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30:03 or a light proposed with this development, but I will pass it over to the applicant to verify. That is pretty much the rebuttal from the city. - Okay, thank you, Ms. Sanchez. Mr. Taylor, or if there's another person for the applicant, Mr. Taylor, good to see you again. All right, it's your turn for rebuttal. - With projects like this, we rely on the city to tell us to what extent we need to study traffic and intersections within the area. Generally, if you propose a larger project, you're going to have to study the level of service of intersections, and the city does a pretty good job at kind of understanding where there are current issues

31:02 and where things need to be looked at. With the 23 lot subdivision, where a majority of those homes are smaller attached homes, that doesn't actually generate a lot of traffic. I think we had like 14 p.m. peak hour trips, which is usually the number that you look at when looking for traffic impacts during the times where there's the most traffic, the four p.m. to six p.m. window. So with only 14 trips, the city required us to submit a trip generation memo, which details the trips that are created by the development and also looks at where those trips will go within the City of Vancouver roadway network.

32:00 City of Vancouver also collects fees based on where you send trips. There are certain intersections where they know there are issues and they have plans to collect fees so that they can then provide mitigation and improve intersections. So this development didn't send trips to any of those intersections that the city had identified, and the city didn't indicate that, there's no indication that there was a failing intersection near the site, so no intersections were specifically studied for level of service standards. So yes, there is a minor increase in traffic based on the development, but based on the size of the proposed development, no mitigation is being required. There is a stop sign on 19th Street. We looked at site distance for the proposed intersection

32:59 and 19th Street, so there's available site distance. Our proposed entrance meets intersection spacing standards and we're providing frontage improvements that will, we're providing frontage improvements that will widen out the 19th Street on the north end of our site while we're not providing any striping for a left turn lane or anything like that, the width of 19th Street will be 36 feet wide at our frontage as it intersects with Ellsworth. It will at least give the city an opportunity if they decide it's necessary in the future to put in a dedicated right turn lane or left turn lane from 19th Street onto Ellsworth.

33:56 So that's all I have from a traffic perspective. As far as safety, there's not much that, not much we can do with a residential subdivision development. There's, you know, the future residents will pay taxes that goes towards the city's, city's fund where they provide policing and safety services. So there's nothing specific that the proposed development is doing. Though, that I'm not sure exactly what the homes, you know, what the design of the homes will be, but most modern subdivisions include some kind of a ring doorbell. You know, a lot of the new subdivisions

34:55 that I've seen come with doorbells like that. I don't know if the home builder is going to be providing those, but you can drive, some neighborhoods, some new neighborhoods you can drive through at night and see all the glowing green dots. I think that goes a long ways to providing a safer neighborhood where there are cameras, things are being recorded in it. You know, it makes it so that it's less likely that somebody's going to be committing crimes in newer neighborhoods like that. Regarding the noise, it's something we understand