This is our long range vision. This is how we anticipate the city being developed and growing over the next 20 years. We are classified as an emerging suburban edge community which means we're experiencing a lot more growth uh than your typical suburban or urban developed community.

Uh committee member, that is a great question. Yes. Um the last cycle the 2040 plan which was done in 2016 to 18 that requirement was three units per acre at that time. So the requirement has increased by a half unit per acre.

The Metropolitan Council, they're telling us, they're telling the city of Victoria that we need to when we develop, we need to have a minimum of 3.5 homes per acre. What can't we say? No, we don't want to do that. we're going to stay at three or we're going to drop it down to two and a half. I mean, I'm trying to figure out what the catch is there because it's our community and I don't you see where I'm going with that?

Yes. Yes. Uh chair and committee members, uh that is a great question and the reason for doing that um and having to comply with that requirement is like I mentioned, they provide sewer to all of the metro and all of the cities. So, um, if a new project came in or even an existing project that maybe needed sewer, if we don't comply with the Metropolitan Council's plan, they can turn off any additional sewer capacity for the city. we won't be able to grow anymore, which affects you as taxpayers and your tax statements because if we don't have development and building permits to add to the general fund to pay for um new infrastructure and all these things, it raises your taxes.

You know, that's one thing that we've talked about um you know, number of meetings back is as each of these developments come up, you know, we've kind of looked at them um at that development and maybe how it ties to existing developments, but it would be this might be an opportunity to look ahead and say, 'Hey, it would be nice to have like a a main trail that goes through this area. So, we kind of have that in mind before we get to the point where uh we're trying to piece things together.'

the one thing that did like stick out to me was even way when that one was published one of the priorities uh for park and wreck was access to water and finding as the city annexes new land, finding opportunities to have like a public access potential for the city of Victoria.

So our 2026 work plan just touching on three kind of like focus areas if you can remember back to when we talked about that. So it was um public engagement for park projects, the west and south growth areas and non-traditional park spaces.

I feel that I've loved our increase in numbers because um people are bringing these different perspectives and pushing members to think differently or about um something new so that um we're bringing like more strength to our meetings. Um even you know disagreements like bring the committee strength...

Other emerging issues. I just have one comment. Um the uh engagement I think's been really good this past year and I know I've and many of if many of you if not all of you have participate in at least one of those events and it's it's good to hear from people in those neighborhoods the things that they're interested in. uh the one thing that I I I think those need to continue but I also think we need to be cautious uh of how we explain things going forward because I think with those we also set an expectation and that expectation is already on top of what the developers expectation has what they've shared with people who move in that neighborhood like okay well you got this parkland and then you know there's I think some residents that are wondering 6 months after the development starts the way the park isn't there yet.