Building_development + Forests_green_space + Wildlife_habitat

51:26 I think it's important to note that the county is the entity that selects population targets under the growth management act, and they allocate those out to the cities and the urban growth areas, we do our own analysis, of course, because we have an obligation to plan for what we think we need and to have a functioning housing market, so our target is 38,000, we were allocated by the county just under 37,000, so there's not a big difference, and part of that is based on the population projection that they selected. Here are the plan elements, community experience and equity inclusion, our plan wide lenses, land use and development is where you find the policies around growth and development as well as many maps, housing is a required element, economic opportunity is not required,

52:21 but if you do do it, there are rules, RCWs that guide that, climate environment as mentioned above or before is required, you do have to have a parks, recreation and cultural services element, a transportation element, a public facilities and services element where you analyze the infrastructure needs that you will have based on this growth and then you look at how you will provide those based on existing infrastructure as well as planned improvements and then annexation, again, not required, but if you do it, there are guidelines for that and then it is required by our county wide planning policies which all jurisdictions in Clark County jointly adopt given the size of our urban growth areas, particularly the Vancouver urban growth area. - Thank you Rebecca, Mark Person, development review planner, I'll be going over the changes

53:17 to Title 20, currently every parcel in the city has a zoning district, the proposal has every parcel in the city having a new zoning or base district, I'll use those terms interchangeably, the big change is that most of the development standards that currently live in our zoning or base districts will be moving to building types, the main thrust of this was that currently nearly 50% of the city's land is only permitted to have a single family house or a duplex, severely limiting our housing options for folks at the beginning of their home buying life cycle and folks that perhaps want to age in place or community on the other side

54:10 of the life cycle, in addition, we are looking at making every zone a mixed use zone, again, half of the city's land is only not just residential, but residential for single family or a duplex unit, those regulations that currently live in our base districts will mostly be moving to building types, that's where our lot standards will live, lot coverage, frontage, we'll have allowed uses by base district, very similar to how we have now, but again, we're gonna have more uses allowed in more places, we'll also have some overlays for those special areas, downtown, we have the downtown design guidelines, we have the airport overlay for instance, the table on the right is showing at a very high level some of those differences,

55:07 I spoke about the uses in the first row, the second row is density, right now we have minimum and maximum by zone, we'll have minimums only in the draft that is under review, we'll let heights, setbacks and other site constraints really limit what can be done on that site, not an arbitrary density number, building heights will still be regulated by base district, just like it is now, although those zones and heights are changing, as for parking, right now we have minimums by use, for the most part, most residential uses do not have minimums, and then building placement, right now our code focuses mostly on minimum setbacks, we're moving toward a more form-based code that is looking at moving things closer to

56:03 the street, we'll have maximum setbacks, build two lines, really focusing on that building's relationship to the street. This slide is showing our comprehensive plan designations along the top row, those are our residential neighborhoods, our urban mixed use areas, our employment and industrial areas, and our green spaces, under those plan designations we'll have our zoning or base districts, for residential neighborhoods we'll have our mobile home or manufactured home district, that will be a special designation for our 16 existing mobile home parks within the city, and then we'll have our low scale and medium scale neighborhoods, for urban mixed use plan designation we'll have our mixed use neighborhoods and our regional activity center, our employment and industrial designation will include our institutional campus, industrial employment

57:00 and heavy industrial, and again as we say nearly every time, heavy industrial is not really changing in location or standards, we've made some minor refinements to heavy industrial, but for the most part those areas and standards are staying the same, and working with our parks folks, our green space designation has two zones, one for parks, developed parks areas, and the other one for natural areas. And I'm going to hand it back to Deputy Director Kennedy. >> Thank you, Mark. So Rebecca Kennedy, Deputy Director, Community Development Department. So the preferred alternative process, I think this is important for folks under STMAND and I've spent a lot of time corresponding with people to try to help them understand how different zoning districts were applied around the city.

57:58 So I guess I think it's important to note that we worked with council to develop a framework, and that's what you see on the right, for moving from land use alternatives that we analyzed in the draft environmental impact statement process to a final preferred alternative. And that was looking at how we incorporated DEIS comments that aligned with your policy, refining centers and corridors where much but not all of the growth will occur, talking to schools about any site specific capacity issues that they might have, so we weren't worsening those in the short term. Working with our urban forestry team to understand where we had significant privately owned tree canopy and applying zoning districts in those areas that would limit development and preserve more trees. We looked at where do we have parks and community services and essential services, those are things people need access to, and we put more housing around those.

58:58 We carefully looked at all our employment lands like industrial lands. We looked at land use, establishing land use patterns that over time reduce vehicle miles traveled either because people are just driving less or because they have other trip choices, but that's mostly because they have more services and stuff they need on a daily basis closer to where they live. We also looked at our enhanced transit network, our planned enhanced transit network that we've developed with C-TRAN and this was endorsed by this group via adoption of the transportation system plan a couple years ago. We analyzed public facilities and services, both what we have and where we know we have planned investments and improvements, and then looked at climate health and vulnerability. So we applied this framework consistently around the city.

59:56 So when we said parks and open space and we're going to put more housing by parks, because that is one of the most consistent comments we got, we applied it consistently. So there is medium scale zoning around parks because people say that they need access to those things on a daily basis. And that was the direction of this council. I've heard from several folks, you know, just asking like, you know, my neighborhood has two different zoning districts in it, and I don't understand why, and so I've done, like I said, pretty extensive correspondence, walking people through why is X neighborhood look like this? Well, you have a park here. You have a transit line here. You have a corridor that's on our bike and small mobility network where we're going to be making improvements soon to kind of help people understand where, particularly in existing single family neighborhoods, where medium scale has been applied versus the new low

1:00:55 scale neighborhood zoning district. I went parcel by parcel through the city, applying this framework and looking at every single neighborhood, and I can tell you with confidence that we consistently applied it. And what that resulted in was more dispersed growth, so growth was spread out more around the city than either option, alternative one or two, and it really sought to leverage public investments in transportation, in parks and open space, in other infrastructure. So I hope that maybe helps answer some of the comments about why certain neighborhoods