order and begin with the approval of the minutes council members Lawson and Savannah do you have anything to approve the minute all right item 3A who is Aurora good morning this is Daniel krzenowski at the planning department um allow me a minute I'll pull up our presentation okay I presume everyone can see that good morning community council members others in attendance Daniel krasnowski the planning department I am joined by Andrea Barnes also with our planning department uh to provide to you this sort of short overview of data and demographics um and uh a little bit of information about uh the who is Aurora report this is a report that the city puts out periodically to take a look at really sort of our resident demographics who lives in Aurora where they're you know what are the characteristics where they live growth Etc and we are in the process of updating this for the first time since 2016 but wanted to provide you all with a glimpse into a few a few of the data points that we've been able to pull together um on a few topics um the report itself was divided up really kind of into three sections about population housing and employment and we'll show some highlights uh from each of those sections I will share with you a few other sort of data and demographics resources that are available to council to the city and to the community and of course be happy to answer any questions at the end so at this point I'll turn it over to Andrea Barnes to kick us off with that first section hi everyone I'm going to go over the population portion of the presentation um yeah all right so um this first slide shows Aurora's population growth over the last 10 years so these um 2010 and 2020 estimates are from the decennial Census while these in between numbers 2015 to 2019 are from the American Community survey on average Aurora has added about 5 000 people per year but one of our biggest jumps was from 2019 to 2020 where we added about 17 000 people and that was a four percent population growth rate um Aurora continues to grow you know in between these ACS estimates that census puts out the city likes to calculate its own internal population estimate so in 2022 the planning department along with data from public works and the help of I.T we calculated the 2020 estimate and that was about 398 000 people so we're getting really close to that 400 000 number um this pie chart on the right shows it's just like a good reference to show how much of Aurora how much of Aurora's population makes up that metro area population so the entire Denver Aurora Lakewood metro area is about 2.9 Million people and Aurora makes up about 13 of that at that 386 number um this next slide goes into our racial and ethnic composition for the city a lot of the times these are used interchangeably or incorrectly but they are two different categories that the census reports on so racial composition kind of shows you know um it explains like a person's physical attributes so kind of like skin color or the way they look on the outside how you present it to people whereas ethnicity is kind of how groups of people identify to each other based on language culture nationality religion stuff like that um so on the left side you can see 58 of Aurora's population identifies as white um and that number has you know gone down in the last 10 years in 2020 that was about 63 so it's gone down by five percent and these are other categories um black some other race two or more races Etc um these numbers will probably change or tend to fluctuate in the next you know surveys coming surveys since you know the census will evolve and its racial categories are going to be changing as well and just how people identify themselves ends up changing too um this chart on the right talks about our ethnicity you know while there are many different ethnicities around the world this census only reports on the Hispanic and Latino ethnicity so about 30 of Aurora residents identify as Hispanic or Latino and that's a bit higher than the metro area which is about 23 so that is our racial and ethnic composition for the city um this is a cool little dot density map that I had made to kind of show that racial composition geographically so one dot equals 10 people this is a little hard to see on the PowerPoint but um every color is four different race um so these dots don't identify specific locations of individuals or households but it's kind of cool to see kind of concentrations of races for the entire census tract since it's a random dot placed um so the tracks with the most mix of colors are most diverse neighborhoods so you know Aurora is known for its neighborhood um integration so this map kind of shows that geographically so people are able to see it that way um next we're going to get into some data on our foreign-born population so the Census Bureau collects data on all foreign-born individuals that participate in its surveys um about 20.6 of Aurora residents identify as being foreign born um this chart that you're seeing now on the map is the number of Aurora residents and their country of origin um for 300 and over residents so as you can see Mexico is our most common place of birth for Aurora residents about 30 000 but some of our other you know more common places of birth are Ethiopia Vietnam El Salvador um but yeah this map kind of just goes along with that that ethnicity chart and that racial diversity where you can see some of the concentrations where you know a lot of our our population identifies as Hispanic or Latino and this foreign-born population map is similar to the racial diversity map that I had just shown so again one dot for every 10 people and this is by census country I mean continent categories um Americas refers to Central America South America and Canada so you can see there's a concentration of those those individuals in Northwest Aurora um here is a bit of information about the educational attainment for this city so this is educational attainment for the population 25 years and over um about 30 percent of Aurora residents have received a bachelor's degree or higher which is slightly lower than the metro area they're about 45 percent but our number has grown over the last 10 years in 2010 it was reported that only 23 percent of Aurora residents received a bachelor's degree or higher so we are making progress on that and then lastly I wanted to get into a little bit of our veteran population data given Aurora's history I thought it'd be good to include some of this you know with our Fitzsimmons campus and the new Veterans Affairs medical office that opened recently bought about 23 000 of Aurora residents are veterans and that's eight eight percent of our total population which is um slightly higher than the Metro era they're about 7.3 and the state of Colorado is I think 8.4 percent so we're on track with that um our veteran population is mostly made up of veterans that served in the Vietnam Wars and also the Gulf War um the entire who's Aurora report will go into more detail on the veteran population it gets into uh our racial and ethnic composition about 10 of veterans are identify as Hispanic and Latino 89 of those veterans are male um I'll also go into income educational attainment um and a bunch of other things so there's more detail there but those are just some of the quick highlights on population that we wanted to give but um the entire report will go into language data age and gender um there's a lot of stuff a lot of stuff a lot more maps and things too but this was just kind of a quick highlight on population for now great thank you Andrea the next section is related to housing in the city's housing stock um to no one's surprise um Aurora has grown and continues to grow we continue to build homes um uh throughout Aurora and uh the graph on the left shows those housing unit totals over time especially over the past um four or five years we've seen just really extraordinary growth in in Housing Development and uh and I think we anticipate to continue to see that uh extensive uh residential development um the the graph on the right shows some characteristics sort of what uh what types of housing units those are as you can see Aurora's listed in the red the metro area is listed in the gray for both Aurora and the metro area most of our housing is single unit either detached or attached um about two-thirds of our units fall into that category but we do have um housing sort of falls into these other um categories um two to nine ten to nineteen um these are things like small apartment buildings you know small fourplexes um if you've heard the term missing middle a lot of that those types of housing fall into these sort of small attached unit categories and then the 20 or more units probably represent some of our larger sort of apartment complexes and apartment buildings that you see throughout the city and of course mobile homes make up about two percent of our housing stock uh this graph shows um housing unit age um the the uh decades in which uh the homes have been built as you can see uh between 1970 and 1989 where our largest production uh decades um each of those there were over 35 000 units built um you know those those homes are are starting to be uh 30 40 um even 50 years old at this point so that might suggest is you know they need for for continued investment by homeowners in their homes and by the city to support some of these these aging and established neighborhoods um to make sure that the housing stock continues to be quality and continues to meet the needs of um residents even 40 or 50 years old um at the sort of bottom of the chart you can see we've continued to grow by tens of thousands every decade um over the past 10 years or so uh We've we've built almost about 20 000 uh housing units and like I said we expect that to continue this map shows um the locations of uh new housing units that have been built um between 2015 and 2021 um you can see concentrations in southeast Aurora over those years um uh is sort of the central East and uh Northeast have seen growth sort of in the night 2020 2021 and then currently um but what this this map does show is that there's Housing Development throughout the city east and Northeast and Southeast are not the only places where there's homes being built in a lot of cases um sort of in that established core of the city these are either small infill subdivisions potentially Redevelopment um uh of uh private complexes um and that that type of uh Housing Development this slide shows the median home value according to the Census Bureau for Aurora which is the red line um and the metro area which is the yellow line um Aurora does uh lag the metro area in terms of home value um that uh difference is pretty consistent over the past 10 plus years as you can see those home values for both Aurora and the metro area have grown pretty significantly and continue to grow um we've found some some information from um uh resources like Zillow and Redfin that show that the sales price of home the actual sales um um are uh in the 450 to 500 000 for homes in Aurora in the last year um and this has been a growth of like depending on the estimate three percent year over year up to even 10 year over year so those prices have continued to to grow over the past year we'll see what the future holds in terms of uh housing market but this is uh definitely something that's uh sort of uh on the Forefront of uh a lot of people's minds especially people who are buying homes or or trying to rent homes uh this this shows um the types of households um you know the individual families that live in uh um in Aurora as you can see um on the graph on the uh left um Aurora has sort of a larger uh proportion of its of its households our three-person um and four person and larger um this may not be a surprise given you know the the number of uh families or extended families that they call our home you know in fact our average household size is about 2.83 people which is larger than the metro area and larger than the uh the average in the state of Colorado the third section of the report touches on employment and I did want to draw the distinction that the data shown here and in the report is Aurora residents where they work how they work their their household incomes this data does not reflect aurora-based jobs um we have that data and that's something that we provide to different projects and you know if we certainly get into um looking at uh Economic Development or economic growth we can bring those resources out but this is about people who live in Aurora and the characteristics of their their employment uh so this graph shows employment by industry this is different uh you know economic sectors as you can see um Aurora and yellow the Denver metro area in Gray we have our largest concentrations of uh employment in education and health care professional scientific and Management Services as well as retail trade construction accommodation Food Services and then down down the list in you know some of these categories um Aurora has a slightly smaller proportion of its residents work in these industries like the professional scientific and management um but in some categories like retail trade and construction we have sort of a larger proportion of our residents working in those Industries than Metro Wide another way to look at employment is by occupation this is sort of the character of different jobs um that are held by Aurora residents as you can see probably the the largest distinction uh between Aurora and yellow and Denver Metro and gray is in that management business Science and Arts occupations about a third of Aurora residents work in this occupation which is lower than the metro-wide average of about 46 percent um and all of these other categories like service sales production and transportation Aurora has a slightly higher proportion of his residents working in the as the in those occupations uh this uh shows the median household income for Aurora and green in the metro area in Black again uh Aurora is lower than the Metro average um even as even as uh household incomes have grown over the past 10 plus years Aurora has continued to track that pretty consistently over the years Aurora's household income is about 80 82 percent of the metro area average to give that perspective and that's been pretty consistent over over the past decade or more it's another way of looking at household income by different income brackets the graph shows that Aurora and those income brackets lower than a hundred thousand dollars a year has a higher proportion of its um population earning in those categories whereas those categories above 100 000 and especially above 125 000 a year Aurora has a much smaller proportion than the metro area averages um and finally um this uh is a data is intended to sort of look at the the flow of workers from Aurora and two award and I'll sort of explain how this how this data is put together um about a hundred and thirteen thousand workers are employed in Aurora but live outside of Aurora um while about 138 000 um workers uh live in Aurora and leave the city for work every day um that's about a net outflow of about 25 000 workers every day I think in a metro area um given that people live and work throughout the area that's um sort of not not uh totally unexpected but what I think that does show is that Aurora has a very talented Workforce that leaves um in a lot of cases throughout the day to find employment elsewhere and so I think that probably represents opportunity for Aurora to continue to attract employers to where their employees and their talent lives and uh it certainly has implications as far as economics and taxes and transportation issues and so forth um you know that balance between inflow and outflow has a lot of ramifications stations this is a really I think really interesting sort of topic to look at in terms of economics and and uh and other sort of policy and and infrastructure issues um just the last couple slides um all of this data we've been showing has been sort of city-wide data in the report itself uh we do have some um small area geographies that we break out and provide some of this some of this data for these were really selected based on areas of of growth these are the areas that that we get inquiries about uh for for data and information on uh pretty regularly you can see them on the map here Southeast Northeast and the Eastern Plains those who are particularly growing areas these are of interest to developers business Community retailers Etc and then those areas like Havana Corridor I know this group is discussed uh you know planning and so forth around Havana Corridor which is a really important transportation and Commercial area north northwest Aurora sort of the original Aurora area there's a lot of growth and development in interest as well as the I-225 Corridor where there's you know our light rail a Transit oriented development and a lot of development opportunities as well so those are broken down in the report we won't go into today um and so to sort of sum up want to kick it back to Andrea to kind of talk about some of the other data resources that the city and our department has available to council members to the public and others and then we'll be able to answering questions after this um yeah so Aurora and the planning department has several interactive maps online maps on our map gallery on the website so we have a a demographic map that pulls the most recent ACS data and kind of goes over those um those population points that I talked about at the beginning of the presentation we also have a certificate of occupancy math that shows um cos over time throughout the city and just a bunch of other Maps related to housing property information and Commercial development and development applications that we have going on um we also have the data and demographics website that I manage so as soon as new ACS data is released I will update the website with the most recent data and that's on these same categories that we presented on today so people housing and economics um the the data Services Group in the planning department also manages some major residential and non-residential project Maps so we update those twice a year showing Progressive development both residential and Commercial um we also have the city of Aurora fact sheet which I put out every year so that is kind of just like a major highlight on all those topics that we talked about today and that's um on the data and demographics uh web page and is available publicly to everyone and then um lastly the data Services Group and the planning department is constantly helping others with their data needs and their mapping needs so you can always contact Daniel or myself or the rest of the team to get you know any other data that you might need that goes you know Dives a little deeper and not just some of that you know high level stuff that we presented on today so that concludes our presentation we're happy to field any questions or comments from uh from the committee and council member uh jorinski if I may very briefly yeah Janine restad director of planning and development services thank you for allowing us to share this preview your input is very important as we finalize uh this report and refine it we want to make sure we're including data that helps you as our policy makers so any input is again appreciated thank you thank you for this presentation do my colleagues have anything I do if uh councilmember Lawson do you have anything councilman last night you can go first okay thank you I uh one comment and this is I know that we're gonna have a conversation in January so I guess this is for for staff in some ways on at the um winter Workshop about an economic development strategy uh when I look at that worker inflow outflow um chart I think that's something that we should bring up as a long-term vision for the city it should be our long-term Vision to try to change the Dynamics of that worker inflow outflow to where we're having more and I'm certain that if we looked at Denver and I don't know what the numbers are but they probably have a much significant uh a much greater number of inflow than outflow and and I think for a city to be a thriving driver of Economic Development having that flipped and having more people come into the city because we have jobs here should be something that we should strive for as part of that long-term economic strategy so that's my comment and then a question I have um on one of the slides it talked about the types of Housing and I think it was in the high 60s for single-family uh units and you might not have this information right now but something I would I'm just curious is how that compares with other states one of the conversations we had with our state priorities is the challenge that Colorado has because of construction defect laws and I wonder how much that impacts it because when you talk about that missing middle this was one of the things that we talked about as a priority of saying hey look there are people who aren't getting into town homes and different types of multi-families that they could buy because of our outdated and frankly uh trial lawyer friendly construction defect laws that are actually consumer unfriendly and just curious as to what those National numbers look like relative to Colorado and again if you don't have it right now that's fine just something I think would be interesting to have at some point yeah I think both of those data points are our interest um you know I think the the worker inflow outflow is something we can we can dig into a little deeper and see if we can um you know bring that to Bear uh for that January discussion um and and Beyond um you know that really has uh real effects on um uh things like Economic Development job growth job attraction transportation and so forth so um we can certainly do that and we're happy to dig into the numbers about the housing as well um you know I think uh Aurora sort of being a Suburban um uh Forum um sort of not surprised to say a lot of single-family homes but we can do some comparisons between other other Metro areas other communities um throughout Colorado or throughout um the country so I would have to to dig a little bit into that as well thank you um thank you um so I agree with councilmember um zavonik um I think that you know although Aurora has you know we have the hospital and the bioscience I think one of the reasons why a lot of influx is in Denver is because of the variety of jobs that they have that's multitude that's very that we don't have in Aurora so a lot of people do influx there because the job market is kind of more sanctioned on more focused on certain areas and it's not really variety so I definitely think that we need especially as policy make we need to definitely look at the economic development that we're bringing in because if we're going to have this diverse population not everybody is in bioscience or medical or or you know Boeing a lot of people work in different fields and that's why they head to Denver um and other surrounding areas because they operate they offer those opportunities even at DTC so um I definitely think that that's really important and that's really a gap one other gap apps that I did see that I think that the city of Aurora should look at is also looking at our older neighborhoods I think since I've been on Council there's been a lot of focus on the growth and Southeast and that's really important but I don't think there's been there's been some work on doing infill projects and things like that but like where I live at in Ward 5 you know we're still kind of developing like we're still kind of we have some things but we don't have a lot so I just think that there should be some focus on different things in terms of not only just housing but what we're actually putting in these neighborhoods and I don't think that there's there's been so much focus on that side of town but not really the inner core and I live in the older part of you know the area so that's why I'm kind of focused on that and think that there's been some gaps there as well and then lastly I would like to look I'm glad that you're going to connect the transportation to the to the actual um of I guess uh employment because I think that that's really important as well a lot of people especially you know younger people maybe that's why they do venture out to other areas and cities because of the transportation grid which is something that I've also been you know trying to make sure that we have proactively because we are growing as a city so thank you for the presentation though but those are my comments and then just maybe recommendations that it looks like you're going to move forward with but just just some additional information thank you very much councilman and then I have I have a couple of things um your data that you've collected on workers in Aurora so it looks like roughly um the total you came up with is 291 000 uh workers you said 113 live outside of Aurora but work in Aurora 138 000 live in Aurora and then the 40 000 what was that was live in and work in yes ma'am yeah about forty thousand Olympics don't work in Aurora I'm sorry could you repeat that so the 138th so the 100 so you by your calculations 153 000 workers uh yes yeah the Forty thousand they work here the 138 000 that um live here but but leave uh for work yeah I mean they don't work in the city they live in Aurora but don't work in the city so your numbers are 113 000 and 40 000 so 115 your your numbers are 153. right those the influx and those that live here 153 000 workers that you've calculated in this city how are you getting those numbers is that just basically wages turned into the state how are you coming up with that this the data source for this is the U.S Census Bureau um they um have a pretty extensive and complex um uh database that tries to tie um uh sort of your your place of residence with your place of business and I believe that sort of reported through I think it's through IRS records and they do the calculations uh to provide these inflow and outflow uh numbers and that's what we're reporting here is based on Census Bureau calculations you have any idea if the Census Bureau is taking into account people with multiple jobs that's a good question we could look in deeper into their methodology and see the extent to which that might affect those numbers um yeah I don't know if this this includes a prison would be um you know people who who file taxes the IRS and so forth but if there's if there's people who are mixing mixing job locations we can certainly try to find that answer yeah there's more I want to say to that Daniel but I don't want to give away too much about what I'm going to say Monday night so I will just circle back with you um on that but also uh something something that I noticed um you know some of the highest industries that we're seeing you know construction the service industry um those those aren't necessarily industries that require a bachelor's degree um but yet we did uh data on how many bachelor's degrees in higher education we have an aurora but actually I would like to see um you know how many how many trades licenses we have in Aurora um for me it's not bachelor's degree or no bachelor's degree um that describes our level of Education in this city um for me you know I I would like to see how many trades licenses we have I think that that would be uh more along the lines of the demographics in this city rather than just bachelor's degree and no bachelor's degree sure that topic of sort of the workforce and their education or training or certifications is um I think a really critical one you know as we continue to talk about um job growth or Economic Development and you know we'd certainly like to dig into that a little bit about uh what certifications or training or licenses people hold and those opportunities in in the city um for um you know continuing to connect our Workforce with those training opportunities I appreciate appreciate that comment and then I think that's all I have if my colleagues don't have anything else on this topic we will go ahead and move on so thank you Daniel for this remember council member mayor Pro tem has something oh go ahead um thank you um just on is there any way to track retail establishments in terms of those that leave and those that come into the city because I mean we you know we have our retail Division and I was just wondering if that was something we could track yeah I'd probably uh defer to Bob Oliver on um you know the data that he's been able to collect on on whether it's licenses or or otherwise I'm about to uh retail establishments coming out guys I don't know he could certainly he could certainly uh provide a lot more um insight into that uh we do track the businesses coming into Aurora um we have tried to track the businesses that are closing and or leaving and there's a there's sort of a lag on when people actually uh stop paying for their licenses so we're we're having a time figuring we're having a hard time figuring out when they move somewhere else versus just uh you know shut down but we do track the ones that are coming in so in this presentation it would be nice to see you know um how many restaurants moved in how many restaurants moved out how many stores moved in um how many entertainment related um retail establishments moved in or moved out as well um we are preparing that actually uh we pulled those numbers last month and we're putting in a format so we would be prepared to do that uh relatively soon okay great thank you okay I think that now concludes your presentation thank you so much Daniel um it looks like under miscellaneous matters we do have a couple of people that wanted to present um so Yuri are you on with aedc I am here good morning good morning go ahead all right thank you uh such a great presentation in conversation I'll start there I wanted to give a few uh end of year sort of bullet points of of what we've done but if I may comment on a few things I was taking some notes too Daniel and his team do a great job uh you know the the housing numbers were definitely uh staggering to me I'll put it that way right we've grown seven about 75 000 people in the city and we've only added I think it was nine or ten thousand housing units so that bumps our average I feel like up to like four people per household uh which is interesting I don't know if that's accurate or not but no it's not I'd be careful about too much of this some of this is when you're mixing and matching data sources it's it's difficult and so uh that's why Janine noted this was preliminary we're continuing to scrub the data uh uh some of the council members have already touched on this we think our data is probably better than necessary really what the census uses I will tell you as you heard every year we prepare our own internal population estimate and and every year we kind of hound the census uh Bureau to use our data so that they have accurate data in preparing their forecasts and they typically just ignore us so it's it's it's a challenge but uh yeah we we we keep very close track of our CEOs and we're not we did not have 9 000 housing units added uh over two years uh it's just it's a it's a data source thing so we can get you guys exact numbers on COs in terms of that and same thing with the population because um our pop you'll you'll when you go back if you look at that chart you'll see kind of the in in the inner you know uh census years when you use ACS data it kind of flatlines and so uh what we do actually and it's bizarre because uh the American Community survey is actually also a census product but they don't it's like it's like literally two houses of the Census Bureau that don't talk to each other so the census that folks actually do use produce a another estimate in addition to the to the ACs so it's confusing but um just know that uh yeah their data is confusing and I would say not as accurate as ours yeah thanks Jason yeah I was getting to that point it didn't quite add up to me in housing units even dipped down for some reason right which we know is probably wrong so um anyway but yeah we've grown a lot we've had a lot of housing regard whatever that number is and I think then to the diversity part of the presentation um I'll just reinforce that emerging Industries and the industries that we have into council member Lawson's point we have about five of the nine Target industry clusters that the metro area goes after so we have a good a good mix we obviously don't have a few sectors like Financial Service says and maybe the tech sector that yeah go downtown or the tech center to open office offices in but we do have five of the nine Industries at the Metro Area sort of has as a diverse economy and a lot of the newer industries that are coming in we're seeing a lot of care about the diversity of our city and just general business and they like the fact that we're 20 foreign born we tout that a lot uh and and we're really proud of that and it's a good differentiator uh for us doing our job and then quickly on the education Pipeline and and education achievement levels uh I think we've definitely made some improvements and even our school districts have been you know graduating more folks I think our community college system does a great job into council member jorinsky's point I think a lot isn't captured in the in between right high school and bachelor's and Masters right we know we have a lot of uh engineers and and skilled folks that have uh graduate degrees but there's a lot of folks working here and we've been working with AGC and other associations like manufacturers Edge and CTA about what else you know people can do without necessarily a four-year degree and working still with Metro and CSU Global that do produce those four-year degrees to really try to bridge some gaps and something we have jumped on in the last about month or two since the news with all the tech companies with their layoffs right whether it's doordash or meta or any other folks here in the metro area Robin Hood I heard downtown wasn't um going into their office that they leased were talking to the Aerospace sector because a lot of those folks have been talking for a year about how they compete better for that talent because they don't advertise as well as tech technology companies do because they can't because they do secure secret admission stuff that isn't just advertised so we're connecting some dots there and being a wejokamatch.com between the Aerospace industry and a lot of these tech companies that are laying off their folks getting that information and making sure the aerospace companies that are expanding and a lot of them are here as as everybody knows um are finding the talent that they need and we just had a presentation I know a few council members heard last night from uch as uh president of the Colorado hospital and you know they're hiring Geek Squad best live folks to work as technical assistants uh for nurses right in in servicing the health care industry so there's a lot of cross-pollination that will continue to see I think the pandemic uh created a lot of it I think we'll uh we'll we'll see a lot of it going into the future so just want to comment on that uh and then I just want to give kudos to the mapping resources that Andrea pointed out to the gis department at the city is is Top Notch we actually implemented and integrated uh a a specific web portal map into our website when we launched it last year and people love it we've gotten great feedback about it and how useful it is that it has a link to all the other maps in the city and I think a lot of site selectors and consultants and Company project managers utilize those resources I don't know if there's a way to track uh you know IP addresses and all of that but I think we'll we would see a lot of out-of-state visitors going to whether it's our website and the city's GIS website and learning more about the city and because of all the great layers and and through the legend it's just a great resource and we've heard great feedback about that and then uh lastly just a comment on uh the presentation I think the the recreational amenities and the 24 7 round clock uh people being here right not just coming in for a nine to five job and then leaving or vice versa I think we'll see we'll be seeing some opportunities along the 470 corridors we've talked to some of the council members about over the last year where we will get amenitized we'll have more of a nightlife if you will and I think that'll attract a lot more people I know that's not our wheelhouse but we've certainly been in conversations with companies that ask about it and so we're starting to to have those conversations and happy to be a resource if we can be on that so jumping to what I really wanted to update you all on uh we've had a great year 2022 was definitely a uh a lot of uncertainties a lot of Shaky Ground coming out of of more of the pandemic that that we saw it I know I updated everybody here at the beginning of the year and that we were pretty confident and optimistic and that's turned out true we've our deal flow is more than double the average of of what it's been and even pre-pandemic so the deals we're bringing in and it's a variety of companies variety of Industries you know manufacturers distribution Aerospace Tech advanced stuff and our pipeline is very full we have about 90 leads that we're working on about a dozen serious projects that were you know week in week out due diligence on and you know that 90 number that's a great indicator going into next year that a lot of companies still want to be doing a lot and and Aurora has has a lot to offer we um we just obviously uh Port Colorado just announced that they're open for business that's a couple thousand acres uh just announced we're building a million more square feet Sun Empires developing 300 acres we just heard of a couple other Parcels of land being being activated for next year and I think a lot of it has to do with the continued demand and Market interest in what we've been promoting uh with all of our Industries uh we're working also with Becky I think I saw her on the call earlier uh to host a Korean delegation that's coming here in January we're really excited about that we've been working with a local Ambassador and connecting with some Korean companies over the last year year and a half and they're they're really on The Cutting Edge of some technology and Innovative uh Advanced manufacturing kind of stuff that we'd love to get here uh or um we're working with uh a couple more people uh on on some renewable energy projects uh that are chasing the federal incentives uh that were approved earlier this year by the by the administration and so we're seeing a great interest in that and even with the uncertainties of of the administration and what's going to pass in this in this session in the next two years with Congress and what happened in a month ago with the elections I think a lot of people are still confident that there's some resources that they can kind of lean on I think they want to continue bringing manufacturing back uh to to the country and and just at least if it's not bringing you back it's at least the next phase of expansion for whatever company it is we'll see the manufacturing stay here instead of being outsourced um to to Asia and other countries so I think that's a positive and then um we're we're working with uh the city and again kudos to to to uh Janine's Janine's folks and the water department and everybody else um on on making sure infrastructure is being needs are being met out in the Northeast section right and so we're we're uh definitely having great conversations with the city folks about that and the private sector we're wrapping up um our almost year-long study with um an engineering firm that we partnered with the city in Adams County with to kind of out map out the the routes and the phasing and the costs and the demands of water and waste water more importantly even than water I've learned a lot about Wastewater uh that uh that needs to flow in different directions because of certain basins and topography and I know I'm getting into too many details but we're getting close to getting some results for that and so we'll probably present this to the to the next PD committee next year uh and and hopefully it's it's similar and I don't know what when those assignments get done but happy to obviously connect with with the members from this year's committee and then talk to the new members and and have that transition not lose any gaps uh we also are working on film incentives at the state level we're supporting a task force that was created by legislation that we supported and were part of uh drafting last session and there's a task force led by representative Herod and a couple other working with the film commissioner that works for the state's oedit office the economic development office under the governor and they're really trying to expand that program there's about 30 million dollars of incentives available to to companies that want to film here build Studios hear all that sort uh George has done a tremendous job New Mexico's done a good job a couple other states are chasing those deals so just like the data center initiative that we've come with before we just need to be remain competitive with all these other states and uh that's what we're working on to try to level up our commitment to that industry it's great employment it's great for veterans actually uh and it's actually you know a lot of Trades and a lot of skills translate from other industries that can go into the film industry it's not just actors on a screen and and video editors there's a lot more that goes into it I went to Atlanta to tour some studios back earlier this year and it's just an amazing industry they've they've built up over over 80 studios in the last decade because their state legislature passed an incentive bill that said hey we'll cut your cost 20 to 30 percent if you guys come here and it's created billions of dollars of economic uh impact there so we're excited about that we'll see where that goes this legislative session uh and then lastly yeah really looking forward to the economic strategy that Janine is leading uh will be at the winter Workshop I think with all of our partners uh talking about how else we can continue to promote a roar in the best way possible and get get all those demographics and statistics uh in a better place thank you okay thank you for that Yuri and chance are you on did you chance did you want to update us or are you just telling us to read the backup you can definitely read the backup but I can share a quick update we just actually received our recertification values for the district and I just wanted to share with the city and staff um that uh the numbers are phenomenal and you know when I first started four or five years ago we our certifications were just over 104 to 105 million and I just received the letter and it's 157 million so when we talk about property values skyrocketing and increasing and a lot of redevelopments and Investments happening specifically along the Havana Corridor with the transportation and multimodal and of course the 2030 shopping centers as a destination for shopping in this region you can really see that in the numbers um I know some of you and many of you thank you to councilmember jorinsky for attending our last annual meeting I know many of our stakeholders are really thrilled to be able to connect with Council and the mayor and also City staff to ask specific questions so I just wanted to share that one number and then if you guys could review the um the the minutes or the notes that I sent over that would be great the most highlighted ones that I wanted to mention was just of course Argenta we've been talking about this in ped for I don't know how many years it's been a part of Gail jetchik's Legacy and vids investment um from the very beginning but Argenta should be delivering their first 32 condo units um by early January hopefully fingers crossed and then some of the things I didn't share uh we are going to be getting David's Bridal at Village on the park and Nana's dim sum and Bao at Village on the park so those are kind of the two or newer leases we have quite a few Lois in our other shopping centers so I hope to kind of announce that uh in January but if anyone has any specific questions please do reach out to me we do plan to bring back events full force in 2023 some new things like night markets and the Havana Street Global Market will come back we have a movie night elf a drive-in movie coming up on December 17th so if anybody wants to join us we'll be at Sam's number three for a drive-in movie and lastly I welcome all of you to attend our last networking event and Round Table tomorrow at Nile Ethiopian December 8th 3 to 4 30 we'll be hosting a retail crime Round Table I know some of city council APD and the mayor will also be in attendance as well as the DA's office but thank you all and Happy New Year I'm so grateful for everyone in this group and thank you so much for the great presentations today um no one else has anything to report the next meeting looks like it is scheduled for January 11th at 8 30. and like Gary had mentioned we are waiting for our new uh policy committee assignments to come out um so I don't know what that will look like but I've already set the agenda for January and I will work with whomever is the new chair um and committee members for this meeting to um to make sure that that one at least stays intact and I will still be attending that one since it's something very important to me so um with that if I'm no longer the chair of this committee it's been an honor um and I thank you and Janine thank you you know for how hard you work on uh you know Economic Development and planning in this city so thank you so much and to All City staff and to uh of course my committee members it's been an honor serving with you both and with that I will adjourn this meeting have a great day