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1:46:25 are brought into the urban growth boundaries. We're asking the county council for our property to be brought back into the urban growth as indicated on the proposed maps prior to January of this year. As we have been promised and as has been planned for for the past 30 years. - Thank you very much. Your time is up. - Yeah, thank you. - Wendy Cleveland. - All right, Wendy Cleveland, C-L-E-V-E-L-A-N-D. I urge the council to adopt alternative one and further deny battleground site-specific request. It falls to our moral character whether we choose to be good stewards of the land in the time in which we live. Do we preserve or exploit it for its resources?

1:47:24 The choices you make here today will not just affect the land, but also the people who currently live on it, the wildlife, the water, and the entire ecosystem. That land is over our aquifer. It's a sponge and a filter for the drinking water we all enjoy. Your choice on this matter affects so much more than just who controls the land. The city of battleground made a site-specific request for 450 acres of beautiful wild land to be brought into the UGA, land that has Mill Creek, a large fish-bearing stream, running the length and breadth of it, land that Jose Alvarez himself told us in an email that he estimates that more than 200 acres of it has ag capabilities. People live on that rural five-zone land. It's all privately owned. They have built their homes, raised families, and lived their lives along the stream banks and under the sheltering canopy of old-growth trees. You'll hear the argument that it's all just commercial or industrial land anyway,

1:48:23 and the current business at Dollar's Corner are an eyesore, but that's not true. And if the county planning commission or the staff had gone out there, they would have seen that beauty themselves. If you vote to approve their request and extend the UGA out to 67th Avenue per BG's request, there will only be more urbanization, not less. Trees and streams are not an eyesore, but factories and industries are. I would like to contend that Battleground already has enough land to meet the 2045 comp playing goal of 7,500 jobs in their existing city limits. In fact, in their already zoned light industrial land, there are roughly 100 acres left. 60 of those remaining industrial acres have been bought by a company that vows to build a large convention center, a church, and a hotel, maybe 45 year-round jobs. Those are nonconformative uses in an industrial zoned land. In order to be able to build nonconformative in an industrial zoned land, there must be surplus industrial land

1:49:23 somewhere else within the city limits. I figured that could not be the case. Otherwise, why would Battleground tell the planning commission that they don't currently have enough land to meet their job goal? Has the chair or any other member of this council besides Councilor Young been out to see this land that you're gonna be voting on to decide the fate of today? It seems like local politicians have lost their way. Instead of searching for truth and justice, they're chasing down the path of perceived power and the almighty dollar. History is being written this evening, and you have the chance to decide today which side you want your legacy to be on. In a world where there is right and there is wrong, please uphold what is right. - Thank you. - Alyssa Hoyt. - Good evening. Good evening, Alyssa Hoyt, H-O-Y-T,

1:50:21 and I'm speaking in support of Alternative One. First of all, it maintains prime public agricultural lands. Seeing the spread of industrial areas in rural, semi-rural, and residential areas is sad to me. As a former small farmer in the Dollars Corner area, I value the availability of agricultural and rural lands for food production. I value access to local foods. I value the importance of local foods to our economy, both for tourism and for in-county dollars, and for food resilience. Second, Battlegrounds plan to annex Dollars Corner and rezone the West End development impacts recent residential development and includes wetlands areas that are unsuitable for business development. This process needs to be done thoughtfully with engagement with citizens and with land-specific consideration. Third, the urban growth needs to be focused

1:51:19 on creating livable, affordable, and desirable neighborhoods. Please consider maintaining the character of Clark County through responsible growth, balancing transit, density, open space, all while building a healthy economy with long-term vision, thank you. - Thank you. Bolton Minister. John Spencer. - Good evening, Chair Marshall and commissioners. My name is John Spencer, S-P-E-N-C-E-R. Basically, I want to ditto the Ag Commission which is probably not a big surprise. I also want to talk to some of what you've heard about of so-called unviable farmland.