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0:11 I would like to call this hybrid public meeting to order for Thursday, May 21st, 2026. My name is Carl Johnson, I'm the chairman of the Clark County Planning Commission. The role of the Planning Commission is to review and analyze comprehensive plan amendments, zoning changes and other land related issues. We follow a public process including holding hearings during which the public has an opportunity to provide additional perspectives and information. In legislative matters, the role of the Planning Commission is advisory. The county council will hold separate hearings, consider our recommendations, and then they will make a final determination. The Planning Commission tonight will conduct a public hearing and take testimony. All public comments received before tonight's hearing have been sent to the Planning Commission members and entered into the public record. County staff will present first and then Planning Commission can ask questions. Next, we will invite the applicant to speak.

1:08 If there is one and then members of the public who wish to provide testimony. When we get to the public comment portion of our agenda, we will provide some more specific information on how to participate both virtually and in person. However, if you are in person tonight and wish to provide a comment on the agenda item, please sign up via the sheets in the back of the room. During public testimony, staff and the applicant may respond to comments and the public portion of the hearing will then be closed. The Planning Commission will then deliberate and make a recommendation to the county council for both virtual and in person members of the Planning Commission and staff. Please ensure that your microphones are muted unless you are speaking. Planning Commissioners, when you make a motion or a second of a motion, please state your name for the court reporter. Conflicts of interest. Do any members of the Planning Commission have any conflicts related to tonight's hearing items?

2:08 Hearing none, we will now get a roll call and any introduction of guests. Staff, can we get a roll call? >> Brian Halbert. >> Here. >> Mark Bergfold. >> Here. >> Kyle Fadness. >> Here. >> Ron Barca. >> Here. >> Jack Haroon. >> Here. >> Owejole Duke Montgomery. Carl Johnson. >> Here. Next we'll get approval for the agenda for May 21st, 2006. Can I get a motion, please? >> Commissioner Brian Halbert so moved. >> So I have a motion, may I get a second? >> Commissioner Haroon, second. >> So we have a motion for approval of agenda for May 21st, 2006. Jeff, can we please get a roll call? >> Brian Halbert? >> Aye. >> Mark Bergfold? >> Aye. >> Kyle Fadness? >> Aye. >> Ron Barca?

3:07 >> Aye. >> Jack Haroon? >> Aye. >> Carl Johnson? >> Aye. >> 6-0. >> Motion passes. Next, we'll be looking for approval for the minutes for March 19th, 2026. May I have a motion, please? >> This is Ron Barca. Motion to approve the minutes is written. >> May I have a second? >> Commissioner Fadness, second. >> We have a motion and a second for approval of minutes for March 19th, 2026. Can we get a roll call, Jeff? >> Brian Halbert? >> Aye. >> Mark Bergfold? >> Aye. >> Kyle Fadness? >> Aye. >> Ron Barca? >> Aye. >> Jack Haroon? >> Aye. >> Carl Johnson? >> Aye. >> 6-0. >> Motion passes. With that said, we'll now go in communication from the public for items that are not listed, I repeat, not listed on the agenda.

4:04 This ready? Any online? Public comment on things that aren't on the agenda, on tonight, yours is not on the agenda? Come on, yeah, come on, yeah. Just make sure you state your name for the court reporter. >> Good evening commissioners, my name is Christian Volk, I'm a ten year Vancouver resident. >> I can't hear him. >> One second, Cindy, we'll get it on. >> Sorry, can you hit the button? >> Can you push the button? Yeah, sorry about that, thank you. >> How's this? >> Yeah, there you go. >> Let me start over. Good evening commissioners, my name is Christian Volk. I'm a ten year Vancouver resident. Three years ago, my partner and I successfully launched a preschool in Kitsap County. And we want to bring that same investment home to Clark County. The Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families designates Clark County a child care desert, with a documented shortage of license slots relative to the number of children who need care.

5:02 This isn't just a social issue, it's a critical infrastructure and workforce constraint for our county. We're here tonight to urge the commission to address a specific regulatory gap in the current comprehensive plan update. The city of Vancouver is actively updating its zoning code to comply with RCW 3521996, which took effect July 27th, 2025, establishing a clear state expectation for conditional use permits in light industrial zoning and employment zones. When I brought a potential property to county planning staff, I was told the current code explicitly prohibits dedicated childcare centers in that zone, and that there are no plans to update it. The result is a regulatory void. Families and providers face completely different rules on opposite sides of an invisible line within the same Vancouver urban growth area. Under the Growth Management Act, the county's comprehensive plan must be coordinated with the city of Vancouver for

6:02 lands within the shared UGA, a standard the current gap fails to meet. Other GMA planning counties, including Kitsap and Pierce, are actively integrating these industrial zone provisions to support their local workforces. My request is technical and specific. I ask that this commission formally recommend a text amendment to Title 40 during this update cycle to allow childcare centers as a conditional use within light industrial and employment zones inside urban growth areas. Bringing Clark County into alignment with the city of Vancouver and the clear legislative intent of state land use policy. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comments. Any questions regarding that? >> Could he spell his last name? >> It's V, like Victor, O, L, K.

6:54 You can just say that. Mark, did you have a comment first? >> Yeah, this is Commissioner. If you wouldn't mind emailing that or even that whole. >> Sure. >> Because that would be worthwhile, then maybe we can get some staff or something to look at that and what that process would look like. >> I'd be happy to do that, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, go ahead. You might want to give the instructions. >> For attendees using their computer or WebEx application, if you would like to speak, please use the raise hand icon. For attendees using the telephone audio only option, press star free on your phone's number panel to raise your hand. For those in person that would like to provide comment, please raise your hand. Once acknowledged, we already have had the people in the hearing room. Public comments are limited to three minutes per person in order to accommodate all speakers. Again, this portion of tonight's hearing is only for items not listed on tonight's agenda.

7:53 For those who are on the line, please raise your hand, and we will call on you to make your comment. Okay, nobody is raising their hand on the line. >> So, all right. >> No one's online? No one else in the audience has to say anything that's not on there? Okay, with that said, we'll close that part of the communication for the public for items not listed on the agenda. We'll now move into the public hearing items. Some reminders, if you are providing public testimony in person, of course, please sign up on the sheet in the back. If you are joining remotely, once again, we'll probably give those instructions again. Tonight, we're going to be talking about recommendation to the Clark County Council on the 2026 Clark County storm water code and manual adoption. Staff presentation is Devon Restorfer, if I pronounced that right, the Clean Water Division Manager. Devon.

8:52 >> Thank you.

9:22 >> Make sure you state your name and spell it, if you may. >> Great, thank you. Good evening, planning commissioners.