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2:50:04 Thank you. - Thank you. Randall, we've sent you another request to unmute. If you could go ahead and do so and spell your last name for the record and go ahead with your comment. We'll try Jim one last time. Jim, we've sent you a request to unmute. Please go ahead and do so, spell your last name for the record and go ahead with your comment.

2:50:48 (mumbling) - That concludes public comment, Chair. They're not on the phone, ma'am. - Okay, all right, thank you. So that concludes public comment. I would like to ask the planning staff if there were any corrections. I know the city of Vancouver, I think they had some, came away with some misinformation related to the capacity or is there anything else that you'd like to comment on? - Yeah, so we provided not this spreadsheet but a capacity analysis that showed this same data

2:51:45 to the city and I think they were just confused by the unincorporated UGA and the reduction that we were showing as deficit. So didn't really understand that we were looking at that as the VUGA in its entirety and so as we would reduce our capacity as we take on theirs. So essentially we're, overall it's the same number. - They don't have a deficit, though. - No, they do not, no. - Okay, all right. Anything else you'd like to respond to? Okay, well we've had three hours of testimony. I think there's still a lot of deliberations yet to go and I would just want to, I guess, ask if there's anything if you want to, if there's a desire to continue this

2:52:42 till tomorrow or power through the rest of this evening. - Chair. - Chair. - Well, yeah, this is Matt Little. I'd love to get it done tonight. I appreciate all the public comments. I've learned a lot from them. I don't think tonight is a final decision, obviously. This is a decision of what is the menu of options that we think is worthy of a full environmental analysis and then after we get that environmental analysis, then we make a final decision based on that. So I'm actually prepared with two motions to present if I got a second, but happy to have some discussion. - We're not taking motion, I've just asked one question and that's what I'd like responses. - We're ready to go. - Okay, great. Others? - Chair.

2:53:40 I would prefer to be able to ask staff questions that have been generated that we have developed based on the conversation that we've heard and then I would prefer to continue the hearing to tomorrow to give us some time to incorporate some of these thoughts that we've had tonight and then in addition, I'll be honest, although I was busy all day today preparing for this meeting, I had email after email land in my mailbox and I've not been able to review them. - Yeah, I think we've all experienced that. Councilor Belcott? - Ditto on what Councilor Young says. - Okay, I would say ditto as well, but we'll have, and Councilor Fuentes? - Councilor Young, thanks for reminding me about the dozens of emails I received the last couple hours before the beginning of this hearing

2:54:39 and I will have to agree with one of my colleagues that I would prefer to read them before we make a decision, so a continuation is probably in order. - Great. So we'll continue with our deliberations tomorrow at 10, but for the remainder of the evening, we will have clarifying questions of staff. Is that okay? I'm seeing nods, okay. Does anyone have a question? Councilor Young? - Chair Marshall, can we just clarify that public comment is closed? - Yes, public comment is closed and there'll be no opportunity for public comment tomorrow. It'll be strictly the Council's deliberations. Thank you. - Everybody looks my way.

2:55:37 I did have a few questions. So the first question I have is I've heard a lot of support for alternative one this evening and can you describe what alternative one would mean in terms of the cities, all of them, including the county and the urban growth area, the desire to increase density, to up zone and increased middle housing. And then the last question would be what does it mean for all of the jurisdictions ability to be in compliance with the new state laws that have been passed?

2:56:28 - That's a broad question and they're thinking.