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1:15:12 and um so broadway and specifically is a high capacity transit corridor and the framework we use to develop the preferred alternative said our high capacity transit corridors largely should be mixed use or regional activity center and so those have higher minimum densities we believe based on our internal feasibility analysis that you can build something there that that meets the minimum density it may not be the product that someone specifically wants to build um but we believe we should hold the line on you know really leveraging those investments in high capacity transit for those higher intensity development types because we need to hit 38 000 units and we've got medium scale all over the city um so that's i mean i think and and we we refine our code and update our comprehensive plan every year

1:16:09 and if we continue to see um that that remain that there you know are things that the minimum densities are not feasible we can change them or we can change the zoning on sites to to reflect that so that's kind of where we landed on the broadway corridor councilor stopper councilor paulson councilor stover um hello ty stopper council member um rebecca this what i'm about to say is not a rebecca i want you to change something now at the last minute if you answered differently than what i'm thinking it would be in the bucket of that future so conversations have happened over the past for the over the time i've been on council conversations that were hypothetical at one point and then started

1:17:03 to become reality uh and that is the situation where a small naturally occurring low-income development gets torn down and is replaced by a much larger um single-family home uh therefore changing it from something that was once affordable to something that um is only affordable to a very limited number of people does the code address that at all um the code does not the new code currently does not address that and i will say we had quite a bit of discussion about this through the process and um in the spirit which is one thing that has guided this process throughout is simplification um not regulating to the

1:18:00 lowest common denominator and trying to um say let's see what the market delivers before we kind of try to regulate those bad outcomes and so i think this the the the what we worked through and and i think with the development community as well though is that um people are going to maximize units we're unlikely to see very many of those scenarios where you tear down you know either a smaller house and build a 4 000 square foot huge house or you tear down you know a duplex and do that um because the development economics are very tight now maximizing units is really what we think we're going to see happen and and this will be a fairly low risk if we start to see it we can change the code okay i i'm seeing something akin to that in my neighborhood um so i hope we do keep having this conversation going into the future thank you mayor pro tem fox

1:18:58 sarah fox um i just want to say that i am just so pleased with all of the work that staff has done on on this and i i am also um really appreciative of the staff report that included the change logs for those of you that maybe haven't dived in i mean the documents themselves are hundreds of pages and the code is you know hundreds of pages and so having that as a key to zoom in on the things that are different is really helpful and i appreciate that other than that i don't have any other well one other thing that was really pleasing to me really was staff working closely with me on on better refining the manufactured housing zoning and seeing that also reflected in in the updated version i was really pleased with that so thank you yes thank you and nagner nyogle ma'am mark

1:19:55 how could you go back one slide slide 14 last bulleted item updated fee schedule um we have earlier in the presentation state law that says align the impact fees to the size of housing so we have schools parks traffic all of those are now aligned no it's a great question mayor so that is the state law it is not required for us to do as part of our periodic review process though and while we have always been intending to do it the schools are taking longer they've hired their own consultant and i get it they need some time it's it's it's more complicated for schools because they're not just looking at you know like in it for traffic right all people generate impact on the traffic system but for schools only certain people generate impact so what we've basically agreed to is we're looking

1:20:53 at our traffic impact fee program right now because of that was called out in the transportation system plan to update that so we'll do transportation impact fee proportionality through that and then we'll come back with parks and schools when the schools are ready all right thank you so very much congratulations on your work here i talked all right thank you that concludes