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12:48 obviously presented to the council and planning commission a lot. You can see a lot of numbers, 270 visioning tags, 150 pins on our online map, over a thousand survey responses, 409 draft environmental impact statement comments so we've got a lot of feedback and then a lot of outreach was done through I guess what I'd call our traditional channels of e-newsletters, direct emails, news coverage. The city has a quarterly newsletter that they hard copy newsletter they mail to every address in the city. We've used that to spread the word and then social media and we've even canvassed so quite a bit of engagement through the process. This slide covers our targets so our population allocation, the

13:44 housing units we believe are required to meet our existing deficit and serve that growth as well as the jobs target. As I mentioned earlier comprehensive plans are a 20 year time horizon that you're planning for but you update them typically every 10 years. Our current plan was actually updated in 2011 because there was a delay in this cycle because of COVID. 2021 wasn't a great time to do engagement and then we have a vision statement on the right of this slide that is the vision statement council endorsed for this whole process and what we were trying to achieve including that Vancouver is an equitable and prosperous community which ensures that all residents businesses and organizations benefit from the growth and advancement we make together. Vancouver will be recognized for our quality of life as evidenced by affordable housing and vibrant safe walkable neighborhoods, access to jobs

14:39 and economic opportunity for all and leading edge efforts to address climate change. And I should say our population as of 2024 was 200,000 people. We're anticipating 81,000 people in more people moving living here by 2045 so that gets us to a 2045 target of 281,000. We currently have about 86,000 housing units. You add 38,000 new units to that you get 124,000 for this 2045 target and then jobs. We currently have about 100,000 in the city looking at adding 43,200 to get that 143,100 target. Here are the plan elements. As noted in the slide that some of these are required under the growth management act and by the implementing

15:33 RCW's revised code of Washington the community experience and equity inclusion chapters we have optionally included and the annexation chapter is not required by the state but it is required by our countywide planning policies that all the jurisdictions create together every periodic update cycle and given the size of our UGA it's urban growth area it's very important that we plan for annexation. So since the last draft so the second draft you saw these are the changes that were made in the third draft which is part of your packet. So we've updated some terms in the glossary and made sure we're using them appropriately

16:22 throughout more consistent throughout. We've added some like kind of explanatory footnotes to different sections different chapters. We have added some language to policies in the climate chapter particularly around invasive species and climate resilient sort of spaces versus like climate smart development so there's been some clarifications. In the transportation and mobility chapter we added level of service for highways and multimodal level of service for transit coordinated with WSDOT and C-TRAN on that. We updated and really it was adding a couple bullets to the community feedback summaries and a few of the chapters just to

17:17 make sure they were comprehensive. We've published appendix T which is our multimodal evaluation and active trip potential analysis really shows us really important for us in terms of implementation and tracking of okay we have these areas where we think there is active trip potential and we need to see what happens as we implement a new land use plan and new programmatic investments essentially to and capital investments. We added a closing page and then we did like a full accessibility review so this is now an accessible document and for anyone who's using a screen reader otherwise. And then we are anticipating a few additional refinements for the draft that will be published with your materials on 5/5 and you'll review under consent on May 11th and that's adding our ADA transition plan

18:15 is required to be a piece of this. It's a pretty high level analysis that's required as part of the comprehensive plan under the GMA and the Growth Management Act. Our team, our equity and access department will be back with a more I believe detailed version of that and to vet with you later this year but this is what's required for the comprehensive plan. HB 1491 which was the transit oriented development bill that passed a couple years ago, the Department of Commerce let us know that we had to include some analysis of that in our comp plan and so we have a memo, we've been meeting with them and it just needs to be included and then we did some clarification, we're going to have to make some additional clarifications based on comments we got from Commerce, they're pretty minor like one of

19:10 them was you have a lot of transportation policies that also help meet your climate goals, you should list those under your climate goals as well not just cross reference them. So stuff like that just that we're responding to. So that covers the plan. Now I'm going to turn it over to Mark Person who is going to talk about the zoning code. Thank you Rebecca. So these next few slides will go over the title 20 overhaul that we've been discussing for the past two plus years here. Every parcel in the city will have a new base district, a new zoning designation as a part of this process. Those base districts will include a minimum density and a maximum height. Most of the other development standards that live in our current zoning code will move to building typologies. We'll also have

20:10 allowed uses per base district, very similar to what we have now. The main difference will be that we are allowing obviously more types of housing everywhere in the city except for our industrial employment zones. And then we have a table on the right here showing some of the major differences between our existing code and the new code. Again, we'll allow more as Rebecca has mentioned in the past, nearly every zone will be a mixed use zone allowing small scale commercial in our low scale and medium scale neighborhoods. As far as density, our current code has minimum and maximum densities. We're going to focus