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31:32 we're building and relaying it with the work that we're doing on the code of like investing in these key centers in Vancouver and having them reflect the communities that live there so that's essentially what this chapter is and we wanted to put that right at the beginning to kind of frame up the rest of the plan and say like we're really thinking about people as part of this. Great, and I think important to note that the community experience chapter is one and the equity chapter is two and those are really plan-wide lenses again that we apply as we think about investments and priorities and in the future that's one of the kind of pieces of the plan. I have a less fun chapter to cover but always interesting which is annexation so we've got

32:27 just two goals in the annexation chapter again this is not required but it's an optional element we've consistently had it in our comprehensive plans over the years and that makes sense given that we have the largest urban growth area in the state and so the first one is to facilitate annexation of the urban growth area that is what the growth management act anticipates that areas that are you know identified and then developed to urban standards will come into incorporated areas and have urban services provided to them and the second goal is around fiscally sustainable annexations so this is the idea that we're going to need to think if we if we proceed with the annexations we're going to need to figure out how to maintain level of service quality services for our existing residents as well as expanding those to future residents so this really is a framework I think important to note that unlike that

33:23 some of you may be familiar with the 2008 annexation plan that had like a really detailed phase schedule of one different when different geographic areas would come into the city the blueprint plan is what we call it this is not that it doesn't say anything about what and when it just says under what conditions and what is the information that we'll need to know so things like the you know infrastructure assessments like knowing what we're getting what is the state of that infrastructure we'll need to think about service areas logical service area boundaries for the provision of services how service transitions would happen right service transitions are sort of a complicated thing when you all of a sudden an area is you know preserved by the county everything from fire police permitting land-use applications code compliance garbage you know all of that and then the next day it's served

34:22 by the city so how do you do that and we know how to do it but it is an undertaking and requires quite a bit of organization and coordination there are goals and or policies in here about coordination with the county and thinking about balanced annexations so annexations that balance some of the impacts to both jurisdictions so that we can kind of sustainably work together in the future and then I think important is just one of the key provisions in here is to limit UGA expansions in the future so that we will conduct robust assessments of any county proposal to explain span the Vancouver urban growth area because that is just more area we're supposed to serve sometime in the future and so there is a policy kind of about that about managing future obligations liabilities related to the size of annexations again more

35:17 very unique in the state and that we have a very very large urban growth area and it's extremely urbanized there's not like a lot of land left to be redeveloped so that's a pretty unique situation that comes with its own challenges so this is this is what we got for you we're we've had a long six series of workshops since January thanks for sticking with us walking through both the plan and the code again we will be at the planning commission on April 14th to go through the revised the refined kind of updated draft of the plan and and the close to final if not final draft of the plan with them at workshop we'll be back to see you in late April for another workshop with that we'll then go back to the planning commission for a hearing and then we'll initiate

36:17 the council adoption process in May with a targeted adoption date of June 1 the final environmental impact statement which meets the CEPA requirements for a non-project action like a comprehensive plan will be released prior to the planning commission public hearing as is our practice our CEPA compliance documents are published prior to them voting so the council will have them in the community we'll have them for more than a month before we ask you all to take a vote on it and I do just want to know too we thanks to folks who came out for our community presentations we had two in person and two virtual and probably about 125 folks combined so we appreciate it it was a good discussion we'll be writing that up as part of our full engagement summary that'll be an appendix to the the final plan

37:12 and also just want to note we've submitted all our drafts to commerce so their 60-day clock is ticking for them to get us comments so that's all we've got for you appreciate again the time in the last six workshops of sticking with us happy to answer any questions thank you counselors counselor Perez go ahead thanks Rebecca I just wanted to get a more emphasis on the small business aspect as you mentioned the as it intersects with certain areas in particular I was looking at you said the chapter 1 in chapter 2 starts with community engagement and then equity and looking at the list of there's a social infrastructure