A bill for an ordinance amending Chapter 27 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code concerning housing, revising provisions related to the linkage fee; repealing incentives for affordable housing; and adopting affordable housing requirements applicable to the creation of new dwelling units. Amends Chapter 27 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to revise provisions related to the linkage fee, repeal incentives for affordable housing and adopt affordable housing requirements applicable to the creation of new dwelling units. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-26-22.
Ten eyes council bill 22, Dash 424 has passed. Council members say to Barca, will you please put Council Bill 22, dash 426 on the floor for final passage. I move that council bill 22 dash 4 to 6 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Council Member State Abarca. Your motion to amend. I move that council bill 20 2-4 26 be amended in the following particulars on page nine line four replace accessory dwelling units as defined in Article 11 of the Denver. When I had the option of 400 square feet of gross floor area to an accessory dwelling to an accessory dwelling unit as defined in Article 11 of the Denver zoning code. Thank you. We need a we've got the motion to amend. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded comments by members of Council on the amendment. Council members said. This amendment is based on our conversation in committee. When I aimed to increase the square footage that would be exempt from the linkage fee for an addition and that was denied. This seeks to make 80 use equal to a family trying to add on to their home. Currently, we're exempting 80 use from the linkage fee, but we're requiring people building over 400 square feet onto their house to pay the linkage fee. So this essentially says that an 80 over 400 square feet to we'll have to pay the linkage fee. Thank you. Councilmember CdeBaca And I believe that the feedback that we're hearing, it's cutting out your mike. If we could get you to move off the Zoom platform, it's interfering with the mic system. So we appreciate that. We've got other members in the queue. Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. I'm wondering if I could call Analisa to answer a couple of questions. Thanks for being here with us. Can you talk to us about the decision to exempt. Accessory dwelling units from this policy and why that was included? Thank you for the question. So currently under today's linkage fee accessory dwelling units are exempt. And that was really coming out of an acknowledgment that this is a type of building form and housing type that we want to be encouraging in the city of Denver and not adding additional cost variances or a process to. So that is an existing exemption that we are proposing to carry through. Carry through that already that currently exists, correct. Do you know any other cities that would. Add additional and all the studies that we do, we always. Talked about pure cities. Have you seen. Any other cities. That would have country. Like zoning like. This or policy procedures like this where accessory dwelling units are exempt? And then now we're adding 400 feet to the. Linkage fee to them. Yeah. So once again, there might be a program out there are plenty in our review. We have not found any peer cities that charge linkage fees on accessory dwelling units or similar in the like. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Sandoval. Councilmember Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. The the amendment that Councilwoman CdeBaca is proposing sounds very reasonable to me. Let me ask you a couple of questions, and, Elise, about A, does the exemption for ADOS from the linkage fee, does that apply only to detached? In other words, if a homeowner were building an attached adu or creating an idea in their basement, well, I guess be hard to expand their basement. So let's go with an attached idea. And it was 400 square feet would or it was over 400 square feet. Would that homeowner have to pay the linkage fee? So the current exemption does not differentiate between an attached or a detached stadium. So long as it meets the definition of an accessory dwelling unit, it's exempted. And if I may, I know this wasn't part of your question, but I think what's been described verbally and what's been drafted and provided to us are two different pieces. So if if we can also just clarify what's actually in the draft amendment, that would be fantastic if I can be provided the opportunity. Could you clarify. That for us? So I think what's verbally described is that accessory dwelling units over 400 square feet would pay the linkage fee, meaning if I similar to if I have an existing home that's over 400 square feet of an addition, then that kicks in and pays the linkage fee as as I'm reading the draft and please attorneys clarify I am reading it as accessory. An addition of 400 square feet to an existing accessory dwelling unit would be exempt, which I think is actually the inverse of what we're trying to accomplish here. So as it's drift, it drafted the 80 you would be charged, but then in addition to that, you would not be charged. Just pretty counter and typically don't do additions to Adu. So I just wanted to clarify that because it was a little bit unclear in our review. Can we get a clarification? Because when I read the amendment before the meeting, I read it as being the square footage of a of a detached Adu or in Adu over and above the 400 square feet. And that's is that not how it operates? So I a sense that there are copies of the language from the exemption right before it and the exemption right before it exempts an additional four square feet or less. So this amendment would do what I describe and exempt an additional 400 square feet or less to an accessory dwelling unit. That was not the intent. Okay. So what exactly are we voting on then? I'm sure what would it take for you to update that so that it's any ADU over 400 square feet would have to pay the linkage fee? I can I can change that language right now. Thank you. All right. Do we need to take a recess and be able to do that so that the rest of the council members understand what exactly were voting on this amendment? The motion on the floor? No. Yeah. We'd recommend a recess. Okay. Oh. We do need a vote to recess, though. Yes. All right. Great. May I get a motion to take a recess? All right. Second, thank you. Madam Secretary. But. I CdeBaca I when. I. Turned in. No. Hines No. Can each now. Ortega, I. Everyone. Openness. Sandoval? No. Sawyer, I. Torres. I. Madam President. I'm Madam Secretary. Close the voting and announce the results. In none. I am sorry. My case. I changed my vote. I was. I was confused. Before you announce the results, Madam Secretary, Councilmember Sandoval would like to change your vote. Yes, I. I like me. And now I'm my. And Ortega was a yes. Sandoval. I'm sorry. One more time. Yours is a no. I'm a yes. Yes. Okay. With some vocab. Okay. Yeah. It looks like we have everything. We have three knees and eight eyes. All right? Eight eyes we will take. Is 10 minutes enough time, angel. That should be playing. All right, great. We will take a ten minute recess and please be back in your seats by 10:51 p.m.. Thank you. The. 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That's why we are called the buffalo people. Yeah. So we're seeing here today seem to them in coming them down here they they their roots, I guess their instincts of being indigenous and everything. And we're here to help them and we're gifting the buffalo to the reservations where they can be, be over there and roam free and give back to the people and get back to Mother Earth. On Monday, March 21st, Denver donated 33 young snorting bison to members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes in an effort to restore the iconic animals to their tribal lands. In 2020, I ran the ordinance that established a land acknowledgment for Denver City Council. And it's just it's just something that reminds us of where we are and who came before us and and moreover, what our responsibility is to to honor and recognize that. And so that's a nod to our indigenous. Ancestors and those who, um. Who lived in Denver and Colorado before it was Denver. And, and today what results is we're in the second year of the Bison donation program, which was inspired by that land acknowledgment because it inspired Parks and Recreation to say, you know, we don't have to be auctioning off bison, we should be donating them to indigenous tribes or reestablishing the herds around the country. And so that's what we worked on together last year. To read words that are on the paper. The land acknowledgment doesn't mean a lot until you really take action. And so the bison, the buffalo are part of the land. So for us to be able to transfer these bison back to tribes across the nation to help them either improve their herd health or to actually start new herds is pretty amazing work that we're able to do. So our goal with this is to try to increase sustainability and genetic diversity among conservation herds across the country, specifically focusing on tribal herds and supporting the efforts of tribes to. Restore bison to their lands. A lot of times. You talk about things and this is actually fitting action to them and to see how. Think for the nation through the tribal. Times where it was just a once in a lifetime opportunity. Honestly, I've never seen anything like this happen on Pakistan, and this is really heart wrenching, just heartwarming. The Intertribal Buffalo Council, dedicated to restoring Buffalo to reservations, has returned about 20,000 bison. Some are used for meat, some for ceremonies, some for economic development. But for many, simply sharing the land again with animals they consider sacred. Is satisfaction enough? The significance of these ceremonial things goes back to the heart of who we are and our creation stories. What the buffalo means to us in our creation stories and as our lives are nurtured by their very existence and their. Why not? Our spirit remains strong with us, and we will hold them sacred truly throughout our lives. This is what we should have been doing. Decades. For decades. As owners and as stewards of these wonderful animals. Returning them as we had nurtured them and raised them. But returning them back to our indigenous leaders of this land, the caretakers of this land. These are. As pointed out. Your spiritual animals. It was important for me to be here to not only welcome the bison, but also to help journey them back to the reservation. Today, we're going to have a ceremony back home with them as well. And it's just going to be a welcoming and it's just exciting for the youth that everybody be a part of this. As the animals were brought to the transport trailers, their hooves echoed like thunder across the park. A circle of young men pounded drums and raised their voices in honor of the bison. One woman spoke indigenous words of comfort to ease the beasts in preparation for the journey home. This was. Stay elevated by subscribing to the city's YouTube page and stay tuned to our social media channels for more content. Don't miss our new episodes of Elevating Denver premiering each month. Thanks for watching Denver. Here's what's coming into view on elevating Denver. Denver's Department of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency is working hard to ensure a climate safe future by helping the city meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions completely by 2040. Certifiably Green Denver or CGD, is designed to assist in achieving these goals by helping businesses reduce their environmental impact and become more energy efficient and less wasteful , all at no cost to the business itself. Almost 2000 businesses of all sizes and shapes have benefited from the program. Claims William Powdery Harris I am. The generation Paula Dorey going on 97 years in business here. The generations ago came here to North Denver, started making sausage. You know, I kind of had this family recipe that kind of snowballed into making its way into grocery stores and eventually growing to the company that we are today. Sustainability is something we pride ourselves around here, so it felt like the right thing to do. We reached out to Certifiably Green Denver. We were like, Hey, how do we get the ball rolling on this? They worked with us, helped us, you know, check those criteria boxes off and we became certifiably green. Denver. I'm Kathleen Cronin. I'm the executive director of Earthlings. Earthlings. We started to connect people and bring people out from their isolation. Re reconnect folks that are homeless into the mainstream community and to allow people to move forward and get stabilized in their lives. We have a very high success rate on moving people from being unhoused to housed about 70% per year. EarthLink says part of his mission is to care for Earth. That's one of the that is the main thing we feel connects everyone together is to care for our common planet, earth. And so for many years, we've tried to be as green as we possibly can. And we found out about this program. So we decided to apply and it's been very helpful to us. So we're grateful. The program works in several ways. First, a team of experts will help a business create a plan to achieve sustainability goals at their own pace, including how to be more energy efficient and conservative with water use. The big step in the program comes from being fully certified. To achieve this, businesses must complete a list of criteria in five different categories designed to improve efficiency across all areas of the business. Put the LED lights around our facility where applicable. So with our six main freezers, the energy compressors we've modified to make them efficient, we work with a local company scraps to compost any leftover meat. We're moving towards bike racks. We currently provide all of our employees with RTD bus passes. And then it has allowed us to be able to say, you know, maybe we're not so good in this one area and we could do some improvements. So we've improved some of our composting techniques. And we've also looked at some of the. Things that happened. In the garden in terms of stormwater or drainage water to make sure that we're doing that. Properly. The benefits of the program are many. The staff can connect you to rebates, financial incentives and partners to help meet your goals. Plus, it's free and the staff will be with you the whole way. They're super helpful. You know, if we ever, you know, have troubles coming up with new ideas to implement, to be sustainable and within our own company, you know, they always have new, fresh ideas. The CGD staff is also working to push out funding to ensure equity across the program by providing an increase in services and supplies to help small minority and women owned businesses achieve their sustainability goals. There's also financial benefits to running an energy efficient business. Low flush toilets. In the sinks that we have, we've seen water bills go down, you know, with the energy efficient lights. We've seen our energy bills go down. So those are just kind of a lot of the great things we've seen come out of the program. And the benefits after certification are even greater. CGD certification comes with free advertising promoting the certified business as well as the tackle too affixed to their front door. This helps like minded customers and other businesses connect with these green operations. Well, the certification itself is wonderful. I think the real piece would be that we could also join with other folks in Denver that are trying to move towards a greener Denver. And so in that sense, the collaboration opportunities for us with other businesses and entities will be very important to us as we move forward. We encourage all of our vendors and all of our customers to do so. One of our space companies that we purchased our spices through Rocky Mountain Spice, they actually became certifiably green Denver after we, you know, kind of encouraged them to. So they kind of followed in our footsteps in that aspect. If you have a business that's interested in becoming more sustainable and help the city achieve its climate goals. Go to certifiably green Denver Dawg. To get started. I think it's just important that people know about us, but also know that maybe some of these things anyone can do and we really all have to work together to bring us into the the climate goals that the city has. It's very important for the city to be a leader in this in this area. Stay elevated by subscribing to the city's YouTube page and stay tuned to our social media channels for more content. Don't miss our new episodes of Elevating Denver premiering each month. Thanks for watching Denver. Here's what's coming into view on elevating Denver. When we think about fashion, typically people start to think about New York, Milan, Paris, London, right. So what does Denver have to offer? And I think that in order for those four cities, those big cities, to have new, fresh talent, they look to smaller markets and smaller demographics. So what we can offer is, is a platform for emerging talent that maybe just doesn't have that capability of being noticed in those larger cities. And we can give those emerging stars that that time. I'm Hailey Hota, and I am the runway producer and director for Denver Fashion Week. Tonight actually is all about local couture. So we're going to focus tonight on original pieces. So each individual piece, there's nothing else like it, right? That's what couture means, that there's one of a kind. So each segment is going to be very individual all the way from, you know, somewhat wedding dresses all the way down to, you know, corsets and things like that. So pottery can really mean anything. My name is Cora Varsano, and I'm the designer of Avocado Designs. I grew up in Lakewood. My parents still live in the same home that I grew up in, actually. So I started designing a year and a half ago. I have a love of, like, sixties movies, a little old school glam, I would say. So my first two gowns, the whole point of it was bold and beautiful. Pretty much the glamorous elegance of the sixties, like Hollywood sixties. And then I brought that into this new collection. The funniest thing that I do when I make dresses that I watch Golden Girls the whole time, don't ask me why. That's just my go to. But I feel like once I'm in it, it's just like you just keep going. So I feel like I can make them pretty quickly. It was probably about two months ago that I said I would do it. So it's been a whirlwind of making ten gowns, but it's come along pretty well, I would say. So yeah, I think it's important to highlight local talent and because, you know, local designers, they're artists, right? Like we hear this about artists all the time, starving artist. But it's the only the only that because they don't know the resources, they don't know where to start. So creating a platform where they can actually come together with a community of like minded individuals, they can get the resources that maybe they didn't know were accessible to them. So what we do is create a stage for that emerging talent to know where to go next and how to elevate each time that they do. I feel like the platform is huge because there's not a lot of fashion going on in Denver in this kind of realm. A lot of people are trying to start runway shows, but really Denver Fashion Week is the first one that actually did one and has done it pretty well and has gotten a lot of people to it. So I feel like for designers, it's kind of like your moment for a Denver fashion in general to like actually show what you have. A lot of people get to see your designs. I feel like ever since a lot of the pictures are on the pamphlets and on their Instagram and things like that, a lot of people have reached out to me about my designs. So that's been like a great way for me to be able to talk to people about that and kind of show more of my designs that people usually wouldn't see. But everyone's been so nice and really welcoming, which has been really awesome. And all the models are so great and really excited. I'm really happy to see it all come together. So inclusivity is actually the center of Denver Fashion Week. So what we offer to models is a fully inclusive platform that we have, you know, models from all all creeds, all colors, all heights, all sizes. We do not cast based on anything other than confidence and conviction. So really, if you think it, it's pretty possible. So if you want to come out in model, like we just tell anyone and everyone that you can have that chance and that opportunity. So our nonprofit this year is Dress for Success. Denver And they're actually very on par with supporting women. Get professional attire and support for going on job interviews or honestly just going out in the workforce. It's kind of like sometimes, again, we don't know what resources we have or what to do with those resources. So to be able to have someone to go to is such a huge thing, especially when you go to a job interview and you have a brand new jacket or a brand new shirt. It does something mentally to you. It's not just fashion, right? So I think that dress for success Denver is an amazing partnership for a nonprofit this season. If you've never been to a Denver Fashion Week runway experience, expect to be excited because honestly, every single night is centered around a different theme because it's for everyone, right? We have all the kids show street, wear couture. So really it could be something brand new to you that maybe you're just like, I just want to try this night. But I definitely think originality, excitement, creativity and community. I think that especially after the past few years, community is such a huge thing that we've all been lacking. And I don't want to speak for everyone when I say I'm very excited to bring these creatives together again and be able to have us back on the runway doing what we love. Stay elevated by subscribing to the city's YouTube page and stay tuned to our social media channels for more content. Don't miss our new episodes of Elevating Denver premiering each month. Thanks for watching Denver. But as I mentioned to some of you, I started reading your search results. Showed me sales figures for the last two years. The last three characters compared to 340. Parcels in the city that have been sold. And I had used actually two years on and the median sales price for. Those partial is 900 and thousand. So the addition of you to the problem rate increases. The value I want to resell. Who are the potential buyers? They are not people in the market or in publishing. So I think it's only fair that when you start in construction are you that is over 430. That it should be treated the same as a homeowner who is in an order to buy. According to our verbiage, they're all for essentially the same first house apartment. And for that reason, I was talking. And you can. That's why I replied. The Examiner doesn't appear to help know as well. I didn't support. The prior version that expanded the parameters of the square footage that didn't pass. And I noted that I don't. I feel like this is punitive in making use of that. Same square footage and for different people, I suppose, to make. Sure folks are. Able to stay in the community. So I don't think. All right, us. Out there, that is. She was going to your house and not including you because of the requirement that an. Interview has to be considered. So this is the spirit of dating. People with less financial resources. That's why I think it's important. I just have seen entertainment in bring back the increasing the earlier version and increase the issue of the House to 800 square feet. Right now it's coming down to an option that doesn't allow us to speak. To be heard by the people. Fighting for it. They don't know. Objection to. Response to. Capital requirements. And I agree with Elfman's political philosophy about God exists for all of the reason that they've seen us now. I also think it's important to note that. While we as a city government are hoping to of. To build a use. For affordable housing. Many people in our city who are building these units are holding up. Using the research requirements. So, you know, I think that there's got to be a balance here somewhere. And I think this works. And so I have a good balance. Yes. All right. However, I often. I don't think that we should go down something for everyone. Because some people use. Crisis. Community Member. Pine Valley Secretary. Roll Call on event. Steve Walker, I. When I heard, you know how I know Canadians know. Or take a stand on. So I had I thought no. Black lives matter. But now I was secretary custodian. And now. Three eyes. The me. So the main story I. Do that or do you sit? They'll tell us. Number one, if you had a nasty. Okay. We. Everything else will matter to us. The most important for us. Okay. Do you work by 7/8? The M&A. 2.2. That works. Council Bill 43 that 46,000. Or four 5000 comments by Marcus Council on bill 40 Cabinet member to. Beijing Council president. To understand where we are tonight, you have to understand. Where we've been. In 2011, the city of Denver has zero local dollars going to affordable housing. No housing department. No renter protection policies. No renter assistance programs. A state law prohibited us from requiring anything from rental development when the city wasn't involved in lander subsidies. And we have one policy, one requiring developers of for sale homes to build 10% and 80% of emi i to pay a very modest fee. That was it. We did have a set of agreements on large developments. The formal state pharmacy in Lowry, Central Platte Valley and Green Valley Ranch. And they created thousands of affordable homes. But we're typically 15 or 20 years of affordability. That is what we had. That was the status quo in 2011. The leadership from this council, in partnership with the administration, Denver, has fundamentally transformed that story. We created a permanent housing fund in 2016 with two sources of revenue. We swapped that inclusionary housing ordinance that was only doing a handful of for sale units and a few hundred thousand dollars a year. And we swapped it for a linkage fee that generates millions of dollars a year for rental and for sale housing from zero up all the way through the income structure and homeownership. It was the first ever fee that the city had charged to develop and to mitigate its impacts. The first development fee of any kind. There were claims the sky could fall and development would cease. And it was also a very close vote. It was criticized for not being good enough and this council barely passed it. The fine was doubled in 2018, with additional revenue for cities in just five years. The fund created 2500 new homes, 400 reserved homes, and served 63 primary households with housing programs, including more than 3200 with rent utility assistance. We kept negotiating agreements on big developments, but we started to fight for a broader mix of incomes, including 30% of BMI and below. And in both our aggressive investment rules and our negotiations, we stopped negotiating for 20 years of affordability. We started negotiating for 61st and more recently, now 99 years for perpetual affordability. We filed a rental assistance and eviction defense, and we created protections against discrimination from source of income. We created a rental license to ensure housing is safe with renter notices of rights and resources. And our legislature, led by Denver members, has transformed renter protections at that level, too. And just like we doubled the housing funds to grow the impact of a proven solution, we bond back. And then we brought in eviction defense and we've grown rental assistance. But until today, 90%, 90% of by rights development in this city did not build any affordable homes on site. That gap in that whole trajectory is why we're here today. So in 2021, we've got this city, our lobbyists, our mayor, this council. We fought with partners from across the state to change the state law prohibiting local regulation of new development for affordable rental. And we won. And today, we are passing the state of Colorado's first sweeping inclusionary housing requirements that include rental and for sale, free from any legal cloud, the first new ordinance without any legal cloud in two decades. So why? Why would the simple idea of requiring affordability and development be so controversial? Well, it's because we've talked about it tonight. Inclusionary Housing First is the market to create affordability. It can only require as much affordability as the market can bear if it requires too much for the market to be financed and still make a profit. If it if it doesn't provide for that profit. It doesn't happen. The market will build the project and there will be no affordable homes. So some landowners and developers. Simply do not like any intervention in their market. They don't want any impacts to their profit. Others are maybe philosophically opposed, but they think the details go too far. They think it won't work with the market. And we may not have heard from many of those developers tonight, but we have heard from them in our options and you've heard from them in the media. They are largely opposed to this ordinance over the past. 15 years, this city has performed three three independent analysis of the numbers related to housing policy and development. Every time it's working, the industry has claimed that the sky will fall. But every time this city has chosen the standards that the independent analysis pointed us to and development has continued. And affordability has been created through either units being built or funds that are reinvested three times. This has happened, including tonight. But this policy is also understandably controversial among those who cannot help but question a policy that is designed to work with a market that sells housing a fundamental human right to the highest bidder. It is understandable that it would be controversial to harness that market. But development isn't the only heartbreak in this market. Prices have increased and displaced. Displacement has occurred near development. But private owners of long standing housing are also selling their land and their homes to the highest bidders. And we can also point to neighborhoods that have seen little to no development. They have also seen massive displacement. My own neighborhood, Park Hill, is one. Westwood is another. There are many neighborhoods experienced in displacement with very little development. Development is not the only aspect affecting the market in our city. So what's the answer? Greater public and community ownership of land to break the cycle of selling land to the highest bidder is critical, and Denver has increased our purchase of land in public land, use of public ownership, and then done long term pieces for permanent affordability. We are doing more and more of that, taking that millions out of that market and and making it long term for the community benefit. We've also invested in our trusts and other models that permanently take land out of that market, that broken market, selling land to the highest bidder. But we should not is the opportunity to leverage new development for new affordability in projects where we are getting none today, simply because this one market based tool can't solve all our housing needs or goals. This policy matters, and it has value in these critical ways. It incentivizes building homes on site and has extraordinarily high buyout fees that are six times higher than some of the buyout fees in the original ordinance that it is replacing from ten years ago. It lowers the minimum requirements to 60% or an average of 70%, and you only get to 70%, by the way, if you build more homes. You don't get that as a choice unless you build more homes. Every single affordable home under this policy will be within the income guidelines and eligible for voucher holders who might have. It comes from 0 to 30%. And this policy requires 99 year ability in every case, every case, permanent affordability. That is new, that has value. It takes that long and it takes that unit out of the market forever. It is restricted forever. It cannot be sold to the highest bidder. It also ensures that linkage fees will rise over time and make up for some of the loss of fees. Because we will lose fees because all of the rental development that was paying these before is now going to build homes instead. And so we will be litigating that with these fees. These things have a value that is different than necessarily being enough to solve the entire problem. But that does not mean it does not have value. For the homes that will be provided to the workers and to the individuals who will live in those homes. 90% of by right development. If this ordinance fails tonight, 90% of Viread developed and will continue to require zero in affordability. That's the consequence of a no vote tonight. You can frame it however you want. If you vote no, the result will be no requirement. So I want to thank the folks who were really instrumental to getting us here first and foremost. State legislators Susan Lansky and Serenity Gonzalez Vieira. They were the lead sponsors in the House, but also Senate co-sponsors on Xilinx and Rodriguez and all of those in the legislature who voted for the passage of the bill that made this possible. CMO Colorado Municipal League healthier. Colorado were leaders in the work at the state legislature, and we wouldn't be here today without them. And then for the city ordinance, I want to share the things that some of my colleagues have already shared. Obviously, our mayor for supporting all of the team and resources that went into this community planning and development host attorneys. But we also had outside partners again, who helped shape push some of those increases to linkage fees that Councilman Hines mentioned. Those were advocates pushing for those things like Enterprise and healthier Colorado and others who helped to give input and shape. And then to my council colleague, Councilwoman Sandoval. It is such a pleasure working with you. You and I just I appreciate the perspective you bring, the ideas and the things that you see in the zoning code and the ways that you help to really improve this policy to all of our colleagues who engage so deeply and help shape a lot of the details as it evolved, as it went through the process. There's just a lot of thanks for the time the folks spent trying to get everything we could out of this policy. And so it was really a team collaborative effort. And so we will look back in ten years and there will be additional new things on this list. This is not our once in ten year policy. I described the almost annual set of impacts we've been making on housing and homelessness, and we will. Continue that piece. But this piece, this gap will now be closed and we can now build on it just like we have all these other policies over the years. So with that, I'm really excited to vote yes on this ordinance package tonight. Thank you. University of California, Santa. Amy. Shania Twain. 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