I'm basically a distro guy, but over time I ended up working full time on Eclipse IDE. And preço норм hat I'm committed on a number of projects, which allows me to get a bit of experience ga pa the different communities get with eclips and the importance of the lower levels and issues exposed for different parties by them. And I'm also the tech leader of the Red Hat desktop IDA team, In tega je zelo vseč naredila vzgledenje. In je prič... ...zaj... ...završnjamo prič, da smo počučni, da nekaj ne boši počučni. Prejko, da nekaj, da nekaj ne boši počučni, nekaj ne boši počučni. In tukaj vem, že je bilo naredil še daljči dneb, obtikljati je nekaj pravoj, da živliki je zelo, kako jem betekljak, čekaj je blade in tukaj je delrist. Maslje studioje, pa se bo, da jese za del gud. Kako bili? C and C++ tooling, Python tooling, pritimč v svoj lengučnih, kaj je. Tukaj je nekaj integracij. Tukaj sem spravil o R, in, da, je nekaj in R. Zato, kako smo na platformu, kaj smo prišličili, kaj smo prišličili, prišličili, vse posljene kombinacije tehnologij, je to vse zelo, da se je vse zelo. Tukaj je zelo, da je zelo, da je vse zelo, in vse zelo, da je nekaj, nekaj, da se je zelo, da se je zelo, kaj je zelo, da je zelo, svoj nekaj zelo vidim, da je bilo terzit, da je našelj izobirala, in je bilo zelo nisem, da njdete našelj, da težko ne zelo. Pa se mora, ki je našelj, da je vse našelj, tako, če je zelo našelj, da je vse našelj, tako so vse vse vse našelj. Vseš, da vidimo, da ne moguš pošličiti tudi. Javanain je pošličit in Eklips je pošličiti. To je tukaj pošličiti, da ne moguš pošličiti kodba. Ne musiš pošličiti, da ne moguš pošličiti. Držaj stop, da je vseč nekaj nekaj izglidava, lahko v trenilj delo se, kaj call- changer, kaj tače. Si se bila odstavljena, da se bih namočilo pošličiti na doma, pošličiti. Jko až značili, da se smetilo pošličiti, ko je zame, da imeš pošličit. ...sak je to, da je pa vsega. ...vega prišta... ...zapravili smo na začu od tehnologij. ...vačno so vsi nekako predvore... ...zapravili me vsega fungšenja, kaj je prištel... ...zapravili me nekaj... ...zapravili mi to, da nekaj... Zelo posledno. Tukaj bilo načinje začnil, zato tudi je zelo počkaj zelo. Vse ideje zelo počkaj zelo vzelo v tega zelo. Nukaj bilo načinje začnil, da v sekundi se zelo, in ima to zelo, da je vse možno vzelo, je dobro začala, da je dobro začala. Vsešta, ste vedno postavili, nekaj se izvršili, nekaj si nekaj je modern, nekaj se načo odbija, nekaj se nekaj se odbija, nekaj se je začal. To zelo, Kaj je zelo poživljati, ki je tudi testov. Eklips je, da je tudi platform, da je tudi 100,000 unit testov. Kaj je tudi in deterministi rezultati, kaj je zelo poživljali inespektive mašinje in konfiguracije. Se ne gledali na pristim izgledenjem, ne zverili naši gerit. To je postočnja nekaj okol. Vse sredno se zelo, da imamo nekaj kontributor, v kvalitku, da viži vse komitere podejeljati na kratku, da so vzivni in izgleda izgleda vse objektive vse vse. Tko tudi je zelo tudi tudi kvalitvo. So sem očal, da bi bilo res jedan, ker je. Tkeliko se je vnulajben iz no vfs za vsevedlje iolih, in državim po vzelo v gelib. Danes ne moram gačati pravdižno 21,3 ene karstve. Ne razdjevaj to, da ni noh više. zelo je veliko veliko. Zdaj sem skupnjala in izgleda izgleda, tudi s linuxem in GTK, ker sem izgleda izgleda, ne tako veliko, tako, ne zelo veliko, in tudi sveče je veliko bolj. Zelo, da se vse zelo. In je to, ki je mnogo počet, nekaj je vse zelo, zelo. Vse zelo je veliko veliko. Zelo sem zelo, da sem dajte, da boš našli, da je bilo vse, zelo, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, da je vse našli, in je zelo pošla v browseru. As you see, it's... You see your normal window, drone inside the browser. Maybe I should move it to show it's not fake. And all the other things you know, they are just there without any additional change happening on Eclipse itself. It's just thanks to GTK allowing us to flip the rendering layer. Actually, there was no change for that in Eclipse itself. It's only rewind gas on latest technology we have. It actually will answer the question from the VS Code talk yesterday. Can you get VS Code running in the browser? And the answer was no. But here is the unexpected one. Can you get Eclipse desktop in the browser? Yes, you can. It's not running on the server. Yes. It's rendering to a browser surface. That's true. And that's what I said. Can you get it in the browser? And the answer is yes. Can you display it on a browser surface? Yes. That's something that you can do in any window. Not with everything, but still, it's not hard to achieve it. At the same time, it's a working solution for one environment where you get certain machine and you expose it, do some native stuff on it. That's something you can get without any investment. To me, was a completely different thing. It was running an IDE on a server. So that's a different thing than this. This is running on your desktop, actually. So the question was, whether the question was can we run the IDE in the browser or running it on the server? Just, let's say, I cannot repeat it word by word what was said yesterday. And this was mostly meant to be an example of things your application will get when you just don't keep yourself in the ancient days where things were not... I agree. I mean, this is really great. Okay. Sorry. And this brings to the first priority that has changed amongst the Eclipse contributors. We want to make it fun to work on our code base again. I would say it's not shared still by everyone, but there is a big enough group that is kind of taking responsibility for much of the development lately. For us, this is a really top-important thing. And it already shows its effect. Just for the fun of it, I opened a book asking for help running Eclipse with GTK rendering on Windows machines. And a guy just popped out and made it in a few days, posted some screenshots. I haven't tried it yet, but he was like, okay, I easily get it done and this happened without any help from existing committers. He was a complete stranger to me. I knew nothing about him before that. And I think we are going pretty well in this area, but it's not enough. You will not win many going that way. And this is the place where we want people that have invested some time, some resources to get something on Eclipse already to continue feeling at home. That was also a multi-year effort to clean up and reorganize a lot of it. And it is this year release when we finally start expose some of the Java 8 goodies to Eclipse API users and another thing is reducing the way you do things. Over the years we have grown to 10 or 15 different ways of doing the same task. It happens to me like every next day finding out yet another weird way. Something was done and the news here is we are actively removing things. We are even thinking of removing some of the old widgets with really broken on most of the modern machines like three table or stuff like that. Also the deprecation policy and removal policy is being strengthened. So people that are building on top get their expectations right announcement for something to be removed is done and it will be removed in two years. So there is enough time for preparation. And the reason why we got Eclipse at version 4 was the model framework and the dependency injection that was primary usable for RCP developers not for real plugin developers that is starting to change. More and more things are exposed so hopefully the days when we will run without the compatibility layer is not far away. And one of the other things is more and more things start to happen outside of the IDE to better jobs and reporting and making it easier for people using it and doing more of the operations asynchronous. But it's also something that is not that big if you look at it as what we try to satisfy here is keep us as a top choice for new projects. I'm pretty sure that someone that had never experienced Eclipse and was not exposed to its API will have hard time looking at our examples from a few years ago. But the idea is that when someone considers in addition to the huge technology available there should be the coolest factor or at least not to look outdated. And this is one of the areas where Eclipse needs a lot of help. Most of the people building on top see it as a black box and something that was not willing to change so when you see an issue and want to have something improved please contact us the generation has changed so many there are many more people that are willing to listen and to start changing the way things are done. And with that I should go to where we go to the deepest Eclipse strength where it was fully fitting in your desktop environment. It was one of the biggest assets and one of the biggest drawbacks. It was never giving us the full freedom that swing had for example to draw everything in whatever way you want but at the same time improvements that were happening in the underlying system we were getting them for free. And many of the systems starts to be really, really advanced. One example is again GTK it gives you a full CSS engine for styling your desktop widgets and Eclipse is exposing that you can either style your whole window programmatically per widget not available for everyone so we are still keeping it under a hidden option but these are the things where we are catching up and there are a number of products that are not really cross-platform so for them these options make a lot of sense I know of at least one shop that is heavily relying on it and actively approaching us about it and that's one of the trends lately people really like being able to team everything so now we are kind of good in that area at least on Linux where you have the full support from the operating system from the UI toolkit you can team everything in whatever way you want without issues on the other operating systems there are some limitations from the API you are provided so a lot of work happens in Eclipse to achieve similar functionality as much as possible but it's still not there there are few issues you will notice but with every next release there are fewer and fewer that's one of the things no longer considered as functionalities it used to be now it's mandatory part of your UI everything is supposed to be filterable, searchable and so on and if it's there no one will notice it it will be just the most normal thing to have if it's not there you will be considered really amateur and doing something from 20 years ago Eclipse does a lot of a lot of effort on this area it's just fixing constantly enhancing views and other things to expose the already existing functionality for these tasks the problem with getting that everywhere is the big disconnect we have between some of the projects and the huge amount of views and different UI's exposed that's also something we really work on restyling to fit better but people can see it by the way the things I write as examples of what has changed only for the last milestone which was released on Friday for the previous it would get just too big we get a lot of new contributions so it's just the last two months of development another thing is people care more and more about their working career you are not the days of quartered UI's the option is one click away are gone you see efforts to get as much as much free space as possible for the content you work on and sometimes it's heavy to retrain users in such changes so getting it in for getting the new work and keeping it for old guard really means you have to come up with a number of options and allow everything to be set up ok so this is something we really focus on end users when you start Eclipse it should work like a modern application and not something from 1995 there was this notion amongst some people that it is not going to change it is always here and if you want to change you just have to go to another idea at least for me this is not the case and I don't do my best for this to change but this is the place where we were really working the previous things there are small adjustments nothing big nothing you can win people to really start doing something on Eclipse with zero knowledge about it in the previous milestone in December we put this thing which was called generic editor so pretty much editor implementation which gives you extension points where you hook your highlighting or partitioning or autocomplete but you don't deal with the editor and the text document underneath it yourself demo was done by colleague of mine it was 30 minutes and basic grad editor was there this is something Eclipse was walking and one of the things we were pointed out as being way behind others on the market lately we started other things the patch and diff editor I put it here cause it's something in the works and it's meant to be a really simple example for how you use the generic editor there is nothing fancy in it but if you need a real world example it will be there in the workbench and you can expect its code and if you need to add your domain specific language as an example it's done by the same guy that did the generic editor so I hope he did it right and this is yet another search if you don't know what the target file is it's the definition of what your plugin compiles and runs against during development time it's a slightly more featureful you get code complete based on remote content being done asynchronous so if you are going to a bit deeper a bit more featureful editor you may use this one and I'm putting this here cause it's an approach which was mentioned yesterday on the gdb talk that there is a full console where you get everything you can do all your interaction with the debugger from the console nothing fancy if you take a bit just as a console cause you can go on your shell and do the same the good thing here is that every thing in the UI is fully synchronized with what's happening in the console so you set a breakpoint on the console it will appear in your editor you continue editor will scroll variables view will change based on where you are and so on it's an approach which really bridges what we had by now is it also the vice versa that I set a breakpoint in the eclipse and it will set a breakpoint in gdb yes the gdb will know about it the question was whether it works vice versa if you do something in eclipse gdb will know about it and it's yes the big benefit is up until now we had the people doing everything on the console and people doing everything in the UI it works for really trained people but if you have to do it not that often let's say you have to debug a c application every 3 months you are not a seasoned gdb console user you can figure the easy things by using the UI and you may find some really awesome hint somewhere on the internet how to do something on the console which will probably take you 20 clicks and you can just paste it in the console and get the clips reflect on it and continue based on continue using your UI after that as you normally did in a way I see this approach as the real middle ground where we can reduce the antagonism going between IDE and shell users we don't need both groups to see each other as entire strangers especially for cases where you have really trained console users that's an approach which can be considered and will probably give really really good results and here is the next priority we have when I say bridge the gaps with the competition the first few contention there is really even g edit or midnight commander using clips you have patch file somewhere in the repository you double click on it and you see something black on white really hard to read g edit was doing it better than us or or you have to open another application switch between them so these are the small things which eclipse was walking we were walking the text framework and we were walking the opening to the shell users maybe these are just few examples and we haven't done enough here but this is something I would like to be able to invest more into and well I'm pretty sure there will be way more ideas of what can be done to to make eclipse more featureful but when I say more featureful we shouldn't look for every single feature that another application on the market has we have to get these features that help us to achieve the best result for the already existing big ecosystem and that's why I pointed to these two main groups only shell users and the text editing this this was pretty much catching up with everyone else and the next thing is catching up with VS Code they had this nice nice idea of language server which allows you to get all the language specific outside of the IDE so the IDE people don't have to reinvent it and seriously finding PHP developer redoing all the PHP specifics in Java in order to get it in the IDE it's really tough job and this is really work in progress first releases are being prepared out for implementation of the language server protocol which can be used from both sides either to integrate inside Eclipse or to implement language server in Java if you are interested in that so as you see the first release is next week and it's the sister project this goal is to get to built on top of LSP4j hook with generic editor so you don't have to do the editor, the basic editor stuff yourself but you get editor ready and you get auto complete and errors and so on from the language server pretty much making it connecting few dots to get new language support and this is one example that Miko Istria from my team did that's using OmniSharp and LSP4j to have a C sharp integration inside Eclipse as you can see you have the warnings, errors auto complete documentation none of that was really implemented in Eclipse at all all this data is coming from the language server what Eclipse does is just firing the language server and feeding the data to the generic editor now this is available on GitHub for people wanting to contribute, it's in no way ready to use application by now it is mainly the testbed for developing LSP4j so if there are interested people to get more into the C sharp stuff I would say this is nice place to continue but still the language server was not fixing one of the big issues we had and this was get the highlighting and that stuff in the editor you still had to write it yourself and there is a third project which is trying to reuse text made grammars for that work again something really really new it's still not imported in Eclipse.org it this should happen really soon and again something mixing LSP4j and TM4j with the PHP language server this is done by our Zen guides Zen friends they find it really hard to do the warnings and so on and reinvent everything in Eclipse so they were really really happy to help with that work and I don't know maybe next Zen Studio will have something like that or the next next and that's the that's the place where Eclipse has most time to spend we were really close everything was done inside the plugin very few things were used from external this change is something we should catch up and with the number of languages appearing like in my opinion every second month we cannot even afford to add the tooling in the way we used to we were not even looking to get the full featured IDE from the beginning get something for the people to use it from the very first day and get later the auto complete or the documentation I didn't mention that but the generic editor allows the separation of plugins contributing given functionality so the same editor can get auto complete from one plugin and yet another plugin getting data from somewhere can contribute the highlighting errors all that stuff can be coming from different places at different times this is the biggest change we are seeing as we are not used to that model and figuring out how the language servers will be started, how we integrate with other communities to get functionalities needed by the IDE this is still to be figured out but at least it's work that has been started and what's next I hope that people needing really simple workflows like simple editing stuff they weren't missing they will just start integrating it language support sure, at your own and especially with the language servers we are really interested to hear for issues or even help with the initial setup another thing is probably the debugging site VS Code has this debugger protocol which hopefully will gain as much publicity as the language server and will help get the debugging more focused and split the people that work on the IDE and the people that do the language integration itself it might be tougher than with the language server there were few efforts like DBGP the Ruby and TCL plugins has such implementation which well the differences there happen to be way bigger so it didn't fly with enough push second trial will be better and I'm done with that so if anyone has questions so the question is how we make it fun to work on the codebase again first part was really allow people to get changes fast in the past the biggest obstacle was get all the approvals now for many things we went to an approach where you're pretty satisfied with what you did get it in if we find the issue we'll revert it it might be demotivating if it happens few times but it's certainly less demotivating than waiting months for approval the other thing is many of the rules were reduced like adding an API you had to get a user for it in PDE the plugin development environment or the Java development environment if you don't have a user of it in these two places it was a real exception to get something in now we do the change where other languages are treated as the same level so that way we get one group support from CDT people there is no use still but it allows to merge the two approaches and overall making it fun was reduce the barriers and even remove many of the rules it's probably not true for most of the projects but at least for Eclipse it was too formal and it was really it was not welcoming people to say it that way other questions so that's a good question which I think so the language server the language server itself does the ASD generation and then computes the if you're asking for a completion the code completion does the code completion and returns back the code completions to be displayed by the editor so the editor at the top doesn't know anything about the language or the ASD generation only knows the objects that needs to be displayed and for instance the PHP server that Alexander just showed that actually works on Eclipse, vizio studio code and Eclipse I think they haven't supported that they've absorbed it but multiple editors can just work with the same language server and they show the same object in their own way other questions you talked about modernizing and catching up with the other editors and IDEs are there any changes in means of Eclipse releases that enabled that? the question is whether there are any changes in Eclipse releases to allow easier catching up with others and there is for the first time this year we will get one more service release that's already a change but the bigger change is in service releases we are allowed to backport new functionality which was not here last year this is probably the most noticeable one there are other changes which we are still discussing how to ship faster but there is no decision so I can't really share anything for sure functions in service releases that practically makes 4 releases per year with new functionality there is a limitation in the new functionality you can backport we can't really backport the generic editor but allowing small features here and there so it's like it's really we are getting the service releases as minor releases nothing big in them but still some new functionality no idea I even have no idea how you get such statistics the question was do I have any statistics about what is the most useful editor for Java commercial support option for Eclipse for companies using it because my feeling is that some companies start migrating to IntelJ IDEA for Java just because of that because it's pretty well maintained and supported and I like that it's very much but sometimes I have been struggling basic things like cooperation with our processor in our company and sometimes small things make a bit change on the market so do you think that something like that we can expect so the question is will there be any commercial support for Eclipse for Java developers and the answer is there is already first of all we are providing one if for people interested sorry? I mean Red Hat another thing is there is a program at Eclipse foundation which is called long term support program there are few companies which are listed there as providers and you can approach them with your issue and you may figure something that they will work on usually the companies list the projects they work on and I don't know how well this program is going but it's already here for probably 5 years maybe not popular enough still that's the situation it should be interesting why and what you can do to improve the situation not to lose the market yes probably that's thank you for your answer the thing is I've heard many reasons from different people and probably the most often heard one was about IntelliJ having way better language editing support where we are catching up now that was one of the things I've heard most often but many people just have their visual preferences it's hard to fight this one yes so the question is what is the status of other languages like javascript javascript has support for it improved a lot previous year in web tools project all I know about javascript is there is a lot in the news but honestly I never written in javascript anything so can't really help again Gorkim and it didn't support anything newer than javascript 3 and even the support of javascript 3 was javask so it had some javask flavors in it so what we did last year was we took out that parser which was a big pain and replaced that with javascript parser javascript javascript it kind of works now so we support ES6 all the latest features but one thing that we found out about javascript was what we are doing right now is to take out that is javascript and replacing with Google's collusion compiler which is actually a javascript parser it is a much much better fit to be used in an IDE because it supports tolerance it supports inference and so on so now we are trying to integrate that into JSTP once we have a nice parser that we can rely on that gets updated regularly by Google's collusion compiler project it will be much easier for us to get new features who is supporting JSTP I be honest I did the original work out by the way no there are no idea how to write it so so right now it is mostly written and there are a few individuals for contributing so thank you and if there are any questions we can continue outside or later is to see you finally remember me Rafał my wife is a former neighbor how I remember sorry we are going to meet you this last summer but you are traveling we are also traveling to Bulgaria and other countries so we are going to meet in Bulgaria OK the four is yours OK go you can use this BGA as you know there is the internet network probably dopper will meet the list of network managers and have you ever spoken before not yet so we will show you 10 minutes before the end OK


So Ann and I, the next couple of minutes, want to talk with you about our network and the power of all of us working together. So this is us. This is what we're together trying to do, which is illuminate nature's contributions to people. And it talks a little bit about how we do that, which is combining science and incredible policy and finance innovation with critical leaders from communities to companies to countries. But we want to talk, we'll hear a lot over the next three or four days about innovative science and also policies and innovations that are going on around the world. What Ann and I want to talk with you about is you and all of us. So what is our role? What are we doing in this network to help us achieve this vision that we share? And I think one of the main things we're doing is we're making the world a smaller place. So you might know this idea of six degrees of separation and it's the idea that if you pick any random person in the world, you're likely not separated from them by more than six people. And that's because of this idea of between friends and friends and friends connections, you're probably somehow linked with them. And that's what we do here. It helps ideas spread faster. If you make the world smaller and you work your connections, then good ideas spread faster and lessons from bad ideas die more quickly. And Hollywood even made a game out of this. This game is called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. That's this actor and he is connected. They've done mathematical models on this to pretty much every actor in Hollywood because of the work they've done together, the work in movies. And this is what Nat Cap's network does. This is what we all do. We connect people all around the world and help shorten these chains of learning and sharing great ideas. So one example of this starts in Belize. This is Chantal Clark-Samuels, the CEO of the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute. It's an intergovernmental institute, agency in Belize that's charged with developing coastal development plans. And Katie Arkima from Nat Cap and a Stanford Nat Cap team and WWF Nat Cap team work together with Chantal and they have now developed and approved in the Belize government a coastal development plan that harmonizes tourism, small scale lobster fisheries and coastal development that is protected from sea level rise in storms. So these two women here on the right, Michelle LeMay and Cassandra Rogers from the Inter-American Development Bank came to some of these government led workshops in Belize and saw our work. They came to this symposium a couple of times and got really excited about this network of learning and science practice that we have. So they invited us to work with the government of the Bahamas who was just initiating their own development plan. And they have now approved a development plan that really starts instead of with ecosystems, it starts with livelihoods and human safety but it has ecosystems interspersed in all of it. Because of these local leaders and this work in those two countries there's now an opportunity with the Inter-American Development Bank to spread these approaches in a systematic way and get standard development planning approaches throughout all of Latin America and the Caribbean. So here we are at the IDB annual meeting last year over discussing this idea with a number of leaders there. So this is just one example in the Caribbean area how ideas from two countries led by incredible leaders there have now have the opportunity to spread throughout a much bigger region. That same kind of work is happening all over the world. As our colleagues in China will share with you today and over the next couple of days, amazing work to lift people out of poverty through natural capital approaches. Similar work with green economies in Mozambique you'll hear about over the next couple of days. And places from Chile to Myanmar are also doing sustainable development planning for infrastructure. The idea about all of these projects is that ecosystem health is connected to human well-being and if you can illuminate what those connections are you can really transform policies in really quick ways. We'll also hear from our colleagues from Mongolia who are doing some really innovative work around sustainable livelihoods for herders and regenerative grazing practices. So because we're mostly nature lovers in this room I think everybody is. You can think of this as a forest with incredible strong work in each of the regions. So the trees might be the countries or the regions China believes Myanmar. And that work is critical for benefits to people and ecosystems in those countries but with our networks of people sharing stories and asking for help and giving help on technical capacity building and policy innovations that's what's gonna make these ideas take hold and take off. So is this approach working? I just wanted to remind us all how far we've come. I'm not gonna go through this timeline in any detail but think about the early 1990s when the idea of capital in economics work was just being begun to be discussed as a knowledge foundation early time. Some early pioneering use cases such as New York's water supply and Forever Costa Rica started and really sparked people's imagination and got excitement going. Then in 2005 with the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment showing that this was possible we could account for ecosystem service change globally and that cap was founded right then with the goal of systematizing these approaches. And we're now farther to the right there's been a lot of exciting explosion of initiatives and work in country governments and civil society and NGOs and we're right at this mainstreaming and scaling phase. So that comes back to us. What are we each doing to help be that network and spread these good ideas more quickly? One thing we can do really well is publish papers. We've kind of have that. These are, this is a Google scholar search of publications with natural capital or ecosystem services in them. So we're pretty good at that and there's a lot of incredible innovative science happening in those curves. But what about these other things, these sort of less tangible things that we've been talking about already today? It's that sharing stories, building capacity and telling one another, I need help on this or can you show me how you did that and sharing your successes and lessons. We need to up our game. This is an urgent time in our planet and if we really are intentional about how we work together we can scale our efforts. So here's us on the top. Last year we'll take a picture out there in a minute as Henry said and here we are with the Chinese Academy of Sciences where there were 400 scientists from over 20 provinces just last fall. So I'm very grateful for the chance to be part of this network and I'm really inspired by all the work that we're doing and I'm excited to learn more from all of you over the next couple of days.


So you don't know how to get anime style from Blender to Unity, not a problem. Now I'm gonna assume that you've already exploited your character as an FBX to Unity. If you don't know how to do that, I have a video for it right here. You'll also need to have all your texture maps ready beforehand, so make sure that you have your Albedo color, your Ambient Occlusion detail, and a Shadow Color Map, which is honestly just the normal color map but a little darker. Okay, so in my humble opinion, the best solution that I've found is called Realtune Shader. It's normally 28 bucks on the Unity Asset Store, but it's super easy to use, and right now there's a Black Friday sale, so you could get it for half off. Anyway, once you have it, if you go to your Unity project and activate Realtune from the Package Manager, you'll see a new file on your game. If you click it and go to Examples and Realtune Demo, you should see this Tai Chi guy. If you click on him and check out his materials, you're gonna want to pick one and Ctrl-D to duplicate, and move that into whatever file you want to keep the textures for your character. At this point, you need to set the material with your Albedo and AO Map. Remember, in Blender, each material had a color and a detail. Well, it's the same here in Unity. For every material on your character in Blender, you need a material in Unity. So for example, this character had two materials, one for her body and one for armor. So in Unity, I would also need two materials. But for the tutorial, let's just work on the body. If we click on the material and open the Texture tab, we can just drag our color map right into here. Then if we go to the Shadow tab, we can drag our shadow map into here and our ambient occlusion into here. Then we just drag the material onto our character and you're done. Just drag the material where it's supposed to go for each part, and if you want to change the outline thickness, you can click here and adjust the width. But that's pretty much all you need to get this shader started in Unity. Hope that helps and as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


This is stock number 9C10A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV and car headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2014 Buick Encore from this HD video. You will be able to tell that this Encore is extremely clean all the way around inside and out. This vehicle has a 1.4 liter turbocharged four cylinder motor which pumps out 138 horsepower. Quick silver metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person. Very clean down this side comes with the I believe they're 18 inch painted alloy rims and they have Continental Conta Pro 215-55R18 tires on them. These tires have right around half the tread left and this one does have four wheel disc brakes on it. Didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on that painted rim. Has the HID headlamps. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. Has the chrome trimmed grille. Front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Passengers side fender is in really nice shape as well. Passengers side rim. One little scuff on there nothing too major though and as you go down this side of the vehicle you can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. Roof is very clean and once again I didn't see any dents or dings down this side of the vehicle. Something you just don't get from pictures is that nice pan down the side so that you could see if there were any dents or dings is back rims in excellent condition and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Coming around to the back of the vehicle you'll notice that it is very clean as well. No major dents or dings or cracks on that rear bumper. The back gate is in excellent condition too. Rear storage area is very clean. Those seats do fold down for extra storage and it does come with a spare tire. You can see the rear shocks are doing a nice job of holding that rear gate up and that gate shuts nice and solidly. As you go down this side of the vehicle just as clean as a passenger side and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape. No scuffs or scrapes on that.  Has the built-in directional signals, power mirrors, built-in blind spot mirrors as well. Inside the base package gives you the black and gray leather and cloth interior. You get the cool aqua blue stitching on the seats there, the power driver seat, factory floor mats throughout on this vehicle. Auto headlamps, you get a tilt and telescopic steering wheel. You get the really classic dark wood grain trim, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. And as you hop inside the vehicle here you can see that this one only has 23,743 miles. You get the leather-wrapped steering wheel with the thumb pads, bluetooth and audio controls on the right, cruise controls on the left. Comes with the GMC IntelliLink system. You get AM, FM, and Serious XM radio capabilities. This is also where your backup camera shows up.  This is an all-wheel drive vehicle. Passengers seat and floor mat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears on that seat and the headliner is in excellent condition. Up here you get your map lights and it does have on-star capabilities in the mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood. Very clean up front and in the back, much of the same. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch, child safety system. Factory floor mats and carpeting back here are very clean as well and these seats do fold down like so. And I think you gotta, you can take these, I'll show you how this works. So these seats pop up like so and then go like that and then these seats fold down. Front seat's got to be down all the way so that they go flatter but you get the idea. Anyways, and then it locks right into place. Really easy to do. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today on this super clean 2014 Buick Encore. Under the hood we have the 1.4 liter turbocharged four cylinder engine. 138 horsepower engine base. Very clean, runs very smooth. This vehicle has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil in it. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this Encore is 100% ready to go. 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And I want to, I want to give everyone a sense of like the science and so give us a window into how it makes you feel, why it works and just some of the science of what's behind this. So if anyone goes and buys it, they can at least, you know, it's not like, Hey, we just like these guys, but it's like, Hey, we like these guys and, and there's something, there's some tangible benefits here. Yeah. A big part of it for us is that scientific background. So aside from the medical school being nice feathering on camp, my backgrounds in biology, Yasser is a cognitive neuroscientists, and we worked with a team of nutritionists, dietitians, medical doctors, Eastern Eastern medicine practitioners, the whole gamut when coming up with these formulations. And so it's not just us trying to figure out what the heck is going on. We're pulling on all these different strings of experts to put something together that bridges that gap between mustering Western medicine and Eastern philosophy. So we've got two different kind of like categories of products because we're a hemp company as a foundation. So the stuff that goes into whole foods has something called hemp seed oil in the product and all of our hemp comes from farms that use regenerative farming. So already because the soil is healthier, the food that comes out of it is more nutritional has higher different active compounds, whether that's the vitamins, minerals, the chlorophyll, the omegas in it. So the hemp seed oil that we sell on whole foods, we put the minimum daily amount of Omega threes. If you compare it to other hemp shots that use hemp seed oil, which there's one or two. The closest one to us has 55 times less hemp seed oil than what we have. And the way we formulated ours is that it has a minimum daily amount. So that tells you how efficacious the other shots are. I mean, for us, there's only so much you could put in there to make it taste good and work well. And so that was our threshold for that. So Omega threes also helps some of the other compounds in there absorb better. For instance, fat and curcumin, the active compound and turmeric, when those two are combined with each other, they absorb better. Another fact to, you know, for instance, all the immune shots out there in the world, turmeric juice actually doesn't contain that much of the active compound curcumin. Most like it's lost in the juicing process in the pulp. It's not water soluble.  So we're the only shot on the market that actually adds curcumin back into it as well. So little tidbits there from the hemp juice side, which is kind of what we started on. The fun part about that is that it's full of this compound called raw CBD or CBD. And so everyone's familiar with CBD, don't need to beat that dead horse. But CBD is something brand new for a lot of people. The same researcher in Israel that discovered CBD back in the 80s, Raphael Mekolam. He also discovered the medicinal compounds of CBD, but it was only recently in labs that they were able to stabilize it like a pharmaceutical format, not like a juice format, because no doctor is going to be prescribing juice to a patient as much as we wish. When they isolated that compound, they found that it works a thousand times stronger for anti-nausea, anti-inflammation of the gut. That's a huge order of magnitude. I mean, it's night today. It still works through things like stress and pain and inflammation. The gut health aspect is, it's in a league of its own. So that's the cool part about the hemp juice. And so then you have to figure out, like, how do I standardize it and stabilize it? And that's what took us about a year and a half before we even launched the product in terms of figuring it out. So there's a lot of science that goes behind it. And we can dive in, we can talk on hours and hours for it. I think that's one of the important things is that I think the consumer thinks like science is done, right? We have this natural tendency like, oh, we learned science. It was in, we took a class and now we know science, but there's actually, like, to your point, you mentioned the 80s discovery. There's even more discoveries around cannabinoids in the 90s. And so we're talking about, like, very recent history where, one, it's being discovered and then it takes time to get to the masses and like, how do we use this and how does the body ingest it and what is actually going on? And I think it's important for people listening to realize science is being created right now, right? And a lot of these products were sort of in, like, the new frontier, I would say, of wellness. Hey, everyone. Thanks for checking out that clip. If you enjoyed it, be sure to hit the like button down below. And if you're interested in hearing the full episode, it's out right now on our YouTube channel. 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Welcome everyone to the 4pm stock market update. This is Jacob Schup, filling in for Tom O'Brien. He will be back tomorrow. Let's see where we kind of closed out today. We're actually a little bit flat in a lot of things. So we have the ES mini. Well, here, let me get off meta. The ES mini closed at about 0.16% down. We have the Russell actually got hit down about 1%. NQ trading up about 0.19%. We have the Dow futures down about 0.44%. Gold actually flat and we're looking at the metals here. Silver got hit down 0.73%. Get not too much. And then Copper really did lose out down about 1.3%. Crude oil popping along with natural gas today, trading about $72.17 on the barrel. Again, not popping too much in context of recent history, but about 2% on that contract. And of course the Brent about 1.84%. The bonds kind of basically unchanged throughout the day. Tesla's getting hammered. Let me talk a little bit about that if I fill in again sometime soon down about 2.29%. Of course, we've had a little way down here on a little kind of retracing. Trading about $264.99 all the way back down to what we're trading at right now, which is $234.88. Of course, the low on the day was about $232.14. The dollar, trading about up about 0.4% at 1.02.53. The Q's about 4.05.80. Google 1.42.56. Meta, 3.57.47. Let's talk a little bit about them. Okay, there's some stuff going on with Meta. And this time the US government has kind of laid the hammer on them. Essentially saying that they engaged in activities that they knew to be harmful on the mental health of youth. Obviously that's a big problem because they are our future that talk about the youth. So they eventually came out and said, all right, fine, we're gonna do something about it. All right, let's talk a little bit about that. Yeah, it says that it will restrict content for teens as complaints mount about harmful effects on youth. The company said it expects to complete the update over the coming weeks for teens under the age of 18. Here's the thing though, as I'm 27 and I grew up at the beginning of the internet. Okay, I'm on the internet still. You know, there is obviously a big culture that's developed among younger people being on there. It is so hard to legislate these changes. Okay, like there's weird stuff on every aspect of the internet and people find it. I think the number one way if you have young kids and you're concerned about that is, you know, just to be really cognizant of what they're consuming. And, you know, that's gonna have a lot of parental stuff. Folks, thank you so much for joining me. Tom O'Brien will be back tomorrow. We have Tommy O'Brien on at 9 a.m. for the morning market kickoff. We have Basil at 10, Steve at 11, Larry at 1 p.m. Eastern time. And then Tom will take you home. Thank you so much.


I was on a senior high, you know? The Vice President is not wearing a T-shirt. Hey, you're on a senior high. Do we have you? Yeah. You can get in the booth. You can get in the booth. You get in the booth.   So I could just... I don't think I have this for you. Do you call me, what else, on Friday? No, you're probably the person I call you. No, you're the only person I call.  I didn't say anything to anybody. It's like, it's filled out in the mailroom, and someone found it. Anyway, I guess it's better than never. It is online. Yeah, so from our website, there's kind of a searchable version. There's a PDF version right now. I think I'm building up. Yes, I am. Well, I thought I'd look into it. Well, then she said one day she was like, oh, I'll share it up. What's working yesterday? Oh, man. What are we doing wrong? Good afternoon. Welcome to the Durham Planning Commission. The members of the Durham Planning Commission have been appointed by the City Council and the County Board of Commissioners as an advisory board to the elected officials. You should know that the elected officials have the final say on any issues before us tonight. If you wish to speak on an agenda item, please go to the table to my left and sign up to speak. For those wishing to speak, please state your name and your address clearly when you come to the podium. Please speak clearly into the microphone. Each side, those wishing to speak in favor of an item and those wishing to speak in opposition to an item, have 10 minutes to present each side. The time will be divided among all persons wishing to speak. If you are here opposing the rezoning tonight, you should be aware of what's called a protest petition. A protest petition can be very helpful to those residents who live in the rezoning area. Please consult the planning department staff for any details on the protest petition and they will be happy to help you. You should also keep in constant touch with the planning department as to when your case will go before the elected officials for a final vote. Finally, all motions are stated in the affirmative, so if a motion fails or ties, the recommendation is for denial. Thank you. Can we have a roll call? Commissioner Bealon. Commissioner Boyd. Commissioner Davis. Commissioner Gibbs. Vice Chair Harris. Chair Jones. Commissioner Huff. Commissioner Lamb. Commissioner Padgett. Commissioner Smusky. Commissioner Walters. Commissioner Whitley. We have excused absences from Commissioner Beachwood and Commissioner Wonders. Commissioner Huff emailed me today. Also, we can add that to the minutes. Do we have any adjustments to the agenda? Good evening, commissioners. Pat Young with the planning department. We do have one adjustment to the agenda, item 7A, which was a resolution in honor of former commissioner Teji Kimball. We'd ask that that be referred back to staff and we will reschedule it for November. A former commissioner called us today and indicated that he had a conflict with this evening's meeting. Thank you. Also, if I might quickly certify for the record that all public hearing items before you tonight have been advertised in accordance with the provisions of law and we have affidavits to that effect on violence department. Thank you, sir. Can we get approval of the minutes? It's been moved in property second. All those in favor of the approval of minutes, let it be known by raising your right hand. Minutes has been passed 11 to 0. We'll move down to item 5, public hearing for plan amendment, Murray Field Commercial case A120015 and zoning case Z120026. Good evening. I'm Laura Woods with the Durham City County Planning Department. I'll be presenting the plan amendment, Murray Field Commercial plan amendment case A120015. This proposal by four of its associates would change the future land use on 1.85 acres in North Durham from low density residential to commercial. This is within the suburban tier. The site is located east of Guess Road, north of Horton Road and south of Victory Boulevard. To the north, it's a place of worship and low density residential. To the east, low medium density residential. To the west, vacant. And to the southwest, medium density residential. To the south is commercial. According to the applicant, and this is the most crucial point of the applicant's justification, the proposed flume change is consistent with the existing zoning on the property. It would remain so should you approve the rezoning request that is associated with this plan amendment. There are four criteria that staff use to evaluate these reports. Is the proposed land use consistent with adopted plans and policies? Is the proposed land use compatible with land use patterns existing in future? Does the proposed land use create substantial adverse impacts? And is the site of adequate size and shape to accommodate the proposed land use? Staff has reviewed the proposal and concluded it is consistent. It is compatible. It does not create substantial adverse impact and it is an adequate shape and size. Therefore, staff recommends approval. That concludes my report. Good evening. Amy Wolfe with the Planning Department presenting the zoning map change report for Z1200026. Merefield commercial. The applicant is Horvath Associates. It is within the city's jurisdiction and the request is to change the existing zoning from commercial neighborhood with the development plan to the same district. Although modifying the development plan and removing it from its current development plan which includes a larger area. The area is 2.95 acres and the proposal is for 8000 square feet of non residential development. The site again is at 1439 Victory Boulevard with frontage on Gas Road, south of prison camp road and north of Horton. It is in the suburbant here. It is in Eno Bee Watershed Protection Overlay District. And just as a note, this site is larger than the plan amendment site because the plan amendment just proposes to change the northern portion of the site. The recreation and open space designation will remain the same. The request does satisfy the minimum standards of the commercial neighborhood district as shown here. The existing site is part of a larger development plan PO327. You'll see here that it's proposed for, well the pattern shows residential development. It is proposed for residential use. And on this particular map north is towards the top of the screen. And so the site here is just a portion of that existing zoning district. Removing this parcel does not change impact any of the commitments of the existing plan. And the proposal shown here with north to the left of the screen is the site. There's a number of commitments on this site. It does show a building area here, which is a little bit more specific than we typically would see with parking along the frontage of Gas Road and Victory Boulevard. What this request proposes to do, the existing plan had two access points that would cross this stream. This plan shows one access point here. There are a number of things that have changed as well. The proposal is also increasing the intensity of the site by 3,000 square feet. And there's some modifications of the use outlined in your staff report. But essentially it will be commercial and or office with some limitations to that. The, again, 8,000 square feet of commercial building area, one site access. The impervious surface maximum is less than 20%. This is in a watershed protection overlay, which would allow 70% for reference. Tree preservation is 13.07%. The graphic commitments or access points, the tree preservation areas. There's a trail easement, which is off site, which is on the existing development plan for the parcel. And there's a committed uses for office and or retail and or restaurant without a drive up window. And the Eastern Project Boundary, which is where the existing access points would be, they're proposing to do an on and off site project boundary buffer there. There's a number of text commitments. Again, location of the building with specification of parking areas, intensity of the site and the prohibited uses are daycare bars, night clubs, gas. Gasoline pumps or restaurants with drive through windows and the stream buffers are committed to be undisturbed. Dumpsters facing commitment, loading docks. Not permitted air ventilation restrictions and a finished floor elevation restriction. There's design commitments associated with this request. I won't read it all, but they do address the architectural style roof lines, building materials and any architectural features of any proposed building. The request again is not consistent with the future land use map. You heard that report. It is requested to match the present and proposed zoning designation of the site of commercial. And it does satisfy the policies or meet the policies of the comprehensive plan that apply to the site. And staff determines that should the plan amendment be approved, this request would be consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances. And that concludes my report. All right, thank you. We have two people signed up to speak. Ron Horvath and Janice Mitchell. Each one of you will have five minutes each. Chairman Jones, members of commission, Ron Horvath Horvath Associates, and I'll stand back from this a little bit. Sorry. I'll be very brief tonight. The request is really the main focus is the deletion of two driveways across the stream and enter the residential street to the east. That was the original concept the developer had at the time. Unfortunately, during the 2005, 6, 7 and later recession, the developer lost the property. Lenard Holmes took over the town home proportion from the bank. And another developer picked up the commercial portion. And it was pretty much agreed upon that running commercial traffic through the residential development was not highly desirable. So we he opted to allow me to bring the rezoning forward to have a single driveway access on the victory and leave the complete 100 foot buffer behind the stream to buffer the neighborhood from the uses. That is the main reason tonight. We did add daycare to a list of exclusions over the other exclusions that we had in 2003. One of the reasons where the land use amendment is before you is in 2003 with a zoning change, we didn't require or the city didn't require land use plan amendments to be upgraded. So the zoning was changed the neighborhood commercial. And now when I come back again, we had to now go through the land amendment change just to keep everything concurrent. That occurred, I believe 2005, 4 or 5 when that policy changed. Be glad to answer any questions you might have and I appreciate your endorsement in this project. Thank you. Hello. My name is Janice Mitchell and I am a resident at Murphill Village. My home is directly next to where this property, commercial property is. When our former developer foreclosed on the property, all of the homeowners we met and we learned that this property was going to come out onto Nicholas Drive. Nicholas Drive is a part of our community and we really didn't want that. So we were actually pleased with Mr. Horvath also did not want it coming into the residence because we have so many houses now. It's going to be 96 houses. That's a main street. So in order for all that traffic to come down that street and a commercial property to come out onto that street, it would be too much congestion right there near the corner. So I'm in favor of this zoning proposal. And also Mr. Horvath has told me that nothing has changed in the plan since he proposed this plan. So we met with him on several occasions to make sure that the plan fit with what our residents wanted to be like. Also, I was happy to learn that the stream there's a stream that comes through that property. And I just heard a young lady said that that stream is not going to be disturbed because my house is in the flood plain. And so if that stream is disturbed, it's going to it could possibly impact all the houses on that side. So I'm in favor of it. As long as like I said that stream, she said it wasn't going to be the street. Hopefully you can make that zoning decision to make that come out onto Victory Boulevard. And then our community was really pleased with the plan. Thank you. We don't have anyone signed up to speak in opposition of it. So I'll close the public hearing and bring it back before the commissioners. This question is for planning. In other cases we've had locations that have had two points of ingress and egress. What's the decision with this one having only a single? Bill Judge with transportation. I believe that goes back to the original development plan that just had the single point of access for the public street. So far as overall to guest road. Their ordinance allows up to a maximum of 90 units of residential development on a single point of access to guest road. So so they would the townhome portions limited to that. But so far as the retail portion changing the two access points across the creek to a single. It's been reviewed by NCDOT and the city and determined to be adequate for that size retail. OK. The reason I ask is that in the original plan it did have other access that would that would have come off Nicholas Drive. So I would have had the two points. The retail component would have had two access points across the creek to Nicholas Drive under the proposed plan. It'll be a single to draw a blank on the name of that road that connects to gas but victory. Yeah. OK. Mr. Horvath you want to David I might be able to help a little bit. The reason there are two points of access. It was going to be a circular drive that served the community as well. One of the intense intended development possibilities back there was a retirement community and they wanted to be able to have golf carts and stuff come through and travel and ease of access for the residents. With the collapse or of that developer and this turning into a full town home project with a separate commercial that was no longer needed. But that's why we had two points of access. I'd love to have a second point on guest road but neither NCDOT or the city will allow that to happen. So one is adequate for this development. OK. I'll just express the general concern about safety on the single point. If no one else signed up wants to speak we can have a motion. Mr. Chair. I move approval of plan amendment a 1 2 0 0 0 1 5. Second. It's been moved and probably second all those in favor. Let it be known by raising your right hand. Motion has passed 11 to 0. And Mr. Chair. I move approval of zoning map change a 1 3 0 0 0 6. Okay. Okay. It's been moved and probably second all those in favor. Let it be known by raising your right hand. The motion is carried 11 to 0. All right. Thank you. All right. We'll move down to item 5 B. Page Park to plan amendment case a 1 3 0 0 0 6 and zoning case Z 1 3 0 0 0 1 7. Good evening again. Laura Woods with the Durham City County Planning Department case a 13 0 0 0 0 6. Page Park 2. This is an East Durham. This is a suburban tier. It's approximately 10 acres and the applicant Lenard Carolinas proposes to change the future land use from office to medium density residential. The property to the north is low medium density residential and vacant to the west vacant to the south and east also vacant. According to the applicant, the proposed designation would address an increasing demand for medium and high density residential land in Durham County. The applicant also states that medium density residential would represent a reasonable transition between the low medium density residential to the north of the site and office uses further south from the site. Again, here are the four criteria criteria that plan planning staff use to evaluate the proposal is the proposed unit is the proposed proposal consistent with adopted plans and policies is the proposed land use compatible with land use patterns existing in future. Does the proposed land use create substantial adverse impact and is the side of adequate shape and size in each case staff has answered that the proposed land use is consistent. The land use is compatible. The proposed land use does not create substantial adverse impact and the site is of adequate shape and size to accommodate the proposed land use. Therefore, staff's proposal staff's recommendation is approval. That completes my staff report. Good evening. Amy Wolf again with the planning department and the companion zoning map change request Z1300017 is for page park two. The request is steward engineering. It's in the city's jurisdiction and the request is larger than the plan amendment area. It includes property to the west of the plan amendment area of residential suburban multifamily with a development plan and office institutional with a development plan to have an entirely zone residential suburban multifamily with a development plan. The site area is 16.875 acres and it's for 124 residential units. It's located at 5310 and 5330 Jessup Street and with frontage also on Crown Parkway which is just north and west of Page Road. There's nine acres in the office institutional and about 7.7 in the residential suburban multifamily currently. The existing zoning of the site PO320 is the case number committed a mix of uses with a general location and this OI portion was shown as office development which is one of the reasons you're seeing this request for residential. The request does meet the minimum criteria for the residential suburban multifamily district. Here's the existing conditions on the site. It's been previously graded. You should see that in the aerial that's in your staff report. It does have a natural heritage inventory on the western portion of the site. Stirrup Iron Creek Marsh and Slows. However, the site has already been graded. I just want to point that out and no further disturbances proposed. There's also a power line through the site. The proposal is shown here. It has a required building envelope and parking envelope. You'll see the access points on the Crown Parkway and a cul-de-sac and access at the end of Jessup Street. There's an undetermined number of site access through driveways along Jessup Street. The tree preservation area. And this committed natural buffer along the western portion, western boundary of the site, which is currently, there's currently trees existing there. Commitments include the number of residential units, 124. The site access points I pointed out as well as the driveways along Jessup Street. Maximum impervious surface of 70%. Tree coverage at 23%, which also includes preservation and replacement areas. And there's a number of graphic commitments, access trees. The internal vehicular private access will connect the access from Crown Parkway and the cul-de-sac on Jessup Street, including the construction of that cul-de-sac and then the buffer along the western portion of the site. There's a number of traffic improvements that may be required of this development. I won't read through them. They are in the staff report and this will be determined at site plan. There are design commitments associated with the site, therefore allowing the site to be developed as a multifamily, not committing to multifamily, but the design commitments are required should that option be utilized, address architectural styles, roofline materials and architectural features. Again, the request is not consistent with the future land use map, therefore consideration of the plan amendment before you. Prior to action on the zoning map change, the remainder of the request is consistent with the comprehensive plan. And staff determines should the plan amendment be approved, this request is consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances. And that is the end of this report. All right. Thank you. We have one person signed up to speak. And it's Mr. Robert. Was it Shonk? Yep, Shonk, yes. Yeah, 10 minutes. Thank you. Good evening Chairman Jones and fellow commissioners. My name is Robert Shonk. I am with Stewart. I live at 2627 University Drive here in Durham. I appreciate the staff's staff report and I agree with their comprehensive staff report completely. I would just like to highlight a couple of points and then make myself available for questions. As Amy indicated, the previous zoning for Page Park included 58 townhomes, apartments, office and retail. What we're proposing to do is again just rezone a portion of the existing townhomes and on the office area to all townhomes. Due to market demands, additional townhomes in this area are necessary and when our homes would like to expand the smaller townhome section to provide a little bit larger of a community, the result of this change is equivalent to providing 828 less trips per day. And I'm available for any questions. Thank you. All right. We don't have anyone else signed up to speak and I'll close the public hearing and bring it back before the commissioners. Anyone up here that wants to comment? Commissioner Smoky. Mr. Shonk, do any of these new townhomes and the increased density they lend themselves to affordable housing? No, sir. A little bit of market rate. And the question for Ms. Wolf. Ms. Wolf, can you remind me why this segment was left office institutional? Was there a transition area? We've reviewed this whole section before. Why was that left office? The 2003 plan, the existing zoning. There was on that existing zoning, this particular, the office institutional is part of the larger site to the west and the south and this particular portion was designated for office building and a commitment listed on that plan is for the general location of mix of uses and the location of those uses. Okay. All right. Thanks. And on the diagram, there's an entrance on Crown Parkway. Is that a road? Crown Parkway? Yes. Crown Parkway is currently developed. It is a road. There are two arrows. And then there's a line. Does that indicate a proposed road through the development? It's a, it is not a public right away. It is an access easement for the terminology of the city of Durham. So it's not a private street, not a public road, but it'll act, I mean, to you and me and everybody else, it's going to act like a street. And it'll be privately maintained. And they're going to be townhomes on either side of it? Yes, sir. And it's going to connect up with Jessup? That's correct. Essentially, Jessup goes down. Jessup is currently a public right away. And for reference, God, for development from public works, a public street has to end in a cul-de-sac. So we're simply, you know, extending what to the late person will be a street and looping back around the Crown Parkway. But you get prior and emergency vehicles in on that right? That is correct. Okay. Thank you. That's all. Thank you. Any other comments? If not, we'll have a motion. Chairman Jones, I'll move approval of zoning A1300006. It's been moved and probably second all those in favor. Let me know by saying, oh, we're raising it right here. We're on meeting. Sorry. The motion has passed 11 to 0. Mr. Chair, I move zoning case 130017. All right. Thank you. Some moved and probably second all those in favor. Let me know by raising your right hand. Motion has passed 11 to 0. All right. Thank you. All right. We'll move down to item 6A, which is a public hearing zoning map change request for Hope Valley Farms Pod, BB revision case Z130012. Good evening. Amy Wolf with the planning department for our final zoning map change case. This case again is a change in the existing development plan that is attached to the site. Case Z130012 for Hope Valley Farms Pod, BB revisions. The applicant is Greenberg Farrow. It's in the city's jurisdiction. Request is from commercial general with a development plan to commercial general with a development plan for 6.77 acres of non residential development. The site is located in the suburban tier. It's not in a watershed protection overlay. It's at 1051 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway between South Roxborough Street and Archdale Drive. The present designation was zoned by case 0900007. And there's a proposed change in that development plan by removing a commitment. I will go over those in more detail, but essentially to remove a commitment to prohibit fuel sales. The request does meet the minimum standards of the commercial general district. The existing conditions on the site you'll see here, it is already zoned commercial general with a development plan. There's floodway, floodway fringe, stream wetlands and a power line easement running through the site. And they are all demonstrated here. The proposed conditions of the site show protection of those areas. You'll see the building and parking envelope in the dark dashed line. And I'll go over the change in commitments of the existing designation. This request is for between 1,000 and 20,000 square feet of building footprint. Has the two site access points onto Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Pervious surface maximum of 70% with tree coverage at 10%. These are all on the existing plan. Commitments are access point location, true preservation areas. The opacity, there's a committed for a more dense buffer than would otherwise be required. Typically it would be a .6 opacity buffer required. 24-inch hedge along Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and some grading to accommodate street lights. Also there's some graphic commitments with details at Site Drive 1 and Site Drive 2. These are on the existing plan. And there's a number of text commitments. And these also do are pulled from the existing plan about the opacity. A transit facility along Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. There's some stormwater mitigation. Specifics about restaurant would drive through and screening with a masonry wall and location of speaker boxes if there's a drive through. There's also a number of improvements at the following locations at Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and both Site Driveways. Commitments that were removed from the existing plan are conditions that have already been satisfied by recent development in the area. There are design commitments that address roof lines and building materials for any buildings. And the request is consistent with the future land use map and the applicable policies of the comprehensive plan. And staff determines that this request is consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have two people sign up to speak. Louis Cheek and Patrick Biker. We have five minutes each. Mr. Chairman and members of the Planning Commission, my name is Louis Cheek. I along with Patrick Biker represent Murphy Oil Corporation. We seek a rezoning of the 6.77 acres essentially across from the new Walmart on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. While the property is already zoned commercial, we seek a change in the development plan. We wish to remove the committed element that there will be no fuel sales or convenience stores on the site. Murphy Oil proposes to put a convenience store in four islands with eight product dispensers on the property. Murphy Oil is an international company based in El Dorado, Arkansas. It is fully integrated, engaging in fuel exploration and drilling. It's on the New York Stock Exchange. It has 1174 convenience store sites across the United States. 73 sites with over 500 employees are in North Carolina. This would be the first site in Durham. There would be seven to eight employees at the site. We estimate that the site would create $2 million in tax base. And of course, there would be associated sales tax generation. There will be a number of enhancements and improvements to make this development neighborhood friendly, which Mr. Biker will speak to you about. Traffic improvements will be constructed to mitigate the effects of a modest increase in traffic. There will be no further median cuts in Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway as a result of the project. Staff has studied the project and have you already heard, has determined that the request is consistent with a comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances, and we ask that you recommend approval of this zoning map change to the city council. Thank you. Good evening, Chairman Jones, members of the Planning Commission. My name is Patrick Biker. I live at 2614 Stewart Drive. I'm an attorney with Morningstar Law Group here in Durham. I'm here tonight representing Murphy USA for this zoning map change for 6.77 acres along the south side of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, directly across from an existing Walmart. I'd like to briefly introduce the rest of our team that's here tonight in the front row. We have Mr. Wayne Gibson with Murphy USA. And then we have our project engineers, Hamilton Williams and Greg Cistronk with Greenberg Farrow. And then last but not least is our traffic engineer, Earl Llewellyn with Kim Lee Horne. In addition to the reasons given by my friend and co-counsel Louis Cheek, I think there are a couple of important points that show we have accounted for potential neighborhood impacts with the development plan that's before you tonight. First, we will construct a .8 opacity buffer entirely within our property. To provide more detail in that committed element, a .8 opacity buffer means that for every 100 feet, along our side and rear property lines, we will install about 8 to 10 canopy or evergreen trees, 11 to 17 understory trees and about 75 shrubs. To me, that's a lot of planting along 100 feet. We're talking on average about one shrub every 16 inches. As a result, there will be plenty of screening along the property line back towards Hope Valley Farms. Second, based on Durham GIS, it appears that the closest residence to our project is approximately 500 feet away. That's more than one and a half football fields, and that's in addition to the .8 opacity buffer I just described. I happen to look at my personal residence and figure out how far away I live from Nana's Restaurant, and I'm actually closer to Nana's Restaurant than the townhouses in Hope Valley Farms would be to Murphy Oil's proposed convenience store. In addition, we have a committed element to ensure that the drive-through facilities have their speakers oriented away from the residential area that's to the southeast of our development. One last point, the parcel that's before you tonight has been zoned commercial for the past four years. We now have a project that can implement this established zoning designation. We were pleased to host a neighborhood meeting about this project since there was a TIA required with the zoning map change. So we sent out 45 personalized letters to nearby property owners. Only two of those 45 people invited came to the meeting, and we had a thorough discussion with them about the landscape buffer I just described in my comments. We did not perceive either of those two neighbors to be opposed to the convenience store we hoped to build at this location. And so for all those reasons, we respectfully ask for your approval. Be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I'll close the public hearing and bring it back before the commissioners. We have anyone wishing to speak. Mr. Smushkin. Mr. Biker? Yes, sir. The Topo here and the site has a steep slope that goes down below the grade of the roadway. Is that going to be brought up to the roadway grade? Yes. Okay, so it's all going to be graded. Fair level, correct. Okay, and then it's going to be out of the 100-year flood plan. Absolutely, yes. We will not be requesting a... I've had to request major special use permits for flood plain. We're not going there. Okay, and... Commissioner Whitley knows that very well. A certain McDonald's at Wellins Village was... had to need to have that type of permit. We're not pursuing that, sir. Okay, and then there's going to be protections for the... for the lower level that's left, right? Yes, sir. That's all I have. Thank you, sir. Thank you. No one else wishing to speak, can we get a motion? I'll make the motion. Turn your mic on. Make the motion and we approve the zoning change of Z1300012. Okay. So we're moving to probably second all those in favor. Let it be known by raising your right hand. Any opposition? Motion has passed, 11 to 0. All right, thank you. We're now to item 7B. And we'll have Patrick Young administer the election of officers. Thank you, commissioners. Again, Pat Young. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Quickly before I ask for nominations for chair, I did want to wrap up a piece of business from the last meeting, if you recall. There was some confusion about eligibility terms. The interlocal agreement stipulates that neither the city or the county shall have more than two consecutive terms as chair or vice chair. And what we as staff working in-house are recommending to you all that Mr. Jones' service filling the remainder of Mr. Mons' unexpired term would not count against either the city or county and essentially we start from zero. So either jurisdiction that's represented today could get two full terms. So that's what we recommend based on the interlocal and the rules of procedure. So unless there's any objection to that, we'll assume that all members are eligible and whoever's elected, whether it's city or county representatives, could have two full terms. So I'll be happy to entertain any nominations for chair for the coming year. Mr. Whitley. I move that we that we keep existing chair just nominate him. No second necessary for nominations. I have Antonio Jones. Any other nominations? Hearing none, I'd ask for a vote on another term for Mr. Jones as chair. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, same sign. Ayes have at 11 to 0. Congratulations Mr. Jones. I'll turn it back over to you for nominations and election of vice chair. Okay. Can we get any nominations for vice chair? Nominate vice chair David Harris. Second. No need for second. Do we have any other nominations for vice chair? All those in favor vice chair Harris let it be known by saying aye. Aye. Any opposes? Ayes have it. Congratulations vice chair. So we'll move down to item 7C which is any announcements? What do we have for next month? Mr. Jones we have four land use cases scheduled for next month. The question is the election for the month of November is it's the first Tuesday. We did check at the beginning of the year we did check to see if the November planning commission would fall on the November election day and it did not. We didn't take it to account obviously the city council primary but the regular election day we'll not conflict with you next meeting. Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Gibbs you had a question or announcement? No ma'am. Are we still broadcasting by the way? Okay good. Yes. That's good. I wanted to bring to everybody's attention the board, the commission and well the staff already knows about this and any of those who can't find anything else better to watch than a commission meeting. But it has to do with I'm sure you've all heard of the GSS the grade separation studies that are ongoing and there are several places where you can view these hard copy plans and I would and one is in the transportation department in this building but it's some proposals by the NCDOT along with the Durham Traffic and Transportation Department I would encourage everybody to learn as much as they can and to just be aware of once you see the plans and read about it you will become aware of the potential tremendous impact this is going could make from one end of town to the other it doesn't mean that this is something that is going to happen but they're asking for community input and this is probably the backbone of our long range planning is to get input from the public there will be a public comment section session at the city council meeting October 21st so that will give you a deadline to work toward and I would strongly encourage everyone to avail yourself of any opportunity to find out information but that's the information about the GSS the newspaper the Durham newspaper has published several things several articles and if I may I think you're going to help me out here we'll be happy to send you all a link to it because it is online to the transportation department and that link as good as it is I went up to the transportation department here at the Durham traffic and transportation department you can't be looking at those hard copies and being able to flip back and forth but still that information that's online and I do appreciate you sending the link to everybody it's something that we really need to consider for the future because as I said it could have some major impacts on the town thanks thank you any other announcements oh one more is it possible for us to get an updated roster with all the appropriate information on it okay good thank you any other announcements nope all hearts and minds are clear we go ahead and adjourn thank you