Title
Status Report on Downtown Sanitation Plan and Public Restroom Pilots
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee
City Manager Recommendation:
Receive the briefing and provide any guidance. Move to forward a recommendation to City Council to remove the portable restroom located in the Olympia/Franklin lot and return the Percival West restroom to its normal operating schedule (completely closed in the winter, open the rest of the year from dawn to dusk.)
Report
Issue:
Whether to receive an update on the work completed to date on a Downtown Sanitation (downtown restrooms) Master Plan and the public restroom pilot project, and whether to move forward with the staff recommendation to remove the portable restroom located in the Olympia/Franklin lot and return the Percival West restroom to its normal operating schedule
Staff Contact:
Mark Rentfrow, Downtown Liaison, Community Planning and Development (CP&D) 360.570.3798
Amy Buckler, Senior Planner, CP&D, 360.570.5847
Presenter(s):
Amy Buckler, Senior Planner, CP&D
Mark Rentfrow, Downtown Liaison
Gary Franks, Parks Maintenance Manager
Adam Young, Young Architecture, City's consultant
Background and Analysis:
Olympia's Downtown Strategy calls for the City to locate public restrooms downtown as one of its clean and safe efforts, with the assumption this action would help to reduce the impact of human waste in public spaces. Accordingly, in 2017 the City hired Young Architecture (consultants with experience siting restrooms in other communities) to help develop a master plan to identify best practices, needs, locations, timing and costs for potential future downtown restrooms. The City Council directed that the plan should consider restrooms for all, and specifically for people who are street dependent as well as visitors. Also in 2017, the City embarked on a pilot project to test the viability of 24-hour public restrooms in five locations.
Staff's presentation will cover:
* The...
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