What's up everybody? Jason here for jasperjays.com. This is our last filler guys. We need us to do it all on lock, the hip parade multi sport jasper edition. We're giving away 10 spots in that break with it's 2014 Prism Football Valley Salo Pack number 15. So first we're gonna do the break randomized because we're names team just shoot the hints out. Then at the end we'll take all the 32 names that bought in, randomize them and top 10 get in. And that break will be coming up in a little bit, which will be this one right here. So let's do the break first, roll it. Four and a three, seven times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six and seven. Seven times, deacons down to deacons. Four and a three, seven, seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Jets down to the Atlanta Falcons. All right guys, so we're gonna stick to what you got there. There's your teams there guys, just a quick little pack, so. All right, Brandon Cooks, Dicobricky, Fresh Faces, Stevie Johnson. All right guys, switch scenes and let's give away those 10 spots guys, here we go. Roll five and a two, seven times. We're rolling sevens guys, it's just the last couple of rolls, seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Boom, seven, five, two, seven. Allen, you're in, FT, you're in. David, FT, Chris, Ryan, Allen, FT, Chad and Todd. Top 10 are in, boom, boom. Paste you guys' names in here and coming up in a little bit guys, is to break yourself guys, thank you.


This study identified a novel lectin biomarker, UI, which can be used to detect and diagnose colorectal cancer, CRC. This lectin was conjugated with upconversion nanoparticles and used to target CRC cells. It was then used to create multimodal imaging probes that could be used to detect and diagnose CRC. This article was authored by Roh-Rong Tian, Huazhong, Hongdaqian, and others.


cle 97 specifically doesn't say anything about deed restriction. Article 97 just says property acquired for this purpose falls under article 97. Now there's a case that John I think is aware of that references the issue of what happens when it's not recorded. But in that case the acquisition by that town meeting specifically said that it had to be recorded and it wasn't. So I think there might be some dispute about it. In my mind it's at a bare minimum. Well I think it is article 97 protected. Respectfully I think that at a bare minimum you wouldn't want to proceed with this type of transaction without following all the steps required by article 97 because you'd be prone to litigation about it and a lot of uncertainty for the Arlington Housing Authority for us. So I think that it's protected by article 97. I understand that there is some legal dispute about this but in my opinion we would want to follow all the steps in order to make sure that article 97 was complied with. Okay, all right. So first of my colleagues, questions, comments, anybody, nothing? I think I'd like to hear from the proponents. Okay. Okay. All right, thank you. As long as it's not repetitive for each proponent. Right, so who would like to speak on this matter? One person. Well hello, who would like to speak on this matter? Please come up and stand in line behind the microphone. Give your name and address and if you would, your position. Hello, good evening. Kristin Shown, 93 Madison. Thank you for hearing all the sides. I understand it has to be Wade. I just want to be crystal clear that woods and open space are crucial. It's like Frederick Law Olmsted Central Park in New York. I know that Arlington's a far cry from Manhattan but it's important to protect those spaces. So I respectfully request no action for tonight.  I know, I know, he's all over, yeah, no. Shout out. Thank you. Next. John Gersh, Kipling Road. I'd like to say this does seem like a win-win situation to me and that I don't think any harm will come to Mount Goboa and could stand to protect Arlington from 40B development which has been sort of a blight as far as I can tell on the whole town, the entire town is all. What, whoa, whoa, what's the blight? We don't have any 40B, what's the blight? You don't have to look any further than the development that's like at the bike path and Brattle Street that is, I mean, the nature of the development that I've observed is you shoehorn as much in the 40B by the, yes, Brattle Street. Yeah. Okay, no, thank you. No, no, I forgot that, yeah. Yes. My name is Charlotte Oswitch. I'm with Precinct 21. I'm on Westmoreland Avenue and Westminster. My children walk through the woods through Mount Goboa, a two minute walk to Pierce Elementary School if we lost the conservation land at this point. It's a loss for the town and for the next generation. Thank you. Okay, thank you, bye. My name's Genevieve Oba. I live at 42 Summit Street. My kids also go to Pierce Elementary and I'm in Precinct 21. I'm in those woods every day as are my boys as were they this afternoon. I really, when I first moved to Arlington 12 years ago, one of the things that attracted me to Arlington is the amount of green space that is in this town. And I certainly decided to stay in this town and move closer to woods because of their existence. The current structure that's there is very unassuming. It sort of blends right into the woods. I just don't think that it makes sense to transfer it to affordable housing. I don't think it makes sense to pit these two against each other. Conservation and affordable housing should, it doesn't, it just, yeah. It's upsetting to me. So I really hope that you vote no action. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Sue Dockrow. I live on Westminster Ave. I wrote you a letter. I'm gonna try not to repeat it. Just first of all, as a resident, obviously I wanna protect the conservation land that I see from my house. But I have broader reasons for opposing this. I did wanna say that I really admire Mr. Belsk's commitment to this issue. I know his intentions are good, but I feel that this just isn't the right solution for our town. I feel like removing even just this 1.7 acres from conservation protection will make the character of the woods vulnerable. I understand that the proponent has no intention of removing the house. But I think he can't promise that when the land is removed, when the protection's removed, anything can happen, really. It's been unclear to me too if the state would accept a 1.7 acre lot with one house as evidence for commitment to affordable housing. Because I mean, my house is on a lot that's a 10th of that. And that's a lot more typical of the density of the community. So I'm concerned about that. Whether it would be a questionable claim, one house on such a large lot. The other thing is that I think the effect of this transfer on our 1.53% would be pretty small. So I'm using these numbers, 3.41 acres of affordable housing divided by 1893.9 acres of allowable residential land. I think those are the town figures. And that's how we get 1.53%. So if you use those numbers, 1.7 acres is 0.09%. So it's not really increasing it a lot. So I would oppose this plan even if it were 5%. So I'm really speaking, it doesn't really matter if it's only 0.09% to me. But the prospect that would have only add 1.09%, it just makes a justification even less convincing. And then the last thing I wanted to say is that at the conservation commission meeting, Mr. Belskis explained that our affordable housing percentage is fluid, property can be taken out of affordable housing. It could drop back down. But he also said that there's several pending projects that aren't included. And I hope I understood correctly. I think what he said is that he thought those pending projects could bring it up to about 2%. So, and I know that there's a development on my street, Westminster, which was not included in the 1.53. So I guess my point is that given that we've achieved 1.53 and that we have other projects, kind of lined up to contribute to that, I would hope that adding 0.09% is not considered important enough to justify a loss of conservation protection because this is really a unique wooded space in our town. So thank you very much. And I hope that you'll consider a vote of no action. Thank you, Mr. Belskis. A completely new side to this argument, right? No. That's, I wish, I'm sorry. My name is Jean Diaz and I live at 79 Crescent Hill Avenue just two blocks away. Just two blocks down from Mount Gilboa and the house and the conservation land. And I moved to Arlington specifically because of the trees and I appreciate the conversation about the trees and the conservation land, specifically being right in the midst between Great Meadows and Mount Gilboa and the reservoir. And I have a deep appreciation for what that brings to the quality of life in Arlington. And therefore I do appreciate also, Mr. Belskis, concerned for, and your concern on the board for the affordable housing in Arlington. But I also am very concerned that this article would put into jeopardy the land that is conservation land there right now. And so I recommend not supporting this warrant going forward. Thank you. Sorry, I got into the line, but I'm hearing a lot of the same arguments that I'm probably gonna make. My name is Elizabeth Costa-John. I live on Westminster Ave. I think I was surprised to hear that Arlington would consider changing conservation land into housing of any kind. And I was really disappointed and surprised because I think we have such gems of green space. You know, Monotomy Rocks Park, Mount Gilboa, they're just gorgeous spaces that some towns don't even have. And I was just surprised to even contemplate putting any changes or additional housing in such a valuable asset. And then I also wanted to reiterate, I think Mrs. Doctorow's point of the, how little this would really make a difference to housing, but how big a difference it would make to Arlington because again, working with the numbers that Mr. Belskis provided, I came with the calculation that it would increase our percentage by six or actually seven hundredths of a percent. Point zero, zero, zero, six, seven. So it's so marginal and it's not really making a huge difference in effecting housing, but where we're putting it is really gonna affect town, I think in a really negative way. So I just wanted to point that out. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Dr. Brenda Phillips. I live at 82 Orient Ave. I'm a developmental and cognitive psychologist, so I approach this from a personal level in that I live only two blocks from the park and utilize it on a daily basis. My daughter attends peer school, so we walk the adjoining space of the park to school every day. And so I'm concerned, I attended the conservation committee meeting and I heard the argument and certainly support affordable housing. I think it's an issue that we need to address. At the same time, it concerns me greatly, but we're talking about one unit. And as the argument has been made, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to move on this to move the conservation land or remove that status given that. And given also that the housing authority has not supported this warrant. I mean I haven't, that same question was posed at the conservation committee meeting. And I'm surprised that there's not an answer on that question this evening. That being said, from an empirical standpoint, there's about 20 years of good solid research, tightly controlled studies that show having access to trees, having access to nature is very important for children's development and adult development as well. And what's particularly interesting about this research is that it's not about being immersed in nature, but simply having the access to that landscape. So the fact that children at Pierce School look out onto that hillside every day, I guarantee has, I don't have data to back that up. I'd be happy to run a study to look at that, but I guarantee you it would show that they are getting some benefit because there are studies that show that children who play outside at recess at schools that have access to views of trees perform better in school. So it's not only about their social-emotional development, it's about their cognitive development and cognitive gains in the classroom. So I know it's late, I will stop there. So, Doctor, thank you. What about the social development of the members of this board here that you've observed tonight? Well, I'm actually, you're her favorite. You're her favorite. I will say one thing. I'm surprised you're not drinking coffee because I believe it's going to be late. Coffee? We love this water, and you're buying it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Actually, you know, my father served at this board for 19 years, actually 1974 was the last year. But you can't see, but up here we have cabinets. Literally, they had alcohol in those cabinets. They smoked. So you'd imagine as these meetings went on with that, I mean, sir, sorry, please. Rob Carter, residence at 31 Summit Street, which is on the slopes of Mount Gilboa. I moved there, bought my wife and I bought a house there because of that conservation land. And that was 1988, which was a while ago. And we were dues-paying members of the Mount Gilboa Neighborhood Association. It was instrumental in obtaining that top parcel. And we support that. And I'm a firm believer there's a reason in 4DB for trading off units for land. There's one land area and units get traded off because if you have the land area reserved, it's possible to build on it in the future. And so I voice that concern. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Yes, hi. Good evening, Allison Norton, Six Crescent Hill Avenue. I'm sorry, where which? Six Crescent Hill Avenue. Thank you, Crescent Hill. Yep, thank you. I will be repetitive, I apologize, but I will be quick. I live one house away from the woods, so it's very important to me that these are conserved. I also work with a lot of disadvantaged people, people who are homeless, don't have a lot of money for housing. So both these issues are very important to me. At the end of the day, it just doesn't seem to be a great benefit to the people who need the affordable housing to potentially lose the conservation status. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Suzanne McLeod, I live at 61 Madison. A lot of the thoughts I have have been spoken. I'm impressed with the amount of research that's gone into both sides of this and have been reading and reading and learning and learning. It doesn't seem to me that the benefits of transferring the property outweigh the costs. It appears to me to be short-sighted. It does encourage me to think more creatively and I hope everybody about how to do kind of the kinds of projects that were done at Westminster earlier this year. Existing properties, existing developed land be made into affordable housing. I don't see that the Mount Gilboa land will benefit affordable housing as much as it will cost all of us emotionally and also wildlife habitat, it's part of a corridor. I see a lot of coyotes, turkeys, raccoons, fisher, cats, hawks, owls, it's important land. So I urge a no-action vote. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, good evening, thank you for your time. My name is Chris Rowell. Actually moved to Arlington about a month and a half ago. We live at 88 Westminster Ave. We're really excited to be here in the town. Certainly not excited to hear that we're gonna lose conservation land as that was one of our major reasons to move here was the balance to have access to public transportation, the Arlington Heights shops that are in walking distance as well as a balance on the other side of the street of having conservation land, we can take our dog and take our seven month old daughter who will soon be toddling around up there. So I support all the comments from my neighbors. I also wanna point out that hasn't been discussed yet is that the transfer of land potential from Arlington to another community of Lexington seems really awkward and don't see how moving something from here to there benefits our community. So again, I am against the article. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to Arlington. Thanks. Hang around, I don't believe that land is going anywhere myself. I'm an Arlington resident for almost 10 years and have the same reaction and the extreme concern about this property being brought out of conservation. And one of the issues that came up in the conservation commission, and forgive me if I don't voice this as articulately, is that it's the parcel in the middle that's involved with the potential movement out of conservation and what could happen to that parcel of land once it's out of conservation is out of the control of conservation. But it would affect the surrounding parcels as I understand it. And so you would maximize the, it would affect the parcels around that property. So to get one piece of, to get one more unit of affordable housing, you're affecting and in effect fragmenting this continuous piece of land. So I certainly vote for no action. Okay. Thank you. Hi, I'm Pam Hallett. I'm Executive Director of the Housing Corporation. I also happen to be tenant at the Gilboa House. But I don't want to speak about that part of it. What I do want to say though is I find it a little bit underhanded to try and keep layering all kinds of vacant land into to be able to defeat 40B. We have a thousand households on our waiting lists that are desperately looking for affordable housing. We were talking earlier tonight about the fact that we have homeless living in Arlington. What we ought to be doing is looking at how we can create more affordable housing in areas that need to be redeveloped because they're underutilized at this point. And I think that is really important to take to heart here in this discussion. I also want to say that the house does need a lot of work and that I know from experience, particularly in last year's winter, that being stuck up there is really difficult. I have an all-wheel drive vehicle. Anyone who has to walk down that driveway or drive without all-wheel drive will be really in a difficult situation trying to get out of there in a bad storm. So putting a less wealthy family there would put an undue burden on them, I believe. And I also think that people need to know that the neighborhood sort of walks through the land every day. I must see minimum 50 people, dogs, children. It's wonderful, elderly families, but they do walk right up the driveway, right through my backyard and right down into the land, which I don't have a problem with. Sometimes people complain that they can see in my windows, but that's their problem, not mine. So, but I do think you need to look at this in sort of a holistic way is it is not appropriate for someone that doesn't have resources to live there. And I think you need to just be careful about sort of trying to solve one problem by messing up a really beautiful resource that this town has. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Hi, good evening. My name's Jennifer Brown. I'm at 51 Orient Ave. I think my stance on the issue is that I moved here in August, and the reason why I moved here was because of the green space and access to public transit that's available within Arlington. For me, I don't actually have children in the Arlington school systems are fantastic, and that's a huge draw for a lot of people. But for me, the draw was actually the reservoir and Mt. Gaboa, which is why I chose to move to that neighborhood. Additionally, as I've come to appreciate, it's just a fantastic neighborhood. I have amazing neighbors who I am getting to know very rapidly. So, thank you. Thank you. Thanks for choosing Arlington. Roy Goldstein from Westminster Avenue. I don't want to be repetitive as to what has already been said. I wrote you a letter as well, which outlined some points, but I wanted to bring up just one, one really important issue that keeps coming to mind, which is in Arlington, we are a little scarce in our open space, and that which we have is so much of it is parcelated, and Gilboa and Turkey, he'll exist as the largest parcels, about equal 10.7 acres. So if we take a piece of it away, we were this detriment to it, and I think it's rare that we have these large parcels still in existence, and I think that's a really important point that we just leave it be as it is. I've been appreciating that land for about 36 years. Even when I lived in Somerville, I used to come over and it was the reason I came to Arlington. I looked at topographic maps for open space, came in, so Gilboa, I actually live on adjacent to it now, but it's just purely by just seeking it out, and I'd hate to see anything happen to that parcel at all. So you were trespassing in those days? Well, no, no, because the seven and a half acres are out of the world. It's public, it's public, it's public. So just so you know, I'm sure I received more than 30 emails and letters and stuff, so apologies that wasn't, I knew we were coming to this hearing, but apologies, I couldn't respond to them all. My colleagues probably did, but Mrs. Mahoon. I'm just gonna try to see if I can go on and try to territories here. I would like to first make a motion to table and then just explain the background behind it. Oh, second for discussion. I totally understand that. First and foremost, what I've been hearing a lot of is that does the housing authority want this? Have they discussed it? I spoke with somebody informally who didn't give an opinion either way. It said they would be happy to consider it. The reason why I would want that discussion to table it, I mean to have that discussion to see A, if the interest was there, B, if they could come back with what we're going to do is take over the property that's there, leave the land that's there, and perhaps upgrade Mount Caboer that's there or not. They may look at it and say, you know what? We can take it. We could keep the conservation land, but we can't afford to do the upgrades. So I'd like to hear from the housing authority and that could probably be done with it before our next meeting in terms of if this is something they would consider, what they could legally say what they would or would not do with the conservation land. And as well as I'd like to give town council in Mr. Belsk is time to explore whether this is an article 97 procedure or whether there's the road of further defining the conservation restriction to protect the affordable, designate and protect the house on Mount Caboer as affordable housing as well as the conservation restriction to protect the open land. And the reason I say that is why do I wanna go through this exercise? I'm not trying to tax everybody and come to more meetings is that looking at where we are, I think you'd be hard pressed to find and I wanna be really careful what I say about my remarks. I don't think you'd find anybody on behalf of the town that will tell you any specific number that we're at whether it's above or below 1.5%. We do have a very serious issue down in East Arlington, same issues, homeless, people walk through there, kids walk through there, that if that development goes in there, I will say that it's gonna have a detrimental effect to 1.3 of Arlington itself. If this is an exercise we can go through and everybody can come out that housing authority wants it, they commit to keeping it the way it is in terms of if that's doable legally, as well as perhaps looking at what needs to be done to the house. And I just wanna say not to be a stickler, but in terms of anyone who could rent up at Moncoboa, I grew up in low income, I grew up in assisted living, I grew up in the projects, didn't know it was a manor. We didn't have a car, we didn't have anything. And we got around, including up and down to, my parents were able to come up and secure and walk up the hill, not only when we were born, my sister was born in Sims Hospital, but I remember going to Moncoboa. So I don't, I'm gonna respectfully disagree that you need a Toyota 4Runner or anything to be living up there, I think as long as you qualify. So the reason I wanna table this, I wanna hear from the housing authority, they may come back and say no, we have no interest or this may be something doable and I think that can be done within two weeks. But I would just like to table. Okay, Mr. Guerra. I think in the interest of fairness, I will go along with the motion to table as we gave the same consideration, I think to the proponent of the last article and we asked for more information. I will say that I'm very skeptical about this article, though. I'm a little bit confused because actually in the presentation of materials that we received up till tonight, it appeared that we were talking about the entire property and it sounds like we're actually talking about the home itself and the land around it. But I am concerned, I'm the term parcelization, I'm concerned about that. I think the other question that I'd like to see answered, though, is that currently we do rent out that property when it becomes vacant, we put it out for bids. We have in the past, I know we've housed refugees from Katrina there. So is there any reason that a transferer would have to happen for that to be considered in our stock of affordable housing? Mr. Chairman, there's been a couple of questions that I'm hoping that I can curtail. There seems to be more issues floating in the air than maybe there really should be with respect to a few of these things. So the answer to that question, Mr. Currow, is that in order to qualify as affordable housing for the subsidized housing inventory, which is relevant to the one and a half percent calculation for 40 B purposes, it has to be deed restricted. Doesn't have to be in perpetuity, but does have to be deed restricted for that specific purpose, which is not something that is currently in place now. And in my opinion, is not compatible with its current status. In my view, respectfully to folks, I don't think the article 97 status is going to change with more research. I think it is, in my opinion, it's an article 97 protected land. It may not be recorded, but the vote of town meeting was extremely clear that it was voted for conservation purposes and that absent a litigation about it. I don't think that we'd be in a posture to assert very comfortably that it's not. I don't mean that. I just don't want to leave anybody down the perverse path. I think that in order to make Mr. Belski's vision for what he wants to do with this parcel happen, you would have to have a vote of town meeting. You would have to, at a minimum, get the legislature's approval as well as the conservation commission's unanimous approval. So, and I'm sorry, one more quick thing. So, there are 1.5% calculation was done just for everybody to have clear on the record. It was done by the planning department. It was submitted to the ZBA and the ZBA took a vote to assert that they had that 1.5% safe harbor status. What I think Ms. Mohan and Mr. Belski and a lot of the folks are noting is very true. Is that that 1.5% is subject to ebbing and flowing and that Mr. Belski's proposal is about ensuring the town's long-term status because the calculation for 1.5% is extremely complicated. It's not, the math of it is not just a simple adding up of the total amount of land. There's a lot that goes into it that I won't put Mr. Krawski on the spot to discuss but it probably would have an impact on it but that doesn't, but the policy discussion that folks are having I think is the really central issue. Do we want to assure the status of the property that Ms. Mohan's making reference to which is in jeopardy of development in fit by removing this property from conservation restoration. I'm sorry that's a long way to answer and everybody's been here for a long time tonight but I just wanted to at least try to make sure that a few points that I think are beyond dispute at this point in time. No, thank you. I have two follow-ups with the chair's permission. Firstly, if it is deemed conservation property, why are we permitted to operate a rental property there now at all? So when the house was acquired, when the property was acquired, the house was already there and I've actually combed through the transcripts of that town meeting discussion. The fact that it's conservation land and there was a pre-existing house there doesn't necessarily preclude that pre-existing houses continued use and there's been a lot of discussion over many town meetings over the last decade and a half about what to do with that house. There's been talk about lifting that house up and moving it somewhere. There's been talk about demolishing the house so that it's just an open park without that house there but it's in somewhat, I wouldn't say it's a unique situation but it's because the house was already there when it was acquired for conservation purposes that were allowed to essentially rent it out as a rental, doing something more with it, especially something that required a change to its deed status is what in my mind triggers the Article 97 protections. And to that point in the issue that Mr. Belskis raised, I understand that we can assert our Article 97 rights around that property. Would it not be advisable though to pursue the deed correction to strengthen that? Absolutely, so all these other issues notwithstanding, if it's not recorded in a deed there's actually a relatively straightforward process for any parcel that we're concerned wasn't properly de-restricted. Part of what probably happened, this is just a guess because this was quite some time ago, is that because it was passed to us from the trust of public land, there was probably an assumption that that was clear enough that it didn't require a conservation restriction to be recorded especially given the vote of town meeting. That's my guess, I can't really be certain of why that wasn't ever recorded there, but it is advisable that we do that with that parcel and any other parcel that we think is conservation land but not clearly coming up in a deed search, a title search. Thank you, and given that, I mean, I will support the table for the reasons I said, I'm still very skeptical about this and unless we have some really strong answers and something to sway me next time, I would expect that I would be voting no action if given the opportunity the next time but potentially also including that vote or request of town council is for the recording of the deed. You have to come to the microphone. That's a question. Thank you, it's a quick question. What is the process for ensuring that that goes through the deed is updated? I just don't wanna leave any. That's what we're gonna try to find out. Okay, perfect. That's why we're moving the table we're gonna look at what does the housing authority and what we can do and what we should do in terms of clearing up that deed. Right, I mean, regardless of the Arlington Housing Authority it's from my concern. We can't tell you that now but that's why we're tabling it so everybody else should. That will be done, that will be invested. I'm sorry, can I just make one other point? Is that nobody should be in a panic about this because town land can't get sold without town meeting. So nobody's gonna go and put in a proposal to sell all 10.7 acres of Mt. Goboa tomorrow. We can't. The only thing that's on the table and I'm not saying this to squash conversation about this but the only thing that's on the table is the 1.75 acre parcel that is one Mt. Goboa. So there's nothing else that can be changed right now. We should record it. We will for all the other parcels but absent town meeting voting to get rid of Mt. Goboa we're not gonna do it. I actually don't have much interest in voting the table at I'm willing to vote no action now and I'm gonna be voting no action at the next meeting regardless. And I don't think that the issue here I think one, two things come to mind in this discussion. One is that we're already at 1.5 and two, I don't think that we should be having an argument about adding more to it tonight. We should be devoting our efforts into getting DHCD to actually do their job and realize that land area over 1.5 is valid because they actually just are not doing that and they don't seem to be really doing that in any community and kind of accepting it at the current time. So I think that this is really a misguided approach to stopping the 40B. We should be working with the state which I know we are through the town council and our outside council. And I think that's where we should be devoting our efforts. Not really creating schisms in town over two important groups that I think that we all agree it's each are equally important. So that's where I'm at right now and so whether I'm voting no action tonight or next time, that's where I am. That's what I'm gonna do. John, I'm gonna allow you a minute. Thank you, sir. Well, frankly, then I'm speaking. We probably wouldn't be here this evening and you wouldn't have this article and there's no one here from planning. That's the issue. They're the keepers of the records. You know, I've already found out this piece is missing. We had the Arlington Corporation here speaking. I've lost a piece of property and maybe two pieces of property. Again, the proper paper didn't go forward. This was a property that you paid for or you initiated with community block grant money. I wanna see that protected. If we can get planning to commit to taking all the information I've sent them, which seems to go into a black hole that balances these numbers and we get those answers, I wanna see Gilboa protected and I've already given you the lead-in that it hasn't happened because past mistakes. So there's your decisions to be made. Mr. Chapter Lane. I'm sorry, with all due respect to Mr. Belskas, I can't let him besmirch the planning department in that regard. Every piece of information that Mr. Belskas has provided to both Town Council and I has been, if appropriate, included in the 1.5% calculation so I can't stand by that report. Mr. Chairman. I pass. No. No, I mean, Mr. Belskas deserves a medal for what he has dedicated himself to for years, but I am absolutely opposed to this warrant article in any way, shape, or form. So I would absolutely wanna go for no action right now but out of respect for two colleagues who feel they wanna wait and to gather more information, but I will lie on the ground in front of a bulldozer before we let anything happen there. We have to protect that over there. There are those I would like to be driving that bulldozer for, but no, but you know, I understand you're just looking for it and so let's. Well, the two issues, including it's not recorded correctly and you all not protected. Right, but with it not recorded correctly. Well, I'll let him. But with it not screams for us then not to support this at this point, we have to take care of this first, in my opinion, before we'd ever make any changes up there. So I mean, I. I know. Channel Council made a good argument for what you want, but I didn't ask for it. I'd like to. Yes. Oh, doesn't it also fall into the Historic District Commission purview? So they would have to also decide on the house because it is part of the house. The house, so it would have some restrictions as well as to what you could do. Right. So, yes. Another layer that I just thought. Right. No, you're right. Yes. So, go ahead. Come on. No, no, no. Please, please. Uncle. Come on. I'm fine. I'm fine. So we have, we have done on this. We have the motion to table, which has been seconded. All those in favor of tabling, please signify by saying I. I. All those opposed. I. Nay. So, it's a two-two. What happens? Status. I move no action. Status quo, right? Status quo means he's not approved. That's right. So either way. So I'll move no action. Okay, so he's gonna move no action. Second. Second. Do you wanna say anything? No, I just, I really feel very disrespected personally as well as with the previous article concerning all the people with the tree community that I probably would have voted no action, but it's a very strong constituency that you all have. And I, at the very least, but am used to not being afforded the same opportunity to take the same case scenario, case in point, and have the same process. So I just wanted to make that statement. And I'm really disappointed that town council, unfortunately, you know, gave his discussion that in my opinion led to the fact that I've once again not afforded the same opportunity. So, and I'll do my best in the future to work with my colleagues that you afford me the same opportunity that I afford you all as well as the people who support you. Well, I believe you've had the same opportunity. My position is I'm against this. So I vote for no action. I'm not, okay, okay. That's all I'm saying, okay? So we do now have a new motion on the table for no action, seconded by Mr. Byrne. Yes. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye, all those opposed. Abstain. Abstain. So three, zero, and one. Good night, Uncle Bower. Article 33, Revolving Funds. This is a routine, right, Mr. Chapter Lane? Yeah, I have to apologize. There was a, I'll, I, I, quietly though, quietly, yo, yo, hello, we're still going. Please, hello, please wait till you're in the hallway. Mr. Chapter Lane. I apologize, Mr. Chairman. All the materials are prepared, but there was a miscommunication between myself and the comptroller, and they didn't find their way into Novus agenda. So we'll have to slip to the April 4th meeting. I'm sorry about that. Can I try move to table again? Yeah, go ahead. Second. Further discussion? Nope, sorry, what are we on? Oh, sorry, we're on Revolving Funds, but we don't have the info in front of us, so he's asked us to table. Thank you. All right, all those in favor of tabling, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Next is Article 59, hold on one second. Article 59, Resolution, Handicap Parking Spaces to see if the town will resolve to support policies that encourage the inclusion and designation of at least 5% and no more than 10% overall, Handicap Parking Spaces and any on-street public parking located in any business district, B12345, so as to facilitate access for people with disabilities or take any action related there too. Thank you. Good evening. First of all. Thank you for waiting so long. I should tell you one caveat. I had said to someone a couple of days ago I'd love to run for Selecman, and I've changed my mind. I'll just say it. You know what's funny is so have I. Anyway, good evening. I'm Cynthia DeAngelis, and with me tonight presenting is Darcy Devney, and Adam Karelsky is gonna help with our visual mapping. We are the working subcommittee representing the Disability Commission and submitting this warrant article before you that establishes a standard of 5% to 10% Handicap Parking Spaces in the business district of Arlington, Massachusetts. Our vision for doing this is one of inclusion and accessibility for our community, as well as for visitors and for our elderly population, which I learned today is called the Silver Tsunami. I did not know that before. Anyway, Darcy will review for you all the data that was collected and researched for this proposal. I do have to just make a note that it really took about 100 hours. You probably figured that out when you read it, but we did speak with everybody in town. I know that's important to you all. I've been hearing that through all of these. We poured over maps. We went through state data. We went through the town data. We consulted with every stakeholder we could find. And hopefully this has been, it took a little bit of a village to get this proposal in front of you. So Darcy. I was nervous, but now I'm just exhausted. Okay, data. Thank you, Adam, who's been doing the, did the map tool specifically for us. We could show everybody this. I don't know if everybody can see that's the website address. You can go to it yourself if you wanna look at it on your smartphone or something. So first let's document the need for Handicap Parking. In Massachusetts, just under 10% of licensed drivers have Handicap Parking placards or plates. The Census Bureau estimate in 2013 for ambulatory disabilities in Massachusetts, 6.2%. And rising because of that silver tsunami we just talked about. Of Arlington residents 65 years and older, 16% have an ambulatory difficulty. So then we said, okay, but Handicap placards go with a person who goes with a car. So there are approximately 35,000 cars registered in Arlington. That's how many excise bills we send out. And there are about 2,400 active Handicap placards in Arlington as of January 2015. So that makes 6.9% of the cars. Part of the reason the Disability Commission did this is because you may have noticed in the Vision 2020 survey in 2015 the Disability Commission got a whole page of questions they could ask. And one of the questions they were asking was about Handicap parking access. Specifically, if any members of your household use HP parking in Arlington the past year, how often could accessible parking be found in different areas? Didn't matter what neighborhood it was, East Arlington Center, Arlington Heights, at least 27% answered that they could never find an HP space on street or in parking lots, which is a huge percentage. How many respondents were there? Well, I knew you were gonna ask me that and it's over in my book. Don't worry about it. It might be on your page in your packet that we included, I'm just not sure. So 27%, so we said, okay, why is that? So we started counting. If you count in the general area of the business districts of Arlington, which is almost all of Mass Ave, we went from Trader Joe's in the Heights right down to the Cambridge line, that's all Massachusetts Ave, then there's some right around the center because that is the business center there. We're gonna kind of ignore this lower part of Broadway in our calculations right now because if you put it in in terms of street space, we would never ever get a decent percentage of handicap parking. So it's almost all of, it is all of Mass Ave. If you add that all up, both sides of the street, it's about seven miles of street. And the supply of HP spaces in that is totally inadequate to the need. We found 23 handicap parking spaces out of more than 1,000 on-street public parking spaces. So that is a 2.3%, 2.3% percentage. And Adam is going to show you, I hope this would work. That's what they are. The blue ones are all the current handicap parking spaces throughout Arlington. So we have mapped all of them, but there's only 23 of them in the whole town. So we're not talking residential. I want to emphasize it's all just business spaces. So if parking seems scarce for you when one in 35 cars can find a parking space in the business districts, imagine you're a person with an HP placard, you have a one in a hundred chance of finding because 35,000 cars, et cetera. Okay, so this is an aspirational article, a resolution, and that's because the ADA laws don't cover on-street parking specifically, but the Massachusetts Office of Disability does say they recommend a minimum of 5% handicapped spaces for public on-street parking. And we have 2.3%. So we said, okay, what if we took it up to five? What would it look like? So we went over the map, section by section, curb cut by curb cut, and tried to find the best plan of how to arrange them, what it might look like at 5%. So if you add 27 total on-street handy-pack parking spaces, the 18 primary spots are gonna show up in red, and those are the urgent ones, that really, really we gotta have. And nine secondary spots, which we also really need to even get up to barely 5%. Those are the ones that are showing up in orange. So that's the minimum it would take just to get us to 5%, and we should be doing better than that because of those statistics we read to you earlier where we're over 6%, we're over 7%, et cetera. You read the placement specifics. It's very complicated, and you have to go through each space, kind of each block of cars is different, and your criteria include curb cuts, nature and accessibility of the businesses. So we went through address by address and saw what those businesses were. Did they have takeout? Did they have delivery? Did they tend to have a lot of handicapped people or elderly people? Winter and plowing and bump outs, overhangs because the vans, handicapped vans for trees and lights, bus stops, because you can't have one in a bus stop, and especially in the New East Arlington Project, the street furniture because people have to be able to get their walkers out onto the curb. So out of all of these, there are some very easy low budget ones. So nine of those right away could be done by doing nothing but putting up one blue sign because there's already a pole right there. So you don't actually have to paint the curb blue, you don't actually have to paint the pavement blue. So that's nine of them that could go in, well, Mike might not say tomorrow, but he would say that it would be probably fairly easy, and some of them are a little more complicated. So we've shown you that there are only 2.3% on street handicapped spaces in the business district of Arlington. We've shown you that we need at least 5% because we need that for our population. This map is our proposal to add the 27 streets at a minimum to achieve that better access for people with disabilities. So Cynthia's gonna talk about the outreach that we did to try and confirm that these are the optimal placements. First of all, we wanna assure you that we really wanted this to be a transparent, and I'm glad that we get to tell you that we talked to everybody. So it was outreach inclusiveness and transparency. So we did enlist the help of the Arlington, all the disability commission members, the Mass Office of Disability, community volunteers, specifically Darcy Scholl family did this whole research, the GIS director, the Economic Planning, Town Council, Town Meeting moderator, Michael from the DPW, who really drilled us and grilled us several times on perspective and really got us to think about things a little differently. The editor of the Arlington Advocate and the town support staff, namely Marie, who I was going to cite as the phenomenal resource who kept pointing us in the right direction.  So we got several articles in the local newspaper for folks to be able to read it. We had emailing of all local businesses we are also planning. So what we did is we've divided up Mass Ave in three sections and we're going to walk it. And we're actually going to tell the business owners that we're coming so that they can come out and talk to us about where we're thinking of putting it. But we also feel like we have to have eyes and feet on the ground. Because I've been walking it the last couple of weeks from just about, I've only done the Bishop School to the end of by Cambridge. So I've done that about four times. And what I found is where we thought we could put spaces sometimes we can't because there's either a bench now or a planter or a light pole, especially down in the East Arlington section. So what we wanna do is walk it as well. This was our best laid plan. We laid out all the maps, we met with everybody and we put them where we thought. Now we have to do that second tier which is to make sure that we talk to all the business owners and make sure I have talked to I'd say six to 10 so far.  Other people say we're take out all day. So if you put one in front of mine, my truck can't come in. So those are the perspectives that we're not gonna know unless we actually talk to business owners and do the walk. So hopefully we have succeeded in reflecting the great need for you to support our warrant to increase handicap spaces in our community. And this helps you as a committee to make an informed decision this evening. You are the parking commissioners for the town, I'm told. So we thank you for your time and consideration and hopefully we did it in eight minutes. A couple questions? Yes, please. I'm kind of colorblind, so I am here. He is colorblind. Let me give you, sorry, the big version. I don't know, well, no, those are colors, right? He's not size blind, he's like, no, I don't want you to. No, just let me tell you my question, which is, I'm curious whether it was East Arlington better than other sections of town since that's the one we've just redone recently? No, actually it's worse. She's been contacting us about that, yes.  There's a whole section by, I want to say it's 190 Mass Ave where the bank is and the building, that whole section has no handicap parking at all anymore. In fact, that's one of the things that happened at our commission meeting was the, I'm going to forget now, it's a vision, an optometry or something. He actually came to us and said, I need my handicap parking space back because we have folks that can't. Yeah, Arlington Vision Care. Yeah, Arlington Vision Care. So he actually came in several times and I went down and checked it out with him and we, lo and behold, he doesn't have one anymore. So that's the kind of thing we're trying to work out right now, so. You think there was one in front of Arlington Vision Care? Vision Care, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay.  Right. They wish, like, shared, it's like half and a half, you know what I mean? Yes, okay. You're based in Arlington, right. Because just excellent work and whatever we can do and I want to confess, I have a handicap placard but I would tell you, I would say 50% of the time I am able to find a space. So you said, it was that never. 27%, it was actually 27 to 31. It makes me angry when someone is in there, I'll tell you that. We took the lowest number, but it was 27 to 31% came in as the data. It said never. It said never. Yeah, okay.  No, I don't because I'm now living it. I know. I'm really tough on me walking and I, you know, I love, it's the only benefit of my handicap, it's handicap spaces. So go in some more, please. I probably took the one you two might have been looking for tonight out front here, so. But does that mean you're gonna vote yes? Yes, I will affirm the importance of this. Thank you. Yes. Okay, Ms. Maher. I don't know, we'll see. Oh. Yeah, Ms. Maher. Nope. One and I stopped because I was gonna make a motion but I think we need to hammer it. Oh, questions? Oh, I was just gonna say, I mean, thank you for this. I mean, you have been sitting, you've been listening to us all night, I think you saw us hang up on the rocky shoals of a couple of other articles. We already felt that maybe there hadn't been enough outreach and consultation with stakeholders in the community. And clearly you've done that. I know you've done that because I met with the, you know, some of the merchants in the center over the Chamber of Commerce, they had been, they had this right on their agenda because you had reached out to them, which I think was very important. So, you know, as you know, this is a resolution, we ultimately make the decision but I really like the process that you've outlined and the materials that you've given us as to how things would be surveyed, assessed, brought back to us and then brought forward. Thank you. Mr. Dunn. I just had one question and Darcy, I think you actually answered it in your speech but I missed it, which was, I wanted to know how you came to the 5% and you listed a state agency or something that recommended, well, who was that? The Massachusetts. The Office of Disability recommends a minimum of 5%. We've been trying to, what's the word, revise the ADA for years now to try and get it to cover the on the street parking spaces as well because it says you should have them but it specifies no number whatsoever. So they're still working on it and the Massachusetts Park of Access Board, is that right, MAAB, is communicating with Massachusetts Office of Disability because sooner or later the state will probably do it. I think you've got a memo in there from Mike Rademacher who says that he also believes that the state will get around to it sometime but you know, our theory is that this town meeting will be the time to do it because he can take another three or four or five years and problems just getting age and demographics that we don't want it to be disabled but it does mean that our stats are kind of creeping up every year. Thank you, okay. Yep, Ms. Mohan. First I want to move approval to the proposed resolution and I just kind of want to piggyback on what Darcy said there in terms of individuals with handicapped placards. There's a very rapidly growing constituency of autism spectrum, children, young adults and I always think of them as kids even when they're in their 30s and 40s and if you've ever been in that situation and I don't have a handicapped placard or anything like that yet but if you've ever been in that situation sometimes it's the fear of going someplace usually not a medical office but a place of business and you have that handicapped placard and you have someone perhaps who's afflicted is healthy otherwise but is very young and has a severe flight risk and I can tell you sort of personally the stress and burden that most other people would be like I'm going to Toys R Us I'm going to the supermarket I'm going to pick up my prescription and you get there and adequate safe parking is not there for you you really go through the ringer and so I don't mean to kind of melt that one but actually that gets me to a point that we didn't say which is that our plan is when we finish to actually have this uploaded to the website for the town so that people will know where the spaces are so that they'll be able to kind of plan for themselves around what's accessible and what isn't for them so we're hoping to do that as well I want to say my right now favorite Adam that is fantastic because there are you know sometimes people hear things and like who do you have to plan who the heck is no I'm who the heck is really going to use this but people and I'm not saying people who are over the age of 50 or 60 but I can tell you that constituency you literally sit down for the most mundane trip that you need to make and to have some kind of information like that that someone could go online and say I need to do this there's two or three different businesses and oh my gosh, you know this one has a spot and the other two don't I think that's fantastic and it really will be utilized and I thank you and I'm sorry Mr. Barnett yeah I just want to note and I'm happy to support but I do want to note that this is a resolution so these you know all the spots and all like that's that might not be implemented right away and that's subject to change so I wouldn't want to rush to put this online but maybe after we go down the road and we decide where the spots are and where they're going to be maybe that will go online but I just don't want to yeah I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves tonight but thank you there are ones that are already there yeah yeah that's fine I just especially with folks that have children with wheelchairs and they need to get to a specific place they plan yeah of course you know they have to go and either take a trip there themselves first to see okay where am I going to be able to park or how am I going to navigate this in what time am I going to go exactly so so and I'm glad that you're going to do this walking it and talking to business owners and really identifying where these can go but I am curious whether or not or what if there's a formula for our public lot so for example how many handicapped faces should we have in the rest of the economy I mean to make you I'm not a future study but apparently she's ready to answer me but sorry at all so there's none to put it in sort of Arlington there is behind the that bank and that block it doesn't necessarily count as public that's the thing so I think park there to go to the optometrist right you can only go right only park there or the apartments supposedly no no no I've gone to the optometrist frequently from that one no it is a sign and I'm Arlington we got to change that all those Arlington Center you know they did the two parking studies tack and and Nelson Nygaard which didn't exactly agree on their counting but close enough there's about 500 on street 11 or HP and then off street there's 13 so and Arlington Heights there's nothing from from the mill street on the only off street parking public parking that's handicapped is the three straces at the Arlington high school which doesn't really count because either you're at the high school or that's too far for you from anywhere else so so we would try you know it'd be great if we had the five to ten percent that's one of the reasons why we said five to ten percent is that there are clearly places where they need to be more concentrated like right in the center places where you can be a little more sprinkly about them and just put them in front of the business blocks as opposed to the residential blocks but you're coming back with that with the on-street with the off street no the on-street say it again we're moving forward yes yes she explained how you're going to walk mass Avenue and talk to the business owners and identify specifically where spaces should go yes we're hoping to do we show them what we're proposing right and then hear from them their perspective right because you don't know what you don't know but you have to make sure is there a planter there is there a tree there exactly okay I think we're all set on the motion by mrs. mine seconded by mr. burn yeah all those in favor please say the five I say nine we just haven't done this longer than a while so final votes and comments articles for review twenty one twenty three and sixty is there a motion to approve so moves second second all those in favor please say the five I say nine hi all those cards fine it's received move receipt move receipt is there a second second discussion do we want to where we want to send no parking here to corner say in no parking here to corner all right I think I think I go to the parking subcommittee or a quarry quarry I say yes and not yeah okay yes okay so moved is there a second second all those in favor please say the five I say nine I heard quarry the other two move receipt somebody anybody yeah move you see second all those in favor please say the five I say nine I suppose we have to do new business because we do need to hold an executive session so let's get new business out of the way before an executive session is just for the purpose of releasing minutes from other executive sessions so it should be very quick Marie new business just nothing you can talk about Thursday night you want so the rehearsal are you going to talk about the rehearsal party Thursday night density is not well I don't think Diana singing with us although they're always welcome Doug no new business mr. Chairman I'll pass I'll pass you sure you have nothing else to say 1050 no new business only because I have to I was down at the as you all know the basketball banquet for the freshman JV varsity boys basketball team fantastic season and I just want to congratulate clock Ewing Ewan who received the Paul J. Leone scholarship and award something that we're all very familiar with and one of the things that a request that was made and I said I would first speak with the chairman and he can perhaps speak with the town manager I'm not sure if it's the treasurer but in terms of getting the Paul J. Leone's award sort of more status and I have to find out exactly what John Leone meant about that so I don't know if it's a town request or a school but that was a congratulation to clock and end the team for their season okay great thank you just just one I just want to acknowledge that firing an emergency I believe this is your last meeting chairing this board before we reorganize and so we will smoke thank you for your your service once again with the gavel ending it in a marathon session and thank you Joe you don't want to give the guy we may change the rules after the job I did tonight I don't blame me if you want to be rid of me dance nothing so I'm sorry I got three quick ones first of all so we got the board of select and handbook friends so very fitting for your last meeting right there thanks to I've been through it before but all of the people helped us so we're recommending we put them right in our drawers and now we have them all to refer to and as Joe points out already you know potentially we have changes to have to make to it secondly I was very proud yesterday to compete in the Arlington Education Foundation trivia be a contest with Mr. Adam chapter Lane and Mr. Joe captain Mr. Joe Curell but here's an interesting piece of trivia for you so it was there were things like science sports history right facts about Arlington not our group but another group that was up was asked this question five teams right of three individuals each how many members are on the Arlington Board of Select Wow here's your answer here are your answers nine seven six and two of them got it right at saying five is that phenomenal they think we do the work of nine people okay then the final thing I have before executive session is Adams evaluations you all got them to answer me oh no I sent it to you by email so would Marie also have that I didn't copy or I sent it directly to you okay today last night okay so I guess I haven't seen you yet okay so I'll tell you why when we're off the mic is I don't want to yeah no problem so let me ask you though if you would get them to Marie as soon as possible but well yes I will do that but to me I guess to me because I have to get them to I have to get it right so I guess electronically it's fine how did you do that you go to the PDF you say edit and sign and it'll let you edit a PDF okay all right so that's it for me for new business make a motion we go into executive session for the purposes of discussing and or approving oh I didn't even I'm sorry to review and approve executive session minutes for February 4th 2016 and February 10 2016 meetings of the board of select men and to release such prior executive session minutes pursuant to master general laws chapter 30 a section 22 f as appropriate and when we come out it'll be for the purposes of taking a final vote is that right sure yes yes so move second yeah Marie yes yes yes yes yes yes okay I'll say what I'd like to make a motion oh sorry that's right so we're now back at the March 21st 2016 meeting of the board of select men we have just come out of executive session vice chairman Mahan what's up I'd like to move that we release the executive session minutes of February 4th 2016 and February is a 10th yeah 10th I'm doing it by memory from 2016 for public release so second second further discussion all those in favor please signify by saying hi all those opposed move to adjourn move to adjourn second all those in favor signify by saying hi next meeting of the board of select men April 4th good night Arlington


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Cards. We're in the Topps Museum of Bowman Chrome Stadium's eight box baseball mixer number two random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as a link in chat. We'll do guess the Super Fracture everybody. 30 seconds to guess a super on the checklist of Bowman's best. Uh guesses start now. Go ahead everybody. Go ahead. We'll have all the guesses so far. I'm liking the guesses. Michael D with the spot in both of the random Bowman Chrome U basketball delights. Thank you buddy. Appreciate that very much. Drop you guys a link to that really quick after all of our guesses are in. 21 to go on the first one. All right. Yeses are closed in five, four, three, two, one. This is our closed. All right. Start with a stadium club hobby everybody. There will probably be a minute or two behind. I should be able to make it up make up our time again on Bowman's best though. Just making sure we don't go buy any of this stuff in stadium club. Boxed opera, Buster Posey and $650 in break credit for if you guess for guessing a Super Fracture correctly. Literally just for guessing and then up to 1075 on the bounty. I don't like how they're all upside down. I'm not a fan of that. Uh Luba. Uryas, Space and Base. Uh probably I'd imagine Timmy. We got more of it in so I would imagine we will. Uh Hideki Matsui. Dennis Eckersley for the ace. It's the guy on channel two.  I still haven't gone in there. I mean looking at it right now. It's like a, it's like a stew. Pelanza Trombura. Trombura stench. Yeah, that is a, that is a sad crew right there. My God. No matter. Michael Harris. I mean, look at that. Imagine that that was on your team. I'd imagine that too is backing you up in a fight. Oh, you're done. Dead, dude. Got no shot. This was a velocity. Jake will soil himself. Yeah, and then fall. Cause he's running away. Dave Winfield. On the ground. He's falling. He's running. Still one of the best days ever at LSC. Oh, absolutely. I'm glad I got to witness it. Jacob DeGrom Blackfoil. Can you imagine wiped out into the, uh, Doc Gooden. Knocked himself out. JJ Bledet. Nice one here. It's Honus Wagner on the black and white. Are your thumbs downing? Spencer? No. Channel two? Yeah, they were thumbs down. Channel two is a bop lobby. Yeah. Especially right now is Byron Buxton. But my thing was, if you were to watch those two race. Yo, Bryson and Jake. It was in slow motion. Like, they are not. 2023 rookies. This is members only. This is a different one. This is a variation of sorts. First, no, not first day issue, right? Not photographer's proof. The hell, which one is this one? Foil board is not, it's not members only, right? And it's not photographer's proof. It's nice though. It's really nice. Retro variation taking camera. Retro variation. That's what it is. 1992. Okay. That's what it is. That's what it is. Jayran. I was like scrolling the checklist trying to see that. Vado and a break. That's pretty sweet. You can throw that in that recap. Coloss, Red Foil, Sean Bouchard, Rookie Otto for the rocks. I've just never seen someone running so slow. Wipe out. That badly too. Hard one, Soto. We're reliving your falling. Your fall in the parking lot. Your race you had. Yeah. We're reliving that. It's pretty funny to be honest. I just don't understand how you could fall even if you're running so damn slow. It was almost like you were walking. James Outman, Red Foil. Sean needs life alert since he fell. Not me. Not me, Higley. Oh, Jaker Mayfield needs it. Jaker stealing Kyle's stuff. Adley Rushman to 99, Trumvritz. Nice one there. Trust me, I don't think he would do that. No, it plays in a loop in my head. Mike Estrebski? Yeah. It's hard to forget when you do that. It's like burning to our minds at this point. God, I wish there was a better video of it, but I got it. I should have listened to my body, man. Cody Bellinger. I always remember that. He has chiseled and base. They're screaming at me, don't go again. And wiped out. Gladdy Jr. That was a really nice one. Red Foil, Freddie Freeman. It's Mike Piazza on the chrome. He unfriended me, did I? He peaked on, he did it for real. Black and white Robin Yelp. Yelp Dracula. Classic Anthony C. Stick right there. I heard earlier what you said. Chris Sale, Red Foil. Bill Messaging, you know. Is Justin Verlander? Oh boy. Oh boy. That most thing was never stopped, dang it. Rodin on the Red Foil. Your boy. Franklin Hermann. Congrats on that, White Sox. Extrumvritz of Aaron Judge. I have to make it such a hard name to say. Trumvritz. Didn't sound like a real word. What is it? Triumvirates? Yeah, it's like triumph. Triumvirates. What is that? What's the name? Triumvirates? I have no idea. Shake you ready for twins, Blake Snell. Huh? Did that actually happen? What? Virtuosos of Velocity of Austin Valley. What? I know they're in, like the Heyman said, again, it's John Heyman, so take it with a grain of salt. Did it literally just happen? Take it with a grain of salt, said there could be a surprise team in the mix for Snell. Gold Chrome, Mariano Rivera. Nice one there, that's sick, man. That is going to be the Goldminted. Goldminted, what a case. Red Foil of Settiwap. Settiwap. I did not, up there. That is going to be a first day issue of Spencer Steer. Nice one there. That is going to be 10 copies. Get that into a mag. Good stuff there, Reds. Awesome one there for the Reds. We'll get that into a mag of Spencer Steer. What do you need here? The Steer. This one? Yes. That is Trevor Storey. Orange Altuvay to $1.99. I'm so sorry. Chief Fantasy Mike Trouch, Muzzgrove, and Bass. Barry Larkin with the Dowgs. That is Nolan Gorman-Rookie. Ethan Small, bass auto. Congrats to the Brew Crew. Bass on to some compacts now, everybody. Bowman's Best coming up after this. That is sold on out now. So thank you all. Mark E with a prism spot. Thank you, buddy. Let's get definitive sold out, everybody. D-Finn, Fortigo, D-Bax, Red Sox, Brewers, Rangers, all on sale. Fortigo on D-Finn, PYT. It's with all the papers here, buddy. So it's in the... It's literally in that one, yes. So it's in the same rhythm. It's literally in that same one. Rhythm. Yeah. Oh, okay. I didn't realize. I started with the whole do that. Okay, all right. I got it now. Yeah, do it as if you were singing a song that's perverse. Now it's Cinegod, Red Foil, Thor. Fortigo and definitive PYT, everybody. Jordan Alvarez, Chief Fantasy. That's even better. Right, and then now that you get it. Yeah, I was wondering, I was like, man, it's to the verse. You know, I get it. It's higher. I get it. Strowman. I don't know about this. Kirby Puckett, Red Foil. God, Bass Auto, Matt Swarmer. Nice one there for the Cubbies, Matt Swarmer. I got to do the whole song though. You got it. Bobby Whit, Chrome of Michael Harris, Rookie. ATO Michael. ATO Michael. Masataki Yoshida, Red Foil. But Plain Bebop. Plain Bebop. Plain Bebop. Oh, man. We got, we got Forrest saying it now. That's not good. No, that's awesome. That's bad, dude. That's great. I'm glad. Don Mattingly, Zach Wheeler on the Red Foil. Bebop's rough, dude. Plain Bebop. Plain Bebop. It's not a good look. Really. Chick department, if you know what I'm saying. Tweet Gooden. Oh, what are you guys doing? One soda. Plain Bebop. Losers. Losers. Hot drinks. Hot Bebop.  Yeah. Yeah, Jake and Jeff on Fnag's Live. What could go wrong? Dude, Bebop is fire. Josh Schmidt on the Black Foil. Jake and Jeff.  I'm making burners, man. And you can't ban me over there either. Nice. It aids payback for all the, all the stuff I've done. Yeah. Triumph Ritz of Aaron Judge. I'll be in there early around 1.30. Good morning. Good morning with this salute at 1.22 PM. The curtains are parted. Good morning.  I will not be shocked. That's the first thing you say tomorrow. Probably will be. It's going to be up there. I'd say gold-minted of Kodai Senga. That's dope. That's sweet. Congrats on that one there, uh, Mets. Joe Muzzgrove, Red Foil. Kodai. The mag's pretty cool. It's the first, uh, first something issue. First day or something or first? First day issue. First day issue. Yes. Uh, a punya. It's got a print one of 10, you said? Yeah, a print one of 10. Steered, too, which is not bad. It's pretty nice. Wizard. Looks like his mustache is hungry.  It's craving some chick. I know that. That is Brian Reynolds. I was like, yeah, Jesus. Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A. They're some of their pirates. Sheesh. Yeah, Chick-fil-A out there. They're only stream, dude. I know. My God. He is, man. He is, man. Chill. Jesus. Let this guy wild card in here, Yogi Berra. Shane Bieber on the chrome. Red foil, Will Smith. Black and white one, Soto. For the pods. Carlos Rodan. Now everything. Really? What are we doing? Come on. And Rodan. That is a big bend, unfortunately, in that bow nailer. I apologize, guardians. It is just a base, though. Massey, Dylan Cease. David Wright, Jordan Diaz. Black foil. Rodan. Rodan. Rodan. Rodan. Yep. You think Rodan plays bebop? There's Triumph Ritz of Garrett Cole. That's one there for the inks. On to Bowman's Best. I want to see this museum. I want to stay and watch those ones. Carlos Rodani. Fred. Carlos Rodani. Fred. Fred. You know that? We did that at TikTok. Fred. Fred. You know that one or not? No. You don't know that TikTok? No. Oh my god. I'm not well versed in the red TikTok. It's funny, it's just the guy's like, you cut it open and then, Fred. Okay.  It's funny. I'm just looking at it. Look it up. Ethan Salas, Shalact. Saul Lact. Saul Lissat. Boogie Pets. Gold Lava 75. This is Jordan Beck for the Rockies. The bread TikTok changed my life. Fred. Fred. That is reel to reel of Cam Collier. Gold Lava, Jacob Wilson is 75. And Oswald Paraza. Lazaro Montez. And Yuri Perez. Of the Miami Marlins. There's a base auto Roman Anthony. Red Sox. And J-Ram. Bam Bam J-Ram. Max Clark. Yuri Perez. And Adley Rochman Refractor. Jesus. Mmm. Is it the Orange Volpe? That's pretty sweet. Orange Volpe. Pretty sweet. Wait, what did you call me? No. It's Jordan Walker. Orange Volpe. Auto. Marcelo Meyer. Base auto of Feldman Celestin for the Mariners. Francisco Alvarez. Got Josh N. With a personal. That's exactly. Jeff L. With a prism mixer spot. Jesus. Thank you guys. Thank you. Wave of Jacob Wilson. And Casey Schmidt. Los Andro Rodriguez.  Base auto, Ariel Castro. We go on to the twins and Jacob Wilson Refractor. Matt McLean. And J-Craw. J-Craw. J-Craw. J-Craw dad. J-Craw. Justin Crawfish. We'll do his name, man. Oh, what is that? Base and Base. What does it smell like in channel two, by the way? Rough. Smell it rough. To 299 or 250 as Jordan Alvarez. Put both of Agnes' shirts. You can find his way back. He saw it. It's fairly incarnate. You got stuck at the cabinet. At the cabinet. And I had to like help him. Or the shelf. Sean had it up and goes, um, could you imagine like these are your friends? And I'm like, could you imagine that this is like your back up in a fight?  It's Lucas G. Alito. The one shirt's running. Tosh Bradley, we go, J-Craw, guys, what's your problem now? It's like a- Oh, we got a red. True red, Mike J-Craw. 10 of 10. There we go, angels. Let's go, Michael. Michael R. Congrats, brother. That's awesome, dude. Let's go, Michael. Hell yeah, Michael. Trouty. Gabriel Rincones. Refractor Otter for the Fills. And Jackson Holliday. Let's go, Michael. Hey, you called that SB. That is Josh Young and Maya. He goes, J-Kill face plan. Is he's trying to run away? Yeah, not running. That's not going to work. What's Kyle going to add to that, too? Sit there and cry. And a ball. Mommy. Sucking his phone. Xavier Isaac. I think the mustache will be all he needs. Yeah, no one's going to want to touch him. He could play like a Greg out for the Fills. That thing's alive or something. Lee got a raccoon on your lip. Yeah, what did Vaughn hit earlier? I know that, uh, I think Carl said congrats on the Oreo. Isn't that you, she did at 25? Arias. Oh, did she hit the poppy auto, too? In other words, a poppy auto. That was hit earlier today. That's sweet. Drew Jones on the baseball glove. And there he is. Let's go, Michael. This is off Michael. Michael R. Colson Montgomery to 199. Base auto of Lazaro at Montez. He's Jeff with a random spot. Richard R with the Red Sox in definitive. We're down to three. Thank you, Richard. Hey, Lego. And Josh Young. Oh, okay. So he just, Forest just sent us the Red Sox. Let's not take time this way. And that's why we do the thumbs up thing. Is this... It should be. It should be inappropriate. Uh, I hope. I hope. Please let me know. All right. Two museums, everybody. Museums. It is. Okay, it is. Okay, okay. That's not the one I was thinking it was. Our breaker made it. That's our manager. That's our person we directly report to. He's sending us that. Volpe, Bogart, Riley Greene, and Logan Webb at 25. Nice one there. What's up, channel two? Some Febreze in there. Sean did not like that. Our conversation we had out there earlier was pretty funny. And then we had, I had to leave because of the laugh. Oh, dude. So hard. Chetaro Fuginami. We've got a quad, Altuve Peña, Alvarez, and Bregman. Harder was like Mount Saint Helena. Dude. To 99. Congrats on that one there. Astros. Tough one. Very tough one. Very tough one this early on. Blue of Rhys Hoskins to 150. That is a, Don Mattingly. And nice one here for the Rangers to 199. Josh Young. Rookie out of four. The Rangers. Very nice. Thank you there, Mr. Keegan. Picking up a prism spot. Chayut Duat with a spot in each of the mixer. Or the random teams. What do you say? 299 is Xander Bogart. Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson to 50. For the Orioles. Congrats. Be More. More Volte. Baltimore. O&B. Congrats, Owen. Good stuff, buddy. Gunnar. Drip too hard. She been on my mind. Volpe and Will Smith to 50. For the Warriors. She can slew. Listen to that on my way home now. Schwabber. Corbin Carroll and Logan Webb. One of 25. Webb. Webb. I love the head shake. Joe Bryson just texted me. Downloading MLB. He wants the smoke. Oh, really? Please just, please crack him. He doesn't know. No, he doesn't know. He has no shot. Jake is like... I know we rip on Jake about a lot of things, but Jake will eat, destroy anybody in this building and it will be the show. That is Duke Snyder to 299. He is by far the best show player. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna get it this year. That is Yandy Diaz and Carlton Fisk to 199 for the Red Sox. Bryson does not know what's coming, dude. That's a mistake. Okay, keep moving. Last pack of the break here, guys. Dude, look. Matt McLean. And Andres Jimenez, 23 of 25. Congrats on that one. They're guardians. See, I'll get it again this year, too. Just so we can all play. Definitely. All right, quick recap here, everybody. We've got relics of Logan Webb. Will Smith is Quad for the Stroze. Another Logan Webb. And A, that was the 1992 variation limited to 200. Brian Bale on the rookie. As well as Andres Jimenez. We've got Atoos of Carlton Fisk. Josh Young. Lazaro Montez. Nika Boyacca-Grego. Gabriel Rincones. Freyland-Carnacion. Ariel Castro. Feldman Selliston. Roman Anthony. Jordan Beck to 75. Stadium Club, Brian Reynolds. Matt Swarmer. A Ethan Small. Franklin Hermann. Sean Bouchard. Dennis Eckersley. It's the guy from Channel 2. And then we've got Gunnar Henderson. It's a 50. Red Mike Trout, 10 of 10. And then A, Spencer Steer. First day issue, limited to 10 copies. Rookie for the Reds. Red. That'll do it for the break, everybody. Thanks again for the fill. Up next, we've got... Woman's Best.


Hell yeah, what's up guys this is Chris Pike my friends call me big C back in action today I'm back in the heartbeat tool h.ki or h key and I want to talk to you about dragons dogma 2 this game comes out in about seven days six if you're on the eastern side of the world I believe and holy smokes it looks awesome and not only that they've got a great new intro to dragons dogma 2 or welcome to dragon dogma 2 video part of me that's a little bit better way to put it and it's narrated by Ian McShane we're talking the guy from john wick I mean elsewhere engine from deadwood mr. wednesday from american gods this is an awesome trailer it's got some awesome moments and it looks like a great game so let's kick off using the heartbeat tool and take a look here all right here we go a world touched by magic a symphony of myth and reality an everlasting saga of hearts set ablaze I mean is that not a great voice or what come on guys give me a break here so on the right side here I'm going through the heartbeat tool and these are the moments that I've selected and these are the names that I've given them so let's get forward a few seconds here to john wick elsewhere engine in deadwood you'll hear the voice lend me a moment and I'll tell you a story of a fantastical realm wow all right here we go so this trailer or this I guess welcome video is broken up into three parts it's got the hero the second part is about the two nations and the third part is about the monster so there's three separate parts let's kick off here with single combat no more for me dare to dream of challenging the dragon in single combat yet there is one who must in a legendary tale doomed to repeat across the ages the dragon chooses a worthy champion from yeah that's you by the way that's your job as the arisen let's get forward here to 112 and let's look at the arisen and what your role is in this game wrenching the beating heart from their chest and forging a being known as the arisen right so the heart skits ripped out and it looks like it goes down the dragon's gullet that's a rough way to start life it's a rough way to start off as a hero but uh hey it is what it is all right so let's go forward to a minute 31 and this one i've called dawn coyote vibe i'm getting some real good dawn coyote vibes off this moment here and answer the call to take up arms in search of the dragon who stole their heart literally it literally stole it and ate it and i guess it joins you with the dragon in destiny or something like that pretty dark not gonna lie about that but anyways let's just keep going here this is also not a single player well it's a single player game but it's not a single or a solitary journey let me show you what i mean here but the path of the arisen is not a solitary journey for they are granted access to the rift the three and no they're not talking about that video game that came out like 10 years ago or 15 years ago called the rift red connecting worlds i see you recognize my world where they can summon mystical beings from parallel realities the loyal and hardworking pawns okay so the name pawn that doesn't really work too well for me that just seems like a kind of like a cop out like you know there's kings and there's pawns but hey you know what so be it uh we're gonna skip forward a bit now here you can see just already this some of the cool open world adventures your vibes you're getting from this let's go to part two where he talks about two nations in pursuit of the beckoning dragon the arisen and their pawns set foot across two nations as disparate in terrain as they are in their ways of life cool in vermond a fertile land cradled by alpine peaks and rolling hills the fortress city stands as a bastion of prosperity and security now listen to this cascading waterfalls the serpentine rivers flow throughout the countryside feeding into fruitful farms where a feeling of abundance permeates the fresh air that is borderline poetic good poodles to the writers for that serpentine rivers and fruitful this that and the other you can even hear the alliteration in there very cool but anyways guys let's skip forward a bit more here we're going to go now to the next area let's take a look at that and it ain't nice and green and verdant like this one connecting precarious outposts here the arisen is not an esteemed sovereign but an outsider yeah a little different their pawn companions believe to be a source of grave misfortune but tall's rulers are not of human lineage but rather beastron priestesses who worship the lamb and flame while the beastron believe its sacred fires shield them from the calamity of the dragon right so um yeah i guess that gives you a little bit of the lore going around the different types of creatures pretty cool not gonna lie about it let's take a look at the elves in this in in this you'll see there's elves coming up what can i say it feels like lord of the rings but you'll see meanwhile outside the reaches of human and beastron hidden within the depths of the forest an ancient set of elves resides in seclusion speaking in a tongue known only to them and avoiding contact with other races all right i get some lord of the ring vibes there except these elves are shut-ins and just don't get out of the forest if you know what i mean they're kind of like the pygmies from uh the national geographic books from the 70s if you're old you'll know what i'm talking about anyways guys the other thing i want to talk to you about is the choices you make in this in this game apparently choices matter let's take a look on their journey the arisen will navigate through conflicts between species and the complexities of culture faith and history in each land cool the choices the arisen makes will shape not only their future and that of those in them they interact but the future of the world itself so the vibes i'm getting from this is that this is not just a you know select a b c or d and they all kind of lead to the same thing apparently it's open world and your choices do matter i didn't play the first one so if any of you guys have played the first one and want to weigh in on that let me know in the comments below but it looks pretty damn good now guys i'm going to finally finish it off here with the different monsters let's take a couple look at they've got a lot of monsters in this game but let's take a look at some of the some of the big ones the arisen's odyssey is fraught with terror for the world is home not only to human and eastern but to all manner of monsters hungering to defeat the hero and their fools so there are some of the monsters but it gets a little crazier because apparently the knights are are even like worse like the daytime there's the big monsters of the day but at night they got some guys and gals coming out skeletons ghost undead let's take a look at that you can expect a busy night skeletons ghosts an undead rise from their slumber a single undead murmuring to itself adrift in memories of its living past is a haunting sign yeah how cool is that i've seen some comments in in on one of the websites that that some people got early access to try out the first few hours and they said yeah don't go out at night so i don't i don't know if that's referring to what we're seeing here but it looks pretty damn impressive last thing we're going to do here is we're going to look at the minotaur the medusa and then the soaring griffon then we'll call it a day the minotaur's trampling hoops the medusa with its petrifying gaze i've woken up to worse and the doula hands ghastly severed head will strike fear in even the most stout hearted i mean really guys that just looks awesome and then finally another moment here is there's a griffon slay the soaring griffon and overpower the bronze giant talus so i'm even getting some of that greek mythology vibes in there and then finally the last moment is called moment 19 so i didn't update it so i'm going to show you how easy it is to use the heartbeat tool so i'm just going to call this one instead of the moment 19 i was going to call the dragon and then hit save and now let's click on the final moment at 720 here with the indomitable dragon the culmination of both their destinies welcome to dragon's dogma too all right though this so there you have it this game looks fantastic i think i'm going to pre-order it i've been itching to play an rpg for a while now and you know i don't have lots of time but this one looks like a good game i can sink my teeth into let me know what you think about this game what you think about the preview in the comments below i'll be back soon with some more heartbeat moments thanks for watching