1
00:00:02,100 --> 00:00:31,100
Thank you.

2
00:01:01,100 --> 00:02:02,520
Thank you.

3
00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,520
All right.

4
00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,520
We are ready to get started.

5
00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:19,520
Welcome everybody here to our wonderful Ben senior center that is now part of the whole marks for community center, which is a great amenity for our neighborhood here in southeast Merritt Bend.

6
00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:31,520
We're really happy to have this presentation for you all tonight, recommend have a roundtable session with some representatives from some neighborhood district boards, and then we've left time again for counselors to come and talk and answer questions as well as we'll have

7
00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:40,520
a round edge these tables to help answer questions as well around all the growth activity and change that is happening in this corner of town.

8
00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:52,520
And that's going to be a lot of what we're talking about we know people are concerned about growth and change and people are concerned about wildfire and other topics that we're going to touch on tonight and just kind of have a discussion on here and then be able to talk

9
00:02:52,520 --> 00:03:04,520
about what's going on in the crowd and help get questions answered. And so some of those questions might actually be answered by our staff and Bryce is going to do this off with a presentation, kind of give us a mystery and what's going on in the neighborhood.

10
00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:19,520
Thank you, my name is Russ Grayson, I'm the chief operations officer for the city of New York City, assistant city managers and with me is Brian Reinhardt who leads our great management group that makes it all of our long range for the city.

11
00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:48,520
So, tonight's presentation is really going to be about how do we plan the city, how do we do that with Brian's going to go over all the components of that and we're also getting ready to select the next 20 years, the big North Way I'm bringing the hot ice map and then I will give you an overview of all the current things that are going on in your neighborhood, which is just a couple of things, including all the developments going on and the infrastructure that's coming just to prepare you up for what you see over the next five years.

12
00:03:49,520 --> 00:04:06,520
After that, as Melanie, as Mayor said, there are tables, after we've done the round table, she knows you'll talk about that. At the end there's also a fishbowl in the back for just any general comments, grab, drop in concerns and questions from the neighborhood or just input that you want to provide to the city, please do that in the back.

13
00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:17,520
So please as we go through this, I'm not going to take questions during the presentation but there will be times where you ask questions for staff so please jot those down and then I will give you kind of operating instructions after that. So with that, I'm Jimmy McGrian.

14
00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:26,280
Thank you. Well, God gave Russ the height and he gave me the hair.

15
00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:30,280
You don't usually get all the things.

16
00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,280
Actually, no.

17
00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:49,280
So let's advance the slide. So, Reagan, I get to leave the city's long range, it's an honor, it's privilege, and it's a challenge to lead the long range planning program with the city so this rest site all started out, and then Russ is going to go.

18
00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,280
Finish up this presentation, we'll get to the more fun discussion.

19
00:04:54,280 --> 00:05:07,720
So first question for everybody. Is there anyone here who was born here or moved here before 1975. Oh wait, put your hands up.

20
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,720
And that's awesome. Okay.

21
00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:20,720
So, I have a friend who's local, and she's like well if you're born, if you're born race here especially that long she like her unicorns.

22
00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:27,720
We're like magical rare management animals are just hard to find part of spot.

23
00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,720
But that means the rest of us.

24
00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,720
I moved here after that point.

25
00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:45,720
And I know it's gonna be hard to see the details this is not about the details I don't even think I have to explain this to you, but this is a chart of our population growth here in bed from 1975 till today.

26
00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:52,720
And we're going from about 20,000 back in the day to over 100,000 now.

27
00:05:52,720 --> 00:06:00,720
And I just want to share that because we have to think of growth is something you know it's the next time that's coming into town, and it's rarely ourselves.

28
00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:10,720
Right. But we're all part of this process of growth that has occurred over this period of time, and it led to all the changes in our community and it's also.

29
00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:17,720
We also reached our families, we have friends, if you look around this room I'm sure there are a lot of friends and family here as well.

30
00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:28,720
And so that's part of growth as well. And so I know there are a lot of difficulties as we're going to talk about those we're not shying away from them or trying to shine you on, but also to offer that, you know, two sides to the same point here.

31
00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,720
Right. Sometimes there's really good things and how long this growth and changing.

32
00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,720
So maybe let's, let's switch the slide.

33
00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,720
Next slide, please.

34
00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:38,720
Thank you.

35
00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,720
All right. Again, you're not expecting to see the details of this.

36
00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:50,720
This is a picture, an aerial photograph of the southeast area in 2014.

37
00:06:50,720 --> 00:07:06,720
So I just 12 years ago, and that 12 years ago you look at that you go well okay I see a few subdivisions, and if you could look closer at the roads you see rural roads for the most part, right, rural roads two lanes, shoulders no sidewalks, no roundabouts down here.

38
00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:14,720
Very few new schools, not a whole lot of new parts, but you can see is the internet, there's no sewer system for the most part down here.

39
00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,720
Let me ask a question, how many of you wish the, it can just look like this again.

40
00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,720
Fair enough, and there's no wrong answer here.

41
00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,720
We're not going to this, this is real let's be honest with each other, the challenges.

42
00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:36,720
All right, well how many things. Okay, this is this is really the city, the city is making this growth happen it's a city of developers they're making this one time they wanted to happen.

43
00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:45,720
As soon as you're nodding heads. But don't worry, we're not, you know, we work for you, you know, so it's okay.

44
00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,720
And then how many of you might think there's just no plan because it doesn't feel like there's a plan right now.

45
00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,720
There's no plan for this it's just happening around this time hazard.

46
00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,720
And so what I'm hoping is it tonight.

47
00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:09,720
At least with this, this presentation that you can come away and maybe have a good perspective on some of the answers that that you are just providing to yourselves to to your friends.

48
00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,540
Next slide please.

49
00:08:13,540 --> 00:08:18,540
First and foremost, we all live in the grand state of Oregon.

50
00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:29,540
And in this state, we have what's called statewide planning. We have a very robust system of planning in the state, very unlike other states.

51
00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:38,540
So we have state law and we have administrative rule. And I'm not a tall guy. It might actually be a staff that all up, I think it would be taller than us.

52
00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:45,540
But we have just pages and pages volumes of how cities are supposed to plan.

53
00:08:45,540 --> 00:08:57,540
These are not just men if you want to. This is, this is how you must plan and this is how they plan to plan. And one of those major features I'm sure a lot of you know what a growing growth boundary is.

54
00:08:57,540 --> 00:09:06,540
I've been here for a long time. This photograph here is kind of an illustration of that there's kind of a hard line it's invisible line that's the line that says in this urban growth boundary.

55
00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:15,540
This is where we put our urban need for housing and jobs, and we have to plan 20 years out.

56
00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:20,540
So we have to have a supply of land for housing and for jobs in that urban growth boundary.

57
00:09:20,540 --> 00:09:27,540
And so about once every decade, the city reevaluates this to figure out if we have enough land for that urban growth boundary.

58
00:09:27,540 --> 00:09:38,540
Another feature of that is that we are all under a plan right now. I just want to assure you there's a plan, I'll give you some more details here, that is guiding the development of your city's buildings.

59
00:09:38,540 --> 00:09:49,540
In addition to that, after we do our land use planning, we figure out how we're going to grow in terms of commercial areas, architectural areas, industrial areas.

60
00:09:49,540 --> 00:10:01,540
We also do similar plans for our transportation system, sewer system, water system. So you have, ideally, it's a really well aligned package but I had said it would be 20 years into the future.

61
00:10:01,540 --> 00:10:11,540
So that these things make sense over time and can occur logically.

62
00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:15,540
Next slide please.

63
00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:28,540
Another feature of this is that there's these laws always change. So there's a new law that just asks Oregon Housing Needs Analysis. We don't have to get technical and I don't expect to see the pie chart.

64
00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:37,540
But here's the punchline. This new law requires us and Ben together, this is a city thing, the city is responsible for doing these plans.

65
00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:47,540
But we do these plans with the community of course. And this new law, so instead you have 34,000 new dwelling units that you have to plan for the next 20 years.

66
00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:50,540
34,000 new dwelling units.

67
00:10:51,540 --> 00:10:55,540
And more importantly, this number, it's a mandate.

68
00:10:55,540 --> 00:11:01,540
We have to figure out how to accommodate these. And they also provide an affordability levels.

69
00:11:01,540 --> 00:11:18,540
And so this pie chart shows you generally how the affordability levels are so we have about 9000 units, close to 10,000 units that have to be affordable to people making under 60% of the areas median income.

70
00:11:19,540 --> 00:11:26,540
And to put that into perspective for you, an average house in the market now is going for $800,000.

71
00:11:26,540 --> 00:11:44,540
We have an obligation as a city as an organization as people within this community to come together to figure out how we are going to divide for 9000 dwelling units that are priced at what a home would be about $250,000 to provide for space.

72
00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:56,540
As a mandate for the state. We're going to talk more about that is being a driver of some of the change you're seeing here in the southeast, and also that's been influenced by the plan for.

73
00:11:56,540 --> 00:12:13,540
Also, it is not it's so when we're talking about providing a greater variety of housing types to meet a variety of these kinds of that's why you see if you move to say 20 years ago like houses used to look this way, it wasn't as much density, they're going to be larger or single unit detached homes

74
00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:31,540
and you're seeing more and more dense housing, you're seeing more apartment complexes, you're seeing more colleges, townhomes, and the reason is to meet the state's requirements as well as our obligation as a little database to provide for a variety of housing, people with different incomes and needs.

75
00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:35,110
So next slide.

76
00:12:36,110 --> 00:12:47,110
So, I took that picture that Aaron photograph 2014 keep that data much. So, it was pretty quiet in the southeast for a long time.

77
00:12:47,110 --> 00:12:50,110
And something I forgot to mention too is back then.

78
00:12:50,110 --> 00:13:01,110
Back before then in 1998 there was a hub was here for the annexation in 1998. Okay so a lot of folks there, right. So in 1998 these parts were added to the city.

79
00:13:01,110 --> 00:13:16,110
And it must have led his center for a long time without a lot of public investment. I think it was a lot of animosity, folks in these neighborhoods at the city, they have not invested here, you brought a city or city, but you haven't built roads.

80
00:13:16,110 --> 00:13:27,110
We're still on septic systems, you haven't built sewer systems yet. Where the parts where the schools like what's the deal we're paying the taxes but we're not getting any of the buildings that come with it.

81
00:13:28,110 --> 00:13:31,110
So, in 2016.

82
00:13:31,110 --> 00:13:39,110
After that arrow photo that I showed you is taken the city did a forward looking plan, up until the year 2028.

83
00:13:39,110 --> 00:13:53,110
And this was a process to meet our state requirements to provide for land to support our economy, as well as land to support our housing needs, as well as parks and schools and public public uses that you see around town.

84
00:13:53,110 --> 00:14:01,110
That plan is approved. It was about 2380 acres plus or minus.

85
00:14:01,110 --> 00:14:18,110
That was added to our city after the city went and met the laws by assuming that almost every property within the prior urban growth boundary, they could be developed, we develop, which is staggering when you think about it.

86
00:14:18,110 --> 00:14:28,110
So in order to expand your growth and you have to demonstrate becoming more efficient before you expand, you have to assume that the land that can develop will in that in that urban growth boundary.

87
00:14:28,110 --> 00:14:32,110
So, that took place in 2016.

88
00:14:32,110 --> 00:14:46,110
Part of that proposal also made a lot of changes, in particular to the areas in the southeast by providing greater makes of uses. So, planning for parks, planning for schools planning for more commercial areas, especially in the areas that were added to the urban growth boundary.

89
00:14:46,110 --> 00:14:55,110
The reason being is that it's really hard to go into existing areas of our commercial center. You all know that. If you don't live here, there's no way in heck you would want that to happen.

90
00:14:55,110 --> 00:15:06,110
So they were added to the expansion area in order to provide those amenities, not right next door but within a comfortable distance at the fringe of the city.

91
00:15:06,110 --> 00:15:19,870
So try to make those areas inside the existing urban growth boundary where you were living, have a greater access to those amenities.

92
00:15:19,870 --> 00:15:30,870
We also work with them parts. And we also work with school district. We do some of their land planning. We do land for schools and land for new parks as part of this as well.

93
00:15:30,870 --> 00:15:45,870
So we do land planning for those two agencies. The idea being that when we're expanding, we're going to try to provide greater makes of uses to increase and improve the livability and function of the city in the southeast and other parts of the city.

94
00:15:45,870 --> 00:15:49,570
So, next slide please.

95
00:15:49,570 --> 00:15:53,570
So, back to that lack of public investment.

96
00:15:53,570 --> 00:15:57,570
So, this is a photo of a giant sewer pipe.

97
00:15:57,570 --> 00:16:02,570
It was constructed to serve the southeast area.

98
00:16:02,570 --> 00:16:14,570
I couldn't I couldn't remember how many 10s of millions of dollars were spent but it's in the 10s of millions of dollars was 2030 something in that range to provide a sewer system for the southeast area.

99
00:16:14,570 --> 00:16:27,570
That is the thing where is it, it goes more or less down the place for us, please for us to keep kind of from north to south and once north to south and connects to our sewer plant and other systems of to our sewer plant in the northeast.

100
00:16:27,570 --> 00:16:36,570
So, that occurred. That was a huge improvement. Now you can get off something over time here in southeast. Next slide please.

101
00:16:36,570 --> 00:16:41,570
Another big public investment was Murphy the Murphy for those who remember that.

102
00:16:41,570 --> 00:16:56,570
And that was probably the first and biggest public investment that was made in the southeast in terms of transportation facility that transportation facility now you see okay it's my claims and sidewalks, you know, tracks is providing that great east west connectivity.

103
00:16:56,570 --> 00:16:59,570
And next slide please.

104
00:16:59,570 --> 00:17:02,570
When you put those things together.

105
00:17:03,570 --> 00:17:17,570
When you have become the ingredients for the vacant land, it was sitting there for a long time in southeast of all of a sudden, become available and ready for development.

106
00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,570
Without those public investments.

107
00:17:19,570 --> 00:17:31,570
You couldn't really develop which is one Southeast state relatively stable, but other parts been like Southwest West Side and northeast, we're going nuts during that big growth period in the early 90s and early 2000s.

108
00:17:31,570 --> 00:17:37,570
So in 2020 the city said well we need a new transportation by that new transportation plan is a citywide plan.

109
00:17:37,570 --> 00:17:57,570
It seems that pretty much every major road in band in southeast we're talking southeast here, someday, is going to be upgraded from a rural system to ways shoulders no sidewalks and bike lanes to a complete system of roundabouts or some kind of intersection improvement.

110
00:17:57,570 --> 00:18:13,570
But mostly roundabouts were roundabout first town roundabouts so you major intersections sidewalks, bike lanes, and travel lanes. However, a 20 year plan to accomplish that end of a complete system does not happen overnight.

111
00:18:13,570 --> 00:18:17,570
So Russ is going to share a little about that.

112
00:18:18,570 --> 00:18:30,070
So, just some quick slides and maybe a bit of reassurance. There's a lot going on is disruptive, it's changed, it's changing areas for a long time.

113
00:18:30,070 --> 00:18:32,070
I'm a bed resident.

114
00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:48,070
I feel the same thing, even though this is my job. So I understand that and I feel that as well with you. But at the end, after build out, where are we going with this so part of our analysis of the build out of the plan that we're under now, also about 62% of the plan.

115
00:18:48,070 --> 00:19:05,070
62% of all households in the city being within a half mile of school because of our coordination in the school district. So basically, more than half of the kids could ideally, do kids still want to school them.

116
00:19:05,070 --> 00:19:12,070
I don't know, it's like they're zipping around on things and skateboarding or electrical, you know, they have better options for the impact.

117
00:19:12,070 --> 00:19:23,070
So we'll have a majority of majority of households within a half mile school next slide please will have will have about 86% of households within a half mile of commercial thing.

118
00:19:23,070 --> 00:19:28,070
And this is also including the southeast. There have been concerns about the loss of commercial land.

119
00:19:28,070 --> 00:19:45,070
I've spoken with a few folks here earlier tonight, because of your concerns, I think in speaking with our city council city council directing staff from our lobbyists to begin working on a change to the law that allow that conversion of commercial land for affordable housing.

120
00:19:45,070 --> 00:20:03,070
And there's still an allowance for it but in essence that bill is just recently passed in short session to provide protections for a commercial and some of these commercial areas can still provide some affordable housing, but not all of this going to be used for affordable housing and

121
00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:18,070
for commercial. Just to give you some quick, if you had 10 acres of commercial, the idea is that you have 10 acres of commercial in one of these areas, you can use two of them for de-restricted affordable housing and you preserve eight acres for 80% of it for the coverage and all intended commercial use.

122
00:20:18,070 --> 00:20:24,070
So that is a big change that just occurred. And that is now all those.

123
00:20:24,070 --> 00:20:28,600
Next slide please.

124
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,600
I think really cool things. This is one of the things I'm most kind of excited about.

125
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:44,600
Denmark's migration is because fantastic job of acquiring sites. They do a great job of running and managing their park system. We were coordinating them on a number of fronts in terms of providing open space.

126
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,600
They acquire their own sites by themselves. First of all, so they bought by land. This is a photograph about a little park.

127
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:58,600
But we also coordinate with them, providing open spaces part of large development. So any development that's open 20 acres.

128
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:13,600
It comes to the city. They have to dedicate or buy some form 10% of that land for an open space and usually that goes in concert with them parts of our creation district who will partner with the developer to only maintain that park over time.

129
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:24,600
So these bigger developments will provide these parts over time. The city also protects open spaces to work on various special interests, knock out properties and things like that.

130
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:36,600
The city also just recently adopted a new tree protection code and ordinance in order to protect trees that are outside parts because of a lot of concerns raised by the public.

131
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:46,600
So this council has taken these direct actions in response to these concerns to try to keep this place more in line with what people are hoping that becomes open time.

132
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:57,600
Yeah, let's go to the next slide. And ultimately, just this picture, I don't know why you but that library is incredible.

133
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:04,600
It is incredible. I think it is, in a sense to me, this is just being gripping. I think it's like it's a statement of what the south east.

134
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,600
It's like this is where the south east is. It's a huge public investment.

135
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:16,600
And I think a sign of what's to come in terms of vitality, it continues to show up here in this part of town.

136
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:26,600
But I think there's another point, remember two sides of the same coin that with the development, come some of these public benefits. It's hard to separate two things.

137
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:40,600
So parts schools library district are all aware of the development potential in this area, which is in part why they have made some of these sightings sightings just to provide a new school and to provide a new part of the library.

138
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:45,600
So it's a good investment because people are going to be here and use it in this part of town easily.

139
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,600
Next slide.

140
00:22:48,600 --> 00:23:00,600
There are two developments in urban growth library expansions you probably heard of these. We have called our ranch and legacy village. So all their branches off the top roads in the south.

141
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:10,600
And then the other one is the expansion area that will provide a variety of housing types and school as well as a small commercial area.

142
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:16,600
And then legacy village which is east of Stevens range. Another one you probably heard of.

143
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:22,600
And then the other one is the

144
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,600
downtown.

145
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,600
And downtown.

146
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,600
A little commercial core.

147
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,600
A 30 acre park.

148
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,600
And housing units as well as employment.

149
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,600
So again, a concept of making those uses is speaking and manifesting these new developments.

150
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,600
But the most important reason why these developments I think were something that council, the public, really or hoping could happen and are going to happen is because of the fact that we have a lot of people that are going to be here.

151
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:52,600
And the reason why this is going to happen is because of these will provide what's called the restrictive housing is for.

152
00:23:52,600 --> 00:24:09,600
So, there are upwards of 800 units between these two developments that will be the restricted which means they happen to have to qualify based on your income to be in this unit, and it is pointed towards people who are of modern to lower incomes in order to be in it.

153
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:18,600
And then back to that slide I showed you, that is something the city is under city and we are under an obligation to try to provide for our community.

154
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:30,600
So these are two really important projects, because without those expansions is really difficult to provide that level of affordable housing on its own in an existing building.

155
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,600
In addition, these areas were designed build.

156
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,600
So, we have our fire standards for fire resistance.

157
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:51,600
The city council has recently just passed, it provided direction to use a new building code to create so units are now more fire resistant in terms of materials.

158
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:59,600
They're also going to be discussing vegetation landscape management. We have our fireman, we're still fire fire fire tables over there.

159
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,600
I'm not going to say fire in a large group.

160
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:15,600
But point being that Carrie is doing fantastic work with her team in terms of increasing our awareness emergency preparedness clear zones.

161
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,600
She's doing a fantastic job of doing that so please don't worry about that.

162
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:28,600
The last slide, because we're going to say we're going to have to keep doing these plans the state requires us to do these plans. So we're about to head into another planning effort.

163
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:34,600
And that planning effort is going to look at the next 20 years, the webin is going to become.

164
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,600
So, get used to the hair and the height.

165
00:25:39,600 --> 00:26:04,600
So we're going to be back talking about that plan. And I think what's really important and I love this so much in this occasion is that we, this is a conversation we need you, we need your ideas in order to make this plan work in order to make it then the incredible place it is make sure that continues through time into the future for our children and the children's children.

166
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,600
Because, you know, I think in this, I'm going to be alive.

167
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,600
Listen, it's

168
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,600
But, you know,

169
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:33,600
back to the original side we all built this we built this community together, we're part of this growing community and I think you get the right hand. And I hope that when we're doing our plan, looking forward, that you might a hand in that and it's my job to try to make that easier for you and more meaningful, which is my intention.

170
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:46,600
And I hope that we will be more details involved and we will make this easy for you to come into the future. So thank you so much.

171
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:58,600
I'm going to go, I'm going to try to go a little quick here just a time to say, so I'm going to talk about all the great activity going on in this area of town.

172
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:12,170
So first of all, say thank you for putting out the ball the construction today and it's happened in this work on the back line.

173
00:27:12,170 --> 00:27:22,170
There's been a lot of activity. I will say this is your breath moment right here. Take a breath, because we got a whole other way on coming and I'm going to go over.

174
00:27:23,170 --> 00:27:34,170
So everyone's got this, this exhibit right here and this one I'm going to go through, we're going to build that together as we do this. So quick, quick fun fact between the recession and COVID.

175
00:27:34,170 --> 00:27:39,170
How much, how many dollars do you think the city invested in infrastructure for the city?

176
00:27:39,170 --> 00:27:42,170
Big guess.

177
00:27:42,170 --> 00:27:47,170
10 million, 20 million? A billion dollars.

178
00:27:47,170 --> 00:27:56,170
That's what the city built just the city. This isn't development everything else. The city invested a billion dollars in the same year period.

179
00:27:56,170 --> 00:28:01,170
So we got a whole other round of that right now. So let's go to the next slide, Brent.

180
00:28:01,170 --> 00:28:07,170
So if you look at the map, all the areas in green, these are all the current developments that are going on, major developments.

181
00:28:07,170 --> 00:28:12,170
There's a bunch of other things going on in the Senate that are not marked. These are all major master plans.

182
00:28:12,170 --> 00:28:22,170
If you have any questions about any of those master plans, which you can correlate with Brian saying about how they were planned and how they were all supposed to relate to each other, schools, parks, walkability, all that kind of stuff.

183
00:28:22,170 --> 00:28:27,170
You can go to this table over here. They're raising their hands. That's our current projects table. That's our current planners.

184
00:28:27,170 --> 00:28:30,170
We'd be more than happy to talk about that.

185
00:28:30,170 --> 00:28:35,170
What I'm going to do is talk about infrastructure. I'm going to use transportation because that's something everybody drives and feels everyday.

186
00:28:35,170 --> 00:28:38,930
So next slide, right?

187
00:28:38,930 --> 00:28:51,930
So there, that's all the recent infrastructure that's been built in this part of town, I would say the last five to 10 years. Murphy corridor, 15 kind of improved, not 15.

188
00:28:51,930 --> 00:28:57,930
The roundabout from the high school, 27 improvements just happened in front of Stevens Ranch.

189
00:28:57,930 --> 00:29:04,930
We did the Murphy interchange and some other improvements around town, including Billson and County. Next slide.

190
00:29:04,930 --> 00:29:12,930
Here is what is planned in the next five years by the state to be built in green.

191
00:29:12,930 --> 00:29:16,930
So now we're starting to build out bikeway systems. You're going to turn big bikeway.

192
00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:21,930
That's so you can continue north, south, east, west, across town in the safe system.

193
00:29:21,930 --> 00:29:30,930
We'll be building roundabouts at 15 in Ferguson. We'll be extending the roundabout at Green Market in 15.

194
00:29:30,930 --> 00:29:40,930
As well as we are planning a major, major event for this part of town in probably late 27, where we're going to do the remark over crossing over the ramp.

195
00:29:40,930 --> 00:29:49,930
That means we're going to probably have to shut down, remark it for a significant amount of time over a year, possibly two, between year to two years.

196
00:29:49,930 --> 00:29:54,930
If you have questions about that, I'm going to turn over to our engineer.

197
00:29:54,930 --> 00:29:57,930
We'd be more than happy to take your questions on that.

198
00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:02,930
That's a major project of the 2020 General Aviation Bot that everyone has. Thank you very much.

199
00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:09,930
But what we've been doing is we've been building out the system, all this stuff to be able to do that project and be able to move around as effectively as we can.

200
00:30:09,930 --> 00:30:15,930
But still, a lot of growth, a lot of development going on. We're not having to talk about it. We're going to keep moving for time.

201
00:30:15,930 --> 00:30:18,820
So next slide, please.

202
00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:23,820
So what you see now, kind of in that blue, this is all the infrastructure that the developments need built.

203
00:30:24,820 --> 00:30:31,820
We require them to mitigate the development as Brian said, when we brought in this area back in the 90s.

204
00:30:31,820 --> 00:30:35,820
You mentioned they didn't bring the infrastructure with them. We now require them.

205
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:42,820
So it's things in the next 10. We require them to build all the supporting infrastructure not only for the development, but also to mitigate some impacts in town.

206
00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:48,820
So you start to see a system evolve here, more roads, more roundabouts.

207
00:30:48,820 --> 00:30:51,820
This is what we call this all coming out of our transportation system plan.

208
00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:55,820
It's all part of these plans of how do we build up the network over time.

209
00:30:55,820 --> 00:30:56,820
Next slide, Brian.

210
00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:04,820
And then what you see in yellow are additional improvements that are in our transportation system plan, but we don't have funding for you.

211
00:31:04,820 --> 00:31:14,820
So when we did that plan, it showed another billion dollars in the next 20 years that need to be invested in the transportation system and capital improvements and also operational costs.

212
00:31:15,820 --> 00:31:18,820
At the time that we did that plan, we had funding for half of it.

213
00:31:18,820 --> 00:31:22,820
Council's been working hard, general obligation bond, transportation fee.

214
00:31:22,820 --> 00:31:26,820
Those are things that would become a line to help fill that gap and we're still short.

215
00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:33,820
We're still trying to build out the additional ramps to go north and south coming off of Murphy.

216
00:31:33,820 --> 00:31:35,820
At least we don't have the funding to do that.

217
00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:41,820
China Road improvements and we are fully aware of the re-market third, highly 97 interchange route.

218
00:31:42,820 --> 00:31:47,820
That is probably a $20 million, $35 million investment we did not have funding for.

219
00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:52,820
The other thing I just want to mention real quick before we wrap this up is the re-market.

220
00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:53,820
We heard this question a lot.

221
00:31:53,820 --> 00:31:56,820
Why didn't we just do the bridge when we did the re-market last time?

222
00:31:56,820 --> 00:31:57,820
They have the funding.

223
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:06,820
That bridge is where it's geared $30 million, $40 million to build a bridge.

224
00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:08,820
The general obligation passed at the time.

225
00:32:08,820 --> 00:32:09,820
We didn't have the funding.

226
00:32:09,820 --> 00:32:12,820
We actually have a federal grant to do that.

227
00:32:12,820 --> 00:32:14,820
We chase federal money wherever we can.

228
00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:18,820
I would tell you the majority of the infrastructure that's built in town is built by the developers

229
00:32:18,820 --> 00:32:19,820
and it's built by us.

230
00:32:19,820 --> 00:32:21,820
We've got our utility bills, the general obligation bond.

231
00:32:21,820 --> 00:32:28,820
We always try to balance what's the affordability and how much things are sustained with what's

232
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:32,820
needed and what type of improvements we go around the city where we're building.

233
00:32:32,820 --> 00:32:34,820
That's how this map is built.

234
00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:40,820
If you have questions around that, there are a lot of people around here to help answer

235
00:32:40,820 --> 00:32:43,820
those questions and I will point that out in a second.

236
00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:44,820
Next slide.

237
00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:48,820
If you have questions, we're going to talk to you about any questions.

238
00:32:48,820 --> 00:32:52,820
We have several tables that after the round table with the counselors and the neighborhood

239
00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:57,820
districts, we'll wrap that up and then you'll be able to read a little round of ask questions.

240
00:32:57,820 --> 00:33:00,820
If you don't know what to ask, there's a push-pull of the map again.

241
00:33:00,820 --> 00:33:01,820
Next slide.

242
00:33:01,820 --> 00:33:03,820
We have five tables.

243
00:33:03,820 --> 00:33:07,820
If you're interested or have questions for transportation planning, how do you plan the

244
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:09,820
system, how do you do that?

245
00:33:09,820 --> 00:33:11,820
This is that table in the back.

246
00:33:11,820 --> 00:33:13,820
You might raise your hand over there.

247
00:33:13,820 --> 00:33:15,820
That's where you go for that.

248
00:33:15,820 --> 00:33:19,820
If you have questions around all the infrastructure projects the city's going to build, go talk

249
00:33:19,820 --> 00:33:21,820
to Eric and the team over there.

250
00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:25,820
If you have questions around wildfire and what we're doing and just kind of emergency

251
00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:27,820
management, we have Carrie in the back.

252
00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:30,820
Over here on this side.

253
00:33:30,820 --> 00:33:32,820
Great planning, great questions.

254
00:33:32,820 --> 00:33:34,820
This is the middle table right here.

255
00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:36,820
We take the show.

256
00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:39,820
In current projects, you go over here and you can ask questions over here.

257
00:33:39,820 --> 00:33:42,820
Myself and Brian and the counselors will probably be milling around.

258
00:33:42,820 --> 00:33:45,820
If you don't know where to go, you can help direct traffic for you.

259
00:33:45,820 --> 00:33:47,820
So we've got a lot of information.

260
00:33:47,820 --> 00:33:49,820
We really appreciate you sitting through that.

261
00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:51,820
We are here to answer your questions.

262
00:33:51,820 --> 00:33:53,820
So please keep that and let us know what we're doing.

263
00:33:53,820 --> 00:33:55,820
After that, I'm going to turn it over to you.

264
00:33:55,820 --> 00:33:57,820
What's the hand for reference?

265
00:33:57,820 --> 00:33:59,820
Thank you.

266
00:33:59,820 --> 00:34:01,820
Thank you.

267
00:34:01,820 --> 00:34:03,820
I'm Brian and I'm with the counselors in our neighborhood district.

268
00:34:03,820 --> 00:34:07,820
Representatives come on up to the table at this point so we can sit down and

269
00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:09,820
have our discussion.

270
00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:12,820
And we have a lot of computer, which is amazing, but we cannot have a direct

271
00:34:12,820 --> 00:34:14,820
discussion with all of you.

272
00:34:14,820 --> 00:34:17,820
I know it's going to be frustrating to not directly participate here, but we do

273
00:34:17,820 --> 00:34:19,820
ask for you to just listen in.

274
00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:21,820
And if you have questions, write them down.

275
00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:23,820
It's a great question.

276
00:34:23,820 --> 00:34:25,820
If you have questions, write them down.

277
00:34:25,820 --> 00:34:29,820
If you have ideas, if you're excited about something, there's a series of

278
00:34:29,820 --> 00:34:32,820
questions, the same questions we're going to be asking our district

279
00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:35,820
representatives up here that we're going to write down your ideas, your

280
00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:37,820
concepts, your inputs as well.

281
00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:40,820
So please do that if you have a guest.

282
00:34:40,820 --> 00:34:42,820
And then we'll be time at the end.

283
00:34:42,820 --> 00:34:45,820
We're going to do this discussion, but then we're going to fan out.

284
00:34:45,820 --> 00:34:47,820
We'll be able to talk directly with you.

285
00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:50,820
And we'll be able to answer any questions as well.

286
00:34:50,820 --> 00:34:52,820
So appreciate everybody here tonight.

287
00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:53,820
Thank you.

288
00:34:53,820 --> 00:34:54,820
Thank you.

289
00:34:54,820 --> 00:34:55,820
Thank you.

290
00:34:55,820 --> 00:34:56,820
Thank you.

291
00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:57,820
Thank you.

292
00:34:57,820 --> 00:35:04,180
And the other little pickup we have tonight is that we only have two

293
00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:05,180
mics.

294
00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:07,180
So we're going to have to pass mics back and forth.

295
00:35:07,180 --> 00:35:10,180
There is hand sanitizer for everybody at the end of the meeting.

296
00:35:10,180 --> 00:35:12,180
If we can set that one down to the end of the table,

297
00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:13,180
I'd like us to do introductions.

298
00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:16,180
It just comes down from, from council Perkins all the way around.

299
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:18,180
And then we'll get started with our discussion.

300
00:35:18,180 --> 00:35:19,180
Hi, my name is Megan Perkins.

301
00:35:20,180 --> 00:35:21,180
I'm a city council.

302
00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:31,680
Ross.

303
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,680
And so.

304
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:33,680
And so.

305
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,680
I'm a city council.

306
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Ross.

307
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,680
And so.

308
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:37,680
And so.

309
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:38,680
And so.

310
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:44,680
And then we'll get started with our discussion.

311
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:45,680
I'm a city council.

312
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:46,680
Ross.

313
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:47,680
And so.

314
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,680
And so.

315
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:49,680
Ross.

316
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:50,680
And so.

317
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,180
And so.

318
00:35:53,180 --> 00:35:54,180
And so.

319
00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:55,180
And so.

320
00:35:55,180 --> 00:35:57,180
Or you'll have the city council.

321
00:35:57,180 --> 00:35:58,180
And.

322
00:35:58,180 --> 00:36:04,180
Thank you everybody.

323
00:36:04,180 --> 00:36:05,180
Dan.

324
00:36:05,180 --> 00:36:06,180
Or large bird.

325
00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:07,180
We're.

326
00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:08,180
Okay.

327
00:36:08,180 --> 00:36:09,180
That's a.

328
00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:10,180
That's a.

329
00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:12,180
And additional communications and engagement officer.

330
00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:13,180
City.

331
00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:16,180
Like at the senior assistant.

332
00:36:16,180 --> 00:36:17,180
City.

333
00:36:17,180 --> 00:36:19,180
General felt that he's been.

334
00:36:19,180 --> 00:36:22,180
There was.

335
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:23,180
Like Riley.

336
00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:25,180
And I've also been introduced.

337
00:36:25,180 --> 00:36:55,270
Thank you,

338
00:36:55,270 --> 00:36:56,270
thank you.

339
00:36:56,270 --> 00:36:57,270
Thank you.

340
00:36:57,270 --> 00:36:58,270
Thank you.

341
00:36:58,270 --> 00:36:59,270
I think that's going to be better.

342
00:36:59,270 --> 00:37:00,270
We really want to hear from you.

343
00:37:00,270 --> 00:37:01,270
We're going to try to talk as little as possible and have our

344
00:37:01,270 --> 00:37:02,270
neighbors be the ones who are talking as much as possible.

345
00:37:02,270 --> 00:37:03,270
Sorry, it's hard for me to see the screen.

346
00:37:03,270 --> 00:37:04,270
You can read the question, of course, for me.

347
00:37:04,270 --> 00:37:05,270
Thanks.

348
00:37:05,270 --> 00:37:06,270
Thank you.

349
00:37:06,270 --> 00:37:07,270
Sorry about that.

350
00:37:07,270 --> 00:37:11,840
So the first question we'd like to go over is around fire, safety and

351
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:12,840
prevention.

352
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,840
So we'd love to hear from the three neighborhood districts.

353
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,840
Questions, ideas, perspectives, that each of your own neighborhood

354
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,840
districts have around fire, safety and prevention,

355
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,840
such as what actions would you like the city to consider?

356
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,840
What additional support or resources would help you feel more prepared?

357
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,840
So we have a mic right there next to Southeast Bend.

358
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:30,840
If you want to take it off.

359
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,840
There's no one.

360
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:32,840
We're just going to have a discussion.

361
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:33,840
So tell us your thoughts.

362
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:34,840
Okay, great.

363
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:35,840
So there we can hear you.

364
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:36,840
It's good.

365
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,840
All right.

366
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,840
So just, um, I'm going to ask you to take a moment to

367
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,840
talk about the safety and prevention of the city.

368
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,840
So I'm going to ask you to take a moment to talk about the

369
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,840
safety and prevention of the city.

370
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,840
So I'm going to ask you to take a moment to talk about the safety and

371
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,840
prevention of the city.

372
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,840
And then we'll go over to the next speaker.

373
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,840
So we'll go over to the next speaker.

374
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,840
Okay. So we're just talking about.

375
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,840
So I think one of the issues that for questions that's come up

376
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,840
concerns maybe around that.

377
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:00,840
It's just.

378
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,840
You know, if there is an event.

379
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,840
How do we manage that as we just have, you know, not go just there.

380
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:10,840
So.

381
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,840
What can we do as we think about that,

382
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,840
or maybe you could let us know what you're thinking about.

383
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:14,840
Yeah.

384
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,840
All right.

385
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,840
So the first thing we've been talking about is like,

386
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,840
what would be helpful to hear from the city?

387
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,840
Not necessarily what the answer a question, but.

388
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,840
What kind of information do you think people want to know about evacuation

389
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,840
routes for.

390
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:28,840
You know, about the fire response.

391
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,840
Things like that. I mean, if your neighbors,

392
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,840
if you were expecting to your neighbors,

393
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,840
what do you think they would want to know?

394
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,840
As far as what we need the city should be providing.

395
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,840
I think it's exactly that.

396
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,840
Just number one in awareness, like appreciation.

397
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,840
What's happening and where.

398
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,600
You had a couple of calvary ranch with China hat road

399
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,600
and just that concern about fire and our precious waters.

400
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,560
So just an appreciation of the warriors

401
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,560
that you already have about that

402
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,560
and that you're thinking ahead

403
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,280
so that like you said, around evacuation routes

404
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,680
and planning for that.

405
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,160
Because I think sometimes it feels like

406
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,160
the planning happens in isolation.

407
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:07,680
Just looking at that big picture

408
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,680
and that you've got that coming for us.

409
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,440
Jim, do you have anything to add from some of these neighbors?

410
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,080
Especially we've been really trying to help people

411
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,680
prepare their own property.

412
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,400
So anything you think that would be helpful

413
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,080
for your neighborhood and the city can do

414
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,920
to help people be aware of it,

415
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,960
prepare their own property to be wildfire safe.

416
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,880
And that's a good thing I believe.

417
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,000
I guess the other thing I've heard

418
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,880
from people in Southeast area,

419
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,640
also people south of Knott Road,

420
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,480
that they're not in the city,

421
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,360
is the cost of home hazard insurance.

422
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,680
And there's a big here that Calvary Ranch

423
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,360
is gonna cause an increase in home insurance rates.

424
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,600
Which means that all the homeowners end up paying a lot more.

425
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,880
For example, my home insurance

426
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,840
integrated more than doubles in the last year.

427
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,560
And they go higher next year.

428
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,440
So that's kind of a big concern.

429
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,920
Yeah, that's an addition to what Sarah's also mentioned.

430
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:05,920
Thank you.

431
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,840
If you wanna pass the mic this way

432
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,600
and we can come to large spur.

433
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,840
And just to reiterate something that

434
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,120
I've heard of this Brian Orus said

435
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,920
that we council didn't just direct staff

436
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,600
to adopt the R237 code, which is the home hardening code.

437
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,480
And one of the benefits that potentially is

438
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:22,960
maybe some insurance savings.

439
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,160
We know where it is building in those materials.

440
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,280
I was just saying that's one of the things

441
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,600
I really appreciate.

442
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,880
So I feel that those are adopted.

443
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,640
However, that doesn't help us more

444
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,120
than the system database, right?

445
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,200
So that's what they've been for me

446
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:38,280
having resource pages.

447
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,880
And I mentioned this in a lot of other stuff,

448
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,480
but I know there's free inspections in the same form.

449
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:45,520
So that's great.

450
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:46,360
And then where you're beginning

451
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,840
to turn your own contractors

452
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:48,860
to be might be not being

453
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:51,080
to be something similar with upgrades.

454
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,960
I would also like to see some support

455
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,240
for maybe neighborhood cleanups or events.

456
00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:59,840
How can we actually get including this stuff out

457
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,120
through the happy and so on community.

458
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,320
I know there's free,

459
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,600
you can take a vegetation with dump on certain days,

460
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,800
but not everything has to be able to transport it.

461
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,080
There's other options that you might be able to use

462
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,360
and have those as a indicator.

463
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,800
And then evacuation routes,

464
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,600
that's great, I know that you guys are getting

465
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,720
to come and leave your software for that.

466
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,800
So to that, and maybe a way for people

467
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,400
that can't evacuate from stuff

468
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,480
that really need extra help and to have that

469
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,440
and some kind of thing that neighborhood districts

470
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,760
who have access to, so you know who those neighbors are

471
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,840
that would actually help if there's the big event.

472
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:34,680
Thank you for that.

473
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,000
And I'm going to take the opportunity

474
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,280
to plug for the shoots alerts.

475
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:39,720
Everyone in this room should be signed up

476
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:40,960
for accounting to shoots alerts

477
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,200
and you can actually indicate things like disability

478
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,920
or other things on that so that people know

479
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,120
that's something that's going on here in house.

480
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,040
Right, other things that we can do to help your neighborhood

481
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,600
feel prepared for Wildfire?

482
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,560
I was part of the brainstorming session

483
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,760
at the Wildfire preparedness session we had recently.

484
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:04,000
And one of the things, a couple of things

485
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,880
that come to mind is with a variety of income levels

486
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,840
of people we have in our neighborhoods,

487
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:17,280
they're people that have black physical ability

488
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,360
to do their own remediation projects.

489
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,520
There's financial constraints.

490
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,920
People don't have a way to haul their materials

491
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,360
or don't have the funds to pay for the total.

492
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,720
And I did a little spreadsheet

493
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:40,720
that showed what their needs based on their abilities

494
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,200
and financial position would be.

495
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,480
And I don't know if the city would be in a position

496
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,480
to subsidize some of those that are lacking resources.

497
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,440
And one of the options I listed

498
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:03,040
was the possibility of, it would be basically

499
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,640
a kind of a loan program where the city could set up

500
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,920
an application process and if they fell into

501
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,840
a certain bracket, either physical inability

502
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,840
or funds availability, the city could conduct

503
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:27,080
with remediation teams to come out and help

504
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,280
or get their properties correct.

505
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,560
And then we do that to pay back what we're timing on

506
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,400
as a utility, add on to their utility bills

507
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,680
or what have you, but it's not a brainstorming

508
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,140
ways to help people.

509
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,400
And also in labor, it's helping laborers.

510
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,760
I do that myself, so I've got a pat on my back

511
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,760
but I'm physically able to stay out.

512
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,160
So I don't have any problem even then.

513
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,680
I have some resources to help some.

514
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:01,520
Okay, yes.

515
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:03,600
I'm looking at the past and I've heard about the

516
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,160
public funding, it's a new one here

517
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:06,800
in the fire-wise community,

518
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,240
the local city-based communities.

519
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:10,600
That's going right to you, the dirt.

520
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,280
So for the same question to you about how we can help them.

521
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,720
Could be sure, Jocelyn, you said

522
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,880
significant areas of growing space, very large trees,

523
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,640
which is educating, developments can be built

524
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,480
in the local space and the,

525
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,320
but we produce a lot of fire.

526
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,120
That, I just got a number of words from our

527
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,840
1780 yards since February 2nd.

528
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,840
So last year, we got rid of about 450 pounds of material.

529
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,320
We created a, we became fire-wise community.

530
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,280
We had a volunteer committee and one of our board members is

531
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,240
where we acted with Melissa Steele and a lot of the other

532
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:57,080
resources, the city and county and state.

533
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,000
We got certified on a number of different trainings.

534
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,520
There's a lot of available information in help

535
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,760
for communities that want to organize and fight.

536
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,160
One of the things that we wanted to ask the city about

537
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,360
was in areas like Culvera Ranch, where,

538
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,840
I'm not going to put a piece in the presentation,

539
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,360
there is an affordability,

540
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,160
they're trying to build a new neighborhoods.

541
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,040
That has been zoned as far as,

542
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,120
which one was five foot setbacks,

543
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,920
that seems on the edge of town,

544
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,240
did not be the best idea of fire safety.

545
00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:41,570
As an example on the west side of town,

546
00:45:41,570 --> 00:45:45,690
the last, I think I've heard a lot of that,

547
00:45:46,090 --> 00:45:47,770
the west side of the city was,

548
00:45:47,770 --> 00:45:51,370
I think it was never in West, yeah, perhaps.

549
00:45:51,370 --> 00:45:54,970
It was on RL and they had much bigger lots,

550
00:45:54,970 --> 00:45:57,170
some of it was hard to afford them.

551
00:45:57,170 --> 00:46:00,050
We're just curious, as we start to develop

552
00:46:00,050 --> 00:46:00,890
on the edge of town,

553
00:46:00,890 --> 00:46:02,650
should those things be considered?

554
00:46:03,770 --> 00:46:05,210
Thanks for that question.

555
00:46:05,210 --> 00:46:07,090
Rossard, here, anything else you want to add to the poll,

556
00:46:07,090 --> 00:46:08,930
for the matter of question?

557
00:46:08,930 --> 00:46:10,210
We're just asking.

558
00:46:10,210 --> 00:46:13,890
Well, you're the AO and you're doing something else to say.

559
00:46:13,890 --> 00:46:15,410
Okay, I mean, I have a,

560
00:46:16,010 --> 00:46:18,490
yeah, I'm gonna reflect back on some of the,

561
00:46:18,490 --> 00:46:20,690
starting with Sarah and also anything else

562
00:46:20,690 --> 00:46:23,050
you want to add on the after hearing?

563
00:46:23,050 --> 00:46:24,330
No, we're good, okay.

564
00:46:25,690 --> 00:46:28,490
Thinking about evacuation routes and awareness for people,

565
00:46:28,490 --> 00:46:30,170
thinking about communicating with people

566
00:46:30,170 --> 00:46:31,770
and things like health and our language

567
00:46:31,770 --> 00:46:33,850
and how we're incorporating fire safety

568
00:46:33,850 --> 00:46:36,570
into those types of clinics for the employees.

569
00:46:36,570 --> 00:46:38,970
Concerned about insurance and how that is affected

570
00:46:38,970 --> 00:46:40,650
by how we build our town

571
00:46:40,650 --> 00:46:42,570
and how we prepare our town like this.

572
00:46:43,250 --> 00:46:45,410
And then resource pages and administrative,

573
00:46:45,410 --> 00:46:47,450
and I just thought I'd be talking about

574
00:46:47,450 --> 00:46:50,010
pages where people can find resources

575
00:46:50,010 --> 00:46:52,850
that they can then hire to make their,

576
00:46:52,850 --> 00:46:54,890
okay, to make their property.

577
00:46:54,890 --> 00:46:56,730
Or build the materials.

578
00:46:56,730 --> 00:46:59,410
Okay, but the events in the business

579
00:46:59,410 --> 00:47:02,010
and we encourage people to help the neighbors.

580
00:47:02,010 --> 00:47:04,170
And maybe I want to reflect that in the back a little bit.

581
00:47:04,170 --> 00:47:05,890
Maybe I'll start back a little further.

582
00:47:05,890 --> 00:47:09,690
If we're talking about how we can help the neighbors,

583
00:47:09,690 --> 00:47:12,450
what kind of families can the neighborhood districts,

584
00:47:13,290 --> 00:47:14,490
what projects the neighborhood districts can play in that

585
00:47:14,490 --> 00:47:16,930
and then how can the city support that as well?

586
00:47:18,130 --> 00:47:20,050
Well, I'll keep the mic up to the many ones,

587
00:47:20,050 --> 00:47:24,290
but I would say all of your committees,

588
00:47:24,290 --> 00:47:25,570
the neighborhoods, the district,

589
00:47:25,570 --> 00:47:27,970
you can kind of help organize those things.

590
00:47:29,130 --> 00:47:31,170
Make use of all the available resources

591
00:47:31,170 --> 00:47:34,090
that are already out there for grant money.

592
00:47:34,090 --> 00:47:36,010
As far as that's available,

593
00:47:36,010 --> 00:47:39,090
if you look for it, you can organize groups of people

594
00:47:39,090 --> 00:47:40,690
that can go get that money.

595
00:47:41,690 --> 00:47:45,130
Again, in my HOA, we have a lot of volunteer help

596
00:47:45,130 --> 00:47:49,610
that helps other elderly that can't do their own thing up.

597
00:47:49,610 --> 00:47:51,610
Or we get free assessments

598
00:47:51,610 --> 00:47:55,210
and we put Melissa Steele on some of those assessments too

599
00:47:55,210 --> 00:47:57,810
where people can find out if they have a risk.

600
00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,370
Okay, you're passing the mic this way.

601
00:48:02,370 --> 00:48:03,530
Does anyone in the audience have one

602
00:48:03,530 --> 00:48:06,370
of those wildfire assessments from Melissa Steele?

603
00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:08,210
A few, okay, great.

604
00:48:08,770 --> 00:48:13,090
Do you have any other ideas around how we have

605
00:48:13,090 --> 00:48:14,810
any other districts could help with the standards

606
00:48:14,810 --> 00:48:17,810
and how the city could help with that as well?

607
00:48:18,930 --> 00:48:20,930
This one thought is that

608
00:48:20,930 --> 00:48:23,890
the firester doesn't have a lot of HOA,

609
00:48:23,890 --> 00:48:25,610
so we might need to make sure the place has,

610
00:48:25,610 --> 00:48:27,810
but that makes it hard to find kind of the common

611
00:48:27,810 --> 00:48:30,850
defined space that other people can get.

612
00:48:30,850 --> 00:48:31,690
Great point.

613
00:48:39,570 --> 00:48:42,010
I'll call the question to the answer

614
00:48:42,010 --> 00:48:44,850
because basically Southeast Bend is an anchor right now.

615
00:48:44,850 --> 00:48:47,090
But it's so common.

616
00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:48,930
We're kind of in line here right now

617
00:48:48,930 --> 00:48:51,130
due to recognition, several board members.

618
00:48:51,130 --> 00:48:54,970
So it's very difficult for us to do a lot of stuff right now.

619
00:48:54,970 --> 00:48:57,370
In fact, I'm the only board member right now.

620
00:48:57,370 --> 00:48:58,970
So we'll call the technical gaps,

621
00:48:58,970 --> 00:49:00,410
maybe Sarah's got some ideas.

622
00:49:00,410 --> 00:49:02,930
Well, I'm very interested in helping people get a board

623
00:49:02,930 --> 00:49:06,410
and refer to the board and get that going

624
00:49:06,410 --> 00:49:08,610
and then maybe you can help us out.

625
00:49:08,610 --> 00:49:09,610
Sarah, you agree?

626
00:49:10,610 --> 00:49:11,690
I wouldn't agree with that.

627
00:49:11,690 --> 00:49:12,530
Yeah.

628
00:49:13,490 --> 00:49:14,610
All right.

629
00:49:14,610 --> 00:49:17,130
All right, so I want to open it to Council.

630
00:49:17,130 --> 00:49:18,730
I'm not here.

631
00:49:18,730 --> 00:49:20,290
Yeah, but I think we finished my sentence.

632
00:49:20,290 --> 00:49:21,530
I was going to bring it back to you.

633
00:49:21,530 --> 00:49:23,090
So there you go.

634
00:49:23,090 --> 00:49:24,930
Yeah, and I want to, I'm going to be sure

635
00:49:24,930 --> 00:49:25,930
we have a time for everyone to talk,

636
00:49:25,930 --> 00:49:27,210
but before we close out this topic,

637
00:49:27,210 --> 00:49:28,730
I wanted to ask Councillors if there's anything you wanted

638
00:49:28,730 --> 00:49:31,770
to add or questions or anything else.

639
00:49:31,770 --> 00:49:33,930
I just want to make that one for Southeast.

640
00:49:33,930 --> 00:49:36,490
I'm the Council liaison to Southeast Endere Farm.

641
00:49:36,490 --> 00:49:39,130
And I think we would like to see,

642
00:49:39,130 --> 00:49:41,410
as it is, you know, some more activity down here

643
00:49:41,410 --> 00:49:44,090
and more ability to organize and, you know,

644
00:49:44,090 --> 00:49:46,250
dress together some of the things we talked about tonight,

645
00:49:46,250 --> 00:49:49,690
but it's going to take a few people that will be willing

646
00:49:49,690 --> 00:49:51,650
to step up and maybe get a little bit more involved

647
00:49:51,650 --> 00:49:52,570
in that neighborhood district.

648
00:49:52,570 --> 00:49:54,010
So if anyone's interested in that,

649
00:49:54,010 --> 00:49:57,010
and I encourage you to talk to both Sarah and Jim,

650
00:49:57,010 --> 00:49:59,850
or myself as well, just so we can start to collect some names

651
00:49:59,850 --> 00:50:01,810
and try to generate some interest there.

652
00:50:01,810 --> 00:50:03,650
I would like to give an observation,

653
00:50:03,650 --> 00:50:04,850
having lived on the west side,

654
00:50:04,850 --> 00:50:06,370
I live on the west side of town,

655
00:50:07,130 --> 00:50:09,130
and while it's not an apples to apples comparison

656
00:50:09,130 --> 00:50:11,530
between my part of town and your part of town,

657
00:50:11,530 --> 00:50:14,010
I do think that there already is, to some extent,

658
00:50:14,010 --> 00:50:16,730
a bit of a buffer with the development that happens.

659
00:50:16,730 --> 00:50:19,610
It's just outside, for example, of Caldera Ranch.

660
00:50:19,610 --> 00:50:21,010
That didn't exist on the west side.

661
00:50:21,010 --> 00:50:22,530
It was pretty much raw land over there.

662
00:50:22,530 --> 00:50:24,210
And so there was a big effort to say,

663
00:50:24,210 --> 00:50:27,650
how do we organize that transition between very lengths

664
00:50:27,650 --> 00:50:29,650
to less dense to less dense,

665
00:50:29,650 --> 00:50:31,890
to no development in the actual forest?

666
00:50:31,890 --> 00:50:34,010
And when I drive around down here,

667
00:50:34,010 --> 00:50:35,690
and when I look at the maps,

668
00:50:35,930 --> 00:50:38,930
I see that transition already existing.

669
00:50:38,930 --> 00:50:42,570
So I think some of that buffer already exists.

670
00:50:42,570 --> 00:50:44,810
It's not to say that we don't need to think about that

671
00:50:44,810 --> 00:50:47,010
going forward, but I do think some of that

672
00:50:47,010 --> 00:50:48,770
already exists in that spot.

673
00:50:48,770 --> 00:50:50,450
Yeah, and if we can pass the mic back to us,

674
00:50:50,450 --> 00:50:52,570
because I'm gonna start both of them next month.

675
00:50:52,570 --> 00:50:54,170
Some of that too is working with our rural fire

676
00:50:54,170 --> 00:50:56,490
just to partners for the folks who are outside the city

677
00:50:56,490 --> 00:50:57,890
to help them make sure they're prepared

678
00:50:57,890 --> 00:51:00,370
and have the services they need as well.

679
00:51:00,370 --> 00:51:02,250
All right, and how do Council comments before

680
00:51:02,250 --> 00:51:03,770
we move on to the next one?

681
00:51:03,770 --> 00:51:06,690
Okay, so our next question,

682
00:51:06,690 --> 00:51:09,130
which I hope is appearing on the screen,

683
00:51:09,130 --> 00:51:12,850
is around that sort of growth infrastructure,

684
00:51:12,850 --> 00:51:15,210
all those things that Brian and I were talking about.

685
00:51:15,210 --> 00:51:17,210
And so we would love to hear your perspectives

686
00:51:17,210 --> 00:51:21,370
and ideas and questions around growth and development.

687
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:23,410
But specifically, some things we'd like to hear about

688
00:51:23,410 --> 00:51:25,650
are what types of commercial amenities

689
00:51:25,650 --> 00:51:27,130
would you like to see added?

690
00:51:27,130 --> 00:51:28,650
What are those types of commercial nodes

691
00:51:28,650 --> 00:51:31,050
that you wanna have with neighborhoods?

692
00:51:31,050 --> 00:51:32,690
What are those specific kinds of changes

693
00:51:32,690 --> 00:51:35,210
to our streets and sidewalks that would make you feel safer

694
00:51:35,210 --> 00:51:38,410
when you're traveling, including when you work or school?

695
00:51:38,410 --> 00:51:42,010
And what types of open spaces, parks and recreation opportunities

696
00:51:42,010 --> 00:51:43,290
would you like to see here being your bed?

697
00:51:43,290 --> 00:51:45,970
As to the stately one of the parks and rec board,

698
00:51:45,970 --> 00:51:48,210
what were close to if anyone wanted to hear from you

699
00:51:48,210 --> 00:51:49,730
about the new homes back from Venice

700
00:51:49,730 --> 00:51:50,930
that you met as well?

701
00:51:50,930 --> 00:51:57,800
So we'll throw you over to Old Farm to start.

702
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,160
Well, I'm open that the stations will gather

703
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,480
a lot of information about what kinds of specific

704
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,360
commercial development that folks want.

705
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,760
We did do a survey and sent some questions out

706
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,480
for folks about what was most important

707
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,120
and we didn't ask specifically about whether or not,

708
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,760
what kind of commercial they wanted,

709
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,520
but I'm hoping that you'll be able to gather

710
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,800
some of that information at the stations.

711
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,640
We are very curious and hopeful about preserving

712
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,800
the space and the passage of HB 4037

713
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,720
is doing, we're very excited about that.

714
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:32,880
Thank you for logging in for that.

715
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,960
We're curious when we might see some of that

716
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,360
being reclaimed in the south end, southeast area.

717
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,120
In terms of other things to make the roads safer,

718
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,000
everyone's concerned obviously about congestion

719
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,200
but already have a lot of congestion

720
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,280
in the south and east end as well.

721
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,200
Or so we build an analysis close down roads

722
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:52,880
through in the past.

723
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,920
But what can the city do to kind of

724
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,480
improve some of the transportation

725
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,320
arteries that exist in the southeast?

726
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:09,840
That's one question.

727
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,760
Also, I mean, if you talk about cyclops,

728
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,760
these people, I don't know if this is possible or

729
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:22,440
enforcement of kids riding bicycles on the sidewalk

730
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:23,520
going the wrong direction.

731
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,600
I mean, you look at one direction as you get ready

732
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:26,800
to pull into the intersection,

733
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,280
it runs in front of you on an electric bicycle

734
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,640
with no helmet going all the way.

735
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:34,480
And it's not just kids.

736
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:35,320
I mean, there's a lot of people

737
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:36,760
who actually don't follow the rules

738
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,280
and are more enforcement.

739
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,320
That's a saving issue.

740
00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:43,000
Anything else, Ross?

741
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Yeah, a few things.

742
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,400
With the commercial that has already been converted,

743
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:49,960
thanks.

744
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,680
With the commercial that's already been converted,

745
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,240
I think it's great that you guys are working

746
00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:54,960
to basically restore that.

747
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,440
I don't know exactly how that's going to work

748
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,720
when you're stealing from here to pay Paul

749
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:01,720
kind of a situation or whatever it happens to be.

750
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:03,800
And I don't really wanna see 20%

751
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,160
of all of our commercial plan

752
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,600
by the city planning department

753
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,440
converted to affordable housing.

754
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,000
I would rather be an actual complete community,

755
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,160
be completely planned,

756
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,040
that includes affordable housing in that plan.

757
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,600
But I understand there might be some state laws

758
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,960
that prevent that from happening,

759
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:22,920
which is unfortunate.

760
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:24,680
Hopefully we continue to push for that

761
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,000
to improve over time.

762
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,760
I'd also like to see some incentives given

763
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,520
to help push commercial land

764
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,000
to actually be developed in the Southeast end.

765
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,280
It is lacking and it's just kind of widely accepted

766
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,160
that it just gets built out like 10 years later.

767
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:42,960
Whatever the city can do,

768
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,240
whether they're reduction STCs or tax breaks,

769
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,440
whatever happens to be to get that incentives in place

770
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,360
to get the commercial built out,

771
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,080
I think would be something great to learn as well.

772
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:55,920
Thanks, Ross.

773
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,200
I'm gonna ask a follow-up question

774
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,280
on incentives for commercial.

775
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:00,720
And that was sort of what we were getting at

776
00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:01,720
what type of commercial,

777
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:03,880
because we don't want to incentivize just anything.

778
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,000
We want to incentivize what's gonna be really good

779
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:06,840
for the neighborhood,

780
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,800
it's gonna build communities, it's gonna be in place.

781
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,480
So if you have any ideas,

782
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,280
like if you were to incentivize certain types

783
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:16,270
of people to come up with those fee.

784
00:55:16,270 --> 00:55:19,270
Oh no, that context is important.

785
00:55:21,980 --> 00:55:24,020
Well, again, I hope you're gonna get some of that idea.

786
00:55:24,020 --> 00:55:24,860
I hope.

787
00:55:24,860 --> 00:55:27,460
I'm looking for the room grocery store.

788
00:55:27,460 --> 00:55:30,460
Yeah, I think you can just say it grocery store.

789
00:55:30,460 --> 00:55:32,140
We don't have so much money.

790
00:55:32,140 --> 00:55:33,620
We don't have time.

791
00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:36,300
We're not gonna get those amenities.

792
00:55:36,300 --> 00:55:39,060
But we're happy to do another survey to the South Coast

793
00:55:39,060 --> 00:55:42,540
to see what kind of specific people it's going to be.

794
00:55:42,540 --> 00:55:44,100
Yeah, we would love to have that information.

795
00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:46,020
We'll pass the magnet so we can ask rather than your friends.

796
00:55:46,020 --> 00:55:49,780
Just because if we are considering what kind of incentives

797
00:55:49,780 --> 00:55:50,820
we need to do, we wanna make sure

798
00:55:50,820 --> 00:55:52,380
we're targeting correctly, right.

799
00:55:52,380 --> 00:55:53,620
So, all right.

800
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:57,100
Well, I'm giving you an example.

801
00:55:57,100 --> 00:55:59,020
We went through this with Wildflower.

802
00:55:59,020 --> 00:56:04,540
There was 6 acres of any zone.

803
00:56:04,540 --> 00:56:08,020
Land and that development and.

804
00:56:08,020 --> 00:56:11,500
And developer.

805
00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:20,500
Present it to the city that because of the geography, the photography of the property.

806
00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:24,860
It wasn't really sustained that much commercial.

807
00:56:24,940 --> 00:56:33,140
So it would drop down to what the net result is about usable is about a half an acre.

808
00:56:33,140 --> 00:56:40,380
And that development started at 571 units and is a drop since to 538.

809
00:56:40,380 --> 00:56:44,460
And it's all rentals. So that many units.

810
00:56:44,460 --> 00:56:51,460
I could see as an example, what commercial well, how about a daycare center?

811
00:56:51,460 --> 00:56:57,100
How about a combination bakery deli?

812
00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:05,100
How about a little light shop or repair shop or people are trying to promote writing bikes more?

813
00:57:05,100 --> 00:57:12,900
There's if we get even a third of those people writing bikes is 538 units.

814
00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:16,020
Yes, there's two cards per unit.

815
00:57:16,020 --> 00:57:18,260
The traffic is coming out of that.

816
00:57:18,260 --> 00:57:25,780
So, we don't need commercial.

817
00:57:25,780 --> 00:57:32,660
Buildings like, I mean, now further southeast, I can see a safe way or other center.

818
00:57:32,660 --> 00:57:41,700
A grocery or someplace like that, but little markets expressway down that the corner of remarking 15.

819
00:57:41,700 --> 00:57:46,220
Something maybe bigger than that could have gone in there.

820
00:57:46,220 --> 00:57:52,820
But yeah, the city goal of having these complete complete communities.

821
00:57:52,820 --> 00:57:59,820
That hasn't been attained yet. So that's what we need to focus on. I think.

822
00:57:59,820 --> 00:58:15,060
I think there's like three different things. So I think just heard a lot of really good information about what kind of commercial identities changes the street sidewalks would make you feel safer traveling to work or school.

823
00:58:15,060 --> 00:58:19,260
And what types of open spaces and opportunities you must as well.

824
00:58:19,260 --> 00:58:20,860
Open space.

825
00:58:20,860 --> 00:58:27,500
Okay. To continue kind of on the theme of commercial. I was in discovery west this morning and I went into the little corners.

826
00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:31,820
You're going to like, oh my gosh, this is what we need more of that.

827
00:58:31,820 --> 00:58:36,300
I really like what's happening with housing that has a lot of that kind of corner store.

828
00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:42,860
Plus some of those other businesses gathering places that we can go there that you can walk or to.

829
00:58:42,860 --> 00:58:47,820
So seeing more things like that would be really, really nice.

830
00:58:47,820 --> 00:58:52,380
Also for advocating, listening, advocating for how to use legislative changes.

831
00:58:52,380 --> 00:58:55,620
Making such a must and making huge commitments.

832
00:58:55,620 --> 00:58:59,420
I would like to see also more corner stores and businesses.

833
00:58:59,420 --> 00:59:07,500
And I know that then some kind of talk about that where you just take one house or something on the street and that gets turned into some kind of community business.

834
00:59:07,500 --> 00:59:09,380
So that would help those existing neighborhoods.

835
00:59:09,380 --> 00:59:11,700
And my big concern is not necessarily.

836
00:59:11,700 --> 00:59:14,860
It is with the new ones and having crews put down.

837
00:59:14,860 --> 00:59:19,980
But those amenities in those existing neighborhoods and how we start building those in work.

838
00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:27,620
As far as getting to those places like everything new is so great with all the transportation and trails and parks and everything.

839
00:59:27,620 --> 00:59:39,420
But existing neighborhoods, how do we get to those new resources and trying to fill in those gaps between the trails or between these big projects that you're doing?

840
00:59:39,420 --> 00:59:45,100
I would love to see more education and enforcement for everybody.

841
00:59:45,100 --> 00:59:47,340
Beyond just like kids on the bikes going the wrong way.

842
00:59:47,340 --> 00:59:50,540
Cars do not stop when people stand in the street corners.

843
00:59:50,540 --> 00:59:53,860
Like there is so little education and understanding of that.

844
00:59:53,860 --> 00:59:56,820
I would like to see more education be great.

845
00:59:56,820 --> 00:59:58,340
But it's forced that sucker.

846
00:59:58,340 --> 01:00:00,900
Some people get pulled over from doing stuff like that.

847
01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:03,100
They're going to start paying attention.

848
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:04,940
So I would love to see that.

849
01:00:04,940 --> 01:00:08,020
And then I was just overarching.

850
01:00:08,020 --> 01:00:09,020
And I think that's a huge question.

851
01:00:09,020 --> 01:00:14,020
But how can we make transportation improvements faster, especially faster?

852
01:00:14,020 --> 01:00:21,060
It's causes so much disruption to have things shut down and really, really worried about the new market and construction.

853
01:00:21,060 --> 01:00:22,060
Because it's already bad.

854
01:00:22,060 --> 01:00:24,100
Like I take a little similar alternative and that hard.

855
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:27,140
You can see two or three light cycles across.

856
01:00:27,140 --> 01:00:30,340
And so I just that's my way to work.

857
01:00:30,340 --> 01:00:33,340
Very worried about that and how we can make it more cost effective.

858
01:00:33,340 --> 01:00:38,580
Because I know part of it we all talk about is using the market to do that railroad crossing

859
01:00:38,580 --> 01:00:39,980
for is because it was really expensive.

860
01:00:39,980 --> 01:00:44,340
It will help me try to make things faster, more efficient, more cost effective.

861
01:00:44,340 --> 01:00:47,740
So that we get more money to the buck and it does move less disruption.

862
01:00:47,740 --> 01:00:48,740
Great.

863
01:00:48,740 --> 01:00:53,360
Yeah.

864
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:58,200
I just add, I'm being concerned with the remark of COVID pass.

865
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:02,120
You know, that's going to force a lot of traffic on alternate roads.

866
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:11,760
And it would be nice to have some sort of, I guess, information about, you know, how to get around the city quicker.

867
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:19,520
Instead of getting in situations where six lights get through, I've had that on the street already.

868
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:28,440
Maybe, I don't know, maybe a website or something like that, you know, but it would also require, you know, having basic traffic counters

869
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:35,800
at all of the roads around the market like Wilson, Murphy and Knott Road.

870
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,800
So I think that might be a good thing to do for the people who don't help them out.

871
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:41,800
I know it's going to be a huge disruption.

872
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:46,120
This remark is such a big matrix that we'll do.

873
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:51,640
And secondly, yes, what kind of businesses do we want?

874
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:57,000
You know, a market, you know, we had a situation on Murphy and Rostron House where people

875
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,480
wanted a gas station and we didn't want it.

876
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:10,440
But, you know, we could arrange it so that we could like market a daycare center, a bakery, a restaurant, you know, things like that, that wouldn't be so auto dependent.

877
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,040
I think that would be a good thing.

878
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:18,760
I think that would be very much appreciated for the Southeastern community. Thank you.

879
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:20,120
Sarah, what else can you add?

880
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:26,120
One last add to that, because so many great ideas were raised and so much consistency ideas, I think.

881
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:33,320
The only thing I was going to add is just on that, you know, Rostron House being 35 miles per hour and Murphy being 35.

882
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,400
And then there's that school zone that is very small somehow, right in the middle of life.

883
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,920
So as a neighbor, it seems very hard to figure out how to change that.

884
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:42,680
There's so many parties involved in that.

885
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:47,720
But I know just in Kansas City in the neighborhood that there's a lot of support for that.

886
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:53,640
So I don't know how we can show that support, get behind you and do that or take more action around making that happen.

887
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:55,720
But it's just there.

888
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,720
Great, great perspective.

889
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:05,800
And I think a couple of things that I'll add around the speed of the school zones and speed in general, that's something that we're looking at within our streets.

890
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:10,120
So we're going to be working on this year and we're going to be writing the community to give feedback as well.

891
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:11,400
It's how do we change our standards?

892
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:17,000
So we're designing roads for slower speeds going forward and then how to be perhaps look at retrofitting current roads,

893
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:20,440
super new speeds as well as an overall safety measure.

894
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:25,400
But really good information hearing a lot of good listing out of different commercial amenities.

895
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:33,240
A lot of you around, you know, essential services like daycare or food, like deli market, you know, coffee shop, those type of things.

896
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:39,000
And I really like to thank you for folks to make sure that we're supporting that as well.

897
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:45,240
And then hearing a lot around concerns around and I heard this from folks I was talking to before too,

898
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:49,160
around that closure of the Green Market Bridge and just really having good communication around that.

899
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,120
Thinking about how to lessen that impact as much as possible.

900
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:57,080
Thinking about how the construction is also an impact and congestion in this side of town.

901
01:03:57,080 --> 01:04:02,760
Thinking about how we're educating people on bikes and cars and also enforcing the rules of the road.

902
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:04,520
So to make everyone safer.

903
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:10,360
And then the idea that someone mentioned sort of trail maps or even sidewalk apps that might need to be filled in and exist overheads.

904
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:16,920
So any other thoughts on this topic before we monitor any council comments around that?

905
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,920
Yes, it's really, really helpful information.

906
01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:21,800
I'm hearing a lot of especially when we said big rebellion.

907
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,000
Yes.

908
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:23,800
Oh, yes.

909
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,840
So that's really helpful as well.

910
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:35,480
I did want to dig in maybe a little bit on the open spaces and I just want to, I'm just going to brag and say I think Alp and Blow is the best park we've met.

911
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,080
And I'm super excited that it's in our corner of town.

912
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:45,080
I'm wondering if there's any, if anyone wants to just think for a minute, any other kinds of parks or open spaces that you think we need more of?

913
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:46,920
Or do we need more dog parks?

914
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:47,960
Do we need something?

915
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,520
I know some amenities for like kind of bike riding amenities that the parks has done.

916
01:04:52,520 --> 01:05:01,250
Anything else we can gather as far as thinking about open spaces and parks?

917
01:05:01,250 --> 01:05:04,050
There's a lot of amenities for little tiny kids.

918
01:05:04,050 --> 01:05:08,290
You know, my kids have gotten older and they're like, they've gotten going all the way around so we don't go to the park.

919
01:05:08,290 --> 01:05:13,490
So maybe some like teenage or adult like challenge types of things.

920
01:05:13,490 --> 01:05:15,890
I mean, we've got something different.

921
01:05:15,890 --> 01:05:16,530
Yeah.

922
01:05:16,530 --> 01:05:17,650
For older ages.

923
01:05:18,370 --> 01:05:33,990
I'm not a big player to this, but I know I have a lot of neighbors that would actually love pickleball courts.

924
01:05:33,990 --> 01:05:35,990
I know.

925
01:05:35,990 --> 01:05:37,990
There it is.

926
01:05:37,990 --> 01:05:46,470
Just the space trails kind of like the corner trail, archway trail through the southeast.

927
01:05:48,790 --> 01:05:56,550
I have to say that the meat market closes on neighborhood bike down the St. Louis again.

928
01:05:57,430 --> 01:06:02,550
I used to do it all the time, but the traffic there is so bad that it's not safe.

929
01:06:02,550 --> 01:06:03,670
And that's why they're so open.

930
01:06:03,670 --> 01:06:06,630
They have a grocery store called the old market.

931
01:06:06,630 --> 01:06:07,830
Down called the old high school.

932
01:06:08,950 --> 01:06:10,150
Yeah, it is.

933
01:06:11,030 --> 01:06:14,630
I know the city wants people to drive more, but it's scary.

934
01:06:15,430 --> 01:06:17,430
And then it's still, you know, forget it.

935
01:06:18,630 --> 01:06:23,670
But say biking, and it is most important to learn from them.

936
01:06:25,670 --> 01:06:26,150
Thank you.

937
01:06:26,150 --> 01:06:26,630
Thank you.

938
01:06:26,630 --> 01:06:28,630
All right.

939
01:06:28,630 --> 01:06:29,750
Okay.

940
01:06:29,750 --> 01:06:33,750
We still have a bit of time left and so we can get into some other discussion.

941
01:06:33,750 --> 01:06:38,150
I do want to drop off just to hear what else it is you want to share.

942
01:06:38,150 --> 01:06:46,070
And but I do want to ask and I always want to try to ask folks what it is you're excited about that's that's happened or is going to be happening in the southeast area town.

943
01:06:46,870 --> 01:06:49,830
So let's start with that give us something you're excited about and then

944
01:06:50,870 --> 01:06:54,230
feel free to share anything else from your neighborhoods perspective that you want to share with us.

945
01:07:03,460 --> 01:07:07,140
And if you're excited for the week where there's to be done, that's it.

946
01:07:07,140 --> 01:07:07,300
Okay.

947
01:07:09,300 --> 01:07:10,420
I'm actually pretty excited.

948
01:07:10,420 --> 01:07:16,900
I was pretty close to 15th and Ferguson and pretty excited about there being a round about being put in there.

949
01:07:16,900 --> 01:07:19,140
Everybody kind of helped move that up.

950
01:07:19,140 --> 01:07:21,140
Really very much appreciate that.

951
01:07:21,140 --> 01:07:24,580
I also listened to enough noise on 15th from all that traffic.

952
01:07:24,580 --> 01:07:28,100
It will be nice to have that be pretty subtle for free for miles.

953
01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:36,420
I'm excited about some of the traffic improvements that I see on those activities that are coming.

954
01:07:36,420 --> 01:07:37,380
I need one question.

955
01:07:37,380 --> 01:07:41,540
I didn't see any in this presentation about more public transportation.

956
01:07:41,540 --> 01:07:42,500
Yes.

957
01:07:42,500 --> 01:07:44,500
Right now there are more across the south.

958
01:07:44,500 --> 01:07:50,420
That's a tiny question.

959
01:07:50,420 --> 01:07:52,420
We just had a presentation from CET.

960
01:07:53,220 --> 01:07:57,940
Our past case is transit last night and they talked about how to how they're going to be

961
01:07:57,940 --> 01:08:01,460
adjusting some of these southeast routes to get some more frequency for the routes to go down

962
01:08:01,460 --> 01:08:04,180
and remarket so we can easily follow up with you and everything about that.

963
01:08:04,180 --> 01:08:07,300
But we I hear that and we hear that that is something that southeast needs.

964
01:08:08,020 --> 01:08:15,780
I want to congratulate CET for the beautiful bright blue bus seats that they're putting all over.

965
01:08:15,780 --> 01:08:20,820
I think that is a huge improvement and it's a great thing to have.

966
01:08:26,980 --> 01:08:29,860
One thing that hasn't been brought up or they don't want to

967
01:08:31,300 --> 01:08:36,420
give huge kudos to the city for doing this is the flashing lights in the school zones.

968
01:08:37,460 --> 01:08:39,060
That's a huge improvement.

969
01:08:41,700 --> 01:08:46,020
Also the roundabout at 15th and Wilson that was more overview.

970
01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:54,050
More overarching thank you again for helping act on listening, helping act on the commercial

971
01:08:54,690 --> 01:08:56,370
and listening to affordable housing.

972
01:08:59,250 --> 01:09:02,610
I am super excited for the main library to be in the draw area.

973
01:09:03,570 --> 01:09:07,730
And Stevens Ranch in Legacy Village with the commercial and the parks.

974
01:09:11,330 --> 01:09:14,450
I'm excited for the remarket for the price of the

975
01:09:19,250 --> 01:09:23,650
awesome and the affordable housing that's going especially like I know it.

976
01:09:26,530 --> 01:09:29,170
There's a specific teacher affordable housing.

977
01:09:32,610 --> 01:09:42,050
I know I'm very excited about getting the roundabout at Knopf Road and Crimson Club Drive

978
01:09:42,050 --> 01:09:53,730
because I've had the coldest getting on Knopf Road from

979
01:09:53,730 --> 01:09:55,730
the

980
01:09:58,050 --> 01:10:06,290
I'm also like to see the remarket overpass done in such a way that it kind of minimizes

981
01:10:06,290 --> 01:10:11,810
the congestion on other roads. You know, it's such a huge intersection and it's

982
01:10:11,810 --> 01:10:15,570
a big road. So that's a couple of things I'm really excited about.

983
01:10:18,260 --> 01:10:22,980
That's long this already but I guess I'll just settle down on the library. That is incredible.

984
01:10:22,980 --> 01:10:27,460
We've got this large for community centers amazing and health glow and we have a lifelong

985
01:10:27,460 --> 01:10:33,620
person. So I guess the underdogs underappreciated. There's so much happening.

986
01:10:35,140 --> 01:10:39,540
Great. Well, I want to open it up now for counselors. If there are any reflections you

987
01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:43,780
want to have back to our neighborhood members kind of go around. If you can start with you

988
01:10:43,780 --> 01:10:49,700
might see some the microphones down there. Okay, let's come around and I'll pass it

989
01:10:50,500 --> 01:10:54,660
this way and we'll start with you Mario.

990
01:10:55,940 --> 01:10:56,820
Sorry Councilman.

991
01:10:56,820 --> 01:11:03,060
Hey, well thanks everyone. I really enjoy hearing everyone's ideas and everybody brings a different

992
01:11:03,060 --> 01:11:10,820
perspective which is fantastic. This is really what this is all about. So I have three kids.

993
01:11:10,820 --> 01:11:16,500
They all go to school here. A lot of them are not very Greek and now I'm spending time at

994
01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:22,500
High Desert and also Caldera. I love Caldera. I think that they've done a really good job of

995
01:11:22,500 --> 01:11:27,700
basically starting from a clean slate a couple years ago and creating a whole new community.

996
01:11:28,340 --> 01:11:33,620
This is where my kids, their friends, their classmates, they're growing up.

997
01:11:33,620 --> 01:11:40,420
This is their childhood memories and I do hear from a lot of people who don't feel safe

998
01:11:40,420 --> 01:11:44,820
when they can't get to school. There's no school zone at High Desert Middle School.

999
01:11:45,380 --> 01:11:50,260
It's pretty rough if you're a driver and it's downright frightening if you're walking or biking.

1000
01:11:51,220 --> 01:11:58,820
Working with staff within the confines of state requirements is really challenging. So things like

1001
01:11:58,820 --> 01:12:05,220
school zones can only be installed when there is a walking facility and since there's no sidewalks

1002
01:12:05,220 --> 01:12:12,260
on 27 there's no school zone on 27. One of the things that I've been really happy about with

1003
01:12:12,260 --> 01:12:19,140
the library and some of the development nearby is that 27 is becoming more accessible. There's

1004
01:12:19,140 --> 01:12:25,540
a multi-use path that is running up and down almost all of it. Almost all of it and it's up

1005
01:12:25,540 --> 01:12:30,340
to us to make sure that we get those last little segments connected and that's really where the

1006
01:12:30,340 --> 01:12:38,020
rub is. That's the hard part is getting it and a route is only as good as the entire network is.

1007
01:12:38,020 --> 01:12:42,180
So making sure that you cross, making sure that it doesn't disappear into our shoulders,

1008
01:12:42,180 --> 01:12:49,460
something like that. All of that is on our radar. I just want to say also one last thing on transit.

1009
01:12:49,460 --> 01:12:54,340
So we did hear last night from our Cascadesis Transit Executive Director.

1010
01:12:55,300 --> 01:13:02,180
Transit is huge. It's a huge priority. Council gave direction last night to create a working group.

1011
01:13:02,180 --> 01:13:07,780
Councilor Riley is the chair of the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council that oversees

1012
01:13:07,860 --> 01:13:13,860
Cascades Transit. I'm the chair of the Metropolitan Planning Organization which is responsible for

1013
01:13:13,860 --> 01:13:18,820
regional transportation planning. The two of us are going to be spending the next several months

1014
01:13:18,820 --> 01:13:24,740
figuring out what does it mean to have a more bend focused transit system. We have a regional

1015
01:13:24,740 --> 01:13:29,380
transit system. It would be fantastic if the entire region improved but we're not going to

1016
01:13:29,380 --> 01:13:34,820
wait for that. So we're going to figure out in our existing budget what are some of the changes

1017
01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:40,420
that we can make that will improve transit and that means more frequency, more hours.

1018
01:13:41,380 --> 01:13:46,820
So we're going to be working on that and I hope more good things to come. So I'm going to pass it on.

1019
01:13:52,180 --> 01:13:56,740
Great. I just wanted to thank everyone for coming tonight. Just appreciate all the change that

1020
01:13:56,740 --> 01:14:01,220
you wrote that is happening. It's so important that you don't engage with the community and make

1021
01:14:01,220 --> 01:14:05,700
sure that your voices are heard. So we really appreciate you showing up and just keep up the

1022
01:14:06,260 --> 01:14:08,260
end of the neighborhood associations and get involved.

1023
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:20,480
I see five and the thing I want to let you know is I'm an old military guy. I've been tired

1024
01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:25,040
after 25 years in the military. One of the things the military does pretty well is

1025
01:14:26,480 --> 01:14:29,360
most of the time plan for the long term.

1026
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:39,200
I said that was a great place.

1027
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:42,880
You can't even go exactly where I was going.

1028
01:14:47,480 --> 01:14:52,120
As an old flight pilot, the thing that I want to say though and what I want to talk about is

1029
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:59,480
what Brian talked about and what Russ talked about this year which is we're on a long-term plane.

1030
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:07,080
It's informed by the people that require the community at the time that guided some of the

1031
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:11,480
awesome construction and things that happen here in the southeast and also around our city.

1032
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:17,320
We're at the beginning of another one of those times now. We're setting another 20-year plan.

1033
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:23,880
Right now what we're talking about is adding 80% more housing to this city.

1034
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:32,200
For what's right now 80% more that 34,000 more homes 80% from our current stock.

1035
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:41,640
It is going to take folks like yourself, folks like our growing team to smartly consider how

1036
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:48,120
we want to shape that future. I'm going to echo comments from Russ. I appreciate you being here.

1037
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:53,160
I appreciate you walking to these tables and giving your thoughtful inputs to help us shape

1038
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:58,920
that future. That's what we're trying to do and that vision is real world trying to shape

1039
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,880
it tonight. Thank you and please, please, I have all these folks in heads up. Thanks.

1040
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,480
I actually checked in with Bob Townsend. I'm not the member, I think we're the same counselors.

1041
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:21,280
The ones that are casting these transit today with this question about transit because we

1042
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:26,640
kind of knew ahead of time when we were talking about this. I consisted with Councilor Mendez

1043
01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:31,360
that we're going to be looking at how we can improve transit routes going forward with resources

1044
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:35,600
that we do have. We're going to need some additional resources if we really want to make

1045
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:41,280
dramatic improvements. I think while the reintroduction of fares recently has been

1046
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:45,600
difficult for those who rely on the bus regularly, it is going to give us some different additional

1047
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:50,800
revenue to make some incremental changes which I think will be important here and then in other

1048
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:56,000
parts of the region. There is a route now that does serve 15th Street just called the

1049
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,920
Air and Ice School. Unfortunately, it is a 45 minute headway which means that's how frequently

1050
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:04,160
the bus comes and you do have to go back to Hawthorne Station before you can get

1051
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:08,880
out to the hospital. That's an example of some of the kinds of changes we hope to make in the

1052
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:13,200
not too distant future and maybe shorten those headways up a little bit and it is going to

1053
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:19,120
be very soon, shorter time to go from Hawthorne Station to the hospital than it is today.

1054
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:23,360
Finally, starting in roughly May, there will be a bus route that's going to get altered and will

1055
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:28,160
come down to the new library when it opens. So there are some changes that are coming and

1056
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:33,520
they're going to be digging into the lot more and it is a really important part of what we need

1057
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:37,120
in terms of our transportation system. I just want to echo what everybody else has said. Thank

1058
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:41,840
you so much for being here. As the light is on to two of the neighborhood districts that are

1059
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:46,160
represented tonight, I've heard for quite a while just about the amount of growth that's coming

1060
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:51,760
and I don't want to pretend it's apples to apples comparisons and I live on the west side of town.

1061
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:56,240
We've gone through a lot of growth over there and I understand the pain that comes with it

1062
01:17:56,240 --> 01:18:01,760
and all the change that's coming and you know it's a big deal and I think there is going to be

1063
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:07,120
a lot of good that comes from it and help us meet our housing need and our employment and job need.

1064
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:12,960
But I understand your pain and the difficulty of having to live through that process of

1065
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:18,880
road closures and the noise and the dust and the sort of constant change and disruption. So

1066
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:22,960
appreciate your patience and I appreciate you leaning in to help us make sure we develop

1067
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:29,840
an even better plan than we have now in the new home corridor. Thank you, Mike. So I'll close us

1068
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:36,720
out just speaking as someone who grew up in the Kings Forest neighborhood. Just actually met some

1069
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:41,840
new folks today that are living on the street that I grew up in as a bedside grad as someone

1070
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:46,640
who now lives in the southeast and it's going to be going through all this with you. I'm just,

1071
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:51,200
I'm really proud and happy to represent this community and I'm so thankful for you all to be here.

1072
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:57,520
Your ideas are great. We want your ideas. We want your input in how we plan this neighborhood and

1073
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:02,640
we want to answer your questions too. And so this, I'm baffled by this turnout. This is amazing.

1074
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:06,640
This has better than any ground table but we've had this turnout and I just appreciate

1075
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,480
you for showing up and just I'm going to commit I think we belong to the rest of council to

1076
01:19:10,480 --> 01:19:14,880
continue listening, checking in, providing you information, give you some opportunities to

1077
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:18,480
ask questions, get your questions answered and tell us what you think about your neighborhood

1078
01:19:18,480 --> 01:19:22,720
and we'll keep working with the neighborhood districts and you to do that. And now we have

1079
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:27,280
a whole hour to kind of mingle and for you to visit our staff and for us to talk some more

1080
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:32,320
in a more intimate setting but just really appreciate everyone being here and thanks again

1081
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:34,080
for showing up. All right.

1082
01:20:00,930 --> 01:20:01,430
Thank you.

1083
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:40,140
you

1084
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:12,220
you

1085
01:21:43,540 --> 01:21:44,040
you

1086
01:22:13,540 --> 01:22:14,040
you

1087
01:22:43,540 --> 01:22:44,040
you