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1:29:58 Okay, and an additional question I had is would there be any public scoping for the final EIS?

1:30:15 Did you hear my question? >> No. >> Okay, would there be any public scoping for the final EIS? Is that only done during the draft EIS? >> Yes, I don't believe there's any. >> No additional, except for the scoping that we've just done. >> Right. >> Okay.

1:30:41 Good, okay. >> I was going to ask for clarification of something. I just wanted to clarify so that you've made recommendations on the planning commission recommendation, but that's with the changes that are reflected in the information we provided you. The sort of the changes we've made to the Vancouver UGA and all the density changes we've received from the cities, is that correct? >> I believe that's correct. Any other comments? Okay, let's see, is there anything else? So we'll be hearing more about, those are elements of the comp plan update, the housing and the climate, so we'll be hearing more about those. As we move forward.

1:31:41 >> Chair? >> Yes, go ahead. >> I have one additional request, and that would be that the VBLM, any changes that we make to inputs, if that could be brought to us, I would appreciate that, an explanation of what the changes are and the reasoning why and how you came to that, whether it was provided by a different jurisdiction or a different view, just so that we can be well aware of any changes that take place. >> Is that changes that I've already done, or future changes, or both? >> I would love to see an ultimate history, but I think at this point I would be asking for any future ones. >> Okay, and then related to TDRs, because I think there's strong interest in the community across the board to see some policy included

1:32:41 in the comp plan update or some solid direction moving forward related to TDRs. And actually other tools that can be used to protect agricultural land, so we don't have a continued diminish of agricultural land. So that would be the three to one or the four to one that some jurisdictions have implemented to swap out agricultural land. Because I think we've all recognized the difficulty as the cities have grown right out and beyond the agricultural resources that we need to figure out a way to identify and protect agriculture in Clark County, given that it's been heavily impacted already. >> Councilors, this is Oliver again. You could direct staff to draft some policies.

1:33:40 There are procedures that the council have already approved and all our local jurisdictions agree to that in terms of process to amend or add or delete county-wide planning policies. So if you direct staff to develop a policy on TDR, we will certainly do so and you can incorporate that as part of the current process. I know that there are small group of county staff and city staff that are working on a potential TDR policy. If there is agreement, my desire is to come to council in a work session to present that and get direction from council whether to include it or amend it and making sure that all our cities are on board.

1:34:40 Because the county-wide planning policy means that those policies have to be agreed to. And have the council, when you adopt the comprehensive plan and everything else, that's what you're going to be adopting. But I need that direction from council to come to work with our local jurisdictions to develop a policy now. You heard testimony from David Toyer, I have a copy and my staff have a copy of he participated in the last small group meeting and submitted that my staff have done the same analysis, looked at all other counties in the state that had TDR policy and all the cities have a copy of that and those that are working in a smaller group also have a copy of that. So that we've took a proactive action to start that process.

1:35:39 And the council give us direction to develop a county-wide planning policy on TDR. >> Sure. >> Yes, go ahead. Thank you, Oliver. >> Yeah, thank you for that. I wouldn't be interested in pursuing any direction on TDRs during this analysis period until a final decision is made. I just don't want anything that we do tied to the comp plan or the EIS. I don't want it to appear that we are doing it to tie it to de-designation.