Outside of that fantastic Pussin' Boots sequel, it seems like Dreamworks has been sleeping for a while. Haven't heard from them. So it was actually kind of refreshing when Patreon user Owen Manning said, Adam, remember Megamind? Why didn't you review it on the channel? Give you a little taste of Dreamworks of the past in the glory days. So here we are, 2023, talking about Megamind. Let's begin. If you haven't seen this movie or even heard of it, I don't blame you. It kind of came and went unceremoniously. I think I only have to say this one thing to get you to watch. It was directed by the same guy who did Boss Baby. You're welcome. Seriously though, Megamind's solid. I saw it back in 2010 and now I got to relive it. I have to say it holds up pretty well. From a visual standpoint, not too shabby. Obviously it doesn't have the detail we see today in films, but Dreamworks was already getting pretty solid around this era. It's really at How to Train Your Dragon 2 where I thought, okay, these guys are a serious contender. So what's this movie about? Well, in a nutshell, it's like watching a Superman movie, but instead of following the Man of Steel, we follow Lex Luthor. In this case, Lex is Megamind, a super evil genius, who rose in the ranks to be the number one arch nemesis of Metro Man. He's got all your standard attributes, the power of flight, laser eyes, super strength, yada yada yada. He's a force to be reckoned with. One that has defeated Megamind time after time. I like this film because it flips everything on its head around the halfway point. Your expectations get thrown out the window, and next thing you know, Megamind's trying to be a good guy. Kind of. Not really at all. What ends up happening is Megamind succeeds in the first act of the movie, killing off his arch rival, Metro Man. Now he's left with a hole in his heart. Think Lego Batman, which kind of takes the same concept of this. We have a villain who has no purpose.   So what does he do? Well, he makes a new Metro Man, who he has branded Titan, played by Jonah Hill.  He has no interest in being a real superhero. He just wants all the luxury, all the accoutrements that come with it, such as the riches, such as the girl. And that's going to be the big thing in this movie that ties all of it together. Reporter Roxanne Ritchie, voiced by Tina Fey. I'm already in love. I'm already in love with this woman. She's the focal point for both evil and for more evil. There's another reveal, even later, that's even better. But if you haven't seen Megamind, I don't even want to give that away. I don't want to ruin that fun surprise. So I'll just say this is a very solid story. It's engaging. I like that it keeps you on your toes, keeps kind of shifting gears, and it works very well. Now, I am a stickler for plausibility and implausible situations. I know that doesn't really make sense, but there is some technology that makes me think, what, what, really, really? Megamind's constantly turning into other people using some sort of a transformation technology, but he can actually make contact skin to skin as he is this holographic person. I mean, what are we doing here? That doesn't make any sense. Pushing aside all that technical issue, it's very fun seeing all the different things he comes up with. The biggest detractor for me is probably in the voice department. Some of these voice actors do not match the appearance of the character, which is rare to say. Usually in animation, the artists try to render the character to look somewhat similar to the people voicing them. Not here, though. Megamind, for instance, looks like Neil Patrick Harris. I know NPH isn't blue, or an alien, as far as we know, although he's aging very well, but the physical bone structure, the facial features outside the baldness, look like Neil Patrick Harris, certainly not Will Ferrell. Then there's Metro Man. The guy's huge, he's very bulky. I know Brad Pitt's hit the gym for movies like Troy. I don't see that voice coming out of Metro Man. That looks more like a Nathan Fillion character. Jonah Hill, though, he works very well for Titan. He has that douchey voice that's coming out of his mouth. I hate him.    It's perfect. David Cross is great as the genius fish minion. You have Ben Stiller showing up, Justin Thoreau. Lot of voice actors, lot of celebrities on display here. But at the end of the day, I'm focused on the story. I'm focused on the characters. I'm focused on the animation. It all works very well. Aesthetically, this is also somewhat close to the Incredibles. Now, not near as incredible as that movie. It's hard to beat Brad Bird's cinematic achievement there. This is kind of a fun little child version of that. Movies got a lot of good action. The jokes land for the most part. It's a quick hour and a half flick. Easy for the whole family to watch. I see no reason not to at least check out Megamind once. Even if you're a grown-ass adult like myself, sometimes it's nice to kick back with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning, watch a little Megamind. That's what I suggest you do. Thanks again, Owen Menon, for recommending this movie. Had a good time reliving it. And a massive W for being a Mithril member and supporting this channel, this one-man operation, this hobby of mine. If you aren't a patron, I highly suggest you become one or a YouTube join member. There's a $1 tier, which gives you access to 300-plus exclusive videos. There's also higher tier levels like Mithril, which allow you the ability to request movies. I review them, give you a shout-out. 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Hi guys, thank you for coming back to my channel, it's Meks from the Meks creation TV. If you are new to this channel, consider subscribing, press that notification bell. You will always be the first to know when I upload a new video. Thank you so much for the support that you've given me so far from the start. It has been a long way but I see we are moving. I see we are moving. So thank you so much for that support. We are still looking at security companies and we are now still looking at what we call the individual security companies. Remember, I told you, most of these companies I've talked about, the most companies we are committed about in the comment section. So I said, let me just give back to you and give you the whole data that pertains to these individual companies that people are asking about. And this is exactly what I'm doing. Don't forget to subscribe. You will always be notified when I get a new video out. So we are still looking at security companies in Qatar. Remember, for this kind of information I'm giving, I'm not giving to be biased in any way or to any company. But I'm trying to give you the viewers or the listeners out there so that you can pick out exactly. If you are to look for a company, where am I supposed to go? If you are to compare your company with another company, then you try to compare a few things. Remember, something that I keep on telling people that we all came to look for money and that's the reason that we're here. And that is the reason that we came. And there are some things that we are not told to ask by the agents. We will talk about those recruiting agents from your country of origin. That's far different from what we found when we reached this company. So if this is the opportunity we have, then I'm trying to give you exactly the individual company section. You can try to sit down and try to evaluate those companies accordingly. And no, compare it with your company in one way or the other. Thank you so much. In today's video, we are actually going to look at another company. That other company is called SS, Asalaya Security Services. Let me just give you a small brief background about this company, where it started from and how far it has gone right now. Thank you. Don't tune out my channel. Please tune into my channel. Don't go away from this channel. So let's look at SS. SS was established in early 2015. And since then, the company managed to position itself to one of the highly recognized buyers in the security market in Qatar. At SS, they currently provide the following services to their valued clients. They provide the security services, the risk management services, the cash solutions, even security and electronic security. I quote from one of the people I tried to ask. That was one of, I will not disclose the name, but the person, the very big supervisor I tried to disclose. Remember, this is what he had to say about SS Company or SS Security Services. SS Guard, first, are the product of the talented pool of effective, highly experienced multiple tasks. Managers who are working hard to get things done. Our services are customer specific in order to accommodate the requirements and can differ according to the type of business and sector. Where they operate, SS employs over 1200 security staff in Qatar and have coverage across the country. I quote still, he added on and said, From the operations remarks about the company, our security personnel are not only alert and watchful on their posts, but are also trained to be attentive to the people, property and the community at large. There is enormous difference between a professional SS security officer and any other guards. That is what he had to say about the company. And exactly that's what he gave me. So you can try to figure out and compare your company with SS or with another company. And definitely, it will just give you a clear position to give your company any domain number that you can give at that time. So let us try to look at the security services that are provided by SS Company. And this includes the following. Like any other security company that is operating in Qatar or is operating in the Gulf country. I think these are the main security services that are being provided by all. This is the reason why all those companies are existing. One, statistic guard. Two, mobile patrolling. Screening and searching dues. Securing severance and monitoring. Incident reporting. VIP protection. Safety management and inspection. Evacuation services. That is what I have to say. That is SS security company. However, when we do talk about the salary, the survey I took from a few different people that did not want to disclose their names. I'll tell you the security salaries. Do not get away from this channel. Still to not. I also wanted to look at what is the security guard welfare in the company. And I quote from one of the personnel interviewed. He said, I quote, the health and safety of the employees is not given at most priority in SS. Security guards. Need to watch for the need to wash your uniforms every day. There is no laundry services. So you need to take care of yourself. The connection between the supervisor, the top management and the employer is far total in a given in distances apart. Meaning that the communication attack is not effectively transmitted from one person to another, which cannot give you a concrete answer in one or the other. Remember, I told you, security guard or employees of any company or any company become the ambassadors and become a part of the assets of the company. So if you don't give them that kind of safety, you don't give them that kind of health and that kind of utmost priority, then the outcome from them will not be that hard to pass. So he said, at SS security company, you only have to be hungry by yourself in whatever means. He said, the uncomfortable work environment, especially the wider group, the wider gap between the management, supervisor, security guards and the employer, which gives them uncertainty in some cases. That is a little bit of the small things that I got from the internet. So you can't try to compare your company to another company. So let us look at the salaries. Let us try to look at the salary ranges. Remember, these ones are not giving you the exact figures, but I'm giving you the ranges between which salary lies. The salary of the security guard at SS is between 1300 to 1900 katariyal for 30 days. The salary of the supervisors ranges between 2000 to 2200 katariyal. The salary of the patrolling supervisors lies, falls between 2500 to 3000 katariyal or plus, depending on the number of experience you have at that time. Hope guys you've enjoyed this video. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel. It's mixed from this mixed creation TV. Don't forget to like, share and put a comment in the sub section below. I'll always be very happy and more than happy to get back to you. By the way, don't forget to subscribe to this channel for all the information it worries me from this channel. Thank you so much for being, thank you so much for watching my videos, commenting and sharing my videos. I'm always very grateful. See you once again when we get to discuss another security company which is another security company in Qatar. Thank you so much. See you once again.


had a friend call me up the other morning and tell me Christian I woke up this morning and I'm just not excited about my business now some people might think that they're picking the wrong business model they don't have enough passion for the subject they might think that they need to hustle harder or that they're burnt out but most of the time people are wrong about all of those today we're going to break down the real reasons you don't feel motivated in your business and why you need to get six things handled if you actually want to stick around long enough to have success let's get into it the concept of motivation in business is basically the same as motivation everywhere else in life now oftentimes people just make this way more convoluted than it has to be and they think there's some crazy thing that they're just going to be passionate about and that it will never feel like work and they're always going to be motivated but here's the thing about business is it's solving problems for other people there's a lot of self-sacrifice involved and there's a lot of putting all of your effort towards solving somebody else's problem only to have them write in on your email leads and tell you to go f yourself that's the haters you're going to experience in the market but what I'm trying to say is every day you're going to wake up and you're going to get punched in the face in business and if that's not exciting to you then you might not want to be an entrepreneur but there's some of us who thrive on that like we can't function without the chaos and I think that's who entrepreneurship really speaks to so if that's you and you like the cast you like the thrill you like the adrenaline rush of going out there and eating what you kill being responsible for what you make not reporting to a boss and not getting that steady paycheck but also having no limits on your income then we want to make sure that we can sustain motivation because if you're like most entrepreneurs especially if you're starting out you have a lot of motivation in the beginning and then it slowly wanes over time and that shiny object that looks so promising starts to get dollar and dollar so there's a phrase that I love that commitment is doing the thing you said you would do long after the motivation has left you but let's talk about how to keep that motivation up so that you can keep your commitment so a couple of years ago I went to an event called unleash the power within in west Palm Beach Florida with a couple of friends and this event is put on by none other than Tony Robbins there was about 10,000 people there and if I remember correctly this was a three day event but one for about 12 hours each day and it was like one big rock concert I think there was more dancing and group shoulder rubs than really anything else going on there but Tony Robbins is a master of his craft he's been doing this stuff for like 40 years I think he's been teaching unleash the power within on change which has a side note something so cool about business is you find one thing that works you can just run that thing for years and years and years but aside from all the dancing I did learn a lot about myself and people and motivation in business at unleash the power within and so my friend called me up in the morning the other day and said she wasn't excited anymore I knew exactly why because I already been worried about this for her and the reason was because she's not getting her six human needs met in business now Tony Robbins says if you can meet three to four of somebody's human needs they will become addicted to you now this could be a partner you're meeting needs for this could be your customers you're meeting the needs for could be anybody that you want to have or keep in your life you want to try to meet as many of their human needs as possible and they literally will never want to leave so he says there's never been a divorce where the partner has met more than two or three of the human needs so let's jump in and talk about what the six human needs are and how you can fulfill all of those for yourself in your business and also apply that to your clients and your customers so they want to keep working with you because if you don't have these six human needs met that shiny object is going to start to look real dull so the six human needs we've got certainty we have uncertainty and variety we have significance we have connection and love we have growth and we have contribution so let's just start with the first one certainty is the assurance that you can avoid pain and gain pleasure certainty is just having that routine every day waking up and not having everything be total chaos even if we love uncertainty we need certainty in our lives just so we can rely on something that's what a lot of us like about having a partner in our lives is we have that certainty of having that person in our life that cares about us but what happens let's say when we date somebody for quite a long while again in relationship theory we go from what's called erotic love to companion at love and what happens we start to kind of wish that we had uncertainty that thing in the beginning of the relationship and the same goes for business right just turns into a grind we're doing the same thing every day it starts to feel like work and then what happens we only have certainty but we also have to have number two uncertainty so uncertainty or also called variety is the need for the unknown change and new stimuli now i think for about five years all i had in business was uncertainty and eventually it started to become really routine and all of a sudden when things started to succeed got really repetitive and we're just doing the same thing over and over again and i found myself really kind of getting bored when i was at my most successful and almost sabotaging and almost being more excited about business when things were going wrong and i started to learn from business coaches that there shouldn't be a lot of drama in your business yet i was addicted to that drama in order to get the uncertainty so sometimes we'll look at that and we'll say okay how am i sabotaging my business in order to have uncertainty or how am i sabotaging my relationship in order to have uncertainty and how could i just create that uncertainty on my own so i don't burn everything to the ground because again we need all these needs to be met and again you can do this for your partner you can do this for your customers too number two is uncertainty go to number three here number three is significance this is feeling unique important special or needed of course i use the relationships for this particular video because it's just such a great example of what we're attracted to as people we need to get our human needs met and we might think oh we really like that person deep down we probably really like that they meet our six human needs so we need to feel significance now when you start to succeed in business and let's say especially if you you know if you're a hero to your customers or if you make more than anybody you know in your entire life you're gonna start to feel some significance or even if you publish youtube videos and people get value out of them or you lead a team hopefully that gives you some sense of significance like what you're doing is important and people find you to be important that is the third human need and we can find this in anything you know i used to snowboard all the time and compete and it was the most important thing to my group of friends and to basically everybody that i knew and once we you know got out of high school got out of college people started to go off and get jobs and stuff and snowboarding really wasn't as significant as it was before and all of a sudden being the best snowboarder in your group of friends wasn't as important guess what happens the significance drops and all of a sudden the addiction to that activity again because we all have snowboarding in our lives whatever that is for you that activity that you're addicted to when you're younger is law as soon as there's no significance left to that activity your addiction is going to start to drop and you're going to find yourself doing it less and less so one thing you can do is go back and look at things that you used to be really into in your life and find out where the six human needs started to drop off and you'll see that's when you stopped doing that thing so next we have love and connection number four this one's really important and this is the one that my friend is missing because she's going into ecom and all of her friends have nine to five jobs and i think this is the one that people miss the absolute most because we have such a strong desire for love and connection as humans it's how we survive is we get the approval of the tribe around us and so if you're not getting love and connection through your business you're most likely going to stop doing your business activities and do activities that will get you love and connection instead so if your partner doesn't improve your business if your family if your friends don't improve it you're not going to get that love and connection and you're not going to get your needs met and so my friend she doesn't have any friends in the ecom net she doesn't have any friends who are doing startups and all of her friends work nine to fives and so when she goes to work in the morning on her business she's all alone she's not even part of a paid community that's why i think wfa our flagship program at digital nomad.com is so important is because we have an amazing community of like-minded people that work together and help each other out and there is love and connection there right we're there to support everybody but they support each other and they support us and so we have that communal aspect and this is so so important like i don't it doesn't matter what industry or what niche you're in if you're not in any paid programs right now where people are dedicated to a cause and they have skin in the game that's going to keep you on a shared mission you you have to take care of that you have to go join a program in your niche so that you have love and connection now i've gone a step further in my business life i have accountability partners i have mastermind calls i have weekly meetups all with people who have the same values as me and who share the same mission as me in business now i can tell you sometimes to get a bit bored of of work or business and i don't i'm not pushing as hard and then i'll jump on a call with my mastermind and again i know we call this love and connection but i'm really just talking about human connection i'll jump on a call with my mastermind these guys are all complete bosses they're all crushing it and what happens i want significance in that group i want the connection in that group from being successful in business and i walk away from that call you know feeling fired up and inspired but feeling like work means something again or i can get on the call with a client who is putting into practice the stuff that we teach the stuff we help them with and it's changing their life and guess what i'm getting significance i'm getting connection so if you're feeling really burned out today and you're not feeling like working i would really urge you to reach out to somebody who's working on the same thing as you could be ahead of you could be behind you but offered to jump on a call with them and help them in any way that you can or just try to make a new friend in your niche and you're going to get that connection you're going to get the human needs need met you're going to want to have significance in their eyes and you're going to find yourself caring a lot more again so if you're feeling really dead inside of brown work try that out now those are the first four human needs those are the basic ones we really have to get those met it's kind of like mazel's hierarchy of needs if we can't get those met we're probably going to drop out immediately once we get those met then the last to become much more important so next on the list we have growth which is an expansion of capacity capability or understanding now if you've made it very foreign business i would assume that you are growing you're always going to be challenged you're always going to be pushed you're always going to be asked for more than you're currently able to give if you want to grow in business and so it is that process of growth which can be very painful in the moment that is so satisfying over time and you know people always go into business and they wish they wish they weren't experiencing the problems they wish everything was going right but you have to shift your perspective and almost the greatest thing that can happen to you is things are hard and you learn to work through them and you grow as a person that's what the real satisfaction comes from over time so bruce lee says something like do not wish for an easy life but wish for the strength to endure a difficult one and that's what you get out of entering businesses you get growth by consistently overcoming problems and going through the pain something that really helped me out in this area just if you're trying to figure out how to deal with growth in your business is you can think of it like in the gym when you're in the gym and you're going through a lot of pain you know that pain is going to produce a positive outcome in the gym it's obvious we know this it's common knowledge and so when you're going through that pain the people that are really into fitness they get pleasure out of that pain because they know the more this hurts now the better my results later and so you can actually start to enjoy the pain you can do the exact same thing in business you can say this hurts right now it's telling me exactly where i'm weak exactly where i need to improve exactly where i need to find my competitive edge what skills i need to develop what team members i need to bring on and start to love that pain knowing that down the road the satisfaction you will get from the painful growth is more than anything you can ask for in life so it's actually the difficult times that make everything worthwhile in the end with business and finally the last human need we have is contribution one of the greatest reasons to go into business but again if you're just starting out you don't really feel like you're contributing you might be missing this need so one of the ways one easy way to get contribution is you know to coach people or to teach people that's a really easy way to have direct contribution and see the effect the impact on their life in real time you can do this in a formal arrangement you can have paying clients things like that or you can just help people that are just a little bit behind you in your mastermind in your accountability partners and you're going to get that feeling of contribution now you're also going to get this by helping whatever business you're in whether it's an ad agency or sell econ products or you're an inventor you have a tech startup whatever it is hopefully your product is making the world a better place and you're going to feel that sense of contribution sometimes it just takes a while to catch up if you are in the early phases so i said to my friend you know you're not you're not feeling burnt out you're not feeling dead inside around this business idea because you don't have enough passion for it or because you picked the wrong idea or because everything should feel good all the time she's not feeling good about it because she's not meeting her six human needs and so i said the number one thing you need to do today is not make tactical progress in your business it's to go make a friend in your niche and then get on a call with that friend every single week now the first person you connect with in your niche is not always going to be your forever accountability partner whatever you want to call them the person you talk to every week about your business the first mastermind you join is not going to be your forever mastermind but it doesn't matter you just have to get started you just have to start connecting with people you have to start getting your six human needs met so maybe write these down and then mark off which one of these which one of these am i getting met in my business right now and the ones where i'm weak in how can i strengthen that need being met and this is really what's going to keep us addicted to our business in the best possible of ways um addictions aren't always bad they can be positive healthy addictions so get addicted to your business by getting all of your needs met and do it methodically look at what needs are being met right now where the gaps go try to fill those in and if you're listening and your wife or your husband hasn't been as happy with you as you'd like them to be maybe just transfer this process over to your relationship too it works in all areas of life you'd also take this out and go and use it on your customers and say how can i meet more of my customers needs so just one more time we have certainty the need for things to be the same we have uncertainty the need for chaos or variety we have significance that's feeling important like your special you'll get that from success until you realize people don't really care that much you might need to find a new way to get significance now real quick i'll note you can also get significance from tearing other people down uh destructive behaviors um you can do it through consumerism there's so many ways to find significance so i recommend you find it through being a producer that's the one that's i found to be the most fulfilling long term we've got connection and love that's actually connecting with people having relationships in your business life uh growth enduring that pain to become a stronger better person and then of course contribution giving back sharing what you've learned creating amazing products and services for the world go out there you know you meet four of those needs you're going to keep going you have less than four you're probably going to quit and give up and you're not going to get the result that you're after you have six of those you will be addicted to business and you'll become a high producer i can almost guarantee if you look at your industry you look at your niche right now people at the very top that are obsessed with it they never stop and look at Gary v guarantee Gary v's getting all six needs met through producing content so you really gotta go out there find something that will get all six of your human needs met you'll be completely addicted to it when you get addicted that's when you start to dominate and you're not going to wake up in the morning and say i don't feel like going today you're gonna feel it you're gonna feel fired up and you're gonna think i have passion for the subject but what's actually happening is you're getting all of your human needs met so i've been wanting to talk about this for a while i don't think people really understand how important this is it's a little more esoteric and it's not as tactical it's not as applicable in the moment they're always looking for that one thing that magic pill but this is really it is the magic pill is are you still doing what you're doing a year from now are you dedicated are you addicted do you think about this do you have fun doing it are you connected doing it so go ahead and put in the comments do you have your six human needs met if not i would love to know which ones aren't being met right now and a couple ideas what you might be able to do to start meeting those needs then once you do that come back let me know how that changed things for you are you starting to feel more passionate are you feeling fired up are you getting up earlier are you excited to work on your business again i hope this helps that's all for today it's christian martin they work from anywhere digital marketing guy see you on the next one


that they try to do rather than the single family units Thank you very much. I appreciate your time So anyone else I would like to speak about this development Go ahead State your name for the record. Yes, my name is Michael Ellis And um, it's not my intent in any way to impugn the integrity of the gentleman on my left But I was a psychologist for 30 years. I listened for a living And when you folks were talking about snout so-called snout garages Um on both occasions the gentleman on my left said, uh, we don't anticipate That I did not hear him commit To that and I just draw the uh communities the board's attention to that Thanks. Thank you very much Anyone else would like to speak on this? Go ahead Sorry, I'll get to you. I saw you Uh Sure, can you state your name for the record? Jane Wallace. Hi Jane. I live at 249 fairway drive Uh, I walk the golf course a lot with my dog and they're that pond that's uh in On the area there is is quite significant and the wildlife there is fantastic There are ducks there and there's deer and there's fox and there's Uh, lots lots of wonderful wildlife and I don't know what your setbacks are or the requirements are to protect that pond Um, and whether they're being adhered to in this New development A comment and a question. Okay So the applicant is not proposing As shown any permanent wetland impacts At this time, um, I can't speak for temporary impacts. There may need to be grading Out into the wetland buffer I'm showing any impacts at this time. We haven't done storm water design. We haven't done full design but Um, I'll use the same word again because this is sketch We don't anticipate that we're going to have any buffer impacts either So the the water if you can see it actually is is kind of on the property line right there It kind of kind of starts close to that corner. This this is actually relatively dry When this wetland was originally delineated It was here and that's the part where you'll see the water and then there was a disconnection And there was a little wet area Wetland delineations are only good for five years. I was out there earlier this year with the state And she decided that no they're really connected now So let's this little narrow strip there is the connection So we it's a current wetland delineation and we show 50 feet From that if we end up that A storm water component or grading or something goes in there That is going to be part of future applications because it's part of your ldrs in addition to The state requirements Thank you. Dave. Thank you, jen. So if I could just summarize for jane's benefit, um You know if this is an issue that's important to you it's not really fully Fleshed out at this stage. So you'll continue to hear about the project and continue to be involved Is the act 250 does that deal with the pond and wildlife? It does as does If there are no impacts this project really won't talk about it But if there are impacts, then it'll be a topic at future hearings Thank you Anyone else would like to make a comment on this application Dave Dave Crawford, uh, representing the Natural Natural resource committee Getting late We would like to offer the This is one of the applications. It's starting new and One of the things that we're going to be trying to do is meet with an offer to meet with developers So I would like to make that offer to the developer that the committee or a sub a sub work group of the committee could Maybe be helpful and organizing thoughts for our future comments We uh, you know regarding tree planting regarding The environmental uh, conditions that are out there. So whatever is applicable to our charge The bike to me we are making at all Great. Thank you Dave. Appreciate that Thank you Any other public comments regarding this application Um, can I make a comment to those who said they're interested in the court case? Um, if you want to call me or email me Um, I can I can give you a card And I can send it to you Okay, uh, that's you know a reason to continue. So thank you very much for your time If there's no other comments, can I hand give a couple handouts in response? To us Yeah, a couple of the folks came to city council and had some Concerns, so I took a look at a couple things Yeah, if you give it if you give it to Delilah, then we can answer to the record You can also hand it to them outside. I'll provide them for the record. Okay. Yep Um, so as always I I tried to take notes and I will review the minutes and we will do our best to Incorporate any comment that we can from the public Um, it's our intent to have a nice development here. They mentioned Shepherd's developments This will be consistent with that as far as the comments on Colors and square footage and stuff like that Our intent is to conform to the regulations This will be a home or association So there will be restrictions within the home or association documents But again, those are generally in accordance with your regulations Mr. Shepherd goes quite a bit further as far as No basketball hoops. No clothes lines a lot of stuff like that. So he's been doing this for 40 years He knows what works and They will be compatible colors and stuff like that. But the part that I wanted to point out is The suggestion that this be less units As I mentioned to the city council This is the these folks have the option Jay mcdonald owns this parcel His his agreement supreme court agreement. So i'm not going to play attorney like everybody else wants to Um, the supreme court decision is 11 units for this parcel It's going to be 11 units if these guys don't do it somebody else is going to do it and they could do four You know two four plexus and a triplex whatever as long as it met the requirements So the 11 units is not going to change because mr. Mcdonald is not going to change the selling point It's based on 11 units. That's what he spent a lot of money on to get to win his court case So so that's not us. I'm just Putting that out there again because I put it out there at the at the city council meeting But when we start talking about density We are 4.42 Acres And we're proposing 11 units. That's 2.49 units per acre And we've been asked to be just like ironwood Ironwood has 36 units on 10.4 acres or 3.64 units per acre We would have more units here if we were just like ironwood We would have much bigger units if we were just like ironwood. They're huge. They're 100 feet long Are they attractive? Yes, they're attractive. Will they sell? Yes, they'll sell But tom shepherd and paul know what they're doing. These will sell very quickly There's already a buyer waiting in the wings for one of them and if they took orders there'd be more but I think most people will In general prefer a single family over duplexes. So that's why we've moved in that direction But uh, so it's our intent to move forward with 11 units incorporating comments the best we can Again, I wrote him down. I'll review the staff notes when they come Picture's worth a thousand words. Here's what shows The aerial view of the back of the ironwood units in our parcel And then this is just taking my plan and showing you a couple dimensions It's approximately 430 feet to 440 feet from the back of the closest sport ironwood units to our units But the biggest takeaway is this parcel was always a parcel to be developed Before ironwood was developed If this was the first one to be There there would probably be people sitting in the audience from parcel left talking about why is ironwood happening But it's one project It's a master plan project. This isn't like this isn't like the project going in my backyard or your backyard This is part of the master plan Thank you. David. Appreciate it. We'll see you if we're right Okay Moving on to agenda item 12 Continued conditional use application cu 1901 of snider braverman development co llc this item has been withdrawn item number 13 continued sketch plan application st 1910 of snider braverman development company this item has been withdrawn So the just for the board's benefit those were the two where they were trying to figure out How they were going to get the frontage build out along market street Could I ask you to take the conversations outside so we can finish this meeting? Thank you very much Okay Agenda item number 14 These were the applications that the applicant was The working with the board to try and figure out how The frontage build out requirements could be met Okay, agenda item 14 the minutes and we have minutes From july 16th 2019 is everyone had a chance to review the minutes Any comments about the minutes? And I would make a motion that we approve the minutes from july 16th 2019 All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed those abstaining Abstaining from john. I got to abstain then too. Sorry standing from brine Three votes Agenda item 15 other business Yes, yes, but that's under executive session, right? If you can do it under executive session one way or another, I would like to talk about it All right, okay qualifies it. I don't know if that's the end of the I don't qualifies it. It really doesn't There's there's no justification for having an executive session Yeah, exactly parking issue. Yeah. Yeah Executive session is the exception to the general rule that all meetings should be open to the public and the exceptions are very narrowly drawn And I don't think that fits into one of them Okay, so then it's appropriate to be another business then rather than announcements. So I'm glad I delayed it I went through the sort of Technical requirements of how to discuss this in an email to matt while he was on vacation, which didn't help anyone But I will pull that up now and remind myself what it is As soon as I get to matt's emails here Come on the hardest thing we've ever done, okay Find my email. Yeah Okay, so Procedure wise there are two ways an item can be added to the agenda. First you can add things to the agenda as acting chair Now actual chair second the board can impermanently vote to add an item to the agenda Um I suppose other businesses a different animal all together that we didn't really contemplate if if we voted if the board voted to add to an agenda Um, frank would have to bring it up during other business and ask the board to vote on whether to add it to the next agenda The reason I suggest executive session is is precisely do we just need to notice the discussion? Whether we need to notice a discussion that we'd have about this issue. I don't know I don't think we do under executive session. We wouldn't have to notice it, but if this is too limited to I don't think we have to notice it now What Whether the board look it's not it's not an ordinary thing It's not the big deal. I'm not going to make a speech. You all know. I think What what my issue is you all have As much grounds to have an opinion as I do So I'm not going to beat you over the head. If you think it's really deep you believe It's a good idea or even a reasonable idea to eliminate parking minimums for commercial property altogether as opposed to Working or really on the standards for waivers and expanding our discretionary ability, which is the position I'm taking Let me add to that a little bit If you went and asked The sbba board if you went and asked Economic development if you went and asked a lot of different groups About this you'd hear a lot of feedback about problems with parking today in the city because there's not enough the Jack Russell loves to talk about the fact that That teachers from the school actually come and park in his parking lots because it's a cut through and they they don't have to They don't have to Get go around down market street. They can get out on a Williston road by by stealing his spaces This is going to get worse particularly Around the form-based code areas. It's going to get worse The form-based code. This is not for you Marlon. The form-based code is is uh is already at half Of what the standard is half Instead of four four per thousand for office It's two And you we we already have the the ability to make that one and a half It per thousand it's incredibly low today And I understand that that's you know, if you're if you're if you think you're going to be a downtown Somewhere there has to be a parking garage somewhere there, but right now none of that exists And and uh and all we're doing is is saying Is saying gee Everybody will ride their bike or everybody'll do something to figure it out. It's you know, it's it's sort of catches catch can but But all the people along Williston road are going to get screwed If we take take out the the parking regulations particularly for form-based code The the comment the developers will take care of themselves Is sort of true They they take care of themselves themselves themselves. Yes So if there is no if if the city has this grand dream that we don't need parking downtown And if the only way to really build parking in form-based code areas is underground Which is essentially what it is and if those parking spaces cost $50,000 a piece to build They're going to make make a really simple assumption and say You know what you can fend for yourself and that's not a positive thing If you're out on on Tech park and you've got FedEx coming in they know what they need for parking and they will require it It's it's just a different animal. I I think uh, I think we're making a just a fundamental Dumb mistake if we do this. It's you know, I I love the idea of walking area down there I love the idea of everybody biking, but it doesn't happen in the snow It's not going to start anytime soon. We're not getting transit and rail and all this kind of stuff In the next 10 years. It's just not happening so so to direct the conversation to your original point, which is Rather than just have a discussion on the What are you looking for what I'm looking for is for the board and we can decide how to do it if you want to do it Is to speak as a body to the city council saying this is a bad idea We think it's a good idea To expand our discretion on a case-by-case basis. Absolutely because we agree You know, we agree that it you know necessarily these standards in the tables Unnecessarily a little arbitrary, you know, this is not it's not a precise science And there are all sorts of things that come up what we need is intelligent standards good standards that just that tell us When we can wave and expand our discretion quite a lot So that we can do Perfect things with the park perfect example is the the kidney dialysis group over on joy drive They've got like 35 parking spaces and they use four or five or six And we were required we we waved 25 percent as a recall and that's all we could do So if I could read my sort of prepared notes on this issue um, because it's not a matter of How I feel about the question It's a matter of what is appropriate for the board to do Okay, so if the board Wishes to provide feedback to city councilor planning commission um Based on their experience as drb members Um, then it may be appropriate for the drb to provide statement if members wish to share a personal opinion They're well based on their experience as an individual who looks into parking lots rather than as an individual who receives and reviews applications Um, they're welcome to weigh in as members of the public at planning commission as frank has done And I assume will continue to do but it would not be appropriate for members to use their status as committee members to share their personal opinions I'm acting I'm acting out of my experience on the drb for three years Which is that no development that I know had ever been stopped on a parking issue You know since since I've been any anybody aware of any Development that's been killed because we uh, we refused a greater waiver And what we had to do for the parkway diner that was awful And it worked out it worked out three meetings later So what we have three meetings on almost everything right? So we expand expanded it that's what i'm talking about if you want to Be able to loosen things up on a case-by-case basis to expand the discretion I have no problem asking us to act as a board. That was my point We have both the experience and the authority To say this is a bad idea. That's what I'd like us to do as a board and marlon I I will be perfectly happy to speak to the city council if I choose to go that direction But each of us bring experience. That's why we're on the board And some of that my experience is a lot of real estate yours is as an attorney Having dealt with this With a lot of real estate so You know saying our personal experience is essentially Not important is not the case. That's why we're here so You know, it's not just an opinion I've got 35 years in real estate. I know a lot about parking. I do I've hired those guys. I've had a lot of that experience But if you're making the statement as a board member, it should be related to your experience working with applicants If you're making that exactly what I'm speaking to I'd like to cut you off and just speak to the fellow board I hear where you're coming from. I think we're well within our authority and our right To act as a board If we want to do it So when you say act as a board there's a couple options here because I I'm agreeing with your concepts here There's no there's no disagreement on but I want to make sure it's done properly and that everyone gets a chance to see it Which is are you suggesting we write a letter? We author a letter are you suggesting that that You know, you can speak and say uh, or someone can speak and say I've written I've spoken what I thought but when you say act as a board that what is it? What are you implying when you say well, you know, it's sort of up in here You're getting you're getting to the right point of a letter is appropriate Something formal and and also something, you know public something very public To be published Handed to the city council. Yeah, I think publish the damn thing make a noise because that's the only thing that's going to stop Once the boat Yeah, I'm told I've spoke I have one city council member who's very much Seasoned my way and he told me uh yesterday that Nobody else is you know, he expects that they will vote to Approve what the planning commission has proposed on september 16th september, so we have another meeting between now if you'd like Although somebody else can do it if you prefer, you know, I would just I'll just be thrilled To have your consent. I don't care who does the draft if you'd like i'll draft something I at the perspective that I would like to have is that we as an entity not just us because we feel this way because we're We have a personal experience, but we as an entity will have to approve These projects that do not have that may not have adequate parking and that concerns us as as a board I mean that would be i'm not presupposing what brian and and don would say but that would be my feeling not that I like cars and I think we need to Let me can I ask a question that gets to that point What what impact does this have on handicapped parking spaces are they not required to do that too? They said there is no minimum They want to It's a lot no no handicap I didn't ask this specific well They're going to remove minimum parking requirements for all commercial developments now. I think the practical answer It doesn't mean there can't be parking right, but they're not required But the developer is going to have to provide an anyway. So the city barely regulates ADA compliance Basically, we say you must comply with ADA requirements. That wouldn't change So whatever the ADA requirements are based on they would still have to do that. It could be street parking I mean ADA parking spaces can be street parking. You can actually have too many Handicapped spaces got caught in that case one time um I I would also point out, you know, this is this is This is a step that I don't think is is appropriate But it's the the next natural step is to say you cannot have more than And I I just think we're over regulating in the in this case. I mean, I think I think we should be Saying let's take care of let's take care of those businesses that are out there. This is my concern for wilson road It's my concern for anybody who steals parking from somebody else I I for a long time had um, they were We happened to be managing them, but we were managing merchants bank and merchants bank had three hundred and 30 employees on the corner of of kennedy and in kimble And they had to take parking spaces in the next In the next parking in the next building luckily the next building didn't have many people in it But they also occasionally took parking from me.  It's closer to five Our regulation Correct me if i'm wrong marl is it three and a half or four three and a half But I don't have yeah, so our regulation is less than what you see in an office space normally um, if anything people have gotten denser And and our parking regulations have gone the opposite way I completely understand the the idea that we don't want pavement covering the whole wide world but um You've you've got to you've got to accommodate these people when they come in And that's that's what the businesses do so I you know, I think I think the the average developer With a decent sized space that's going to build a building for their use is going to get what they need for parking But in in a in in a downtown situation. I think it's just the opposite they're going to say We everybody's telling us it's downtown everybody says it's going to be walking everybody said We get we took care of the residential Because residential is not part of this So we don't need to worry about the coffee shop We don't need to worry about the the ups store. We don't need to worry about the disaster But it affects commerce And it affects all those around it because it's it's it's the same the same issue That when when uh higher ground went looking for a spot there are very few places where you can Really take over all the parking in the evening Burton snowboards works. It doesn't work for the neighbors, but But but I can't you know, but but the same issue with um What's the what's the the uh peloton like thing down on uh, uh rev Sorry, the rev rev rev rev. Yeah. Yeah, you know, they've they've got 30 parking spaces, but they have a turnover about 65 per hour And there's a problem. They're in the wrong place Uh, I see Brian looking very Thoughtful or concerned and he hasn't said much you got a feeling about this I support what you're doing frank. I think we should just do it. Okay I'm just to come to the chase Thoughtful or concerned here's just i'm getting tired Could you uh Anybody wants else to do it fine, but I know if I Do it I could prepare a threat For consideration to next meeting. Please that'd be great. That'd be great. Yeah The perspective that I would like reflected is that is that it will be incumbent upon us the development review board Hence why we're writing the letter and making the that that we're going to have to approve these projects And if we don't have a standard for for parking, we are proving projects that are potentially Communicating that and not just are you okay with me making the suggestion about expanded discretion for us? Because that affects how we operate. Yeah, absolutely We are the other a phrase of the we Think it would be much better an anthem on a case-by-case basis with expanded discretion, which is the board or the board the board Has filled with the exactly have you uh shot it out to mark and I said I asked I sent it to matt and to marlin. Did you both get it? I read it. It was just the same one that was in the other paper. It was the same one to the other page To the other I read it. I read it. You have the other paper. Yeah, I read it. I read it. Well, that's it That's what I got but I'm just suggesting that you might get it out to mark bear and the gym Oh, you know, we have two other members All right Okay Uh Do I have the emails? Sure. Yeah, you can reply to any one of those any one of the d rb emails All right, I'll get that done. I'll get it done quickly. Thank you Thank you very much. I thought I was by myself for a while unless I was going Okay And the development of reboard meeting for august 20th is now closed. Thank you Do we have a draft that we have to


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