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42:38 and we'll have Rebecca Kennedy get everything lined up are we supposed to be done at five thirty is that what the agenda says okay time appropriately yes please okay evening mayor and council city manager thank you for having us back yet again on the comprehensive plan and development code update this is Rebecca sorry deputy director of community development mark person senior planner for community development go

43:31 ahead Rebecca thank you so we are here tonight to give you an update on the second draft of the comprehensive plan and code updated development code that has been published and basically to get any remaining comments that you have prior to us initiating the three touch adoption process on April 28th with a workshop followed by first reading consent on May 11th and public hearing and adoption on June 1 so we'll do a quick recap we spend most of the time here on the engagement feedback that we received and the changes that were made there is a detailed log of changes associated with both the plan and the code and where those sort of what those changes were in response to as part of your packet we'll kind of review it at a high level and then we'll just cover next steps so we do this at every workshop

44:29 just to set the stage if anyone is new to this but comprehensive plans guide the city's growth and development for the built and natural environment over 20 years we have targets for population jobs and housing that we are mandated to accommodate and demonstrate capacity for under the growth management act and the city council several a couple years ago adopted this vision on the right for the comprehensive plan update read that Vancouver is an equitable and prosperous community which ensures that all residents businesses and organizations benefit from the growth and advancement we make together Vancouver will be recognized for our quality of life as evidenced by affordable housing and vibrant safe and walkable neighborhoods access to jobs and economic opportunity for all and leading edge efforts to address climate change you also have a chart over on the left hand side that points out the population housing

45:22 units and jobs for 2024 are 2045 targets and the growth in between correct yes and the anticipated population growth is 81,000 people that translates into 38,000 housing units to address our existing deficit as well as future needs and 43,200 jobs to continue meeting the council's policy objective to have slightly more than one job for every working age person thank you and I'm still getting used to these new guidelines so thank you ma'am me too so we've talked many times about the changing conditions the conditions we're experiencing that are driving a lot of this update we've explained we've experienced shifts in economics and employment including you know work from home including sort of seeing that k-shaped economy that you read about in the news all the time where we increasingly have lots of

46:20 jobs on the low wage and lots of jobs in the high wage in but not those middle wage family wage jobs that typically don't require advanced education a lot of those are manufacturing and production so thinking about how to address that we've seen tremendous growth over the last several years clark county is the really the only county in in the fort trike or the fort county area that's been growing consistently with both population and jobs driving a need for more housing vancouver continues to grow and add about 5,000 people a year on average give or take we we know that we have disparities in access we know that your zip code in some part determines what you have access to in terms of transportation education parks and open space health care services and amenities and so we want to address that and that's been part of the council's sort of core policy objectives for this over the last several

47:16 years we've been working on the comp plan and then aggressive climate action very ambitious targets to be net neutral on our local ghg emissions by 2040 and this plan is really trying to pull the levers we have in a land use plan to help achieve that we also have a set of new state laws that we have to comply with at a minimum we need to allow four to six units per residential law in the city four as a base minimum two if two of those are affordable or if what's it's in proximity to transit we have to make room for 38,000 new housing units and we have targets within various income bands and that includes allowing permanently supportive housing everywhere we allow housing we have to account for racially disparate impacts and that is a lot of the analysis you've seen in terms of the opportunity

48:10 for all peace to we have to allow 280 use or accessory dwelling units per residential lot there are regulations restricting the amount of off-street parking that jurisdictions can require we've really moved away from parking minimums in the new code and so you don't see those but but the state has the legislature has acted on that we have to make impact fees proportional to the size of housing so a smaller unit would pay relatively less than a larger unit and then climate chapters or elements of the comprehensive plan and the associated greenhouse gas analysis those are new requirements for this periodic update cycle and we think it's important to kind of note as we kind of as we come towards the end of this process you know what what have we been doing and the answer is a lot of stuff a lot of detailed

49:05 analysis a lot of engagement but they all roll up into essentially five key tasks one is community partnership and engagement you were all aware that the public involvement plan and ongoing public engagement is a requirement under the growth management act when you do periodic update processes we've documented that in our our appendices but also online and it summarized that in the presentations and the memo from today we had to update our plan document itself and that were in that includes a lot of detailed analysis of existing conditions that go into that so you'll recall from earlier in the process our housing needs assessment our economic conditions and opportunity assessment our equity atlas a number of really detailed data and technical analysis we also have to have a preferred alternative that's

50:03 a land use map that applies zoning districts around the city we've got to update all the elements from our existing comp plans and we have to have a capital facilities element which is essentially two lists one for the one to six year period and another list for the seven to 20 year period covered by the comprehensive plan that lists out our capital facilities that we'll need to serve growth and in the one to six year list have what we call a financing plan but it's just really demonstrating sources of funding for those those improvements and those will not look unfamiliar to you because they are essentially our cap six year capital improvement program transportation improvement programs are that you're familiar with title 20 we have to update our land use code to implement our comprehensive plan that's been a key part of this and what we've done as part of this process represents a major overhaul of our code not just sort of a tweaking around the edges we have to

50:58 include some key priority implementation steps that show and provide information on how we will implement the plan we have those at the end of each chapter and then we have to we have to comply with the state environmental policy act which includes an environmental impact statement for a project of this size and scope and impact and we will release a final EIS Thursday with the final plan and or the close to final planning code that will be going to planning commission for their review and public hearing on April 28th and just to note it's important to note that all the comments we received 400 plus comments