Kenmore Planning Commission was scheduled to review a draft 2026 docket and work schedule on Jan. 6

What the records say

The agenda and staff memo for the Kenmore Planning Commission's Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, meeting (7:00 PM, held virtually via Zoom with a City Hall fallback) listed a '2026 Docket' agenda item, with attachments including a Preliminary Docket, a Docket Analysis, and a Docket Schedule ¹. The staff memo said staff would review the Draft 2026 Planning Commission Docket and Schedule at the meeting and also ask the Commission to elect 2026 officers ¹. The draft docket itself is included in the packet: it proposes five items for Planning Commission review in 2026 — the PROS Plan Update, Affordable Housing Strategy Plan Update, Neighborhood Commercial/Corner Store Regulations, Capital Facilities Element Update, and Miscellaneous Zoning Code/Map Amendments — along with 18 items targeted for direct City Council review across Community Development, Development Services, Engineering, Public Works, and Environmental Services ¹. No privately initiated items were submitted for 2026, according to the draft ¹. The packet contains only pre-meeting materials and does not establish what the Commission did at the Jan. 6 meeting ¹.

• The Jan. 6 agenda included a '2026 Docket' item with a Preliminary Docket, Docket Analysis, and Docket Schedule attached; the staff memo said staff would review the draft docket and schedule with the Commission.
• The draft docket proposes five Planning Commission review items for 2026: PROS Plan Update, Affordable Housing Strategy Plan Update, Neighborhood Commercial/Corner Store Regulations, Capital Facilities Element Update, and Miscellaneous Zoning Code/Map Amendments.
• Eighteen additional work-program items — including STEP housing regulations, critical area regulations, TOD 'carve-out' regulations, tenant protections, permit timing, and a Surface Water Master Plan update — are targeted for direct City Council review rather than Planning Commission review.
• The draft docket notes the PROS Plan must be adopted by Feb. 26, 2026, for the city to remain eligible for Washington Recreation and Conservation Office grants.
• The packet's proposed schedule shows Planning Commission and City Council meetings and milestone dates through December 2026, including a Jan. 26 City Council meeting where the Commission was expected to present its PROS Plan recommendation per the staff memo.

Why it matters

The docket is the Planning Commission's annual work program, and the draft lists the land-use topics Kenmore will grapple with in 2026 — including a parks plan update that must be adopted by Feb. 26, 2026, to keep the city eligible for state recreation grants, an affordable housing strategy update, and new rules allowing small-scale neighborhood commercial uses near homes ¹. Residents who want to weigh in on housing, zoning, or park planning have a roadmap here of what is coming and when it is tentatively scheduled. The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.

What changed / what's next

• Ahead of the Jan. 6 meeting, city staff published a draft 2026 docket and schedule for Planning Commission review, listing five commission items and 18 council-direct items ¹.
• The docket and schedule were drafts ahead of the Jan. 6 meeting; the supplied records do not establish whether the Commission reviewed them as presented or what changes were made ¹.
• The draft schedule lists numerous 2026 discussion, hearing, and adoption dates for docket items; those are proposals, not final actions ¹.