Good morning everybody. My name is Christopher Bezinski. I've been here for a long time. I think most of you know me so I don't need an introduction but perhaps for colleagues who may be online and watching this I'm in the governance portfolio and I'm working with Pablo Pacheco and other colleagues in flagship on forest trade and investment. So like Robert mentioned in the introduction today I'm going to be talking about one of the papers a paper that we published earlier this year which talks about oil palm investments in forest or remaining forest frontiers in Indonesia and the implications of these investments for economic growth, poverty alleviation and economic development essentially in those regions. Just a little bit of background before I jump in the paper I would like to say a few things about oil palm you know I'm not going to say a lot because we all know what oil palm is but I think I think we all agree that oil palm is one of the most controversial tree crops in the world it's a major part of global national subnational discussions about economic growth, agriculture expansion, energy, poverty alleviation, a whole range of things and it gives sort of raise to you know variety of views perceptions and emotions and there's no question that economically oil palm is is one of the most important agricultural commodities and its importance is continuing to rise and oil palm essentially is found in many things that we use daily in fact there is a very interesting infographic on the Guardian website which shows that oil palm is found in around half of the things that we use daily from you know for food, snacks, cosmetics and other things oil palm is there so it's everywhere and as a result oil palm often is called a sort of a wonder crop or golden crop you may say because of the sort of high returns per unit area because of quick returns and also because of sort of comparatively high yields per unit area compared to other crops so as a result it's an important part of the economy it's a very important part of the agriculture sector in Indonesia it's in fact the foundation of growth in agricultural sector in Indonesia and it's a major part of development policies in Indonesia on sort of acceleration of economic growth MP3 which was launched by the president SBY back in 2009 and also you know underpins this philosophy of rural development in Indonesia which is said to be pro-growth pro-poor and pro-job usually you know this kind of economic view of the economic potential associated with oil palm is also in many cases linked with some concerns about sort of environmental implications and social implications and I'm not going to go into those too much just to say that sort of the most prominent among these concerns is the issue of deforestation forest degradation and greenhouse gas emissions additionally there are these lingering issues associated with community rights land rights labor rights and sort of the distribution of benefits from oil pump so we kind of take note of all this sort of dynamic field of discussions about you know what oil pump does and doesn't do and all these concerns and we in this particular paper we focus specifically on the economics okay not economic side of oil pump and we particularly focus on the mission that oil pump has been given in Indonesia which is to drive economic development in rural sort of isolated let's say parts of the country and be this driver of pro-poor pro-job and pro-growth economic development and we do that by sort of looking at this question to what extent oil pump investments in in in rural areas actually are an efficient means of driving economic growth and poverty reduction and and and creating incomes for all livelihoods we do that in fact in the province of Papua which is one of the last remaining forest frontiers in the country and also one of the major destinations for oil pump investment because of the lands that are still available there essentially what we do in this paper we use input output analysis to understand the linkages between oil pump sector and other parts of the economy and we also combine input output analysis with the national economic survey data to understand the implications of oil pump investment on household on household income levels so essentially what we find is not very surprising it's not ground shaking and it's not evolutionary but I think it's still quite interesting and in terms of economic growth what we find is that yes oil pump can very you know can be a very important driver of economic expansion but what happens is that it's it's very much the growth is very much confined to the plantation sector itself because of the lack of integration and sort of limited connectivity between oil pump sector and other parts of the economy in the province this growth is very much centered in oil pump and in plantations and it's not really contributing to to kind of a multiplier effect in other parts of the economy in terms of employment yes oil pump can generate a lot of jobs there's no question about that in fact what we see is under under each scenario that we examined in this paper and in fact we looked at five scenarios ranging from 50,000 hectare expansion all the way up to something like 5 million hectares expansion we are talking about a lot of jobs that will need will be necessary and we are actually facing a question of labor shortage and possibility for or necessity for labor importation or contract labor or immigration and that that also has some implications for relationships with local population and in terms of income distribution what we see is that oil pump can raise household incomes yes but when you look a little bit closer you will find that the impact of oil pump investments tends to be highest on households which are kind of medium to high level income meaning households which have had some kind of education and have had some kind of experience and also some resources to invest and actually take advantage of these opportunities and and create benefits for themselves most of the poor sort of local indigenous communities do not have these kinds of skills so we kind of round up and we say okay in terms of implications we acknowledge the sort of theoretical or the potential of oil pump to really be a driver of change in these places but under certain conditions we say that basically oil pump investment in those kind of rural areas forest frontiers has to be thought about in kind of a long term integrated way you know it can't be done in this sort of boom vast situation where you know all of a sudden people are you know there are big investments going on land is allocated and yes it's going on for a few years and then everything fizzles out and sort of it's not clear what what has happened but it has to be a part of a long-term process integrated planning approach which emphasizes interconnectivity between between between different sectors of the economy you know linking oil palm other plantations with other parts of the economy to ensure that investments in a particular sector will trickle down and will drive economic development in other parts of the economy as well we also emphasize smaller size concessions there's a lot of experience in that part of Indonesia with sort of poor performance and poor productivity on of large-scale investments so you know and also this is associated as well with the necessity for social safeguards which in the setting of forest frontiers are important because in those areas you still have very much indigenous and sort of customary landowners and customary structures which are predominating and so those social safeguards are needed in order to ensure sort of prevent negative possible negative implications of these investments this is in a nutshell I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have I if there is some unclear you know unclear parts of my presentation I will do my best to clarify it in in the Q&A thank you thank you for expecting the 10 minutes perfectly questions comments yes will did you compare your old palm sort of transformation or you want you want to call it to other pathways that have happened somewhere else like you know in some other agri-industry or whatever coming in there in this particular paper we really just focused on this particular part of the country we referred to some literature from neighboring countries like Papua New Guinea and to see to see a relatively really similar context to see to see what kind of transformations took place then what were the implications of these oil palm investments and we found we found some similarities in fact that you know that these oil palm investments do take time to actually result in some tangible benefits for for these communities you know who which need time to acquire skills and and knowledge about this new crop so we looked at some literature from the region Papua New Guinea and so on we didn't really look beyond that you know into the sort of other geographical areas interesting presentation however in the oil palm we are talking about there's a boom situation and there's no bust situation and I would like to ask you if you can reflect a little bit how is that oil palm development in these frontier areas compared with that what will be the multiplier effects on all frontiers with oil palm has already been established that I think the situation can be quite different and probably Papua future could look a little bit like situation in areas where oil palm has already been established yeah yeah yeah thanks for this question yes and no Pablo you're right that you know the story of oil palm so far is all about boom because it's a it's generally speaking it's expanding and it continues in it's expected to continue to expand for some time but in those areas for example in this part of Indonesia you will see that a lot of land a lot of land has been allocated over the last 10 years and actually very little has come through in terms of effective actual plantation development a lot of it has been this kind of I would call it boom bust situation associated with for example this excitement about biofuels back in 2008 and then what else and then it all collapsed as a result of the financial crisis in 2009 10 or something like that done now it's rising again and more and more companies get activated but it has a lot to do in this kind of forest setting forest frontier setting with land speculation I think and sort of a diversification of investments in other parts of the country and other and other commodities so we I'm not sure exactly how to answer that question but I think I think there are some elements of this boom and bust there which which we which we paid attention to yeah thanks I just like to ask whether whether you either you or other people have actually looked at how smallholder really smallholder oil palm has entered into sort of diverse smallholder economies and diverse the sort of diverse use of labor with why they're within families or within small groups what I'm referring to is for instance in the past rubber for example got adopted and it was actually integrated into into other kinds of resource use so rubber became jungle rubber and and all in Indonesia is there any view of that how it's no longer quite the either the the economic model or the agricultural model but a new model that smallholders have developed around oil palm anywhere in Indonesia yeah I mean there's a lot of literature on on smallholder oil palm in Indonesia there's a lot of research ongoing research on this topic in at C4 right now and I I think a number of colleagues here would be very well placed to address this I think in the area where which you which is the focus area of this particular paper there's essentially there smallholder oil palm is extremely new and it's essentially just sort of emerging in front of our eyes because it's it's a frontier area and it's it's brand new so but if we look at other places with longer history of oil palm Kalimantan or Sumatra you will see we will see quite a range of arrangements in terms of smallholder growing of oil palm you know independent oil palm completely independent also sort of different outgrower schemes with companies and all these things have different sort of implications and different outcomes you know there's a general assumption that outgrower schemes you know between communities and companies usually are not particularly beneficial and that you have you know if you are an independent grower that that is much better and so on that's not always the case there are cases where you have outgrowers growing oil palm for companies for this you know sort of partnership agreement which is which is quite beneficial and they're making you know decent income on in other circumstances that is not so it's quite varied and it's I think generally speaking you would say that in Sumatra with Kalimantan you have a well developed smallholder oil palm which is which is you know well established and as you move east in Indonesia these things are newer and and less sophisticated less developed I think not so much yet I'm not quite sure I don't profess to be an expert on technological you know tools being used in smallholder agriculture but I think it is still very much sort of a manual kind of a job although I think there is more and more certain sort of technological improvements are being applied you mentioned that Papua is really a frontier area that Kalimantan is something more or less in the middle and Sumatra is already a well-developed area do you think it's it's just a trajectory that eventually Papua will become the same will look the same as East Kalimantan or or or or what do you think will be factors that that that will shape the landscape in a different way or oil palm developments in a different way well you could on one hand you can imagine that that yes you see you know oil palm started in Indonesia in in North Sumatra hundred about hundred years ago and it spreads east and and and then to Kalimantan and now to eastern Indonesia as well but it's I mean the socio-economic and political conditions in these different places are quite different and and of course you've got now at play other forces which which are pushing for greater conservation of you know forested areas and you know linking to climate change so I don't think that we will see exact replication of what happened in Sumatra you know to you know in Kalimantan and and Papua I think there will be there will be some replication and you will see in some areas which have essentially you know mixed population and some of some of these kind of models which have been developed in Sumatra and Kalimantan replicated but but it's you know it's hard to say because you know Papua is kind of a specific place with special autonomy and and particular regulations for protecting indigenous land rights so I don't see the oil pump kind of spreading all over and kind of taking over the whole place I think there will be some expansion and some replication of these models but on a smaller scale. Hi Christoph my name is Chun-Sheng Goh I'm a visitor from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I have a more general question. From your point of view what are the opportunities and barriers for small owners oil pump small owners development in Indonesia? What are the barriers and opportunities? Barriers and opportunities for small holders. I really should kind of convey that question to my other colleagues but I you know on one hand there are there's a lot of opportunities emerging opportunities you know the market is good the crop is producing the returns are quick so the also farmers let's say rural people in Indonesia in many parts are extremely excited about this and and so the growth in the small-scale sector and whether it's independent or or linked in one way or another to to larger companies is very strong so there's a lot of excitement about it but of course in terms of barriers the fact is that these small holders are you know are having some problems with linkages to the broader markets so for example you know they in order for them to sell their product produce you know they either have to have these partnership agreements with companies and be part of like outgrower schemes or they can be independent farmers but they still have to have arrangements with oil palm mills and and traders middlemen in order to get their products to the mill so the cracks of the matter usually is in between there you know what kind of arrangements do they have to get their product from the site to the mill from the site you know to the market and there are also some regulatory I think problems with the way these partnership agreements and partnership relations between small holders and companies and processors are codified in you know in terms of this partnership you know you know terms of this partnership hi Chris thank you Christophe it's here's my question you mentioned that people who get involved in the oil palm economy tend to be those with higher education and you also mentioned that there is the possibility of a labor shortage given how rapidly it's growing my question is is what proportion of a village community what proportion of the households gets involved in the oil palm economy given this these that the labor force is going in two directions mm-hmm yeah I mean I should qualify I shouldn't say that people with higher education get involved in oil palm people with some sort of education or with with with with some schooling and some exposure to you know to external markets to to interaction with other communities are more likely to engage in the oil palm and be more successful let's say also effective in it it's it's still a very small minority overall you know if you you know based on on our data in this paper if we look at these communities in in southern part of the province it's still very much small small fraction of these indigenous communities that actually get involved you have a high percentage of people in sort of mixed villages or mixed communities that are actually pursuing oil while while in those villages which are a little bit more remote it's still kind of adjacent to oil palm but but on the side the level of engagement is very very low it's still very much subsistence oriented sort of you know hunting gathering fishing and farming to some extent thank you Christophe I would like to see a little bit from different view of this expansion in Papua I imagine that it is also challenging to invite investment investor to Papua and maybe the oil pump is maybe the most the best choice that's that that happened there so you you say that it is good improve the productivity improve but less multiplier effect so are you proposing that we have the government of Indonesia have to stop this expansion so more considering other options do you have any second best option for investment in the particular area which may be infrastructure is less compared to Kalimantan and Sumatra yeah that's a great question I you know by no means we are saying that Indonesia the Indonesian government should should stop oil palm should somehow stop the development of oil palm I mean that's impossible first of all because oil palm is has become too important and it's you know and it's going to be increasingly important in the years to come but I think this there is there are important lessons that can be learned you know looking at all Sumatra looking looking you know historically at these other places that have been already affected that have hosted oil palm development so what we are saying in the paper that no I mean oil pump sure it is an effective means of driving economic development in many ways and you know creating employment and and and reducing or improving reducing poverty or improving people's livelihoods in rural areas but we have to learn from the past and we it requires certain conditions certain approach sort of stepwise approach integrated approach so and I think Indonesian government knows that understands that and they are doing doing that anyways you know in their own way within the spatial plans that they have and now they are linking that to the discussion about green economy green development you know which areas can be devoted to oil palm which ones cannot or should not so I think I think we want to link to that discussion and sort of say okay how can it can this be done in a in a more effective and sort of a more effective but at the same time more sustainable way we I think this is the message this is what we are trying to say we are not saying oil palm is bad don't do it in Papua I mean that's I don't think it's an effective message to communicate okay thank you we are almost at the end of our science attend give a big round of applause to Christophe again


And please welcome Tatiana Kimova, if I'm not mistaken, with the speech about the innovative breakthrough, first use case on OSDU with total energies. Please welcome. Hello. Hello, dear all. Thank you for staying with us. I know that a lot of people have to leave because of the plane constraints, so happy to see you here. And very happy to present you as a topic, the innovative breakthrough first use case in OSDU with total energies. So I'll present this topic today on behalf of Total Energies. I'm the data platform lead of OSDU team in Total Energies and the Baptiste today. He is a technical lead of OSDU team and he will be happy to help me to answer your very technical questions that I'm sure we'll have at the end of the presentation. So we discussed a lot during the conference about the OSDU and I'm sure that you know what is this and let's quickly summarize why OSDU and what are the main pain points we are facing in our current data ecosystem today. So the main point points that the data is loaded in different databases, in different softwares, in different formats according to different data models and it's very complicated to share the data. It's very complicated to collaborate. It's complicated to collaborate inside the same company but also with the third parties, with our partners, with the governments and also this siloed ecosystem today and we are really convinced about this. It is slow down the adoption of the new technologies and new softwares. So we believe that OSDU adoption will help to tackle these pain points and our main purpose of this OSDU use case which I'll present to you today is to show that OSDU may help to improve the collaboration. The collaboration between different MTS across different countries. So also it is the standardization because this is a standard data model which is proposed and which is adopted by the softwares. Also it is the acceleration so we know where the trusted data is stored so this accelerates also the decision-making process and all of these purposes of our use case were successfully achieved at the end of our development. So why we are talking the Suriname use case? So when we wanted to start this very first use case on the OSDU, so on which real use case we may do it. We didn't want to do the production use case in the moment but our purpose was to show what are the advantages of the data platform which total energies may benefit from. So the Suriname use case because it is a very visible project. So the block 58 here, it's a golden block and the Suriname total energy is the operator and this is a transverse project between the exploration and the development. So the team was spread across different locations in Suriname affiliate in Houston. We have the exploration hub there and the France team in Paris and Poe. So multi-softwares and I'll show you exactly which softwares we are talking about. It was a green field so we have very limited legacy data so it's better for the project and the initial scope was really simplified. It was centered on the well data, the most mature data type within OSDU community today and also we wanted to have the use case across different MTS, across the geo science and the drills. So that's why Suriname use case was selected. So we worked on this project during more or less 10 months and we delivered it in the end of September, 2021. So we worked with different companies on this and you can see here the main streams of our work. So first big stream, it was about the deployment and ingestion. So the framework stream and we worked in close collaboration with Microsoft colleagues on the installation and the deployment on OSDU of the Mercury release in a total Azure platform on Inux secure environment. Also we installed the ingestion framework and we worked with Viper colleagues on this at this time. The second big stream, it was about the accessibility, the internal accessibility and also the external accessibility because for us it was very important to show that the data platform adoption may help to accelerate and to improve the data sharing with the partners in government. Also the security aspect to be sure that the data platform it is exactly in line with the in compliant with our cybersecurity and confidentiality rules. The big you can see here in the red on the slide streams it's about the connections. So about what connections we are talking about. The connections with our in-house interpretation software like Csmash, CG, it is about the connections with the software drillings for the well-designed before the drilling phase and the truth of the scenario for the trajectory for the drilling. Also it is we worked in close collaboration with Emerson for the geolog connector for our SDU and we did some custom developments in order to tackle the missing of data management tools on the top of the SDU. So we developed the Dropbox which allowed to ingest the well data directly on the data platform and also to share with the third parties. And finally, on the top of the SDU we installed the Universal Viewer and we worked with is also in close collaboration with the INT, with IVAP which allow to have a view on the data which is ingested in the data platform and also to share the data with the third parties. So concretely what was done. So as you saw before why Surinam use case slide so the scope of the project was really limited on the well data. So here you can see in which square which data types is conserving in each connector. So you can see here that some of the softwares used the upload download principle and some of them were directly plugged on the Azure. So for Csmash, ADAP, geolog, IVAP, Dropbox it was the well data but for example within Csmash and ADAP we used the exchange of the custom data type as well, the scenario which we introduced ourselves in order to fit for our business need as it is aggregation of different data types like the well location, trajectory, well marker targets and the poor pressure fracture gradient profile. So for geolog connector it allows today to consume the well log from the data platform in less format. So to do the interpretation and to send the data back in the last format and also the PDF plot. So for the IVAP we tested the visualization of the well trajectories, of the well markers, of the well logs and sharing with the third parties. As for the Dropbox which allows us to ingest in the data platform the well trajectory and the well logs. So for all of these we used their community, APIs and the overall strategy of the total energies is to be as standard as possible with the OSU community code and the API proposed. So we used the well board DMS, we use the well planning DMS for everything related to the well design before the drilling phase and also as I said before we introduced some, our custom schemas for the scenario now to fit to our business need and this is also the advantage of the OSU open codes that we may customize if it's needed for our business purposes. So for sure also it was a question about the entitlement model which we would like to put on the top of OSU data platform. So it was successfully done. We deployed the OSU entitlement V2 model and here you can see the schema. So with access which is granted to the third parties to our partners, government, to the exploration or the development and the team members. So the owners, the viewers according to the entitlement model proposed. So let's have a look quickly in the IT architecture high level overview. So as we saw in the previous slide, so some of the applications which are connected to the data platform are on premise. Some of them are already plugged directly in the style in Azure. And all the interactions inside the data platform and also interactions with the application is done by the OSU community APIs. And also you can see here that there is a C-smash source which was in the Google Cloud. So also in this time we tested the interoperability between different clouds for this use case. So concretely let's have a look what data business workflow we covered in the Surinam use case. So here you can see in this slide three main phases. So phase one and two, it is the pre-drilling phase. It's the preparation of the scenario for the drilling. It's very important here so this collaboration between the geoscientists and the drillers when they're exchanging the scenarios. So including the location, well targets, well markers, and well trajectory and poor pressure fracture gradient profiles. And this is the exchange between them in order to be sure what scenario is agreed, what is a validated plan trajectory. And this is done during these two phases which we covered. And after the scenario is agreed, the drilling phase begins. During the drilling phase, what's happened? So during the drilling phase we have to recover directly the data from the rig. So what we did, so here we can see the Dropbox application. You remember it's a custom application which we developed for this use case because of the data management need. So the on-site geologist from the rig, he dropped the data. We are talking here about the log data, log well drilling data and directional survey on the platform, let's say on the Dropbox. After the operational geologist, he has a look on the data and he validates the data. Once the data is validated, the ingestion mechanism is triggered and data arrives to the data platform. After the petrophysicist, he has to do the Russian interpretation. So he recovers the data directly from the platform using his geolog software. He's doing this, his interpretation and he's pushing data back to the data platform. And after we have our geoscientist, our geoscientist would like to perform the follow-up of the well, so he will consume the data which was validated by the operational geologist in his interpretation project and also he will recover directly from the platform the data, the Russian interpretation data which was pushed by the petrophysicist. So this allow the real collaboration across different sites and across different MTS. And all in all, it's important to share the data with our third parties according to the contracts. And that's why here, the IVAP and ENT also allow this possibility to share the trajectories, to share the logs with the third parties. So, and now I would like to show you the movie which we performed at the end of the Surinam use case which will summarize why we are doing this use case, the feedback from the users and also we will see all these three phases which I show you here on the slide, really how it's working in the applications. So let's start. It's been three or four years that Total Energy is interested in the OSDU ecosystem as well as all the operators and services companies of our industry. The first operational version, the R3 Mercury, was released in March and we wanted to test it in its globality to show the potential of the OSDU on a very concrete case of collaborative work in the field of geoscience and forage. The use case on Inam and Ansible. After installing the Cloud platform on Microsoft Azure, it tried to show the possibility of improving the collaboration between the different members of the project team during the conceptual and engineering phases and considerably reduce the time of definition of a trajectory since then. For this, we connected Sysmash, ADEP, Geologue and IVAP. On Sysmash, I can prepare the well targets, well locations, well markers and well trajectories directly on OSDU as if I were on my local drive. With ADEPT, I get the well target selected on OSDU and I send the trajectory directly to Puy which allows it to be available for colleagues on Sysmash. So what is fantastic is that we can roll back through previous scenarios to compare all the preliminary well locations and well trajectories that were proposed. The OSDU code is open source which allows us to be able to bring our own modifications to manage concrete cases like the management of scenarios. With this system, the data is finally in their place unique in the center of the activities of science. Our software connects to the platform and can access each of its values without even exchanging the modifier which is accessed directly through the interface. It's a real challenge. We also simplified the fun of having data in a forage phase. Each measure on the rig is validated on the platform and then makes it accessible to the whole project team and to our external partners. Hello sirs, my website sent me the data from the RIBF and I just validated them. You should have them in an instant. So on Geoloc, it's good, it's good, I have them with me. And on Sysmash, it's good for me too. I also have them on ADEPT. Thank you Kené, we'll look at it and we'll come back to you. Okay, you're going to go on to Geoloc, Sysmash, ADEPT. It's a very practical question. Our external partners also benefit from access used to the data that we have to share with them now and which are accessible and visualizable both on the Dropbox and on the Vap. The process of liberation of the rain, whether it's the rain of exploration, appreciation or even development is still a challenge. On the one hand, the most disciplined of the teams in charge, the operational processes in game and the very nature of the data. The data platform has allowed us to reduce these blockage points by allowing us to have valid, centralized, accessible and, above all, unique data. Now it's possible and this new platform contributes to the improvement of a collective operational performance. This first use case on the Suriname was focused on the rain data. We also added Sysmic data by working with our colleagues from the Sysmic acquisition, especially by integrating the pre-stacked application. The potential of the data platform is not there. Today, the OSDU community is more than 200 companies, a few 2,000 engineers and developers who deliver hundreds of lines of code every day to cover as many needs in the energy sector as possible. Surface to surface, this is the case of CO2 and new energy such as wind turbines. You understood it, it's an ambitious project around the cloud technology and a new air for total energy in the management of the two of us. And so you saw that this was the feedback of the users who was involved in the test period, also in the development period. And we received really 100% of positive feedback and we consider that Suriname use case, our MVP was a success. So what next after this first step on the OSDU journey? So now we would like to go in the real production use case. We would like to reuse the bricks which were developed during the Suriname use case and to show the real added value on OSDU in production. So we would like to add and connect more softwares and more data types. So being focused still on the well data. So and one of the possible candidates for the new use case is Uganda where we say there is great challenge to follow up more than 400 wells. And also the another challenge here is as we saw today, OSDU does not provide the data management tools on the top of OSDU. And if you would like the data platform to be manageable by the affiliate, for instance, it's a very important point. So we are also looking how we may simplify the daily life to our data managers who will be embarked on the OSDU journey. So that's all for the presentation. And I would like to thank all the companies which were involved in this big project which we did during the 10 months. And for sure I would like also to warmly thank the whole OSDU team in total energies. So thank you very much and you are welcome for the questions.


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we discussed the following question which says, solve dy by dx is equal to 3x minus 3y plus 1 the whole upon minus 6x plus 6y plus 5. Now, if we have the equation of we form dy by dx equal to ax plus dy plus c upon capital Ax plus capital By plus capital C and if we have the case that A upon capital A is equal to B upon capital B. And each be equal to say r then we will take capital Ax plus capital By as z. This is the key idea that we use for this question. Let's now move on to the solution. The given equation that we have to solve is dy by dx is equal to 3x minus 3y plus 1 the whole upon minus 6x plus 6y plus 5. Let this be equation number one. Now this equation is of the form dy by dx is equal to ax plus by plus c upon capital Ax plus capital By plus capital C. Now let's see if A upon capital A is equal to B upon capital B. Now A upon capital A is equal to 3 upon minus 6 and this is equal to minus 1 upon 2. And now B upon capital B is equal to minus 3 upon 6 and this is equal to minus 1 upon 2. So we have A upon capital A is equal to B upon capital B and each is equal to minus 1 upon 2. That is we have r is equal to minus 1 upon 2. Now as A upon capital A is minus 1 upon 2 so we can write A as minus capital A upon 2 and B as minus capital B upon 2. So from equation one we have dy by dx is equal to minus 1 upon 2 into capital A which is minus 6 into x. That is in place of small a we write minus capital A upon 2. Now in place of small b we put minus capital B upon 2. So here we have minus 1 upon 2 into capital B which is 6 into y plus 1 and this whole upon the denominator which is minus 6x plus 6y plus 5. That is the denominator remains as it is. Now further we have dy by dx is equal to taking minus 1 upon 2 common from the numerator. We have minus 1 upon 2 into minus 6x plus 6y minus 2 the whole and this whole upon minus 6x plus 6y plus 5. Now putting minus 6x plus 6y as z. And differentiating both sides with respect to x we have minus 6 plus 6 into dy by dx is equal to dz by dx and from here we get the value of dy by dx as 1 upon 6 into dz upon dx plus 6 the whole. Let this equation be equation one. Now substituting the value of dy by dx in equation one we get 1 upon 6 into dz by dx plus 6 the whole is equal to minus 1 upon 2 into z minus 2 upon z plus 5 the whole and from here we have dz upon dx plus 6 is equal to minus 6 upon 2 into z minus 2 upon z plus 5 the whole. Now here 2 3 times is 6 so we now have dz upon dx is equal to minus 3 into z minus 2 upon z plus 5 the whole minus 6. Next we have dz upon dx is equal to minus 3z plus 6 minus 6z minus 30 and this whole upon z plus 5 that is we have taken the Lcm here. So further we get dz upon dx is equal to minus 9z minus 24 upon z plus 5. Now we can separate the variables so we have z plus 5 upon minus 9z minus 24 the whole dz is equal to dx. Or we can also say this as z plus 5 upon 9z plus 24 the whole dz is equal to minus dx we can write further z plus 5 upon 9 into z plus 24 upon 9 the whole dz is equal to minus dx. Now 3 3 times is 9 and 3 8 times is 24 so we further have 1 upon 9 into z plus 5 the whole upon z plus 8 upon 3 the whole dz is equal to minus dx. Now when we divide z plus 5 by z plus 8 upon 3 we get 1 plus 7 upon 3 into 1 upon z plus 8 upon 3. So this expression can now be written as 1 plus 7 upon 3 into 1 upon z plus 8 upon 3 the whole dz is equal to minus 9 dx. Next we integrate both the sides so integrating both sides we get integral 1 plus 7 upon 3 into 1 upon z plus 8 upon 3 the whole dz is equal to minus 9 integral dx. Further we get z plus 7 upon 3 into log modulus z plus 8 upon 3 is equal to minus 9x plus the constant of integration c. We have taken the value of z as minus 6x plus 6y so now substituting the value of z we get minus 6x plus 6y plus 7 upon 3 into log modulus minus 6x plus 6y plus 8 upon 3 is equal to minus 9x plus the constant of integration c. Further we get 9x minus 6x is 3x plus 6y plus 7 upon 3 into log modulus minus 6x plus 6y plus 8 upon 3 is equal to the constant of integration c. So this is the required solution. So this is our final answer. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution of this question.


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When one explores the most fascinating and ancient structures resting all over our planet, you will inevitably be confronted by baffling feats on engineering and ingenuity, tasks that to modern man, escape understanding or indeed explanation. The main consensus regarding these ancient structures has always been a tricky thing to explain. To claim that these marvelous structures were built by primitive people with only primitive tools at their disposal does not only seem absurd to most who have visited such sites, but ignorant of their true past grandeur and the specific characteristics of each of these places. Ancient sites such as Giza, Machu Picchu, among many others, still contain very confusing artifacts, anomalous evidence, which tells a very different story to that of mainstream history. Apart from the Baghdad battery, largely claimed to have been an ancient form of electroplating, there has been little in the way of physical evidence to suggest the use of electricity within the academically researched ancient times, yet there are many remnants left, which suggest such activities. Not only are there countless clear examples of past machine work stone, but most importantly, there is evidence of errors made by these same tools, mistarts and discovered fault lines. These particular stones discarded, laid bare in the quarries, revealing all the hallmarks of the machine engineering that went into building these wonderful places, these artifacts, once rubbish, now historical treasures. They can tell you the shape and movements of the tools that were being used, showing just how these machines cut into the stones, core drillings also discarded during manufacture, and cut stones discarded due to faults and cracks, revealing the complete preliminary cut marks left by the ancient stonecutters. These fragments of past activities are clearly some of the most important in unraveling these sites' ultimate secrets, yet it is rarely shared in the public arena and even less frequently researched by official bodies. Along with this vast and perplexing array of remnants, mercilessly left where they fell, strewn amongst the debris of disruption, lay countless extremely hardy machine stone jars, vessels made from some of the hardest rocks on Earth. Some of these jars were made with a round bottom, perfectly machined, balanced on a base no bigger than the tip of a chicken's egg. Sir William Flinders Petrie ultimately realized that only lathe turning could have produced the symmetry and balance found on thousands of these bowls and vases.  In 1894 he founded his own archaeological body, the Egyptian research account, which later became the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. He stated, for example, a bowl maker attained curves of exact circularity by rotating the bowl around a fixed blade, and formed a lip by shifting the centering of the bowl. Their round bottom vase had walls of such uniform thickness that it balanced perfectly on a curved base. To have a very well respected researcher and specialist of the ancient Egyptians to admit to a conviction of the use of power tools in these pots construction seems like quite a stunning position to take, especially when one considers that while metal chisels could have been used to shape soft limestone within ancient Egyptian times, the metals that were available to them, copper, bronze, and during the first millennium BCE, wrought iron, were far too soft to work such rock into such exquisite designs. It seems Petrie would like to remain honest regarding his conclusions, yet also incomplete with his explanations, preferring to let the receiver of said information make their own realizations, preferring to avoid complication by a, by this time, rather visible enemy. We could only conclude that these relics and ancient monuments thereof were not the work of the Egyptians, but further evidence to suggest that these baffling structures were built far before the ancient Egyptians, before academic understandings by a highly technologically advanced pre-catechalism civilization. We find it difficult to see how such work was undertaken, or an explanation for our finding can be made without the use of power tools. Thankfully, the more we learn regarding these enigmatic places, the more we become aware of regarding their true history, and the closer it seems we become to finding those who built them. Along with the many other unexplainable feats, undoubtedly left by a highly advanced, highly capable lost civilization, there are the countless examples of extreme precision stone cutting. Not only is this remarkable past capability visible in their many stone walls and fortresses alike, but also in their exquisite artwork. If we look upon the statues of ancient Egypt, for example, the symmetry, along with a proportional precision present within their statues, is not only perfection personified, but unquestionably far too advanced for the so-called academically claimed builders to have achieved. According to the academics, along with their subsequent supposed accurate writings, these extraordinary feats of artistic perfection were somehow created by a group of individuals who were merely equipped with copper tools. Not only is this claim clearly ignorant of reality, but to create such works of symmetrical accuracy was unquestionably the work of a group of individuals far more advanced than even that of the Victorians, let alone those who thrived along the banks of the Nile more than 3,000 years ago. Not only is this precision present along the Giza Plateau, but it is also found at ancient sites all around the world. Masterfully created statues and structures often carved straight out of stone bedrock with such vision and artistic prowess that many now presume that the individuals capable of such feats must have had advanced machinery at their disposal. Most of ancient India, for example, is created with such delicacy and exactness that we today could only accomplish the same with the utilization of modern machines. Furthermore, many scholars and independent researchers, even a number of highly recognized academic Egyptologists, have reluctantly concluded that many of the basalt, gypsum, and other vases shape from extremely hard stones, and indeed a number of multi-toned sarcophagus lids, were indeed turned into the shapes we see them as today, on some kind of ancient enormous lathe. This conclusion is made regardless of the fact that to create such enormous stoneworks on a lathe would have undoubtedly been out of the realms of capabilities for those who are currently claimed as their creators. Not only do the ornamental artifacts of Egypt and much further afield strongly indicate machined working, but there is also overwhelming evidence of these same machines, reminiscent of modern stone cutting equipment, present all over the world. But conveniently, it is quietly ignored by the same individuals who have supposedly unraveled the history of these sites. Puma Punku, Giza's basalt floor, other areas throughout Giza, Peru, Malta, the list goes on. All these sites not only indicate an advanced highly capable constructor, but also possess countless marks that, as of yet, we can only explain logically as having been left by precision, quick rotation, stone cutting machinery. They are yet another overwhelming collection of evidence, which not only flies in the face of current academic explanation, but proof of an advanced, now lost civilization, having once been responsible for these sites' construction. They are highly compelling. Although there are many aspects of Cappadocia in which we have touched upon in the past, mentioned its apparent incredible antiquity and, to some degree, investigated and explored some hand-picked sections of this incredible site's numerous anomalous features. However, there also exists, although considerably lesser-shared, an equally enigmatic yet seemingly additional hidden past. A fascinating area of study, which we feel requires far more in-depth study. Cappadocia is seemingly home to more than one very ancient, now lost civilizations, littered with seemingly prehistoric ruins, treasures of antiquity, invaluable in our ongoing attempts at understanding our distant past. During the following synopsis, we intend to put forward sufficient evidence to suggest that not just one advanced, now lost civilization once called this place home, but that the site was once home to more than one extremely ancient yet extremely well-preserved legacies from what we recognize as ruins left by varying civilizations. We feel that due to the site's location, it has, predictably, yet we presume reluctantly undergone substantial academic explorations, most possibly to create a permitted chronology, whether accurate or not, for the history of the site. With a rarely experienced buzz within mainstream circles, surrounding futile attempts accompanied with supposed explorations and explanations, for many of these still visually stunning yet utterly puzzling sites. Even with an alternative opinion regarding the site, however, one we often conclude to be logical-grounded, accompanied by many examples of incredible artistic abilities, comparatively impossible to have achieved with the tools accessible to the academically-claimed builders. When often senses that many funded, obedient academics find themselves considerably out of their depth when it comes to producing a solid intellectual explanation for the many anomalies we highlight. Encountering almost impossible tasks in producing logical explanations for not only capidoshes, almost inconceivably huge labyrinths of underground complexes, some so large, they are classified as underground cities. Each and all hewn direct from solid bedrocks, some to considerable depths, now understood to plummet hundreds of feet into the rock of Earth's mantle. The more impossible this task seems to become. The challenges involved in explaining, and most crucially demonstrating, how these mazes of tunnels and passageways were created and in addition secured.  Which to this day, we still don't fully understand how they work them, or even manage to unravel any logical technique possibly once used to utilize these incredible blocking stones. However, as previously mentioned, it is not just these incredibly ancient underground labyrinths which make capidoshia one of antiquities least understood yet clearly one of the most important ancient locations on Earth. There are many other parts of this enormous ancient wonder that many people are predictably little aware of, and the reason for this may soon become apparent. Although underground layers, such as that of Derinkuyu, have an appearance akin to the Neolithic Age, in other words displaying the scars of relics which are unimaginably old, although located in the open air and at the mercy of the far more rapid erosion triggered by weathering the site and also display sections which show advanced stone cutting technologies, absent the tunnels, and was clearly created at a much more recent date. Which unlike the sites which display extremely ancient ages, namely the underground cities, are seemingly from a vastly different time in antiquity. Hopefully as the evidence and knowledge regarding said sites grows, we will hopefully one day fully decipher the mysteries of not only capidoshia, but our own past as a whole. It is a subject which we find highly compelling. In 1914, archaeologists found an astonishing location in Ganang Padang in Indonesia. Two ancient stone mountains rest in this region, mountains in the form of pyramids, their size is truly massive. Intrigued by their shape, this 1914 team initiated a series of test digs in the small likelihood that they were man-made. The proposition of these two huge land features actually being pyramids, must have been virtually unthinkable to these initial explorers, their subsequent excavation also concluded that the site was indeed a natural formation. However, fast forward 100 years of technological advances in archaeology, photography, ground penetrating radar and satellite imaging, and we can now take much deeper looks at locations, gaining far greater insight than was possible a century ago. The archaeological societies are currently in a panic, in regards to an expedition which is being undertaken to this very site. Over 100 years after its initial discovery and disregardment. What is interesting to note, a detail this team must be aware of, a detail largely suppressed and rarely discussed, is the fact that very ancient monuments rest upon the tops of each mountain, monuments that were later dated that 2500 years old, and confirmed as artificial megalithic structures. The reason the archaeological community is worrying, is due to their possible size. They would dwarf the great pyramids of Giza. However, the pyramids, in Giza are in a very special location, they in fact rest on the center of the world's land mass, the question would be, why would Indonesia possess such ginormous pyramids? In 2010, geologist Dr. Dhamnianator Wijarja, who earned a doctorate at Kultek, recognized the mountains as possible man made pyramids, and began to explore using ground penetrating radar, seismic tomography, resistivity survey and other remote sensing techniques, as well as some direct excavations and deep core drilling. The results were immediately intriguing, producing evidence of deeply buried man made chambers and yielding carbon dates going back as far as 26,000 years. This would make the construction prior to the last Ice Age. Such ideas are heresy to mainstream archaeologists, the archaeological establishment in Indonesia banded together against Dr. Nator Wijarja and his team, lobbied the political authorities, agitated locally and succeeded in slowing down, though not completely stopping, the further exploration of Ganang Padang. However Dr. Nator Wijarja fought back, doing some high level lobbying of his own, taking the matter to the president of Indonesia himself. There were further delays to do with elections in Indonesia but just a couple of months ago, the final obstacles were lifted and Dr. Nator Wijarja and his team moved back on to the Ganang Padang site with full approval to go ahead with their work, including permission to excavate the concealed chambers. Although it may not be widely received, this excavation may be the most important currently being undertaken on earth. Mainstream archaeologists are furious, and have been lobbying to get the work stopped, fortunately to no avail, preliminary excavations have produced results that prove beyond doubt, that Ganang Padang is indeed a man made pyramid of great antiquity. Even the relatively young layers so far excavated, the second artificial Kalamna rock layer beneath the megalithic site visible on the surface, has yielded dates of 5,200 BC, nearly 3,000 years older than the orthodox dating for the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. They are also firm indications from the original remote sensing and quadrilling work, that there is much older layers below. In short, it is now evident to all, that the site is vastly older than the 2,500 years archaeologists had insisted upon for decades. Even the most hostile are now quietly reframing their assessment of the site and referring to it as a gigantic terrace tomb, which was part of the biggest megalithic culture in the archipelago. I will keep you posted.


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All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Are you hearing me okay. Great. Okay, we will get started. Welcome. Thank you for joining us for this briefing about the south end innovation district. We have a number of partners that you will hear from today, who have played in a role in getting this critical ordinance change, zoning ordinance change to this point. And we also have Megan Tuttle, our city planner, who is here and members of the media have technical questions about what is before the city council tonight. Megan will give some remarks to that and we can of course answer questions. Let me just start with a few quick remarks to kick things off. This is very significant milestone we're reaching today is one that we've been working towards for a long time. From that perspective, we are in the teeth of a historic housing crisis and a historic crisis and homelessness, and to say that is almost redundant, although some people sometimes get confused on this or doubt this homelessness is a housing problem. And we are in the crisis we are today because of decades of problematic and really failed policies that have made it way too hard to build homes in Vermont in Burlington, Chinden County and really statewide. There is really no more obvious example of that policy failure than in the area that we're talking about today. Most of the south end innovation district today is just a little bit of a kind of juxtaposition in that the set the district does include some really exciting parts of the city includes the new hula development. And we are grateful to have Russ Scully here today, who has been the champion, the sponsor of that incredible development which has created some of the most progressive and innovative and exciting employers in the region in it. This is true of the innovation building, which has long been a source for a lot of jobs and progress, much of the less rest of the of the district is surface parking lot today in the right in the middle of the state's largest city. We have acres and acres that has been just relegated to being a surface parking lot for for many years. And one of the reasons a big part of the reason that it looks the way it does today is because it is currently illegal to build any new housing in the entire 84 acre, I believe, district. The action before the council tonight the council has it in their power to change that tonight. And this is, there is a public hearing tonight, after which the council could take action, and we hope will take action to implement this new ordinance. And the works since the end of 2021. And when it was one of the 10 points in the housing action plan that my office released at the end of 2021, and the potential for this change is great. There is already a partnership between the city group called ride your bike led by Russ Scully, Champlain College, and we are in talks with Champlain housing trust that could create approximately 700 new homes in the coming years. And this new innovation district in the wake of the passage of this zoning, the potential chains goes well beyond that in other parts of the district there's a lot of additional underutilized space that could resolve in hundreds of additional homes as well. So this is a very significant action it's one of the most significant steps that we can take today to solve future housing crises. And it is a, it is a moment that really marks, I think a dramatic change in the way the city thinks about housing. And I'm very grateful that we have partners here today that can speak to the way what you're now welcoming new housing and parts of the city that we haven't always in particular, we're going to be joined by Jack Tiano from this new group for monitor people oriented places which has been a big part of the grassroots call for more housing which is, again, the way that we are going to work our way out of the housing crisis we're in today. So with that. And again, I'll hand it over you to take the next step in this. Great. Thank you, mayor. Just to briefly reiterate what the mayor said in his introduction about why we're talking about the south end innovation district. One of the most notable things about this proposed zoning change is that we are talking about the potential to allow dense mixed use development in a large swath of the city that is currently dominated by underutilized parcels. And specifically looking at the potential to allow that mixed use development to include large amounts of housing, which has not been permitted in this part of the city in the past. The proposal that the council will be considering this evening includes the creation of an overlay zoning district to apply to just a portion of the south end enterprise enterprise light manufacturing district and the intent of this new zoning district is really to help facilitate a vision that has emerged from both our planning process for the south end dating all the way back to 2014 and specifically to implement a key initiative of that 10 point housing plan that the mayor mentioned. It's worth mentioning that in the 2014 planning process, the conversation about whether or not, and how housing could be part of the south end innovation district was discussed extensively. This is an idea, creating a mixed use district in this part of the city is an idea that has long been discussed. And while the south end plan did not specifically recommend housing in this location. It recognized the importance of housing as an element of a thriving south end innovation district and the business and arts community that exists there today and in the future. So that plan really teed us up and directed us to have more conversations about housing in the south end, particularly as the city's needs have changed, and the mayor's housing plan from 2021 really became the point in time for us to have those conversations in earnest. I think the next couple of slides just summarize and reiterate what the mayor had mentioned about what was included in the 10 point action plan. And this specific rezoning talking about the south end innovation district was one of the key initiatives that was included under the goal to double the rate of housing production. So as the mayor said the potential for hundreds of new homes within this area of our city. As we move forward, I'll just briefly highlight some of the details about what this amendment discusses. Again, this district is intended to guide the development of area and area of the city and parcels within that area that are largely undeveloped or underutilized today. As you can see here in the map on the right that the district spans roughly from Howard Street to Sears Lane, and includes a number of large parcels to the west of Pine Street covers just over 80 acres including 13 of those acres that are existing surface parking lots and a number of other portions of this district that include former former industrial or brownfield sites. We're trying to use the opportunity of this zoning district to help us build on the vibrancy of the south end as a as a neighborhood and as an important economic contributor in the community, and allow for mixed use development that will further enhance that the amendment itself includes land use standards that will allow for that range of residential and non residential uses. So that's everything from arts and makers office and innovation, other non residential uses that really support the idea of a neighborhood a new neighborhood in this area. Importantly, as the housing that is created in this district comes online, it will be required to meet the city's inclusionary zoning standards, which will require that a minimum of 15% of those units meet our affordability limits. The amendment itself also includes specific standards for building height that ranges anywhere from four up to eight stories and you can see in the map on the right where those height limits will apply throughout the district. The areas in blue are four stories which is the existing height limit in the enterprise zoning yellow would be up to six stories and the red is up to eight stories. The standards also include other specific provisions that help us manage the overall size and way that new buildings are created to help kind of form a new district that is livable walkable and achieves a high level of density. We are also including within this specific standards that help us make the best use of the land that's available in this district. As we said, a large portion of this district today is dedicated to surface parking, and the standards that we're developing will actually start to limit that surface parking in support of mixed use development that helps us bring more space for business and residential into this area of the city. On the next few slides we are asked a lot about just the proposal in terms of how the varied height limits will apply to this area of the south end. So these are just a couple very hypothetical renderings that our office made to help communicate those potential changes. The first one just looks at some very simple massing that looks at open areas of the sites that we're considering rezoning kind of from a high level. But the next image gives a better perspective of what it might be like to be on a street within this new district after it's developed. So, this is the pedestrians perspective of, you know, walking down a hypothetical new street on 125 Lakeside, which is today a surface parking lot, really looking north towards the existing innovation center there in the distance. And then the final image. Again, we've had a lot of conversation about understanding that this district is, you know, a part of an existing neighborhood and community and wanting to better understand how these new buildings will fit within the context of the south end. So this is an image that we've talked a lot about over the course of this discussion that looks at the view west over these sites from Callahan Park, the kind of northwest corner of Callahan Park by the soccer fields. And you can really see that we're talking about buildings that are between 65 and 85 feet in different parts of the district and this just helps us understand how that might look from a vantage point up on the hill. Did you want me to tee up the potential topics that the council will talk about tonight or do you want to go to other remarks first mayor. Thanks Megan. I think let's hear from our partners and then we can finish with a little bit of discussion about some of the amendments that are expected tonight so Thank you for that. Next, we are happy to be joined today by Russ Scully. Again, Russ has been a major innovator in many parts of the city who live on the waterfronts with the spot on the dock and grateful for you join us here today Russ. Thank you mayor thank you Megan great to be here. Thank you for putting this together. I just want to say that I'm very supportive of the overlay district idea, particularly the concept of introducing residential development to the south end. I think that I'm particularly very excited about converting this surface parking lot into an opportunity to increase our housing stock in Burlington. As you all know we've been really underserved in terms of new housing supply in the in the city of Burlington for quite some time now. You know this, this reality has become even more clear to us, particularly as a business owner in the south end with few restaurants, some retail businesses were really focused on this property will uniquely some workforce housing which we also desperately need. And so I'm particularly excited about that. We've also got you know the connectivity with our tech incubator space at hula, where we're reminded daily about the challenges of trying to find housing as new employees move to Vermont to take on new careers at growing companies in and around hula. So, we're particularly excited about kind of this new way forward this is a big step for Burlington really excited about the steps that have taken place so far. So I'm really excited about the leadership in the office within the city right now to see this as an opportunity to recognize the, the, how critical the timing is right now to do this and to really see the opportunity in converting these underutilized lots into something that can be much more beneficial to the community. So thank you. Thank you Russ, and just for members of the media are watching this I think this is clear but just want to be explicit about it if there's any confusion. We shared months ago that Russ's group ride your bike, Champlain College and the city were in discussions about whether some kind of joint effort, some kind of coordinated effort to redevelop the parcels that substantial parcels these institutions own it, that are within the strict district that those stocks are ongoing, and they are still ongoing, and when we hope to be back and another briefing soon to be able to share with you some progress with those stocks and some sense of where that would go. This is not that announcement today this is an announcement about the zoning that is before the council, and that is a prerequisite to really any of the plans that we've talked about being possible, and so more to come soon from this these discussions tonight is today is about the zoning. With that, I want to go next to Colin Hilliard from the Burlington Business Association. The BBA has been a real partner on housing issues for many years now and I know has been advocating strongly for this change Colin thank you for joining us today. Thank you Mayor Weinberger also wanted to thank the planning department planning commission and members of the city council ordinance committee, all who put in a great deal of time and effort to get this proposal where it is today. Going back to 2021. My name is Colin Hilliard and a deputy director of the Burlington Business Association. The BBA enthusiastically supports the proposed changes to create a southern innovation district. It's well known that Burlington has a housing crisis is first called out in the 2014 downtown housing strategy report. And it's been more recently highlighted in the building homes together campaigns October report that found that Chittin County is traveling behind the target of 5000 new homes by 2025 area businesses continuously report the lack of both housing availability and affordability is one of the top challenges that they face. We've heard stories from countless local businesses about the challenge of hiring staff simply because they can't find housing. And too many employees must commute from outside Chittin County when they want as to just bike or walk to work. It's for these reasons that over 17 southern businesses employing over 750 people have signed on to a letter of support of this proposal. The zoning amendment would allow for surface level parking lots and other underutilized spaces to be transformed into mixed use vibrant multimodal community for the next century. Most importantly, it would allow Burlingtonians to live near where they work and play, and that means countless positive impacts for our climate. The BB and its members. The BB and its members hope to see further advances in housing just like this one and the ones that have been discussed on the 10 point housing action plan with more members of our community saying yes to more neighbors and yes in my backyard. Thanks again mayor. Great. Thank you, Colin. Next, I want to ask to join us Jack Tiano from B pop for monitor people oriented places. He's been part of a very consistent and impressive effort to engage this issue have people and we very much welcome it. Thanks for joining us today, Jack. Hi. My name is Jack Tiano, and I'm speaking as a resident of the south end as a studio member of generator in the heart of the proposed south and innovation district. A graduate of Champlain College and as a member of, but not specifically a spokesperson for a grassroots advocacy group called reminders for people oriented places which is a pretty decentralized network of a lot of people just trying to co educate people about the issues that are affecting our cities and where we need to go from here from a lot of different angles. So I think I stand out a bit on this roster of speakers right as perhaps the only person who's not professionally involved with city functions and planning development housing commerce. I'm just an average resident who nonetheless finds more and more of my time being taken up by conversations and advocacy at the intersection of all these things and more. Another person, which I think I can say for at least another month until later in 30, who's also stuck renting. I've been acutely exposed to the uncertainty that the housing crisis brings to planning my future. And at the same time the climate crisis manifests itself more and more each year as we've experienced this year through the late spring frost that killed many crops the unrelenting wildfire smoke that has been a damper on outdoor recreation and the recent devastating floods that need no wildfire. I set the stage because though, through any individual lens updating the zoning ordinance can be seen as a small win or loss for some specific outcome. But when we look through many bigger lenses and look at the root causes I believe that it's a lot more consequential increased housing density allows us to generate more city tax revenue per acre to serve more people with city taxes at less cost per capita and alleviates supply restrictions that push housing costs out of control mixed use neighborhoods give cities vibrancy and character and foster local economies, integrating housing work and commerce gets people out of cars which is the necessity to take the climate crisis seriously. And the proposed south and innovation district is a huge step in the right direction for Burlington, aiming to create a dense lively urban environment. The city staff has done a phenomenal job of keeping the needs of Burlington in mind and being forward thinking in its incorporation of open space green space light air and verticality without risking density. Even though the zoning ordinance describes a neighborhood that I would like to live in it's also the kind of neighborhood that Burlington needs right now, both to make a dent in the housing crisis but also to set an example for the rest of the city and show a path forward, to see what an urban Vermont can and should look like in the century of climate instability. I look forward to seeing how this district develops into a physical form, and I hope that all the stakeholders are excited to build a neighborhood that truly fosters car free living and strong connectivity to expanding active transportation network. I also look forward to continuing this conversation of how our zoning ordinances are powerful tools and building stronger more vibrant more affordable and less energy intensive in the smaller scale but hopefully wider reaching neighborhood code assessment. So, thank you. Jack thank you for that very clear statement. Next, we have President Alex Hernandez president of Champlain College. I'm proud to see a recent alumnus playing such a leadership role in the community. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you mayor and I look forward to meeting you Jack where the best parts of my job is seeing our students that go out in the world to do a great incredible thing so thank you for your testimony Jack. Champlain College, we've been part of the south end since 2011 it's where our students go, we have the Miller Center there, our students go there to get career focused experiences and partnership with the community so couple examples of that we have the Leahy Center for cybersecurity where our students go and they defend the networks of local businesses and nonprofits right here in Burlington. We have a partnership with Hula to support entrepreneurship we have our eSports arena so this is an area that we care a lot about. And our mission as a college is to help students be ready to be ready for work and ready for lives ready for life and the reason we're so enthusiastic about this project is you know we believe the south end. You know this innovation districts being proposed is exactly the type of community that can help people launch their lives. It's a live work play learn community that can provide affordable housing. You know I'll just echo what some other folks have said you know we see the impact of the housing crisis every day on our employees on our students on our employer partners who are employing our students. It's a real it's a real impact that's holding us back and I'm really excited about the solutions being proposed here. It's a place where you know people can get employment and career focused experiences where they can really launch their lives and we're proud to be an academic partner in this district and help people learn. And I've tried to put my money where my mouth is I'm personally invested in the success of this community. I taught entrepreneurship last spring right in the south end at Hula to help our students understand the incredible opportunities that exist and you know it just made me more and more convinced of the incredible potential this area has to really further you know the hopes and dreams of people are trying to make a life here in Burlington so you know with that said Champlain College really excited to help bring this vision to life. We're thankful to the city for their leadership in this effort and grateful to the city council for considering this proposal this evening. Great thank you very much. And our final speaker another great partner to the city is Michael Monty, the executive director of Champlain Housing Trust. For so long Champlain Housing has been a key city partner and never felt that more strongly than over the last couple years as on so many fronts we've been trying to combat these homelessness challenges together. And while doing that Michael's also his team is planning these future expansions of permanent housing in many parts of Burlington and other parts of Chittenden County in the state. This is an example. We hope for that and I'm grateful. If we can create the zoning that makes it possible. Very hopeful Champlain will end up building some permanently affordable housing there in partnership with the city and others so Michael thank you for joining us. Thank you mayor and let me first speak to you as a 38 year old resident, 38 year old, 38 year resident. You're not 38 years old. No, not 38 years. 38 year resident of the south end who watched three shifts happen at the general electric plant and who watched rooms being made at the property adjacent to my home to sort of see the transition now over those many years and also as a father of a son who was at an art studio in the south end for the last 15 years, and also as a former Cito director, who supported the creation of the arts business district of creation that blended arts business and culture in Burlington, south end who for our times felt really well carefully on a notion of creating housing in the south end district, feeling right now the importance of including housing and that this zoning ordinance actually as it's written creates the balance of housing, commerce, arts, and business in a district that I think makes a sense. I applaud the city for the last year or two of planning applaud the city urge the city council to vote and support this unanimously. I think this is balancing the range of opportunities and needs in the south end and creates sort of the opportunity for creating a just not only market rate housing but affordable housing for Burlington artists and many others so thanks mayor for inviting me here. Thank you again for being part of it. Okay, and with that. I think the best way to do this is next to have Megan come back here and let's talk in a little bit more detail about the decisions in front of the council tonight and I do want to, first of all, say thank you to particularly the members of the expanded city council ordinance who have worked hard on this zoning ordinance for months for months, that is, the chair of that committee has been traverse also serving on that committee, our counselors, Sarah high tower Sarah carpenter and Joan Shannon, and I am grateful that after substantial discussion, the ordinance was passed out of that committee by unanimous vote. After a marathon meeting, I think it was an over five hour meeting if we're not mistaken right Megan, and got this to the council floor tonight and we are very hopeful and optimistic about passage of the zoning. There were several issues that were left to be resolved at the, by the by the full council, and why don't you walk us through those many. Great. I think I'm having a little bit of trouble with my video so I'm just here as a voice but thank you for pulling the slide back up. As you had indicated mayor the Council's ordinance committee did spend quite a bit of time deliberating and discussing what was in the proposal when it came to them earlier this spring. And I think they have advanced a number of recommendations that are in the ordinance itself, including some changes to the height area map that I shared earlier, and some other tweaks to the amendment itself that actually came out of that unanimous vote that they took a few weeks ago. So, these amendments here that we're talking about are the ones that are on the agenda for tonight's deliberation there are four. First is an additional tweak really this is a little bit of unfinished business from the committee's work a few weeks ago to fine tune how much surface parking the ordinance will allow to be created as part of individual developments in this district. The original version kept a fairly tight limit on how many, and how much of a lot could be dedicated to surface parking again and with the intent to facilitate more intensive development for housing and and business purposes. And this would allow for just a modest expansion, in order to deal with the realities of making that transition from a car oriented culture to a car light or car free culture over time. The second, the second amendment was introduced by a counselor that would really limit the ability for any developments in this area that include housing to take advantage of building inclusionary units offsite or paying a fee and in lieu of building those units. These are two tools that are available in some parts of the city under specific circumstances to help meet the 15% inclusionary requirement that I mentioned before. And this amendment would really limit those tools so that this neighborhood not only develops as mixed use, but develops as mixed income within the the lots that are developed in this area. The next amendment is about has suggested to prohibit dormitories as a permitted use in this district. We have had many discussions about the wide range of residential and non residential uses that should be allowed in the south end in order to meet the combination of goals that all of the community and all of the stakeholders are trying to advance. I'm concerned specifically about the use of dormitories and one of the amendments would propose to eliminate that from this district. And then the final amendment, similar to number three, a lot of discussion about whether or not lodging specifically hotels should be a tool within the redevelopment of the south end innovation district to support the needs of businesses and that are working in collaboration with partners and the city, you know, business district in the city in general, whether or not hotel should be some part of the mix of mixed use development in this area. At the conclusion of the committee's discussion, they had discussed removing this as a permitted use from the south end innovation district. One of these amendments would restore this as a use that would be allowed under very tight parameters, specifically only allowing one per lot only allowing them south of Lakeside Avenue within this new district, only allowing them in new buildings not in conversions of existing buildings and limiting the amount of a building that could be dedicated to that use really to continue to ensure that we see mixed use buildings on these sites. So these are the four amendments that the city council will discuss tonight as they consider the overall package of the south end innovation district itself. Okay, thank you for walking through that Megan. I think that there will be some debate around particularly the hotel and the dormitory amendments and but I appreciate, I hope is not lost in that debate is the much larger policy change that is in the heart of this rezoning and that I'm hopeful will have strong support tonight and to really make this important policy change. So, with that, I think we've made it through our program and we'd be happy to answer any questions if there are something median. We've done this in the past as Courtney is demonstrating if you can use the raise hand function and then Samantha will turn on your microphone. Hi Mayor, can you hear me. Yes, go ahead. Okay, so I'm wondering I don't know who would be the one to answer this but could someone speak to why the section of land north of Lakeside Avenue. It's changed to be limited to six stories instead of eight that originally there was a larger north of land in that section that would have allowed eight stories and I'm wondering if that was due to neighbors concerns. I came up because I missed that marathon ordinance committee. Someone can fill me in there. Yeah, I'm happy to speak to this. I think Courtney you actually started to address the specific concern I know that the height, the proposed height overlay map was something that was discussed extensively over the course of the process to put this amendment together. And there were some concerns about the upland views of new developments in this area specifically from Callahan Park so the committee the city council's ordinance committee carefully reviewed some of those renderings that I shared there at the very end of my remarks and evaluated the potential for development across the various sites in this district and ultimately agreed to just limit the height to six stories. So the portion of the district kind of immediately west between Callahan Park and the lake. In order to minimize the visual impact of new buildings in this area. So, the other portions of the district in red retain the ability for that eight stories. Okay, great. And Mayor, could you comment on, if you think that that is a detriment to this overall goal, you know, to have taller buildings. I would say Courtney is, if the council takes this action tonight, it is an enormous step forward for housing in the south end and for the city and whereas, you know, if it was all up to me, I'm not sure I would agree that there was an adjustment that need to be made. I think it is a minor change in comparison to the very substantial meaningful change to legalize housing and allow a very, very significant amount of building to take place throughout the community, including that area and six six story buildings are substantial for this community so I don't think that should be seen as a dramatic weakening of this of this critical change. Thanks all for me. Great. Thank you Courtney thanks for being here and your long attention to this issue. I see several other members of the media. The first is, will not see any other hands though so if that does not change in the next few moments here. We'll say there, of course this will, this is one of the first items of business tonight, there will be a public hearing and then the council will take this up and have the ability to pass this tonight, the way the way the system works this has now been warned it's the second reading, and if the council has the ability to pass it tonight, as well as to adopt the warned amendments and pass them tonight as well if something totally new comes up tonight that could require them to spend more time on this but we're we're hopeful that this is on the cusp of going forward. Any more, any more hands from the media so I do want to say to the many partners that joined us let's call thank you thanks for joining us and making this happen thank you for all your work that's led till today, and we will see many of you in just a few hours at the council meeting. Thanks everybody.