Building_development + Forests_green_space

55:52 parking I think you know people rightly understand that more people means more trips means more demand on the transportation system and I think you know we've done a lot of work help just trying to talk to people about how we need to more efficiently use the infrastructure we have because the cost of upgrading infrastructure is often prohibited you know we have some large upgrade roadway process you know southeast first street 18th 192nd but those are the exception not the rule and that we would never have the revenues to expand nor the space because we wouldn't have the right away to expand all our roads so the strategy really about moving people more efficiently providing more opportunity for shopping for for access to you know your doctor's office or a health care clinic near where you live to decrease the lengths of trips and allow for maybe different trip types as we invest in the multimodal

56:49 system I think from greenspace parks and trees people love parks people love parks they want more parks but they also want to make sure that you know new development is helping to support new parks and isn't sort of overburdening existing parks and then we had a bunch of specific suggestions a lot of them coming out of our like our specific like topic specific working groups so we had some with for instance affordable housing developers market rate developers around different different kind of standards or policies that we've sought to address and are logged a lot of the questions we get are not they're really about like the interaction of the plan with various external things so like application of state laws which

57:46 we're showing how we do that in the plan but we're also just educating people about those state laws and what do they mean what's required lots of questions about the 2045 targets for population and housing and like for instance if we annex could we spread those numbers out across more land and you know the answer is no we just have higher numbers to accommodate if we annex more because the UGA has its own set the urban growth area has its own set of stuff of course conditions covenants and restrictions a lot of educating that those are private contracts that the city does not enforce and so a lot of that's this kind of stuff is in our FAQs that are online so we've continually been adding to that as well we you know we send responses to people and answer them in real time but but some of it is just educating people that the overall system okay I'm gonna walk through this kind of quickly

58:44 council feedback that we got over to our sorry three workshops and just to note that you know there was a lag between well there was a there was a time difference between our our receiving council feedback and our ability to incorporate that into a draft that got published so just want to note that your February and March workshops on the plan even though the February one took part took place before that we published the draft most of those were not incorporated because we didn't have time so this is us responding to a lot of what we heard at your workshops in February and March so the idea that we need to needed to recognize the importance of the Columbia River and are the city's responsibility to preserve and enhance and protect that resource we've added in policy language around that in our policies but also in the introduction section there was some feedback about really

59:43 elevating arts and culture and tying that more specifically both to the parks recreation and cultural services chapter but also to community experience and how arts and culture contributes to community experience recognizing the role that small businesses play in building an identity and supporting a culture of belonging and innovation so we added language there recognizing the role of sports and recreation in building community identity again we added language there we did a lot to kind of clarify and cross reference connections between the community experience goals and parks goals I mean I think again people love love parks and so when they think about what's their experience right of their community parks and open space play in events play a huge role in that so we really tried to make that

1:00:34 clear and and and create those connections across different plan chapters we added some language around encouraging or incentivizing or the city playing kind of an active role in solving some of the problems around access surface parking redevelopment because we know it's challenging there's often leases involved out of town landlords and so really trying to kind of find a way to support that process of conversion over time we got a better description of the health impact assessment map we will we got we heard you that you wanted more specific geographic information about where future and library investments might be made but we were unable to get any additional information from the library so just we didn't make that change because we don't have any new information heard feedback that we need to celebrate when

1:01:29 we when we finish public facilities and infrastructure projects and educate people and bring them out to show that so we added some policy and narrative language around that we updated our student enrollment table to add current enrollment numbers we did just kind of a full review for how our maps and figures to make sure that the way we describe them more clear and that they were consistently labeled and that the policies were structured kind of in a consistent way and then we also added policies on related to annexation and conversation so related to the county adopting city development regulations and infrastructure standards and in advance of annexation and exploring regional service models etcetera okay we got a lot of feedback from the Planning Commission as well and we've integrated a lot of this we've

1:02:27 got more information in the introduction section about the school for the deaf and the blind they pointed out correctly that how you make budget decisions like what informs those is in itself a policy decision and so we've made a policy around that that basically says they'll reflect our values and various inputs we added some information about the impact of just cars on personal safety we've got more data in the equity chapter on representation and the community experience chapter on representation that we pulled from the equity atlas we had it we just integrated it more into the narrative I talked about you know adding more about what builds an identity we had a I think great comment from a planning commissioner just wanting us to call out that we often hear a lot about the evils of rental housing and how it will ruin neighborhoods and you know I think she really gracefully pointed out that renters are more than 50% of the city and there are neighbors and they contribute

1:03:25 to the community and to our neighborhoods not just don't detract from it and so we added some language there we took a look at a lot of our tree canopy stuff to make sure we're emphasizing that sufficiently added just a I think a piece to a policy about looking at you know pedestrianization of streets and permanent or temporary street closures added a section in our transportation chapter we previously had a section on our ADA transition plan but we didn't we just said what we were required to do instead of prefacing it with why that's important and why continuing to upgrade our infrastructure to make it all to make it accessible for more people is a value of the city so we added language there some more information on annexation some more information about kind of the differences between the city and the Vancouver urban growth area in terms of both service provision and

1:04:21 demographic demographics we were asked to add targets for mode shift and we actually don't have those in the transportation system plan either and so I think that is something we're going to need to tackle after this because it's complicated thing to do and do it by transportation analysis zones which is kind of how we think about we measure the transportation system so that's really a future step we weren't able to do it as part of this we have heard from one planning commissioner in particular and I want to make sure to call this out that the ground floor active use ready overlay adds complexity and cost and we don't disagree but we have removed the ground floor commercial or active use requirement from so much of the city as part of this is really picked the key places where we need it to advance connected and accessible neighborhoods and we think it is feasible that the ground floor

1:05:16 active use ready is sort of the other piece of getting to those connected accessible neighborhoods because development lasts 50 years and so no you don't have to put an active commercial use there now but we want it to be ready to be converted in the future when the you know more resident rooftops are there and support that so we have left it in we believe it is a key piece of the combination of those two overlays and getting us to our connected and accessible neighborhood goals over time we also heard from the same planning commissioner that he thinks we should reduce the maximum height in the medium scale neighborhood to 65 feet and we've had the planning commission had a tremendous amount of debate between about buffers between zoning districts some people thought they were good some people thought they should go away I think from we have buffers today and we think it's important to keep them to differentiate between the scale of different districts so that we've

1:06:14 left that in okay I covered this so I won't go over it again but this is sort of how we bonded to those comments as in the various chapters and again this is listed in a table but I just covered this as I went through the comments so I won't be redundant similar here yeah we we tried to take in and integrate as many comments as we could from the various people that we were doing outreach and engagement with including yourselves in the planning commission but also the community broadly and a lot of different groups that we've been partnering with as part of this as long as they were kind of consistent with overall council direction and policy mark's gonna take the code but I may have hopefully I didn't cover all of this thanks Rebecca mark person planner in our development review department

1:07:11 I'll be covering the draft code changes since the publish of the draft code on February 19th we updated the code and as Rebecca mentioned there's a full list of code changes in your packet tonight as well but we made some refinements to the manufactured home district there were some questions from council on that on the previous workshops we clarified our definitions updated the purpose and character description we also allowed permanently affordable building types to be to open up those areas more for those permanently affordable uses and then we clarified to allow community serving accessory uses in that district such as laundry recreation centers that sort of thing we clarified that modular and manufactured homes are allowed

1:08:09 anywhere that housing is allowed in the updated draft so anywhere that household living is allowed right title 20 is not regulating how something is built it's simply regulating the height setbacks transparency those things we've made a reduction in our bicycling bicycle and small mobility parking minimums after feedback from planning commission and some of our community working groups we've had a reduction in ground floor transparency requirements and weather protection clarified the definition of ground to ceiling height and that's specifically related to the active use and active use ready areas to let folks know what we're looking for exactly there on the ground floor and then we allowed for an increase in setback for industrial buildings in employment and industrial zones realizing that excuse me

1:09:05 those areas aren't you know art in our dense more pedestrian oriented areas and the functions of those buildings and areas sometimes mandate that those are further from the public right of way moving on to some more code changes since february 19 we updated the buffer table and diagram for clarity and readability we've updated the child care to allow those uses everywhere except every industrial and we'll defer to the state for the regulations we don't want to be any more restrictive than the state we've updated our annexation section to reflect the new base districts and update some outdated language we've made some refinements to show that neighborhood association officers will be automatically notified of pre-apps

1:10:05 and the other folks can opt in we extended the timeline for replacement of single-family homes in the medium scale district to two years after hearing from some folks in the community and how long it can take to settle with an insurance claim or to go through the permitting process and really to show that that that timeline is to building permits submittal not issuance real quick let me jump in here you received comment on this today and we'll be responding to that comment but we we did address it well you know we so we have responded to in the code i just have need to respond to it writing but essentially in the medium scale neighborhood you you tear down a single-family house for whatever reason you can rebuild a single-family house without meeting minimum density requirements for up to two years and you just got to start the permitting process within two years you don't

1:11:02 have to finish it and essentially you know we've we've heard a lot i think people are some people think that we are like trying to intentionally move away from single-family homes like all together and that is not the case and we are allowing you know the code allows for people to replace existing single-family homes in the medium scale and low scale neighborhoods in the medium scale they've got two years in the low scale it's anytime any basically whenever so i just wanted to clarify that you know we we i have been slow in responding to the person who's submitting this comment but we have integrated it and responded to it in the actual text of the cup thanks are you all done this is the last slide i think