Okay, very good morning to you. First of all, if you're based in London the rain I'm happy to say has arrived. So yeah after what's been I think the highest consecutive string of kind of plus 35 Celsius days since the 1950s I think the rain has arrived. So turning weather forecaster temperatures are going to go to about an average of 28 in London, dropped to 24 for the next following seven days. So yeah otherwise yeah check out the Amplify Trading website if you've never had a look before if you're new to the channel have a look what we do from our proprietary trading arm our trade development programs and also if you're a student or summer internship program which is ongoing right now but we have another intake happening at the end of the month. Definitely just check out AmplifyTrading.com and also as well don't forget to like and subscribe to the YouTube channel content coming every day of the week in fact from either myself or the rest of the team on various different subject matter other than just this morning briefing that I deliver on a daily basis. But let's just have a look at the charts what is going on this morning and relatively quiet but what I feel is some quite interesting developments actually. In the FX market the dollar has continued its downward trend and that has helped elevate both major currency pairs so with that in mind let's just have a quick look at the euro dollar pair you can see it's broken above what otherwise has been a fairly restrictive range over the last three trading sessions. Just coming up to its R1 which would be up and around those kind of candlestick movement highs just before we saw the move lower back on the 7th. So this would have been from recollection this would have been the payroll move when we saw that momentary dollar strength on the back of the surprisingly strong payrolls. So we're right back up we've eradicated that move now and here on the upside then just coming up to the respective R1 and the daily pivots for the euro. So euro dollars up about 44 pips, Dixie is down about a third at the moment. Cable consequently then as par of the or per course of the dollar weakness cables just moving a little higher as well this morning and I was just kind of freshly marking up some technical levels here in cable changing up the trend lines we're looking at a couple of days ago even though obviously three touches would constitute more of a solid trend line I just kind of like that ellipse here on the upside if we continue to move higher as an area of potential resistance kind of three factors there you've got the R2 on the daily pivots you've got the psychological 131 handle and you've got that trend line coming in back from last Thursday in the retest we had back on Tuesday of this week all coalescing on the really the same area so if we continue to come up and remain bullish there I'd be interested to see how cable reacts at around those levels for sure otherwise in the gold market we've had a obviously a roller coaster for a couple of days but if anything I'd say a bit of a period of consolidation of sorts that being now we're kind of just leveling out at around 1943 as we are this morning some interesting comments yesterday I was seeing from a couple of banks obviously people still talking a lot about yield movement when it comes to anticipating movements in the gold market and on that note let me just switch over on my charts to this this is looking at real risk so obviously people talking about real yields gold fell as real rates a longer dated bond started to rise and it gives a bit of context I guess as to the reasoning and rationales we've discussed on prior occasions why we've had this kind of big pullback in in gold but subsequently also it does give us room to focus on then as a signal what is real your movement in order to define whether or not we see a renewed push down in gold or a continued recovery or in fact a consolidation as is what is kind of happening at the moment Morgan Stanley analysts came out yesterday and they said they would take a real reversal in real US interest rates to bring an end to the strong market for gold but if US real rates were to move back to zero they said that was sparkly sharp set off in gold so at the moment if we're looking at the rate on the US inflation adjusted bonds we're still a way off that at the moment and one thing that you would say is that with the Federal Reserve yesterday if you think about the commentary which we heard we had Rosengren daily and the cap plan all speak pretty much all three of them was saying the same thing which is that the US economic recovery will be slow until the coronavirus is under control and Americans will have to manage life with the virus for at least another six months so all kind of fairly just generally I guess realistic but somewhat pessimistic about the longevity severity of COVID-19 and this is what kind of the thing that we were referring yesterday with the idea that ultimately we don't really foresee this continuous comeback of real yields that saw this shake out in gold two days ago because of the fact that the Fed are going to remain in this accommodative mode one thing that probably makes a little bit more sense and this is looking at two five seven ten twenty thirty year yields in America and just to give you a bit of context then over this kind of last three day period where gold has seen this volatile movement and you can see here it was the the eleventh where really the market saw that big move and that pullback in gold and that coinciding then with quite a steep elevation that we saw in yields at the time if you remember as we were saying there's been a couple of catalysts perhaps the developments with positive movements in COVID cases in America declines in hospitalizations some positive US economic data has come out amongst other things and so yours are bumped up so they'll the overall argument here is that that yields do remain quite an important component to watch here is to ascertaining that type of price movement in the precious metal and on that note one chart I was looking at this morning that I thought was quite interesting from a technical perspective was was T-notes because yesterday of course we had US inflation data and US CPI did come out stronger than expected and at the time of release little natural bump that you would expect yields get a little pop and T-notes come down and actually the 10-year found support at a real key level that our guys were looking at yesterday you've got the 100 DMA 139 the handle and also 13th of July low all at the same point and the markets are really nice response off that level a lot of people at a time were asking me you know do we think that then given that CPI number we could see another move lower in gold and I was kind of saying well yes if we break this key technical level in T-notes but what I was saying because there's a couple of guys who are in that T-notes trade I was saying look if if gold doesn't want to go and at the moment it's an isolated move and only really T-notes saw a meaningful reaction to the CPI data equities really didn't I'm talking in the media aftermath the dollar really didn't either so for me without that multi-asset kind of confirmation if you'd like to increase and enhance that conviction we were pretty sure that that level was going to hold and it was a nice opportunity then for a couple of guys to get in long just carrying that move back up you know you know nice eight ticks all the way up to what was that previous kind of double bottom in the short-term price activity of the 28th of July 11th of August moving it back all the way up again to that to that point so yeah yields yields are important still keep an eye on that those key levels there in the 10-year as you can see it has bounced and stabilized and at the moment looking elsewhere and the other asset classes the S&P people are talking about you know we've staged this big recovery now we've eliminated the losses that was seen in the evening of when when gold was kind of breaking down we've come all the way back up and if you look on the daily continuation you know that same chart we always refer to the kind of the grind continues and we're within if we take yesterday's session high we got within what 14 points or so of retesting back to all-time highs again so whether this is it or not and whether or not we'll see a break of this it's hard to say at this point I mean there's nothing really too new from an individual basis to on a stock perspective this is all just generally then just taking heed from a lot of those things we've been saying on the COVID side on the Federal Reserve communication for what guidance side of what they're kind of insinuating at the moment with policy would be supportive that of equities remaining around these highs so I actually think for the moment perhaps we get a bit of an area of consolidation consolidation has been conservative could be quite wide from around that 133 kind of 12 to the all-time high or even at this point in time for looking a little bit more intraday you've got the Asia Pacific high just had a brief flirt with it here at the moment the kind of way I look at this market on any type of pullback if I just quickly remove my camera so you can just see I've marked up here a couple of rectangles and really just looking I kind of view the S&P when it when we start to move to all-time highs I kind of think about it as in moving in this let me just quickly transition in this kind of step stone kind of fashion so it now we're coming back up to these quite elevated levels the market tends we're on the upside directionally we're moving higher as a trend and when we do we kind of go in the episode of consolidation we break higher and then we consolidate we break higher and then we consolidate and you can see that quite quite clearly here from these rectangles if I just point them out so looking here here so at this point in time where we are at the moment you've also got this Asia Pacific high just here there's kind of an interesting area of potentially some support that could be seen in around this 55 and a half to 60 area that would encapsulate those previous highs and some of the response to markets have on the lows so if we did pull back there are definitely much more stronger levels when I say stronger levels I would say probably down if I just move that down to this area here is what I probably like most if I was looking at a with much more higher conviction still with the idea then that we remain of the view that equities will remain supported at these levels all things remaining equal if you're being a little bit more aggressive on the the intraday basis then yet really it's more looking around this type of area perhaps if we get a pullback to look to play the market back up again but as you can see that level has much more meaningful response to it and then kind of stepping down in line with those other areas of where the market was responded before would be all kind of areas of pickups that you might see the market respond to on any type of decline level we had back on Tuesday of this week okay Nasdaq wise mother will have a quick look it's always a talking point of course and I guess more appropriate on the daily is what we've been watching and yeah that that rectangle we've been watching has been in play obviously all week still is at the moment we had that momentary dip below back on Tuesday and you know that 21 DMA has just been a real great level of support I mean it has done really throughout this rebound we've had in the Nasdaq a little bit more messy when we had those Spanish led European Covid fears but since that point in time you know has reacted really nicely and you can see that way that that projected 21 DMA is performing it would line up very nicely with that trend channel the bottom side of that going back to the rally that's begun basically since April and that also coinciding with that quite key level at 10 939 which would be those ellipses here from those previous highs that you can see that the market has responded to on a number of different occasions as well so near-term support you've got 11,058 below there any further move to the downside 10 939 would be a real key area of support so again room for pullback sure but room for a spectacular sell-off I'd say less likely people will come in and look to pick the market back up all things ran equal of course if there was a new breaking fundamental negative development then sure the only kind of negative thing at the moment I'd say is happening if I just quickly switch my camera back on is really on Capitol Hill I mean the latest on that side of things is that Trump has accused congressional Democrats on Wednesday of not wanting to negotiate over the US coronavirus aid package they basically been on a five day stalemate I believe that Mnuchin made some comments last night he was talking about he wanted to force new talks with McConnell and Pelosi but basically the Democrats were saying that we're not moving off our three and a half trillion dollar stall that is it unless you want to talk on those terms then it's not worth even speaking and so there's no work not worth even speaking then as far as Mnuchin was concerned so at the moment the market seems willing to kind of look over this how long that can last I don't know I still think that the market generally is is kind of of the view like what I've been suggesting which is that ultimately a deal or compromise of sorts will get done I guess unless the market is falling and real jobs tangible jobs are at risk which perhaps a kind of slightly eliminated or eased on the back of the executive orders from Trump at the weekend is there a lesser necessity to deliver in the near term in that respect you know it's kind of like Rishi Sunak and delaying potentially the budget until kicking the can to March of next year given the fact that you've got things like Brexit and the end of the furlough scheme both two massive events all coming at the same time in in really October when they're going to look to get the deal done on Brexit and the end of furlough and so you know all choices obviously for governments then is about obviously it sharpens the mind to get some sort of deal done do they extend the stipulant stimulus and these sorts of things when there's real risk and political damage at risk so yeah that that's the kind of only thing I'd say it's a little bit more negative but interestingly going back to this yield conversation because a lot of people obviously asking me you know what do you think for gold right now and I actually think yeah but period of I guess a little bit more relative calm perhaps a bit of consolidation the interesting thing yesterday afternoon was as you can see here from the yield movement we held on to some of the upward movement we've had in yields of late chosen yields were up for the fourth straight day yesterday up about two three basis points across the curve the 10-year yields as a set of move closing above their 50 and 100 day moving average the 10-day break even did spike a little bit on the back of the CPI figures around the highest it's been since February but since that point we've kind of stabilized and as long as that stabilizes I think as to all gold to a certain extent and looking elsewhere one thing I thought was quite interesting is that despite this kind of brief recovery we did have in the dollar at the time which was coinciding with that yield movement higher the dollar was appreciating at the same time two days ago when gold was falling that's also dissipating as I said the Dixie is down about a third of 1% at the moment it's coming close in a Dixie back to 93 the key area on the downside is not until we get really down to 92 and a half or so which is where we were back about a week ago and then also towards the end of July and that was when that euro dollar pair was knocking on that long-term resistance line going back to 2008 which it has held so far but worth keeping an eye on actually now that the dollar's re-weakening on where those long-term levels reside in euro dollar and cable up and around that 132 cable is quite a far off the euro is probably more than one on watch at this point in time few other headlines to be aware of overnight you've had in terms of the overnight Asia-Pacific session a little bit mixed across the region Japan was up the most sharply Hong Kong South Korea China a little bit mixed Hong Kong lower South Korea China higher the Australian market actually underperformed a couple of disappointing earnings there to be aware of from Australian point of view you do have some job states are overnight I don't want to spook anyone because to be honest this type of headline that you read Australian unemployment ticks up in July is totally misleading in my opinion because as a matter of fact although technically they're right the unemployment rate ticked up to a 22-year high of 7.5% that was well short of analyst expectations of 7.8% so actually this is positive news as negative and downbeat as the headline would suggest and hence the reason why the Aussie is kind of just clawed a little higher overnight but yeah going back to the China story quite interesting the PBOC initiated the kind of regular I guess monetary activities overnight providing a substantial amount of liquidity which is normally their way of supporting the market however this article was quite interesting on Bloomberg this morning questioning whether or not actually the people's Bank of China been doing some covert bomb buying in a kind of similar-esque sense to what we see in the Western developed world to give you an idea as far as the PBOC of concerned they've always said that they would not adopt that same kind of quantitative easing model but they've always suggested a willingness to support the economy through fiscal policy but obviously that would the two kind of would help each other in a way and the reason why this has been flagged by Bloomberg is because of this kind of chart where monthly net change in sovereign bonds held by other investors has seen a dramatic jump out of nowhere basically prompting speculation the PBOC is buying government debt which wouldn't be too surprising and the lack of transparency or let's say clarity over the communication on this I don't think that unsurprising as well whether or not this is happening I guess the data underlines that it is and it's just another form of China looking to restabilize their market which would be taken from a risk medium term perspective as a positive thing I would say is how I would interpret that information elsewhere we've had a couple of earnings reports out of Germany this morning so just quickly get getting up to speed firstly from German iPhone the Institute that releases that data not the data but they've made some commentary overnight they said that companies see businesses returning to normal and an average of 11 months so I always think it's quite nice to have a bit of context as to what then actual corporations on the ground are feeling to determine how confident they are and about the shape of the general recovery so in Germany we're looking on an average between the service and manufacturing sector around 11 months to give you an idea obviously quite a bit slower than the just a couple of months three to four that we've seen in the stock market to recover very substantially from the earnings perspective here are the tops and flops for the DAX ahead of the cash open shortly just running you through some of the headlines you can see RWE and Deutsche Telekom the only two companies in the green called hire and pre-market activity RWE is Germany's biggest electricity provider on Thursday will reach they said that they would reach the upper end of its 2020 outlook for both court and operating profit and what they said has been a fairly solid and strong start to the first half of the year so hence the reason their shares are higher Deutsche Telekom has seen a jump in their quarterly revenue and profit following their US unit T-mobiles takeover of sprint while their underlying performance also exceeded market expectations so they're also a touch higher on the flip side wire card you can see is down 5% yeah big move but their stock does see large fluctuation Deutsche bus the German exchanges come out and basically confirm what we already were expecting they're going to replace the payment company in the DAX benchmark ahead of the quarterly index review so they're basically getting tossed out of the main benchmark index in Germany so they're down about 5% looking at the candle for today it's pretty quiet in terms of UK and Europe not a great deal going on and no notable speakers so it is quite a US centric day on that front initial jobless claims are coming out and just referring back to this graphic this really looking here on the far right hand side was when we had that surprisingly strong jobless claims from last week and I think today could be quite interesting the median expectation is for this to remain pretty much unaltered I think it's 1.2 million which would be pretty much an even bar if you like from where we were last week a fraction higher but I guess the way to interpret this is markets have been responding to jobless claims because they're weak to weak data points it gives us an insight rather than something quite back we're looking like payrolls as to what is the current job situation or the health of let's say the employment situation and remember through May and June this is when equity markets were staging this really strong recovery we then had a slight wobble generally and that started to coincide and this is when gold started to fire up a little bit as well when in late July jobless claims started to pick up again and obviously this was a reflection of some of the halting of the reopening of certain states if anything the reversing is like what we saw in California and Texas and Florida and so on however it was a big surprise last week because it was quite a dramatic fall if you actually look at the decrease from 1.435 to 1.186 million you know that type of drop really hasn't been seen until we go all the way back to kind of late May into early June so I guess the question mark here is was this a one-off has it sprung back higher or is it consistent or if anything has it improved even further at this point the way to interpret this data I think even if this number had dropped to say 1 million which would be a positive surprise I actually think that that's an equity positive and the point of that being that from an equity perspective the Fed are so far away from ever changing policy at this point you know they are in supreme accommodation mode at this point in time so if you can get this kind of almost semi-goldilocks scenario where there were improved improvements overall albeit you know this is still a sizeable number of people claiming benefits but this should underpin then the fact that these things are positive you know you could read into the inflation metrics picking up they don't want to read too much into one data set but you know these are more positive signs and if COVID does decrease as has shown some pattern of doing so in America this week then the Fed aren't going to change well that's going to be a positive narrative I think for equities so yeah be interested to see how this comes out so that's really one of the main things I'm looking out for this afternoon we've got import-export prices well from the States and more Fed speak obviously you got the gist of what those guys were saying yesterday which was kind of general realism to the economic situation and the implications of COVID which in undoubtedly sit more on the cautious dovish side so whether or not Bostick and Brainard come out and say the same thing they'll be speaking at 4 and 8 p.m. respectively and then we've got the the kind of tail end of the more longer dated issuance coming out US Treasury this evening at 6 p.m. all right that is it let me know if you have any questions always happy to help of course and don't forget to subscribe to the channel more videos coming same time tomorrow all right guys have a good session ahead and I'll speak to you later on


of different zoning districts The portions to the south have been separately rezoned by the city that was actually approved earlier this year The intent of this particular rezoning request is to remove one text commitment from that previously approved development plan Again, there's no other modifications proposed to anything that was approved and the density will stay the same The removal of that text commitment is seen on this the screen here in front of you This is at the time of building permit the applicant shall pay a voluntary school impact fee of 1,000 per single family lot and 300 per multi-family unit with credit given appropriate against any other impact fees that may be in place The results of the request to remove This text commitment comes as a settlement agreement between the city of Durham the Durham Public Schools and the property owners They jointly agreed that the city would submit this request to remove this text commitment from the development plan Again, that is the only modification which is proposed as part of this request On the future land use map in front of you the the site Meets the future land use map again, it's presently zoned PDR and That meets the intent of the future land use map the comprehensive plan policies The site when it was originally approved met all the appropriate concept comprehensive plan policies I'm gonna give this request. There's no modification which would impact its effect on these policies So in terms of a determination the staff has determined that this request is consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances And I'm happy to answer any questions that you all may have regarding this request Since I have no individuals to speak on this issue. I'm going to close the public hearing and Return the to the commissioners to see if their comments about this particular issue Commission or Miller Jacob you said settlement agreement. This is to resolve litigation over this issue and Yeah, Jacob Wiggins with the planning department. Yes, it was. Yeah, it was a quarter ordered settlement Other commissioners would like to speak to this issue Commissioner Brian I'm simply gonna Make a motion that we move Jumping revision case z1 6 0 0 0 3 3 Forward with a favorable recommendation second Excuse me motion by commissioner Brian second by commissioner Miller that we move item number z 1 6 0 0 0 3 3 fold with a favorable Recommendation all in favor of this motion. Let it be known by the usual sign of I All opposed eyes have it The next item that we have is say public hearing for the Unified Development Ordinance text amendment. Do we have a staff? report Yes, thank you Michael stock with the planning department Late hours. I'll try to be as succinct and brief as possible Text amendment TC 16 0 0 2 proposes technical amendments regarding traffic impact analysis standards within unified development ordinance As you may be aware TIA is a professional study regarding the impacts of proposed development on the roadway system And indicates any necessary improvements to that system as part of a proposed development The UDO establishes a period of validity for TIAs and staff has applied this period of validity to all TIAs Gluing those submitted as part of the zoning map change with the development plan The city attorney's office had advised that the current text of the UDO would not allow a period of validity to be applied to a TIA associated with the development plan and this has been confirmed by the planning director Thus or therefore Staff has initiated the text amendment to clarify that the expiration of a TIA also applies to TIA is approved with development plans and to establish procedures When such a TIA has expired Those procedures generally are two-fold a new TIA would be required If if a development site plan is submitted after the expiration date the expiration dates are usually eight years So it's a generous expiration date as it is so a new TIA would be required and if Only additional mitigation measures or no demitigation measures are needed Then they would just proceed on with site plan approval and do what's what's committed to in the development plan if there are modifications, then that would be considered a Significant change and we'll go back to the through the development plan review process Joint City County Planning Committee Reviewed the proposed amendments at its August 3rd 2016 meeting And there were no significant or additional revisions be happy to answer any questions. Thank you I have no one who has signed up to speak To this issue, so I'm going to return to the commissioners to see if commissioners would like to to speak I'll start with Commissioner Gauch Anybody else on this side? Okay, Commissioner Gauch and Commissioner Miller, thank you So I've talked with Staff about this before and so Michael stock I think is aware of of my concerns with it my main concern is on page two at the top of the page number two And part of the issue I think with this is that Essentially it it minimizes or in some ways Treats the zoning a development plan is zoning Treats it as something that can expire and it was explained to me by staff and it's a point that I agree with that while You may not be able to after eight years Develop to the full extent of the development plan you could probably develop to Within the confines of the development plan to a lesser number of units or less intense use or something like that And not have to go through a rezoning and I agree. I think that's a fair point. I think there are only a few Scenarios where that wouldn't be the case for example if you somehow on your development plan You know spelled out the use very very Specifically such that the only type of use that could be put there would be whatever it is That's requiring you to submit a new TIA So but I think those are probably That probably won't come up often, but if it does come up my concern is that you know, it's an area of Perhaps liability for the city. The other issue that I think This text change Doesn't consider is if a development takes longer than eight years or five years as the case may be Be it just seems to me that it would be an Unfair scenario for a development that took longer than eight years to complete that after that eighth year they're having to redo a TIA and then Change the rules up for now. They might have to widen the road even more or whatever Then what they had previously committed to my understanding is that that could happen under this scenario and I think it would be You know if there could be a provision that that Address multi-phase projects that take longer than eight years and somehow You know give that that scenario more consideration I think that would be useful, but I mean I definitely understand the concern Where a TIA is expired and no longer No, you know a development under the Previously approved zoning might not make sense Although to me that it does raise another issue, which is if you didn't develop in eight years Why would the TIA? Suggest that you need to do more than what you previously had to do if Your development that would have been approved would be taken into consideration with any TIA that was done afterwards. So I think there's a there's a could be an issue with are you really tying? additional TIA Commitments to the proposed development if the proposed development doesn't really change and haven't been developed previously So those are my concerns with it. I do I I think it's an issue that needs to be addressed But I don't know that this is the the perfect Text change not that We have to we can only approve perfect exchange, but thank you my point. Thank you Commissioner Miller So you've hit it exactly the thing that is upset me This essentially says that when a TIA is connection connected to a development plan rezoning That somehow the development plan itself expires. Well, it's it can't expire. It's the law I mean essentially you're saying if you got to do a new new TIA fine But if the new TIA says that there are things that That they're modifications new modifications that are required that weren't contemplated in the previous TIA if that's a deviation then that you're going to require The property owner to go through a rezoning you cannot under the law of this state require anybody to apply for a rezoning in my opinion that that TIA stays and That's just the way it goes. I mean what about rezoning's that don't require TIA's they face the same issues I mean that if the neighbors do if I don't develop my property in three years four years ten years And all the neighbors around me develop it super intense and now I come along I still get to the zoning is the zoning you cannot make somebody go through a rezoning And you can't tell them no Well, you can't submit a site a site plan when a site plan is required You and that's what the effect of this would be is you've got to submit a new TIA You might be able to tell them that they have to do that But if that TIA indicates according to some standard and and somebody says okay We want you to do something different than your development plan said you had to do therefore you either can't rezone Or we won't approve your site plan That's where this runs slam into the law of the state of North Carolina, and I can't support it Does it require a response? Madam chair, yes, thank you madam chair I'd like to invite the staff to offer their their feedback Particularly on the comments from my fellow commissioners just to help me understand the intent Of the proposal in front of us and and then if there are any changes that might be needed based on this input Yes, bill judge with transportation Yet the intent of the ordinance has written if you go back to the the section one right before it on the previous page If someone does a rezoning with a TIA and let's say there's four roadway improvements required And it's been eight more than eight years They do the new TIA the new TIA says those same four are required plus a fifth one is required If they're willing to do all five of those They can simply go through the site plan process if they're willing to agree to that if the TIA comes back and says Well only three of those are required The new TIA because traffic conditions or whatever have changed Three of them are required and maybe a fifth one still required, but the fourth one wasn't If they're still willing to do that fourth improvement that the rezoning is not required But if they wish to seek relief from that Improvement that the new TIA now shows is no longer needed or required or can be modified That's when the rezoning would be required The also issue is that these are all proffers so Development plan is coming to you and I'll be commitments that are put on it with the TIA our proffers as Commissioner Gauch has pointed out that Almost I'd say 99% of the development plans that come forward Don't limit themselves to a very specific use. It's usually either a maximum or there's a range of use is allowed So there's instances and he raised the point and we did consider and that was one of the reasons why we pulled it off of the October Meeting because we wanted to address his concerns Again that all these concerns were raised and discussed with the city attorney's office that we were going to create a zoning issue that commissioner Miller brought up but The way and if we need to take a look at tweak the wording a little bit to make it a little bit clear as to the intent We'll do that but These are all proffers if you're gonna self limit yourself to a use you self you've limited yourself It is not a A mandate of the zoning That was on the books it was a proffer as part of the development plan so There was not a concern by the city attorney's office that this was undermining state statute in terms of zoning and the ability to keep it that zoning lasts the lifetime as Bill indicated the intent is that if only there was a modification that the Applicant wasn't going to be willing to do that. They felt that what they wanted to get out of that committed element Then they are going back to The planning Commission and through the entire rezoning process Commissioner Freeman I Hear what Commissioner gauche and Miller are saying I Personally have an issue. Well, I appreciate the intent of this in that we just went through ever since church road and Similarly, I mean Traffic conditions change. I mean I've been on the side of fighting against the road widening and on Austin Avenue And if we happen to get that changed, I wouldn't want Any new developer coming in to have to still Have to meet the same requirement. You know, if they If it were possible to make sure that it was clear that the changes have been made already and that that as I'm sorry Mike had mentioned and they were actually able to just go through with it and fine, but the changes need to be made I think they need to come back to the Commission and it's important that that Everyone has a chance to hear it out In the open not just in the back room. Yeah, but that's not what we're talking about here mission of Miller. Thank you so a Profer is an offer by a developer in a development plan But when the council approves the rezoning it becomes an ordinance it becomes the law that applies to that piece of property and You cannot Include in your zoning ordinance anything that requires somebody Said that denies their ability to develop their property And less they apply for a rezoning and that's the issue that that the way I read this could happen I mean if it comes along and you get a situation where if you're only worried about those things where people have Committed in their development plan to things that they subsequently prove not to have to do and you want to say if that occurs You still have to get you go through the rezoning process so that we can strike it out That I can live with because that's true because it because the alternative is as you can build it anyway My concerns the flip side is is that a new TIA would indicate a different set of things are required an Extra let turn lane or another stoplight or something like that That is not contemplated in the original committed elements and in my opinion You cannot say well you cannot build on your property until you have applied for a rezoning and we've got new Committed elements that in my opinion the law does not specifically where safety is concerned Well, it doesn't make any difference whether it's safety or not excuse me Not a back-and-forth conversation. Let me recognize at least one at a time. Okay. I'm done Thank you. So commissioner Freeman. Do you have additional comments just just in noting that I hear what you're saying, but If there's nothing to make them come back to the to the process I'm concerned Commissioner gauche just a piggyback off commissioner Miller's comments the Those are exactly my concerns and I and I did raise them and as my stock mentioned the playing department did look at that along with the city attorney and I actually spoke with the city attorney myself and I will say that my understanding and I don't want to Characterize mischaracterizing but my understanding from the conversation we had with that city attorney is aware of this issue and Evidently is not concerned because there are very few circumstances where the the property will be rendered undevelopable without resounding and I think that's what Miss miss stock was Mentioning there's only you know 99% of the time you could develop the property under the constraints of the development plan without any additional TIA or road improvements needed so you know for example if your development plan said a Maximum of a hundred residential units and that required for road improvements the the point that the planning department and the City attorney's office have come up with this You know well if you wanted to eight years later nine years later develop a hundred units And the TIA says well instead of four you have five you always have the option of doing 80 units in Which case you only have to do the four road improvements, so the property is not rendered Undevelopable and so that is I think the position that the city has taken on this matter Although I will say that I still can't support it. I mean I understand the point, but I I still view this as a Presenting an opportunity for Liability and I can't really support that but I do I did want to explain what I got from the city city attorneys office I'll recognize Commissioner brine and then commissioner Freeman has some additional comments Excuse me. I agree with Commissioner gush and Commissioner Miller and I'm very concerned because There is a major development in South Durham, which will go unnamed Which has taken a very long time to even begin to get started They did a major TIA and they are responsible for many many many road improvements Which has been mentioned in many other development plans that have come forth since then and Unfortunately, I think if they were told that they might have to do a new TIA because the old one has expired They wouldn't bother to come talk to the city attorney that would go talk to their friends in the general assembly And we might have changes that we don't want and I Can't help but say specific to that point I'm not afraid and I don't think we should be afraid and we shouldn't operate from fear because if the general assembly Wants to continue to act in the way that it has we should welcome it And we need to continue to do what we need to do in this city in this county Which is to continue to do To set the precedent not to bend to their will That's just it just it just rises up for me as an issue like there should be no fear on this Commissioner Brian and then we're gonna call for a vote. I'm not speaking out of fear. I'm just pointing out a potential Case that might come up. Can I get a motion for this? I'll move it Madam Chairman, I'm going to move that the Planning Commission send the technical change contained in TC 1 6 Quadruple 0 2 forward to the City Council with a favorable recommendation. I will be voting against it. I Have a motion by Commissioner Miller and a second by Commissioner Freeman that we send the UDO text amendment technical changes number TC 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 Forward with a favorable recommendation Let's have a roll call, please Mr. Al Turk. No Mr. Brian. No, Mr. Busby Miss Freeman. Yes Mr. Go's Mr. Gibbs. Yes Mr. Harris. Yes Miss Hyman. No, Mr. Johnson Mr. Kenshin. Yes Mr. Miller, Mr. Whitley. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gibbs Oh, he did vote he voted yes The motion carry seven to five Fails seven to five The motion fails five to seven. Thank you I just I just want to take a moment and say that as commissioners here you really are gonna have to I'm gonna call you out, but There has to be a stance me and you can't base your opinions or your Arguments on what the state is going to do. We're not going to get anywhere like that Thank You Commissioner Freeman Let's move to the next item, which is new business the 2017 meeting dates Good evening commissioners Sarah young with the planning department before you you have your schedule set out for 2017 according to your general Meeting date this year. There were no adjustments due to holidays or anything. So the schedule is before you but you do need to adopt it Madam chair. I move I move adoption of the proposed 2017 planning Commission meeting dates. I'm sorry. I get a second commissioner free. Okay Commissioner Motion by commissioner Busby that we approve the 2017 calendar second by commissioner Freeman who also was trying to ask for something else, but all in favor of this I do have a you're not ready for the question Commission Brian just out of curiosity. When did Valentine's Day cease being a holiday? I Was in the middle of a serious motion All in favor of this motion, let it be known by the usual sign of I all opposed Thank you The next item that we have we have old business and I'm just going to mention this briefly This is about the this is Planning department work program and budget requests I will be submitting a budget on behalf of the commissioners The planning Commission by January 6 The budget will include some additional funds for training I'm going to put together a proposal But I would also like to hear from any of you if you have some ideas as to how we can do this and Train our commissioners on a rotating schedule based on the number of classes that are being offered It's 14 of us Which means that you know, we're going to have limited funds to do this So we will need to come up with a measure that allows us at least one or two courses and I'll need to be able to justify that and There will be no reimbursement process. So for those individuals who decide that they want to go ahead and take the classes We have not been able to come up with a reimbursement process per se So what I put in this budget is what we're going to have to defend it needs to be compelling So I will put it together if you have some input. I'd like to have it, but it will be done by January 6 Any questions madam chairman? I've taken the classes. So you have 13 people 13 people, okay, and you have taken Then I will hear from both of you as far as The cost of the you know the the cycle so I will be getting some input about the classes Miss Commissioner Whitley before January 6 So that you can have some input so if I don't hear from you then I'll send you what I have But I must get it to Sarah by January 6 Any questions, okay I have an item that would probably go under the Old business, okay great, and it has reference to the guidelines for the submittal of Development plan and committed elements and I'm strictly this is was adopted by the city and six six thousand September 6th 2000 September 6th 2006 and it was How should I say brought back up to us on April the 19th 2012 and I would like to reference just one paragraph of that document is Section D paragraph 2 and it says applicants are required to submit any proposed or Potential committed elements to the planning staff at least five business days before the public hearing if an applicant Offers a committed element at a public hearing that has not been reviewed in advance Staff will automatically request the two cycle continuance to allow time for adequate Review and that's prayer prayer phrasing that second paragraph And I would like for staff if you don't mind to just send us a copy of that So we can be mindful of what we're not supposed to be doing here Thank You Commissioner Harris. I appreciate that mission of Harris. I just want to be clear. It said staff The chair recognizes commissioner Freeman Staff would recommend to us. So if staff doesn't recommend it to us we should know this We as an advisory board have the freedom to Move past it is what you're saying No It's that would Just remind us again that we're not supposed to be proffering Working on proffers at our commission means Okay, and let's move to the next item Announcements wait a second madam chairman. We were given at our last meeting as a handout. Although it's dated October 19 City County Planning Department future projects Draft and that was with a cover memo and that my request since we hadn't had time to go over it I wanted to read it and then bring it back up at this time. We deferred action on it Let me be clear that we're still under all business then that would be that's that was the old okay Thank you. This is connected with that. Okay, so the staff has the high priority and Medium priority projects and I assuming if there's a low priority category. You don't list those they're that look And I just wanted a chance to say that I I mean to say that I have gone over this and looked at them and I have a couple of other projects I think it's appropriate for the Planning Commission to advise the city council on this if we all agree to do it There are a couple of things that I would add to the priority things and maybe even demote a couple of priority items down to medium if if everybody agreed I Would like to have us undertake a while there's still time a comprehensive rezoning plan for the larger East Durham area and that would include Looking at the zoning for this larger East Durham zoning area Including in that how it relates to the proposed Austin Avenue compact tier. I really want to make we have one chance to see a Revitalization and redevelopment of East Durham one chance to get it right and to let it happen Parcel by parcel project by project zoning case by zoning case just doesn't seem to me to be the way to go when I look at the zoning Atlas for the city of Durham The place where the zoning is incongruent with a use on the ground and any kind of sensible sort of organization and arrangement It's East Durham and it seems to me that I would like to get over there I don't want to do a whole small area plan or anything like that I just want to deal with zoning and say, you know this it seems to me There's just millions of little things that under any other circumstances would be spot zones How they got there? I don't care about a lot of them don't even matter anymore there because so we so much of the land Over there has become vacant through teardowns But I would like to get over there and and say if we're going to have a renewed interest in developing East Durham It needs it can't be the Wild West it needs to be We need to think it through and so I would like to add that to our list of priority projects Another area that I would like to do at some point if it's not a project for planning staff a project for the Staff and the commission to do together we get lots of rezoning requests. I seem to spend a lot of time driving over to places over in these I 70 I 47 I 40 corridors and back and around like to I don't know if you went over and looked at that Joven property gosh You had to drive all over around and to get back in there and to see what they're doing back there. I Worry that again, we're doing it a piece of property at a time When I would like to see a bigger picture I would like to have a time when somebody shows me on the on the screen Saying this is our vision for these corridors that are the hot places for development And so when you know we look at Ellis Road here and then around the corner We've got this Joven property and I mean and you know you have to drive all over hell's half acre to get to it But when in fact, it's a practically next door I would like to to And maybe it's just my fault I don't have a clear vision of what we want that part of Durham to look like and I would love to get together And look at the map and say this is this is what we want And if I had to drop things off the high priority project list down to medium priority in order to accomplish that I would Look at item 6 and item 7 there And maybe even item 8 Now of course, I don't realize because I I don't know how these got on here I haven't been on the Planning Commission long enough to be so familiar I don't know whose ox. I'm goring by suggesting that these should move down a category But I know that not everything can be high priority And so if you want to add a high priority item you ought to knock one down It seems to me that that 10 is enough. That's a good number Moses worked with that number as I recall And he still hasn't actually implemented all of them the Medium priority projects. I Don't have a problem. I don't have a problem with those but at some point I would love to be able as a as an advisory body to the city and the county to say We think you ought to add This project and that Eastern project to me is really important because the time is right now Yes, Stan Sarah So let me it might be helpful to explain what this magical list before you is It is not a list that says that we will do the high priority projects first or the medium priority projects last Or that we will do any certain amount of projects in any given year It is just a working list for staff to be able to when we put together our work program proposal based on feedback We will have a conversation at the beginning of the year with the joint city county planning committee Which is the committee that helps guide the work of the planning department as you know The work program for the department is set by the city and the county our bosses the managers and the council and commissioners What we use this list for is kind of a springboard to have discussion with the joint city county planning committee I Assume that what will happen is they will pick things from that list. They may move things around We need to I need to finish looking at the existing work program and see how far we're actually going to get this year How much rollover of projects that are multi-year projects will happen in future years and the amount of capacity that that's going to leave me in staff resources how much we could add back next year To kind of compensate for things that we're going to clear off the docket this year So don't let the medium priority high priority trip you up That's nothing other than staff's cursory evaluation of what we may or may not want to as our staff recommendation to push for But it has no others meaning. It's not an adopted list in any way It's a working list. So I would just caution don't get hung up on that that something needs to be moved It's our list and all the needs to be moved. It's just a menu to choose from then if I may madam German Can I can I have some The chair recognizes commissioner Whitley, I am happy They will want to do something to to make To to get some some contiguous zoning done They are five focus spots in northeast central Durham. They're already designated and None of those five spots have Consistent, I mean zoning goes all the way back 40 50 years You know and it looks like a quilt of different colors you know and and Would that be so wonderful? You have 13 Maybe more but I know 13 neighborhoods That have active communities in them You know out of the five five focus spots We would have to work out some kind of system so that they can have some input And I think there's there's There's I Think council will look upon that favorably Yes, I think I think there at least I think there at least four votes or more to make that happen Thank you for bringing it up. I'm very proud of my fellow commissioners for even Thinking about it. Madam chair Commissioner Brian had My comments will be brief Just on item two on the list When you're looking at compact neighborhood future land use map Take a close look at what was done out on the edge of research triangle part because I think you've put some things in place There that don't belong We dealt partially with one of them with a rezoning case but That area is not really designed to be have compact neighborhoods around it You're looking at transfer stations and Then I really had a question about item number six the Durham Technical Community College I'm assuming you're talking about both the north and south campus Just I think it's just the south campus to be honest Thank you. Yep, I would say The point you just brought up about the compact neighborhoods around RTP You'll notice that those were not part of the most recent Compact neighborhood update project that we did Those are basically on hold for our purposes We will at some point go back and revisit them When we kind of see the resolution Of the longer range plans for rail But we are not actively working on those those are kind of in a holding pattern To see what the future may bring that may be something that we tackle in a future comprehensive plan Which I'm not 100% sure what version of the high and medium priority list you have but Does it have the comp plan at the top as number one Okay, good. So Okay, yeah, sorry, I know I've made a few amendments to it, and I am not 100% sure when I'm date those but And also in regard to a comment Commit your mill that you made in terms of the vision for certain corridors. I think that's another one of those things that Staff feels like the current comprehensive plan does a poor job of actually setting out a vision If you actually read the comprehensive plan, it doesn't really have a comprehensive vision for development has a lot of Desperate no, it has a lot of disparate policies covering a lot of subject areas And some policies are stronger than others But if if someone were to say, you know, how do you want Durham to develop and we would say oh go look at the Comprehensive plan it wouldn't find anything So that is something that staff would certainly Cover your support on as we move forward because I think that is overarching and can really kind of reset the tone for all of Durham really Yeah Commissioner Gibbs I would I have a question about Commissioner Miller's East Durham comments, I don't what first of all Is it to also establish the size the area of a quote East Durham and Will we have Any official input Will how will this develop because if it Requires a committee or something. I would like to be the first to Join up I respond Adam chairman. I don't have a set vision and I do think that what is East Durham matters because So that would be one of the things what what is East Durham? I have an idea. It may not correspond to your idea But I do think it we have neglected it for a long time but the development community has rediscovered it and I don't want them to redevelop it based on a on a Regulatory environment that is based that is Is the result of a lot of neglect? It's time to get in there and and Say this is make a plan for it and again I know that that it's tempting to want to make some sort of gigantic comprehensive plan But I'm afraid I don't want to choke on anything right now. What I'm interested in is the way it's And so I would love at some point And I would like to be advised by staff on this if I may madam chairman on how we make it how we can discuss this issue And just come up with a collective Recommendation if that's what you want to do is planning Commission. I mean we're supposed to be advising the city and county I would like to offer some advice on What to do about East Durham if we can come to consensus and then to Consultation with staff how to communicate any advice we have concerning that to the council and I took this Project list which I found to be actually took a lot of comfort in this. It's like okay It's people are thinking about stuff. I I took this as an opportunity to say maybe by If we can append something to this to get it in to get it on somebody's list So that it gets churning and it goes to the JCC PC and it goes to the city council and it goes to the board of commissioners and it's also considered by the the director of the planning director and is in in his advisors I Think it's something that we need to do and I think we're going to Good a you know good planning and zoning means that we'd make a plan and that we stick to it And I'm worried that he's we've treated East Durham badly and it's time to to treat it right Madam chair, can I respond please? Yes, commissioner Gibbs and I'll be brief. I Do agree with you that there needs to be East Durham needs to be dealt with in a more comprehensive way I Just and at the outset I want to get the matter of Edmont in the conversation from the very absolute beginning because they are two absolutely different areas historically presently any otherwise and that's That's that's going to be one of the issues That's going to need to be Covered because I do not want Edmont to be lost and Maybe in our January meeting if Could we have some kind of Well, this was Could I recognize? Mel if you I didn't get everything you said What was your idea about a January meeting? I think what we we need to do is Those commissioners that are willing to work on a project like this to take to counsel If we can get together and come up with some wording that make it clear, you know edge find Those neighborhoods are already in northeast central Durham the city has already have It's all it's already in a hundred and twenty block area the focus for new development is is there right so all we have to do is get that map and and and Have something that we can pass for our County Commissioners to vote on and and if we can do that in 30 days, and I think we can Let's get it done Let me just make one comment and since staff is standing here. Is there an appropriate process? I hear that's going back and forth. Is there an appropriate process for This this recommendation to be made The appropriate process would be for you all to vote on an official recommendation to the planning department of what your ask would be For work program consideration What will happen to that as we will package that along with things we may hear from other boards Some requests that we've heard independently from Specific city council members and we'll package all of those options together to take to joint city county planning committee Where there will be a discussion about work program priorities for next year And the that will generate the draft work program for next year. Thank you keep nice Commissioner Harris had a comment Well, I heard that as a recommendation for how you know how the process would work So is that so my next question is going to be is that something that we want to do? Madam chair what I'm going to the motion I am going to make is a procedural one is that we place this on our agenda for January because I mean Everybody here is caught off-guard because I came with with a few notes scattered on the margins of a piece of paper It's we're not ready. I don't think to adopt any kind of resolution, but I would like to put it on our January agenda so that we can talk about it and and at that time maybe I can bring a Hundred words and that makes a little bit more comprehensive sense and people will have it an opportunity to know what to respond to I would agree with that too The chair recognizes commissioner buzz me. Thank you madam chair I would agree as well I guess just the one question for staff is do you need I know the joint city county planning Committee is meeting in January is this on their January agenda or if we deal with this in January That's still proper timing for this to move through the process. Yeah, this will not be on their January agenda We may have some informal conversation, but the most likely the official item will go to them in February I had asked as part of in conjunction with the budget request by January 6 work program requests We're also requested by then since staff has time to Digest and prep our item for the February joint city county. However, since you're meeting just a few days beyond that I would be amenable to Allowing you all a few extra days To get me that great given the hour. I think that I agree with commissioner Miller. Let's put this on the January meeting. Thank you So I need a motion to move the planning department work program to the January meeting So move second Okay, motion by Camiller motion by commissioner. It's late motion by commissioner Miller and second by commissioner Brian that we move the planning work program to the January Project to the January meeting all in favor of this motion. Let it be known by the usual sign of eye all opposed eyes have it Announcements Okay You want to tell us what's next mine? Nothing, I hope you know honestly with grace out. I'm not 100% sure what we have cooked up two cases I'm getting the universal to case sign from from To take two zoning cases one of them with a plan amendment Do you remember off the top of your head there? One of them is four thousand Danube and the other one we don't remember but we can certainly Madam chair if I might One additional announcement The planning director Steve medlin for those of you that don't know is retiring effective December 30th There is a reception in his honor here in City Hall Thursday this Thursday At yes at three o'clock in the committee room. You all are invited if you're available To join us, but he has graciously served the city in the county for more than 30 years and he will be missed I will be the interim director So madam chair Along those same lines Steve medlin is retiring and the city and county has Employed the same agency that the city employed to get our new chief of police and I have been asked to serve on that committee and if you guys have any Expectation what you would like in a and the next Director for the planning department if you would submit, you know me an email a job me a note And we can take that forward to this agency That's going to do the search for the new Directed for the planning department for the city of Durham Madam chairman may Yes, please madam Miller Given the the news that we've just received I move that the planning commission adopt a resolution of appreciation and thanks to mr. Medlin for his career and planning Here in the city of Durham and also well the city and county of Durham That we go ahead and adopt it now even though that we might draw the paperwork up and present it later It has been moved and properly second that will I have a motion to present a resolution for our retiring Planning director Steve meddling so I have a motion by commissioner Miller and a second by commissioner Freeman that we provide a resolution For the occasion Details to be designed all in favor of this motion. Let it be known by the usual sign of I all opposed Thank you madam chair I Had a question for you Grace you mentioned this reception Sarah sorry you mentioned the Reception what time throughout thank you Thank you any other announcements hearing none motion to adjourn


Let's talk about squatting with a bar on your back when it hurts like hell. Okay, so I've been squatting for a long time and I've been lifting for a long time and I do lower body exercises and, you know, like deadlifting, right? If I deadlift, I hold onto a weight and then I pick it up and it tries to rip my arms off my body and I just don't let it, right? So all of that develops this upper back musculature. That gives me some cushion when I put a bar on my back and it supports these weights and, you know, I'm used to it, right? I can put a bar on me and I can say, all right, that might be kind of uncomfortable but I've done this before and we're okay. So for someone like me and maybe you who has trained pretty regularly, it might be really hard to empathize with somebody who is a little bit smaller and feels really tender when they put the bar on their back. So that cold hard steel is pretty unforgiving, right? And if I am a 95 pound woman and I step under this bar, it's gonna crush my scapula, my shoulder blades, right? And there are some bony protrusions on that scapula.  Okay, so make sure if somebody's complaining about this that parts of it can be real and parts of it may need to be addressed. You don't want to irritate the skin too much. Also, there's this effect on the other side that you get used to it, right? So keep that in mind.  Couple of things we can talk about. So I wanna make sure that the bar sits on the medius part of your back. So my upper trap here is a really good shelf to put this bar on and I can even bring my shoulder blades back just a hair, right? I don't wanna pinch back like this because that will destabilize my spine and make me weaker but I can bring them not totally forward but back a little bit so that there is a shelf to put the bar on. This shortens the muscle, the muscle starts to overlap and it gets thicker and it creates more of a cushion. So that's step one. Make sure you're putting the bar in the right place. If that doesn't work, you can wrap a towel around the bar. Sometimes that even helps with creating this faux padding that can then compress. So when someone like an experienced lifter is lifting, they get that muscle to compress because the weight is pushing onto the muscle and that gives you more friction, keeps the bar where it's supposed to be. But if you don't have that muscle to compress and if you're just sitting on bone, not only is it uncomfortable but you have less sense of where the bar is. So what I would say is first, get that position. Second, you could wrap up a pad or a towel around the bar to get some cushioning. Outside of that, there are other variations you can do. A safety squat bar is difficult in the sense that the bar is heavier. So sometimes when you're first starting out, if you weigh 90 pounds, 95 pounds, it's difficult to squat the bar for the number of reps that you may need to be doing. So it may be too difficult to jump up to a safety squat bar because those generally weigh anywhere from 60 to 80 pounds but that is an option. Those generally have pads around there and they decrease the point force that you get on your back. Outside of that, we could try something else, right? We could get away from a bar or, you know, one more bar variation we could try as a front squat. That one tends to be uncomfortable but uncomfortable in a different way there. You can use this as a barter tool.  So if that's the MO that you have, feel free to give the front squat a try.  Now the big limiter there is if my phone is really heavy, my arms have to hold it and they have to have one, the strength to do it and two, the endurance to keep going, keep my position while I'm squatting down. So if you don't have the upper body endurance to support it the whole time, you won't get that leg training effect. The other thing is if I hold something, if somebody can't squat the bar for 10, they're probably gonna hold like a 10 kilogram kettlebell or something which is a lot less weight. And so you need that upper body to support it but that weight might not be enough for you to tire your legs out. So just some stuff to think about. So maybe you try a different variation, make sure you have a good position of the bar on your meaty shoulder blades there and outside of that, just keep training because you'll develop muscle, you'll get desensitized to the uncomfortableness that is holding the bar and you'll put on a little bit more muscle to support you.


I believe it's about time It's I believe the Hindi film. Yeah, yeah, raincoat 2004 raincoats keep falling on my head Da da da It's with AJ Deppgun and a short your rod. Oh, is there anybody she hasn't worked with? Yes, my question Bob Saget True Bob Saget's gonna get on that Okay, so we have a description before watching and then we have a description after watching okay, so before watching Set in Calcutta. Whoo Raincoat is an adaptation of Oh Henry short story the gift of the Magi It tells the story of two lovers separated by destiny who meet again one day This encounter allows each to realize the truth about the lives. They were living or they are living And then we have a note for after it. So all right first. All right. This is the trailer for raincoat. Here we go Oh I can't tell. Tell what? I kind of couldn't tell what was going on and I can't tell if I want to watch it. No, I think I can tell. They used to be lovers and then time passed, she's now about to get married. He's come back into the picture and it's one of those stories of now she has to decide kind of stories. And he's not in a relationship with anybody? I don't believe so. Okay, I could be wrong. But let's maybe this after the watch information will help us. If you want to see a performance from Ashwari Aray and Ajay Dev Gunn where they're forced to rely on fleshing their thespian muscles. This is the next film of theirs that you would want to watch shot in mostly one setting.  It has similar stylistic simplicity to the lunchbox in addition to a similar feel to Lutero, which was also based on another short story by L. Henry. So I think this film is something that you guys would really enjoy. Cool. Well, we like that. Yep. We like that a lot. It didn't interest you though? It interested me because of who the two leads are for sure. I don't know is the film, when did the film come out? 2004. Okay. It looked older than that and that just might be the trailer. It could be the trailer. A lot of times that happens with some older trailers. So I mean, yeah, I'm interested but not like jump up and down. I got to see it right now. Interesting. Yeah. I can tell what was going on. It seemed pretty interesting. It definitely looked a lot younger than I'm used to seeing them. Yeah. Well, it's almost 20 years ago. 2001. That's way too... Yep. 2004 can be that long ago. Yep. I'm pretty sure it was just 2004. It was... Time goes by too fast. It does. I'm about to have a one-year-old. Do you know that song? You know it. That's right. I can't tell you where it's from though. Your mom wrote it. What was it from? It's Jim Croce. It's about time and a bottle. It's 117 minutes. Cool. All he wanted was to see her just once. Manu was from a village in the backwoods. Neither was the girl next door. His lost love. Well, you know... That's... I like that. Yeah. It's a nice little description. So it was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Actress. It won National Film Award in India. Okay. So it won the... The National Film Awards. National Film Awards. And she was nominated for Filmfare Awards. So if it says... I mean, obviously the way the person explained it, obviously it's very theatrical. And two actors flexing their thespian muscles. That's obviously what we enjoy. And I've said that repeatedly. You know, since Gersnatch, we've wanted to watch the Shwarya flex her thespianatic muscles. So, yeah. Should this be... Would this be one of her defining thespianatic performances? Yes. For those of you who know and are in the know, let us know. Because we are not in the know. And it really was probably more the incongruent connect... You know, I didn't feel a congruence in the trailer itself and the quality was low. But based on that description of it feeling more like lunchbox, intimate, not a lot of settings. You know, we like lunchbox. And I'm interested when it's an actor-driven film. And Josh, that's a Bengali last name, right? I think it is. It's the spelling that made me hesitate. That's Sujoy Ghosh, but I don't think he's supposed it that way. No, he's supposed it that way. G-H-O-S-H. From Khan. Yeah. Sujoy. Sujoy Josh. Uh-huh. Is it G-H-O-S-H? No, he's supposed Sujoy. It is. Josh. Yeah, you're right, yeah. So, I think... I mean, because he's Bengali, right? He is. Yeah. So I'm guessing this is... And didn't they say it was a Bengali? Well, it takes place in Calcutta.  No. But everything does. No, just like not everything that takes place in Bengal has to be in Bengali. This is in Hindi. We have to see one. What? We have to see one that hasn't taken place in Bengal. That's because we've seen Appu. Yeah, we've seen like four films. It's not to do it right. No, except for one. And that one didn't have Calcutta in it. Did it? Okay. It was one of the places. I am correct. You got a problem with Calcutta? No. You sure?  Admittedly, unashamedly, happily, wholeheartedly. Let us know about this film down below.