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1:25:26 they did appear before the council and make the plea because they're seeing growth, even though majority of the fire districts are in the rural area, they're seeing growth just as it's occurring in the urban area, even though we have put majority of the growth in the urban area and there is a provision in the GMA to minimize, not really minimize, but look at the growth that is occurring and see how much growth you put in the rural area because it requires infrastructure, whether you're drawing, building additional well or drawing from existing water resources and the infrastructure there to support growth in the rural area where you do not provide other urban levels of services. So there is a difference in the number of growth we put in the rural area, but for some of these areas,

1:26:24 based on the preferred plan that you reviewed, we don't see any significant change in the rural zoning. However, there are capacity in the rural area that the need is there. The fire districts will speak when it's their turn in terms of the number of calls, the equipment that they need. Things doesn't remain the same. Their physical buildings will require expansion and all that stuff, but I don't need to speak to them. They are here to speak on that. So, Bat will give the presentation in terms of our review. You asked a lot of question about the formula. We have followed that, so I'll leave it up to Bat, and we are here to answer questions as we can. Thank you.

1:27:22 - Good evening, commissioners. Bart Katching, Community Planning, and happy to finally be up here talking with you all about this. I intend to follow a similar approach that we settled on for the last group of hearings in that we have to gavel in and gavel out each one of these, but the basic framework of analysis