While the TRG was not tasked with making recommendations, either to staff <br />or to the City Council, we are united in seeing the critical role of Pillar <br />7.... the monitoring pillar. <br />To arrive at the recommended ordinances, assumptions had to be made, and <br />as always with assumptions, even when made based on the best data <br />available at the time, sometimes they are right and sometimes they are <br />wrong. We won't know whether assumptions about housing mix or <br />household size or redevelopment rates are correct until we put the <br />ordinances in place and get busy monitoring what is actually happening out <br />there in the community. <br />Monitoring, and making course corrections, is a critical part of why we must <br />move forward adopting these ordinances now. <br />Seven years, thousands of hours of staff time, hundreds of hours of volunteer <br />time, an exemplary public engagement process has culminated in two very <br />sound, well researched, thoroughly vetted ordinances that embody the larger <br />community values...... it's time to put them in place so that we can get on <br />with other important projects. <br />Thank you. <br />Sue Prichard <br />sue kprichardpartners.com <br />