkland resident entered a not guilty plea in King County Superior Court on Oct. 22 in con-nection with a raid on his

home earlier this month.Trygve Lief Bjorkstam,

54, is charged with buying, manufacturing and selling methamphetamine and heroin out of his home on the 14000 block of 108th Ave. NE in Kirkland.

During the Oct. 4 raid, police from Kirkland and Redmond found drug paraphernalia strewn inside of the house, as well as 26 � rearms that included AK-47s, pistols and a sawed-o� shotgun, according to police records.

� e drug operation was just 300 feet from Helen Keller Elementary and so close that a school zone tra� c sign is posted outside the residence.

Police also discovered an entrance to a bunker located underneath his house inside his bedroom. Initially designed to be a marijuana grow operation, Bjorkstam admitted he has used it as a shooting range. Upon further inspection, police determined that the guns had been � red while aimed at a neighbor’s house across the street.

� e Redmond police � rst began investigating the residence in August a� er receiving information from people claiming narcotics were being sold there, in addition to stolen property.

Not guilty plea to drug charges following raid

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ized flooding. Flooding can cause safety concerns and property damage. Kirkland residents and businesses are encouraged to take measures to pre-vent flooding and flood damage:Clear leaves from storm drains

Do not rake or blow leaves into the street. Place leaves in yard waste bin or compost.

Before, during and after a storm, check storm drains near your home or business and make sure they are free of debris.

Use a rake to remove

debris from storm drain and gutter. Place this material in a yard, trash or recycling bin.

Do not remove grate from storm drain. This does not unclog the drain and creates hazardous conditions.

Call Public Works Maintenance at 425-587-3900 if flooding is severe and you are unable to clear the storm drain.Sandbags

Kirkland residents and businesses that have previously had or almost had flooding are encour-aged to have a supply of sandbags on-hand as a preparedness measure.

Two self-service sand-bag filling stations are available Oct. 1 through May 31, 2015 and are accessible daily, 24 hours. Sand and bags are provid-ed at no cost to Kirkland citizens and businesses; however, citizens must bring their own shovels.

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plans.”Although the Finn Hill

Neighborhood Alliance hasn’t taken an o� cial po-sition on the station pro-posal, Bill Blanchard, a member of the board of direc-tors, said they are pleased the plan will allow them to retain Station 25 and improve response times to north Finn Hill.

Once the city � gures out which site they want, however, they will then have to dig up the neces-sary cash, as well as pay for maintenance work needed on Station 25. � e city would � rst need to pay down the debt service for the $4 million bond, according to the July 2014 city memo.

Among possible op-tions for raising the funds include a General Capital Contingency, which the city anticipates will have nearly $4 million reserve, as well as non-voted and voted bonds, a levy lid li� , and one-time funds. � e issue of what to do with Fire Stations 24 and 25 has plagued the city ever since the 2011 annexation of the Finn Hill neighbor-

hood, which dissolved King County Fire District 41. In 2004, the � re dis-trict � rst started planning on a consolidation project to combine the two � re

stations. � e � re dis-trict initially looked

into placing the � re station in Big Finn Hill Park, but the possible move

sparked a backlash from residents and

was opposed by the then Denny Creek Neighbor-hood Association. When

the district dissolved, the consolidation project re-tained $1.2 million in cash reserves and $4 million in limited general obligation debt issued.

A� er the annexation, the city looked into 20 possible sites to place the consolidated station, but later suspended the pro-cess in order to wait for the � ndings in the 2013 Fire Strategic Plan. � e plan, according to a July 2014 city memo, noted several response time

gaps, particularly in North Finn Hill.

� e plan called for two possible options. One was to consolidate both � re stations into one. � e oth-er option would construct a new building for Station 24 and leave Station 25, located at 12033 76th Pl NE, as is, redeploying existing sta� to run both stations. At the moment, Station 24 is run by vol-unteer emergency medical technicians between 7 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.

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FIRESTATION

The maps above show response times by fire department personnel in various areas of Kirkland. The differences between the maps are seen in the Finn Hill and Juanita neighborhoods of Kirkland. Top left, shows the change with the current station 25 and a new station. Bottom left, shows response time with a new single station. Bottom right, shows response time with a new single station with a proposed emergency access drive. CITY OF KIRKLAND


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BY TJ MARTINELL

[email protected]

The city of Kirk-land has received $300,000 in � ood

grant money from King County, which is expected to cover projects already underway in the Totem Lake Business District.

� e projects will help properly channel rain-water from Totem Lake to west of Interstate 405, reducing the seasonal � ood-ing on Totem Lake Boulevard and 120th Avenue Northeast, accord-ing to Frank Reinart in the Kirkland Public Works De-partment. At the moment, water that exits through a wetlands south of McDon-ald’s continues downstream to 116th Street, where a series of obstructions pre-vent it from � owing out of the culverts. In addition to channel clearing, city work-

ers will also remove debris, allowing the water to � ow.

Reinart said Totem Lake Boulevard and 124th Avenue also had � ooding issues from 2006-2012, e� ectively shutting down the roads and disrupting business there, as well as restricting the primary

route to Evergreen Hospital. � e

public works department � rst started on the project back in 2010, installing an

emergency bypassing system

that led water away from the neighborhood and downstream. While the � ooding has settled, he said they need to replace old culvert systems.

In 2009, the city launched a revitalization e� ort directed at the Totem Lake Business District, a designated regional urban center. In response to com-plaints by business owners about � ooding, which

Reinart said was also ward-ing o� potential developers, the council adopted the Totem Lake Action Plan that included improvement to reduce the impacts of seasonal � ooding.

“� ere was de� nitely a focus for these property owners coming to the city asking, ‘What can you do about the problem?’”

� e city expects to have the work completed by September 2015.

� e King County Flood Control District Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve the grant in September.

“I’m excited that the County � ood control funds can be used to address the serious drainage problems in the Totem Lake area of my district,” King County Flood District Board Supervisor Jane Hague said in a press release statement. “� is project will bene� t property owners in the area and will signi� cantly decrease � ooding events once it is complete.”

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The Kirkland Planning Commission has recom-mended to the City Council changes to loosen parking requirements for apartments and condos after concerns by residents prompted an exten-sion for public comment.

The proposed amend-ments would allow for 1.2 stalls for a studio, 1.3 stalls for a one bedroom unit, 1.6 stalls for a two bedroom unit, 1.8 stalls for a three bed-room unit, and 10 percent of required parking spaces set aside for visitor parking.

However, the amend-ment would allow for a 15 percent reduction to the parking requirements if the property is located within half a mile of the Downtown Kirkland Transit Center, as well as transit subsidies. The planning commission voted to allow transit subsidies for condos located within a half mile of the transit center, as well.

The proposed parking restrictions are intended to reduce the number of single-occupant vehicles (SOV) on the road. The goal is to have 65 percent SOV and 35 per-cent transit or other modes of transportation by 2022. Kirkland is expected to have 7,300 new mult-family hous-ing units by 2035, according to the King County Growth Countywide Planning Policy growth targets.

The city has also respond-ed to the public comments criticizing the proposal, pointing to Juanita Village as an example of what happens when parking requirements are lowered. The problems at Juanita Village, however, are due to time restrictions on the parking spots, which mainly impacts employees, according to an Oct. 16 memo written by Kirkland Senior Planner Jon Regala and Planning Supervisor Jeremy McMahan. They concluded that similar prob-lems in downtown Kirkland are due to the fact that the older buildings “do not have associated off-street parking, and inadequate way-finding/signage to available parking stalls in parking garages.”

However, the memo also states that “having too few parking stalls can lead to spillover parking into resi-dential neighborhoods and puts pressure on the public supply of on-street parking.”

Regala said that city officials decided to take a more conservative approach

by including a 15 percent increase to the parking stall per unit ratio based on the King County’s Right Size Parking (RSP) project after their own study showed an equal percentage difference in the ratio.

According to the commis-sion, the current multi-family parking requirements do not take into account the bedroom count of units. Kirkland’s general multi-

family zones require 1.7 stalls per unit and up to 0.5 stalls per unit for visitor parking. In the central business

district, the current multi-family parking

requirement is one stall per bedroom with minimum average of 1.3 stalls per unit, plus 0.1 stalls per bedroom for visitor parking.

The planning commission first took up the matter at a study session in November 2013.

In August, response from Kirkland residents indicated fears of parking shortages in future residential develop-ments that could spill over into the surrounding neigh-borhood.

During the initial public comment period, the com-mission received emails expressing dismay at the

reduction in parking require-ments. According to the Aug. 21 commission memoran-dum, the general attitude of resident comments was that a surplus of parking would be a benefit and that a lack of on-street parking needed to be taken into consideration.

The commission also received letters from resi-dents, as well as the Kirkland Alliance of Neighborhoods, which voted unanimously to request public comment be extended to allow more input from neighborhood residents.

When the Houghton Community Council

examined the issue with the planning commission, both concluded that the city should not get into managing parking arrangements on the

properties, such as whether or not parking should be

included in rent or where spots were assigned.

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Donald Driver doesn’t hold anything back.

When the former profes-sional football player tells his story to people, they get the whole deal. It’s an emotional and riveting ride dotted with harsh times — experiencing poverty and homelessness — that lead to victory in the end.

While speaking to the crowd at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue on Mon-day, Driver stopped for a few seconds as his eyes welled up with tears.

As the 1,400 attendees at Kirkland-based Hopelink’s 19th annual Reaching Out Bene� t Luncheon fell silent, Driver slowly gathered himself and forged onward to � nish his inspirational, gut-wrenching speech.

Driver, 39, grew up in Houston, Texas, in the men-acing 5th Ward neighbor-hood. For about a month as a

teen, the boy and his mother and four siblings lived in a U-Haul truck under a bridge.

“We didn’t know where our next meal was coming from. We didn’t know where we were gonna lay our head,” Driver — the Green Back Packers’ all-time leading receiver — told the Reporter before the luncheon, which raised nearly $940,000 for Hopelink, a social services agency that helps homeless and low-income families.

“Hopelink is that program that gives those families an opportunity. And when you look at that, that puts a smile on your face, knowing that someone really cares for you,” Driver said. “When they asked me to be the keynote speaker, it was easy because I was able to tell my story. Hopelink is saying, ‘We’re not giving you a handout, we’re giving you a hand up,’ giving you an opportunity to better your life.”

� e Drivers didn’t have a

Hopelink-type organization in their area to lean on, but the family picked up its pieces each day and eventually emerged from its tough situ-ation with a wealth of hope and help from others.

Dealing with homelessness wasn’t the only misfortune Driver experienced in his early life.

In a harrowing, life-changing incident, Driver was ready to swing a baseball bat at his mother’s boyfriend, who aimed a gun to the teen’s head during an altercation at the apartment they were living in for awhile. Driver wore the man’s sweater to school on a cold day and was confronted when he returned home. Driver rushed the man and the gun came out.

“I had an attitude because I really didn’t like him,” said Driver, who admitted to be-ing a bad kid, who was a drug dealer and a thief. “My older brother was standing behind me and he was screaming, ‘Hit him!, hit him!,’ and I’m about to swing and my mother wakes up and jumps in front of both of us.”

Driver’s mom took the bat away from her son, but le� the man with the � rearm.

“Because she knew that if she took the gun from him, and le� me with the bat, I

might have killed him,” said Driver, who noted that his mom told the kids to leave the apartment and live with other family members be-cause she was protecting her children from her boyfriend.

Driver said he now ap-preciates every day and every moment and strives to be an exceptional person. Of Hopelink, he told the crowd: “Let’s have faith and fol-low Hopelink. As we say in football, ‘Ready, set, go.’” His Donald Driver Foundation donated $5,000 to Hopelink.

With Green Bay, Driver won a Super Bowl and is the only Packer to record seven 1,000-yard receiving seasons (he � nished his 14-year NFL career with 743 receptions for 10,137 yards). Driver also won a “Dancing with the Stars” title and is a New York Times Best Sellers list author.

“Everybody has an op-portunity to be successful,” Driver told the Reporter. “I feel like now in my life that anything is possible, but I have to believe that it is. And I can’t let anyone de� ne who I am — the only person that de� nes who I am is me. And I think that’s what everybody else has to believe in. Ev-eryone has something. I tell people all the time, ‘If you’re not waking up every morn-

ing thinking how can you help someone else out, they why are you on this Earth?’”

Hopelink luncheon at-tendees also listened to Jesse Navarro, who spoke about his family’s homeless experience and its journey back to � nan-cial stability with Hopelink helping to lead the way.

“We lost hope. Hopelink believed in us and that we could make it,” Navarro said. � ree other once-homeless families were also featured in a � lm that told of their

relationship with Hopelink.“� e people that you heard

from today, the people that have overcome homeless-ness and overcome all kinds of challenges in their lives — there’s so many of them in our region … it warms my heart to see other people wanting to help other people,” said Hopelink CEO Lau-ren � omas following the luncheon.scene

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