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1:25:29 Rebecca, you've heard several questions come up tonight. Could you talk a little bit about the manufactured homes and that the parking zone, manufactured park zoning, now what it is and what we are going to look at in this particular comp plan? - Yeah, thank you, Mayor. So currently existing manufactured home parks, there's 16 in the city and they have our existing zoning districts applied to them. So there is no, currently there is no manufactured home park district. They may be zoned R17, they may be zoned R35, they may be zoned R9. And the only protections that we offer to them are those that are enabled or required under state law, which is, as I understand it and I'm not an expert on this,

1:26:26 a right of first refusal and notice and moving expenses, I believe. In contrast, the new manufactured home park zoning district in the new code would allow only that use, only manufactured home park developments in that code or in that zone, unless a property owner could demonstrate that it is financially infeasible to continue that use. If that is the case, then they could apply for a zone change to a different zoning district that allowed more uses and that would go through our typical zone change process, which includes review by the County Planning Commission and final approval by the Council. And staff would review that against the eligible, or the applicable criteria. So from our view, this is much more significant protection

1:27:24 for manufactured home park developments as a use in recognition of the fact that they provide some of the most affordable non-rent restricted or publicly subsidized affordable housing in the city and in many communities across the country. - And does our code define manufactured homes? - It does, Mayor. Mark Person, Community Development Review Planner. Our current code defines manufactured homes very extensively but we worked on the update and we are saying anything modular or manufactured. And again, for land use planning, we're not looking at how the building is built, we're just in these areas

1:28:20 we are saying only manufactured or modular. Housing is permitted in these 16 zones unless something is permanently affordable and then we'll allow more housing types. - Thank you so very much. Councilors, do you have questions of Mark and Rebecca? Councilor Paulson. - Thank you, Mayor, thank you, Mark and Rebecca. I really just wanna underscore and give you an opportunity to respond to some of the issues that were raised in the testimony that we just heard. So there was testimony given that because we have over allocated housing within our UGA, the county has taken housing out of our UGA, the VUGA in the county as an accommodation for that. Can you speak to that and then as a follow up to that, can you speak to what control, if any, we have over what the county does in our UGA?

1:29:18 - Yeah, thanks for the opportunity to address this. So it is not straightforward so I've kind of apologized in advance but so folks can understand the county and the city use different methodologies and models for estimating our capacity. Our housing capacity models are closer, our employment capacity models are very, very, very different. The city estimated that we needed at a minimum 38,000 housing units, that was a minimum target. Our preferred alternative we estimate allows for somewhere around 44,000 or a little over 44,000 units. The county estimates the city needs, that the city has capacity for 40,000 units. So they are estimating we have capacity for 2,000 more units than they say we need.

1:30:16 So yes, that has a very small potential impact on the distribution of units around the county, not just in the Vancouver urban growth area but in all of Clark County and what's assigned to the various jurisdictions and urban growth areas but not immeasurable impact on the VUGA. And I will say the county is subject to HB 1220 which is the requirement that you not only show that you can hit certain capacities for certain numbers but that you realistically demonstrate your zoning would allow for housing in different income bands. I cannot speak to the sort of methodology behind their zoning code and how they've crafted it but I can say what they are required to do under state law. And again, we had a minimum we were aiming for. That's the minimum we need. We have hit that and exceeded it a little bit.

1:31:14 We have accounted for various things like critical areas, places you can't build but also the presence of CC&Rs that would effectively not allow building of much more housing and so we believe in our model. So I guess in conclusion I would say that this has not significantly affected the numbers assigned to the VUGA, the Vancouver urban growth area by the county in their latest capacity yields that we spend. - Thank you. And other than providing testimony to the county, we don't have any control over what they choose to do or not do within our urban growth area, do we? - Correct. The only thing that we can do is collaborate and coordinate. We sit on the, there's a group of, it's a technical coordinating committee. We provide feedback but we do not have control over the overall population estimate the county selected