City staff presented the final draft chapters of the comprehensive plan, focusing on the framework for future annexations within the city's large Urban Growth Area (UGA). The council discussed the need for fiscally sustainable annexations, emphasizing the importance of assessing existing infrastructure and coordinating smooth service transitions. Additionally, council members requested new policy language requiring the county to adopt city development standards within the UGA to prevent the city from inheriting substandard infrastructure and unfunded financial liabilities.
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City Council Workshops · Mar 16, 2026 · 42:40–43:04 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: annexation comprehensive plan Annexation infrastructure UGA
What was said
41:38 LA you're gonna I mean most of them have community pride around some major team right some professional team we don't have that here in Vancouver but I do know that we've received comments you know I remember there was a teenager who wrote a letter early on in this process to me and and told me that they loved soccer they were very involved in soccer and wanted to know why we didn't have more soccer fields throughout the city of Vancouver and I think my response to them was something along the lines of we don't have a lot of open space left in Vancouver to build more soccer fields but I don't think that not having new soccer fields would be something that we would would be a reason not to include kind of that importance of sports in our community because when we call it out in a chapter like this we're saying we are going to make sure that the fields we have are maintained well and have those
42:34 the infrastructure there to support these teams in the future right so that's part of the thing that was going through my mind was and maybe if we want to connect the annexation piece as we're annexing we might actually be adding areas where we could have a major league team playing in Vancouver someday I know that was that's been a hope every once in a while it kind of rears its head and someone wants to bring professional baseball here or something else but you know maybe that should be part of our community engagement experience and that pride piece I want to just say thank you and acknowledge that there is a real connection between I think sports and belonging and one thing that came to mind specifically was the Chuukese community who love volleyball and we don't have public volleyball
43:29 courts and so how could that be woven in here to really think about that so yeah we'll work on that thank you okay and then my other on this one piece too that underutilized spaces caught my eye too and I for some reason today would not load so I couldn't pull the exact wording up but what I was a little worried about with underutilized spaces so is maybe too many resources going to underutilized spaces and not to our current spaces if that makes sense I know we took the opportunity in the Heights District to make use of of
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direct keyword 42:40–43:04 annexation, comprehensive plan, Annexation, infrastructure, UGA
are going to make sure that the fields we have are maintained well and have those the infrastructure there to support these teams in the future right so that's part of the thing that was going through my mind was and maybe if we want to connect the annexation piece as we're annexing we might actually be adding areas where we could have a major league team playing in Vancouver someday I know that was that's been a hope every once in a while it kind of rears its head and someone wants to bring pr