That is happening there is dependent upon good public transportation. It's and various forms of transportation. And so today it's really exciting for me because back in January, I had just a very quick run in with congressman Mark VC. And he said, hey Kelly, I want to talk about transportation in Southeast and East Fort Worth. And I thought, oh, this is a perfect opportunity because we had just started talking about the project with Chad Edwards and William Johnson from transportation public work. So we actually literally got to sit in a conference room with congressman VC back in February, just before the just before COVID hit and actually talked about BRT and really a part of his vision for the BRT. So, you know, there was during the budget conversation, there was a big talk about it going BRT going from the last station to the ranger station, whatever it's called these days, globe like park, but really what congressman VC said is really, I'd like to see it go all the way into Dallas into my district to literally run that entire gambit along East Lancaster, as it makes very various iterations across the Metroplex. And so those are big, those are high hopes, but we know that eventually it will happen. But I'm really, really excited that our little group vision East Lancaster is is morphing into lots of different things along East Lancaster. So you'll also hear from Dan Hayes today as he talks about the East Lancaster pit that came online. Last, last year and so great things are happening, but I just simply say to all of you who are on this WebEx today, please be a part of the conversation. There's the only question that is a bad question is the question that you did not ask and this is really a listening session. It is a learning session. It is a sharing session. I'm sure it is the first, it is the first of many, but we need everybody to be engaged in this process as we move forward. I want to leave you with this note. This is not a tomorrow deal. This is not one of those things that's going to happen overnight. It is a process. We actually added BRT to our federal legislative list of issues that we wanted to push this next legislative session. So we are very serious in the city of Fort Worth about this project and we want to support it in all the ways that we possibly can. And of course, there are some dollars that the city of Fort Worth will have to support add to this project to make it come to fruition, but I don't see that not happening. So I am going to quit talking and turn it over, turn it back. I just lost. I got like 5 different devices over here working. So, forgive me, but I'll give it back to Eric and he can lead us through the rest of the meeting. But again, thank you all for being here. And hey, Eric, if it's possible, because we can see people who's on here. But can we just kind of get a quick roll call of who's here so that everyone will know who's on this call? Thank you, Council Member Gray. And thank you for participating in this and starting it off really on a great foot. There was a lot of excellent information that you just provided, some of which might have been touched on by me or others. But I think you've addressed it quite well and we probably don't need to do that. In terms of the list of folks that are on here, we have, we have at least 40, probably 50 different people. So it's a long list that I think we could provide that later, rather than me reading each one as it goes through. But there are a lot of C staff. We have a lot of Trinity Metro staff and representation. We have a Vision East Lancaster, as you've already noted on. And representatives of the Public Improvement District for the East Lancaster quarter are on board, a variety of different neighborhood folks and other leaders along the quarter. So we've got a great group going here. So. Really happy to have everybody come together. This is this is really an excellent timing opportunity. We've got so many things happening. Vision East Lancaster has done quite a bit of work and is looking forward to changes. The Public Improvement District has just started and they're getting going with, with, you know, their goals. We're happy to help them to busrap a transit project and the Transmortem Development Grant for planning work is is kicking off and to hear more about that in just a little bit. But just wanted to thank council members Kellyanne Gray, Gina Bivens, who will talk towards the end. She's actually in a meeting right at the moment and unable to join us at this point for a little later. And then, of course, and Zeta is going to be speaking in just a few minutes. So We do have We do have a poll for you. And that's what you're seeing on the screen. So we're going to test out the The technology here and Ruth is going to pull that up. So this is a poll we'd like you to answer just 5 questions or yes or no. So just should take a few moments for everyone to run through this and indicate what your answers are. And again, any of you are calling in and you want to participate in the poll then you can text me at<PHONE_NUMBER> and we'll send you the survey. You dependent upon when you text you may not get it in time to do the 1st 1, but you will definitely get it for the 2nd 1. It's<PHONE_NUMBER>. We have a professor from TCU, Jan Ballard. She's going to be active in the quarter. She's got a group of senior students with graphic arts degrees sort of right on the horizon. They're actually going to be doing some work creating graphic components for at least a couple of locations on the quarter. I think they're most they're interested in historic handling. I think they're interested in the open corners. Urban Village as well. Both of those are Urban Village locations. And we've had some of their work done in 6 points, Urban Village and Evans and Roosevelt Village. And they've done some really excellent work, very creative folks. And so, so keep an eye out for that and opportunities. They were invited to participate in this event just to listen in and perhaps the students might be able to get a flavor for what's going on in the quarter. Okay, Ruth, did you get some results for us? Oh, you did. You did. I couldn't show them. Just one second. Well, should be seeing the results now. Is that right? Yes, we can see them. Nobody believes in the Cowboys this year. Looks like that's understandable. So we have the majority of folks do not live in the East Lancaster out in the area, but there are, there are some that do. Currently riding transit most do not. So there are a few that do, but a fairly small number. And then do you own property that fronts East Lancaster for the most part? No, but again, there are just a few that do. And then lastly, are you a member of the public improvement district? And of course, most folks on the call are not if they don't own the property alone there. So there are a few that do, but most do not. Okay, so thank you for pulling that up. Good to know the technology works. Just a quick rundown what you see in front of you here is the agenda for today's meeting. You've already had the instructions from Ruth and the welcome. And some great words from council member Gray. My name is Eric Flatterger. I'm with planning and data analytics and I'm just reviewing the meeting overview piece. In just a moment, we're going to bring Kerry grant a grand carry from Kerry BRT and a training Metro consultant on board to talk about bus rapid transit. And then council member Zeta will talk a bit about BRT and to the important work and what that means for our city. So today's development will be next with trendy Metro Jeff Davis and Phil Duper giving some information there. And we'll move on to chat Edwards with transportation forward vision East Lancaster overview. So one of the conlon has been very active in that organization for many years will share some information on that. We'll also hear a little bit from Dan Hass on the public improvement district. I'll review some initial questions for the participants. And then we'll show you some maps and give you a little bit of an introduction to those and we'll be providing those maps to you later. I'll jump back in just for the next steps and then council member Evans will share some final work. So with that done, then let's go ahead and move on to to Graham. Thanks, Eric. Everybody able to hear me a moment. My good. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for inviting me to this meeting. There's a few things I want to chat with you folks about this afternoon is one is the project, the Trinity Metro. BRT project. Talk a bit about what BRT is and then I thought what would probably be most informative for the group was to talk about how other BRT projects has incorporated to do the economic development into their project and hopefully this inform us of what we can do in this project. So at the moment we just started a BRT project to basically upgrade the route 89 spur that runs along East Lancaster Avenue. This would be the idea is that this spur is a very successful route is carries the highest the ridership route on for Trinity Metro. However, it's starting to get caught in traffic is being delayed and Trinity Metro want to take it to the next level. And the next level is BRT. Now for those folks who who don't know what BRT is basically BRT takes so all those elements that you normally associate with a rail system like light rail and applies them to a bus and that may seem a little strange but many of the Metro's that you normally associate with those rail systems are actually rubber tired. You think of the Moscow Metro the Paris Metro parts of it Montreal Metro or rubber tired vehicles so whether is a rubber tired vehicle a bus or a train. I don't know my I think we could sit here and debate that for a long time. So essentially what we do BRT consists of really six main elements and you can see lists of these in other documents and they all slice and dice some in different ways but essentially that the main element of a BRT system is the running ways. This has the most influence on the travel time on reliability and it is the key element of any transit system, particularly BRT. All the other elements are very important but this is the most difficult element to get off any corridor and there's a number of ways in which you can incorporate the running ways into a BRT project and you'll see some of those in the examples I'll show you in a while. They have an enhanced stations know typically a bus system we put a pole in the ground with a flag on it and we say isn't this a wonderful environment that we expect people to stand and wait for a bus in. We don't understand why people are upset with this so now what we're trying to do is we try and make them significant pieces of architecture and you know that currently on the spur route there are some nice stations out there but we try to make them so that they're places that people would want to congregate to wait for service. They have amenities at these stations they tell you when the next bus is going to come you can buy your fare you can sit down you can you know things that you do want to do while you're waiting and and try and make that trip more more enjoyable. You know I'm probably going to upset everybody who works for a transit company by saying that you know very few people ride transit because they love riding transit and basically you ride transit because it enables you to do something. It enables you to go and visit your friends it enables you to go shopping to do all those things you know transit is I hate to say it's a chore so we've got to try and make it as convenient as possible so what we're trying to do is do all those things. We want to make sure that the vehicles look like it's some it's a special service we're trying to move ourselves away from this idea of a bus which you know the poor bus is much maligned as a mode of transportation. We want there to be high quality service and by service I mean the span of service how frequent the services how easy it is to transfer so so that people will use it it's reliability. We look at the fare collection how you pay your fare make it easy for you to do that also to speed up the service you're not waiting on the bus while there's five people trying to pay their fare pass the driver.  And then lastly we wanted to seem like a product and you know as you would market a product it's an excitement over it make people want to ride the service show him how good it is something different not like it's some sort of public service or or a social service like that I have to use this is something exciting I can use it. Thank you. So on to BRT and economic development. Now I can't explain how many hours I've spent debating this with all kinds of folks. Normally, it tends to be my friends who are very much into rail and try and persuade me that BRT has no impact on economic development that tends to be the approach that happens. Every rail influences economic development is the common wisdom. Unfortunately it's incorrect. And the part of the reason is that BRT covers such a wide range of alternatives. There are agencies who paint their bus in some fancy colors and they call it BRT. On the other end of the extreme, there are agencies who have rebuilt streets from building face to building face completely read on it. That's also BRT. So the issue we have whenever we get into this debate about whether BRT does impact economic development to be everything else is is what are we measuring it against. If I like to get working on the Portland street car, we included every development that ever occurred in the city in our economic development analysis. Now, is that correct?  So today I'm going to talk about three examples that have done a good job with economic development and development of TOD along their routes. One is in Canada in the Toronto suburbs. The other is Cleveland and the other is Eugene and they have a range of costs in between them. Viva is at the top end. That was that's a project that probably at the moment about $1.8 billion. So it's very high end BRT. Health line in Cleveland is somewhere in the middle about about $200 million for about nine miles. And then you've got Eugene, which was on the lower end, which was about $30 million. So if I could have the next slide, please, Ruth. So first of all, let me do it. Let's have a little bit of a geography lesson here. York Region is in Ontario. And if you see at the bottom there, you've got Lake Ontario and you've got Toronto. Now, just above it in the green, there's an area called York Region. And York Region was if you spoke to people in Toronto, they would say even people in their 40s and 50s would say when they were young, their parents used to take them on a car ride out into that area to buy their fresh fruit and vegetables. That was out in the country in those days. That was 20 miles outside of Toronto and they would pack up and go there for the day. Now, things have changed drastically over the last 15 years. Canada relaxed its immigration policies and there's a lot of folks who've moved into Canada. And particularly this area has been a favourite destination for folks moving in from Asia. And you don't need much to move into Canada. And they found this area as a perfectly positioned and priced area. And so the developers have got wind of this and they started developing houses. And Ruth, if you could show me the next slide, please. Now, this is just a snapshot of what the developers are putting up and they're putting them up everywhere. And these aren't little tiny homes. They've got full size basements and they're built for extended families and they're just covering the whole area. So York Region obviously got very concerned about this, that all their farmlands being taken away. There was no central town or anything to go by. So they decided to look at a way of creating a downtown and including a transit system in that. Next slide, Ruth. So they developed this network of BRT which at the bottom connects into Toronto. So it's about 30 miles long. Next slide, Ruth. And in it, they planned this town centre called Markham. And on the left-hand side, you can see how it was planned. And then there's a photograph that was taken in about four years later of how they're building it. So it's really taking shape and a big part of it through the middle. So left-hand side, your typical architect sketch, no utilities, anything like that looks perfect. But on the right-hand side, you can see how it really looks under three feet of snow, obviously, which it is most of the year. But that's how it's coming out. You can get an idea of how the development along this BRT line has been happening here. And this is part of their town centre. Next slide, Ruth, please. This is also through that area. And this is on Highway 7.  It was the only highway that ran from one side of the country to the other, all the way from Vancouver to, you know, King George Island. And this was the major highway through the centre of the country. And what we did with this project, we put BRT down the middle of this old highway. We had the wide knit out by 20 metres on either side, so that's 60 feet on either side. And we went to these farmers and said, we want to develop this project, and we will give you additional rights to develop retail and housing along the way. And suddenly all this stuff sprung up along the way there. You can see those were farm stalls not so long ago. So how do we make it happen up there? We enacted new land use policies. We went out and we actually sowed development rights. And what we did, the planners that worked for me went out there and talked to the property owners. And they said, what's it going to take for you to develop what we need for our project?  So that was an important part of that project. Next slide, Ru. So now I want to talk about the health line, which I had very little involvement in this project. This thing, Cleveland, it's a nine-mile line that basically separates the north and south side of Cleveland. Long Euclid Avenue for folks who know Cleveland at all. Next slide, Ru. They divided the corridor up into a number of sections. It's nine miles long and four and a half miles of it are dedicated B or T with 36 stations along the way. Next slide, please. The first part that they developed was a midtown zone where they went in and upscaled everything. Next slide, Ru. Just going to whip through these a moment. Gives you all the details. This is another section of the corridor through the university part where they had over 300 million in development. This is in a four-year period, by the way. Next slide. This is through the hospital region of the part. Another 190 million in development. And it continues on and on like this. So this argument that B or T doesn't spur development is a bit of a fallacy. And also I should mention with Cleveland, they wanted a rail system. For 25 years, they pursued light rail and couldn't make it pencil out. So they had to go to B or T as their only option. And it still spurred all this stuff. Next slide. There's a couple of others for a finish off on this section. In general, this is the activity that occurred. It opened in 2007. There was $5 billion of investment and 13 and a half million of building and renovation, nearly 7,000 development units along this project. Next slide, please, Ru. Just some visuals are going to, if we can whip through these, this shows what it was like before. This is how they planned it in the sketch. And that's how it ended up. Same sort of thing on this one. I ended up with B or T in the middle. And then again, with the B or T going through the middle. And then lastly, I'd like to finish off to talk about the MX in Eugene. This is a very low cost system, a three mile corridor. And on this, they looked at a whole bunch of different operating arrangements throughout this corridor. Next slide, Ru. So this is one section of the corridor. And I want to point out the alignment that's running from left to right. This is what they call Franklin Boulevard. And it's the only median, tree line median in Eugene. And this slide actually shows the BRT system running through there. You see it's snaking above that big white lump in the middle there, through the middle of the streets, the center running BRT. Next slide, Ruth. And the BRT is on the right hand side of the slide. You'll notice the grass in the middle between the lanes. That's the buses straddle this grass strip. And the idea of the grass strip is that it's a drainage. It's actually a drain. And it also helped the community because they didn't want to lose their median. They liked the grass. They felt put more asphalt down was going to be bad. So they ended up going for this design I put together where we left the grass in the middle and built two tracks. Along the way, there's all these developments. The university who had basically turned their back on Franklin Boulevard suddenly started opening up. And you see all these new developments that have occurred along this right away. And now students want to be out there. They want to use the BRT. It's fast, it's convenient, it gets into school. And now the university is supporting all those students coming from that direction. So I think that's the last slide, Ruth. Is that the last one on my list I included? Yes. So I just wanted to give a bit of an overview of some of the things on BRT. I'm happy to take questions or leave them to the end. And if you have any other things that you'd like to ask me, I'd love to engage you on this stuff. So thanks, Eric, for the time today. Thank you, Graham. That was, that was a great, great summary. And I'm sure that we'll get some, some questions along the route. I don't see any right at the moment, but I think that the more people digest as we move through the different discussions, the more questions might be popping up along the way. But we'll get back to you if we have some for you. I think we're moving on now to council member and Zeta. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to first thank council members, Gina Bivens and Kelly Allen Gray for including me in this. Because as you can see the actual physical area that is part of this project that is in the district that I represent is very, very small. But I think that I was invited partially for that little small piece that I have that's attached to the route that we're discussing. And for my overall huge advocacy for transit, I guess if you talk about transit enough, you get invited to all of the transit meetings. And I would say I'm one of those people that rides transit because I like it, not because I have to. So I worked very hard at trying to encourage other people to do so as well. In looking at this proposal for Fort Worth, I'm very excited about it because the East Lancaster BRT will be the 1st BRT in the whole region, not just in Fort Worth. I mean, Dallas as much as they have in their public transit system does not have any BRT. And so we will with our partnership with Trinity Metro have the 1st BRT in the region. And I know that we've talked a lot about what BRT is and I think it is very similar to the spur that exists and somebody touched on the fact that the spur is starting to get hung up. In traffic and congestion, which is is affecting reliability on a transit system across our entire city. So. Prioritizing transit and doing it in this way, which is a substantial prioritization of transit is something that we're looking at doing across the entire city. Looking at all of our streets and finding ways that can help the transit do a better job so that it can be more reliable. But improving that route system is part of kind of the better connection that Trinity Metro is looking at right now. They've been doing a study of the entire system. And trying to figure out routes and how to do those routes and how to connect them to each other and what is the type of system that people would be using more. And we'll get more people to the places that they want to be on a more frequent way. So we've had a lot of discussion about the future of transit. And I think a lot of it rely it's coming to the point where people are going to other cities and seeing the availability of such resources and other communities. And then wishing that they had those same resources in our city. So I think that more and more we are embracing transit in Fort Worth, although it's it's a newer concept for us. But that is something that definitely is going to be needed in order to be successful with these improvements that we're making the city alongside the transit authority with Trinity Metro are trying to kind of steer a very large ship. Into a new direction. And we hear a lot from folks that are in favor of this, but when it comes time to actually implement projects. We tend to hear from people who maybe are not so in favor of it or who has some concerns about change and all of that. So I think it's really important to get people as educated and informed informed as we possibly can about these things. How these things will benefit them, even if they're not daily users of it. So that that discussion about whether it's an economic development driver is an important part of that aspect. If it's not something that you'll be using how it is a resource to get people to jobs and to to school so that we're improving the quality of life for the entire city. And then touching briefly on to the the transit oriented development, which I know another speaker is going to go into a lot more detail and I don't want to steal any of their thunder. But the planner in me is always looking at that side of things as well. But transit oriented development really brings kind of a mix of development and I know some of the pictures you saw just in that last presentation. Some of it seems very large and sometimes that's a concern for people, but it can be mixed use that blends into an area and is reflective of the area that it is and sensitive to the area that it is being located in. But that mixed use development brings things close by your neighborhood and where you live where you can walk and ride bikes and take public transit to those resources and not have to get into your car for every single trip. And those types of developments also bring a diversity of housing types so that more employment more entertainment and more places for people to choose to live can all occur and those are all enhanced by their proximity to transit. Usually we and then the final thing that is good about doing that type of development in an area like the East Lancaster corridor is that we're in an area where services already exist. So we're not developing something out in the hinterlands where we don't already have close access to police and fire and community centers and all of that sort of thing. So the economic return on the type of development that can happen in a transit corridor in the urban core is much more beneficial overall to the people that access it and to the city as a whole. Through the improvements that it brings and the economic development that it brings and the economic drivers of sales tax and that sort of thing which helps us find all of the things that citizens of Fort Worth would like us to have to increase the quality of life. So those are just the things I wanted to touch on briefly. I appreciate being included in this and I'm always here to be a champion for transit and improving the quality of life in Fort Worth and happy to be a partner alongside all the other people on this call. Eric there was a couple of questions. Do you want to take them out or do you want to. For me. I think just in general over. Okay. I think we can take. We can take a couple real quick. I think one was just answered by Corey back related to the map itself. So we have one question from likewise related to to BRT I believe do we have an actual text of that question. Yes, there's a few one for unfortunately we don't have a university or hospital district along East Lancaster what is there along East Lancaster to anchor development. So, well I'll just I'll jump in and others others can do so as well I think that that the floor makes a good point that we have a long stretch of East Lancaster that is sparsely developed and a lot of the uses in that area are very automobile oriented with fairly large parking lots and it let you not really a location where we have significant destinations. So that does create a challenge on it on the obviously on the west side we've got downtown which is a very significant anchor on the east end we've got historic Hanley village, which has some character of its own. And then of course if the, if the line were to be extended to Arlington, perhaps beyond in the future, then, then there are a number of different destinations might come along the way. But noted, there is a lot of real moment opportunity there's a lot of opportunity to create character destinations. We do have a couple of her villages in addition to the one that that I think. I think she knows very well, which is the near East side of the village. So, I hope that's helpful. Hey, Eric, can I can I jump in so I'm not quite sure why we feel like. East Lancaster sparsely developed because it really is not sparsely developed it is literally seven miles, a seven mile corridor of development and because it was a state highway, you're absolutely right it does have a lot of automobile uses that are there. But that is rapidly changing and there are so many small businesses that are along East Lancaster that are doing very well. It's also where the Ruby Kerry library is under construction now so with that thought in mind there's so many things that's actually happening right there in East Fort Worth and then you have to remember that. Texas Wesleyan is literally a rocks throw away from East Lancaster and it makes much better sense for it to be along East Lancaster than it ever would be for it to be along East Rosedale East Rosedale has been completely redeveloped and that was you know a 35 year project. That's in the making I think if you if you time to drive down East Lancaster from 35 literally all the way to hand to hand Lee you would be surprised at the number of different types of businesses that are there. That are doing very well along the corridor and people in the community are using those businesses and then additionally want to. Put this out there you know what Metterbrook and West Metterbrook and Central Metterbrook and. And Brentwood Hills and all of those little neighborhoods that are tucked along the way are really a lot is they're becoming the new homes to people who lived just west of 35 that could really no longer afford to live. West of 35 and so the neighborhood is rapidly changing with with young families who are coming.  Coffee folk in Nana's kitchen and all of those places that are there so please discount East Lancaster because what you see is just what you see there's a lot of great things that's happening there. Those are excellent comments. Thank you council member. That's that is a good summary of the circumstance. There are changes that are already taking place. Texas Western is a tremendous anchor along the way. I think that it looks like we've got most of the questions answered at this point. Why don't we jump on so we don't lose too much time to the next speaker and that would be Jeff Davis the board chair of attorney Metro. And he's going to kick off a discussion that will be finished up by. I fell dupler related to the transit development planning grants and the project will be moving forward with it. So Jeff, ready to go. Yeah. A few minutes to give an overview project. My project with 15. Stations along the median. We have Q jumps transit signal priority. 15 headways 10 vehicles bicycle facilities fiber optics. These are all going to be part of what is called densification. I think to answer and that's what you. And I need to mention which has done in spearheading this initiative. I can say from my view without Chad, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. To put all of this in context in terms of economic development. All of these project are expensive this particular project. The 7 miles will be about $160 million. 80 million from new starts. And we're going to go from text dot through the RTC 30 to 40 and from the city Fort Worth that they can fund a bond election. So this is a pretty expensive project, totaling roughly $160 million. And if we're fortunate enough to be able to very alluded to earlier. We can continue this another not. For the city of Oregon, which would be, I think, historic and something that everyone could be proud of. And that's another $70 million. So putting cost of contact is often difficult. But you must send for every $4 cent on transit. You get a $4 return and after has come out. Talking about for every spent. You get 15 to 20,000 jobs in return. Dallas has two projects over a bit. The smallest project that dart is undertaking currently is 130 million should joining the McKinney street car line. With the Bishop art street car line art and the same. Covered that when you put down fixed guideway, you get results and studies with the North Texas, which talk about the $15 billion in economic development that has occurred. That would not have for very trading currently. What we need to think about. I don't know that it's a properly been mentioned, but I know it will. We have to take full advantage of this as a tool for. Well, this is for your community prosper and still make the tea and we don't need to be to the end must be community based and provide the neighborhoods, which with much needed social services such as the library. And really create an inviting urban design that can create a street life. So that everybody wins. So in this regard. We need to see the metro, the private sector, everyone together to talk about how we can do these kinds of densification structures and get everybody to win the displacement that can occur without proper planning. So with that, I think I'll. Yes, thank you. I'm Phil Dupler, the director of planning for Trinity Metro. And I'm going to explain a little bit about our main cast or avenue transit oriented development plan. And give you a little bit of background about the grant and tell you how we're going to move forward with the with executing this plan. Next slide please. So we've already heard that the transit oriented development is a pedestrian friendly mixed use communities centered around public transit infrastructure. And this is important. The benefits of these are one neighborhood revitalization. We get increased local activity around transit stations and that leads to more profits for local businesses. Increased walking in the neighborhoods and transit connections lead to more reduced traffic congestion and better pedestrian safety and air quality. And to get there, we have several requirements. We've got to have a local or a logical high frequency transit system. And continuous and connected sidewalks in the areas. We've got to have population density. That doesn't necessarily mean high rise apartments. But typically a mix of different housing types that raises the average higher than single family houses alone. We've got to have a mix of community sort of supportive businesses. Like restaurants, coffee shops, hair salons, grocery stores, etc. We've got to have buildings that are not too short, not too tall. That are up close to the street with street trees and street furniture. And this kind of makes people comfortable to walk in the area. And with parking typically relegated to the back of the store. And of course it can't happen without investment. And so we need a plan to guide that investment. Next slide. Next slide please. So our project proposal. Excuse me. Did we skip this line? I'm sorry. My screen was a little slow. So, thank luckily the federal transit administration offers grants that we're able to tap into specifically for planning for transit or development. First authorized under the Moving Ahead for Progress and 21st Century Act and amended under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. These offered specific TOD planning grants and goals. So we submitted an application in the last round back in November of last year. And just this last June, the FTA announced $23 million in total awards for 23 projects across the nation. And our local area brought back actually, we did pretty well. We brought back a Dallas Area Rapid Transit is going to have one grant for along the D2 subway project. Denton County Transportation Authority is having a grant for TOD planning along their Adrian Corridor. And we got a grant for TOD planning along East Lancaster. Next slide. So as we committed to the FTA, we'll complete a comprehensive transit oriented development plan for East Lancaster with BRT as the central focus. The goals aligned with those MAP 21 and FAST Act goals and include enhancing economic development, facilitating the connectivity between the BRT and other modes of transport such as bike share and bike lanes. Improving the sidewalk infrastructure to increase access to the BRT stations. Enabling mixed use development. Identifying other infrastructure needs that the city may need to invest in like stormwater improvements. And encouraging private sector investment. Next slide. Our specific deliverables in this plan will include an inventory of the existing conditions. What is out there now? And an assessment of what level of transit oriented development can be supported. A review of the existing development regulations like zoning ordinances and how those would impact the TOD. Multimodal connectivity plans will be conceptual maps that lay out where various transportation assets should be deployed along the corridor. Next slide. We'll also develop a strategy for funding all of the necessary infrastructure. Much of these plans will be based upon the recommended BEX practices that have been successful in other communities with BRT like the ones that Graham talked about earlier. And of course, it wouldn't be complete without station area concept plans. And that's where it really gets fun when we get to see graphics and renderings showing what development could look like around each station location. And lastly, we'll have a phased implementation plan because we know it will be expensive and it can never be all done all at once. Next slide. So we'll be seeking proposals next month for planning experts with particular expertise in transit oriented development and experience in BRT in particular. We expect to select a consultant this fall. A consultant that will then develop a public participation plan. But we'd expect multiple rounds of public input throughout the next year. And with a final plan ready to be submitted to the FDA by the end of next year. So today is really only kind of a taste of what's coming. And we hope that everyone will come and participate in the various opportunities that we have for public participation. And I've put my contact information on the screen there. If you have any questions along this, as we go through this project, we'll be happy to answer. And that's, that's the end of my presentation. Okay. Thank you, Phil. That was useful information. Now we're going to move on to Chad Edwards to share more information about transportation. Yeah, good afternoon and thanks for having me this afternoon. This is a lot of great information. And as I'm sitting back, I'm realizing that I've been part of this project in one shape or form for several months to a year now. And that many of you may be hearing about all these different pieces of BRT project, maybe for the first time. And so it's important to realize that as a BRT project, there's a lot that goes into it. And Phil talked about the planning for the transit-oriented development part that benefits the BRT as the people-moving part of that system. And then Trinity Metro and Jeff Davis talked about the people-moving part of that. And Graham Carey talked about the technical part of that. So there's lots of different pieces. That's very similar to what I have to deal with on a regional scale. Lots of different pieces. And so where we're the 13th largest city in the nation at Fort Worth, we're in the third or fourth largest metropolitan region in the nation. And so there's lots of stuff going on here in Fort Worth. And so if you go to the next slide, big picture, big ideas that come out of the region, one of those supporting accomplishments that we have locally, and I'll hit on those very quickly. And then what I call as a good start is really the next steps and future projects that as a planner, we really have to think about how we improve and grow this overall system. So if you go to the next slide, so regional connections, if you're not familiar with the North Central Texas Council of Governments, also NCTCOG, you need to be aware of that particular planning group. It plans for, and you can see on the map there, 12 counties here in North Texas that are just pulled this snapshot out of their long range transportation plan, which is called the Metropolitan Transportation Plan, Mobility 2045. And it outlines transportation investment in the region for the next 25 years. I have a sample of the major rail transit corridors that they've identified. They have another 15 maps that show roadway improvements, arterial street improvements, bicycle improvements, managed lane improvements, all those types of things. And so the planners at the region think big and think about how to connect across the region as what we're trying to do with this first step with the BRT project. And I saw a couple of questions that were asking about connection into Arlington. And that's certainly something that is on our mind as we're talking about this particular BRT project that goes from downtown Fort Worth over to Hanley. But that doesn't mean that it can't continue further east into Arlington. And as Councilwoman Gray had mentioned, even off onto Grand Prairie and City of Dallas. So there's a huge opportunity here to really think big about this BRT project, but also making sure that we think about Fort Worth in the first place, because it is going to be within the City of Fort Worth. The next slide is a lot of information. So the next two slides I really have to apologize for because I was trying to cram in a lot of information in a really small slide. And when you're sitting, you know, six to eight inches from the screen, it's pretty easily read. But when you put it on a WebEx, it's a lot harder. So we'll share the presentations afterwards as well so that you can get an up close picture on this. But the highlights in here are really twofold. One is that on the left hand side, there's four major transit-related goals that we had for the transit moves, Fort Worth transit plan that we recently, I hate to say completed, because it's not quite done yet because we still have draft recommendations. But it was four major transit-related goals. We wanted to enhance the system to make it more attractive and compelling for people to use. We wanted to connect people to their life's activities, thrive to improve Fort Worth's quality of life, and then sustain and ensure those financial and environmental sustainability across the City of Fort Worth. The map on the right is a lot going on there. And really, if you focus on those red lines that crisscross the city, those are the BRT lines that we have identified that we would like to try to continue to work on over this next 25 years of this transit plan. And you can see there the East Lancaster corridor is one of those lines that we've started to work on. And this is the East Lancaster BRT project is the transit moves Fort Worth transit plan in action, if you will. The next slide is really the six different transit moves that we worked on. And I'll just read the highlights and not get into the details. But the first one was to develop a high-capacity transit services. And that's the BRT. It also includes rapid bus, regional rapid bus, and then obviously commuter rail as well with the text rail line and the future extension of text rail down to the medical district as well. The second transit move is to improve existing services. That's really coming out of the a better connection route redesign that training Metro is doing is to make sure that they improve those existing services that are already out there. There's a lot of good routes that have a have good ridership that will probably and more the likely stay in place. And then there's others that aren't nearest productive. And so the decision is going to have to be made to those get pulled for other services or how do you address the low ridership. The third transit move is expand transit into new areas. And so there's opportunities to review within the city of Fort Worth the expansion into new areas. And then how do we do that? Is that with the fixed route bus? Is that with zip zones that training Metro has been successful with? What are those opportunities? But it doesn't exclude areas outside of the training Metro service area. It also identifies those opportunities with with Arlington with Forest Hill with Crowley with others as well. So keeping that in mind. The fourth transit move is improve access to transit. And so I'll show you a couple of items here in a moment with our active transportation plan on how we look at that as well. But you can't use the transit system if you can't get there. And a lot of that has to do with the city and improvements of sidewalks and bike facilities to get to transit. Number five is improve facilities and amenities. So we know that training Metro has been around since the early 80s. And some of the facilities have been around as well and haven't had that that TLC that might be necessary to kind of keep updated. And so there's some opportunities there to improve some transit facilities. One of those is along East Lane Caster Corridor with that East Transfer facility. And then ultimately let's make service easier to use. And one of those opportunities is through the new training Metro go pass app that will be rolling out later this year. Where the city has has partnered with training Metro to help expand the capabilities of smartphone technology so that you can actually purchase all of your trips. If you're going to use a transit trip and a rail bus trip a rail trip a zip zone on Uber and you want to do all that. You want to plan all that at one time you can to the go pass app and actually pay for it all at once. And so that's a that's going to be a great opportunity for people that utilize that technology to access the transit services. On the next slide are really a next couple of slides are really some of the components of the plan that I wanted to highlight. Because I know that we had talked a lot about it in the questions and it's really that walk accessibility to transit. So if you haven't looked at the active transportation plan please do that that's a Fort Worth plan that was approved April last year. And you can go to forward texas.gov backslash ATP to really get the full treatment of the plan. But you can see here in this small map that's on the slide there is what you see there in orange are really the sidewalk gaps near transit within a quarter mile. And so they're good or bad there's a lot of opportunities for us to really make improvements on the city side to to improve access to transit. And so that includes filling sidewalk gaps making improvements to sidewalks and then just better pedestrian connections all the way around. Next slide shows it's still from the active transportation plan but it's from our bike access improvements of that plan. And so you can see here on the southwest side of Fort Worth there's a lot of opportunities for high priority bike lanes and side path projects. And this too is from our active transportation plan. And so this just outlines some of the future connections that we can make as well. The next slide is complete streets. And so this is something that we want to make sure that as we're redesigning streets or redoing streets reconstructing them that we want to make sure that we're looking at them from from all angles. So it's not just a roadway corridor anymore. It's a it's a corridor that people can use bicyclists can use transit can use obviously cars can use. But how does everybody get around and how do we make it safe if it's not already and keep it safe if it is already. There's some opportunities there that will have that mindset as we're looking at this full corridor on East Lancaster for complete streets as well. The next slide is really kind of the good start slide that I was mentioning. So future projects there's a lot going on in the city of Fort Worth and in Texas. So Trinity Metro is working on extension to the text rail from the TP station down to the medical district station. So there's opportunities there to further that connection to transit. Obviously the East Lancaster BRT project that we've been talking about here today and then potential for that extension into Arlington. So that's certainly something that's on the table. But I think the the leadership in Arlington they just need to be brought up to speed a little bit more on how it can benefit them that they connect into this particular BRT system. But we don't want to necessarily wait for them to get on board. We want to plan for their eventuality so that we can continue on our schedule of development. If you haven't heard already there's high speed rail between Dallas and Houston that got federal approval which means that they can start construction early next year on high speed rail. Which is amazing I think for Texas and and North Texas as well. Which means that all right once you get that in place where does it go once it reaches Houston. Sorry once it reaches Dallas. The logical next step is that it needs to come through Arlington into Fort Worth and then out again to the rest of the region. Which means that there's opportunities for Fort Worth to be connected to Waco to Austin San Antonio and even all the way down to Laredo at some point as well. So a lot going on there a lot of information in a short time if you go to the last slide. There is a link that's identified there for the transit moves for worth slide website. I think it's already posted in the chat as well. But I want to make sure that might just do now since he's gotten through most of this future projects. You guys have the opportunity to look at the transit was worth to do that as well. Why don't we move along to the to the next presentation slide. There it is there. That was quick. But it was posted in the chat window as well. It is transit moves for worth dot com so and then I think are there any questions. I think does Mike. Hey Chad this is Corey back and a couple of questions I wrote down from the chat box. That may be for you. I'm not really sure though. Shoot I'll try to answer. All right. So we have some design questions. I don't know if maybe yourself or maybe try to measure once the jump in for design questions. But I would like to know what the number of car lanes there will be for each side if we were to do a link the bus rapid line in the middle of the street. So our early and telemetry can chime in if they want to but our early thought process is that they're on the east end of the corridor. There's six lanes and a very wide median. And so the idea is that we can utilize one of those two of those lanes and the medium for the BRT. So we would reduce from six lanes to four lanes that corridor. There's still some design discussions that have to be made. And but that's kind of the early thought is that we would reduce those number of lanes. There's a lot of capacity out there. Along East Lancaster that you know that all those cars I used to use East Lancaster. I've really moved to a different corridor on I 30. And so if we reduce the number of lanes to four, we don't think it should be an issue. Next person. And then also we have Dan asked, will the street be rebuilt? Or is it using like the existing structure that we have? I think that's yet to be determined at this point is what how much of a reconstruction isn't. I think we need to do our due diligence on that to figure out what the cost estimate is for a full blown right away to right away reconstruction. What is that cost? It may be outside of the budget that we have. But that doesn't mean that there can't be some locations along the way that I get some of that treatment. We're still early on in the process. These are really good questions for us to hear now so that we can answer those. Make sure we answer those in the future. And then also. Sorry. We just had a question for Mike wise I do have to unmute him in order for him to ask your question about the okay at this time. Mike, can you hear us. Let me let me unmute him. Okay. Okay, he should be able to speak now. Okay, go ahead Mike. Hello, y'all. Most of y'all know me. I'm with a community of people with disabilities. I have lessons. I heard how are we going to clean it up? What part of that Mike? Well, basically, community, we go in. So, you know, that that's a big consideration along the corridor is security and safety. And again, it's still early on the process for us to put to find a detail on it, but we're going to keep that in our mind as we're working on the project on how to address those. Okay, my last question, Chad, we will talk about go pack. Will that include. Access. Well, they include you're talking about the go pass. And will include. You said access is that for. For a disabled vehicle handicap accessible. Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So with. Currently with the via app in the zip zones, there is a button that you can push that identifies if you need say wheelchair accessible. I know. If I want to make my own. Access to come to my door. Where that go. Oh, I see what you're asking. So, if I understand right, you're asking about the access part of Trinity Metro. And is that going to be included in the go pass out. Yes. Okay, so that's a question I'm going to pass over to Trinity Metro because I'm not for certain on that. If anybody from Trinity Metro can help me with that. You're in here. Can you repeat the question, please. So, Mr. Weiss is asking about in the go pass app, will the access part of your services be included in the go pass app. Well, at this time it is not included, but the feature that basically the app is continuously evolving it is still in the developing stage. So in the future, definitely that feature will be in will be added. Sorry, Mike, can you repeat that. He was just saying that he was confirming yes in the future it will be added is his understanding of what the answer was. That feature. Yes. Does anybody have a timeline of when the future 2 years 5 years that was his question. Sorry. Sorry. At this time, we, we don't have a timeline for that feature, but we include that feature in the backlog basically means once we have the features that we need to develop immediately. Once they are done, then we will take this for the development in the app. So that that would be a helpful feature in the go pass apps that you then mine. Right. And Mike, this is Jeremy. Yes. If you ever have any questions or concerns, you're always able to contact me. I'm here for you. All right. Time. I was also going to ask this question about security. I'm sure anybody else can chime in on this as well, but the types of stops that are incorporated into bus rapid transit are, you know, more well lit. They have. Cover from weather and all of that. And then the activity that's brought to a street that has. Something a transit service such as this brings more people to the street and therefore more eyes on the street. And I can see nothing, but the security along that area or the safety along that area, the activity, the. People feeling safe or being out on that street will just continue to get better with the type of activity that's brought by transit oriented development and by bus rapid transit. So, so really quick, I'm going to jump in here because security is a great conversation Dan Hayes is going to talk about it when he talks about the East Lancaster pit. So let's not spend a lot of time there and we want to be cognizant of everybody's time. So, it's 453. We said this was going to be over at 5. I don't think that's what we're going to hit. But if we could keep moving that would be great. And Dan Dan will wrap up that piece on the security part for us. Okay, well said Kelly and that's that's good. Good additions. I wonder you're up if you're ready to go give us give us the the low down on vision East Lancaster. All right, I will be brief because we are running out of time I had two pages that I had written down and I was going to deliver those in five minutes so I will forget that and I'm just going to fly. Our vision East Lancaster is a task force parented by East Fort Worth Business Association. The strength that the East Fort Worth Business Association brings to the East Lancaster quarter is our ability to call us business leaders, neighborhood leaders, residents. We're able to we're able to help bring them together in a an effort to make all of East Fort Worth better. When we came away from the economic development exercise that Danny did in 2012 he had broken us up into five different areas of interest. East Fort Worth Business Association took the hard what we consider the hardest one was East Lancaster because it has some particular challenges that are indigenous to that particular area, seven miles long. We are cut off by the homeless shelters between us and downtown so that it presented some challenges that other maybe the other commercial quarters didn't have. We started with just a small group, but we had with us a professor from UTA, an urban to see. An urban he's a geographer, an urban geographer, and he took his students and he put together a survey. A very extensive survey, and he also used those students to do an inventory, a broad inventory of all the parcels along there and all of their owners. The survey was taken by a large number of East Fort Worth people. We were not surprised at what they considered what they wanted and what they considered the problems were the problems being that East Lancaster is a highway. A wonderful historic part of Fort Worth that has all of the auto related usage. Well, they're there because it's a highway, motels, auto repair places, all of those are there. They considered that barrier and it really is. It's hard to compete with those usage that are historically there. Then the other thing that they felt like was the biggest barrier was the homeless population. Well, Don and I, my wonderful husband and I immersed ourselves in trying to learn what that real problem was. He took on the task of an interim chairmanship of the homeless commission. It wasn't a commission, it was a task force actually during that period of time. We learned that what we really have a problem with are not the homeless who want to get out of homelessness real quick. They take all the services that are available to them and they don't stay long. What we're dealing with were vagrants that wouldn't accept the help that we're lying in front of the businesses doorways, sleeping on the sidewalk, defecating and urinating and unspeakable ways to prevent people from actually enjoying the businesses that we did have. We got help with that. We asked for help from our police department and we got that help. The neighborhood police officer that we got gathered a task force of his own and he started visiting the homeless camps, the people who were just camping out on the street and he was taking the people who could help them and giving them the resources that they needed and telling them where they needed to go. Otherwise, hey fellas, you need to move along because you cannot be camping out leaving all this trash here on private property. We got that help from our police department and it has really made a difference along the corridor. The other barrier that we had and still have is a perception of high crime along that quarter. This is a perception. It is not a fact. It is not a fact. East Fort Worth citizens need to stop shooting themselves in the foot. All of you are here because you want to help East Lancaster. One of the things we need to do is start talking about the good things that are along East Lancaster and not keep saying how bad it is. If it were as bad as the perception is, I wouldn't live here. Neither would most of the other people who live here and the new people who are coming here because it is a good place to be. Kelly is a wonderful asset for us. She has been a part of our task force from the very beginning. She and I had made a little trip over to COG, to North Texas Council of Governments, to meet with Michael Morris. We went thinking, well, we're just going to ask for anything we can get. He was so encouraging with us and I have to tell you that he is one of our biggest supporters. He is going to do everything he can to help us. He told us that there is a $50 million allocation for East Lancaster improvements. An allocation and an appropriation are two different things. We won't get $50 million until there is $50 million to get. Trying to rush through this, we've had some successes. We've had some other things that we put on the back burner thinking that sooner or later they'll come along and they will. One of our biggest things that we've done is we replaced all that lighting along there. I don't know if you all can remember how dingy and awful it looked. Couldn't see anything. Bill Swinson, one of our members, had been working on those lights for 30 years trying to get something done. We managed to get the light poles painted so they didn't look all rusty and awful anymore. We got LEDs along that whole seven mile stretch. We have wonderful lighting now. The other wonderful thing that we got was that library. I think it's going to really make a difference. Thank you. Thank you, Wanda. That was a good summary of the activities of. Visioning slant faster. Let's move on now to Dan Hass and the public approved this to find out more about the security efforts that are underway. You're breaking up. But try to try to get through. We'll let you know if you if you disappear. Dan, you keep breaking up. You keep breaking up. Yeah, call on the phone. That you an additional email with other instructions. In case you had me before he walked away. Eric, did you want to move on to the other parts of the presentation? So we get them back. Yeah, I think that'd be a good idea. So why don't we do this? Why don't we just hop on to the questions. And that, I think we've got in a chat form. Wait a minute. Let's just see if Dan's on. Can you hear us, Dan? Okay. Dan, we're going to, we're going to move on and you can try to work on that phone connection and see if that'll work. And maybe, maybe Ruth and Catherine can provide some. Instructions for that. And if we don't get to you this meeting, I'm going to talk a little bit more later about the next meeting and we'll make sure that you're involved in that one as well. So, so what we've got on the, on the polling side of your screen there is, is, is three different questions. I'd like you to go through those questions and answer them with, with really kind of what are, what are those gut things sort of the things that you, you like most about East Lancaster we heard a little bit about from Wanda about that. What do you like least about East Lancaster and want to share some of that as well. And then what would you like to change about the East Lancaster quarter? So if you could just start typing in your responses to that. In the polling box, we're going to give you just a few minutes to complete that task. I also placed the link for a survey monkey. For the same poll questions, if you don't have time to finish it and it closes out on you, I'll forward the results. How are we doing, Ruth? We're ready to move on. Yes, sorry. I was on mute, but you should be able to see some of the results now. Not yet. And I can just read some of these off under what do you like. Or Eric, if you'd like, we can just go ahead and move forward so that we can get to the, to the rest of it and she can try to post it when it pulls up. Let's do that. And if it doesn't pull up by the time we're ready to leave, then we can just provide that later. Dan is going to be providing the pit information as well later. So let's go ahead and move on to the next. You switch the screen. There we go. Okay, so the next piece is, is we wanted to share with you some maps of the quarter with a variety of detailed information. We're not going to spend much time going through this. Cory Beck will share a little bit of information, but we're going to produce these as a, as a map set. And we're going to add it at the end of a survey monkey that we're going to be sending out. You'll be able to click a button and get these maps downloaded to your computer. Cory. So, um, we looked at the board work. Yeah. Cory. Cory, tell you what, I'll just, I'll walk through these slides and Ruth can advance them. So the first one that you're looking at is just the location map. So the yellow lines that you see are actually the boundaries of the council districts with the council, council district labels on this is generally just a photo. So the questions about the distances, the first flat line sees a quarter mile from the street. The next one is a half mile. We use this and planning to look at existing visions, look at opportunities and identify things that that might be addressed through the plants. Next map. This is an existing land use map that shows basically what is actually on the ground. And you can see that the pie charts indicate the percentages of each. Next map. So this is the same quarter, the same buffers. This is future land use. So this is the city's adopted future land use plan that identifies the kinds of uses that are intended to exist. And you can see the different colors represent different kinds of uses along the corridor. When you receive this, you'll see it in a larger format. It'll be easier to see. And if we ever get to in person meetings, you'll get to see very large versions of them. But this is the city's plan. So next screen. Okay. For some reason. Okay. Well, the, if they seem to be, they seem to be coming down. This is, we've been talking about transportation all afternoon. And this map represents the active transportation plan that the city has adopted. So bicycle facilities, pedestrian facilities, both on street and off street are represented on this map. Next map. This is same corridor. We're looking here at the floodplain. So the blue crosshatch that you see our designated floodplain areas. The red color that you see are vacant parcels. So this is another means of identifying opportunities for new development to occur along the corridor. Next. This is the PID map. So this is all of the properties that are members of the public improvement district. Dan might have shared this with you as well, but we'll make sure that you do get this. Next. Those are all, let me see if I can go back to four. Yeah, you can actually move on to the next screen. Because they'll be getting that. Okay, so just to finish up with next steps before council member revivans joins us to share some words. First off, we've got good participation but we can always use more if you let other folks that are property owners, particularly, or otherwise stakeholders on these Lancaster quarter know about this planning effort. We'd love to get them connected and have them engage in future meetings. Start thinking about where along the quarter you would like to see bus rapid transit stations, as well as trans oriented development. So those are those will be specific locations where we can have sort of the, the more enhanced train transit stations. On the bus rapid transit system as well as the type of development to walkable pedestrian oriented, somewhat higher density but mix of uses that would be compatible with being around those stations. And then lastly, be able to look out for another way of excitation for November so we're going to set something up for the middle of November probably, and we'll get more into discussion of sort of the land use impacts and the opportunities for improvements along the quarter. Next. Okay, council member events. We like to hear what you have to say now. I can say it in 90 seconds Eric and thank you and forgive me for being late. But I will tell you, nearly two decades ago, Paul Geisel, Greg Hughes, john Bartosiewicz and I went to Canada. And we saw how public transportation done right could move people efficiently. A few years later we went to Oregon to look at to D and we were told that if you build it, you will see development come 15 miles on either side. The catch was if it was done right. And when you hear chairman Davis talk about 15 minute head waves. That's doing it right because people will know that they don't have to get there and wait forever to get to their desired location. What I would tell you that makes me feel so proud is we on the T board at the time that's my bus stop sign back there. We were just shocked to learn that dart had the knowledge and bought the cotton belt we were really offended. And so for us to have the first BRT in the region is ample payback to my friends at dart. And the last thing I will tell you is if you haven't heard enough about transportation. You can take a few minutes get a sandwich and at six o'clock, log on to the cons website because the north central Texas Council of Governments is conducting a high speed rail study and alignments. And they want your input. I was a part of that yesterday. It's going to happen at six o'clock just go to the cons website. I think you will be delighted if you are a transit junkie and I hope that's 90 seconds. Thank you and hats off to vision. He's Lancaster. You guys rock. Bye. Very well said and and I will certainly reiterate that you have the opportunity to get on. The entity called website and join in that high speed rail conversation that that would be very helpful. I'm sure Chad would echo that as well and all the council members would. That's all we have for you today. As I said, look forward to another opportunity in November. Really want to thank each of the council members for taking the time to join us. Their schedules are extremely busy. And want to thank everybody who's participated both the speakers and the folks that are just listening in on the on the meeting. Thank you very much. Hope you've learned something. We will be sending out information and definitely be on the lookout for the survey monkey. That will allow you to access those maps as well as share more information about what your aspirations are for these Lancaster quarter. Thank you so much, everyone. And the survey will open right after this WebEx is done. So right after your exit you can go up to survey. Excellent. Eric, I see a list of all of the attendees.


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. For those of you who don't know me, my name's Sam. I am a professional hairstylist and welcome to my bathroom. Today, I am going to be cutting my hair. I'm not doing anything like drastic, but I wanted to just clean up my cut. The last time I got a haircut was over three months ago. Just to make sure everything is looking fresh and healthy and to, you know, allow my hair to continue growing because I am trying to grow it out. But let me show you what my haircut looks like at the moment. So, I do have some long layers throughout, but then the length of my hair, as you can see from the back, it is blunt and all one length straight across. And then I have some face framing pieces which are getting pretty grown out at this point. So I'm going to trim those up and make them a little bit shorter. And I also, if you see when I pull all of my hair forward, because it comes to all one length in the back, which originally is what I wanted and what I liked, but then when I pull it all forward, you can see the front is longer than these pieces in the back.  And then what that's going to do is then when I pull my hair back, it's going to have a slight V shape to it in the back. So I just thought that this would be interesting and it's not necessarily a tutorial, but you know, you can kind of watch what I'm doing and maybe pick up some tips for yourself. So I'm going to, let me just do it like this, make it easier. I'm going to put a cape on myself. You can grab a towel or whatever. That way I don't get hair all over myself. It's really hot today too and I'm a little sweaty if you couldn't tell. So I really don't want this hair sticking all over me. So first things first, I'm going to brush through my hair because I have not brushed it yet today. And I'm doing this on dry, clean hair, no product in it. I didn't style it. All I did was I blew it out straight and you can see it's not pin straight, but I never wear my hair completely pin straight. So if you do wear your hair pin straight, you're going to want to style it like that whenever you're cutting it. So that way everything is like falling where it's supposed to. I always part it down the middle. I have a pretty intense widow's peak though. So my parts are never completely perfect. And again, I'm just cleaning up my cut. I'm not chopping off a significant amount. So it doesn't have to be completely perfect. So I have my hair parted where I normally part it and I'm just going to follow that middle part all the way down straight across in the back and pull it all forward in front of me. So for this tutorial, not really tutorial, you're going to need a comb, some kind of clip, and of course some hair cutting shears. Do not go and grab scissors from your kitchen or from your craft drawer. You want proper shears that are meant for cutting hair because otherwise you could create damage to your hair. You want to make sure that you are creating a nice clean sharp cut. And then I'm also going to be using some texturizing shears. So these, as you can see, they have little teeth in them. So they don't cut a straight across line.  So these are going to help create texture and deep bulk, which I really like to do for my layers because I don't want them to be too blunt or look too choppy or steppy. So I'm going to start with the left side of my head and I'm going to take a section straight across and split that into two, just so I have a little bit less hair to work with. If your hair is thicker than mine, you can take an even smaller section if you need to. So I'm going to comb it all forward and I'm going to see where the shortest piece is. So you see the difference in the length there. I want to just bring it all to there so that it's all one length and blunt from the front. So I'm going to comb through that and then I'm going to put the hair between my pointer and middle finger. Drag that down and I'm just going to cut straight across. And you want to keep your head straight. You don't want to tilt or move around because any way that you tilt your head, it's going to create over direction with the hair. And then when you do look straight, it's not going to be a straight line.  So I'm going to let this top section down, brush it all down and I'm going to do the exact same thing. So you can see the blunt line and then where this is a little bit longer. So that's what I'm going to cut off right there. Can you see the difference? This side versus this side, like look how much thicker and fuller that makes my hair look from the front, right? Compared to this side. So we're going to do the exact same thing on this side. I'm going to split it in half, comb it all down and I'm just going to cut right at that shortest piece. Let the top layer down, same thing. And then I'm just going to check and make sure that everything feels like it's pretty even on both sides. Okay, so now that I cut the length, when I pull it back, you can see a little bit of a difference before it was like all straight across one length in the back and now it is a little more tapered and has a little bit of a slight V. I'm going to go through and clean up these layers. So the way that I'm going to do that, because I already have the layers in my hair, it's easy for me to just like pick them up, but they kind of start like by my temple.  So I'm going to pick all of this up and the rest of my hair, I'm going to just push to the back. And I'm going to split this into vertical sections to make it easier. And I'm going to comb upwards like this. And I'm just going to point cut into these layers. Because I don't necessarily want to make them shorter, but I do want to, you know, clean them up a little bit just like that. I'm going to take another vertical piece, push upwards. And you want to make sure that you are holding the hair with a really nice tight grip while you're doing this. And the same thing with this last piece. And the reason why I'm cutting into it like this rather than just like cutting straight across like that is because if I were to just cut a straight across line, it's going to be so blunt and it's going to just look really steppy and choppy and not be blended. And I don't like that look, that's not what we want. We want these layers to be soft and blended. So, same thing on this side, starting at my temples, going in a diagonal back shape, following the head shape. Push this hair back. I'm getting sweaty, can you tell? It's so hot in here. So now I do want to cut my face frame just a teeny bit shorter.  And then these are going to be my face frame pieces. And there's a few different ways that you can do this. You can brush it across this way and just cut into the hair. Do the same thing on the other side and then just comb it forward, make sure that it's about the same length on both sides, which it is just a little bit shorter. I don't necessarily want them to be like bangs, but I just wanted to bring them up a little bit. And then the last thing that I'm going to do, because these layers are already decently blended, but I do want to texturize them a little bit more and just kind of like debulk. So I'm just going to literally grab wherever I see layers and then I'm going to take my texturizing shears and I'm going to just cut into the lengths of it. And same thing, you'll notice I'm going in vertically because even though these won't create like a blunt straight across line, but sometimes I feel like you can kind of see the zigzag line that it cuts. So I like to go in vertically, so that way it is undetectable. And you see how that just like softened that up even more? It just like makes it so much softer and more blended. Like this side, I feel like you can see the layers a little bit more than you can on this side. This side, they all just like blend in and then on this side, they're just like kind of sitting there. So I'm going to do the same thing on this side, grab the layers where I can see them and kind of fan the hair out. And you don't want to do this too, too much because you don't want the ends to look like frayed and thin and, you know, damaged. So I always say do a little bit at a time, brush it out, see how it looks, and then if you need to debulk some more, cut some more, then do so.  Super simple, I didn't really cut a lot off, but I do feel like it made a huge difference in how my hair looks. I feel like it just looks a little bit more freshened up. Definitely fuller, especially from the front. Actually, let me take this cape off, so you can see it a little bit better. So yeah, you can see how it just looks a lot fuller from the front. So yeah, that's how I cut my hair at home. So yeah, let me know what you guys think. I am so sorry for how sweaty I've looked throughout this video.  If you did, please give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel before you go and follow me over on Instagram for more hair tips and tutorials. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


A panicked call for help around four o'clock this morning led to a standoff at a home near Cass Lake. Hady Clotter tells us how this investigation is leading authorities on a different trail. Early Thursday morning at 340 a call came through to the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office dispatch center. The call was suddenly disconnected. Authorities were able to locate the woman who made the call where officers initially believed she was held captive inside this home on the 1900 block of Mission Road. The time reported there were at least 10 people inside the residence and so the initial responding officers waited for additional officers to arrive on the scene and they established a perimeter around the house. Sheriff Hodap says five men and three women were taken into custody. Two still remain at large. We can't identify that individual to the public because he's a juvenile. The SWAT team was called and based on the movement of the individuals inside SWAT believes individuals barricaded the doors. The SWAT team responded out there and ongoing attempts at negotiations were occurring during this time. By 7 a.m. tear gas was deployed and most of the windows at the home are now broken. The standoff lasted for several hours and ended at 10.30. The code red was issued to the neighborhood to notify the residents to shelter in place so that the people in the neighborhood knew that they had this public safety threat in the area. Sheriff Hodap reached out to Lakeland News and says the woman's story doesn't add up. Authorities now say the woman was not held captive or at gunpoint as originally claimed in Cass Lake. Lady quarter Lakeland News charges are still pending and the investigation is still ongoing. We will keep you up to date on the story as it develops. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.