A very good evening aspirants. Welcome to the Hindi newspaper analysis brought to you by Shankar A.S. Academy. Today's date is 10th of January 2024. Displayed here are the list of news articles that we are going to discuss today. So without much delay let us get into the first news article discussion. This editorial article talks about a landmark judgment given by Supreme Court in the Balkispano case. Know that the remission order for the 11 convicts are cancelled by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has also asked them to go back to the prison within two weeks of time. This is the crux of the news article given here. So in this news article discussion let us understand the ethical issues involved in remission. We can also see how governments can solve this dichotomy using our usual mains answer writing approach. Let me read out the question for you. What are the ethical issues in the granting of remission of prisoners and how should governments balance the principle of justice, mercy and public safety in making these decisions. See this question can be asked under GS paper 3 under the syllabus ethical concerns and dilemma. Now in the question in the first part it asks us to explain the ethical issues in the granting of remission for prisoners and in the second part it asks us the steps ought to be taken by government to overcome the dilemma. So this is how we are going to divide the body of the answer into two parts and answer the question. Now let's start with the introduction part. Since the question is about remission we can briefly explain about remission. You can write that remission is the complete ending of a sentence at a reduced point of time. Let me put it simply. Let us take a person X if he is given life imprisonment by the court and X has spent 14 years in jail. After that he can ask for a remission. It means he will be set free. Note that in remission the nature of the sentence remains unchanged but the duration is shortened. The ethical basis of remission should be the ethics of forgiveness in the society. Moreover it was also articulated by Gandhi as hate the sin not the sinner. So this way you can write the introduction part. Moving on to the main body of the answer. Here in the first part as I said earlier we are going to discuss about the ethical issues in granting remission for prisoners. Firstly you can write about the dilemma of individual justice versus injustice to victim. See individual justice mandates a fair chance to be given or a man to rejoin the society if he feels pity and remorse for his crime. But it should not be antagonistic to the justice of victim. See an act of compassion towards a convict should not be insensitive to the victim of the crime. For example in the Bulkyspono case the remission of convicts did not take into account the sufferings of her in the beginning. Hope you can understand. Secondly the dilemma of compassion versus political game. See remission is an act of compassion by the courts or society. It is not a fundamental right of convict. Note that this is clarified by the Supreme Court in Mahendra Singh Viz's state of Haryana case 2007. This will upload the collective concerns of the society. This is more predominant in cases where the convict is facing serious illness or it is an emotional crime. But this compassion is often misused by the political parties for their short term gains. This is a major issue with respect to remission. Thirdly there is an issue of discrimination based on social status. See the remission is often used by the convicts from privileged backgrounds to get out of jail. On the other hand there are an increasing number of under trials from marginalized communities. This should be balanced so that justice should not be an allied phenomenon. Fourthly there are other unlawful activities which are also unethical. There are lack of transparency in granting remission, lack of accountability with the process. This is also posing a threat to it. So mentioning all this point you can finish the first part of the body. Now let's move on to the second part of the body of the answer. Here we have to give the steps that can be taken by the government to overcome the ethical dilemma. See here you can write that government should be following guidelines given under Lakshman Naskar versus Union of India 2000 case. Now let us shortly see about the guidelines. Firstly we should ensure that the offense is an individual act of crime that does not affect the society. Secondly we should ensure that whether there is a chance of the crime being repeated in future. Thirdly ensure whether the convict has lost the potentiality to commit crime. Fourthly we should also look into the socio-economic condition of the convict's family before taking decisions. So these guidelines can be followed while deciding upon giving remission. Secondly the government should follow a transparent process in giving remission. The process should be balancing the dichotomy of justice to victim and convicts. Thirdly the government can take steps to make a prison a reformative arena. The steps like increasing the skill development, giving psychiatric supports to prisoners and etc. This will make them a reformed human. Fourthly the new form of prisons like open prison should be promoted to give a new wave of life to the prisoners. This is important because many research shows that prison is a total institute where a man entering a sub-pity criminal will get wide contacts and will do bigger crimes after released from jail. This trend and chain of crime should be broken. So we can write these points in the second part of the answer. So let's straight away move to the conclusion part. Here you can write that remission is an important relief of the criminal justice system. Not only it allows for the reduction of a sentence for a prisoner but also it gives a second chance or a person to live his life. But the ethical dilemma of it should be addressed to make it not only legal but also a moral remission. For this we should follow the principles of justice, mercy and public safety. So this way you can end the answer for this question. So in this news article discussion we saw in detail about the ethical dilemma in granting remission and how government can overcome this ethical dilemma. So with these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this text and context article. This article talks about project tiger since it has completed 50 years of implementation. See this project has successfully increased the population of tiger in the country but at the same time the conflicting provisions in the Wildlife Protection Act and the Forest Rights Act have increased conflicts between the forest bureaucracy and forest dwellers. Now this confusion is ultimately endangering India's tigers and the people who co-exist with them. So in this context let us revise about project tiger in prelims perspective. See project tiger was launched on 1st April 1973 to promote conservation of tiger. It was launched by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand. Know that it is the largest species conservation initiative to combat the decreasing population of tiger. Remember it is a centrally sponsored scheme under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change MOEF-CC. Also note that the National Tiger Conservation Authority NTCA is implementing the scheme. So the objectives of the project includes firstly to ensure the maintenance of a viable population of tiger in India which possesses many benefits and values. The values can be scientific, economic, aesthetic, cultural and ecological values. Secondly to prevent areas of biological importance as a national heritage for the benefit education and enjoyment of the people. So these are the objectives of project tiger. Now let us see the functions of the project tiger. Know that the reserves are created and functioned on a core or buffer strategy. The core area have the legal status of a national park or sanctuary in India whereas the buffer areas are the region of periphery. The buffer region has a combination of both forest and non-forest land. Here the people centric approach is followed to balance both conservation and development. Secondly the function of the project is to conduct the tiger census in the country. This helps in combating poaching of tiger. Now let us see the achievements of project tiger one by one. Firstly with respect to increased population see the number of tigers in India has increased from 1827 in 1970s to around 2067. This means a 30 percentage rise in the population in the last eight years. Secondly with respect to increased coverage the project started with nine tiger reserves covering 18278 square kilometers in nine states but it has grown exponentially. As of now there are 54 tiger reserves spread over more than 75,000 square kilometers in 18 tiger range states. Thirdly India has achieved t into two goal in 2018. This target aims to double the wild tiger population by 2022. Know that India has achieved this milestone four years ahead of its target. So these are all certain important facts that you have to remember about project tiger. With these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this news article according to the news article the Telangana government has initiated an inquiry into reported irregularities in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project. The vigilance and enforcement department has also conducted rights at multiple irrigation department officers. So in this context let us understand about Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project. See the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project is a multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari river. It is located in Kaleshwaram Bupalpalli district in Telangana. The project starts at the confluence point of Pranahita river and Godavari river. So what is the purpose of this project? See the three main purposes of this project are irrigation transport and power. See Telangana is located at an elevation of 300 meters to 650 meters above mean sea level. But the Godavari river flows at an elevation of 100 meters below mean sea level. So gigantic pumps have to be used for pumping water. Now talking about the significance of the project. See this project will have the longest underground irrigation tunnel in the world. It aims to provide water for irrigation and drinking across 45 lakh acres in 20 out of 31 districts in Telangana including Hyderabad and Sekundarabad. So this is the significance of the project. So what are the benefits of the project? Firstly the project aims to provide drinking water and irrigation to underdeveloped areas in Telangana. Secondly it intends to restore the ground water level to its natural state by switching from using underground water to surface water for irrigation. Additionally the project will aid mission Kakathya and mission Bahirada which are working towards supplying drinking water to villages. So these are also some of the benefits of the project. However the project has also faced scrutiny and controversies regarding its execution, alleged irregularities and environmental concerns. So efforts have been made to investigate and address these issues to ensure the successful implementation of the project while mitigating any adverse effects. These are all certain important facts that you have to remember about Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. So these learnt points now let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this news article. According to the news article an RTI reply revealed that orders to block websites and online content have increased significantly from 2013 to October 2023. There were also concerns raised over the practicality of compiling IP addresses as directed by Department of Telecommunication, D.O.T. So in this news article discussion let us understand some of the important points given in the news article. So how much blockings has increased so far? See the government has issued 62 blocking orders in 2013 which surged to 6954 by October 2023. The orders were issued under section 69A of the Information Technology Act 2000. So what does this section 69A tells? According to section 69A of the IT Act the government is permitted to block online content concerning India's sovereignty, defence, security, foreign relations, public order or to prevent certain offenses. So here comes the question why there is an increase in blocking of websites? See the rise in blocking order aligns with increased internet use notably after a sustainable drop in mobile data prices in 2016. So in 2016 the mobile data prices reduced and the internet usage began to rise. Now this is sinking with the increase in blocking orders. These orders are directed at specific pages, profiles or videos on social media and certain platforms. However the IT ministry declined to provide a detailed breakdown of these statistics citing confidentiality rules. Now let us see the process of blocking. See to streamline the blocking process the department of telecommunication, devotee, direct internet service providers, ISPs to compile IP addresses of service in India. Technological advancement in encryption have made website blocking more challenging for internet service providers. This is because a single IP address can be linked to numerous websites. But collaboration with content delivery networks like Amazon web services and Google Cloud might offer a more efficient approach for website blocking. Recently department of telecommunication have issued an order to trace web server's location for blocking purposes but since there is some complexities in tracking IP addresses many industries have questioned the practicality of implementing these rules. So to sum up this article says that since 2016 the price to access internet has reduced so that the internet usage has gone up. Since the internet usage has gone up government is using section 69a to block certain online content concerning India's sovereignty defence, security, foreign relation, public order or to prevent certain offenses. Now the usage of section 69a has also gone up. Apart from this the department of telecommunication have also ordered to trace web server's location for blocking purposes but many industry experts are saying that it is very difficult to implement these rules because there are various complexities in tracking IP addresses. So these are all certain important points I have to remember about this news article discussion. These learnt points and let us move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this news article. This news article talks about a study conducted by Respire Living Science and Climate Trends. The studies have found that many Indian cities are still struggling to make significant improvement in air quality. Out of 49 cities with available data on particulate matter for 5 years only 27 showed a decrease in the most harmful pollutant which is PM 2.5. Merely 4 cities managed to meet or surpass the expected decrease in PM 2.5 levels. So in this context let us discuss some of the basic information about air quality index and national ambient air quality standards NIAQS. First let us see about air quality index AQI. See AQI is an 8 parameter based air quality monitoring system. It was launched by the Central Pollution Control Bureau in the year 2014. There are 6 AQI categories. They are good, satisfactory, merely polluted, poor, very poor and severe. AQI and its respective colour code and health impacts are given here. You can pass the video and go through it. Note that AQI transforms complex air quality data of various pollutants into a single number and it tries to give a colour for that number which will be easy for the public to understand about the air standards in their locality. The 8 pollutants which are considered for the calculation of AQI are PM 10, PM 2.5, Nitrogen Dioxide NO2, Sulfur Dioxide S42, Carbon Monoxide CO, Oxygen O3, Ammonia NH3 and Lead PB. So this is about air quality index. Now we shall look at national ambient air quality standard NAAQS. See the NAAQS are basically a set of standards that were set by the Central Pollution Control Board. Through NAAQS, the CPCB prescribes the maximum permissible limits for letting out pollutants. These standards are applicable all over the country and it should be followed by the industries. NAAQS covers over 12 pollutants. They include 8 pollutants from the AQI and other 4 pollutants from benzene, benzopyrene, arsenic and nickel. So these are all some of the important facts that you have to remember about AQI and NAAQS. Remember it can be asked in mains as well. So make a note of it and reverse it frequently. So these learnt points. Now let us move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice question discussion. Now take a look at this first question which governmental body in India is responsible for issuing directives to internet service providers, ISPs regarding website blocking and compiling internet protocol that is IP addresses. See the correct answer here is option C, Department of Telecommunication, D.O.T. Moving on in which river basin does the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project K.L.I.P primarily operate? The correct answer here is option B, Godavari River Basin. Now look at this third question among the following tiger reserves which one has the largest area under critical tiger habitat. So the correct answer here is option C, Naharjina Sahar, Sree Shailam it has nearly 2595.72 square kilometers. It is present in Andhra Pradesh. Corbett is in Uttarkhand, Rantampur is in Rajasthan and Sundarbans is in West Bengal. So here the correct answer is option C, Naharjina Sahar, Sree Shailam. So with this we came to the end of the news article discussion. If you like the video, hit like, do comment and don't forget to subscribe to Shankar Aayes Academy YouTube channel. Now thank you so much for listening.


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Cycling is probably one of our more popular adventures here in Talbot County. Cycling is a big part of our community. It's a big tourism part of our community. It's so easy to cycle in the area. Community is very cycling friendly. Within five minutes of riding you can be out on empty country roads. You can be out in beautiful scenery. It's really a great place to ride. Wide open roads most of the time and wide shoulders on even the most populated roads. The riding here in Talbot County is really diverse. We've got some great farm country trails running out towards Queen Anne, Cordova, down towards Trap. We've got six different trails here in our Talbot County bike map so it covers all the areas of Talbot County. Probably our most popular route that we have and we've got folks that come in from around the country to ride this is from our Eastern Oxford and St. Michael's Loop. It's about a 30 mile loop. Started in Easton, easy leisurely 10 mile ride down towards St. Michael's. Great little shops there in St. Michael's, restaurants.  Jump back on the bike, a quick little ferry ride over to Oxford and also a great ride from St. Michael's down to Tillman. Pitch you all the way to the ending to Tillman Island and really kind of see what all the counties got to offer. I'm Captain Judy Bixler. I own and operate the Oxford Bellevue Ferry, the oldest privately owned ferry in America. The ferry is a special part of Talbot County's biking routes. We often have people come aboard the ferry for a break on a 100 mile ride.  That's the nice part about the ferry, it gives you a break. It's all part of the ambiance of Talbot County. It's really an honor to be able to have everyone come aboard the ferry. We love to meet people from all over the world. I have a lot of friends who have come here to cycle and they come here specifically because we have wide empty roads with not a lot of traffic on it. We encourage people from everywhere to come visit Talbot County and ride on bicycles, come on the ferry. There's so much to do in our county. Come to Talbot County and enjoy and see what everything, why everybody loves the cycling here.


Next up is everybody pages is going to talk to us about sparse array objects. I'm going to have to try and be a little more strict about the time. Otherwise, we're all going to be here till lunch. I'd be shorter. No, right? Okay, does it work? Yeah, it does. I'm going to make it. Yeah, I'm going to talk a little bit about the. Work I've been doing with sparse data representation are. Is it the right error? I'm going to slide. I think you ever. Am I now? I think so. If you click the right corner, the arrows, then this one. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. So, first, I want to discuss a bit what's what's currently available in our 4 spots as a representation. And I'm just going to talk about in memory representation. Not going to discuss on this representations. So, as most of you know, the standard way to represent the sparse data in our is with a matrix object. And that's from the matrix package, which is a current package. It's a recommended package. So you. Every our installation has it. By default, and it's used a lot. Especially in bio conductor, where I've found more than 100 packages using this container for storing sparse data. Yeah, so it's it has been around for for about 20 years now. Matrix package is very early package. Yeah, and to compliment the capabilities of the matrix package. Some some people have come up with. Those two packages, matrix stats and sparse metric stats. So the metric status package by Henry bankstone provides, you know, a row and column summarization. Operations on matrix objects and but it doesn't work with so it works with it works with ordinary matrices. But but it doesn't support DGC matrix objects. So, Constantine, which is a bio conductor contributor, came up with the sparse metric status package to feed that gap. And this is pretty amazing package already implemented in C++ very fast. It provides very fast row and column matrix summarization for DGC matrix objects. So, yes, those those summarization operations I'm talking about also the worst assumes costumes for me, etc. operations. So here's what you can do is pass metric stats. Just an example. Yeah, but there are some limitations with the what DGC matrix objects can do. So, first, of course, it's only for two dimensional data. There is a hard limit on the number of non zero values that can be stored in a DGC matrix object no more than two power 31. And also a concern sometimes that the non zero values cannot be stored as integers. They can only be stored as double double values. And so that's not optimal for the memory print of the object because double is twice the size double in C is twice the size of an integer. And so some operations are inefficient with DGC matrix objects. So here's an example. This is what you get when you try to see by for example, two DGC matrix objects that together have more than the maximum number of non zero values that is allowed. Yeah, the mayor or can't do it. Yeah, so here I'm showing some details about the the internal representation of those objects. So DGC DGC matrix has some sibling some sibling. There are some sibling classes. The D in DGC matrix stands for double. So it tells us that the non zero values are stored as double. And there is also this DGC matrix class where the non zero values. So this is to represent this to represent a sparse matrix of logical values. So the non zero non false zero for logical is false. So the true values or the any values are stored here in a logical vector. But there is no IGC matrix class. So if you want to store counts, which are typically integer values, we have to use the DGC matrix representation. So so I work with I wanted to try something different. I wanted to come up with something new for for storing sparse data in R to represent sparse data in an array like object. So I started to work on this class sparse array. So this is in the S4 arrays package. It's not in bio conductor yet, but I intend to submit this package soon. So it's still working progress. And the idea is to address some of the limitations of DGC matrix. And so here's what it looks like. I'm just using the constructor here to convert that DGC matrix object into a sparse array object. So I talk a little bit more about what the SVT thing means here. But the real class of this object is SVT underscore sparse matrix sparse array is just a virtual class. So it's not limited to matrices. It can be an array of any dimension. So you see zeros here, but the zeros are just an artifact of the way things are displayed. It's just a show method that displays the zeros that there are no zeros stored in the metric in the object. Of course, it's a sparse representation. So only the non zero values are stored there. And the count is just is the number of non zero values in the in the object. So 12 non zero values here. It supports any type. So you can store any atomic type. So integer, row, logical, character, complex is also supported. And there is no limit. There's no limit in the number of non zero values that you can find in the object. So the limit, of course, is going to be the amount of memory that you have on your machine. But as long as you have enough memory, you should be able to store as many non zero values as as you want. So for example, just one more minute. OK, OK, so lots of lots of non zero values here. Of course, that that that is a big object of 26 gigabytes. That's the memory for the subject. Yeah, so I was going to show some details about how things are represented internally. So quickly, the idea is to store the non zero values in a sparse vector. That's what I'm showing to the left here. So sparse vector is just a little table with two columns on the left, the offset of the values. And on the on the right column, the non zero values, the values, the non zero values. Yeah, and for and to represent a 20 by six object, I just use six of those sparse vectors. So that's that's what internally two by six sparse array object looks like. But then this can be repeated to add dimensions. So on the left, you have this 2D representation that I just showed in the earlier slide. And if you want to represent a 3D object, you just add one more level in your sparse vector tree. So that's that's how I call this tree here. It's a tree with where the leaves are sparse vectors. So this leads to very efficient representation and operation. There's really fast fast access to fast random access to any part of the object. And this leads to very efficient operations in general.  So it's not. Yeah, so column column section is just amazingly fast compared to the symmetrics. Yeah, so overall it's, it's, it's very efficient. It's way more efficient than a GC matrix object. This one here, I don't know if you see the map. Yeah, OK, it's not, it's not, it's not a typo. It's really a GC matrix object. I guess they were not designed to support this operation because it's not a common operation, but super simon should work anyway. And but with the GC matrix, it's very, very slow. Yeah, I think I'm done. This is a long list of things that still need to be implemented to have a full, fully featured array-like container that you can use for all the basic operations that you expect to be able to do. But yeah, still a lot of work here. And yeah. Cool. Do you have a question for everybody? One? Well, this was given at all, is this, like a problem with the data? That's the idea. Yeah. Are there any questions in the chat? This is a question on, on roll lookup. Why is roll lookup so much slower? Is it based on how it's traversed or? Again. Why is roll lookup so much slower relative to a common operation? Well, that's, that's, you know, the, the representation is column oriented. And like with the GC matrix, it's column oriented. There is this initial, this burning choice. The choice could have been otherwise, you know, to do a row oriented representation, but it's, it's a column oriented representation. So accessing the columns is really easy because you have a list of, of six columns. So if you want to pick up a column of five, you just grab those two list elements. There's nothing, a really fancy, you need to do nothing complicated. But if you want to, you know, extract rows, it's more complicated because you have to do some kind of match between the row indices and those offsets that you have in those files. So you, you need some kind of hash or binary search or there are several ways to deal with this. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Next one here from, from Quan Liu.


Welcome to our talk. I am Star Brown and I am pleased to introduce Bob Gorely, say your company, Uda, Datalink, and I am the Executive Director of the XR Village and you're joining us today to understand from fiction to reality the history of the metaverse and XR. Thanks, Star. And Star, first I want to say thanks for pulling together the XR Village. For those of you who haven't done it yet, please sign up for our Discord because there's going to be a lot of persistent content on the Discord, including things like these slides that we'll put there. And the XR Village has got to capture the flag going on right now and some demos with some advanced technology that's really awesome. What we'd like to talk about today is the past, present, and future of the metaverse and some threats to the metaverse. We thought we'd start with some slides that I'll quickly go through just to talk about my view of the threats and then Star and I will have a discussion on the topic. Sound about right? Sounds good. Okay, let's do it. So the topic of these slides is defending the metaverse and I wanted to give you just an overview of what I'm trying to capture in these notes. If you want to copy of this, just send me an email or come to the Discord server for the XR Village and I'll post these there that you can download. So we are going to talk about the metaverse and what it is and what it's not and how that relates to XR. We're going to talk about then the key threats and some ideas of mitigating the threats. And we're going to talk a little bit about the history of this stuff. Before going further, I wanted to talk about the history of XR. XR meaning virtual reality, extended reality, augmented reality, all together has a long history that I think actually starts in science fiction. There was a 1935 science fiction story called Pygmalion's Glasses which outlined what the metaverse is talked about today and what XR is talked about today. Science fiction, a nice short story, but it was really an exciting vision of what could happen if you can put on goggles and be in a different world. And that's what we're building and experimenting with today in the XR Village. But they're threats and that's what we wanted to get into with this presentation. I say there's five threats, but I'm going to talk about a sixth one that I learned about today. And with your feedback, maybe there's more. We need to talk about the threats so we can figure out how to mitigate the threats. The bottom line up front, we are building through extended reality a new system, a metaverse, a new wave of technology and it is not going to be more secure than the current waves of technology. The three waves as we see them. The first wave was the internet itself connecting computers and servers together in an interoperable way. The second wave of internet technologies is the mobile revolution that based upon cell technologies that included mobile devices and all the applications that came with that. The third wave that is now being built is this XR wave. It's a wave towards the metaverse. It really is the future. The first two waves are still going to be there for a long time, but the third wave, the XR wave, is what is being built right now. And it's why this village is so hopping over here. Next please. So what is the metaverse? You hear metaverse frequently. My view is don't lock into any one specific definition. It's far too early for that. But what is being built is a massive, scalable, interoperable network of networks and persistent virtual reality and augmented reality worlds. That metaverse is being built, but it's not here yet. We have hints of what's coming and I'll show you a few on the next slide. Next please. So these are some of the hints that we're seeing. I don't think of any of these as the metaverse. They're just indicators of what's coming when it's all linked together in a scalable, persistent way. You have all seen the business collaboration tools and the education collaboration tools. I think you've probably all seen the games that are out there that can be accessed through any computer or mobile devices through extended reality, augmented reality, virtual reality. You don't have to have the goggles, but the goggles help a lot too. You have also seen the other tools that are being the games like Roblox, Fork Knight and others. The digital twins in the business world you've seen. These are all hints of what's coming, but it's not the metaverse yet. Next please. The metaverse is coming, however, and that metaverse of tomorrow is going to impact so many industries as you can see over in the XR Village and get hints of what is coming, including just about anyone who needs to work with data for a business or professional reason, but also anyone who likes entertainment in a nice 3D interactive way. It is going to be a trillion dollar industry. Next please. I'd like to jump in and share that we have a live working model of a digital twin scenario within collaboration with ICS Village. It's off the rails and you can interact and explore practical uses of this novel technology. Cool. You remind me of another thing that I think we should have told these folks about and that is bad VR. Bad VR is awesome. And first of all, it's a great name for a company, but bad stands for bring all your data to VR and there's a demo in your village. There is all new ways to visualize real time with spatial packet capture in directly into the goggles so that in your living world you can see Wi-Fi signal site, other cellular signal, RF signal and so on. Awesome. The way the business analysts look at this trillion dollar industry is shown here. Next please. Now I want to talk about the threats and when I built this I was thinking of five major threats that are coming in the metaverse that are not being dealt with yet in my opinion. Now running a village I want to be able to take input from everybody in the village to see if this covers all the threats or not. I did hear of a sixth one today I want to tell you about. Brief review of these threats being built, I mean they're impacting the metaverse. There's new privacy threats we all need to worry about. If you have a device on your head and that is collecting data and moving that data to the cloud there are privacy issues that we need to sort out today. There's an issue of Langer. What happens if you put on devices and it just pulls you into this world in ways that make you want to detach from the real world and if too much of that happens in society what's going to happen to all of us? And that relates directly to the third one the onophrenia which is an inability over time to distinguish what is real and what is not real. A very serious threat. Absolutely. There's new fraud vectors if someone can know so much about you including what you really desire it's going to make it easier for them to commit fraud against you. And then I list the last one here of unleashing demons. The worst of human spirit may be tapped into and brought out in ways that are not good. Now I wanted to talk about the sixth threat star. It's one that it really didn't dawn on me this threat until conversations this morning about the future of all this technology. And it's the threat to us humans and our livelihoods. Now this relates to far more than just XR. This is XR plus artificial intelligence plus overall better automation and technologies. And we see what's going on right now in Hollywood to screenwriters and actors and actresses. And this is a serious threat to them. But it's also a threat to journalists. It's a threat to truck drivers. It's a threat to those who work in agriculture and the mining industry. This is another threat we need to think about. The future of XR is that a threat to us humans which leads to the need for frameworks to solve these threats. And I'll just rapidly push through these frameworks. I believe personally we need to think through what does everybody need to do to mitigate these threats. And I'm looking for open ideas here. So please get a copy of these slides off our server. Read through this. Give me your feedback. How do we address these threats. I've put in suggestions for individuals, communities, companies, governments and academia. And we don't need to go through all of this right now. It's my suggestions, things for people, us to do. We need to keep learning for go ahead and hit the next four communities. The communities like DEF CON community, what do we want out of this new world of extended reality and virtual reality and enhanced and augmented reality. We need to figure that out for companies. Companies have a role to play here too. They really need to be building insecurity that meets our requirements. And so my my I interject here. The thing with building you hit a keynote for me. And the point is that we need to start thinking about building products, software, hardware and policy, better by design from the beginning so that we avoid problems in the future. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a role for governments. I don't want the government in our VR, but they're going to be there. And also, I think there's a role in our government in pushing back against hostile nation states that are going to be in our extended reality. So we need to decide what we want our government to do in this world. Yeah, absolutely. The entire purpose of XR Village is to drive better public policy. And it's not no one likes being told what to do. But the reality is that for society to function, we all need some set of regulations, a framework is a good place to start. But we need to get collectively informed, educated, have a little fun, but then go make the rules better to make the rules we want to see because we're in a position now with emerging policies and other legal representations in Washington and beyond that these conversations are happening. So now is the time to scream to make sure that we can inform better public policy for tomorrow. Yeah, what a great goal and it's a great opportunity to engage with this village, which gets to this recommendation list here, join our discord server, come meet with star over in the village and get engaged. And that star is kind of the end of the graphics really if you wanted to transition to the discussion portion of our time together here. Yeah, I think I think the time is now. I don't know how to make that go away. So we're gonna live with it. But the point is, is how many people in this room knew what extended reality was before sitting down? You knew the umbrella term, that's wonderful, because every single person with the exception of one has said, I have no idea. I've talked to thousands of people so far this weekend. And in a room of computer people or security people, I might expect that you'd have more more understanding of at least what the umbrella encompasses, so that we can understand the vulnerabilities that lie ahead to help. You know, and star, I think this is one, it underscores for me that you are a pioneer and the other village founders. And I'm very glad this is starting. It was here last year in a small way. But now you've really grown. And I think next year, you're probably going to be connected to every other village it seems like it seems like it. And to be honest, a lot of our current setup came because it takes a village. And that is the theme for the year. And we wouldn't be here without having been accepted as an adjunct to other appropriate areas from biohacking to car hacking to ICS and beyond policy, of course. And this year we're standing alone and we have pretty, pretty solid interest in the topic. So I'm really here to ask the community to contribute to think about how how the metaverse and how living outside of what you can touch can be affected and think about the naughty things, think about the way we can tell people what we need to fix today. Right, I think that's exactly what I think needs to happen to if we want our technology to serve humans and make the universe better, we need to figure out what these threats really are and then how to mitigate them. And I love the way that you said we're informing policy, because we have direct connections now into the policy world. We are we're making great leaps ahead in some regards, but we are still talking to each other. You know, we need to get to a position where we can include and educate. And I think we're really at the right time to do so. You know, another thing I noticed about your village is there's a lot of young people there. It seems to be taking it is this morning. I think everybody was maybe a little hungover. And that's, you know, that's awesome. But we have a lot of children this morning in this equipment and and really becoming some of the best demonstrators of I have, you know, a seven year old grabbing Wi Fi bars out of the sky and giving bad VRs demo, they latch on like this, they adopt like this. This is why we need to think about this. I work largely in the education space. And I've encountered many teachers who are actively using AR in the classroom, VR in the classroom, they've been doing it for five years. They have zero concept. Who is looking backwards at their children in said classroom? They didn't even know it was a thing. They didn't know that data was stored. They didn't know that data was perhaps viewable in ways that they might not expect. So things beyond there's temperature sensing technology. And I'll just leave that there. So it's a pretty interesting field to put on glasses and see something that we're not all realizing is being seen. And can I put you on the spot and ask you for a real definition of XR? Because I'm not sure I'm using that in the proper way. And how do you define XR? I tend to think of XR as being an umbrella term. So for me, it's less about the metaverse. And I think working through you, it makes me really think beyond hardware. So I think it's XR encompasses AR and VR along with the associated virtual worlds. Wonderful. That's great. Well, I really think this village is contributing already. And I'm wondering if we can entice more people into the Discord server if we can persist this dialogue between DEF CONs. Absolutely. Absolutely. So join us on Discord XR Village. You'll find our information on Twitter and on the slides and not those slides though. So we'll come over. We're down yonder. We'd love to have you come play and then come see the demos and check us out. Cool. Thank you.


A little Tarantino there much, Gabrielle? Hey guys, this is my review for season 12, episode 12 of Supernatural. This episode was directed by Richard Spite Jr., otherwise known as Gabrielle, and wow! This guy really likes Quentin Tarantino. The amount of references I can make to Reservar Dogs and Pulp Fiction started to overwhelm me by the end of the episode. He definitely has a huge flair for the director. There's a lot of inspiration, some of it's borderline, but there are a lot of inspirations and homages to Quentin Tarantino's work. And seeing an episode like Supernatural being done in the same sort of timeline since as Reservar Dogs was admittedly entertaining. The title blocks, again, very reminiscent of Tarantino's work. I don't think we needed the time all the time, but either way I like the idea of doing a non-linear storytelling with Supernatural. It must require an extreme amount of time managing and script supervision to make sure that there were within the time limit of this episode. Either way, this episode started off with a simple sort of job. It was really quick. That's the one thing is, it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, which are like two hours long and very dragged out. This one had to be compacted into 44 minutes, so obviously some things start off a lot quicker than they should, there's a lot of stuff like, wait, whoa, what? We just kind of jump through everything.  Now at first I actually thought that this was another hell night because all the normal tactics didn't work on him, but then it turns out that he's actually a hell night. He stabs Castiel with a staff of Michael, which he received years earlier. Again, a lot of back and forth with the timeline of this episode, which was actually pretty cool.  And you don't find out what that is until the end of the episode. Either way, there's this really could have been touching scene between Castiel and the boys and the mom because he thinks he's going to die. And at first it's actually really good, and then they keep dragging it and dragging it and dragging it, and it just goes from actually emotional to corny as hell. And the whole time I'm sitting there going, yeah, he's not dead, and he'll be back in fine and new in about two, three minutes. Literally, that's how I felt watching this episode. I knew what was going to happen. The only thing I didn't know was how it ended because I don't know why both of these little twists at the end of the episode mattered. Either way, I enjoyed this episode, I liked the idea of it being a different style. From a structure-wise, I liked it. I think it was cool. There are some elements of this episode that did trick me. The cheesiness really threw me off, especially in the final quarter, but I did like this episode. So before I talk about those two little twists, I'm going to give this episode a 5 out of 7. Now on to the twists. Why does the cult even freaking matter anymore?  It was on the ground. I don't know if it still works or whatnot, but you might as well give it a try. I don't understand what the point of that was, because literally there's nothing around. But what was the interesting part was at the end of the episode, because everyone kind of wondered if Lucifer actually had been sent back to the cage. But is he? Because we see him conversing with Crowley at the end, but he is in a makeshift cage and Crowley has control over him. So why is that, though? Is he speaking to him through the cage, or is there something more? Did this egg actually not expel him? Did it not send him back to the cage? Did this egg do something else? So that's the thing that I'm wondering about. Is that egg that the men of letters gave them, was it actually something that could have sent him to hell, or was it actually something different? So that does raise an interesting question, but we just saw the boys fight Lucifer and they really reduced Lucifer. Sure, it was cool to see him as Mark Palaringo again, even though that makes no sense, unless he's in hell. But either way, I don't know what they're going with both of these ideas, because both of them literally lead to nowhere, in my honest opinion. I don't know. All I can think of for this Lucifer story is that we're just going to go in a circle. Again, the only thing is there's going to be the baby involved. And that's maybe why he's going to come back. But like I said, this season is literally grasping at straws. And unless they pull out something, I think this is going to just turn into another six or seven. God, please not let it be seven again. Anyway, guys, that's all for me. Take those comments of what you will. Oh, by the way, I've actually started reviewing the original episodes of Supernatural. You can check it out on my channel and please suggest what you think I should talk about in the next episode. I'm doing Bloody Mary next. Anyway, guys, that's all for me. See you guys next time.


Okay, everybody I think it's 430. So we can thank you all. So we can go ahead and get started. Okay, so with that, I'd like to call to order this September 8 2022 meeting of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission, and I'd like to read the following statement. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders and dash 25 dash 20 and in dash 29 dash 20 which suspend certain requirements with Brown Act and the order of the health officer of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19 planning commission will be conducting today's meeting in a very virtual setting using zoom zoom webinar commissioners and staff are participating from remote locations and are practicing appropriate social distancing members of the public may view and listen to this meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on today's agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item for public comment period or during our public hearing items tonight will be able to do so by raising their hand and will be given the ability to address the commission. So with that, if you could please call roll. Thank you. Commissioner Carter. Here. Mr Cisco. Here. Mr Duggan. Here. Mr Holton. Here. Mr Ocropke. Here. Vice chair Peterson is not present. Chair weeks. Here. But the record reflects that all members of the commission are present with the exception of vice chair Peterson. Thank you. Thank you. And he will be absent for the remaining of the for the remainder of the meeting. So, so with that, move on to item two, which is approval of minutes, which we have no minutes tonight. So we'll go right to item three public comments. If so, I will go and open the now and open the public comments for any item not included in this meeting's agenda. If you wish to make a comment. Please. Do so by using the raised hand feature on zoom. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer showing on the screen for your convenience. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so and your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. I don't see that we have anybody. Okay. Do you see anybody? Sorry, chair, we have no raised hands at this time. Thank you so much. So with that, I'll go ahead and close the public comment period and bring it back to item four planning commissioners report. Our statement of purpose is as follows. The planning commission is charged with carrying out the California planning and zoning laws within the city of Santa Rosa. Duties include implementing plans and ordinances and policies relating to land use matters. Assisting in writing and implementing the general plan and area plan holding public hearings and acting on proposed changes to the zoning code zoning map general plan tentative subdivision map. We're also undertaking special planning studies as needed. So with that, we'll go to item 4.2. Are there any reports from either subdivision or waterways? Okay, not seeing any. Then we'll go to 4.3 commissioners report. Are there any reports by my fellow commissioners tonight? Okay, seeing shaking heads. We will go ahead and then move on to department reports. Good afternoon. I actually do not have a department report today. Okay. Thank you. So then we'll go to item six statement of abstentions. Are there any abstentions on the two items before us tonight? Okay, not seeing any. So we'll go ahead and move on to the consent items, which we have none, and then on to our first scheduled item tonight. It's item 8.1. It's a public hearing flora Tara. Okay. Hi. So we have a new project conditional use permit for 575 Highway 12 Number B or letter B, CUP 21-097. This is an expert item. So we'll go ahead and start with Commissioner Carter. Yeah. I visited the site and I have nothing further to disclose. Thank you. Commissioner Cisco. I visited the site and I have no new information to disclose. Dougan. I have nothing to disclose. Thank you. Commissioner Holton. I visited the site, I have nothing further to disclose. Thanks. And Commissioner Crepeke. I visited the site, I have nothing further to disclose. Thank you. And I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. So with that, we'll go to Mr. Cali for this item. Thank you, Chair Weeks. And we're back in numbers of the planning commission. So I will start sharing my screen and I'll turn the camera off. So as you mentioned, this is the conditional use permit for the project at 45755 Watesville Street 3. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to allow the commercial cannabis retail dispensary use instead of cannabis smoking devices. It's in existing commercial building. Hours of operation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. And the project site is between the north-eastern quadrant of the city at the corner of High Watesville and Mission Ward. The zone is neighborhood commercial, consistent with the general prime language designation of retail and business services. The nearby land use or mix of commercial offices, restaurants, and some residential visas. The current existing businesses between this shopping center include a grocery store and the mattress store. The parcel right adjacent to the north side is already developed with their commercial uses, including restaurants, cleaners, a salon, and a convenience store. And there are two parcels at the east side. At the east side, one is currently an undeveloped lot. It's a vacant lot. And the other parcel is a little between with a single finally residence. And a brief summary of the project this week. The neighborhood meeting was held on October 18 last year. And in December, the application for a conditional use permit was submitted, which was being completed in June. And this map here shows the locations of the dispensaries in this area and schools near the project site. The zone input establishes a 600 foot buffer for Canada's dispensary facilities and 600 foot for schools. As you can see, there are four Canada's facilities existing and proposed in this area, but none of them are between the 600 foot requirement and including the project site, which is labeled with the red star. Out of these four sites, two of the dispensaries are already operating. One is located at 4880 Highway 12 and the one at 4036 Montgomery Avenue. And one is the current project. And the other one on the left side is already under the review ending process. And here is a site land that shows the existing building and the parking lot. The proposed project would occupy the existing commercial building. It used to be a coffee shop. It was a Starbucks. And the commercial site shares a total of 53 parking spaces with the existing businesses. And no additional parking spaces would be required for this project that is recommending an existing retail space. And the number of required parking spaces for dispensaries is very lower than the coffee shop. And here is a closer look at Suite B. And here is the floor plan. The proposed facility would include a retail area and office and a storage room. And the applicant is not proposing any cannabis delivery to the customers from the site. And here are the existing elevations and no exterior changes are being proposed to site. And as you may know, there are some general operational requirements for commercial cannabis facilities, including other mitigation plans, security plan and delivery plan. The project applicant has submitted a project description that includes details about proposed security measures which show operational compliance with all applicable security measures established by our zoning code. And the applicant has also submitted a certified order control plan that shows compliance with the city's cannabis order standards. And also the project will be required to comply with the city's lighting and noise ordinance, which will reduce potential conflict with nearby residential users. And as I mentioned, there are no deliveries proposed from the site. So no delivery plan was needed for the project. And since the neighborhood meeting was held last year in October, staff has received late emails, all opposing the project. Comments include the location is too close to residential uses and schools in this area and would sell cannabis and related products in a family oriented neighborhood. The use will increase the traffic in the area. Expression of general opposition of recreational cannabis uses. The use will attract more homeless people in the neighborhood and increase loitering and drug consumption in this area. And concerns about safety and security within the neighborhood. Staff has responded to those emails and that will give you a brief summary of the responses. So as you may know, in December 2017, the city council adopted an ordinance for commercial cannabis after the state of California after the sale of cannabis for adult use. And our ordinance does not regulate setbacks to residential uses. The only setbacks regulated by the cannabis ordinance are the distances from schools and distance from other cannabis dispensaries. The proposed dispensary is located more than 600 feet from the schools in this area and also 600 feet from other dispensaries. Therefore, it meets our ordinance regulations. About traffic, a traffic report was prepared by WTrans, reviewed by the city staff, by the traffic division and no additional requirements were placed on the project. The report has concluded that the project would result in a less than significant transportation impact. And the applicant, as I mentioned about the requirements for the cannabis operational regulation that the applicant has provided a security plan that mentions a security personnel will be on site during the average of operation and that would monitor the activities on the site. And that is also required by the state. And as for SICWA, the proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. And staff has determined the project's called Qualifiers for Tree Capitol Recall Exemptions. And with that, the planning and economic role of the department recommends that the planning commission by resolution approve a conditional use journey for cannabis ritual dispensary use, including sale of cannabis smoking devices for the property located at 4575 Highway 12 Sweet Beach. The applicant is available. They don't have any PowerPoint. They will only have she actually Alicia will have only an oral presentation. And that was my presentation. If you don't have any question for me, you can hear what Alicia has to say. Thank you, Mr. Collie. Are there any questions of Mr. Collie at this time? See anything? I'm sorry. Did you say does the applicant have a presentation? Only oral presentation, no PowerPoint. Okay, so then let's go ahead and hear from the applicant. And then after that, we will go ahead and have the public hearing on this item. Good evening, everyone. This is Alicia Wingerd, and I am here today with my husband, David. I feel like at this point, I've seen many of you in the past for other projects. So, you know, we want to thank you for seeing us once again for this third location. So as Monet said, we are at 4575 Highway 12. And David and I have been successfully operating Floretera. We have our existing location in Coffee Park. We have been approved for our second location on Highway or on, I'm sorry, on 4th Street, which is currently undergoing, you know, the permitting process and construction. And we're looking forward to getting that operational. And now we're looking towards our third project. So as we've said before, we are compliant operators. I think I'd first just like to touch on the concerns from the public.  I do believe we have a representative from WTrans if there's any questions to them on that. But the outcome of that traffic study is that we are going to experience a significant decrease in traffic compared to the previous use, which was a Starbucks, which means, you know, less people in and out, less parking requirements, et cetera. The concerns about it being too close to homes and or schools, you know, we are within the regulations set forth by the city over 600 feet from any school. And when it comes to loitering and or onsite consumption, that's not something that we allow at any of our facilities, nor will we ever. We're not willing to risk our license so somebody can consume in the parking lot. It's just not what we're what we're looking for. And then, you know, when it comes to people loitering, we do have onsite security while we're present. And our security guards are very comfortable, you know, having interactions with homeless people. It happens in coffee park frequently since we're at the end of an industrial street and we just, you know, politely ask them to move on. And then, I mean, overall, we really can't, you know, control the homeless. But we'll do our best to keep the entire vicinity free from loitering. When it comes to security, we will have, you know, the same security, similar security things that are happening now where, you know, high definition cameras, 90 day retention per state regulations, an alarm system that's professionally monitored 24-7. We'll try to leverage our distribution license to that area so we minimize the number of deliveries to and from our vendors. Again, providing additional jobs to our local community members, you know, is something that we're really excited to do. And really, the goal being close to the neighborhoods is so we can serve the community members in the neighborhoods. I think at the last meeting that, when we were speaking last, I believe it was Jeff O'Cruppy had mentioned that the design of the cannabis policy was so each neighborhood had a spot to go. It shouldn't be that there's, you know, one in an industrial space tuckback or shove them all on the pinear road because that truly is what's happening is that if we kind of put them sporadically throughout the city neighborhoods, you know, people can walk over. If they're going to the market that's right next door, then they can also come over to us if they're buying a mattress from mattress from and they need to pop in and buy some cannabis while they're out and about. It gives our community the ability to do shopping by minimizing the number of trips that they're spending, you know, going to and from their house and other places. What else? You know, again, it'll be the similar model to our existing location. It'll be, you know, boutique style wine country design cannabis boutique. And we really look forward to expanding our network within the city and, you know, having a bigger footprint so we can continue to serve our community. And that's really all I have for you today. And I appreciate your time. And we really look forward to the opportunity to open up another location. Thank you. Are there any questions of Ms. Weingard? Okay. Not seen any. I will go ahead. Excuse me. I'll go ahead and open the public hearing for this item. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please select the raised hand button. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker will have three minutes. There's the countdown timer on the screen for your convenience. And please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so. And your microphone will be muted at the end of the three minutes. So, Ms. Host, do we have any hands raised for this item? We have no hands raised at this time. Okay. So we'll just wait half a minute more. Okay. Seeing none, I will go ahead then and close the public hearing on this item and bring it back to the commission. So, this item has one resolution. And if somebody would like to move that resolution, that would be great. Or if you have other questions or concerns, we can take that now and then somebody can enter the resolution after. So, any questions, concerns? Does somebody want to read the resolution? Commissioner Krapke. Yeah, I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Saint Rosa, approving a conditional use permit for flora terra to allow a type 10 commercial cannabis retail dispensary use and sale of cannabis smoking devices within an existing 2031 square foot building located at four, five, seven, five, highway 12, street B, a census parcel number 182-490-013, file number CUP 21-097 and wait for the reading of the text. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Commissioner Holton. So that was moved by Commissioner Krapke, seconded by Commissioner Holton. So we'll go ahead and have comments now on the item. So we'll start with Commissioner Carter. Yeah, this is a pretty straightforward application, neighborhood commercial use proposal in an existing neighborhood commercial facility. It serves a part of town where this particular use has not been oversaturated and we've been looking for opportunities to provide this service on the eastern side of town. It looks pretty straightforward to me and I think I can make all of the necessary findings to support the project. Thank you. Commissioner Siscoe. Hi, as I agree with Commissioner Carter on all of his points and I can make the findings for this conditional use permit. Thank you. Commissioner Duggan. I too can make all the required findings and I echo the comments of Commissioner Siscoe and Carter and also I think it's nice to see a project that is not going to change the footprint and re-tenant an existing unoccupied space and I also want to give thanks to to Miss Shaquille for her respectful and informational responses. I think that's kind of shows why we don't have a lot of public comment here tonight on this item. Simon support the project. Thank you. Commissioner Holton. Well I love going after Commissioner Duggan. She always just wraps it all up in one little package so I can echo the sentiments of all my fellow commissioners and that this was a very well put together regular proposals straightforward so I'm in support of it of the conditional use permit. Thank you and Commissioner Krepke. Yeah I echo the thoughts of my fellow commissioners and I think just because we haven't had a dispensary application come forward a few months it's worth repeating you know we do see a lot of the same concerns come forth from the public and I think you know one thing I would love to see more education on on this going forward but as far as like homelessness and crime we tend to see that homelessness and and voidering are reduced around dispensaries because of lighting in cameras. Crime the statistics don't bear out that there's an increase in crime. The police department come forward before us and councils saying that you know that doesn't actually happen and in terms of the distances schools and residential uses you know it fits the general plan it fits zoning our hands are pretty much tied on making anything that would be policy because that's not what we do we're not a make policy make the body so all that again I'll just say I can make all the required findings to support the application. Thank you and I also can make all the required findings it is a very well put together application and it's consistent with all of our regulations and I do I agree with Commissioner Duggan about retenanting an existing building I think it's a great use of that site. So with that we will go ahead and call for the vote please. Apologies for the delay. Commissioner Carter? Aye. Commissioner Sisko? Aye. Commissioner Duggan? Aye. Commissioner Holton? Aye. Commissioner Ocracke? Aye. Commissioner Week? I'm sorry Chair Weeks? Aye. So that passes with six ayes commit or vice chair Peterson being absent so then we'll move on to our next item oh I'm sorry I do need to read verbiage regarding any appeal so please note that this action is final unless an appeal is filed within 10 calendar days of today's action the time limit will extend to the following business day if the last day falls on a day that the city is closed for information on how to submit an appeal form please contact the project planner so thank you so with that we'll go ahead and move to item 8.2 which is public hearing Kiwana Village Extensions Planning Project 1310 Kiwana Terrace PRJ 18-029 and EXT 22-005 and this is an exparte item so we'll go ahead and start with Commissioner Carter. I have nothing to disclose on this item. Thank you. Commissioner Sisko? I have nothing to disclose on this item. Thank you. Commissioner Duggan? I have nothing to disclose. Commissioner Holton? I also have nothing to disclose. Thank you and Commissioner Krepke? I have nothing to disclose. Okay and I also have nothing to disclose so with that we'll start with Mr. Wixen who will give our presentation this evening. Okay thank you Chair Weeks. Yes my name is Mike Wixen and I am the project planner for this particular project. This project before you tonight is a request, it's actually two separate requests each to extend the tentative map for one year and if approved it would extend the life of the tentative map to June 12th 2023. The tentative map also has two associated permits with it. One is a small lot conditional use permit and the other is a hillside development permit. And again if this is approved tonight as tentative map extensions the director then would act on the other two items separately following tonight's hearing. Next slide please. The this slide basically shows the location of the project site. You can see that it's three parcels, three separate parcels. It's about 4.2 acres or actually a little bit more. And this slide basically shows that there are a few trees on the site and towards the south end and as well some existing homes. The area to the west is currently being developed with single family residential units. And if we could go to the next slide please. The next slide is general plan and zoning. It's in R16 zone. The project is also in medium low density residential land use area for 8 to 13 units per acre. The project is consistent with the R16 zone and as it meets the hillside development standards as well. Even though that's not exactly what you're hearing tonight you're just looking at the tentative map. There are hillside development standards in the map that still need to be met. The general plan also is the density is met that the project has an overall density of 8.1 units per acre. So that density requirement is met. The next slide please. And this is a picture of the tentative map itself. And so to the left side of the image here is headed to the north and to the right side of the image is south. Again it's two separate one year time extensions for the tentative map and the request is to divide 4.82 acres into 39 single family plots. We've got a lot of them. Okay. Okay. So the project would allow for the development that the way that these homes are being broken out on site is for 39 lots it will also be for 39 units. 12 of those units will be duet units very similar to a duplex unit. They're attached but each would have its own lot and there are 12 duet units on the project site. And then there are 27 detached single family units each on its own lot as well. The lots range in size from approximately 2,500 square feet to just over 9,500 square feet. And again as I hope I mentioned if I didn't the lot meets all the requirements of a small lot subdivision as well. So the next slide please. This slide is a visual image just depicting kind of breakout of the subdivision that the brown units or the brown lots are the duet units. And you can see the number of duet units. There are six overall but if you multiply that by two you have 12 duet units each in total. I'm sorry. And then you have the 27 single family homes shown in both yellow and green. And the green lots are the lots which are subject to the hillside development standards as well. And so the yellow and green lots are all the single standard single family dwelling lots that we'll have. It's just a standard single family home on the lot. All of the homes are proposed to be two-story. Each unit is approximately 1,500 square feet maybe a little bit more up to 2,428 square feet for the larger single detached single family homes. And then the duet units will all have 1,509 square feet of living space in each unit. And as well they will be two stories. The larger lots have a coverage of about 20 percent just just under 20 percent while the small lots have a lot coverage of about 50 percent. Next slide please. And this slide is just to depict that the project is still consistent with the city's housing action plan the slide just demonstrates that the project will be made up of market rate housing. As such the 39 units make up about 1.5 percent of the city's 51 percent market rate housing units included in the city's housing action plan. Next slide please. So just a brief history neighborhood meeting was held on this project back all the way back in 2005 the site was annexed into the city by the city council in 2007 the development advisory committee reviewed the project in March 2008 the planning commission then subsequently approved the mitigated negative decoration and the tentative map the small lot conditional use permit and the hillside development permit on June 12th 2008 and then through a series of automatic extensions provided by the state legislature the map was extended to 2017 and the planning commission again approved the map as with a one-year extension or until June 12th 2018 next slide please. So subsequent to that last date that I gave you there was a one-year time extension application submitted by the applicant prior to that on April 15th 2018 and that is actually the subject of one of the time extension requests that's before you today. Following that extension application and the date on that extension application the city council put into place two one-year automatic time extensions for projects such as this one so with those two one-year time extensions and the state then also granting another automatic extension of two years that would in total bring the expiration date of the project to June 12th 2022 or just a few months ago basically. The applicant prior to that date of June 12th 2022 filed a third one-year time extension and this is this time extension is also before you today and that is to extend the project to June 12th 2023 and again this is the second request before you today each of these time extensions has its own separate resolution attached to your report so as you get to that point this next slide please I'm sorry this is an exhibit depicting the parking for the project site as a small lot project parking is always examined a little bit more closely if you look very closely which it's hard to see in this image but street A is a little bit narrower than the other street that intersects and I'm forgetting Raphael street is the other street that intersects it and then to the left and up to the top side of the project or the north side of the project is Coana Terrace as a primary road so the narrower street street A with the current requirements for fire department access the parking becomes a little bit more limited on the street itself so after reviewing this with the project applicant we basically concluded that there would need to be a condition that all of the detached single family units which are 27 of them wouldn't necessitate an 18-foot wide driveway in order to accommodate a total of four parking spaces on each of those single family dwelling sites but at least two parking spaces in the driveway and so with that recommended condition and in a grade two condition it would provide a total of 159 parking spaces within the entire subdivision where only 138 parking spaces would be required so it obviously and adequately meets the zoning code requirement for adequate parking for the project site and that is why this parking exhibit was included tonight just to bring that to your attention the next slide please so as I mentioned previously there was a mitigated negative declaration approved by the planning commission back in 2008 it was then reaffirmed in 2018 and its extension application the previous mitigated negative declaration is still appropriate for the project since the scope of the project remains unchanged and there really is no new information of substantial importance that would otherwise require additional environmental analysis so it still is a valid document that we are recommending to be to stay with the project and then next slide please and finally we're recommending that the planning commission approve the two separate resolutions that are attached to the report each to extend the subdivision one year with an added condition to ensure the adequate parking will exist in the project the new project expiration date with these approvals would be June 12th 2023 and the next slide please basically that concludes my presentation if there's somebody in the audience that wanted to discuss this project further this is where I can be reached and I'd be happy to discuss it with whomever is inclined to call and wants to talk about it and with that that concludes my presentation thank you Mr. Wixen does the applicant have a presentation that you know of? I don't believe so okay thank you so commissioners are there any questions of Mr. Wixen so we'll start with commissioner Cisco yeah just checking did the resolutions that we have in our packet include that condition that you were speaking about yes they do okay okay yes good thanks any other questions before we go ahead and open the public hearing on this okay so with that I will go ahead and open the public hearing if you wish to make a comment via zoom please select the raised hand button if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand we will have three minutes at countdown time we're showing on the screen for your convenience please make sure to unmute yourself and you're invited to do so and your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown so madame host are there any members of the public we do miss mandor reid miss reid I am giving you permission to speak if you would please start your comment by providing your name for the record thank you miss reid I don't see that she has a microphone um so and now her hand is down the mouse back up miss reid you have been given permission to speak if you don't have a microphone you may need to call into the meeting the call-in number is<PHONE_NUMBER> with the meeting ID of 870-8208-7939 can you hear me now yes we can I'm so sorry we're having trouble navigating the website or it's just zoom it's just forgive us um we're at 1320 Cuantaris we're literally right next door to this entire development and we have concerns um my name at your name for the record my name is Amanda Reed REID I live at 1320 Cuantaris and also present is my husband Chris Bernard thank you go ahead um we we've known about this for a very long time this is a family property I'm third generation here my concern mostly at this point is that there's been so much development in the area since this was approved in 2018 that I'm concerned that perhaps some of the things that were seemed reasonable as far as impact and traffic and that sort of thing um I'm wondering when is there an extension like period where they can't just keep asking for extensions where the whole thing has to be kind of restarted or at least reevaluated from the beginning we will ask the questions of the planner once you finish your comments okay thank you for clarifying um so that's one question is can they just keep reapplying for extensions just re-extending and re-extending that was my one concern also because of the traffic in the area with the new um 31 degrees and then there's also another subdivision and then this little subdivision that we're discussing is the last thing in between us and all of these subdivisions we're concerned now more so than we were in 2008 that this is going to be more impactful there's also a park proposed to be up the street up Quantitaris as is the entrance to the park there's a daycare center across the street from us I'm not sure has ever been addressed as far as traffic there's no speed bumps there's no street speed signs things of what I would consider normal safety measures as we get more and more dense in this area I'm feeling that we're we're going to need some other mitigations happening that I'm not sure are being addressed in these re-occurring just we just keep read well and also privacy for us that's that's a big concern for us too is privacy we're losing but I understand that's just part of the plan and that kind of is what it is so that's just a concern of ours personally but more as a whole we're concerned about the impact and the current situation of the neighborhood as it is now as it was not this way in 2018 so I think that is our major concern is that things are re-evaluated in current time and not just given another extension and another extension and another extension assuming everything is as it was in 2008 because as you all know it is not so things have changed considerably in this neighborhood in the last five to seven years and I think our time is up thank you so much thank you are there any other does anybody else have their hands raised don't see anybody else so with that I will go ahead and close the public hearing on this item and Mr. Wixen could you address the concern that Ms. Reed and Mr. Bernard have about multiple extensions without looking at the existing conditions sure I'd be happy to so the city subdivision code allows for a maximum of four extension requests each for one year individually this application currently has requested this will be the third with both applications in front of you today so it'd be the second and third in between you know normally if something was approved in 2008 and you have four it will normally expire in 2012 however both the state and the city council have provided automatic time extensions based upon both economic conditions back in that at that time back in 2008 economic conditions more recently with the COVID as well as the fires that occurred in Santa Rosa so given those circumstances as well there are it's not the norm historically but both the city council and the state legislature have provided for other automatic time extensions and so with the normal time extensions added to those the request now would be to grant the time to 2023 July 12th so hopefully that addresses that issue so they would have they could ask for one more extension correct that then would put it to 24 and then after that what would happen if after that it would need to be resubmitted completely as a new project and processed as such okay thank you uh any questions of Mr. Wixen at this time okay so would somebody uh like to enter the resolution and then we can start talking about it this is um as was stated in the staff presentation there's two resolutions so if you could read one but we'll talk about the project as a whole so would somebody like to enter the resolution thank you Commissioner Duggan I'll move a resolution of the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Rosa granting a one-year extension of time for the tentative map for the Kiwana Village subdivision located at 1166 Kiwana Terrace assessors parcel numbers 0440-051-027-019 and dash 025 file number EXT18-0031 and wave for the reading thank you uh is there a second Commissioner Carter thank you so that was moved by uh Commissioner Duggan seconded by Commissioner Carter Commissioner Carter do you want to start us off yeah I I think um what we have before us is a subdivision that we liked in 2008 and we liked uh twice before when we extended the um the subdivision approval the tentative map approval I do understand local concerns about a project this mature being approved under conditions that are seemingly different now but I think when when we did approve the subdivisions and the extensions earlier we were aware of the full extent of the of the development in this area and considered this among those issues and therefore I can make the resolution make the findings necessary for the resolutions and will be supporting both extensions thank you uh Commissioner Cisco yes I can also make the findings you know I do appreciate the um Ms. Reed and Mr. Barnard's comments but when these are originally approved we're already looking at the general plan and densities and all of that is already being factored in and as a part of what we make uh what we approve so and it it's a really drastic thing to deny an extension it's hasn't happened much in my career on here so um with that I I can make all of the findings as well as Commissioner Carter thank you uh didn't go to Commissioner Deggan I'm uh can make all the required findings and then support the resolution thanks Mr. Holton I can also make all the required findings and I'm also in support of the extension of both the the extent the extended tentative map and the extension for the hillside permit so yeah it's pretty straightforward and and unfortunately you know I know it's really tough to see the impending build out as it comes and you guys have a last neighborhood to bridge between that connection and it can get a little bit scary and we understand but you know there's a real need for housing and really a lot of those concerns are kind of outside of our purview so um you know we understand but uh but you know it's it meets all the required findings and and we're in support or I'm in support of this project thank you and then Commissioner Krepke yeah I don't think there's much more else to say that my fellow commissioners haven't seen already so um I can make all the required findings for both extensions and we'll be in support of both thank you and I also can make all the required findings on this resolution and in support of the project and as Commissioner Sisko mentioned you know we do take into consideration build out uh based upon the general plan and zoning when we look at projects so um so with that it was moved by Commissioner Duggan seconded by Commissioner Carter uh if you could please call for the vote Commissioner Carter hi Commissioner Sisko hi Commissioner Duggan hi Commissioner Holton hi Commissioner Krepke hi Chair Weeks hi so that passes with six eyes uh Vice Chair Peterson absent and if somebody could read the second resolution uh that would be great if if if I might Chair Weeks yes so I I think I misconvade how the extensions work with multiple extensions when you add the city council extension automatic extensions to it so I had explained that they are separate and individual whereas the city council time extensions actually do count as uh one of the optional time extensions that you can get from the subdivision map act as well so the subdivision map act my understanding is it provides for up to five years of time extensions and so with the this is my understanding with this second time extension that you're acting on now that would make it the fifth time extension and the last time extension so there would be no time extension following this action as I understand it okay thank you for that clarification so it basically it okay so that this would be it yes okay thank you so uh would somebody like to read the second resolution Commissioner Duggan thank you I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Santa Rosa granting a one-year extension of time for the tentative map for the Kiwana Village subdivision located at 1166 Kiwana Terrace assessors parcel numbers 044-051-027-019 and dash 025 file number ext 22-0005 and wait for the reading thank you uh is there a second Commissioner Carter thank you so um let's see Commissioner Carter uh comments I don't have any comments beyond beyond my initial ones I'll be supporting this resolution also okay thank you Commissioner um Cisco um I'll be supporting the resolution as well and can make all of the required findings Commissioner Duggan I can make all required findings and we'll support the resolution thanks Commissioner Holton I can make all the required findings and I'll be in support of the resolution thanks and then Commissioner Krapke I can make all the required findings and we'll be in support of the resolution thanks and I will can make all the required findings and we'll be in support of the resolution uh so with that um if you could go ahead and call the roll vote that would be great. Mr. Carter. Aye. Mr. Cisco. Aye. Mr. Duggan. Aye. Mr. Holton. Aye. Mr. Ocropke. Aye. Chair Weeks. Aye. So that passes with six Ayes and that is our final item for tonight but I do want to note that this action is final unless an appeal is filed within 10 calendar days of today's action. The time limit will extend to the following business day if the last day falls on a day that the city has closed and for information on how to submit an appeal form. Please contact the project planner on this item.  So with that I'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting and try and stay cool.


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