Executive session and back in regular meeting, but for posterity, I will have the recorder recall the city council's role to include our colleagues from THPRD.

Councilor Duggar.

Councilor Hartmeyer Prague.

Here.

Councillor Hassan.

Here.

Councillor Kimmy.

Here.

Councillor Teeter.

Here.

Counselor Tibanon.

Here.

Mayor Beatty.

Here.

Joining us from our Twalton Hills Parks and Recreation District.

Our board members Pradna Patil.

Here.

Alfredo Moreno.

Here.

Barbie Minor.

Here.

Miles Palacios.

Here.

Tia Ping.

Here.

All right.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

We do have a just a couple of agenda items on our joint agenda tonight, but they are robust.

With this amount of people, I want us to think about here when we're in a setting like this.

If you want to talk, we turn our table of plants up so I could go.

I will try hard to kind of see the order that people bring things up.

We have a general working rule on the city council that not all of us need to thank the staff, like seven times.

Now we've added five.

I want to thank all of the staff on behalf of the elected officials today.

You guys are wonderful public servants that do the Lord's work every single day.

I know the amount of emails and phone calls I answer about THPRD every day because people assume I'm in charge is probably just a small amount compared to the work that you guys do.

I will note that a meeting like this is not usual.

It's been a few years since we've met in this capacity before, but I do think it's special.

I think it it signals a working relationship with our special district, with us, our joint work together.

Um we have a new opportunity that our financial constraints have offered all of us, which is working together.

We can do more together with the resources we have, and I think it's normal for governments to start fighting when money is short, and I think we have an opportunity to rewrite the script tonight.

So some of the things we're going to be talking about are going to give us an opportunity for collaboration, both from THPRD's perspective and the cities.

With that, I'm going to turn it over to our first presenter, which is Lee Crabtree from the City of Beaverton.

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Good evening, counselors and board members.

My name is Lee Crabtree.

I'm the assistant director for community development here at the City of Beaverton.

I am joined tonight by Aisha Panis, and she is our um THPRD's deputy general manager.

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Um we are also joined by team members who may participate in presenting this evening and will introduce themselves as they join in.

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This evening we will present some background on THPRD and city collaboration, opportunities within Metro's 2019 Parks and Nature Bond measure and ways that both agencies may choose to deliver projects for our community using bond funds.

We'll also talk about housing collaboration and housing opportunities.

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So just some background.

THPRD and the city both own and maintain properties that serve as parks and open space.

That said, THPRD is the acknowledged park and recreation provider within the city's urban service boundary.

Most recently, city and THPRD leadership and staff have collaborated on the downtown parks and open space framework plan, options in the Cooper Mountain area, housing development opportunities, and metro bond activities.

We also work closely on housing issues, programs and projects like THPRD affordable housing waiver, THPRD SDC credit program, parks within multifamily projects like Cedar Grove, Wish Camper in Lombard West, and parks and neighborhoods.

Of the plans that we collaborate on, the downtown parks and open space framework plan and the Cooper Mountain Community Plan are two repositories of our organization's shared priorities.

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Thank you, Lee.

Again, I'm Aisha Panis with the Towelton Hills Park and Recreation District.

And one of the things Lee and I wanted to share with you tonight was all of the shared priorities we've already identified as agencies.

And so one of these is encapsulated in the Cooper Mountain Community Plan, which dreams up ways to connect to this newly developing urban area to the rest of the city.

And it does so by developing a framework for how development will occur in this area.

So as you see on the slide, there are some images of what we anticipate will happen in the Cooper Mountain planning area, and also the different types of development.

So there is a road network, there are trails, there are eight neighborhood parks that would add, I think 19 acres of open space in this area.

We do have dreams of expanding and doing more at the Cooper Mountain Nature Park.

We anticipate having an additional community park within Cooper Mountain.

And there are also different smaller spaces that are really critical to that network, which include our urban plazas, the trailheads, and of course the trails themselves.

Next slide, please.

The other plan that we worked collaboratively on and had a very comprehensive community outreach process for was the downtown Beaverton Parks and Open Space Framework Plan.

And this really defined the vision for the success and the future of parks and open space in downtown.

And that vision is captured in the four different programmatic areas and goal areas for the plan.

In Gather Community, we truly think about how we can create spaces for our community to come together and welcome and celebrate.

We build on the vibrancy of the downtown and embrace the diversity of our community.

In Reflect and Protect Nature, we wanted to look at amplifying the natural qualities in downtown.

And in Connect, we wanted to ensure that there is safe access into and through downtown.

This framework plan is looking at a variety of different solutions and spaces, and they include urban plazas, parks, open spaces, pause spaces, and creek access focus areas.

So the things that we are looking for in terms of priority characteristics for potential sites that we could partner on would be those that create an opportunity for improving park access or crossings that avoid adjacencies to very busy roadways that support our downtown employment hubs, and we like to coordinate with redevelopment plans that are occurring in the neighborhood.

One of the things that we use at the park district is a level of service map, which identifies areas that are well served or not well served, and so we'd look to work on options in the park deficient areas.

And we also want to lean into where we can make connections with transit.

Next slide, please.

This is a table that we developed after having multiple conversations about how we could truly tell the story about the different funding sources that are available to us in how we realize these plans.

And so one of the conversations that we had was that there is a variety of different goals that we want to reach and a variety of different places that we want to create, but not all funding sources are going to be able to be used for each of those things.

And that's just because some of the funding criteria is a little bit more limited.

So what you see on this chart is a description of the various types of places that we would anticipate needing to develop into these two plans.

And we separated them as you can see in the top with land acquisition, and then the categories below that are development related.

So generally buying land to secure it, to do any kind of thing, a trail, a park, that is going to meet most of the criteria for the different funding sources we have available.

So whether we're talking about the City of Beaverton's local share allocation, or we're talking about system development charges that THPRD collects and spends, or if we're talking about other types of funding, maybe grants, those are things that are generally going to qualify.

Where it gets a little bit more complicated is when you start talking about the more urban types of development.

And so a plaza or a pocket park, neighborhood parks and community parks can be somewhat funded, but there may be some restrictions.

And what that might look like is that Metro could say we're cool with you acquiring land for a community park, and we're cool with you doing a nature play, play equipment installation, but we don't want local share funds going for a sports court or a tennis court or something that doesn't quite fit with their criteria for the parks and nature bond.

So we just wanted to indicate some of those constraints that could be faced.

In the category of SDC funds, we have that constraint listed for trails.

Our current methodology doesn't allow us to spend 100% of the cost using cover 100% of the cost for trails using SDC funds.

Only about 40% of the trail cost can be paid for with SDCs, and then we have to pay for the balance through another source.

So that is a potential constraint that we could look at.

But luckily, the local share funds are something that could go for trail development.

So I think we have another slide, and this is back to Lee.

Thank you, Aisha.

We're gonna do some background here on the 2019 Parks and Nature Bond Measure.

Um this bond provides funding across six programs.

They're listed here, but I am going to say them out loud, which goes against normal presentation skills.

Um but protect and restore land is 155 million dollar program and it's metro-led projects.

Support local projects is a 92 million dollar program, and Beaverton and THPRD both have allocations out of that.

Nature and Neighborhood Capital Grants is a 40 million dollar program, but that is a program that you have to apply to get the funding for, and it's open to a broader range of folks, community groups, but it all has to be capitalized.

Create trails for walking and biking is a 40 million dollar project, a program, and it includes metro-led projects and projects like THPRD has in in store and in line.

And then advancing large-scale community visions is a $50 million program.

There is an application process for that, and $30 million is available across the region for that.

And some of it's been allocated, but not all of it.

Of these programs, local jurisdictions may ask for funding of eligible acquisitions or reimbursement of eligible project expenditures.

In all cases, the land involved needs to be capitalized via ownership or easement.

Funding may be used for fee simple acquisition of regionally or locally determined significant natural areas, wildlife habitat, trail corridors, neighborhood or community parks.

But it's important to know that out-of-pocket costs are associated with property acquisition.

Some amount of local jurisdiction expenditures usually occurs prior to the jurisdiction receiving bond funds.

So the amount that the jurisdiction receives depends on the activity requested and approved by Metro.

For projects, bond funds are received via request for reimbursement.

And either local share funds have been spent on eligible expenses.

Each program has specific restrictions for how bond funds may be.

This seems like I'm just repeating myself, and I apologize for that, but I just want to say that projects just are heavily reliant on local share funds to plan, design, and construct and complete.

Well, there are six programs tonight.

We'll focus on local share and large-scale community visions.

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So for um local share funds are to be provided to protect water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, or connect people to nature.

Eligible local share bond investments are for natural areas, fish and wildlife habitat restoration, maintaining and developing public access, designing and construction of local regional trails, and enhancing new learning and environmental education facilities.

In the 2006 bond measure, THPRD and Beaverton delivered many local share and capital grant projects.

We partnered on projects including Hall Creek, 114th to 117th.

Camille Park Creek Enhancement and Sexton Mountain Land Acquisition.

For the 2019 allocations, the city received 5.7 million, and THPRD received 8.6 million.

The city has yet to dedicate our funding allocation for specific uses, but THPRD has been really successful, successful in moving forward on agreements and projects to spend most of their allocation.

And then corresponding eligible expenses and reimbursement expense requests must be completed within 10 years of that agreement.

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Use of local share for projects requires some upfront investment that isn't always apparent.

So there is a decision making process that we have to go through regarding which projects to move forward with, and then following up on engagement and the balance of project activities.

There's a heavy engagement requirement for this bond, and so we do have to follow through on those commitments to get in order to receive the funds back.

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So I know that the council heard this description and saw this slide at their August meeting.

So I beg your forgiveness as we go through it.

But it's a great opportunity for us to give an update to our board as well.

So thank you for that.

We wanted to share with you some information about the 2019 bond funded local share funded projects that THPRD has underway.

Two are underway and two are in the beginning stages.

Our Willow Creek Greenway project is under construction now, and it has been for about the last year, and it will be completed by the end of this year, which we're really excited to see.

We are also through our concept planning process, and we're into the design construction documents and getting closer to permitting phase for our Saksaka Park, which is in the north part of our district.

So that's going to be a new park and trail segment that we are developing, and so we've got funding allocated for that.

That project is due to be under construction next summer.

And then the other two projects, accessible play structures and the Commonwealth Lake Park are still in early stages.

The accessible play structures are going to be two nature play installations at parks north of Highway 26, and then the Commonwealth Lake Park.

We have a bridge replacement and a weir to serve the dam that controls the water flow within that park.

We also are taking advantage of some additional funding sources within the larger bond, and that is the nature and neighborhoods capital grants.

So we do have an all-ages play amenity that was specifically funded using that competitive process, and that is also at Sexaka Park.

So we're very excited about what that looks like next summer.

And then there was a participatory budgeting type process done with the Nature and Neighborhoods Community Choice Grants, and this was a pilot program done in District 4 that identified several projects, three of which were within THPRD's boundary, and those include a connecting people to habitat project to make it all good again at Towallaton Hills Nature Park and a pollinator pathway on our Rock Creek Trail system.

So those were those are great projects that are kind of in our process that we've not yet taken up, but they will they will be delivered using these natural area bond dollars.

And then finally, the trail connection fund out of that 2019 bond project was for the West Side Trail Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge.

So we do have 1.9 million dollars of funding for that project, which is a smaller part of a much larger portion of funding that we'll need to build that bridge.

But we are about 50% funded through a variety of sources right now.

So we're excited about that.

Next slide, please.

I think I turn this back to Lee.

So between the Cooper Mountain Community Plan and the downtown Beaverton Parks and Open Space Framework Plan, both organizations have extensive recent community engagement and planning to use as a base for developing more ideas.

But right now, um we're just really interested in hearing your insights and interests related to the city and THP or D entering into an agreement for THP or D to deliver either acquisitions or projects or both using the city's 5.7 million dollar allocation.

All right, friends, this is the point where you talk.

So uh I'll jump off first.

That um 5.7 million dollars is a lot of money, and it's not a lot of money, right?

And I think that's the the struggling piece that I have found myself in, um, particularly with the constraints around Metro on the funding.

And Metro has a lot of aspirations.

But as a level of government that doesn't often do the work, I don't think they they realize how much they're trying to commit us to.

Um the mayors collectively have been trying to get a little bit of the standards reduced so cities can spend it based on um the projects they need.

And Lee and I have done the Lord's work pitching projects to Metro over and over and over again.

So I am very comfortable moving forward in a partnership with THPRD.

I'll say from my perspective, trails.

Um if we were gonna spend the money ourselves, like do working on trail networks would be really important to me.

Um and and I would just really like a great awesome park.

I text TIA probably 12 times a year when I'm in other cities and be like, why can't we have nice things like this?

So if we were gonna do a cool park, I'm all in um obviously in the city of Beaverton.

I know a lot of this is in Rock Creek, and I'm so glad you're doing work up there, but I will just repeat myself that the a project within the city's limits is what this money needs to be funded by.

All right, who's next?

The council has given a lot of opinions on this, so that's why they're they're being a little shy on it.

Do you need more to hear more from us?

Yeah, Miles.

Oh no, or you guys are uh we're just we're just using our freedom or telepathy.

Go ahead.

Uh and I realize that you're used to him directing it, but in I'm the one that will be calling on people.

I mean, he's really great and all about it.

It's a city meeting.

But go ahead, Miles.

Um, no, uh, I was just going to echo a little bit parrot here for uh city limits trails, parks.

Obviously, that's what we want to be doing this with.

I'm wondering if this is something that is partially of interest in um using these dollars to work on the downtown plan or something like that.

I mean, if what we were trying to spend it on was our first free dining commons, that is something um we would we would like to see.

I was surprised to see on not on your guys' list the Cooper Mountain expansion with any of your money that's been allocated from Metro.

And I think what's been challenging for me to want to jump in that argument, use our money that way is it's like, well, where's yours?

Um but I do understand that that is uh that is also uh top priority for the board is the expansion of Cooper Mountain.

Um I do want to remind everyone that the city is contributing to that regardless of this money or not.

Like if this turns into a park, we're foregoing property tax revenue forever on it.

So there is a uh considerable city uh contribution into the expansion, and I think you've heard from us that the expansion of that park is really important too.

Counselor Tiffanon Hear me okay?

Okay.

Um yeah, I I think that where my head is with this is joining forces in a way.

Both sides of our organization.

The fact that we don't have an embedded parks district is uh kind of pushes us into the space how do we most efficiently and most impactfully even spend this type of money to get it when we don't specialize internally.

So I think that I'm really excited about exploring this, and I couldn't help but go through the rest of the PowerPoint because I want to get on to the dream on it.

So I I don't have anything other than to say I've been looking forward to this meeting.

Counselor Hussen.

Yes.

I've also been looking forward to this meeting, except I have two sick kids, so I'm gonna try to keep it brief.

Um I'm really happy to just be here with you all.

I did say this on the record in the last meeting, and I want to say it again.

You know, my dream for parks in this community is that everyone can get to one wherever they live.

Um and of course, our focus is the city, uh, but across the city as well.

I have I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question, but I just want to double check because I I did a phone of friend.

The Westside Trail bicycle is not a local share applicable project, correct um the West Side Trail, the trail.

Well, it is in local share.

Um it's probably not where we would spend those funds, but we do have the funds from the connected trails portion of the bond.

Okay, so different funding pot, but same overall funding source.

Okay.

Um that one just excites me.

But um I just I wanted to go on the record and say I'm just really excited that we're having this meeting, but but my dream is for parks to help us do parks, but also to make sure that folks across our community have access to parks.

Nothing new there.

Thank you.

Board member Moreno.

Thank you.

Um I will not go too high into the sky here as I know uh we we want to keep it moving, but I I think it's important to frame at this point here just from um a TH parity board um perspective, you know, we we exist as a board um sort of for the purpose of being this independent buffer, right, that's solely focused on parks and rec in this area.

Um and that adds complexity and that adds, you know, we have to work together and have these meetings in a giant U in order to do these things.

But I think um one of the things that we um are passionate about and um as a board, I think um we always feel a special pride in is our responsibility as a parks provider for the city of Beaverton.

Um I think this board has a recent tradition.

I won't uh speak for too far before my time, but um a recent tradition and a strong tradition of collaboration with the city.

Um and I believe in the colleagues that I have on this board that um that's something we take very seriously to work um to improve outcomes for all Beavertonians, of which I am one.

Um you know, while our existence and Beaverton residents are 37% of our service population, but that responsibility to work hand in hand to uplift um this city to help it be affordable and prosperous and a great place to live, work and play is something that we take very seriously.

So I think I'm trying to say in general, like an assurance of our strong desire and our um our staff's strong desire to collaborate um every step in the way uh of the way um on areas like this and to use our shared creativity and our uh spheres of influence and expertise for the ultimate outcome of the greater good.

So how's that?

I didn't take too much time, I hope.

So I do like that you slipped uh a fact in there of 37% of your service area, and I would like to counter that with the majority of your recreation facilities and your district headquarters are within the city.

And so if we're gonna talk uh m apples to apples, we uh we uh you are in the city of Beaverton more than your parks that are operate on the outside.

Counselor Duggar.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of echo a couple things because I think they're worth worth uh reiterating.

Counselor Husson mentioned access.

She used the word access.

I think we have I'm biased, but I think we have the best parks in this entire country as a system.

But we don't have the best access to those parks.

So I think about Cooper Mountain Park, right?

Councilor Teter and I rode our bikes to an event you guys hosted, and I think we almost died at least three times.

That should not there should not be a tax to get to our uh essentially a car tax to get to the crown one of the crown jewels of our THPRD system without risking your life.

I think about my nieces, my nephews.

Children need to get to that park without having to wait for a parent to drive them.

So I think a lot about access to our parks, right?

And in my mind, um Cooper Mountain is one, you know, it's gonna be a part of Beaverton.

It is not yet, or at least parts of it are uh South Cooper Mountain.

The rest of it will come in.

I think that's a primary.

I also think downtown we have a lot of gaps.

We have a lot of socioeconomic uh diversity.

Um I really I'm a I'm a big proponent of trails because they serve as a is a as a cyclist myself.

I think the most popular, probably the two most popular parks are the West Side Trail and the Fano Creek Trail.

I pass literally hundreds of people every single time I passed the mayor the other day.

Uh she was using it as both the transportation and a park she was going to meeting.

I was coming from one.

Like there's so I I think to me this aligns perfectly with our you guys provide amazing parks already.

I think some of the gaps are in access to them.

We have a vision with our climate action plan with with others of reducing emissions.

The biggest source of emissions here in Beaverton is transportation, right?

Like this is a this is a win-win, and I think if we can use this, especially towards creating access to some of the gaps between either the downtown area uh or or Cooper Mountain, like those those really key parts.

I think this is gonna be a magic, magic collaboration, a really, really simple.

Counselor Duggars and with the magic.

You are you going down?

Uh Counselor Teter.

Not sure who for THPRD is the right person to ask this question to.

But the 2016 uh THPRD parks functional plan, is that the most updated uh like long-range plan for trails that you all have, or am I looking at the right document?

That is um 2019 is the most current, but we've updated all of ours, and so they're in the final stages of being um brought totally up to 2025.

So we will soon have that.

Great.

I'll need to follow along with that a little bit.

Uh one of the trails that I've seen on the older version of that plan is the connection of Fano Creek up into downtown Beaverton.

Especially with Pan Oak Creek.

Honestly, it's often easier for me to go into Tigered because the Pando Creek Trail is safe versus the on-street section.

I would love to see some more trail access in the downtown upgrade.

South side of Beaverton access into downtown.

I think that could really slide.

And then our creekside master plan at it for several years.

I was really excited about the the hall, the Hall Creek restoration when I first discovered it back when I first moved here.

So I love some creek restoration work.

Those are some of the top concepts that have risen risen in the mind, but definitely access via transport.

I'm back.

Um yeah, I I just wanted to echo what uh thinking about what uh uh uh Councilor Duggar was talking about with access uh in the greater conversation there.

Um I guess this is a question because I don't know well enough if that is a consideration that we need to be thinking about for transportation for the sidewalks and for for those types of things and whether or not those would be eligible with the local share.

That's not something I'm completely um uh knowledgeable about.

However, what I would say is that I definitely believe that access needs to be a priority.

Uh neighborhood parks, these types of things, looking at our map and seeing like where are we missing sure that that comes in.

Um, and also on the first street commons, uh, I used to live uh just like two blocks away from it, and I absolutely love it.

I would love for us to do that.

So I'm also team for Street Commons.

Um yes, the Pano Key Creek Trail, I think that is also something that we've been thinking about a while.

Powerful for an investment uh in this partnership.

Board member Minor.

I'll jump in just to offer um I think what I'm hearing is the excitement of the collaboration and the ideas are abundant.

Um and so to me, this falls squarely under the work smarter, not harder.

Um, and I think this just an amazing opportunity for us to be collaborative.

Um, and in the end, we're serving those folks that are out there.

So um the idea wheels are going and going.

My my hope is that this is not the first and only time that we can hear from one another and and share our different perspectives because we approach it, I think, through the lens of being the the park and rec expert.

I think the view that you all have um offers something different operationally, and so I think it's just a magical moment.

Um and to your point of the 5.7 million, I'm already hearing ideas and this money will will quickly go.

Um what I have faith in is the the commitment and the dedication of my peers here, as well as when we talked about that service level map.

And I think it's important to note that um I'm not sure how all of if the full council is is familiar, but oftentimes when staff bring that back to us and show us, you know, certain areas light up.

They have X, Y, and Z things, and there's deficits in other areas.

And because park development and trail development takes such, you know, an immense amount of time, there is discrepancy there.

And I think the intention is that we are aware of different service levels and how can we feed into them.

So we're hearing, quite frankly, we've got some deficits in the city of Beaverton, which is why we're here because we want to collaborate and work to bolster that.

So I am confident that the dedication on both staff as well as this board hear you loud and clear and and are aligned in what our end objectives are.

Everybody's pitching in.

Just a reminder, not everyone's I'm a I love um THPRD, obviously.

Um I went to their soccer field all the time, too many times, probably.

Um I'll be interested is that I want to finish the product at the end.

Not just the beginning, not just a part of a project, but somehow a finished product with the collaboration that we have.

So we have a rebund cutting at the end, not just read the way we're done, studied it.

Somebody will pick turn and finish it.

So that'll be what I what I'm looking for.

So thank you.

I'm getting the text from staff that we have two more topics in 45 minutes.

So think about all the things.

And the soccer thing worked out for you.

Your son went to the uh Air Force Academy and played soccer.

So you can credit THPRD for that.

There you go.

Go ahead.

Next topic.

All right, we're gonna swap out a little bit here.

Yeah, lots of friends.

Um so joining me now is um Gary Keck, he's the planning and development manager at THPRD.

Um this next topic.

Oh, sorry, next slide.

Um, is one that the city's been toying with, but I know uh THPRD has been interested in joining in on us, joining in with us and figuring out what we can do to further work on the downtown parks and open space framework plan.

Um Gary was heavily involved in that, as was Liz Jones, who um was going to join us tonight, but she's out.

Um so I'm giving you that backdrop.

Like Gary's here as my buddy, and I appreciate that.

Um so on the large scale community vision program.

Um per the language provided by Metro, the large scale community vision grant program supports innovative capital projects that bring together nature, job opportunities, affordable housing, and safe transportation.

It's a bit of a different spin than all the other bond programs.

So it's important to remember that those four facets are there.

Um through the large scale community vision program, Metro will support projects across Greater Portland that inspire new ways to meet these challenges.

Project requirements are that um it must be capitalized.

So we can do that through buying property or buying easements.

Um just as an example, the Hall Creek project was an easement acquisition, it was not an outright purchase.

So the um underlying property is still owned by those associated property owners.

Um in this case for this pro program, projects must cost at least six million dollars and must devote at least two million of that to habitat restoration.

It must meaningfully engage with communities of color, indigenous communities, people with low incomes and other historically marginalized communities in planning and development.

And the project must be publicly owned or result in publicly owned asset.

And so right now, Stafford is really recognizing the number of overlapping efforts the city has going on in central Beaverton, and then join in with that the downtown parks and open space framework plan.

We just see a lot of opportunity to coordinate the work of these efforts in a way that leverages them to deliver our community visions and plans.

Next slide.

So the downtown confluence concept is a concept born out of multiple years and multiple plans and a lot of current activity.

And what we realize is we just really want to connect all of these elements and make really strong um community connections that identified this area as a place to be.

And it's important to know that we have that as part of the Bureau budget.

And urban renewal is a tool that the city has to bring resources to this effort.

And having somebody who's focused on infrastructure in urban in the urban renewal district and helping us move that forward as a package will be very helpful.

So we're very much looking forward to having that person on staff.

And the city sees THPRD as one of our major stakeholders in the effort.

Next slide.

We have parts of it and parts of it are on street and parts of it are trail, and we need to figure out how to identify that as a better north-south connector.

And then we have just multiple jurisdictions that have some sort of access or property along our creeks.

Next slide.

Could include adjacent trails, urban tree canopy, nature play opportunities, and places to rest.

In the near term, the city is looking into funding sources to assist with implementation of the beaver, the downtown Beaverton subbasin strategy, so that we can deliver a regional approach to stormwater in the area, provide a mitigation opportunity for development and redevelopment, and improve a stream habitat, which could help us address new FEMA rules and regulations.

In the longer term, we need to be able to execute on the subbasin implementation plan with acquisition design and construction.

If sought and awarded, the large-scale community vision funding may help us move forward on qualifying nature uplift elements.

Lee did a good job of explaining that.

And I think I've heard tonight too that the Metro Bond, it's got some it's got a lot of criteria in a lot of these.

That was gonna help implement our downtown parks approved.

There are a lot of uh action items in that plan that could relate to some of this large scale stuff, like um adding pause points or viewing.

Um there's another one in there to coordinate public access.

Next slide.

So um tonight staff are just interested in your feedback on the downtown confluence concept and whether to proceed in developing and furthering the idea for submittal of a letter of interest to Metro.

Thank you, Lee, for the work on this.

Again, I I want to applaud Lee because um her and I have had 57,000 conversations on how to access this money and what would be our best.

We've met with uh Metro staff.

This is Metro District 4 intent, and we've not got any substantial uh investment in this district from Metro before, so we think it's a great opportunity.

Councilor Hartmeyer, Prig.

I think this one captures all the feedback that we gave in the first um round of feedback, which is so exciting, and I think the things that I'm most excited about are around the potential for um the creekside um elements of it.

Um a few years back we did a little Vancouver, Washington tour, and they've just done a really really nice job on their waterfront, and then I asked the mayor if we could just have a river, and she said we could daylight our creek, and so I think this is like the next best thing.

We can have our our own like water, you know, related um downtown concept, which I think is really exciting.

Um and the other thing that I'm gonna throw back to my time on your board is the opportunity for um our furry friends and the downtown concept as well.

Um, whether that is just more places as we grow up as a city, we need more places for dogs or beavers.

Uh either because we love the beavers in Beaverton.

Um, but definitely dogs.

Um, but as we grow up, right, and we when we get denser, we need more places for our humans and their companion pets um to have places to recreate as well.

So just excited to kind of see and hear about this concept.

And I think this this could be like one of those kind of like cornerstone projects that are that we could do together, right?

And just like really build something phenomenal together.

So I'm really really excited about this.

Counselor Deggar.

Um do we know um there were some flood zones and all this that were kind of called out downtown.

Do we know would this be able to incorporate some of those that that complication that we're waiting for uh I think for the federal government to weigh in or something like that?

Well, FEMA does have its rules and regulations, and the downtown sub-basin strategy is um the city's attempt to help us mitigate flood through quantity, um, but we also have quality requirements for water and making sure that the we don't send water downstream that's in poor condition.

Uh that has multiple variables about what is considered, you know.

Okay, high level.

We don't need the door cannot.

So I was like, I was like, this is good.

But to the end of like, you know, the downtown subbasin strategy is really a way for us to address that, but moving that along will be helpful.

I look forward to writing my boogie board down the creek.

Uh board chair.

Yeah, um I say this as somebody who doesn't do any of the actual um uh nine to five work on this, but I think I'm excited about um uh the parks district park districts um evolution, continued evolution as um as the city of Beaverton gets more dense.

Um as that kind of urban core park design planner, water, you know, how can we use the the aptitude and and expertise that we have creating what we're what we're best known for suburban kind of parks and facilities and trails and how can we take that and and now apply it to a smaller space um with a slightly different goal, maybe.

Um so I'm just I have full confidence again, not doing any of the work, but um that the district will rise to that challenge and be able to prove quite an asset there.

Counselor Hussan Yeah, thank you.

This looks really lovely.

I'm really excited to see where this goes.

I don't know if this is a good comment to make, but I just want to make it like bathrooms, just putting it on there.

Um just we were just in California, and just the access to bathrooms is such a thing.

Um Jenny did mention self-cleaning one, so I'll let you think about what that looks like, but it was just something that came to my mind.

So thanks.

Counselor Tivnon.

One of the very first full reports I ever read for the city of Beaverton was the Creekside District Plan back in 2014, 2015.

Was so excited about it because there's something about that that desire to be near water that is such an economic driver.

And so it's not just that we're looking at creating a network of of all sorts of aspects around open space for this, but what it could possibly do in terms of lacemaking and and the uh folks that want to have their businesses here, the place and eat because they can look at a stream running past um while they're having their dinner, and it I'm extremely excited about this.

And I think that we uh also have the benefit of a lot of really good reports that have been created that give us a lot to start with.

Um with yes.

Looks like you have some positive direction, and I look forward to me and the board presidents signing a joint letter of interest.

Thank you.

I am gonna trade out.

Well, I'm just gonna step back and let Javier and Gary take the note.

Um good evening, uh Council Mayor Beatty, board members.

My name is Javier Mena.

I am a portable housing manager for the CD of Beaverton and the economic in the development division.

All right.

Go to the next slide, please.

So Javi Arnor gonna transition our discussion over to how we park district has been collaborating on housing projects with the city and the county developers for many years.

Listed here in the slide are some of the ways.

Thank you.

Some of the ways THPUD has collaborated in incentivized housing development that I'm gonna go over here in the next couple of slides.

But we've been working closely with how on housing projects through our STC credit program as well as our STC affordable housing uh waiver program.

And then in addition, you've heard a lot tonight of the collaboration we've done with the city on those plans.

Um in particular comes to my mind.

Next slide, please.

So THP charges park system development charges, it's SDCs is what we call them for residential and non-residential projects within the district, and that's to increase capacity of our parks, trails, and natural areas so that we can accommodate growth in the population from new development.

Um this ensures that new people living in working in the district and in the city can have access to high quality parks and recreation opportunities.

Now, the STC program we offer a couple of incentives, and this one is the STC credit program.

In this situation, we'll negotiate um STC credits in exchange for a developer to provide a qualified public open space like a park or a trail.

Um the program has been real successful, and a lot of that goes to the city staff of bringing our program to the developers up front.

It's been really helpful to have our them know about this and us me at the table up front so we can really work out a plan that works for them and for us, and we get something in in the ground.

Um the STC program does have criteria for each type of park.

Uh we've given an example here to show how an urban plaza or a pocket park might have some criteria.

One of them is typically being a quarter acre for pocket park.

Um but we also look for creative solutions, and the photo there on the right is one of those.

This is uh Reflections Plaza.

It's an urban plaza that we incorporated into an affordable housing project.

Uh it's about 2,000 square feet, but it offers numerous components for the neighborhood, including a water feature, um, seating area, and um gathering space.

Now, here the district worked with the developer to ensure the space met all of our needs so that we can maintain it.

Um always want to make sure is that if we're gonna build it, we want to make sure we can maintain it.

Um what at the end we ended up giving the credits back to the developer and the equal amount to the improvements that they made.

So they get to use the credits right there on their site.

And a lot of developers are picking up on this because it's a lot easier to sell, I think homes or units when they've got a nice park and rec piece right outside.

One that we will maintain and not an HOA.

So the SDC credit projects have been very successful in helping create our communities to be more livable, I feel, by providing these parks and trails from the beginning.

Um another good example is South Cooper Mountain.

I know that was mentioned earlier.

A lot of the parks and trails we have down there have been through STC credit projects like this.

So we've been working through that new community.

Next slide, please.

So another incentive we want to just bring up tonight was the park districts STC program.

We do have an SDC affordable housing waiver program, which I'm sure you've heard about.

Um we do seek to be a community partner to help uh address the region's affordable housing shortage, and in 2020, our board collaborated with housing advocates and and developers and updated our STC policy to create this affordable housing waiver option, and it discounts STC phase paid to the district.

And the the policy directs staff to provide a hundred percent waiver on STCs for qualified regulated housing units that are restricted to those earning 30% or less of the medium family income.

And uh 50% waiver of our STCs on units that are restricted to those making 31 to 60 percent of the family median income.

And among other requirements, one of them is that the developer that is seeking the waivers is gonna have to record a deed restriction, ensuring that the housing units will be will remain affordable housing for at least 60 years.

For the four that are listed there, we feel this pro this program has provided 2.5 million in STC fees uh waived so far since 2020.

And 1.7 of those are from these four projects which are located within the city.

Uh one note I wanted to make is that our board in April approved increase the total unit cap of affordable housing waivers by another 268 units, totaling 900 units total for waivers.

Um we are currently just to make a quick note we're currently working with uh the Metal Lark Senior Housing Project as well to look at for waivers.

So with that, I'm gonna hand it over to Javier, who's gonna go through another housing collaboration.

You want me to kick off this one?

Thank you, Gary.

Uh if we can go to the next slide.

I'm gonna um I'll be talking about the Lombard West uh development and talk about innovative catalytic.

Uh this is one of those, and we're really the connection with THPRD staff really helped from the beginning in in this type of of innovative design.

Um Longburgh West is a current example of a THPRD city partnership with the two-acre bureau owned property being redeveloped.

The downtown park and open space framework plan, which has been mentioned several times, identify future park opportunity zones in this area north of Canyon Road.

In the early involvement, they help inform objectives as they relate it to work to parks in open space with the idea of public open space as a key project objective.

HPRD staff reviewed and provided feedback on the request for qualifications solicitation and provided info on how to coordinate with them.

Also, THPRD staff participated in the selection committee to make a recommendation to Bureau on the preferred developer team.

Like the project proposed by CEPA partners is a creative urban development that will deliver 231 housing units, 131 of them being affordable, uh, with public open space woven into the design.

Uh the project is in the early design concept process, and the conversation about parks will kick off with THPRD and the develop in the developer in October.

We expect the developer will utilize the STC credit uh program for the public open space uh the component, and they will also apply for the affordable housing SDC waiver the qualifying units.

So um so stab looks forward to hearing from council and the board on how both jurisdictions may further our work on housing and affordable houses.

All right, we do have one more topic, so keep that in mind with comments.

Um I will kick it off by saying that I think this is the one of the most profound policies this board has adopted within the last decade.

Um of the hardest things about being a city with special districts is making things happen.

Um SDCs and the cost of affordable housing, it they go hand in hand.

And I'm uh way back in the machine when Holly worked for the city.

We sat in the bottom floor here with Doug and other people and talked about SDC waivers with the passboard.

None of those board members are at this table.

This was on this board for doing it, and I've negotiated a lot of tough things as my job as the mayor.

None was harder than negotiating with board member ping on SDC waivers.

She was the most challenging conversation I had.

But here we are with the second round of negotiations done.

And when we talk about access to parks, this is what we're talking about.

That people that grow up in housing that they don't feel less than, that we lead with dignity in everything that we do when they could come out of in the water feature.

I take my kids up to that.

Um, the one up there when we're over in that neighborhood.

Those kids don't feel like they live in affordable housing.

And you guys made that such a huge reality for young people to live in a community and lead with dignity.

And so just profound thanks for the work.

I it comes um challenging.

Our council is used to making tough decisions like this, uh, but we can't do it alone.

And this to me, I think is the most profound thing that you guys have done.

Just real quick, I echo the mayor's comments.

I won't go there, but but I do want to say I think there's an opportunity for us maybe to collaborate, particularly around the LC SERS Center for senior affordable housing.

Got it.

I will wait till the next presentation.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just as we roll into the next presentation, it was all John Duggar's idea.

So I'm just any more comments on STCs.

Councilor Hartmeyer Prague, you don't want to make one comment as a board member that ran on this policy that sits on the other side of the table.

Oh good.

Of course.

We wanted to think directly.

I'm just making trouble.

I'm sorry.

We wanted to thank Director Ping.

That's that's what Councillor Hudson asked me to say.

Um I also just want to thank you for extending it, right?

I know that it comes at sacrifice.

It's not like you you have to make an active choice to extend that.

That's not an easy thing to do because you're making a trade-off.

So thank you for extending it.

Because I think when you look at what our community, what what your district has been able to do, us being a subset of your land, you've capitalized on that metro money, right?

And like made such a huge impact.

And so I I just want to keep seeing us do it because it's when we come together that we make that bigger impact.

It's when we say that these are our shared community values.

And so thank you for reaffirming your commitment as a district because it helps us in those moments when we're trying to put together the last little bit of money to help a project come together.

Like that's money that that project doesn't have to find.

So it is so impactful.

Um, Javier taught Director Ping and I about this years ago, and it was one of the most impactful meetings that I got to be a part of and to truly understand what it means to put a unit of affordable housing into our community.

And so it's really exciting that we're all sitting here together.

Um I think the last time we did it was about this topic, maybe, and and then to like see what has happened as a result of the of that work in those conversations.

So I want to thank you as well.

And I know Mayor Beatty did acknowledge that, but it it became personal for me as well to work on that work with you.

And so just thank you for continuing it because that that work means so much in our in our community.

Right.

You don't you don't want a rebuttal board member ping, nothing, not one word this whole meeting.

Tough.

Yeah, no, she wants to go home.

Perfect.

That's exactly how our conversations went about SCC waivers.

All right.

Oh, yeah, sorry, go ahead.

Um I just want to say like the easier play for uh for this board and for past boards, of which um have two folks who worked on it, but um, is just to stick to parks, right?

So I think um, but that work, that collaborative work to pull whatever level levers that we may have to um to make a meaningful impact is something that drove many of us to to seek a seat on this board.

And so um I think that is part of the why for a lot of us.

Um, and so um uh I can speak for myself and I will just assume I speak for some others in that that will remain a why for us, a core why is to utilize um our place to uh to lean into that work now, uh, because I mentioned earlier we are this independent organization.

Everything right is reviewed, and it may not always be as quick, and sometimes you all may get frustrated with us, but I think the why is shared, but sometimes the roads may just go a little different.

But um anyway, thank you for all those comments, and that's it.

First, I'm supposed to thank Chair Moreno from Ashley from Councillor Hartmai Prague.

I did want to make one quick comment because I saw the question one more time and I wanted to think about it.

I know we talk about different groups of housing, so we've done some work in senior housing.

I believe that THPRD did some work.

Is Opal THPRD?

Nope, just making something up.

Okay.

Um just thinking about other communities, like immigrant communities, how are we helping different communities as we develop housing?

So I just want to put that kind of in our brains in terms of like what are the different communities we're building housing for, and just for future reference.

So thanks, Dr.

Ping.

All right, we're on to our last topic.

I I will say we don't normally set in times for council meetings, so I don't know if that's a you thing or why staff keeps telling me that, but like this council doesn't operate on an in-time lane.

So this is the most important thing.

We're I'm just kidding, but we are on to our last topic.

Uh, I do want to start a little bit by sharing about how Beaverton came to be a part uh part of the Bloomberg City Network and how the journey has shaped the program we're gonna hear about tonight.

In 2022, I was honored to be invited to the Bloomberg Harvard City uh initiative for mayors, a fully funded week-long program in New York that launched uh what has become a transformative partnership for the city of Beaverton, Bloomberg, and they work with cities over 60,000.

So in B in Oregon, there's 271 cities and only eight cities over that capacity.

So you have to be invited in and they really invest in you.

That experience opened the door to a series of opportunities that have helped us grow our leadership capacity, sharpen our focus on innovation, and tackle some of the most pressing issues facing Beavertonians.

Since then, Bloomberg has made significant investments in the city of Beaverton.

They fully funded over a dozen staff members to participate in intensive leadership and policy programs ranging from executive education at the Harvard Kennedy School to specialized training in negotiation and collaboration.

They sent expert facilitators to the city to help us convene a stakeholder round table around homelessness, and they supported eight staff traveling and resources every step of the way.

That team was a clock cross-collaboration that even had our chamber CEO as part of that team.

Most recently, as a finalist in the Bloomberg Mayor's Challenge, we received funding and supporting to prototype a new idea, a city-led approach to increasing middle housing.

And that's what brings us here tonight.

We're proposing a broader program to encourage middle housing across Beaverton, housing types like duplexes, triplexes, cottage clusters, and to meet the need of residents who are current currently underserved in this market.

We're excited to explore the LC STER Center as a demonstration project and a real-world case study to test and refine our approach.

We're grateful that THPRD through their verbal support and partnership, and we look forward to working together to formalize that collaboration.

I will just say that the number one issue from the governor on down is middle housing and being able to make sure that housing is affordable.

We know that we're building housing that is really large, and there's no such thing as entry-level homes anymore.

And it's getting harder and harder for community members to buy in, and it looks really challenging for our generation, our children to be able to afford a home in the city.

And the governor has cleared the pathways for a lot of this housing to be built.

And when I submitted to the program, I kept asking why can't we build it?

This is what the governor's doing.

What are the roadblocks?

What do we need to do?

And so when we applied to the program, it was through that lens of how do we we all want it, what are the roadblocks to make it happen.

So that's kind of how we got started here today.

And just uh, you know, I don't want to bury the lead, but our our homelessness initiative won pri uh a lot of attention from the governor on down.

It led to a significant reduction in homelessness.

We did it faster, and we did it through collaboration, but it was very important for us to have the support of Bloomberg and Harvard in that project.

And we get asked all the time why does downtown Beaverton look different than everywhere else around us?

And I would say it's a lot through the collaboration approach that Bloomberg has helped us to do.

Through the mayor's challenge, um, they're gonna go through that, but I was able to with the city manager select four employees to represent us, and three of them are here today to talk about the project.

So I'll turn it back over to Javier.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um talk about excitement.

Uh, you know, talked about a Lomaro West project, which is very exciting, and this is equally uh exciting.

Um we're very excited to bring uh an up-to-date uh an update uh regarding the mayor's uh challenge.

Uh next slide, please.

Over the next few minutes, we'll be discussing what the Bloomberg Majors Challenge is, what is the challenge we are addressing, and the opportunity to study site, uh the evolution of the idea, where we are now, and the next step.

Mayor's Challenge is a competition to spur government innovation that improves lives in cities around the world.

In Michael Bloomberg's words, uh the major challenge competition has helped local leaders test our most promising and innovative ideas.

This challenge will empower cities to rethink the way they deliver essential services in ways that better meet the everyday needs of residents.

Bloomberg Philanthropies believes in the power of cities to affect change.

So the Bloomberg Challenge looking for ideas are bold, innovative, novel, and replicable.

The original announcement was almost a year ago, back in October 16th of last year.

The applications were due on December.

They received over 600 applications worldwide.

50 were selected, 10 were from the U.S.

and Beaverton was one of the just to give you in a perspective of the global global component of this uh cities like Kiev, Barcelona, Marseille, and Rio were part of those uh cities that were finalists the city received as a mayor mentioned uh support to refine our idea, uh $50,000 uh coaching from the Bloomberg Bloomberg Challenge team and fully funded travel for four staff members to be part of the major challenge idea ideas camp in Bogota, Columbia last July.

And the past few months we've been working to refine our idea.

We need to submit an updated application to Bloomberg by October 17th.

Of the 50 that were selected, 25 will be winners.

This 25 winners will receive a million dollars to continue to evolve and deliver on the project and the idea, as well as two fully funded FTE for two years.

So what is Beaverton's idea and what challenges does it address?

Well, the challenge we are addressing is that the lack of a tenable homes in Beaverton significantly impacts seniors, young professionals, and young families.

We have directly heard from businesses that they struggle to attract young talent to the high due to high housing costs.

But above all, we did not want to simply create more housing.

We wanted to create the infrar at the infrastructure, an environment that will facilitate a true sense of belonging.

An environment where the developer, the community, and the city are equal players in the development cycle.

The opportunity the city has is to craft a program to proactively support middle housing development in walkable neighborhoods with amenities available nearby.

By helping connecting the dots between landowners, developers, lenders, and the community.

In this case, the community means an identified group, benefiting from the development, such as seniors, families, etc.

And to ensure the city's processes are clear and supportive.

Components of this program will include identifying land suitable for this effort.

Generally, this will be a vacant land close to urban services such as bus lines, shopping, and stores or facilities that provide for daily needs.

And this vacant land could also be part of a larger parcel that is underutilized.

Also, we would uh another component is engaging folks who are interested in being part of this kind of community building development, co-design based on their needs and priorities in the housing units as well as the in the immediate community.

Working with developers to ensure what is being envisioned can meet the housing needs of the overall program in terms of moderate cost housing.

Ensuring Beaverton's review process is clear and inviting to potential developers, and using a portion of the Bloomberg uh challenge funding to offset costs, uh possibly as a creating a pre-development loan fund, some payment assistance, both or more case study.

Um we are while we are developing the program, we are using the El Sister Center as the mayor mentioned, uh site as the case study site.

As this provides a real-world scenario for what the program needs to consider.

This does not mean that any decision has been made to develop at this site, simply that we are using this as a what if for innovative thinking, a way to test our assumptions and refine the program we are developing.

We took the original notion of chat and of challenge and opportunity to ideas camp in Bogota in July.

We investigated our idea further.

One of the most valuable takeaways was the shift from a broad policy concept to an on-site prototype.

Tangible way to test our idea in the real world was still informing the citywide strategy.

We were encouraged to test our riskier assumptions early, like whether co-housing is truly more affordable, or whether seniors would want to co-own and co-design a community.

We also learned that storytelling is a strategy.

Bloomberg wants to feel the heartbeat of our city.

Why this idea matters now?

Who is it for?

That's why we center recent voices and focus on building trust through transparency.

Finally, we left Bogota with a renewed sense of urgency and possibility.

Cities around the world are facing similar challenges, and we have a unique opportunity to lead by showing what's possible when a city listens deeply, tests boldly, and builds with its people.

Since returning, uh we've been exploring, updating, and refining our idea as we talk with different people who have shown an interest and perspective on this possible.

This has included meetings with the housing technical advisory group in August and also September, the friends of the El Sister at the retreat on September 8th, the Council on Aging on the 10th, a resident group from the Barcelona apartments of September 11th, community follow-up conversations on both September 18th, also with the senior studies institute at the Portland Community College.

Some of the questions we are exploring through these conversations are what are people looking for?

What would motivate someone to how do we achieve moderate cost housing?

What do developers need?

How can the city provide?

How can the city incentivize development?

How do we build community?

Some of what we've learned is that people are very, very interested in this work, but this kind of community could be.

We also talk with banks and lenders, and um they're open to financing co-ops and trust if the governance is clear and teams are experienced.

Uh they do have pre-development loans, um, but uh which uh they are possible, even more so if they it's a city guarantee or there's some other type of uh collateral.

They need to have a track record and risk mitigation um very very important for for so as we said at the beginning, this is a fast moving project.

In the two months since Ideas camp, we've had a dozen different community engagement meetings, many conversations with developers that have allowed us to regular regularly test and refine our ideas.

We're about to turn from the testing and refining effort into pulling materials together for the final application due that application is very prescribed by Bloomberg uh which set questions and responses length predetermined.

There's word count for every answer that we have we know that Bloomberg Philanthropist is looking for projects that are innovative and replicable.

We believe that our idea is both a decision being made to continue the case study work to an eventual development on the mansion site.

Uh staff will work on an IGA to be brought to council and THP to the THP THP R D board for that I think.

Thank you for that, Javier.

I would uh a few other things from my perspective is that um you know the city and land ownership is our biggest problem, and a lot of the problems that we're trying to solve.

When we looked back at the list of affordable housing projects that we did together, the city was a partner in the purchasing of all of that land.

We did a lot of the negotiations.

We know a lot of affordable housing projects don't work for less than 300,000 dollars of gap funding.

That's why SDC waivers are so important to the work.

So trying to do and purchase and be in the process is a challenging aspect for the city.

So we know we need requirement.

Our hope would be that a similar figuring this out would allow us to do other partnership with like the school district on their properties, stuff like that.

We have to look at every available space because the one thing that we've done really well as a city is build very big parks and very big school lots, and they're hard like a lot of them are very underutilized.

So we're hoping to create something meaningful in this space for our our elders and be able to make this applicable to other spaces that we have in co-ownership.

Councilor Hartmeyer, Prig.

Thank you.

I had a couple questions.

Um can you remind me, Javier, if if the city of this project were to be selected, what can the million dollar go towards is the continuation of the project development?

We're working on that budget right now, but uh what we envisioned, please find um that some of those resources will help fund this uh pre-development loan fund, that there'll be a revolving fund for developers.

Um also could um help with down payment assistance to make some of those units affordable for households under 100 or 120 percent of the area median income.

Um, and help us actually market this program and be you know, what we've learned is is important.

We all know this is telling the story, be able to being good at telling the story and and how good building in Beaverton is and how accessible it is, and that there's available available land that is ready for developers to take.

So is part of the final application is like it's your budget.

Oh, okay, very cool.

Um, and I just have to ask because I'm very like geographically and directionally challenged, but when I look at these concepts, if I were to extend the picture of one of them to the right, I still see the LC STER facility, correct?

This isn't taking over the whole campus.

Okay, thank you.

So this is just a front, so we're looking at just the frontage of the site that's all green space right now.

That's kind of that space I use.

Okay, beautiful.

Thank you.

Okay, I think it nicely happy.

Happy.

Gosh.

Okay.

So for you mentioned um middle housing and affordability.

Does that mean there's gonna be like some kind of deed restriction that keeps that at an affordability level, much like affordable housing does in itself.

So one of the things, one of the key components of the Bloomberg Challenge to make sure it's replicable in order for us to be able to have some type of deed restriction, we'll have to build.

That's why I mentioned in terms of the budget of let's say 20 units that get built.

We'll be looking at maybe with some assistance having two or three of those units affordable.

The difference is that if you look at what's being built in Beaverton right now, there's nothing under 800, 900 million dollars.

So in this type of housing development, in field housing, costs are more like three, four hundred, five hundred.

That's what we're estimating that we're hoping for, obviously.

That's the difference, I think, with this the price point would drop from what is currently being.

And there's not a way to deed restrict it that it's like can only go up a certain percentage to keep it affordable for future turnover of property.

Not on those units, only the ones that we provide SSO.

Okay.

Then that would be and then is and you I don't know if this was mentioned, but is it are we thinking that this is all for seniors, or this is gonna be open to kind of anybody who wants to come.

So the idea that we went with because of the El CER and what's around is that 55 over 55.

Okay.

55.

Okay.

Thank you.

Was it were you first?

Uh counsel or I'm sorry, board president.

Thank you.

Um I was really glad to see the uh the words belonging and community in in this um in this presentation that you shared, because I think you know that um as I've gotten to know the LC STER Center, you know, I think that is the most essential um aspect of the STER Center.

Um that we as a board and me personally, I don't want to speak for the board.

Um that I think is my responsibility to kind of protect and look out for um is that um is that connection, and I think um you heard me earlier um in this session talk about my pride in the um in the levers that we as a parks district can pull to affect um uh Beaverton's affordability.

Um I am a a believer in the value of abundant housing.

Um, and I think but um for me the thing I will be most focused on is probably just um um ensuring that we preserve at a minimum the um the current community, the current sense of belonging, the current programming and offerings, and hopefully enhance with the addition of uh of potentially other community members.

Um that the sense of community, the current programming and the accessibility of what's on site now is um uh paramount importance for me.

Um and so those are things, but I was I I was really touched by the way that the presentation focused and it sounds like the application will focus about the community that is built, it's not just bricks and mortar dumped onto a site and let's see what happens, whatever.

Um I'd love to s learn more as I learn more about it and see what that how that looks in the details, but those are my early impressions, and I want to thank um you all for focusing on that.

I do I do want to add just one more important part before everyone goes on.

That one of the things we're trying to accomplish is that we just sat here and talked about the SDC waivers and how challenging that is to do that.

The city's involvement in affordable housing is like 10x that tough decision.

Um it's hard for us to do affordable housing because it costs so much for every single one of these projects that had SDC waivers, the city probably bought the land, waived all of our SDCs, used all of our in-house expertise, did all the bridge loans.

Um, every single project requires millions and millions of millions of millions of dollars of subsidy to go in it, and we want to be able to afford more affordable housing, but we're like you, we're at our cap.

What we're trying to create are products that don't require deep government subsidy that can happen in the market without all of us having to dump tons in, because as we know what's happening with affordable housing projects, is that they're starting to become the price of so that like the rent is starting to reflect market because it's costing so much to build.

So what we're trying to do is create a program that could exist without a lot of deep subsidy.

Otherwise, we can only like we can celebrate the four buildings we built, but that's gonna be the end of it.

So board member minor.

Thank you.

Um first I'll echo sentiments of President Moreno.

Thank you for really indexing on community.

I think that's 100% what you're going to hear from me and how I am rooted in this.

The conversation that we had right before this was about our shared engagement and belief of S SDU SDCs and our affordable housing joint venture and how can we expand.

And then ironically, here we are, da-da.

How can we do that?

So at a high level, when I hear us say things like, again, this is to drive innovative innovative thinking, what are the roadblocks?

I think from a high level perspective, I am so excited to see something that is incredibly creative, innovative, um, thoughtful and collaborative.

What I struggle with is that we're we we we talk about LC STER as a place and we talk about it as it's even out of frame in the pictures that we've seen here.

And to me, it represents so much more than just a building.

And I recognize that my familiarity with the store center has become quite personal with with my mom aging and my mom tapping into those services just this past weekend.

Um there was an entire fair that was held at LC Store, and my mom got her flu shot, her COVID shot, and then they had an emergency preparedness class.

And so, of course, she had more information to come home, and she said she thought she had it all, she didn't have what she needed.

Um, and so I think what is hard in this is it's it's not a this or that.

It is a yes, I love this idea.

Is this the right place?

And I think I still just struggle with this feeling like it kind of has come over the top and it meets these the the criteria.

But if I'm coming at it through the lens of how many people benefit from this space, and if I have an entire community of of seniors who are concerned about where they're going to park, are concerned that we eat up all of the green space um that they enjoy that is the front yard, the living room to their community center for what I believe is a smaller amount.

I I don't know exactly looking at the different ideas here of how many people would be housed and and and what this would unlock and then the future availability to test.

And I love that this is a use case.

Um, but I think I do just struggle with um conceptually a use case.

This idea is beautiful, and we've picked a selection of a of a spot that for me I still just struggle with the implications to our our elder communities.

Jeff, I appreciate that feedback.

Um, I I do want to mention a couple things as well.

Uh when THPRD bought this property, it was with the agreement that we would explore housing together.

And so we're trying to do opportunity.

We're also trying to the zoning in that neighborhood is actually six stories.

And I think what would people would like less is a six-story building in front.

And so we're trying to address multiple needs at the same time with understanding that we sold and agreed to the property sale to talk about housing.

For us, LC Store is the focal point of it.

Um, the best way to retain senior services there is by providing senior services, which is why we have we've built our other affordable senior housing project two blocks away.

We believe that putting seniors in the core of our downtown is the best thing to do because of transportation, the access the farmers market.

So we definitely understand the value of LC store.

We to us it is about enhancing it or making it better.

Um the reality is this is an urban environment and it's it's close to five acres when we add everything in.

So it's not if the neighborhood is going to develop it is when, and if we do want to protect it for seniors, we have to plan with them in mind.

And so we could go back and do a big large-scale uh housing project in it, but I don't feel like that's the direction the community would like us to go.

But I'm here to learn some more.

Counselor Duggar Yeah, thanks for thanks for this.

What I was gonna say earlier.

Um led beautifully into this, is I live three blocks from this.

I walk every day with my dog.

Um a lot of seniors driving in and parking.

But we'd probably love to be this is gonna be the center of what I would call the senior hood, right?

Like it is um incredible spot we're building with our affordable housing.

Um I love the collaboration and the idea here.

Um I do share some concerns, um, most of which are around, and maybe this is a question for Javi here.

Is there a model where instead of deeding public land over, is there like a land lease model for housing units that could could be deployed here?

There definitely is uh in terms of um land trust or lands component on I understand that land costs are a significant cost of the housing total picture, right?

Like it's the actual cost of the land.

So I I I do hear from people on like um particularly some of our bureaus stuff on like like transitioning public property over to private hands is is problematic in some ways.

So I'm like, maybe this is an opportunity for us to to get some housing out of here, but also do like a dollar lease for 99 years kind of thing.

Maybe there's an interesting aspect here.

The other thing I think um that I would really be curious if we could explore here is a lot of times we do stick built housing and it takes a long time.

And I've seen other communities that have done modular housing that is much quicker to deploy, much more affordably done.

Uh and is to me when I first heard the word modular housing, I was like, oh, do you mean like a mobile home?

It that's not what it is at all, right?

Like it is a very different aspect.

And I think there's some opportunity for us if we're if we're serious and I am absolutely serious about affordable housing for seniors.

That was my comment.

Uh that's why I get credit for all of this.

Uh uh, but but because there's such an incredible need.

We also know the loneliness epidemic with with when your kids move out, your your partner has health problems, maybe they pass, like all these things, like these are problems that are real.

I think uh I love the innovation.

First of all, I want to I want to give you and your team kudos.

This is exactly what I would love to see as both a resident of of uh uh of THPRD's district as a city councilor and as a resident of the neighborhood.

Like this is the kind of stuff we need.

I see it desperately.

Um I do think there's some innovation here with with the major housing or different types of housing, land leases I think would be really cool here.

Um and just you know, I I will say this, this is only anecdotal.

As someone who walks by this at least twice a day, at least twice a day, every single day rain or shine.

I do rarely see people out on the actual grass.

I see people utilizing the playground a lot, but I think my dog is the only thing in the neighborhood that uses that grass, and it seems like a big waste of space to me for us to just utilize grass for that.

Uh I know it's got to be a big maintenance cost too.

So if we could do some of this, I also think about uh uh you you guys showed the slide earlier with with kind of that urban plaza like built into housing, like some of that land in there between if we're really innovative here could just be plaza E, plaza-ish, because I I do think you know, like we can sell this as an expansion of LC Store, right?

Like we're creating intentional spaces instead of just grass, because the grass isn't being used a lot, but but I think if we actually created curated spaces amongst these housing options, that could be a really great opportunity for our senior neighbors.

That's a lot.

Um I think this was a really great way of ideating.

Um I see that it's pretty thorough.

Uh one thing I am relieved uh to hear is that this is gonna be a senior community as well, uh, which I that was something that I was I was concerned about, uh especially considering the um I have a couple of questions.

Um first is um I think mayor briefly said will the facility give access to our residents and the LC star to use the amenities?

So it will there be a shared, you know, kind of shared amenities between between the two facilities.

The site itself at we really have not designed the site.

Uh power beds or or uh community garden type of uh or barbecue table.

Um that's the uh the extent of the amenities that the um there are I think uh there may be a covered area where it's definitely kind of like a plaza type of component that I'm sure would be whatever gets created would be owned by the people that purchase on that site, and so there will be that that would be something that would would be have to be negotiated with THBRD in terms of uh flexibility with that use.

But as I mentioned, a lot of the things that we've been doing is mostly about design uh needs uh for those that w would want to live there.

Uh we have not gone beyond that in terms of what kind of ownership structure, um really we have not delved into that yet.

That there is a zoning six stories.

How tall are these uh structures that are here in the so we the there's um I think the proposed uh design, most of them are single story, so there's not uh there may be one uh two-story building because we heard uh throughout all those groups that I mentioned that we have talked to.

So in each one of them, there were at least two or three people that said, I would love to have a two-story house.

Just because to have my kids visit me and stay um, but the vast majority said not one level and that's what we want.

So in order to be responsive to kind of this design by community component, is we wanted to make sure we address those those needs that we've heard.

Last one.

Um the the million dollar is for the the winner takes the million dollars, right?

Yeah, I I think um and you mentioned that the budget is being prepared for what it will take to execute this project.

Is that budget gonna be part of the submission, or will that happen if context the contest?

So I think there's two separate things.

One is the million dollars that when we are selected, because I think we will be selected as one of the 25 cities.

Um we have to tell Bloomberg how we would spend a million dollars.

And so that's we're saying some of that money could be spent on a creating uh revolving uh pre-development loan.

Some of that money could also be used for dump payment assistance to make some of those housing units affordable.

Um in terms of the budget overall development budget of the site itself, we have not developed that because to be able to develop a budget for that site, we need to know exactly what what's the design.

So then we can start seeing okay, how much would it cost.

I do think we did we have a longer vision um to do more of a master plan like a campus on the site, right?

You have two churches.

THBRD has the first right of refusal and purchase.

Um, when Governor Kotec was the speaker of the house, she passed the law that affordable housing can be built on church owned property, which wasn't allowed in Oregon prior to that.

So I definitely think there's future conversations with the two churches around affordable housing there to make it more of a community feel with LC Store being the middle piece of it.

Um we can't in this short of a timeline master plan an entire campus, and that would require a lot of input from the elected officials.

So that's why it's the focus on the front and maybe why it feels cut off because our first conversation was about a campus, and I I want us to go there because it also fits THPRD's lexicon and how you do things, but we don't control all of that.

What you disagree?

You guys call all your things campuses.

Yeah, okay.

Um but we can't we can't control the destiny of property that you don't own and we don't own.

That would take future negotiation.

But I think the long-term vision and the smartly and under Doug's leadership, you negotiated the first right of refusal there.

So you could have that future growth opportunity.

See how I did that.

Uh Miles.

I'm happy to go here.

Um I'll try not to be super redundant.

Uh I did want to echo Counselor Duggar again.

Uh the modular homes makes me super excited.

Um it also in the lens of climate and lowering uh carbon.

Um I think uh pursuing modular homes will be really helpful as uh a community as we pursue more carbon neutral uh housing opportunities uh in in our districts.

Um the other thing that I want to dive in on is uh a comment about uh how happy I am that developers have been a part of the conversation, um and it sounds like they will continue to be um at the table.

Um kind of playing off of what you were saying, uh Mayor Beattie there.

Uh building more affordable houses for the middle has to happen in the market and without government subsidies, and we need to make sure that developers are being a part of the conversation.

Um, because I've had a lot of conversations with them.

They do not like SDCs, they don't like uh as we've heard uh they want quicker permits, all these things, and it's all understandable, so we need to continue to uh build that partnership up.

Um the other thing that I would note is that um I am a big fan of the case study, the focus uh here with the LC still uh LC steal stewer center and this location that we're looking at.

I think it's it's the right decision um for where we're at right now.

Um and I love the opportunity that opens for uh the continued work for uh middle housing in this area.

I moved to this area about 10 years ago, right out of college.

Um in that time I've been a renter and continue to be a renter.

Um the conversation about owning a home is not something that's really on my mind.

Um I've ranged from having two to six uh additional roommates at the different times that I've lived in this community.

Um it's difficult uh to think about owning a home here.

Um I would love not just for myself but for others uh who have come and uh am a part of uh that are a part of this growing community to have the opportunity uh to look at home ownership in one way or another uh to be in their future.

And I think this is a really great step uh that is very mindful of our community as a whole.

Uh so yeah, big fan.

Be sorry, I'm talking.

Okay.

Um as far as this idea in L C STER, I'm very supportive of the um collaboration between the two.

I also echo Miles.

I think LC STER is the perfect location for it.

I think for your case study site, this is innovative, it has the opportunity, and the prototype is really getting a community center and focusing housing around that community center, so it's all community-based.

So you have living along with some place that people can feel welcomed, gather, connect with people.

And so, you know, you talked about school districts and stuff.

If you have like family middle housing there on a school district, um counselor Hassan mentioned, you know, immigrant housing.

If we create like an immigrant, you know, community center, and that focuses those kinds of housing so that people have easy access to to feel belonging to get assistance when needed.

So I'm super supportive of this idea and and I know um ready to kind of help and move this along.

My only um concern would be for affordability moving forward, and that would be the challenge for your team moving forward.

Um I know you mentioned assistance, but you also mentioned having government stay out, and I think the if you're gonna offer you know subsidy insistance, that's something that you have to continue to partake in every time the it's exchanged to continue to make it affordable.

So I would challenge something like a land lease or something like a deed restriction that would continuously keep it affordable for the for the future of whether it's like 60 years, much like affordable housing.

Um I think in that way you can stay off government can keep do all the restrictions and then kind of step back and whether it's like it can only go up a certain amount for you know however many years so that people are still able to make back money when they sell and can still turn a profit, yet it stays affordable for the next person to purchase.

I think um that's something that uh I would challenge the city of Beaverton to do going forward.

But I think your wonderful case study idea is the prototype of the community center and building around it and ensuring that the community center is a focal point, which LC STER is the focal point for many seniors.

So we we're we're definitely uh exploring those options and we have used um uh habitat as a model for how it's done.

And so we've been working the questions we've had with banks is we've also had super wonky, which these presentations are not wonky in the details, but trust me, I'm a wonky person.

We've been talking about assumable mortgages, which is how people bought mortgages in the 80s, um, and how it often keeps housing more affordable because you can assume a mortgage at an interest rate from somebody else.

That's how a lot of our parents bought homes in the 80s.

So Javier and I have met and talked a lot.

We've met with board members of credit unions.

Like we are we are thinking the wonky things that you're thinking too, and the land trust would be an aspect of that because it would keep it affordable.

That's how Habitat does it and other people, but it's not regulated affordable housing.

So I just want to make there there is a difference between those two things.

And if we want a house to be 30% AMI, we're gonna be coming back to you for more money.

But every time we do that, this is not really replicatable.

And so a land trust and doing it on government-owned property allows us to take this same concept and apply it to a school district, which I would imagine with how big, and you guys have a joint interest in the schools, housing for teachers.

Teachers cannot afford to live in the communities they work in, but we could build housing nearby.

So I think it has widespread use if we could get it going.

I'm not sure.

Were you first, Counselor Hussen?

Okay, I just want to like make sure I'm understanding bigger picture what's happening.

This is your property, LC Stir.

And we are part of this project with Blueberg where we're looking into housing, and you're kind of like saying, Yeah, it looks cool, but like we got to talk details at some point.

Who owns any decision when we get to that point?

Is that later on, Javier?

It would be a joint decision.

A combined decision.

I would be the board as well as the case.

I just want to make sure like where I'm going because um I think I saw this PowerPoint today, so I'm a little bit preparing on the fly.

Um the million dollars would help pay for some of it if we were to win it, but the rest we would have just to clarify.

Yes.

The million dollars would help not necessarily pay on the development of the site, at least that's not what we're proposing that we would put a certain amount on into the development, but more on the creation of this um sustainable uh program that that like a creation of a pre-development loan fund that developers can access beyond the site into another site, they they can access this fund, be able to do the architectural design, all those things, make sure that the project works, and then when it closes, when they are able to fund the project, pay back that money, and then that can go to another developer on a different site.

So we're saying that some of that money would cede this fund uh in order to be re replicable throughout the city.

So, like if are we walking away today saying that these guys like we're all committing to this, or we're just in an idea phase or conversation phase.

You can submit an application to win.

We can't agree to anything because we don't know what it is, and they're still iterating.

But we at Doug, we've met with THPRD and we've had many conversations at the staff level, so we didn't just pitch this idea out of the blue and just come here and tell everyone.

Um but there's nothing to agree to because if we don't win the money, we probably will still do a similar program, and we would still be under the original agreement that LC Stir would look for housing.

It just might not be this kind of housing, it would likely be more of a big affordable housing project.

Okay, so we're not in an agreement right now, we're just having fun on a Tuesday night.

Okay.

Um I would just my one comment as we're talking about this and thinking about this, and Director Minor, I'm so happy that your mom goes to LC Stir.

Um, you know, I know people that in my family that that don't feel comfortable there.

Um and so I don't think that's not a dig on staff, it's just a general sense of of different communities feeling different levels of belonging.

And so as stakeholder conversations are happening, I ask that we look at what is the aging population look like in 10 or 20 years, because it does not look like who's going there today.

Uh and I and like you're nodding your heads and thank you for that validation.

But how are we bringing those folks to the table?

And just as someone who's very personally right now in like deep caretaking for an elder, like definitely don't want to be part of the stakeholder conversations, but just making sure that that those people are in there because when you go through the process of like you know, bathing a family member or like doing those kinds of things, you you don't even know, and it is probably one of the most vulnerable things that you'll also do, but it's also one of the things that like we need to pull those kinds of voices to the table.

And I think it's great that we have stakeholders.

My concern is are those stakeholders representative of of the people that will potentially use these spaces in 10, 15, 20 years.

Um that was my main thing.

Aging populations evolving, lots of hearts.

Counselor Duggar, you said something about land, and that just like was like I was kind of excited, so I just want to say I'm excited about it.

And that's culturally specific.

That was the big word that I put down here.

So thanks.

Counselor Teter.

Also, this is meant like active housing.

I think, you know, having just lived through caretaking as well, like you know, there's different phases of where it's at, and I don't think this particular project is gonna be aimed at severe caretaking needs, but your point is well taken.

Counselor Teter.

If I could just reply real quick in terms of the the community that we spoke with, um I think I would say that actually the desire for two-story building came from somebody that if you know um somebody that is not typically in part of that community discussions, and they felt this multi-generational component, it's just something that felt that we need to have that because I will have kids.

I will have you know the family over or want to stay with me or live with me.

So yeah.

I could just say I thank you for saying that.

And it made me think of what you said, which is aging is different for everybody.

Um, but I think the loneliness epidemic and and even what we're seeing today in terms of like where people feel their values and opinions are really reflection of living in in bubbles and not being around people and community, and so really emphasizing what community in this looks like.

So I know we're not deciding anything, but I just want to like say that so folks hear it.

Thank you.

Counselor Tetering because as Javier said several minutes ago, uh, we will win.

Uh so we will get to do something really amazing here.

And this is just the beginning phases of that.

Um I've got one question and a few comments.

Uh we passed our housing production strategy here in Beaverton a couple years ago.

Um, has actions we're gonna take over the next several years to create more middle housing and more affordable housing in the city.

One of those actions was that longer term, longer range, so several years away.

That was the permit ready plan sets for middle.

Relatively affordable, or at least pricing, could we use those as permit ready plan sets and add that to our application as another like uh piece of leverage, like, hey, we can do even more bigger catalyst in the future.

We don't have uh ready plans to be able to say to be able to include in the in the application.

I think that as you mentioned.

Counselor Tudor, that this is that this is a long-ridge goal.

That at this point we don't have the capacity to be able to dive into what that what does that look like.

Um but definitely one of the things kind of similar to that is how do we create a in-fuel housing, middle in middle housing development program that kind of provides that speedience that developers are looking for.

And that's one of the things that we heard over and over from developers is I don't know how long it's gonna take in Beaverton.

I know how long it takes it over in these other city, so I feel comfortable with that.

So is how do we create this thing that is transparent that has transparency in terms of how long it will take and they feel comfortable with it.

And my question there wasn't specifically about getting permit ready plants that's as part of the application, but saying in our argument, one of our lessons learned as a result of this is that hopefully these whatever the permeated designs will be, we can replicate uh and share them more readily with other developers in the future.

Um really excites about excites me about this is not just the location, which I think is really great, but it's the opportunity to be a catalyst for more middle housing throughout the city.

Staff gave us a presentation several months ago about an update on our affordable housing or not affordable housing, our missing middle housing development, and we're really not seeing that much of it.

We're not seeing much in fill development with the exception of the middle housing that's being built in the Cooper Mountain area, uh, basically all from a scratch.

So if we're able to get something here that can be done in downtown Beaverton or in other neighborhoods, like that's a huge win for the city.

So I'm very excited about this.

Um I think the location is I uh is ideal if if it moves forward with that location.

So maybe on the aging presentation, one of the big pieces of feedback that group had was walkability was a huge value.

Uh tree value being close to services was a big value.

And this location is one of the few in the city that we actually have available where we can do something like that.

So I I would really be excited to jump on it.

Um board member ping mentioned uh hangaround services, and we we talk a lot about wraparound services with affordable housing, and that's so difficult to actually fund.

Uh even just getting a child care center and housing that we're trying as great expense to those sorts of so if we're able to flip it and then build housing around the services instead that are already there, that is a big win in my book.

So I'm big supporter of the location of the goals here, and I think that when we get the funding, we'll be able to move forward with some really good.

I think this is a really good starting point.

Dr.

Pink.

Um, I just had one more thing.

I don't know how specific um you guys are with this plan, but since there was a variation with parking, and I know that takes away from housing, but I I would say, especially for a senior um specific place, parking is important to will to allow family to come as you mentioned, but also caregiving for as they age, and they'll need caregivers to come over and help them if they for them to be able to stay in their place.

Um so I would just advocate for some parking rather than it all be walkable.

So a couple closing thoughts on our last agenda item here.

I was thinking about something interesting that happened between the board and us.

One, I think if I were to set up the room, I would have intermixed us a little bit differently, but it created a really good dynamic for me that when we started talking about gain share, we're like, you know, it's 5.7 million, and you guys are like, that doesn't go very far.

And you just gave us 700 ideas, and then we presented you with a million dollar idea in which you guys did the exact same thing and wanted a hundred things added to the list.

And that is totally government.

That's what we do.

I would highly recommend reading the book uh abundance and why things don't work.

And it's really what's kind of started my journey of these questions of understanding like why does housing cost so much?

Why can't we do middle housing?

What are the things that are happening?

Um and a lot of our ideas are are really great and well-meaning, and they add a lot of cost to doing things.

And so what we're attempting to do is figure out a way to bring the house down.

That's what every single one of our residents talks about the cost of be in housing every time we add more to what we want and accomplish the housing rate goes up.

I also sit on the U.S.

Conference of Mayors Housing Task Force.

I'm I'm never a hero in your own hometown, but I'm considered one of the the country's mayor experts on housing.

I go to the White House, I talk about this stuff a lot.

Um the average household in America has 2.1 people in it, and we're building housing so large that part of the housing cost is the housing size we build.

I know where every single one of you live, and I've been well, I don't know where you and your six roommates live, but I know where everyone else lives here, and everyone lives in very large houses, and that's where I'm at with my family right now.

But we've not built anything for people to downsize into or to start a house into, and so that's why middle housing has always been the governor's like number one thing is that we have two ends of the spectrum.

We have people like Miles that's trying to ditch five roommates, and we had someone like mom that my mom that was living in a three-bedroom house in downtown Beaverton, or Barbie's mom that's living in a two-bedroom house in downtown Beaverton.

Um, so we we are starting to think about housing as a spectrum in the city.

It's not just about master planning Cooper Mountain, which is really important to us, but how are we getting in, Phil?

What Bloomberg announced a week ago was that that the winners get two funded FTEs.

We were really excited about this when it was a million dollars.

The city manager got really excited when they said two leaf full funded FTEs for two years.

That's over a half a million dollar of value of stopping.

That staffing will have capacity to work on plan ready sets, and we think that's really sexy, but most cities do it.

That's not gonna push us over the sexy edge.

But we want we know that those staff members will work on stuff like that, and we use the housing production strategy as the framework of how we started this.

So that's full circle.

You have 5.71 uh million dollars of our spending, please do 47 um acres of trail.

We will produce with the one million dollars, 750 units of deeded affordable housing for going on.

So I know.

I know that's why I want my trails out there too.

Um but to close the meeting.

Um pontificate on anything, and we'll go from there.

Uh I think I've pontificated more than enough.

Um but I just uh but I'll pontificate just a tiny bit more.

But I um I I I would love to do this more than every Olympiad, which I think was the last time we got together um uh four years ago.

So um, because I think we do have a lot of uh shared goals and work that we can do together, and it's hard to carve out time to be in the same space.

Um you know, parks and city, I think we need each other.

Um and I think when we operate with mutual empathy for our priorities and um and the populations that we serve, which overlap heavily, um, then I think we can do a lot of of really good things together.

So um uh I look forward to continuing this conversation, which is a challenging one, but uh a very good and and vigorous one, and and more to come in the future.

So thank you.

Uh and open offer to anyone that would like to have coffee and talk about the wonkiness of housing and what it takes.

I would love to do that.

So with that, we are adjourned.

Oh, we're not, you're not.

You are so there you go.

Are you ready?

Yeah.

Can I go?

Uh do you want to give them a minute or I really don't it's such a quick motion.

Oh, really?

Oh.

We would we would definitely welcome THPRT and their fangirls to have conversations in the lobby, but we do have a couple more business items this evening.

Okay.

Okay, so I'm gonna make it.

Oh, yes.

Uh yeah.

Faster I make the motion, the faster we can all go home.

In order to sit down.

We could take it.

Go ahead.

Uh Kimmy.

I move to authorize the city managers to sign a definitive settlement agreement and effectuating the terms of the settlement term sheet reached on September 16, 2025, at the mediation of the litigation captain, the round owners LLC versus City of Beaverton, Washington County, circuit course case number 24 CV51423 in a form approved by the city attorney and to conclude in that agreement the dismissal of the city's third party claims against ABM industry groups LLC.

Second.

We moved by Councillor Hussen and seconded by Councillor Hartmeyer Prigg.

Any discussion on the motion?

Seeing none.

Will the recorder call the roll?

Counselor Duggar.

Yes.

Counselor Hartmeyer Prigg.

Counselor Huston?

Yes.

Counselor Teeter.

Yes.

Counselor Tibanon.

Yes.

Mayor Beatty.

Yes.

Seven, yes, zero, no.

With that.

Yes.

Counselor Kimmy got it.

Apologies, Counselor Kimmy.

Yes.

Thank you so much.

Seven.

Seven, yes, zero, no.

All right.

With that, we're adjourned.

Recording stopped.