I'm sorry, I'm hearing unless you get order the city council work session.

And uh first on the agenda today is a presentation on from growth growth management on climate friendly Iris.

Welcome.

Uh, Brian Rankin, your long-range planning manager, and joining me tonight at the table.

We have two members of our growth management team.

It's their first presentation to council, so they're very excited about this.

So let me introduce them to you very quickly.

So um excited for them to present um to you on the climate friendly areas study.

We have Elise Vukolic, who is to my right.

And then we have Jennifer now.

Um senior planner in our growth management division.

Uh, both of them, I just want to recognize them first of all because when we started this work in-house a year ago, you know, you imagine these were fresh rules, right?

There were no other examples really out there on how to do this.

And so both of them shown a tremendous amount of tenacity and uh grit and simply learning this and then executing on what I think is um hopefully um a really really fantastic example of a climate-friendly area study that can be used as an example statewide.

That's kind of our hope and intention.

Uh but they both brought you know a tremendous amount of energy and passion to this work.

Um Elise was the project manager, so she had the fun of herding all the city cats and keeping everything aligned, and then Jennifer was the point on our engagement, and uh she did a fantastic job of really getting out there and working with the community um on this topic and other topics.

So after that quick introduction, I just wanted to put this presentation and the project into perspective for you.

So climate-friendly area study is state requirement due by the end of the year.

So we have to submit this study.

It's not binding, it's an exploration, and at least it's gonna go into greater detail there.

But we did this study with the intention of learning and working with the community.

So learning on a factual side, doing a lot of analysis, and then engagement is a big part of this work.

Um, and so in preparation and anticipation of I think a bigger piece of work that's facing our group, the city council and the community in a growth plan that's going to lead growth and and assist with managing growth in the next 20 years.

So you have council goal around that.

You have that plan for growth aligned with CFEX, efficient land supply, complete neighborhoods, economic development.

Um, so this was really a great effort to learn.

Like, okay, what's community thinking?

What are ideas out there?

Um, and to really advance that work.

Um, so we think this is a resource document that we can use going forward.

Um, you also have council goals on accessible and effective government and innovative engagement.

I believe the work and Jennifer will cover this uh embodies uh your aspirations for kind of more on on the ground engagement, um, as well as information sharing between commissions and boards.

So we did something we hadn't done before and brought a bunch of boards together to help us in this work.

Of course, it's consistent with your new policies support sustainable development, and in this project in particular, this is a connection between land use and transportation.

So I know this council is very keen about improved transportation systems, improved by comped, uh coupling that with land use.

So entirely consistent with your council goals and actions, even though it is not necessarily called out specifically.

Um with that, let's see.

Yeah, I think it's a great time to turn it over to Elise.

She's gonna she's gonna kick us off and uh and we'll have plenty of time for QA.

Thank you.

Uh so first, I'm just gonna give a quick reminder of what climate-friendly areas are and why we're doing this.

A climate-friendly area or a CFA, as we tend to call them, is a designated area of the city where people don't necessarily need a vehicle for every single trip that they take.

The idea behind CFAs is that if you design cities so that people have the option to walk, bike, or take transit in addition to driving, cities have the option to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

This study is a requirement.

Um, it's a component of the climate-friendly and equitable communities rules, which say that cities in Oregon have to study and then designate CFAs.

We have a draft of the study online right now and is due at the end of the year.

And as Brian mentioned, this isn't a land use decision, there's no action required on this.

We are just presenting the background work that we completed, um, which you'll use in the future to designate CFAs.

The study identifies 10 candidates, which we have shown on this slide.

And I think one of the most important details about it is that it's an intentionally broad study.

As a city, you could approach this like you could just pick a CFA, study that, kind of select your CFA as part of this process.

Our intention was really to go big and include as many areas as we felt might make sense as a CFA within the study.

I'm gonna talk a little bit about how big CFAs have to be, um, where they could potentially go, and then a couple of ways that they're implemented.

There are sizing requirements that come with CFAs.

Um, for the city of Bend, we need to be able to accommodate 15,366 units.

That number is based on population estimates, so it could change in the future.

And we've determined that this means that we need between 275 and 350 acres of CFAs in Bend.

You'll notice that that number is not fixed, it's a range, and it's a range because it's based on a policy decision.

So on the right side of the slide, um, there's a graphic that kind of explains the two options that dictate the acreage range.