We are on every week chair July 26 2018 planning Commission meeting like to welcome everyone to the planning Commission meeting Before we get going we have a couple amendments to the agenda The first is the addition of item under other business for 73 Jericho Road, Mylar and David Do you have a suggestion for a change? Yeah, it's just Wondering on the wording whether we got a change number four because it's not a construction. It's a renovation in addition and reduction So they haven't built that building yet This was this was Staff report says that it's a layoff Well, it was a previously proved site plan by Hector to come in for a warehouse. Oh, I see okay, and So it's still we're good Okay, all right, then I guess it was just the one correction then So before we get going I'd like to swear everyone in so if any Valueed audience could please stand and you swear that any testimony you present this evening will be truthful to the best of your abilities Thank you Next item on our agenda is public comment This is an opportunity for folks to give us any comment on items that are not on the agenda So if there are some this is a good chance if not we'll move on The next item we have is Peter Edelman doing business as your West retail partners. This is a conceptual discussion And Peter I'd actually instead of reading it in I'd actually just like to open it up and just have you Give us a description and give us a give us a run-through conceptual So let us know I've read the comments, and I'm certainly not wedded to this from to this particular Description or plan but What I what I want to do what I'm trying to do is to create some public areas that will work And some entertainment areas that that will work looking to slow down the traffic generally because I'm I've got two spots that concern me after being there for 20 some years The two spots that concern me and Nate and probably other ways to deal with it But one is that the through here and oftentimes people are not stopping here. They're going pretty fast I can't police that right now Have the existing if you want to pull that up Yes, yeah, sure The existing is obviously come in theater being down here coming straight through So That was why I did the curve on this road here and to create a larger to incorporate this quad into a larger quad Thinking that there is a connector here, but this traffic could come through here It can come down here. It really has nowhere to go here ultimately I'd love to see this road go all the way out up to McDonald's and open up that way Right now the only way it can go is out this way and down or up and down And then in here I've just seen too many people the way that the mediums are placed and the way the parking is And we've had accidents in there, and I think it's just too easy to Go through here go through quickly and to back up or go forward and Create problems So I would I'd like to bring more safety into here, and I wanted to create something here That could be a public space that could be utilized part of The appeal here is I've got the Orbis space. I've got a really interesting Incubator restaurant that we're looking at doing in here that would want to come out and have outdoor Piazza type activity Clearly the brewery and the beer garden will bring something over here. We have something here that Or I do that that I really want to improve upon And then I ultimately want to do something here to also bring Probably come back at some point and have a garden out here and another so central So you have one two three four And then this area five areas that that will be entertainment and food related So that that's why I came up with this Quickly suggestions today where all maybe this can come down here Certainly open to that if we can create something a little wider here and incorporate the existing green Which is here into that so that there's something of substance One of the pieces I did want to do I mean initially we looked at an ice rink We had an ice rink down here that didn't work for a number of reasons With the town and liability issues Maybe it's something we can revisit the future But in looking at this what has come up that in dealing with the Mad Taco guys And one of their owners is a farmer and he does a lot of greenhouse growing so what I wanted to do was bring in Ideally in here more of an aquaponic greenhouse so that I could also part of what we want to do is is tourism based and educational based and the brewery and You'll hear from me at some point a distillery coming in here. There's one of the distillery owners teaches at VTC Chris Kessler who's doing the brewery is doing a sister-own project. So they're teaching beer and craft beer the aquaponic greenhouse concept If you don't know is is basically so we can grow Vegetables or it's all winter, but there's water going through this fish going through the fish then would go into here and Into the into the into the Mad Taco for tacos. So there's a Complete circle And from the from the beer the grain leftovers they can go back into the greenhouse or they can go to farmers We're trying to reuse and utilize everything and make it a system that works and by doing this bringing in the schools by doing the beer and the distillery I Want to bring that into the Essex and have retreats and bring in tourism where we can actually get on the beer trail get on the distillery get groups coming in and doing retreats with us and So I'm looking at something that that's going to bring synergy to everything that we have But that also the public can you know be a part of So not a whole lot of changes. I will be working with an architect to Reskin resurface all of the buildings. They're they're in bad need of it As you know, I've got solar here I've got a pose of the banks go solar on this building which will then bring us to basically a net zero usage Again a really good thing I've got to change my landscaping at some point get away from buildings pulled out so that It's more livable and more more shoppable more More usable that the buildings really would stay pretty much as they are and the roads and the landscaping Would be the biggest change So what's the drawing we had that shows a change in the alignment? That was public work. Yeah, because we do have right now There's an existing road coming down here that ties into this road by creating this quad It does change that alignment down to here So you would have to come down this way to maybe this might be maybe this needs to expand To really exit or an enter going this way So it inverts the traffic and you don't have this Grid that we had which grids are positive or negative.  I'm very open to all kinds of input Try to make the best for what we all think is is going to work Dana there and Sharon any thoughts coming on this you guys Well, we just briefly got to talk to Peter this morning Sharon got to talk to a little bit earlier and We're just reacting to it to this plan against the both the 1991 master plan and the recently completed ETC next master plan and So we wanted to provide you some comments about our views on the site layout and Lockability and that kind of thing So Darren's gonna roll with it Thanks Dana so the idea of bringing more Public space here and more of like a community gathering spot is absolutely in line with both the 1991 master plan and the new ETC plan and that's really phenomenal Peter and I think we're all really pleased to see that We were all puzzled by the placement of the ice rink just because It's not in a place that would get a lot of pedestrian traffic to be perfectly honest I mean, we're not really sure how people would get there other than Across that village green And it seems like it might be better placed Somewhere in the crook of building a or building B. Like you said you've got an interest sorry I should have brought my laser Do you want me to hold my comments or is it open? No, this is this is a discussion. So yeah, let's let's just um, I I would disagree with that. I think from a pedestrian and accessibility Be it a nice rain core or a greenhouse I think you've got parking all around it and by having The walkway from building C, which is on the bottom going up that presents a safe quarter to approach it If you're in building B, you're you know, you got your walkways in front of the building You just come straight across and you create a walkway and you're right to it and the same for Really pretty much any parking quadrant there. I think it's very accessible by from a pedestrian standpoint But maybe it's not the right way for for what works within a grid structure if you want to have a grid structure, right? And that was the other really I should have started there with the grid structure Because you're placing that in the middle of your grid Really will make working around that difficult. So if you look at Properties nearby into the north right now it Common wealth app is planned to come down through between your buildings Big A and B here and really provides a nice streetscape for you so Associate with that is people coming down from that part parking along there having a lot of exposure for buildings along this frontage and Having a little more of a public realm right in front of them where you could have patios you could have people looking into storefronts And that's sort of what's in line with the ETC plan rate that's been proposed recently And it doesn't mean you can't do any You know plaza in this area or even you know anywhere else But that grid, you know is really gonna be the backbone upon which you can build the rest of Your property and also makes it easier to break it up into smaller chunks if you ever did subdivide or want to manage building separately it creates that block structure and I said Is your partition? Makes it easier for people to navigate I think Because it's hard to know where to go sometimes to get around this area as a pedestrian or as a car In a car So those are some of our thoughts it doesn't mean that it couldn't be done well And I think what you're doing right now You know creating that very strong connection to where bird is is absolutely great And just having that wide sort of pedestrian corridor that links those two buildings that's been missing for years The one concern I have from a safety perspective that this curved road is Cars will be going slow obviously and they should see this pedestrian Crossing but it's an uncontrolled crossing a mid-block crossing So if someone isn't paying attention, they're not going to be able to see as well There is someone waiting across Coming around that corner around that curve And I've seen that in many locations, you know where this isn't designed this way So that's just something to consider You might want to put in rapid flashing beacons if you just do want to go with this design Just to make sure that there is better visibility of one pedestrians are crossing Yes Again, so the Etc next master plan shows a vision for that area It it's a result of a planning process.  It's just something that the community has put together as a vision So to the extent that it reflects a lot of like surveys upon what I Think you can hear the community's voice through this plan and one thing people said Repeatedly is that they wanted to be able to move a lot around a little bit better and You know a grid like It's at it. Yeah a Grid like layout would be more traditional Pull people in pull people in right away without all the parking everywhere and not that Parking has to be taken seriously under this vision Yeah, but Dan if I could please I I'll do respect to this. There is no way financially Responsible that I can take or anybody can take the center for the cost That's out there tear down those buildings and try to create the type of building grid that you have there that just it's impossible It's not going to happen. So why look at something and use it as a template that is an impossible Reach No, you can't do that. It's just not going to happen. I think we recognize you're not going to tear these buildings down Financially, you know, that's it. So let me clarify the perspective that this gives is this is building Model or you know one vision for what this could look like based on the principles in the plan It doesn't have to look exactly like this It's just trying to show an example of what a street grid would look like but as I said Looking at where things are now in your plan Or in where things are Where things are today, sorry You know, we are there already is a grid here. I can go to zoom in apologies There already is a grid here that you can utilize Rather than taking that element out of your existing site So that's sort of where we were coming with that. I don't I don't disagree that I'm for you know, there's a In this plan. I know this is not Currently effective as far as your plans go, but you know, there's a proposed building here That could be a rice rancor, you know, there's other places that could go So let me jump in for a second Peter you've you've seen what they've done so far and I'm assuming that you're aware of the ETC direction and so forth. What do you see with this plan? Do you see is either contradictory or complementary to the to the overall? ETC goal Well, there is some contradiction to it because it doesn't have any residential component Which is one of the goals of the ETC, but that again is financially just not feasible It is contradictory in that it doesn't have the grid. I think it's a very complementary in that it gives That sense of community that the plan is is going after trying to fit that sense of community into a Reality of something that's going to work is what I guess we're all trying to do I'm open to that whatever, you know to make that work My point is just I I can't and I don't think anything in my lifetime Look to change buildings here and make financial sense out of it and what I would like to see would be something that is more Functional from a pedestrian standpoint and that brings people in here and keeps them in there Right now people are going in and out. It's it's one-point, you know shopping kind of reactions people don't Create as a place and and a small example is the food truck Night and I'm hearing it from everybody who's coming there finally something is happening here In Essex that is bringing people together and it's very well appreciated and just scratching the surface on with with what's happening now I Think the the overall Direction of this is going to bring a lot more of that together and I think that's part of the vision of the next but Paula you had a comment Plus is nice as far as the housing goes I mean that's the one thing that I heard so much concern about from people well that too Yeah, which way that we didn't need it or that it shouldn't be there And I and I still hear it. What is it with all these apartments and you know, it's You know people concerned that it's changing the character of Essex and So there's definitely a need you and I agree on what the need is that it may be quite different from apartments but and and that's another issue when there are places within the Larger town center the entire town center where Some of that kind of development apartment so much but but smaller homes retirement homes or first homes can happen but I mean The the big can I kind of like what Peter's presenting here. I have issues with a skating rink Peter I'll tell you why but I've Been the victim of poorly maintained interior skating rinks let alone exterior. So Um, the skating rink is not on the drawing board. I agree that I've looked at that. It didn't make sense It's a great idea first, but didn't make sense And I think the liability issues might be daunting anyway One of the big issues I think in terms of traffic is people coming in and out from Essex Way to anniversary So is there going to be a more? Can there be a more direct route so that you don't have as much of that through traffic? Is there a way to do it? Is is there a way to you know, have that road that goes behind? come down It's would have to be a part of it obviously used to be rolled behind behind the Theaters originally yeah, yeah, and there is again and we have that approved you can open that one way So that we don't have that about speed bumps It's going to be pretty slow. Yeah. Yeah, I think speed bumps there are some type are could you just so share? Can you have to at least state your name Zane Scott? Sorry, I mean We all we've all gone up there. Everybody here has gone up to How many people will really stop at the four-way stop sign not very many people stop I do I mean I See a lot of people don't a lot of people don't and I think speed bumps or Whatever you want to do to slow people down. I mean people or everybody's in a hurry Given that we're in a sort of conceptual. I'm not as concerned about the the detail level of you know Signage or speed bumps. I think those are all mechanisms that that certain goals can be achieved And you there's no reason why you couldn't make that curve a Little bit shallower so that there would be more visibility coming into that crossway Which curve the road curve that yeah right there. There's no reason why you couldn't make it a shallower curve So I want to I think Disagree because I think if you make it shallower you go back to the issue of a Faster traffic flow and he's talking about trying to slow the traffic flow down That's a I think it's a good way to do it Well, it may be a good way to do it But I do think that you're going to run into trouble because you're coming in at such an angle right at that crosswalk So I did want to make a couple comments on the plan as you can see Peter hire a planner With the concept and in the original concept that we gave the planner Was basically leaving you know that that regular road going through it and we showed a big green area in front And this is where we were going to concentrate You know the the public space and the plan which is a lot closer to the ETC plan but the planner came back and said well, you know that that's great for a pedestrian connection for this building But it kind of leaves this building on the other side of the road and the highway And he said you know if you want something that connects all the buildings and pedestrians, you know He came back and suggested moving the road and making this the center So now if you do go to Hanifers and you go to building one You know, it's an easy walk to get to the center area. It's Spale easy from this building to get to the center and then obviously you have the path through so You know he counted and said hey do a big green area here and that can be nice But you're isolated from your other main buildings. You still got to get across that road so certainly the The best part of this plan is the fact that it interconnects the buildings better than Focusing in front Well, I'll question the negative part of this plan is is the future connection to commonwealth You know and we can fix this so it lines up better like public works. That's no big deal I think the the planner just missed that portion of the plan when he did it But still as you come down commonwealth, it's still, you know a little awkward, you know to get To this portion of the project. So we've got pluses and we got minuses, you know, it's hard to If you keep that grid element the palm with the grid is now you're kind of breaking it up into the quadrants that the grids Does and it's hard to make everything feel Interconnected from walkability Perspective Darren, can you bring up the map that has this shows building F? Before I lose sight before I completely forget this Building F. He said building F is there Oh, sorry So It with that this sort of redesign. I would expect more traffic coming down commonwealth to peel off and go towards CVS or vice-versa things coming across Because you don't necessarily have a flow through right now, correct So an item for consideration is that corner by proposal building F and sweet clover. That's a blind corner It's a very blind corner right now. So that in my opinion Would not support an increase in traffic flow in its current state Whether it's signage whether it's redesigned with whatever the you've got a pretty high elevation on the right Whatever I mean that's it's It's a challenge and that's not on your parcel per se so I mean I think that's that's a consideration No matter what we do if we're one of the I think you'd mentioned it about potentially making a connection over towards McDonald's and bringing that road All the way along, you know, so that means we have more traffic along there We have more which makes sense and that would help in some of that through traffic It's not for you it's for She knows look at that Um, I think I think the redesign just just getting it out of my head is the traffic flow is huge And it's not just in the center. It's it's the surrounding and it's it's the getting I think to Paula's point If we have traffic going around we can't just assume that we're doing it on that end We also have to accommodate the CVS site. Otherwise, we're gonna have a huge problem Especially if we ever get to point of having a building F in So that was my about commissioners.  I'm sure you're not So I'm one of the point-to-point guys that goes to Hanna Ferds. I like Paul's idea Because you get more green a bigger green space if you can if you combine the green spaces and you keep a more smooth traffic pattern Understand your concern about the walkability to other buildings, but they have their own little parking spot behind them, too You know, so people are going to those Buildings they might naturally start I would be happy with anything but my my comment is that I think Keep the smooth traffic flow through there and combine the green spaces into one larger But that is the goal is to combine and have one large functional green space area Think I ain't got a second ball talking about doing with the building where past Right now my intent for that I Okay, but the intent would be that that I want to keep the market there I want to keep Brooks Brothers there and the rest of it is open for Interpretation and I'm thinking entertainment some entertainment use I've been looking at the upscale bowling having Claude Lane's Restaurant component to it a Game room because that's where the money is made at the bowling alley is really in the game Virtual reality room technology is getting very all the time is getting better Let's keep it at the table for a couple minutes. I want to give anybody up here a chance to chime in Mr. Mangan I Like the plan pretty much as designed that the one thing that concerns me is the the curve You know having seen the change in front of Essex High School personally I don't think what it changed to works as well or is not even as safe as what it was I know the intention was to change it to make it safer But that s-curve that makes it people are paying so much attention to the curves that I think it's easy to miss stepping out off the off the road So that's a much more tight distance. I think then this would be so it's possible This wouldn't be have that issue, but I'm worried about bigger trees or bushes or whatever that could block that view I do like the ice rink where it's proposed because if if done, right looking at the picture of this It's just you know the oval ice rink, but if it was like a mini Rockefeller Center type thing, you know when people drive through Yeah Yeah Yeah, so you're gonna catch the attention of people passing by and that may encourage them maybe not coming back that time But maybe another time whereas if you were to hide it out back or something It would just get lost and nobody's gonna go back there and plus as you mentioned there's a lot of potential in the summer to do Something else Yeah David any thoughts No comments on the specificity of this specific plan, I mean I'm good with it You know we've had so many years of Empty buildings that I'm in full support of doing whatever we can to make this more walkable and more of a destination So I think you know we ought to be supportive of An irritative process that allows Peter to take some chances and do some things and see how they work I mean as long as we're not Impacting public safety, you know, this has got to stop being a graveyard of empty stores and start becoming a place that people Want to hang out at you know, I go to Mad Taco when it's it's not a pleasant place to sit out on the Picnic tables. It's not inviting. I want to I want a place where I can go and hang out and Have it be welcoming. So I I applaud you for taking some chances Josh I Degree that Incrementalism is probably going to be the way to do it here. Try something see if it works Definitely the Ned school of thought that I think the curve in the road is the whole thing to connect the buildings in the meantime At the very least as an experiment too. I like the idea of having it all in one spot All the pedestrian traffic and yeah, this should be experimental to see if we can get something going there So I miss Ned's comment, obviously, but I would have liked to have heard But I really don't have a problem with it like it did it do a lot of what Dave said Ned I Well, I think on the traffic issue You know the balance is to be able to get the traffic to flow through without people Cutting every which way up in the corners and all because if it's too bad They're going to try to cut through all the corners for shortcuts So so I think it's a tricky balance that you know, they they have to solve or to get to you know at the same time they've got to come up with a a mix of people and Stores and all and shops to make it viable and that's probably in this Day and age in this economy that that's the real challenge I think you know we can landscape it and move it and and all but I think you know the challenge that is there for you you know to come up with Redoing the architecture along the service road because that's exactly the back of those Buildings now and you know, that's going to be sort of an entryway. You know, that's going to have to be more inviting I Think it's it, you know, probably a great place to have public get-togethers, but I have one Negative What no cracker? Negative was that two weeks ago after our meeting I went home to my wife said hey you want to go up Food trucks we can go get something to eat because she doesn't really like to cook or anything That's covets are no way affiliated with the planning commission However We went up there and Tom was there and the noise out of the speakers were playing music was absolutely unbearable I'm not even going to question the type of music But it was too loud and I think you have to remember That once you get to 80 decibels, especially with little kids you're starting to hurt their ears Totally Yeah, that was half the volume or less right now Yeah, I mean either different music or something because that that's just people there with little little kids and you know They'll all be Because I went up after the last meeting yeah, we had because John said he heard something So I wanted to just scope that out and I took the The sir over and I didn't hear anything. I went really slow and then I then I you know, I continue very It was good. So that was like at about quarter of a So sorry for jumping off the side From my comments, I'd like to say that right now we have you have like three separate Areas the buildings aren't tied together. I like the concept of tying them in because you go to building B Or you go to Hanna Ferds and maybe building a Or you go to building C and maybe the movie theater So you have three separate destinations currently and they're not tied together. It's it's not it's not I'm going to go over the mall and wander around. You just it's not built for that So I like the idea the concept of trying to tie them together so that it makes it easy and and logical to go From one to the other without a problem. I do think you need to accommodate the direct traffic to Hanna for independent of the need I believe that there need to be a logical and easy flow to Hanna Ferds other than through the center of this area because Face it Hanna Ferds Gets a lot of people just stopping to get groceries. They're not there to go to parties and they're not there to wander around Go shopping. They're there to get the groceries So let's accommodate that as well, and that's not detract from you know The the Experience of the folks that are there wandering through with the people that are bombing through trying to you know Just cut back and forth And like let's I think just keeping that as a part of the element and that to me means we we utilize that back road as Much as we utilize the primary road in When you say the back road you mean behind the ones that are behind A and B in Hanna Ferds right now That goes over it currently ends in a cul-de-sac, you know by Hanna Ferds. It's their truck traffic place primarily but Give a direct loop around I mean let's join up with the Hanna Ferds on the other side if they're in agreement with I mean all this but So that's that's sort of I like conceptually the idea, but I think we've got to think about the overall flow Not just in that space But the whole parcel and if we're gonna restrict the traffic there Let's give some of the other traffic opportunities outside of that and maybe even don't allow traffic through there that's a radical thing because People are creatures of habit and there's a lot of traffic going through there right now So no nobody's gonna want to be in that that versus village green I mean it wouldn't it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to discourage Hanna Ferds traffic They have a light that basically you know you think about most shopping areas you Go in and you go out in the same direction and for a lot of people if you made it slow enough and you made Painful enough to kind of go through then people would just go out the other way So, you know remember you do have a very good access in and out of Hanna Ferds But it's getting people to go there. It's it's like anything else like we all drive we like if you're traveling on 117 We all know this construction there when we all know there's ways around it And so if you're heading that way you You go another way So one of the things we might want to consider is Incorporating into this is potential discussions with neighboring landowners and looking at the completion of Carmichael Which is a major thoroughfare that would bring you around and would be in traffic from that CVS site around To the other side of Hanna Ferds and maybe give a much better direct flow But that involves another landowner and another another situation, but that road's already semi-roughed in And it might allow to leave that the road behind A and B of primarily a service road only so I thought Darren or Dana first. She's It doesn't sound like The grid type thing is going to be financially feasible or is even necessarily popular with the planning commission. So the Planning Department has a plan B, which is the the cracker barrel overlay district Everything has to be a cracker barrel or a cracker barrel theme Oh It works If you weren't there Darren It's a CBD CBO D One other option for trying to maintain a little bit of that grid layout, but still keep this layout as it is as common well that comes down you could have a Corner here that cuts in front of building B Which would restrict some of the pedestrian, you know easy access the way it is now But I might you could still make a crossing there and that would allow your traffic to circulate through here a little more You know it would allow circulation through here, but it would definitely slow it down by having to stop at that corner in turn So that's another option and would also bring more traffic in here for better or for worse And that's just something to consider as you think about circulation and you know How you want to bring people into this space? and then another thought to consider in the very long term is You've got a lot of space taken up with parking if there's a way to consolidate that into some sort of more structured parking or Underground somehow which is obviously a high-cost thing But even a you know two or three-story Parking structure somewhere on this site would really open up a lot more space for either Green space or buildings and could serve the entire area not just your site And obviously there are financial and design barriers they go along with so that's something that could be explored So I want to be cognizant of time and I think this again conceptual discussion I don't want to shut you off, but I'm going to shut you off I don't want to but I feel like I Do you have feedback from the Commission at this point? Do you have enough feedback for tonight conceptual discussions? We don't say yay or nay. We give I think I mean you've heard I think we've heard some consistent things green space pedestrian flow traffic flow I think work with staff. Yeah, I mean this is this is We're still you know the ETC project is in play so we No matter We've got to find a way to have some synergy between them even if they're not going to completely link up there's got to be synergy between this because that that is an out A resultant of a lot of community effort and community work so It's there and it is what the community wants As of that time, I mean honestly this design might fit in well if it was to be re-vetted with the community process, but I also think You know correct me for re-jump in but I think we can make there's opportunity to make this much much more A synergistic approach and just elements of all that will work Paula one quick comment Looking at this plan.  Yeah, I think that's likely So that would that in and of itself would cut down on some of the the traffic and the main loop So any final thoughts or comments from anyone on this as you know This is a good open discussion, and I'm hoping that you've yes, sir. Why the one way on the back. Why not two way? You got the buildings to get And the next and the wetlands are behind I mean you could make the road wider But as you come between the theater and buildings because you know people coming out to Cirque Highway Are going to be cutting Instead of going behind the theater, they're going to be taking That road to the left and then cutting through all that to go to Hannaford's You know what I'm saying? Yeah I mean they might be coming so they might be coming out Out of Hannaford's to go back behind the theater to go back out for coming in But coming in they're going to be going and I think we that they might actually start Using the exit on 15 and swinging around I think this is Hannaford that way. Yeah, and this is coming up to Cirque Highway, which a lot of But let's let's let's not engineer it tonight. Yeah Um, I think I think traffic is an item and and we've commented I think most people have commented that direct direct traffic to Hannaford Needs to be accommodated potentially outside of the you know direct throughput or through way through the redesign If at all possible So so you asked for final thought my you know just final two senses, you know One of the consistent comments we've heard about the town center is the lack of green space and walkability And one of the consistent comments I've heard through the etc process And the visioning is looking for more green space and walkability So I mean we've got good examples of that, you know, church street is a prime example of a very You know a decision to make made back in the 70s to shut down the street Make it walkable And you can see Kind of what's happened there. So I mean I would applaud the the vision of Kind of going through that iterative process of adding more green space Taking experimenting bringing in some walkability and seeing the traffic will figure itself out people People will figure out where to park and and how to go without that always works itself out I'd almost like to see based on this. I'd almost like to see the the path from seed over to to a and b Have not not have a through way there Just stop no no absolutely no through road. That's my last thought. It's just stop block traffic through there Because nobody's going to want to sit next to the amount of traffic that's going there through through there today In that green space Well then you because then we then would give it in petro in petros to You know bring it up on commonwealth clean that up or redirect on to Carmichael Or a redirector all the way around to the next exit, you know, it would be changing changing traffic flow. Okay Right, we're not engineering thing. We're going to wrap this up final comments anybody from Staff okay, we're good for this. Thank you very much for this presentation. I like uh, this was it very interesting Um Next item on the agenda. It's not opening Come on who's got the agenda 12th corporate drive. This is the olirium berk amendment plan amendment public hearing proposal to construct a 9300 square foot commercial building to accommodate technical school and five self-storage buildings David so as the applicants know I do own a self-storage facility So if they want me to go to codies now, I would be happy to leave I mean recuse myself Probably So for the record the uh, David offered to Precuse himself and there's no need from the applicant. No money on the commission thoughts. Okay, you're not allowed to leave Um, darren who's presenting on this? Okay, please do So as we discussed at the beginning of the meeting, this is an amendment to a previous to approved site plan for march Which was a very similar design So to give some regional context, uh, this is the area ala martin drive Comes down here. This is corporate drive. So this is smack dab in the middle Of that development So then In the previous plan, uh, the commercial building was smaller in footprint and there was more space for the self-storage units in the rear Um, the applicants have just proposed Increasing the size of the what was a commercial building now will be a school And adding a little more parking to accommodate that use and thereby shrinking the footprint of the self-storage area But actually with a few more units. They're just smaller units Um, there were a few changes to storm water design. Uh, that were actually as a result of the last approval and An earlier version of the plan had one extra street tree along the frontage, but Our tree warden has said we actually want to maintain a certain amount of space between larger trees. So we had them Reduce it a little bit if there's still plenty of trees. Um, So they won't grow into each other and cause problems in the future Otherwise, um pretty straightforward No concerns, okay Is the setback the same? Setback from corporate drive, is that the setback said the Developable area so to speak the Building envelope if you want to call it that is exactly the same So who's presenting on this? So we own the the building at at one corporate originally occupied a third of that and we had at least two-thirds of it to A bell cake bell cake is an alternative school Um, if you want to know a little bit more about bellcate if you look at bellcate.com They got a great website and give a very good explanation of some of the services that they provide to the community so So bellcate has been a very good tenant and bellcate approached us Four or five six years ago and said hey, we we like this location We'd like the whole building you mind if you move so so One thing led to another and and we bought another lot from hector leclerc a lot 13 And we we built our current office on 13 and and we had extra space. We put many storage in the back so We we had originally gone through with hector and as darin said approved a very similar plan And hector for a number of reasons decided that he wasn't going to go ahead Originally he was going to move from his building that's um, you know behind the vet on the corner He was going to move into into this building and he pretty much decided hector's like 82 now and said ah You know, he didn't he didn't need to hassle, you know, he was good where he was So so he told us that let's finish the permitting with a town What we won't go ahead with the state meanwhile bellcate Shows up one day and knocks on a door and says hey How would you guys mind moving again? We'd like to take this building that you're in we like this building And it was like no No when i'm moving again But one thing led to another and and we got into a discussion about well, you know, maybe we could We could build you another building on this slot. So bellcate besides being at one corporate um leases a number of other buildings in essence The primary building that they lease is the old temple furniture building or whether or not ballet school was And at that location them they they have their music program They have the art program and they have some physical education They're in a couple other, you know minor things and so Obviously there's a lot of transportation back and forth from one building to the other So they like to they like to consolidate and they thought that you know This would be a good location because they could just walk down the street And and get to this building so we hired an architect and we worked with bellcate and the architect to decide What the space needed to look like and and this is what we have, you know as a result So basically we have a music room. We have an art room. We have a large General purpose room that they can do recreational activities that also serve as a Meeting place. It has not really a commercial kitchen, but a kitchen similar like you might find You know in a church, you know, kind of like a community kitchen with as regular refrigerators and regular but they can come in and You know once a month they usually have you know potluck so they have all the parents and so you know, they're viewing this as a A very nice expansion of their current facility they have at one corporate so We've basically got to the point now where it looks like the financing is going to work You know for what they're they need to be able to pay on rent and what we need to be able to get To build the building not to make it work again You know, we're looking at doing more mini storage on the back because the the building alone And the rent that bellcate can afford to pay isn't enough To finance the whole project and make it work But when we add the mini storage and come in Then it appears to be a good project for Both so we've read the staff Report. We don't really have any comments on it. We're fine with the conditions And and reports as written cool Commissioners Uh, it's questions Can you just um Tell me how the traffic is going to flow through the site to the back to the storage units Yes, there's a there's a gate right here You know a gate what you'll come up You'll you'll come in through next to the building you come to the gate as a keypad there You know the gate the gate where tracks Alongside the back of the mini storage buildings here And then then you you come in and circulate through the mini storage and as you go back out The gate will close after about 40 seconds when you go back out you pull up to the gate you can either Type your access code back in the keypad or if you get within three or four feet of the gate The gate senses that your car is there and the gate will automatically open and go back The police chief I think had a comment about I guess in some places people have gotten trapped inside and couldn't get out But the gate actually has a lever that you can pull and it disconnects it from the the drive unit and you actually open it by hand So my only observation was you know the the traffic flowing through the parking lot of the school into the storage I know that the it says trips to the storage units are one of the lowest traffic generators there are You guys taught me that but You know trucks moving trucks and people coming through that that school parking lot just something to be The parking is kind of an abundance I think generally they're going to be in that side parking lot or the ones on the side are going to be teachers that Are parked and they're not moving for the day A lot of a lot of their curriculum With your kids is walking so they really like the fact we can't expand at one corporate or we would So they like the fact that this is a little walk down the street because they're always walking this You know this path anyway In the primaries of the school are basically seven to three thirty So they're basically gone by the time the pmp comes and again on saturday and sundays when you would tend to see Most of the mini storage traffic You know the building's empty. There's nobody there Our current location diagonally across at 13 corporate they go through our parking lot and there's so little traffic it never bothers us I'll agree. That's not the ideal situation, but we just don't have the space to give them a separate land And where paul said the mini storage, you know, we have to do the mini storage Keep in mind that it was approved at 15,000. We're reducing the mini storage So I take a motion to open the public hearing I move we open the public Pulled by josh seconded by shoo all those in favor I motion carries six zero seven zero Seven six six the whole commission You don't have to count me no one okay, um comments. Yes, sir. Yeah, zane scott 20 maple on drive He's right off the back corner here Right there Okay So the only thing the only concern Which I read the staff report and one of the big things that I really appreciated that I talked to paul that Even though the the police recommended that put lights in the storage Whereas hector was going to have lights and paul Told me that you're not going to have any lights. So that's that's a plus But we have the lights in the mini storage because they're on a motion effect It doesn't show that on the site plan There's several plans But what what they actually asked for was lights on the back side of the buildings and paul said no, we weren't going to add lights so So we do have So here the mini storage buildings go back so there's you know say that's so there's lights on like on the inside Yeah, so those are ones that I was telling you before the 26 watt leds that are you know Ten foot high and so they're only triggered and there's lights on the end here But they're only triggered You know by the motion right so somebody obviously no traffic through there the lights aren't going to be correct And it's 100 foot buffer force and buffer between that and right and you know and Talk we have talked before about the colors of the buildings in this area that I know there's no regulations of what Color that you can have your buildings but I know that The last time that we're here when hector was doing that that The board recommended that we go or don't Whereas 14 corporate is red 42 l martin is green. I can't see 42 l martin 14 corporate it's like a beacon And I'm sure anybody that goes down corporate knows where the red building is It's definitely bright We used to we used to be the red building until yeah, we do guys aren't red. I mean you guys are you're you're Way different We've said that before too The way different And then the hours of construction I just want to confirm again of Monday through friday and saturday or no sundays. I want to know what the hours of any construction Some contractors or anything like that Yeah, because we've had issues before on 14 where they were working there Seven o'clock on a saturday night It's the act to 50 hours here seven to six Monday through friday eight to five saturday no sundays no holidays That's what we go with, you know, and I know that 14 corporate We're way over those hours. Okay, so those are my concerns. I have no objection of this project at all I really encourage that if i'm going to have something in the back of my property. I want self storage Not Not a Factory facility This is probably the best thing that could happen in that area Okay, that's the only comments I have. Thank you Um, just for you guys, I don't remember what what color scheme you used on the existing storage What's happened? What's the color scheme you have in your existing storage? It's the same we tried to match a building as much as we could so it's tan Tan buildings with barn red doors You see more of in the color of the red is the you know, kind of the burgundy red that the building is So it looks more if there's more of that color Then there is the tan but the buildings are tan and and the we're using the same manufacturer We have the same colors for these any storage units What do you think of those colors? They're a lot better than that right bright red Sorry No objection Easy um Any additional questions or comments? I'll take a motion to close the public hearing move we close the public second Move by ned seconded by john all those in favor. I pose motion carries seven zero Public hearing is closed um Seems to be one of those rare applications where we really have No contestation with the staff report as written if i'm remembering what paul said I did realize I do have a couple of corrections to the staff report but nothing substantial um What are they one is that line 118? which is Page three permanent use is it should say technical vocational schools are permitted non offices. Okay um and page seven Line 251 should say two red maples because they've taken one out um, and then lines 257 to 262 can be Struck because it's talking about the distance between trees. So it doesn't need to be in there. Okay So so with those corrections Anybody second a motion if I made one to accept the staff report as written and as amended by darin Yeah, okay moved by myself seconded by tom any additional discussion All those in favor I opposed motion carries seven zero All right cruising right along as we slowly open the next thing we have on here has minutes Back to here trying to work through this is So we have minutes of 712 Do we have any corrections that anyone wants to offer to the minutes any point in the minutes of 712? Okay, we have a motion to approve second seconded moved by david seconded by tom No corrections offered all those in favor of the minutes has moved. I I posed minutes carry seven zero other business So your pc file folders Have just the cover sheet of just as a fyi for a wireless pole going in A new telephone pole going on with Cell cell equipment on it if you guys want to read it We have it and happy to share along with you or we can scan it if you're interested It it was a pole. Um, that's located near royal park Not in the town right away That's just a fyi And I guess you did have some other materials in your packet that we're relating to the meeting tonight. So I'm there And then my other piece of information is 73 jericho road, which is the chase subdivision was approved and the mylar was recorded And um when it came into you our paper copy just showed the little boxes that said footprint a lot So what has in the mylar has been recorded? I'm looking to ask you to amend So that the chair can re-sign it units three and four and seven and eight Or a little bit larger. They weren't uniformed with all the others And so three and four went from 1270 square feet to 1345 square feet And seven and eight went from one six one thousand six hundred sixty five to one thousand nine hundred ten Um minor change, but because it does a very minor change, but because it does require the pc um Signing the mylar. I would just request a motion that that would prove the change to the mylar It's more of the corrective mylar to what's been recorded To the last approval So it might be good to have a discussion in general here. So so what's happening with tom's project is Is the way the financing is set up and the way the closings are is that when he closes on a unit the The attorneys are asking that we file a mylar With each closing that shows the actual as built size and location of each footprint And that's something that we regularly do and in other towns when we have projects you You come up with the plat you show the actual location of it You actually give a tie to it so that it could be recreated, you know by a survey if you needed to and then that gets filed in the land records now in most of the towns It doesn't require that It go back to the planning commissioner of the dr. B Whichever they have and they sign it so the lawyers are fine without having the signature block because they know It's been approved. They just they just want to record the actual location in the actual dimensions Of the building and that's that's what's happening here. The first two buildings are built We We prepared a plat that showed the actual location dimension those two buildings And and this is something that's going to happen two three four more times As this project, you know builds out depending on you know, how many units he builds at one time Obviously if we can do four or five or six in one fell swoop We we try to do that so maybe the motion should be that that you acknowledge That Footprint lots will change without a signature. Well, my question was do we need I mean Is that our practice to sign have a signature on the mylar if that's the case the motion could potentially be Just to have the chair sign the the mylar is one that when they come in that would be great because it does the the new um legal document I can't think of what it's called right at the moment references your last approval Which you guys signed and it's recorded in land records. So I think there should be Some mechanism that still ties to the last approval where chair can change as these come So just a question just because i'm it's late and i'm getting dense. So we approved The chase project So let's just take the the so the square footage has changed on the buildings, but we didn't The approval didn't State each what each square footage was okay, so there's nothing in the approval That's changing. It's just a memorialization of the as built pretty much which is built within the approval Well, it's built within the approval But the first mylar recorded does show certain dimensions on it and so those dimensions change So that's the only thing that's tripping me up. Well the mylar that you approved wasn't Dimension per se it showed the building envelope showed where they're gonna go But they're not tied to anything because well that's sort of where my my heads at you do a 12 lot subdivision with building envelopes You don't go back and need any further tweaking when you put a house on it within the envelope We do here because the bank is requiring the lawyers are saying hey, you know, they're buying a footprint lot And I want to know You know when they buy a regular lot, you know what you're buying right? But so when they buy the footprint lots the lawyers say no, I want to know exactly what my client is buying So we We actually go out and survey it we dimension it and we tie it back to the property line So you could actually recreate it Your your submission of a new mylar is independent of anything we're saying you're having to do it So my question is back to Sharon. I mean the mylar should be signed In my thinking. I mean from the town staff should we have it so so But for this Document and I think it's an irrevocable offer of debt an amended irrevocable offer of dedication That references a pc approval That that and we do have a mylar that does have some dimensions on it, but So, I mean that's what I'm just thinking if if they're going to have to submit a new mylar I think having a mylar that doesn't have continuity back to the others The signature of the chair I think is that provides that continuity or they can put a no I think a no as they come into each time without us having to do this each time That just allows you to sign it. Well, that's what I'm that's where I was learning leaning towards is that we're recognizing that this development Is requiring a new mylar with each Sale with each yes, whatever whatever. So they're like going to be 10 mylars in the land records. No, well Yes, it could be it just depends You know if you if if sales are slow and he builds a duplex at a time then There'll be one for each new duplex in this case. He built, you know, four units at a time So that that is just a complete nightmare for title searching just but I agree But that's that's what the attorneys required now I mean you go to south burlington and some of those places and and my god is the 60 mylars filed for For one development. Now again, if we didn't have consent, this is something that we could be doing administratively Yeah, so we're no just with sharing it's just that we just need a mechanism to do it. That's all But it's your question. Did you get an answer to your question? Does it need to be signed? I think that's the root thing and it's well, I would say it does only because of this New irrevocable offer that has come in and has tied in a mylar that you've already signed for this specific subdivision Which has different dimensions than what a new one is being So another subdivision where they're doing this process of multiple mylars that those wouldn't come back to us Is that correct? I'm sorry If there's another subdivision and they had to file a bunch of mylars for that We wouldn't have to go through this I mean this is I've never come across this. This is a this is a banking thing and I don't think they need to be science he might might take on it is you have a planning commission approval With a condition to file a mylar the mylar contains essentially building envelopes We're done They're not tweaking the site plan all they're doing is memorializing the actual as built on the footprint lot But that we've already approved a mylar in in conditions for footprint lots If they if they want to file anybody can file anything in the land records pay your 10 bucks It's in so I mean that I don't think requires any action from this body So the mylar that's recording does show some other Sight to what each unit will be and they're all uniformly the same So the dimensions that the as built dimensions are different than from the mylar that was originally So we have a change And it's it's very minor So I mean for simplicity If we did a motion to just allow the chair to sign them as they come in yeah Yeah, I don't think you should sign anything that you haven't reviewed as the board. That's my personal opinion And and the lawyers aren't asking that you sign right They're just so then I would just probably If you guys are fine with that I would Have them change their irrevocable offer. So it's not pinning it back to that approval if if If there's an opinion that we don't that it doesn't need to be signed then let's not sign it I mean, that's sort of what you're saying. That's all saying and that's Honestly, I didn't get a legal opinion because I didn't I figured just save money and sign the mylar I didn't realize that this could be 10 more times That part of uh, so And the way it's filed in the land record someone will be able to see that change Well, if there's a notation on the plan that Does it usually we have a regulation that says this supersedes mylar Yes I don't know But it'll be obvious when you look at mylar is that it's a record it's a record drawing It's a record drawing of where that unit the dimensions that unit was built to and exactly where it is on the property So it doesn't sound like we really have an issue to deal with Reality is in most parts of the world as built to go on electronically. You don't see my lives or anything So, you know, we're sitting here in the dark ages sort of And that's how it's all transmitted to the lord is we you know, they all get pds of everything So we are we are we good with not requiring a signature on the mylar the subsequent submissions I think we ought to sted this off and the next one if we have a something like this We ought to just put a condition in there that authorizes staff to Do whatever you need to do so that you don't have to deal with us Because obviously tom still got to come in and pull building permits He's got to show to share on that's you know the dimensions that's in the right spot, you know, etc, etc Yeah Sounds like we're good. Good. That's all I have Anything. Oh google docs Let's talk about that for a few minutes. This is the first week with using them first meeting with using them I just wanted to sort of Review I guess the expectations I was a a little surprised based on, you know, any other times I've used them that it didn't take a login So it didn't identify me as an individual Um accessing those documents so that immediately raised the flag to me of all the security we've been talking about Um, I know we couldn't edit edit them, but it still Was a little Wiggly I don't know exactly how she shared it. It could have been one of two ways She could have shared it with a private link So the only way anybody could actually see them as if they had the url. Yep, but that's That's just a url. We could forward it. Yeah, um That's one way. Um, I do not know if you can share To an email account that is not a gmail account. Do you know that darin? So we can only if we want to share and limit it to a specific identity you have to have a gmail account set up So one of the issue one of the solutions is for everybody to set up a gmail account We can share directly to your gmail account rather than with the link. Yep The reason I was wondering about I mean it I can get to it the concept work I could get to him from work. I didn't I didn't download them a little awkward I might download them next time so I can flip through them faster Slow download but I do that from work. Yeah, it was a lot slower than the ftp If I did download them Yeah, and one other issue we've identified is that the line numbers don't appear on the staff reports Are any of the documents because google docs doesn't support that it does if you download it to your computer Okay, I was gonna say I have that So that's one thing we recommend downloading instead of using So I'm just wondering if the next step would be to set up, you know gmail accounts um If we wanted to do that and you know just come up come up with a greener pod standard for the name To use that's dedicated for this. Yeah, you know Whatever doesn't matter to me. So how did it work? I mean Everybody everybody got to it. Everybody works. Yeah, we're three copies of the staff report That's I think a different issue Yeah Well, let's why there were three copies of the staff report that ended up on there But we'll frame looking let's let's not make any changes to the workflow for another couple cycles Let's just run with it as it is now um And and use it and see what Else might be a question mark and then Maybe tweak it after that So, you know another another month or so and just just play with it and see what it works I think they were they all read only files. Yeah, so I've got to figure Figure out a different way to Be able to copy it to if you have an email account or a google drive account you can copy it to your own Account and play with it there Modified there. I'll have to play that some more. I downloaded the whole folder and when I made changes today I don't see them tonight. Yeah, that was that was my issue But it was a light enough night that that wasn't really an issue, but I had that same Putting it into my folder and then changing that's always how you and I write the yeah, fine And you couldn't do it I couldn't do it I didn't spend too much time on it because I saw it wasn't a big night So I said this probably won't be too much of an issue But I was having trouble with that thing. So I think those things like that you we bring those up I don't need to think we need to resolve them right now, but definitely identify them and make the workflow better Um, but you're not going to get it on from one try You're going to you need to use it a few times before we know what really is broken and where we're just being stupid You know and we need to get used to it Um Because that happens a lot Now The ftp isn't available anymore, right because wasn't it could be brought it could be okay I know it was uh Worked out well for it to not yeah, I mean, I think this is reasonable I mean, it's not a big deal and setting of a gmail account hell. We could heck We could have the staff set up the gmail accounts So you have a consistent naming convention and a consistent format and then just share them out to us from there um, but again My my my thinking based on Lots of workflow changes and so forth is let it let it ride for a few times for a month or so and see what really is broken Um, it may just be first pass. It may So If we get to the point if we get to the point where we want to set up accounts Whenever I'd be happy to help Jennifer or you or whoever come in one day and just do it all once I think we need to speak to it about that But not necessarily not necessarily um, town accounts Okay, oh normally. Yeah, I mean gmail accounts. Okay. Yeah, personal gmail accounts. Yeah, perfect. Great. Thank you I'll let you know that motion I move we turn By tom second by shoe All those in favor


Hi, I'm Brittany from AJ and Smart, and today I'm going to tell you all about how to do the long-term goal and sprint questions from the sprint book. For both of these exercises, we're actually going to use a very popular process called the note and vote, and that's when you sort of let everyone put all of their ideas onto little post-its, and then everyone votes on them. It cuts down all the discussion. Usually when we're, you know, coming up with the long-term goal, we would actually, in the sprint book, it talks about, like, sitting around in a circle, or in a circle, sitting around at a table, all discussing what the goal should be, writing it down, erasing it, and we found that this just took way too long, and we got the same effect, the same results, when we actually just left it to a note and vote, and the same thing goes for the sprint questions. So now I'm going to break it down for you. So the first thing you're going to do is the long-term goal. Now the way you need to think about this is you're looking into the future of your company or your service or your app or whatever challenge you're working on, and you're thinking about in two years' time, if everything worked out absolutely perfectly, what would the case be? Best case scenario. So the first thing you're going to do is give everyone on the team a rectangular block of post-its. Like this one. Now, everybody will sit down with this, and in silence, you'll give everyone about up to five minutes, really it shouldn't take longer than five minutes. You're going to get everyone to write down what they think the goal should be. So the best way to start this exercise is to get everyone to write in two years' time at the top of their post-it block. Really try to get everybody to stick to writing down just one goal unless they really can't and they really want to do two. That's also fine. So at the end of that exercise, you're going to get everyone to put their post-it on the wall. Because they do this one by one, you'll get the team member to read aloud what their goal is. And everyone will have a good idea, a good sense of what the team is thinking for this two-year goal. So now that you have all of the long-term goals up on the wall, you're going to get everyone to vote. In this exercise, what we usually do is we give everyone on the team one voting dot. And what we do is we let the decider actually stay out of this voting round, and they'll be used to decide the final goal afterwards. And everybody else is going to think really hard on what they think the perfect long-term goal for their sprint would be. Now, once everyone's voted, you're going to kind of see some, usually some votes clustered together. So you can kind of see where the team is leaning towards, what they think is the right goal to work towards. And you're going to tell the decider that they can now use that information that they've now received from the team to decide on what they think the long-term goal should be. They can use the information, they can completely ignore the votes, it's completely up to them. It's definitely not completely a democratic process, but this is really helpful for us to keep moving through the sprint process as fast as possible. Now that you've decided on your sprint goal, you're going to move towards your sprint questions. So now we're going to shift from a really optimistic outlook to a very pessimistic outlook. It's a bit sad. So what we're going to do is get all the team to now think about all the things that could go wrong. So we're looking at our two-year goal that the decider has decided on, and we're going to say, okay, what could stop us from getting there? What are the things that could really be like huge hurdles, huge challenges that would like really impact us reaching this goal? So everybody sits down, you're going to again give everyone a rectangular post-it block. This time, you're going to ask the team to come up with maybe two sprint questions, three at the very, very most, and you're going to get everyone to start their sprint questions with can we. So can we will be in the top left-hand corner of your post-it note. You're going to get everyone to write down what the biggest challenges are going to be in trying to reach our long-term goal. Now we're going to do exactly the same thing that we did with the long-term goals with the sprint questions. So get the team to stand up and put all of their sprint questions on the wall. Get them to do this one by one, reading each question aloud. Now that you have all the sprint questions on the wall, you're going to do that trusty voting process again. Gosh, we love to vote. Give everyone a few more dots this time. So for the goal, we actually gave only one dot to everyone, but for the sprint questions, we're going to give everyone about three dots. So they can pick what they think the top three sprint questions are, that we should focus on as challenges for the sprint goal. So give everyone five to seven minutes for that. It shouldn't take too much longer. Then after that, you're going to have the decider actually come into play here. So the decider did vote in the first round, but now they're kind of going to put a little more emphasis on one of the sprint questions. And what you're going to do here is ask the decider to choose one sprint question that is going to be our ultimate sprint questions. So that's the one that we're going to focus on the most. So now what you're going to do is you're going to write down your long-term goal on a whiteboard or on a piece of magic paper and your sprint questions, your top three with the most important sprint question as the first one you write down. So important to keep these things on the wall. Keep them visual for people because throughout the entire sprint, you're going to be sort of always looking back at the sprint goal, always looking at back at the sprint questions when you're coming up with ideas, when you're coming up with lightning demos. It's really important to kind of like build this room that's covered with all of our artifacts from all of our exercises. I hope this video was helpful for you. If you have any questions about the long-term goal or sprint questions, pop them down below in the comments. Also, subscribe to our YouTube channel as well and give this video a like if you found it helpful. That'd be good. Thank you very much. And till next time, sprint, keep on sprinting on.


to be it's fine their speech doesn't mean anything they're just emitting words at random if they want I am not going to be attacking us bet all right one down just a small army to go hmm much let's not have much more of this shall excellent you know what I think I think I could show you some spare parts see you cannot touch me good day sir in this regard what I'm about to do because I am going to pick up my corpse and this yes retrieve you just covered your plug-in chips do you wish to restore your previous equipment yes yes I do the circle of theirs useful has been sustained experience 95 plug-in chips excellent on more point to the map and then we supposedly will see what happens I'm looking forward to what was it destroying all the robots in the desert this is really really good-looking I think oh are we going inside yes we are let's see what's inside perhaps a very big very unpleasant very unlikeable oh this guy's pretty high level scary it's heading for that rocky area individual target this guy is horrified enough but he is willing to run away from me that's new let's see I'm sure we can catch him whoa so this is the part of town which is not all that nice right I wonder what exactly happened to change the biomes is a basically short area large numbers of humans resided in such concrete and metal shelters the structures were referred to by names such as apartment complex that's fair received from access point again new music excellent the soundtrack of this game is reason enough to play it by the way if nothing else is to your liking which probably means you're not watching this but if you for some reason there are the music is a selling point on its own not this though not this continued conversation with 9S let's go ahead and save and I felt my pot is actually it fits with the background right now and that's important to me it means a lot excellent let's see what we got operator 6-0 Jupiter's fortunes to be if you heard of Jupiter fortune telling it's all the girls over in R&D have been talking about lately they say you can examine the color and shape of Jupiter's great red spot to learn about what kind of luck you have with health work and love sounds amazing right I'll try it and let you know what I find out what 6-0 is very very weird I'm not sure it will her bolts are the way they should be but hey I don't mind it's good to have androids who are not all professional all the time I think let's see how we can know no no we're not but you know what neither are you now don't run damn you mustn't run for me oh just peachy that's a weird time to have a conversation about the weather mate see this is what counterattack does if you hadn't noticed before and the music keeps getting better I suppose I suppose that's right but you know what lots of things are scary in this world so we managed to avoid yet another tragedy I'm not going to become one of those several bodies lying around take this and this and a kick to the face and yes oh that's that's actually really big oh you are a big fellow whoa let's try and see if I'm not getting hit in the face shall we all right one arm down big guy big guy story boy boy quickly no need to hit that heart mate all right soon I'll be done with you no worries and I think you are done so my old companions at a place fit to die did you did last stand interesting so machine wandering around over there let's repair this body let's have her walk with me or him cool fall of cool fall has become my ally that's very reassuring cool for you the coolest of all foils you have some character droids I will give you these words I do too I am guessing that will find the answer out soon enough oh I'm feeling about who coming on these are and right she life forms what are they doing yeah it's like they were gathered here exactly deadly heal obtained what is deadly hill moving speed up that's great something tells me this might be a trap mean those were a lot of Android bodies and if I were the little silly robot guy what I would do detected ahead but what's with these Android bodies stay focused is I would make sure that I'm leading my pursuers into a trap which is probably what he's doing oh let's retrieve you money abate range up yes or a for each doll so at most strength in a land of distorted fairy tales so I'm imagining that they're being two bodies here means something massive is about to go down which means that I need to be very careful haha I did not fall oh the child is something evil and scary I'm sure of it oh don't listen to them to be are they having sex some of them are having sex they don't have any feelings they're just imitating human speech well let us stop them from imitating anything else go ahead and do it but first not before I get you right see this is the thing we Android a lot more scary than you guys even if you're many and I may find myself let's slice you take a small recovery I am gonna go ahead and say that it just might if you say so this cannot continue I get it I am very curious to understand what is happening oh they're making a gigantic robot that's bad that is very bad what's happening what is happening is that we are in a lot of trouble oh what an android no this this is a machine oh he's leveling up because prepare I think I might just need some aid for this because it is about to go down he's exactly it's why whoa whoa haha I got some tricks of my own might oh you want to try me out oh that's a nice move I'll admit oh oh not quite certain how to reach you but you go come back and play why don't you you know what it's be a nice time for another small recovery let's dodge if we might oh damn it I was just about to say I got you now boy damn it I expected that since it was unpleasant what is he doing that right so I'm learning something about you this is getting quite chaotic oh oh oh got you with my move now ouch I will admit that oh what now what now what oh interesting challenging certainly but I was very close I'll do it next time well I did not expect a giant android pardon a very unpleasant android to be hatched by a band of tiny robots let me get my body first if I repair it will I still get my items yes good good to know and very important as well right let's make him bleed yes yes you are angry but you know that but there's no way about it I just have to take you down I'm more worried we better finish this quick about what this is saying about as Android machines can make one Android why the hell not all Android see I would say that I'm doing much better now oh that's stylish slide why am I stumbling all the time is it because of the sound I wonder or is it because of the gigantic explosions behind me I'm controlling up all right so one thing I've noticed is that whatever he charges he does that in front of himself which is to say I must never be that near ever oh much she's seen that coming so that one coming to all right let's prepare oh I'm so close damn it so close but to success into death I was but now I think I've almost got him let's do you in my oh much blood what Android or exactly my toes what another one from inside of him he did I just become the reason for the creation of a supreme Android like Android human hybrid all right let's run as fast as we can because it's all going down oh come on come on come on come on come on Jim as much as you're tiny oh I somehow managed to get out well from here anyway no doubts this cave can fall on me it's a healthy baby boy looks like we're safe now I don't feel good about this treatment I know I've never seen a machine like that before we better report this to command yeah definitely areas may impede movement it would be more efficient to traverse the rocky area instead agreed that was on me completely let's move to an area with better reception so we can contact command all right okay so I can just move it you know as nine you could have helped you lot you lot in your shabby baby boy I stop him once as nine stops him the second time yet he won't die he'll just pick up his body get out of his body not necessarily in that order and it's very disturbing by the way not in the business of robots making babies that's just wrong with this we should be able to reach command here 9s to bunker do you copy I read you 9s go ahead operator we just encountered a pair of humanoid machines we weren't able to capture them but I have combat data ready for up look understood ready to receive hopefully you can get something out of it I expected more worry by the way but I suppose I still do not get the purpose of these robots one of the gigantic tall ones when they do absolutely nothing it's nonsensical right back to I guess sanctuary seems like it a boy the green lands I miss them so not that I mind actually I do mind the desert I really really really do and in my inbox no I thought not quicksave and off we are to wear them tells us to go basically I think we've earned a breather now something awful will happen I was hoping we could talk about our next move I'm worried about the damage we took in that last battle with the machines maybe we should return to the resistance camp to resupply and conduct maintenance agreed all right let's go back you got it might also exactly we need well I need to buy a weapon and also I'm super fast right now that's awesome because that's what you get when you constantly find new bodies that just where my hand and make that machine explode I shared it that's how we do it now what would be really nice if I could actually open the minimap onto the whole screen that'll be useful but unfortunately I cannot John Cena suffered a double KO there I know a friend of mine who will enjoy this greatly well as formidable natural forces John Cena is I'm afraid that I will have food his body for the greatness of me I really need a second weapon I mean kicking people good nice even fun but no and it is good is slicing them and icing them with a bigger salt so I will get me a salt as simple as that I think now I am actually seriously worried about how the hell these machines made their Android or whatever that was because that was not an Android entirely I mean we Android would look like humans but below that we are machines he was blood don't know about bone but I would wager my hide in it and that worries me but I must very interested to see what happens next however interested in fact let's see subcoasts you can accept subcoasts from clients marketers red dots all over the world subcoast destinations are indicated as yeah red crystal on the minimap I've really enjoyed the fact that I get faster and faster I will be the fastest woman alive or rather the fastest woman programmed programmed I heard from Jack as about your encounter in the desert good work I don't have much to offer in tanks but I've read ready the room being here oh yes I knew it we would eventually go into the room is the least we can do feel free to use it however you like hey thanks and I thank you too it means a lot to me can I now buy a weapon so let's see a great sword shaped after the king of beasts beast banner sword with the kind of beast it's motif now I'm going to buy the beast lot this looks cool too and I might buy it eventually but I want me some beast loading which is scumbag bare fists and now I can excellent so let's see how that works shall we of course I can you know yeah sure hey so whether you get these all the weapon models from oh the lady who owns the place sends them over every once in a while my name's a called and she's a proprietor of this here business I just tend to customers and keep all the repair devices humming I'm betting that will meet a court sooner or later I only see her every few years to be honest she mostly just uses delivery drones to drop things off I don't know where she gets this stuff but most of it's in pretty good condition say if you ever happen to run into her say hello from me all right you can upgrade the weapons you buy here how much I can upgrade your weapons depends on how much money and materials you have so upgraded weapons also are the effects that you put performance get a drive you like all right so let's see if I can upgrade now still don't have anywhere near enough items all right what am I buying some medicine meetings and about 15 of these oops no none of these and sure six of these excellent anything I don't have range of defenses can I buy as many of those as I want now obviously I can buy as many of those as I want but I will wonder if the effects stuck in one another sure thing supply trader with bum like who's the only view like can you can I go now thank you all right now that's that's awesome of course I'm sure if it's not I wasn't going to turn it down even if you wanted me to small G luck plus don't take a break sure I say could break yes I want to continue the game as well amazing I know thank you for watching if you enjoyed my video please like share and subscribe if you'd like to see more click on one of the boxes that just appeared or that have been there all along I don't know how this stuff works what am I a prophet


So the BBWA this morning released 314 Hall of Fame ballots that 79.1% of the writers who opted to make their ballots public That includes 91 previously unrevealed ballots So that means 21% Chose not to have their ballots made public Ken Rosenthal of the athletic points out Jeter was listed on all the public ballots the person who did not vote for him remains anonymous BBWA voted in December 2016 for all ballots to be made public Hall of Fame overruled the request So here's my final take on this thing The person who didn't vote for Derek Jeter Who doesn't make his or her ballot public is a gutless puke You're right. It's I mean really I I don't have a problem if you didn't vote for Jeter I have a problem that you will not defend the fact that you didn't vote for Jeter. You are a gutless puke So you did something because you wanted to take the honor of being the second unanimous player away from a guy There's no way you could look at Derek Jeter's career. Let's say you don't think he's the greatest shortstop of all time Okay, you can make that argument. You can't make the argument. He's not a Hall of Famer Only five five people in the history of the game have had more hits than him Look at his postseason numbers He has a 314 batting average in the world series and a 309 overall or 310 overall So he'd better in the world series So again, you hide behind anonymity because you're a gutless puke and people can sell That's Yankee boy defending Jeter. No, no if it was about Larry Walker if you vote First of all, the media shouldn't even be voting for this because the media covers news They should not be making news. So once you take a Hall of Fame vote, you're making news That's the only reason you should have that vote is to explain it since you're making the news Anyway, explain why you're making the news and for the person to hide behind anonymity because they're afraid or they're scared Yeah, in this world you should be because there are a lot of lunatics out there, but again, you refuse to make your ballot public well Isn't journalism The actual job that you have about transparency and holding those Empower to account and nobody can hold you to account for holding back a vote on a Hall of Fame player Gutless puke. I don't know other way to put it I think you'll agree with this Michael and Peter will as well You don't know me that if you get into the media to cover something to do a talk show to have a column And you've been around long enough that you can get a vote for the Hall of Fame You're an opinionated SOB. I never met anyone in this business that wasn't otherwise. They're worthless If you're gonna have opinion then you're also gonna have the passion to debate that opinion. Otherwise your opinions worthless You want to fight that opinion, right? You know me I have an opinion and I'll sit there and argue about it and Peter will outline that and I'll just keep talking and repeating myself Everybody hates me, but the point is is that if you have value And you believe in your opinion there is an obligation to debate that opinion an obligation to do it Otherwise your opinion means nothing. It sounds like you guys would be very in favor of the Iowa caucuses That's what they do. They have to argue their candidate. They don't just write down the vote No, no, no, I stand in a room and they go here. This is what my choice is They argue it. We don't get into politics on the show, but if any third-world nation Had votes like we have an Iowa. We'd laugh at them. It's no we would absolutely laugh at them So that's that's one point we'll put away, but if you make a vote This isn't for the president you are choosing to be part of a process where you are making news and The guy who didn't vote for Jeter made the guy or gal made the biggest news But then is that I can't say this enough is so much of a gutless puke that he or she refuses to defend the vote I don't get it. Here's the analogy that I would use. I don't think if you're somebody that votes For the president and you're just living the general public that you have any obligation to tell people who you voted for Unless you wanted to but if you're the New York Times and you back a candidate you better tell me why you're doing exactly So if you're in the media if you're covering a team and you have an opinion That is as big and controversial as I don't believe Derek Jeter's a Hall of Famer Then you are a gutless puke if you're not going to come forward and debate that with me Then you shouldn't have a vote and there's no reason why that the baseball writers Association or the Hall of Fame Should be able to protect these people and when they did this when the baseball writers Association voted I mean almost unanimously to make their votes public for the most part. They were all on board about making their votes public There are about 12 people that went to Jane Forbes Clark who runs all the famous and now we know why the public week Yeah, I mean it might influence our decisions So the she's spitting the face of the overwhelming majority and Decided to keep them private and here's my point about the Hall of Fame and also about the the fact that they don't let Pete Rose be voted on if The writers feel that this is unfair what the writers should do, but they wouldn't do it because oh my Goodness, dude. They love that Hall of Fame vote. They should renounce their votes We're not voting anymore for this unless you do it the way we want and we are providing you The means to vote these people into the hall which gets you all that publicity Which gets you those big crowds on induction day if you don't listen to what we say we're not voting anymore I bet you she might change And Michael if a voter works for a newspaper that I find out that that reporter working for me Wants to keep His or her vote private because of public backlash That they don't have the guts to stand by their vote. I'd fire them based on this So that means that every time you have an opinion You're allowing that opinion to be influenced about how the public feels about it Not how you feel about it because I'm sure if you're covering a sport Michael If you're covering baseball there must have been columns about how this person deserves to be fired or this person deserves to be traded Or this player deserves to be benched So if you have an opinion and you're telling me that I I don't want my my jeter Non-vote to go public because I'm afraid of the backlash Then you tell then you're saying that your opinion is influenced by your readers And I will tell you this too that same person that didn't vote for dairy jeter and refused to make his or her ballot public They're gonna ask Luis Rojas sometime in May. Why didn't you bunt? The runner over to second base in the ninth inning. What if Luis Rojas said no, I'm good. I don't want to tell you Because that's exactly that that person that will not make their ballot public and actually debate the vote or the non-vote They have no right to ask any question to anybody because they don't deserve an answer like we're not getting an answer on this I'd like an answer on why that person didn't vote for Derek Jeter and remember you are a gutless puke and Not for punishment Peter. I want to openly debate it now I doubt it very seriously matter of fact I would almost guarantee that they would not sway my opinion But at least with the public debate I'd be able to hear what he or she had to say Maybe it is because of what's happened in Miami with the Marlins now I wouldn't agree for not voting him, but I would doubt at least be a reason I could wrap my mind around that Do you guys


Hello, I'm Neil and welcome to the Happy Hutt, it's been no Hutt. Hello, I'm Neil welcome to the Happy Hutt and it's a very sad day for me today because this is the last time that my YouTube videos will sound like this because today I'm unboxing this the Boyer BY-M1 Levalier microphone for smartphones so let's see what's in the box and I'm going to do this with my son so this will be fun and cut it's just come through the mail so why don't we get into tearing it up so like I did I just tear it up like that and then as you can see there's the box wow look it's a really small box but look it's the size of a hand so we're going to start tearing it up because we might use it for something way better oh well done because I've got small fingers it's easier if that opens there's the wire so this is the Boyer BY-M1 oh hang on get it out because on the other videos it had like a plastic case but I think this box is much smaller than the other videos on YouTube unboxing Boyer BY-M1 microphones for smartphones that is silica gel that's to stop it getting condensation in the box shall I hold it up to the camera oh is that the windshield I'll show the box while you're opening that I'll show the box oh my gosh one battery to get one I feel like we look like we're fighting on camera someone left a comment they said your boy is really he's really badly brought up because he pushed his father's hand aside did you see that and we're not we're not fighting are we we're just excited about it yeah so if you're the man who commented that we're not fighting and you get this clip to clip on your book or phone and here's the main piece you'll need oh that's the adapter that means you can adapt the 3.5mm jack to a big speaker yeah big old jack socket so like if we want to make an announcement we could use this microphone yeah look there's the windshield can I unwrap that are you going to unwrap it can I show the box yes show the box features can you read it out features clip on mic for smartphones DSLR those are the big cameras camera doors camcorders audio recorders PC yeah you're too young to know what a camcorder is aren't you I know what camcorders wait it's a corder cam right there can you hold it up to the camera because it's 6 meters you get 6 meters of cable and here's the microphone itself and that's the clip on thing oh yeah let me show you this I just put the thing on the microphone goes to this just get that on it says Boya on it Boya pull this down to make it that's better Boya so there's a switch here this switch for cameras and this one you switch it down off battery off to use it on your smartphone if I open it up I really thought this would be different because they definitely changed the packaging and then you open it up like that you just unscrew it and it's got a clip on it as well it doesn't clip it to your belt or something and then that opens and then the battery put the battery at its time maybe you should read the instructions to see which way up oh it says on there plus is up can I put the battery in there you go push it in into the plastic family and then can you screw it up that's what the connector looks like can you see that it's got three bits on it so I wanted to make sure that something oh yeah go on yeah put it in there you put it in that hole if you wanted to go into a big jack, big socket but here's the 3.5mm socket for a phone and we'll find out if it works with an android Alcatel Idol look there's the instructions wait can you what is that bag for again? that bag that's to stop condensation going into a box yeah yeah but why is it in here on the ball zone using a microphone with a smartphone instructions if this looks like the kind of microphone that you'd like for your smartphone or android phone there's a link just under in the description of places where you can buy it and also you can subscribe if this video has helped at all why not click subscribe in the bottom right hand corner or in the link oh yeah leave us a like if this has helped or even leave a comment to say hi it's always good to hear from you this is how the supplied clip works just put it onto there and then you can flip it to your shirt have you got the windshield there as ever it's difficult to film and do this at the same time there we go tell me when to turn it on comes okay we're done so sadly at this point I was hoping to show you how the Boyer BY-M1 would sound plugged into my android smartphone but it didn't work it didn't work at all and so I thought well maybe it's the connection so I got a converter because there are two different types of these TRRT connectors I got a converter OMTP to CTIA converter that didn't work I tried a splitter that didn't work I tried it on an ASUS Zenfone that didn't work I've got a feeling a lot of android phones just don't take external microphones if you know differently if you know a microphone that does work well for those kind of androids leave me a comment it would be great to hear from you but I can't recommend this for an android smartphone it looks great for an android smartphone with that connection so what I've ended up doing is getting this the Audio Technica Lavalle microphone and just putting it into a regular camera there's a link in the corner if you click on I there's a link to that unboxing and maybe that would help I hope you manage to find an external microphone for your smartphone if this video and the unboxing has helped if you hear from you leave a comment or give me a thumbs up that would be a good way of letting me know or clicking on subscribe in the bottom right hand corner of the screen or in the link in the description there's also a link of where to buy this if this still does look like the microphone for you and thanks for watching I hope this has helped