Good afternoon everybody. I hope you've had a fun full day of Anusa workshops. We're glad to have you here and looking forward to ending our day strong. My name is Ruth Aussie. I'm with the City of Fort Worth Community Engagement Office and I'm going to be your host during this workshop. Before we start, just want to point out all the ways you can share your feedback. First on the right hand side, you'll see that there is a chat room. This is the perfect way to say hello. Give a shout out to your presenters. Introduce yourself. Make comments you want everyone to see and share any additional resources you have about the topic of today's workshop. Next underneath that, we have a questions tab during the presentation. If you have a specific question you'd like to ask, write it here. Once the presentation is over, I will go back to the list and read those off. We will do our best to respond to all your questions at the end of the presentation. Next, you will see the people tab. If you see someone making a comment that you really like or you want to connect with them, please make sure that you click on their name and you can send them a message so that you can chat later. Lastly, under the files tab, there is a presentation and it's a copy of this workshop that we're having today. Feel free to download it and follow along or just download it after the presentation is concluded. I want to introduce to you Justin Newhart and Jerry Tracy. They're with the City of Fort Worth and they're presenting on neighborhood realisation through preservation, design and advocacy. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Justin Newhart and I'm the Historic Preservation Officer for the City of Fort Worth. Joining me today are Jerry Tracy, the Executive Director of Historic Fort Worth Inc., which is Fort Worth's preservation nonprofit and main advocacy organization. Hopefully Laura Voltman will join us later in the presentation. She's our senior planner over our design and form-based code districts in the city. Today, we're going to be discussing the best ways to utilize and leverage the tools of preservation, design and advocacy to revitalize historic neighborhoods and commercial districts through the use of best preservation practices, design guidelines, financial incentives and advocacy. We'll share some examples of how we've done that in Fort Worth over the last several years to achieve positive results on the ground. Historic neighborhoods and commercial districts throughout Fort Worth have seen a resurgence in the last 20 years and this resurgence can be attributed to a few things such as city policies, a historic preservation program and design districts as well as community advocacy efforts on the part of local residents, nonprofits and neighborhood organizations. Historian design districts in Fort Worth started out as community-led efforts to protect the resources that were most important to our residents in order to guide compatible development and reinforce those important characteristics in the neighborhoods throughout the city that people found most important to them. In regards to preservation, community advocacy helped to create the city's preservation program in the 1980s. The city's first preservation ordinance in 1986 and in regards to design districts, that advocacy effort was led by local business owners, residents and institutions in downtown and the near south side starting in the early to mid 1990s. Soon after Fort Worth created its preservation program in the 1980s and joined the Texas Historical Commission Certified Local Government Program or the CLG program, this has been one of the most effective tools for Fort Worth and our preservation program over the last 30 plus years. It is a state, local and federal government partnership that empowers local communities to better protect historic resources by identifying local priorities, meeting recognized historic preservation standards and providing access to financial and technical services to further the identification, evaluation, designation and protection of building sites, districts, structures and cultural objects. Local governments that participate in the program act independently to develop and maintain a successful preservation program. The Texas Historical Commission administers the program at the state level and the National Park Service is the responsible federal agency. The benefits of participating and becoming a CLG program are amongst other things technical assistance from CLG program staff, a network of local preservation commissioners and historic preservation officers from around the state, workshops and other training specific to local preservation challenges and they do have an annual grant program that helps fund local preservation projects throughout the state. Participation in the CLG program has been a key cornerstone for Fort Worth's preservation program for the past 35 years. It has allowed us to access critical preservation knowledge and resources and leverage them to promote positive outcomes in our community. As an example, we are currently taking advantage of a matching grant from the Texas Historical Commission to update our historic resource survey, which is a key component of making informed land use decisions throughout the city. So after several years of participating in the CLG program, preservation leaders like Jerry and historic Fort Worth throughout the city came together and decided that a preservation plan was needed to define clear goals and parameters for our preservation program. And in 2003, those groups and community leaders and preservation gatekeepers came together to create a plan that analyzed existing conditions on the ground within Fort Worth, identified threats to preservation and created a list of achievable opportunities and goals that the city and community groups could partner together to achieve. As an example, one of the goals from the preservation plan was that the city should work with community leaders to develop administrative regulations for the review of city-sponsored infrastructure projects in order to protect potential historic resources such as bridges, street tile markers, historic boulevards like Camp Buie, and other area, other infrastructure throughout the city that may have been historic in nature but weren't designated. We found here in Fort Worth that a preservation plan is a city's best opportunity to bring everyone together to celebrate accomplishments, refresh our community goals for preservation throughout the city, and set new objectives for the future. A major benefit of participating in the CLG program is that neighborhood organizations and community groups have also been able to access resources for best preservation practices that they can implement on the ground in their own neighborhoods and communities. Fort Worth has a limited amount of preservation staff in relation to the amount of historic properties that we regulate throughout the city. We are the second largest preservation program in the state of Texas, and we rely a lot on our neighborhood organizations to be our eyes, ears, and educators on the ground to help property owners develop projects that are consistent with preservation best practices. And this symbiotic relationship helps property owners and neighborhood groups buy into the preservation program because they are also responsible for managing compatible change within our historic districts. One of the ways we are looking to increase community buy-in in the preservation program in the future is through the development of a survey tool app for your phone or iPad that can be used by neighborhood residents and community members to help us with our future resurvey efforts. So all you would need is a phone to go out in the field and help collect data on historic resources within our historic districts. That kind of community collaboration on a project that big is really important, especially because it's going to take many, many years for us to fully resurvey the entire city. So we think this tool will be extremely beneficial to our work and Fort Worth to make sound land use decisions and also create better community buy-in in our preservation program. Creating community buy-in is also especially important with regards to preservation standards and guidelines. All of Fort Worth's district standards and guidelines are developed in partnership between the city and district residents with the caveat that the standards and guidelines must meet the federal secretary of the interior standards for the treatment of historic properties, which is required by our CLG agreement with the state of Texas. And here on this slide, you can see a little snippet from the Fairmount district standards and guidelines, which gives you tips on how to appropriately design a new construction building within a historic context. And our offices work closely with the neighborhood organizations that created these historic districts to make sure that each district standards and guidelines are contextualized for that particular neighborhood. So for example, the Fairmount district standards and guidelines that you see here are similar but different than the guidelines for historic Carver Heights on the east side of Fort Worth because each neighborhood was developed at a different time in response to different development themes and pressures. So we think it's really important to have very clear standards and guidelines for each historic district. And those are really the best way to help implement preservation, best preservation practices in historic districts and neighborhoods to help maintain that community character and heritage that's so important to residents when they move into those areas. And now I'm going to turn it over to Jerry to discuss how to use grassroots advocacy and partnerships to attaining community goals. All right. Thank you, Justin. Well, it's a pleasure to speak to you about what a 501C3 charity does in the world of preservation. We certainly don't do what government does, but we respect and work with government at all levels. So you'll hear that through this presentation. Your city is going to be different than ours. And if, as you hear the names and titles of those who came to the forefront at various times in this city to make preservation happen on the nonprofit side, think about the types of similar groups you have in your city if you want to continue to advance preservation on the charitable side. So as the action oriented preservation movement began in Fort Worth back in 1924 with a marker program during the city's 60th anniversary. Other groups at the same time were making important contributions to preservation like the demonstration documentation and preservation of local history by the old settlers and historical society that started in 1897 that is still alive today as the Tarrant County Historical Society. Additionally, the Friends of Vanzant Cottage and that cottage was built about 1850 and it's comprised of friends or mainly family members and a few others who just love that particular building and it's Fort Worth's oldest building in its original site. So they are still here today. And then in 1972, the Black Historical and Genealogical Society was established to collect, document and preserve landmarks and records of Fort Worth's African American community heritage. In 1975, the demolition of Nile City Town Hall led to the formulation of the North Fort Worth Historical Society, which also continues today. So there are lots of efforts in the past that are moving forward today simultaneously. However, the advocacy movement really revved up in Fort Worth in the 1960s when residential zoning was changed to commercial zoning to expand our downtown. The neighborhood sacrificed in this plan was known as Quality Hill. With no local preservation ordinance to protect properties until the 1980s, Quality Hill, Fort Worth's version of Charleston was literally a sitting duck for demolition and people were not happy. That resonated. The residences of Quality Hill were designed to buy prominent architects of the day and constructed primarily of Stone and Brick. Many reflected European revival styles with ornate columns, wraparound porches, grand terraces, roofs of tile and slate, cortica shares, turrets, spires, carriage houses, pergolas and lush gardens. They were amazing properties. They were owned by cattle barons, bankers, attorneys and business entrepreneurs. As was typical in other parts of the country, women often led the preservation movement, which also happened in Fort Worth. With no preservation ordinance, owning a property was the best way to save your building. Some properties were bequeathed to an entity the owner trusted as was done for the Fort Worth Women's Club on Pennsylvania Avenue. And some residences were purchased by preservation minded owners for commercial or public use. It was in the late 1960s that the Junior League of Fort Worth began to work with the Texas Historical Commission flipping back to government again. And the National Trust for Historic Preservation of 501C3 Charity on methods to stop demolition. The League brought in national preservation speakers to address their membership and the greater community, including the Chamber of Commerce. Recognizing that very few people know the different types of architectural styles, the League developed and delivered slideshow presentations in a group interested in learning about what they called the art of the city. Then from 1969 to 70, the League hired Drury Blake Alexander, a distinguished preservation minded architectural history professor at the University of Texas, to conduct Fort Worth's first survey of significant buildings. Mr. Alexander's work identified 14 high style buildings prioritized for preservation. And with advice from the staff of the Texas Historical Commission, the Junior League developed placements for their volunteers to write recorded Texas historic landmark nominations for the Alexander identified properties. This work led to state designations of the Flat Iron Building and the Santa Fe Depot both in the 1970s. Simultaneously, the Junior League of Fort Worth realized that the mission of preservation was so big it required a dedicated preservation organization with equal gifts, and so with equal gifts of 25,000 from the Junior League and the Amon Carter Foundation, Historic Fort Worth was established. And the League gave the Alexander survey back to Historic Fort Worth for its continued stewardship. One of Historic Fort Worth's first steps was to buy the house next door to the offices of Historic Fort Worth today. That house is called the Pollock Caps House, and it is also part of Quality Hill, and that purchase was made in 1971. The Historic Fort Worth Board placed a term easement on the property to keep it from being demolished by a different owner in the future. In 1972, Historic Fort Worth commissioned a historic building survey for the Pollock Caps House and sold the property to a group of trusted investors with this deed covenant on it. In 1973, six women, all Junior League members, literally stood up in front of the bulldozer to save the Wagner Fort and Scott Building that we call Thistle Hill today, which was also in Quality Hill. They raised funds from private and public sources, including schoolchildren and a campaign known as Save the Scott and bought the mansion in 1976. In a special arrangement prior to any local preservation ordinance, Thistle Hill became Fort Worth's first local landmark in 1976, and it was already on the National Register at that time and became a recorded Texas historic landmark in 1977. Today, Thistle Hill is one of the two stewardship properties owned by Historic Fort Worth. In 1978, the League considered purchasing McFarland House for their first headquarters. Its sole occupant, Caroline Edelund McFarland, had just died at the age of 100. The house was included in the Alexander Survey and identified as the most significant Queen Anne residents in the region. Funds for the League to purchase the house were raised from many sources, including a gift of 50,000 from Historic Fort Worth, which the League had started several years earlier. And so in 1980, McFarland House became the city's second landmark. The Junior League did not stop there. In 1977, they focused on preserving the historic resources and other Tarrant County municipalities and researched the possibility of an association of preservation groups. They engaged the National Trust for Historic Preservation to hold a preservation workshop for Tarrant County that included the City of Fort Worth, Candidate Without Them, Thistle Hill, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tarrant County Historical Commission, and the Texas Historical Commission. The resulting organization was the Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County established in 1979. HPC's legacy was its survey books that you're hearing about more updates today of the county's historic resources, collectively known as the Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey. HPC raised the funds to hire Paige Anderson and Turnbill of San Francisco to lead local volunteers to work on the project between 1983 and 1990. In 1995, the National Preservation Conference was held in Fort Worth, which had required a year of preparation for all the preservation groups working together to develop the Tours, Lectures, and Educational Sessions for the nationwide participants. An outgrowth of the conference was the desire for more preservation to be consolidated. So in 1998, the Historic Preservation Council voted to merge with Historic Fort Worth. HPC dissolved their corporation and gave Historic Fort Worth their survey files, photos, and records. Many on the board of HPC became board members of Historic Fort Worth. A preservation resource center comprised of resources from surveys and books collected this way and other ways was established in Historic Fort Worth's headquarters. And then all of it was consolidated and moved to another building that was owned by Historic Fort Worth on Summit Avenue, also in Quality Hill. Previously in 1984, the lead gave McFarland House to Historic Fort Worth for an entity exclusively focused on preservation to manage and restore the property. The lead continued to office at McFarland until 2004 when they moved to a much larger headquarters. The highest profile advocacy effort in Fort Worth clearly was the fight in the 1980s against the Department of Transportation's plan to expand the I-30 overhead above Lancaster Avenue and downtown Fort Worth. A broad base group led by local leaders including Robert M. Bass, Ruth Carter Stevenson, and Congresswoman Kay Granger worked with the legal department of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to defeat the Department of Transportation's planned expansion. The expansion would have come frighteningly close to Fort Worth's Beaux Arts post office building and diminish the development for the post office, the TMP terminal, and the TMP warehouse. After thousands of people joined the citizens advocacy group known as ICARE, a lawsuit was filed against the Department of Transportation, which ICARE eventually won. The freeway was rerouted to the south and the overhead was demolished in 1990. The most recent comprehensive preservation effort started in the early 2000s to develop a citywide preservation plan that was finalized in 2003. The planning included the preservation of business communities and was led by the city of Fort Worth with a Memphis based consulting group called Looney Rick's Kiss. The result was a 134 page document featuring a composite history of Fort Worth's preservation efforts, the economic opportunities that are inherent with historic designation, and a plan on how to capitalize on those assets and opportunities. And then now we're going to switch into a little bit about local historic districts. And so here we go. A local historic district is a tangible storybook about culture, architectural styles, building materials, craftsmanship, street patterns, and all of that and more. Typically these distinct neighborhoods would not be affordable if built new. They combine into a magnetic collection of pedestrian friendly intersections that enhance local businesses and attract tourists. Additionally, they tap into the city of Fort Worth's economic incentive for appropriate rehabilitation of personal property, a 10 year savings on the city's portion of your property tax bill for projects approved in advance by the city's preservation staff. As the ultimate team sport, historic districts provide social and psychological benefits. Working together on common design goals and solutions makes for fast friends, all within walking distance of each other. Additionally, preservation appeals to those who care about the environment because demolished houses go into the landfill unlike restored ones. Local districts give each property owner within the district the power of predictability and that is a big power. For instance, historic districts keep your neighbor's house from changing so radically that it harms your personal property rights. If you live in a historic district, your neighborhood will not be able to build, your neighbor will not be able to build an addition that is too tall for your property, are too close to your property, are too near the street, are so inappropriate for your neighborhood that your property values are harmed. To put it another way, historic districts keep others from shadowing your house and lawn, from obstructing your view as you try to back out of your driveway, and from building something that is totally incompatible with your neighborhood. And now we're going to go into the next great marriage of private property ownership and government. And it's about preservation tax credits that our state of Texas offers for anyone in Texas who qualifies and that can be a nonprofit charity like historic for or any commercial use building, commercial owner with a commercial use building. And this all transpired on January 1 of 2015, our Texas legislature enabled the first state tax credit for certified rehab projects in Texas. The 25% credit is among the highest value tax credit program in the country for corporate and nonprofit owners of buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places are designated recorded historic landmarks since we're in Texas. The tax credit process is divided sequentially into three stages. Each must be followed precisely and the tax credit staff at the Texas Historical Commission are most helpful. Also helpful is a project architect with experience and tax credit projects and additionally private consultants are available to assist with the entire process should you choose that route. The story Fort Worth's first tax credit project began in 2017 at Thistle Hill for an accessibility project requiring a 57 foot long concrete ramp to reach the height of the front porch terrace, which is 42 inches above grade. Early in the project the Texas Historical Commission was informed that this would be a tax credit project. The ADA the ADA project plan was approved and the required documentation was submitted over a span of almost two years. A public auditor was hired to review the project payments and income and at the end of the process a tax credit consulting firm was hired to find the buyer for historic Fort Worth $71,000 in tax credits for that project. And the buyer turned out to be none other than a woman owned tractor company in Tennessee. We women are sticking together. Historic Fort Worth is now restoring the front porch terrace at Thistle Hill a 1500 square foot structure. John Volts is our architect and has been our architect from since 1978 and Phoenix one restoration and construction is implementing this project at a cost of a little over $700,000. This project should generate around $175,000 in tax credits before auditor and agent fees. You can see it's there's really an incentive to work with our state tax credits. This project should generate okay we did that. Historic Fort Worth has now completed phase one of the part three process for the front porch restoration. Simultaneously Historic Fort Worth is starting another ADA project and tax credit project at our headquarters McFarland House. Sandstone from the quarry has been secured and shop drawings are underway for the project that includes a mechanical lift adaptations to restrooms for compliance with Americans with Disability Act. Throughout the state of Texas corporate and nonprofit entities including churches are utilizing the state's historic tax credit program to make projects work and to hire artisans and craftsmen for the higher paying jobs. These projects generate locally the owners of businesses on South Main Street are revitalizing that area because of the value added by our state's tax credit. Between 2015 when our state tax credit began and 2020 the state tax credit program has assisted developers of 243 projects resulting in investments of over $2.6 billion in historic buildings across the state. Certified tax credit projects have helped support more than 54,000 jobs in Texas with over 3.2 billion in wages and income. About 54.9 million has been generated in state sales taxes and 181.6 million in local taxes not accounting for subsequent property tax increases. And over $4 billion has been added to the state's gross domestic product. Access to these tax credits and other preservation funds is enhanced by the city's participation in the certified local government program that Justin just told you about. Okay, you're up I think next Justin. Yep. And while we're on the subject of preservation incentives. I'll touch a little bit on the historic site tax exemption program which is our local exemption here in the city of Fort Worth. The historic site tax exemption encourages substantial rehabilitation of designated properties. And it offers a 10 year tax freeze for undertaking a rehabilitation project. We recently streamlined and updated the program in 2018 after an audit and in conjunction with a an update of Fort Worth preservation ordinance. The tax exemption has encouraged over $621 million in investment in historic properties in Fort Worth since 2015. So it's been a great economic generator for local jobs, local wages and saving local buildings here in the city. It promotes best preservation practices because you can only get the financial incentive if the project meets all of the preservation and design guidelines that have to be followed. And historic districts are for individually designated properties and our local exemption can be paired with the state and federal tax exemption to maximize the return on investment and recouping of your project costs. So as an example, what you see here on the screen is the Meisner Brown funeral home, which is a local building on Fort Worth's east side close to Texas Wesleyan University. This project took advantage of local state and preservation tax incentives to save this landmark. Jerry and historic Fort Worth were very instrumental in finding a buyer to save this. It was literally about to fall down onto the neighboring property and they ended up finding Phoenix One, the owner of Phoenix One, to come in and rehab the building. And you can see in the top image there, that's the finished product. They've turned the old funeral home and mortuary into an event space and potential office space. So it's been a great use of tax incentives in the city and we're glad to see that back operating as a community hub in that area of Fort Worth. Okay. Well, we're going to move on to a real success story and it's Fairmount, our neighborhood on the near south side, which happens to be one of 14 historic districts in our city. But it's the largest district, not only in our city, but in the southwestern United States. So those who live in Fairmount are the city's most enthusiastic keepers of more than 1000 bungalows for square homes and other resources from the late 1800s to the 1920s. Their leadership not only protects their neighborhood, but it influences those who live in other historic districts because they do it so well. They're great teachers. Fairmount was one of Fort Worth's worst neighborhoods to live in in the 1970s and 80s. The poorly maintained neighborhood led to crime, extremely deferred maintenance and loss of stray animals. However, concerned citizens who wanted to protect the neighborhood led the charge for Fairmount to become a national register historic district and a local historic districts. Both districts were established in 1991. A Fairmount neighborhood association emerged to perpetuate the strong preservation ethic of Fairmount. This is demonstrated by the neighborhood associations commitment to helping new neighbors understand their design guidelines by the detailed and instructive information on their website and by their monitoring of cases before the city of Fort Worth historic and cultural landmark commission. They are meticulous about managing what happens in their neighborhood. Fairmount residents have utilized the city's historic site tax exemption and preservation and preservation's best practices for over 30 years. The result of their methodical practice is the revitalization of their neighborhood, making it one of Fort Worth's most desirable zip codes in which to live. Their savvy tutelage even instruct those who live in other historic districts. And now we're going to transition to design districts in Fort Worth, which work hand in hand with our historic districts. They're just a little different flavor and they operate slightly differently than the way historic districts operate. So a design district is essentially an area that has a specific to regulate new construction and public infrastructure projects in between buildings to create a pedestrian friendly environment to live, work and play. This image you see on this on the screen is of South Main Street here in Fort Worth. It's just south of downtown. It's within the near south side form based code district, which was established in the 1990s shortly after the Fairmount historic district. Both these those districts are adjacent to each other and they were created to respond to deteriorating conditions on the ground that Jerry mentioned earlier. The goal of design districts and especially in the near south side was to revitalize a commercial district between downtown and inner ring neighborhoods while creating jobs, promoting small businesses and revitalizing not long neglected commercial buildings. The push to create these form based code districts was led by community leaders, business owners and local residents in partnership with the city. City staff provided most of the technical knowledge on how to achieve community goals through design guidelines. And shortly after the near south side district was created in the 1990s, the downtown design district was also created to kind of help revitalize Fort Worth's downtown, which wasn't in the best shape during that time period. You can see here a lot of the elements in this image on the streetscape were required by the form based code district standards and guidelines such as the street trees, the wide sidewalks, the bump outs and parallel parking. All of these things create a very safe comfortable pedestrian friendly environment that encourages business development and activity along South Main Street. One of the greatest successes in Fort Worth of a design district and a historic district coming together is Magnolia Avenue, which you can see here in both pictures. Magnolia Avenue is the historic commercial corridor on the north side of Fairmount and the south side of the near south side district. It's been a commercial corridor for over 100 years and in the 1990s it was in need of a lot of TLC. And so between the form based code district and the historic district standards and guidelines, business owners and property owners and local residents were able to help reinvigorate this historic pedestrian friendly corridor using best practice urban design. The near south side form based code district really has guided new development and new construction on the north side or on the left side of this streetscape image you see here. And the city and local residents have partnered with another local nonprofit called near south side Inc. Which has kind of been the guiding force for bringing development into the area for educating property owners on how to design a project to meet the district guidelines. And they've also been the ones who have been really have been the best educators within that area. And so between the district guidelines and near south side Inc. and the historic district standards and guidelines Magnolia Avenue has really seen a resurgence and it is one of the destination places to visit when you're here in Fort Worth. Alright, I will go quickly through the rest of these slides. So design districts help retain community character. This is Kampui Boulevard, which is our a historic highway. Part of the original interstate highway system in in Fort Worth. And there is a form based code district here that helps protect the original auto oriented streetscape and contextual neighborhood elements in that area. Form based code districts guide compatible new development. They create predictable development and they give the community a voice in land use and development decisions within those districts. So citizens can really participate through these local nonprofits that help push forward design and business development within the design districts. Design districts also encourage excellent design of public spaces. And here on this slide you'll see some different components of a pedestrian friendly streetscape. So you have a wide sidewalk in between a building and a usually a landscaping strip with trees or grass. In this instance there's bicycle racks places to to sit and relax. And you have parallel parking usually defined by bump outs at the end of each block. And so a lot of what form based code districts and design guidelines do here in Fort Worth is to create a very pedestrian friendly and positive environment in between buildings, which creates standardized development procedures for developers on the ground. This photo here is of mule alley in the stockyards. Mule alley and horse and mule barns were recently rehabilitated. We've worked closely as a city with the developer and local business interests and private owners in the stockyards to really create a contextually sensitive design solution for a streetscape that was essentially a parking lot two years ago. So if you ever come to Fort Worth, this is the place to go to now. It's full of shops and restaurants, bars and breweries. And it's really turning into the new economic and cultural hub in the stockyards and on the north side of Fort Worth. Briefly I'll touch on TIFFs which are tax increment financing districts. We have several TIFFs throughout Fort Worth that generally follow the same boundaries of our design districts. Basically what TIFFs do is take the increase in property value from year one of the founding of the TIFF and takes the increase in tax dollars and reinvest those tax dollars within the district and self for public infrastructure improvements. So here we're back on South Main Street in the near south side. TIFF dollars have been used to upgrade most of the 120 year old infrastructure beneath the streets at no cost to the local property owners. So this really helps spur and drive development because if infrastructure projects and financing are covered by a TIFF district then developers can spend more money on rehabbing their buildings and getting their businesses up and running. And Justin I apologize I have the wrong time. It's 4.45 not 4.15. Okay. That's all right. So wrapping up preservation and design districts go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive especially here in Fort Worth. They've worked together for decades to revitalize important commercial corridors and neighborhoods throughout our city. Both types of districts work together towards the same goal which is an activated urban environment that creates great places for folks to live work and play close to their homes. Historic preservation community advocacy and design districts. All grew out of grassroots community efforts as a way for local citizens to guide development and have a voice in the growth and revitalization of their city and their neighborhoods and their commercial districts. We hope that the tools and the examples we've provided today that Fort Worth has used over the past 30 to 40 years are helpful to you. They've been helpful for us and we're continuing to utilize them today as as we move forward and and continue to grow and redevelop as a city. So that's that's pretty much it. Ruth we're we're ready for questions. You do have a couple of questions. Early on in the presentation you mentioned an app for collecting data. What is the name of the app or is that is it an app that you will customize for your city. That survey collector tool is a customizable tool that our consultant created an Arc GIS. And so it's very similar to the arches platform that was developed by the Getty Institute is supposed to be an open source app. And it will tie into our existing Arc GIS and zoning platform on the city's website. Thank you and then comment when you were talking about the building and probably someone said that's a beautiful building. I'm glad you were able to reuse that as a community hub. Next question is Has Fort Worth had to deal with scooter rentals agency pop up entrepreneurs trying to set up shop on waste. No, we unlike our neighbors to the east and Dallas we didn't allow them. So we did not have any of those issues that any of other large cities did. How is the tip different from the same. They are very similar. And to be honest, Laura would know better and have a better answer to this question than I would. She's our design district and kind of tips are. So I will I will ask her what the answer is that question and send it to Ruth and we can post it with the presentation. Love Fort Worth and its architecture. How much did the tornado in the 90s affect revitalization. Jerry do you want to take that one. I mean, I think we've really recovered fully from that as I see it we got a great sculpture out of it some twisted metal. That became a sculpture right at a key intersection, but you know, the building it hit the most has has become residential. And it was office building and before that in a big restaurant at the top of it. And it's done well as a residential building it it's certainly not all puns intended the wind out of Fort Worth sales for some time to try to figure out what to do with this big building but but everybody's pretty well recovered. Most of the buildings were insured downtown they're just it it's taken some time but I don't think you would be aware at all of a tornado going through part of downtown today. And just a lot of kudos awesome presentation, great information. Thank you. And wait a few minutes to see if there's anything else that comes through. But I just wanted to point out that a lot of the locations that Justin and Jerry point point out are going to be featured in our work. So I think that it might it ties together nicely that's really cool. And just to point out, this is what Mule alley used to look like before it was revitalized to look like this. So, you can see we've come a long way in Fort Worth since the 1920s. Just to see all the historical and differences and the before and after pictures. Not seeing any more questions come in so I just wanted to thank you Justin and thank you Jerry for taking time out of your day to come and present at Musa. We see we just have something we just had one pocket. Actually, they're all coming in now so I take my thank you back and I'll put them on hold for you. Are we allowed to replace windows that are single panes with more energy efficient windows. And I'm guessing this is for historical. Well, the thing you need to first figure out is if the window can be repaired. And if it can you should repair it first because an old growth timber wood window and a historic building will last another 100 years with simple repair techniques. And they're actually more a repaired wood window is the most energy efficient window on the market. There are ways to retrofit them to install double pained insulated glass. And so that's what we typically recommend just so you can get the full benefit of a repaired restored window. If you if you have to if you can't repair a window and you have to replace it, it's totally fine to replace it in kind with a new wood window that has double or triple pained glass. And you know we always encourage you to check with our office first before embarking on a project so we can provide guidance on these types of things. How does the neighborhood find out if they can do revitalization through a historic district. If that's the question, then the neighbors need to get together and work with the city on how to develop a historic district. It's it's a clear process do you want to talk any about it since it's your program Justin. I would say the best way to figure out a neighbor can a neighborhood can do it is if the residents want to do it. You know all of our historic districts here were led by the people who live in the neighborhoods. And so if you guys are up for it, we are here to help out and provide all the technical guidance knowledge on how to make that happen. Where is from that might be helpful if it's a new initiative that she's starting in her own city or within, you know, a different state that may it may be something that they already have to in place so just calling your city to find out as well. Where did the public finance infrastructure generate. Talk about this unfortunately she couldn't make it today, but I will find out that information and if you want to email me I can get you her contact information and we can provide more information on how public infrastructure districts operate. How was it the question should have been how was it generated. Don't know if that makes a difference and you being able to answer that question. It does not. Well, you can find Justin's and Jerry's contact information by clicking on their picture next to the workshop description and they'd be happy to get those answers for you or you can leave them in the chat and they can follow up and I can get back to you. Thank you again Justin and Jerry for joining us today and hope to see you at the neighborhood tours. And if you don't don't join us for that we'll see you again tomorrow for the other workshop sessions. Thank you.


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How's it going everyone Caleb here with Williams sports cards next tonight guys we have select baseball This is Six box break number eight. Let me show you the results one more time. We'll get right to it There you go. We look good to go. Thank you all so much Go guys Let's do it results link is also in your chat there Like I said, let's keep sapphire moving six to go so far or I should say remaining on that break Starting it out Luindia's that's a patch shot out of 299 Marlins Freddie Freeman by the numbers Should be a fun break here guys looking forward to it last round of select on its own Actually, there is a divisions case coming up a little bit. I lied sparks Josh Lowe I lied I lied Divisions leader We go continuing everyone. It's gonna be brewers Freddy Peralta.  You got a Joey Vado in Fuego Glen Otto to 99 tri-color patch Rangers Xander select star Silver It's gonna be the 149 Cody Bellinger Dodgers Silver Tommy Edmond Cardinals and we got Brandon Marsh here. That is gonna be not numbered patch angels Goldschmidt moonshots tri-color Trevor story phenomenon Tati's junior This Tati's Red Glen Otto to 199 Rangers rookie there for you Rangers Mike Yastrensky Silver Giants a couple they go Silver is Brooks Robinson Orioles Keep going What makes you and on it took? Can definitely be a little bit hit or miss it's got a big checklist. Yeah of rookies and stuff like that Seen some pretty dang big wonders come out but you can also have some patch autos of Some guys that probably won't make it too far Kepler to or excuse me try color not numbered Yachty select stars like imagine hitting like a Christian yellow Trying to get back to me anyway, you can Jose Barreiro to 299 patch auto reds in Fuego Shane Bieber Listen, it's a it's a it's a sore time right now. Yeah, we know it's a sore time We know read Denmark sparks auto don't want 99 nice sparks with you bets Very affordable though. I will say that All things considered Devers there to 25 on the cracked ice nice There you go Yeah, I took all of the like fancy patches took are gonna be anything number 25 or less Edmunds so to try color in Fuego L2 they every time we hit a patch that is gold to 10 or cracked ice to 25 It's usually like two or three color or something nice Cedric Mullins to 99 But yeah, the higher numbered stuff is just a lot of napkins for sure So I hear you silver there Jake Cronin work. I Like it. I will be honest. I'm not I'm not in love Miguel Taylor to 250 patch there. That's silver The camo you're saying yeah, I got you Any of obvious red and I was I think I said ten or the year the camo is to her excuse me What's it called tie-dye is to 20 is it it's a 20. 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That is a Cubs rookie nice one there Zebra Dylan Carlson. That is gonna be a diamond level Zebra. Very cool. Congrats Cardinals Nice I Hear you AC. I hear you silver Jose Borreos Oh, man, let's continue We got Matt Brash Mariners patch Brandon Marsh sparks Fair Vaughn fair. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people have a lot of respect for the asterisks anymore She went to ranch dry color Clayton Kershaw select stars. I hear you man. I Hear you I kind of fall under that category tough to respect them Patch autograph rookie patch autograph to 99 Curtis Terry. Nice Sorting day Bless you Sam Peter Lonzo there next box guys Sorting all day tired. Yeah sorting can Take it as whole They can take some time A lot of personal boxes whatever it is JT Real Muto tri-color in Fuego Kettle Martin And it never stops Keep doing it. That is Reese Nair patch Padres silver Corey seager by the numbers Did you make some decent progress AC Silver Liam Hendricks white socks we got gold Kyle Schwerber gonna be for the Red Sox to up 10 Nice on the concourse gold to up 10. There you go Red Sox Gold silver Trevor story Rockies The one of ones are the gold vinyl gold. Yep hands Krause there. That is a patch Wonsoto moonshots Holy cow, that's a lot of sets man. That's crazy Adam Frazier tri-color Mike trout phenomenon. Nice That's a lot of sets man Dude, you must have went nuts on series one any absolute bangers drew Alice to 149 That's a lot If you got that all put together in like less than four hours, I'm very impressed Louisa right?  Nice AC Brian De La Cruz number to 10 rookie patch autograph Much better patch there Congrats on that Marlins cool card for you Jean. There you go Jean Fuego jazz Homefield judges nice man. I mean those those are tough tough hits to 199 Yordan red Last box everyone like really tough Like I said, let's keep filling up tonight chrome F1 Sapphire. We've got a five box break for you guys later tonight Sorry packs kind of disperse themselves there as they slid out Drop your link here Six to go on that one. I'll be coming up in a little bit for you guys this evening six left And I will also link the title here, so you know what the heck I'm talking about Let's keep going though guys. Thanks again so much for filling these breaks up this evening Let's continue on It's gonna be a tri-color Brandon Nemo, Sandy Kofax Tender's optic is filling right on up. We also have to move the Impeccable PYT that is down to four now appreciate that Ryan McMahon, that's a blue to 149 Yeah, that's what I mean, AC. That's how tough they are Glen Otto Silver Rangers that is how tough they are Literally forget about them completely. Yeah, that's crazy T hop. 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Thank you again so much for joining number eight of the six boxers Once again the patches to reach scuba tile moeller hands crouse Reese Nair Matt Brash Chas and Cormick wonder Franco TJ Friday Logan Webb Tyler McGill Brandon Marsh and a Glenn auto autos Once again, all thanks so much Wilson Contreras set the beer Brian De La Cruz gold to 10 rookie patch auto Randy Rosarana Curtis Terry Jared Durant Connor Siebold the German Mercedes Reed Detmer's Jose Barrero Josh Lowe and Lou and Diaz really appreciate you guys all joining. We'll be right on to the next one shortly tonight's


We are just eight days away from the annual Brainerd J.C.'s Ice Fishing Extravaganza at Hole in the Day Bay on Gull Lake. Tonight Clayton Castle gives us a preview of the annual Brainerd Lake staple. It's back for the 28th year in a row. The Brainerd J.C.'s Ice Fishing Extravaganza will take over the Hole in the Day Bay next Saturday the 27th. The annual event is circled on many calendars for months out because of the fun and the giving back to the community. The largest charitable fishing tournament on the face of the planet. We raise a bunch of money, have about 10,000 of our best friends out on the ice to help us raise money and we give it all back to charity, up to 50 different charities in any given year. Along with the big ice fishing tournament there are other small competitions one can take part in to win some cash. One would be the catch of the day which is we'll announce a mystery fish the day before the contest and if you happen to catch that biggest mystery fish and have the $5 add on sticker for the catch of the day there's a $10,000 price package that goes along with it. And it's not just the adults who can have fun there is something for everyone at the largest event of the year for the J.C.'s. We have kids events at center ice starting at 11 o'clock so you can come out and do the kids on ice Olympics and maybe take home some prizes for that and come on out and help support local charities. Crow Wing County Sheriff Todd Dahl who is retiring in 2018 is sentimental when thinking about the annual event and the impact it has had on the community during his time in office. It's a great thing great cause they make a lot of money for our area charities in the area and the J.C.'s do a great job this is you know it's not a new thing you know when you're talking I think 28th year now it's turned out to be a real good thing for everybody involved. After raising close to $20,000 last year for local charities signs are pointing towards raising even more in 2018. Sales are really on par or even a little bit better than they have been in the past for at this particular point we had a really really great November. On average the ice fishing extravaganza has attracted over 10,000 people annually for over 20 years. Reporting in Niswa Clayton Castle Lakeland News. Now parking will be available for the event at Brainerd International Speedway where a shuttle will take you to the lake. For more information on the event can be found at www.icefishing.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


So how many medical schools should you apply to? What's the right number? Is there a right number? We're going to go through all of that in this video. Let's get into it. All right, guys. Welcome to another episode in the TMJ show and the MD journey YouTube channel. My name is Lux. I'm an internal medicine resident helping people just like you succeed on the medical journey with lack stress. If you are new to the channel, welcome, or we're putting videos just like this one on a weekly basis, actually twice a week now. So if you enjoy the concepts, if you enjoy the video, make sure you go ahead and like and subscribe and hit that notification bell to be notified when the new videos come out. But today I am making a video for all of my soon to be physicians and doctors on how many medical schools you should be applying to. Maybe you're watching this when it's application season, or maybe you're watching this when you have some time to think of how much you're about to spend and drop when it comes to all those applications. And you may not know what a good number is on how many applications you actually need to send out, how many medical schools you need to be applying to exactly what we'll get to in this video. So now the first obvious thing that I want to mention is that there's no right answer. You know, you may need more than the number I'm about to give or you may need less because you may fall into different categories. Maybe your grades are amazing, your grades are not so much, or you have specific criteria, so we'll talk about it. But the average amount of medical schools that the typical pre-med student will apply to is about 15 to 20. Now that number may either scare you or may seem a little low depending on who you are, and we'll get to that in a second. But for the purpose of this video, we're going to keep that number at 15 and I'll explain to you kind of when you should go up or when you should go down, depending on your specific circumstances. Now to really understand what to do with that number of 15, whether you should go up or down, you really need to understand where you kind of stand from the averages. That includes your GPA and your MCAT. So the average GPA for a student who gets accepted into medical schools anywhere from a 3.7 to a 3.8. So you need to evaluate is your GPA both, you know, overall as well as science, is it above or is it below that average? If you're right in the middle, then you know, we'll say for now, stick to the 15th. If your GPA is even higher, maybe you worked your butt off and you got that coveted 4.0, then maybe you can lower that number from 15 to about 12 to 13. And on the other side, maybe you realize that medicine was for you a little bit later or you had a class. It's kind of totally tanked your GPA and you're closer to the three fives, three sixes or even lower than you need to start considering potentially adding more schools to your list. Now, the next thing that you got to talk about is the average MCAT score and at least the making of this video, the typical average for the accepted or matriculant medical school MCAT score is about a 508 to a 510. Now, again, this may change. So look at the institutions that you're considering applying to and then you want to value it.  Where does it kind of put you? Are you right in that range or are you a bit lower or are you a little bit higher? And again, that gives you a little bit more buffer room to either add or subtract about two to three medical schools to apply to depending on what side of the spectrum you're on. Now, I want to give you a quick breakdown. How I would recommend, you know, you applying to medical schools, how many schools you do and which schools you should consider applying to. And one of the biggest mistakes that you can actually make for yourself is applying too far on either end of the spectrum. You can either apply to too many competitive programs where you may be an average to an above average student or you can apply to too many safety programs, not give yourself opportunity to go to institutions that maybe you have the potential to do. So the ratio that I like to give is saying 25% reach programs. We'll talk about that second. 50% of the program should be in the range to have your average GPA and your average MCAT. And then 25% should be what we obviously consider safety schools, but they're just schools that have an average GPA or and or MCAT that is lower than whatever your score is. And I think this kind of format can help you evaluate where you stand for many different institutions instead of just saying, this is an Ivy League program that I would love to go to, but it wouldn't have a chance. This is a good program and this is a not so good program, you know, instead evaluate yourself and your numbers based off the averages that the schools disclose on their websites. I also dropped some links to some nice websites that broken down average GPAs as well as MCATs for each institution that's reported them. So again, that's 25% reach. So if you are applying to 15 programs that'd be about four to five can be your reach schools things that you would love to go to, but maybe your numbers are a little bit lower. 50% would be about seven to eight programs that are in line with your averages and your numbers. And then finally, you have the 25% of kind of safety schools to have a little lower GPA or MCAT than you do. And I would come out to about four to five programs. Now there's a few more things you should consider to understand where you should move that 15 average whether you should go up or down before we get to it. Just a quick reminder, if you're enjoying the video, make sure you hit that like button and that subscribe button as well as a notification bell. And we're putting out high value content just like this for people just like you on a weekly basis. So show your support, but let's get back into the video. And I really wanted to talk about a few more things that you should consider, right? So you have the average of 15. What kind of things will move the needle up towards maybe 20 programs and what kind of things may move you to a 10 or sub 10 in terms of how many programs you apply to a few things you should consider in addition to the MCAT and the GPA are things like where do you want to live?  People love the West Coast or are you trying to go into a major city that may be a little bit more competitive things like New York or Boston? Or maybe you're trying to move to a different state in the United States that tends to prefer people who come from that state. I myself am from Texas, so I know from experience that the public schools here will take up to 90% of their entering class from the state of Texas. So if you want to come here or another state with similar policies, you know, you really do have to consider maybe applying to more programs as well as applying to the programs in the regions that are around you. In addition to geography, you also have to consider what other elements of your application make you competitive.  My GPA was above average. But I think my experience in extracurriculars really helped me stand apart. A few things that I had which I think helped me stand out were things like a scientific paper that was actually published, which isn't always easy to do in college as well as, you know, experiences being the chairman or president of our organization that really just helped me speak for some of my leadership qualities as well as a year off and a gap experience for, say, where I worked with kids with autism. So those were all unique things that add to my application in addition to my good GPA and my good MCAT score.  To share a little bit more of my experience, you know, I think I ended applying to about 10 medical schools in the state of Texas. You know, yes, we have 10 medical schools, but it actually broke up nicely where I had about 25% that had better numbers than probably what I had. 50% of the schools I was applying to here kind of were in coordinates to my grades in my GPA and MCAT and then 25% of them roughly had lower kind of numbers and a lower average. So it was easier for me to apply to. And that gave me a nice influx of interviews, you know, a little bit from the reach schools, a little bit from the medium schools and some obviously from the safety schools, which I could go ahead and then apply to an interview with some confidence. So hopefully guys, I hope you understand that yes, the average is 15, but there's some things you should consider on when you should go up and when you should go down. If you feel like you have a lot more barriers in your way, a lot more red flags and obviously move that number up within reason. And then if you feel like maybe your application is good or you're not trying to go to a very, you know, a lead program, which is completely fine. You're happy with where you are, but you can lower that number. That guys is basically how I'd recommend approaching the question of how many medical schools you should apply to. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. Now if you want more tips on succeeding as a pre-med applying to medical school, then we have a full playlist of all the videos I've made the two to three years that I've been on YouTube now. So I will link that down below as well as an end screen that you guys can check out right here. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you do go ahead and show your support, hit that like button if you haven't done so already, somehow made it to this video. Drop your comments with any questions you guys have down below. Hit that subscribe button as well as notification bell videos coming at you every Wednesday and every Sunday each week. So that's pretty much it. Thank you guys so much for joining me on my journey. Hopefully I've been a little help to you on yours. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.