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1:16:29 Strong themes include the sense of community, desire for more community spaces, and need for better food access and concerns about traffic safety and pollution. Meeting two, the group refined the vision statement and created a prioritized list of action plan categories, such as access to food and resources as number one, housing as number two, transportation as number three, environmental health climate as number four, community building and public spaces as number five, and economic opportunity as number six. In meeting three, this session focused specifically on transportation safety and transit access. Staff from the city's transportation planning team and C-TRAN co-led breakout sessions to gather detailed input. The top challenges identified by the committee here were food access, transit options, and accessibility and affordable housing. Engagement and themes for the general community.

1:17:27 And importantly, the general community feedback is aligning closely with what the advisory committee has told us, which gives us confidence that we're hearing a consistent message. For our preliminary survey results, when asked about their vision for Fruit Valley's future, respondents ranked parks and green spaces as number one, public art and neighborhood beautification as number two, community events as number three, and safer pedestrian infrastructure as number four. When asked about the barriers they face, respondents ranked lack of access to food as number one, public safety as number two, and difficulty with transportation as number three, and lack of places to gather as number four. You'll see on the slide we have an example comment from the survey that we put out. We thought it was important to elevate voice here, so this is one of the comments that we received feedback on in the survey. It says, "More attention paid to this area for the residents that live in or nearby.

1:18:27 It seems that it is most heavily commercial and industrial, and the area needs more access to restaurants, shopping, grocery store, and other daily essentials." For the project timeline, here's where we are in the overall timeline. Summer to winter of 2025, we did project planning, existing conditions assessment, relationship building, and formed the advisory committee. Early in 2026, where we are now in phase one, is community engagement, gathering input on challenges, needs, and desires. The advisory committee is now currently active. So for late 2026 is the phase two of engagement, bringing proposed actions back to the community for feedback and prioritization.