Good afternoon. We will call to order the October 2018 City of Columbia Planning Commission meeting. Welcome to all. We'd like to welcome Planning Commission members, staff, and guests. I would like to ask everyone now to turn their cell phones and PDAs to the silent or vibrate mode. The Administrator will now proceed with the roll call. Mr. Tupper? Here. Ms. Mandel? Here. Mr. Frost? Here. Ms. Hartz? Here. Mr. Cohn? Here. Mr. Stigemeier? Here. Ms. James? Here. Mr. Weitz? Here. And Mr. Dolphin? Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. I will now briefly review the meeting format. Applicants with requests before the Planning Commission are allowed at a presentation time of 10 minutes. This time should include, but is not limited to, an overview of the project, case history, and any pertinent meetings held regarding the request. This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicants, such as attorneys, engineers, and architects. This time limit does not include any questions asked by Planning Commission or staff regarding requests. Members of the general public are given the opportunity to address their concerns in intervals of two minutes. The Administrator has a timer and will make presenters aware when their time has expired. The Planning Commission reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case-by-case basis. The Consent Agenda. The Planning Commission uses the Consent Agenda to approve non-controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote. Examples of such items include approval of site plans, annexations, and street names. If a member of the Planning Commission or the general public would like to discuss an item on the Consent Agenda, that item is removed from the Consent Agenda and considered during the meeting. The Planning Commission then approves remaining Consent Agenda items. The Administrator will now read the Consent Agenda. The Consent Agenda this evening consists of two items. The first item is the approval of the September 5th, 2018 minutes, and the second item is a site plan review for 2300 Elmwood Avenue, which is a record request for a site plan review for a three-story 58-unit multifamily building. Do any Commission members or guests today wish to have any items on the Consent Agenda removed and placed on the regular agenda? I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to approve the Consent Agenda as presented. I'll in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Consent Agendas approved. We will now proceed with the regular agenda, and I would also like today to remind everyone when they come forward to please state their name clearly before speaking. Your third item for this evening is 16 Pendleton Street. It is a minor amendment to a plan unit development. It is located in a PUDC, and it also is in the design development review area as well as designated as DP in the design and preservation area. Any questions for staff from the Commission? Is there anyone, any guests that would like to speak? I'd ask for a motion. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minor amendment to the PUD at 16 19 Pendleton Street. We have a second. Any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion's passed. Your third item this evening is a major amendment to a plan unit development. This is for 33 19 Millwood Avenue. It is an amendment for the plan unit development of Commercial District PUDC. And the applicant is here. Before we begin, I'm sorry. Before we have the applicant, are there any questions for staff? Good evening. My name is Raymond Perkins. I'm Director Facilities for Richland One. And tonight we want to bring before you the proposed amendments to the PUD that is located at Jury High School. We're certainly appreciative of the opportunity to bring it to you. We have worked very hard with the city staff, city council, and we do have an agreement that we bring forward outlining how this particular development will be developed. At this time, I'm going to ask that the architect for the project comes up and give you details of that agreement and outline how we intend to proceed. Thank you. Do we have a site plan that we can share with everybody? So while that's coming up, my name is Doug Quackenbush, Quackenbush Architects and Planners. We've been involved in this project for a couple of years now, working through the details as many of you are aware. I thought the easiest way, this is the drawing I was looking for, the easiest way to kind of give you a quick overview is to go in the order of the mediation agreement which summarizes the discussions that we had during that mediation that Mr. Perkins was referring to. So the first significant shift in this new plan from previous studies is shifting the tennis courts to the southeast corner of the site by shifting those tennis courts that allowed us to shift the position of the practice field, which is the lynchpin to making the whole plan work. So you can see those tennis courts, five of them again in that southeast quadrant that also puts them on a most public portion of the property. That allowed the multi-purpose field to be shifted further away from Andrew Road and from Michigan in its current position. What ties it to its north-south axis is we are required to have emergency vehicle access that goes around the school and that set the datam line for how it's positioned north and south. East and west, we pushed it as far west as we could, but the third tenet of the plan is the reconfiguration of the bus loop on site, which you can see there is kind of the vertical oval. We had to work with several governing agencies that dictate the requirements of bus loops, including the office and school facilities for the state, DOT, et cetera. So we jumped on this new idea and tightened it as much as we could so that we could accommodate that shift to the west. We also reconfigured the existing parking lot that is located there to the west of the campus. Removed some islands that used to contain trees. Those trees have gone away in the 12 or 13 years since the school was built to increase parking, given that we took away parking, the teacher parking lot that is where the proposed field will be located. We have created what we're calling an arboretum, which is on the northern portion of the site. What you see on your drawing has actually been amended. That fence line has shifted due to the neighborhood's request. It's now going from corner to corner, so it just increases that arboretum section a little bit more from what you see on that plan. Nonetheless, the concept is that's fenced off. It gets additional landscape screening and is essentially mostly inactive and controlled. Lots of conversations about the mechanism to accomplish this. Originally, we were looking to get rid of the pud, because we thought that was the only avenue available to us. Another breakthrough in the mediation is to establish a mixed use pud, which allows the pud requirements to remain in effect and be amended per this document. You'll see to the extreme west a grass area that is designated for residential. There is no current plans to build anything on that. That is simply allowing us to maintain a mixed use pud instead of a single use pud. Lots of requirements in the document about further changes would be vetted in a systematic process, the language I think you see in front of you. Lots of conversation about lighting. The lighting has been vetted. The district has committed to spending additional monies to ensure that we have LED lighting for both the tennis courts and the multipurpose field. That allows us to control light pollution much more exactly and keep the light on the field and not leaking off the site. Also, requirements about no sound systems, limitation of bleacher heights and other details which I won't get into, but can answer those questions if you have them. I think those are the major concepts that are captured in the plan. If you have any questions, be happy to accept those. In the first proposal, were there lights on the field and on the tennis courts? Yes. Were there stands for the... Yes. The difference between the initial proposal and this one is more specificity on how we're doing the lighting and more limitations on the scale of the bleachers. What about the parking? Because it says there's... I'm reading it correctly, there's 381 spaces. But if you fill up this field, I thought this was going to be a practice field. That's exactly what it is. It's a practice field with turf. The revised parking count is 381. That's down from about 413 previously. The teacher parking lot that currently exists to the north of the school where the practice field is shown goes away. We were able to pick up some of those parking spaces by reconfiguring the student lot, removing islands, making it a little bit more efficient. Of course, you see a finger of new parking that extends to the residential lots on the west. So if it's a practice field, why do you need a scoreboard? I'm thinking down the road what this could become. Okay. A lot of that is covered in the mediation agreement in terms of uses. The intent is there would be JV games occasionally hosted at this site, which is the reason for the bleachers and the reason for the scoreboard, but there is no longer a press box, there's no longer a sound system. It's very limited use and limited in terms of time today as well. I have a question. You've referenced the mediation agreement a few times. I don't know if you're the best person to address that or if Mr. Perkins is the best person to address that, but that's a different wrinkle than the last three times that this came forward. Has there been a mediation? I'd like to hear a little bit about that and who the stakeholders were at the table on that. Yes, sir. As a result of the presentation that we made to Council at the last time, it was a result of that that the mayor directed us to go into that mediation. I can't remember the name of the mediator, but the people involved was obviously Councilman Rickman, the mayor, members of the board, I think Ms. Harris, the chairwoman and Mr. Divine. And then there were several members from the community that was a part of that meeting as well. So that lasted all of about eight or nine hours that day. So is there an agreement that's been signed between the neighborhood, which clearly was the strife and where we're at today? There was a signed agreement. Yes. By whom? That'd be great. So do these parties represent everyone in the neighborhood and at the school? Yes. I believe that was the... Thanks, Dr. Heathwood community and also Melrose community as well. And part of the question that I asked is we were passed along as part of our pre-meeting materials, a bunch of letters from neighbors to the tune of probably 60 pages in opposition, and I just was trying to get my arms around if that was representing the majority or if that was just folks that may not have participated in that process. It was unclear to me by not seeing that agreement until just now. I'm not sure I have not seen or heard those letters, but certainly. Thank you. Any other questions right now? I'd like to call... Thank you. We will get back. I'd like to call any other guests who would like to come forward on the other side. We're going to try to do this, the people in supporting of it and there are people we've gotten emails and letters from who do not support it. So we want to try to have one go and then the other go so we can hear both sides. My name is Jim Gregory. Most of you already know I live at 812 Agile Road. I'm directly across the street from this facility. Let me say very first, I do not condone nor do I accept what is called a memorandum of intent. We were never advised what was in that. The people from the Heathwood Association that signed it, one in particular had absolutely no authority to sign it. It happened to be a neighbor and the co-presidents, we do question whether they should have signed it without giving it to the neighborhood. When this, if this thing happens, when I walk out my front door I will be looking at the back of a school board, the lights, the goalpost and the net that's going to go behind it. The glow from the lights, I don't care what kind of lights you put in there, it will affect the entire neighborhood. This whole memorandum of agreement and of intent, excuse me, none of the neighbors I have talked to believe in it. None of them accepted. It certainly wasn't any of the wishes that I had. The application is so full of holes that you could probably use it as a sieve. There's so many loopholes in there that they can come back and say, instead of this, we really want to do this and still be within the guidelines. The other thing is, I have been in my house since 1986. Yes, I was there in 2003 when all this started. And the whole agreement between the a whole deal between the neighbors and the Richland school board 1 and the district and the Dreyer, excuse me, was that there would be a buffer. Everything would be shifted to Millwood and there would always be a buffer between the school and the neighborhoods. They even made the statement at the time that they could not put anything in there because they didn't have the land to do it. Dreyer is sitting on less than 21 acres. His current guidelines for a elementary school is 25. For a middle school is 70. And for a high school is 75. They've got one third less land than they really need. This thing's gone on for two years. But one thing we are more resolved to do is make sure it does not happen now. I would urge you to deny this application for the fourth time because in 2003 we made a deal. And a deal is a deal. Thank you. Thank you. Someone supporting. Mr. Chairman and members of the commission, I'm Toby Ward. I represented the two neighborhood associations who were a party to the mediation and the mediated agreement. First of all, if it's not already incorporated, I would ask that the mediated agreement be made a part of the record of the application. And I don't believe there's any reason that we shouldn't do that. Second of all, we, that is myself and the officers of both associations have compared the mediated agreement to the PUD application. And we do not find any glaring inconsistencies. We do reserve the right to continue to work with the district to address some things, particularly landscaping. We think that we can do some fine tuning there as well as mechanisms for the dissemination of information by the school district, not only to the neighborhood associations, but to the property owners who are immediately adjacent and contiguous to the school property. And so finally, what I want to say is this, the neighborhood associations do not intend to bind or limit the rights of any individual property owners. That was not the role of the neighborhood associations. Rather, our role was to address the issue with which we were confronted in its totality the effect on the total neighborhood and where this process would end up were the major amendments not to be moved through and the PUD were to collapse that would present a clear and present danger to the neighborhood and that's what this motivated this mediated agreement as well as the ability to count votes at council. And so again I urge you to listen to the residents who are affected and I urge you to consider that the neighborhood associations will abide by the mediated agreement. Be glad to answer any questions. I'd like to ask a question, Mr. Ward. As council for the neighborhood associations that you just referenced, there was a comment that was made previous to your remarks that the signatures were not authority, they were not the proper people to sign this agreement. Can you comment on that in any respect? It was my belief at the time that the neighborhood associations were properly authorized to participate in the mediation and that they were properly authorized to sign the mediated agreement. Otherwise we would not have gone to the mediated agreement and that issue came up prior to the mediated agreement and it was discussed and so I believe that there was proper authority for both neighborhood associations to sign that agreement understanding again it doesn't affect the rights of any individual property owner. Thanks Toby. Any other questions? I have a question. Reference to fear and present danger to the neighborhood if this pud mediation lapses. Well it goes something like this. The pud currently without the major amendment is flawed because it does not have a mixed use. If the pud were to be determined to be invalid then the property would revert to its original zoning which would mean that any changes to the property would be approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals and that would not take it through council. So that was a problem. Second of all the citywide rezoning that's imminent would treat this as a type of property and thus use that would enable the district to have greater rights we believe with respect to the use of the property than are currently available to them under the pud and so if this pud goes away the neighborhood associations believe that they were exposed to substantial risk whether it was reverting to the original zoning or with what this would likely be rezoned under the new rezoning that's going to happen eventually. I have a question for staff. He brings up an interesting point. Should this not be approved today and it remains the existing pudc that's in place? What is it designated to in the new zoning and does that change by us considering this rezoning? So to answer the first part of your question your vote today is a recommendation to City Council so it's City Council who actually makes a decision to approve or deny this particular request. The second half of your question with regard to the new zoning as we've mentioned a lot of the public meetings and workshops with the planning commission the process is first to create the text and the districts and the second process will be to actually map it so at this time we have a draft of all the districts but we don't have a particular map so staff can answer the question of what the zoning would or would not be. So there's he's making an assumption then based on that comment. Yeah, that's his interpretation of how a map could be made for another. Any further questions? Thank you. Would someone, any of our guests like to come up and speak in favor of the neighborhood? Thank you. My name is Robert Crooks. I live on Christina. I've been here before because my wife is involved in the 2003 agreement. First of all let me say that the so-called mediation agreement. Sam and Mary Waters are co-presidents. Don Tudor is just a neighbor Fred Easley is Melrose Heights. They're like four individuals. Have no legal representation of the neighborhood I never saw any of this. It's never been discussed with me and they know full well that I've been against it since day one. So prior to the so-called mediation Mr. Sam Waters told me I can't make any decisions without discussing with the neighborhood. So if I go to a mediation I have to come out and talk with the neighborhood. He was not allowed that opportunity.  Well in 2003 the agreement was reached after a lengthy and arduous discussion. My wife was involved so was Mr. Perkins other school representatives. Chip Land was here at the time. Without this agreement this building Drill High School would not be sitting where it is and it would not have been built. Also in the agreement there was the buffer green space that was designated to protect the neighborhood. And I quote from the agreement. Possible use of undeveloped green space areas undesignated in the site plan shall remain as grassed areas. Physical changes to these areas such as paving for parking or additional sport surfacing is not anticipated. We went on that promise. How can anyone honestly and ethically permit destruction of the green space buffer by ignoring this 2001 agreement. Thank you. Well let me ask you a couple questions. It did not clearly state it could not be done. It just said it's not anticipated. You know that was a problem that my wife was there she said had I known that this would come up 15 years later. And I'll also mention for 15 years we've had a fairly peaceful coexistence with Drill High School. If they build this that's going to be destroyed. We'll go back to the way that it was when there was a ball field there. Were you invited to the mediation? No. I was given no opportunity and I have not had any discussion with any of the people that were there. And I think I've been intentionally excluded because they know that I have strong feelings against it. Thank you. Very briefly Mr. Chairman my name is Michael Burkett. I'm here on behalf of the Drear Parents specifically the Booster Club. We just wanted to note that we did participate in the mediation. It was nine hours but very productive and that we are in support of the design and the application and the rules that were set forth in the mediation. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening my name is John Brewton. I live at 3211 Michigan Street. With respect to the mediated document or memorandum understanding I'm not aware of a single resident of Michigan Street that was invited to participate in the mediation or has approved that document or otherwise is in favor of this plan. As you may know Michigan Street is comprised of small affordable homes for young families. Our respective front yards about 50 feet away from Drear's campus. And I think the residents of Michigan Street are continue to be very concerned about the specter of living next to a sports stadium. When I bought my house in 2016 I did it with the intent to live on Michigan Street for the indefinite future. However had I known that this proposal was in the works I never would have bought in that house. And I think this planning commission properly analyzed the land use issues the last three times something similar came up and you rejected it and I would respectfully request that you do the same tonight. And for the record both my mom and my sister played varsity sports to Drear High School and my family has been in support of Drear Athletics. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have any other guests who would like to come forward and speak tonight. Good evening I'm Foster Hazelden. I've spoken three previous times. I live at 827 Atcher Road with my wife and my two young sons. My three year old and my two year old. I've spoken previously about my history and my family history with Drear. It's pretty extensive. I had of course played soccer and golf. My brother played football. My sister played tennis and we all went to Drear when I was in Louis A.C. Flurips. I lived in the Walk Zone. If I remember those comments I won't belabor that point because I am fond of Drear. But I just want to point out and reiterate what Mr. Gregory said. My understanding from what's been reported in the state newspaper is that the ideal geographic footprint for an elementary school is 20 to 30 acres. A middle school is 50 and a high school is 100. So when you take out this very charged emotionally charged debate that's very political as we all know and you look at it it makes sense to put a stadium next to a small elementary school. Drear is 20.96 acres. And just think about that because I do question that and it's jammed in there. The buffer was there. Where's the buffer now? I've asked for two years for measurements. Never received them. I don't think that's a tall ask. It does make me question what will happen down the road. As an attorney I'm a federal litigator. Mediations are bound by the court rules or considerations exchange. That didn't happen here. And so you look at that it's only the only binding impact of that is your word and a deal is a deal as Mr. Gregory had said but it's not bound by the court rules and no consideration was exchanged. So there you go on that. Also I get very upset about the point of basically what people are saying is just sue. And I had a councilman Howard Duvall in my house and I said how do you tell me that my son who at that time was two how he's not going to be his quality life isn't going to be viscerated with the light shining in there. And he said to me at Foster I think about your family more than any other and I appreciate that. And then he said to me and I said so what's my remedy and he said to get a good lawyer. And is that the city we've become where we just hey just sue just sue just sue. I just don't think that's a good policy. But I'm opposed to this. I encourage you to please vote it down again. It's just too small 20.96 acres no measurements over two years of mediation that isn't really totally valid. And then the remedy is just sue the city everybody. I mean that's what we've become. I appreciate your time and talking to you the other four times as well. Any questions for me I'm happy to answer them. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question for staff. John Mr. Ward offered including the arbitration agreement or mediation agreement excuse me within the PUD. Is there any reason that has been excluded to point is there any impact of that statement. I'm curious why we're not we didn't see it in advance of today. Okay. Fair enough. But could it become part of the PUD application. You all could make it part of the record. Got it. Okay. Thanks. If there's no further questions. Yes sir. Thank you all Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon everyone. Craig Witherspoon superintendent Richmond one. First of all I want to say thank you to each and every one of you for the work that you do and the consideration we have been for before you several times and as has been stated we did receive direction from the mayor's office to go back to mediate and sit down and to hash some of these things out which we did and those things are represented in what we what's been presented to you this evening. Also beyond that Councilman Rickenman has gone back out according to him and had subsequent conversation with folks in the neighborhoods after this has happened and that resulted in some of the changes again that were spoken to this evening. So as the district we try to be good stewards good neighbors to listen to work together to see if we can't find a resolution in this regard and we feel as though we have done that listened and brought the recommendations back and forth both before the mediated agreement and then after that fact. I just wanted to make that clear and again thank you all for your time to see you. Thank you very much but anyone else like to come forward. Thank you. My name is Nancy Barksdale I live two blocks from Drear and I oppose this application. Before I get into my few remarks I do want to ask a question relative to something Mr. Cone I believe you asked about or maybe it was you what would this be re-zoned under the comprehensive 2018 plan. According to the case summary you had were provided it's my understanding that it would be zoned UCR 1 and if this proposal was presented under that zoning designation this application would have to go to BOSA to get approved. Is that correct? That would be a question for me to ask staff. And that's why I'm trying to clarify that. Sure so the UCR 1 is a land use classification not a zoning classification and the land use plan is a guide for how the land use should be distributed throughout the city and you can have multiple types of zoning applied to different land uses so there is no regulatory I guess neat so to speak or any regulatory perspective from that UCR 1 it's just basically a guiding document for planning for the city. So at this time we don't know what the zoning designation for this parcel will be. So the city has two documents that deal with land use one is the comprehensive plan which has a land use plan in it that's the UCR 1 and then we have the zoning which is a regulatory tool that tells you what you can do and how big the setbacks and bulk of the building and all those types of things we are rewriting our zoning code but we currently have the text drafted and the process that we're going to follow is we're going to present the text of the document to the community council will adopt the text and we'll go to part two which will be actually the mapping exercise so at this time it's too early to tell anyone what any one particular property in the city would its future zoning could be that would probably come out probably in the next year or so. Okay. The application before you tonight may look different but it is still the same. The school district is still trying to shoehorn competition sports fields tennis courts on a small piece of property hardly large enough for the elementary school. Plus they've added the 70-foot light poles and 600 bleacher seats. This amendment application is the school district's attempt to avoid going to Boza. Previously they've asked for an RS2 rezoning in that instance they would have to go to Boza and Boza has very strict criteria as to what can be approved to go for a special exception. This plan clearly will not pass Boza's criteria. That's why they've resorted to this rearrange the pud to make the pud a different pud the other comment I would make is as it relates to the mediation at the city council meeting in March when it came for a vote the mayor said you must go to mediation on your RS2 application. The neighbors were not invited to that meeting. The meeting was only set up a week before the mediation was to take place. Only the president of Melrose Heights where I am went to the meeting no other neighbors were asked to come and attend. The first it was a two-day meeting. Friday afternoon they had the meeting and the second part of the meeting was on Monday. In between that weekend I wrote to my president I wrote to the presidents of the Heathwood neighborhood association saying what is going on? I got no responses from anyone. We were not privy to the idea that all of a sudden an RS2 was going to now become a pud amendment. We got no feedback. So I take issue with the idea that this was something the neighbors bought in on not at all. I think that this commission has wisely denied the school district's applications three times prior. Nothing has been said tonight that would suggest those denials were wrong. An agreement is an agreement. I respectfully ask that you deny this application for the fourth time. Thank you. Good afternoon chairman and all the members of the planning committee. My name is Cheryl Harris and I serve as the chair of Richland County School District 1 Board of Commissioners and I've been fortunate to serve the entire four years on this project across our district. When we started this project, the purpose and the intent was to secure our practice fields as well as our stadiums and to add one additional stadium because our district is 500 square miles. We were putting a lot of students at risk with them traveling across town. Our tennis team there at Drear was having to drive 17 miles one way to a game. There were many games that we couldn't play. We had to move it because they had to get off the court so other planned events could use those fields. We sat down as a board with our superintendent and others and we started working on how we could address the issues that we were facing and the challenges in Richland 1 for all schools. In that discussion we decided to redo the Memorial Bolden and Lord Richmond stadium and add a new one to the sports mid-week because we don't have enough stadiums. The plan before you is not a stadium it is a multi-purpose field. Our stadiums seat five to six thousand people. They're huge. Huge scoreboards and everything else. This field is designed to do two things. To take care of our practice for our JV teams versus them driving over to Memorial and also address some of our JV games. I have a child that plays JV sports. You rarely have about 100 people there if that much. I was a part of the mediation in representing the school district along with our vice chair Mr. Divine and several others that have already spoken before you Mr. Burkett and some others that were present. In that discussion it was a very healthy conversation between what we assumed to be the leaders of the neighborhoods because it was related to them. My desire was to come to an agreement that does two things. Take care of the children of Richland one and take care of our neighbors. I live by those rules. I cannot control what may have happened back in 2003 because I wasn't in the seat that I sit now. But I sat in that meeting in good faith as the leader of this district and worked out an agreement with the neighbors leaders and in that agreement I joyfully sat in that meeting and after we completed that document Councilman Rickerman came back and he shared with us that they wanted some other adjustments. I've had numerous meetings making those adjustments. The wording, the arboretum, they wanted it 30 feet whatever we're going to do that. There's a wall that we're going to increase the height because it was ass and the goal is one thing is to take care of the kids and also I respect that. I respect that. But at the same time I have the responsibility of making sure that the students have safe passage. We have after school tutoring for our athletes. It's all but impossible for our students to go through the athletic tutoring and get to practice fields versus being able to do what all of the other students in our other six high schools are allowed to do. And that is have school, grab a quick snack after school, go into their tutoring and then go out to the practice fields. The purpose of this field this is not a stadium it's no way near a stadium. It barely seats 200 people on one side and I believe 400 on the other at the request of the neighbors that asked us to take the total down. They even asked that we take the bleachers and make them longer so they wouldn't be as high so that you could not see into the neighbors home and we did that. They asked us to not have sound and we did that. They asked us to lower the lights and we did that and everything that has been requested of this district we have done that and we've done that in good faith because we're trying to take care of two things our neighbors and our children. So I'm asking you on today if you would consider this proposal for the sake of the children that we care about so deeply at Drear and also for our neighbors and of course I know everyone is not going to be happy. I understand that but I want the community to know and I want you all to know as a planning committee this district has done everything within its power to make adjustments to accommodate the requests that have been made to us. We have not denied those because we do care about our neighbors so on today I'm just asking that you support this plan for the sake of the students that we serve there at Drear High School. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to come forward? Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen of the commission my name is Robert Patterson I've lived on Devereux Road since 1972 we moved to Devereux Road so that our children could go to Drear High School and both of our children Rob Jr. and Anne are product of Richland One system. Metafield Atlas Road Brandon Drear so please don't perceive me as an enemy of school district one I'm a supporter of school district one I've volunteered to talk to students and classes at Drear High School I'm a retired professor of history at USC so I've taken my road show to Drear High School on occasion but you've received my letter my wife and I feel the same as we have every time school district has brought this matter before you I'll just make a few points one this is basically under a new guise the same proposal that you have voted down three times it calls itself as an amendment but it is basically restructuring this property as it did in previous proposals number two this proposal will have the same negative effect on the neighborhood in terms of sound light, traffic that the other proposals had number three there is the impression because the perimeter of this property is planned for shrubbery and 30 foot trees and the like that somehow the negative effects of the multi-purpose use of this property will be contained in that space but anybody who knows anything about sound and light traffic knows that it's not going to be contained in that space this greater Heathwood Melrose and also please remember the south side and southwest side of Melwood avenue nobody is representing them please keep this in mind this is a special place to live in Columbia close to business and education thank you for your time and attention thank you anyone else want to come forward I would like to thank everyone tonight is there someone I'm Martha Fowler I live in Melrose Heights I wanted to clarify a couple of things that I just felt like y'all maybe you're a little unclear about how the mediation happened there was mediation there was only one person from Melrose we have over 500 houses in our neighborhood there was only one person invited only one person told where the meeting would be and when it would be there was also one person from Shandon they had a voice and have nothing that touches it there were two people from Heathwood who were invited there was one that just evidently found out and showed up it probably was wise to not let everybody know when the mediation would happen because things have been so fiery for over two years it has been an uncomfortable situation I personally feel like it should never have come up because it was an agreement made when Drear was built that this would not happen I am a huge advocate of Drear we moved into my grandmother's house so that my children could go to Drear Drear is a wonderful school at the time my children went academics were more important than sports but sports are equally as important to an awful lot of people I felt like y'all needed some clarification about how the mediation was happened there were a lot of people that were not included in it and that's why you have so many people stepping forward now to say but I didn't have a voice you all are our voice I too have questions there was a meeting that was held at Heathwood the other night at Heathwood Park and someone said why do we have to have 600 seats as Harris just said she goes to JV games all the time and they usually have 100 people there why are we spending that much money to have 600 seats when normally you have 100 people that come I think that maybe the neighborhoods might feel more comfortable if we didn't have 600 to 800 seats I don't know how you're going to come to an answer to this it's a situation that I feel has been very detrimental to the community I appreciate what y'all are doing but I just felt like you needed a little clarification thank you thank you Mr. Chairman can we ask if either Sam Waters, Dr. Mary Baskin Waters Fred Easley or Donald Tudor are here yeah may we ask you how was notification sent to are you, I'm sorry can you share with us how the notification was provided to the rest of the neighbors normally do notifications to the neighborhood through an email system in regard to the mediation City Council directed the mediation and when we went to the mediation we didn't find out about it until I want to say it was just a few days prior to the event and I think that that was the intent was to have the mediation originally with one representative from the neighborhood from Melrose, one from Heathwood one or two people from the school district one from Shannon it was supposed to only be four or five people but one and the mayor were the ones that were putting this together we did not find out who was invited to this until basically a day or two before this happened and the reason for it quite frankly was when you have 20 30, 40 people you're never going to reach consensus on anything our neighborhood originally voted against the plan as it was originally presented three or four iterations ago I met with my executive committee and we had discussed the best way to move forward based on the information that we had available which would be one representative and assuming that then I was voted as the individual that would go in and represent the neighborhood's interest at that point I believe the same thing happened with Sam and Mary Waters with their executive committees I can't speak for them, they're not here but Toby Ward is the attorney that is hired by both Melrose Neighborhood Association or Heathwood to represent us at the mediation and provide assistance when we met at the mediation we went through all of these things and we worked all this out in good faith having said that there will be people that are not going to be happy with what we came to it's just going to be that way we actually have about 650 residents in Melrose and it's comprised of three neighborhoods Melrose Heights Oak Lawn Fairview so we're a pretty large conglomeration we've had meetings over the last two and a half years to address this type of stuff and we'll send an email out and the people that show up are the people that show up you can't push a rope we've done the best that we can to let people know we have a Facebook page we have an email that was sent out we've done what we can do so an email was sent out before the meeting inviting some people to the meeting you said the executive the mediation was directed to us by city council by the mayor and by a councilman recommend did they limit how many people were to come yes how many people were there total maybe what, 17, 15 well we've got a list Mr. Taylor was there John Taylor was there Doug Quackenbush Kristen Hampton was there as well Missy Gentry and the mediator was Judge Thomas Cooper from down in Charleston I believe or he's retired but that list was put together by the mayor and councilman recommend and they did that specifically to we only had a limited amount of time to try and get something done and the more people you add to something it's to get anything completed and so honestly I'm pretty sure most of us had no clue who was going to be there until the last minute when we got the invite thank you I've got a question actually this is for the association is your position a voted in position or how are you guys organized? yes it's voted in we are a corporation actually it's the Melrose neighborhood association we're recognized by the Secretary of State's office I'm voted in I got voted in again back in 2017 and I'll be off in 2019 I kind of regret that I didn't that I was here for this one but again it's just part of the job but to answer your question yes we're formally recognized by the city under however the city does that council of neighborhoods and the Secretary of State's office and all that stuff first of all Mr. Ms. Waters could not be here Mr. Waters is on the board of the American Mortgage Bankers Association or some trade organization which is having its annual convention in Asheville so that's where they are today they regret very much not being here they are officially the historic Heathwood neighborhood association and that association obtained a historic overlay designation for the Heathwood area they solicited some folks to attend the mediation with them but as Mr. Easley said we were instructed not to bring a large crowd there was one person other than Mr. and Ms. Waters who attended that was Donald Tudor he is not here today but he is a resident of the Heathwood area lives right next door to Mr. Hazelton on Adger and they did the best they could at the mediation signed the agreement afterwards they released the results of the mediation to the neighborhood through their normal means of disseminating that information I think they've had two neighborhood meetings since that time where this agreement was addressed and Mr. Rickman was in attendance as well as another council member and they've also had board meetings both before and after this mediation to address this situation so that's the basis of the corporate authority as best I can relate to you Sam and Mary Waters not being here so they actually had the authority to sign for the historic Heathwood area that's apparently disputed but I've reviewed the corporate documents and that's what we concluded but they don't speak for any individual property owner they simply speak for the neighborhood association and as you can tell there are property owners who are very much opposed to this and that's not unusual in neighborhood associations I do have one question Mr. Ward so there were two meetings after this was executed amongst the neighborhoods who organized those meetings and the historic Heathwood and Melrose neighborhood associations and this was presented at those meetings both of them I believe were held at Heathwood Park the media was actually judged Tommy Cooper from Manny I believe not from Charleston but he is a retired circuit judge and it did take all day I'd like to reiterate again the mediation was a two day process Friday afternoon and then again on Monday over that weekend none of the attendees at the mediation provided any information to the neighbors to say this is what we're about to agree to there was no discussion because I can assure you the neighbors never would have signed that agreement in fact most neighbors after they saw that hammered home why did y'all not get up and walk out of that meeting this is not what the neighborhoods wanted we never got an answer other than they felt intimidated so I just want you to understand the attendees did not confide in the neighbors this was just given to us did you elect these attendees no I did not and what I do know is the mayor's office sent out an invitation which indicated everyone who was being invited to the meeting and it included the Melrose president it included the self-appointed presidents of Heathwood and it included the Heathwood neighbor and those are the four that we knew who attended it defies logic to me again that's why I'm asking y'all to please deny this application thank you I'd like to just make one point clear the mediation was held on Thursday April the 12th one day we started early that morning and at the end of the day the document was signed at that point if there was any other meetings after it I'm not aware of anything else before that was signed it was signed that day thank you it was Friday the party signed the mediation agreement I don't think Toby referenced this the Heathwood executive board approved the mediation agreement Friday night and it was all consummated and dispersed to the parties on Monday so we only met one day but it turned into getting the final agreement to the parties on Monday after the Heathwood executive board approved it Friday night well we're not a court of law but we're just trying to get all the facts so we can make a fair decision for everyone and while I'm saying that delivered your comments very professionally and we appreciate that as a commission if there are at this time no other guests who wish to come forward I'd like to ask for a motion before we get to that I want to ask John a question you made a comment to me before that we're a recommending body to counsel is that true in an amendment to a PUD as well as it is with a zoning reclassification okay yeah it's very clear in this in the ordinance that I just wanted everybody to hear that that we're not a jurist I'll ask for a motion please do I have a second any further discussion all in favor signify by saying aye aye anyone oppose let's go with a hand vote please we have the the ayes first we're approved Doug we told you we'd give it back to you you almost left without it we'll continue with our meeting the only other item on your agenda this evening is other business I just want to remind you that you have a work session later this week it is at noon to probably 1 1 30 and then we also have two public meetings that we hope to see each of you at one of them they are Wednesday and Thursday for the comprehensive plan is at the Richland Library in the auditorium on the first floor from 5 o'clock to 8 and the Thursday meeting is at Eau Claire print building also from 5 to 8 so we hope to see you then can I ask you a question about that John sure are these formal meetings that begin at 5 or are they a drop in type of situation they are a drop in situation so the format of the meeting essentially there'll be different stations throughout the entire room we'll actually have a couple terminals so that you can do the online survey if you don't want to do it from home there's actually a video like a 101 on what is comprehensive planning there's lots and lots of different information every station has an interactive activity for the public to engage in and provide comments so you can come for 10 minutes or you can come for an hour at any time in the 5 to 8 window excellent it is I believe Thursday Thursday at noon and we'll have sandwiches for you is there one November 4th also and then so that's for the comprehensive plan and then in November we are going to have a couple different work sessions because at the end of October we're going to be getting the draft of the zoning code back and so we're going to have a number of workshops for you to review that document since it is a larger document so we're going to be meeting before the regular Planning Commission meeting then we'll be meeting on the 12th if you're comfortable on the 12th with the document then you'll see the document in December if you need another meeting we will meet again the week after Thanksgiving before the December meeting the goal is to get the document moving from Planning Commission into City Council public hearings after the first of the year okay if there's I'd like to get a motion to adjourn it has to be they got approved


Welcome back to the School of Calisthenics, Jacko here and in today's video we're looking at ring muscle-ups and this is a video analysis done by me with one of the students inside our virtual classroom. You're going to see the coaching techniques that we use and tips that we give hopefully if you're working on your ring muscle-ups or even your ring dips you'll look at how we problem solve for Nick on the call. You'll literally hear the interaction between me and him coaching him through it and I really hope that some of the things that he was needing to work on as often the same things that I see a lot of you out there were needing to work on as well. So I really hope that seeing the coaching going on live during this next video or during this video session and analysis is going to help you with your ring muscle-ups. So sit back relax and enjoy, take some notes and hopefully this is going to help you. If you haven't yet subscribed click on the subscribe somewhere down below and if you are interested in joining our virtual classroom then the details are in the description below and you can get access to some of this type of coaching and feedback but for now hope this helps you with your ring muscle-ups. Here is Nick with his brand new galvanized rig, pre-standing rig from the School of Gastronauts. You've got it set up at the crossbar the highest position. We've got the ring set up and this is ring muscle-up. We'll just play let's play one through at real speed. So setting full script and changing the hands out and then coming through, Bosch up and finish in the ring muscle-up and then also be able to control back down. Being able to control back down and maintain that full script we see on each of the rings there is key on the way down it's quite difficult to maintain that full script if you're going to want to go into a second rep but so doing a good job to control the reverse or the centric part of that. So let's just go back to the beginning and setting up a full script everything looks great. The turn out of the bottom, perfect. One thing, we'll come to this later. I'm going to come back to something about what happens at the start. We're just going to slow it down, smidge as we go through and we may be able to see some stuff and we're about to break it down. So first and foremost is getting up and you know there is we're getting we're really finding a possible whenever anyone's at the point where they still haven't managed to fully get through the rings yet without a band like it feels impossible. So just that first point of being able to to being able to pull thumb to chest, drive the chest between the rings and then get in the bottom of that deep ring dip like then you know as long as you've worked on your dip strength once you've got to there then you're fine like you know that after this I'm just pressing out into the top of that dip position yeah the hard bit is let's just break it down and smidge for people. The hard bit is first the hard bit is the full script putting your hand over the top of the ring so that the base of the palm is resting on the top of the ring rather than the ring just resting in the fingers. It takes a lot of wrist flexion let's zoom in there we should be able to see what's going on the wrist here wrist inflection the shoulder here is actually to allow those rings to turn out for that start position we're actually at the shoulder here internal rotation shoulder whilst overhead but that's the challenging position for the shoulder internal mobility and challenging the wrist mobility or flexibility whilst maintaining grip in that position where the flexors are shortened and we're gripping so it is a challenge so to build up that strength and the position we're supposed to do that on the ring muscle up is is critical it's key. I mean it's doing and so Nick's doing a great job on that what we want to see is pull is strong and fast which is great we're trying to get the thumb to the chest before so the line of where sort of like nipple line of where the chest would be if we were looking front and we will see this front on later and of getting the thumb to chest before anything happens now those that are let's say those that are like diligent or a hawk like like if I make a mistake in the kitchen doing something like Mrs. Jack is going to see that like it doesn't matter what it is like it gets seen so those have got like that hawk eye view I'm going to notice something is happening on this left hand side whereas nothing's happened on the right hand side yet one of the big mistakes people make with the ring muscle up is they enter the transition too early or try to enter the transition too early so they start turning the rings whilst their body is still behind it whereas what we want to see is that we go thumb to chest and if we look at just look at the difference between this left hand side and this right hand side on the right this ring doesn't move hardly at all and the left it's starting to go and want to go out so that little bit there just starting to turn a smidge more and the shoulder a tiny bit tiny bit elevated just a little bit now I don't know if you've got what one shoulder Nick is live on this now Nick have you got um if you ever had is like one shoulder a little bit more niggly than the other or tighter than the other do you have any differences between them that's common yeah so I'd say I'm right my right side is much stronger than my left side and I guess something outside of the gym environment where you've got obviously you can do free weights to sort of level up a bit I guess I guess I've struggled with trying to work out how I can level up the strength between the sides of my body and I'm I think I'm dominating a lot with my right and that's causing me some shoulder issues yeah I've worked I've worked a lot on my mobility around my shoulders wall angels a lot of you know hockey ball getting in loosening up the muscles stretching and I've got good quite good shoulder flexibility but I'm just I seem to be overloading a certain point on my right shoulder where I think you call it the rotator cuff I put it in my note to you um if I try and train the ring muscle up it then triggers a lot of pain in that tendon or joint or whatever it is in that right shoulder which I don't get through any other exercise so I can do handstands for example practice that pretty much you know full session no issues but as soon as I start on the rings it becomes noticeable that I'm doing something that's not quite right yeah so that was most likely be around just what's going on at these what's going to like you're not going to see it that well in the with the with the black t-shirt but what's going on with that shoulder blade position and therefore then the the head of the humerus so we get that like issues around the shoulder around the rotator cuff and pinching of some of the tendons potentially supraspinates or bicep tend around the front that sort of impingement feeling when the when we're sort of like throwing the shoulder forward a little bit and then losing that um stability of the scapula nicely riding on the rib cage and then that changing of the humor head position so your upper arm that basically like coming forward and closing off the space in the in the glomenal humor joint so around the front of the shoulder basically like the classic point on on your shoulder so the the ring muscle up does certainly challenge your ability to be able to maintain a good shoulder um position because you're going from that when you go from that pull like into the dip fast you're throwing your body forward but we want to try and maintain control of the shoulder blade so i'm going to give you some stuff let's just go finish off the analysis and i'll give you some something recommendation for um obviously like smoothing that out so you're not getting any of that um because what we don't want like celebrating our being able to do muscle ups is it's great but we don't want to be like getting injured or being in pain because of it um Joey can I just ask a question so what i found interesting about this slowing it down was that i'm clearly sort of going up quicker on my right even though my sorry on my left even though my right is my dominant arm and my thought around that is it because i'm then trying to lean over and use the dominant arm to press out yeah rather than do it evenly that's why i wanted to ask there's a couple like so sometimes if we're if you think when we're when we go through that transition the arm is going into shoulder extension so the arm going behind and we're getting that internal rotation of the shoulder which is a little bit like that throwing action if you don't do it like if i'm throwing a tennis ball or something and i'm right handed and we're way faster and way better at like just that firing pattern of like throwing that arm into that fast internal rotation um so sometimes people if they're right hand dominant will throw what you'll see the right side go first because it's just used to that pattern so that's one scenario the other scenario is as you've got a view found and i've actually experienced this myself personally that the having an issue on one side on the on the i've got like on one side where like from old like rugby injury where you then use the the stronger sides your right side way is stronger you're holding on to that side for longer at this point like we can see the difference there at this point we've the left shoulder is gone and a couple of things that it's done it's elevated so it's gone up um and then if we saw this side on it's like it'd be sort of like diving like diving like rounding forward so like protracting um now that could partly be some like um like mobility where like i said you've been working on that if it's tight going into shoulder extension it has to like the arms sort of like the body will always find the path of least resistance so the shoulder throw shoulder blade comes out into that protraction and elevation and just tries to find some stability in the shape that you're trying to make so i think that that's what you're sort of finding on there and we see a if we um if we look at the full body position we see um a shift in so we pull it so at this point we're we're symmetrical and then we start shifting over a little bit now and then if we see it now that left side's gone up and obviously like the hip the hip has to come with it as well it it's your hips are connected to to the rest of your body so we see this like changing the full um sort of body position then I should come through we again get the the legs have to um legs come back to like readjust underneath and we saw that sort of like swaying until you've got yourself in your straight position and then and then coming up to the top so it's very um it's not massive it's I would say that it's actually like quite small but the big thing being that you said that you know getting some discomfort around the shoulder there that that is a sign that you that we need to do something to to help sort that out now if we see it from the from the front we're going to potentially see a similar set up why is great we see the same we see the same type of scenario and you see it even so is that the camera's not playing tricks on me that's your left side right yeah left side right left side there um it's not like the camera's on mirror mirror mode or anything like that so um you saw in the bottom of because you've done what you've sent me one of just dips as well when you're at the bottom can you see the difference in space over here yeah and then how it looks it looks cramped in a bit sort of we want to keep the rings close to us but it looks like uncomfortable on that on that left hand side and that the and that we've shifted over like over there um because of it so clearly there is a difference going on between the two so would you say I'm too too close on the left hand side then or not close enough on the right hand side yeah it's almost like you just you you just we just we want to even it up between the two um and I would I would look at so a couple of things that I would do from a like let's break it down because we can see you see on like so there's a good example look just stopping it exactly there's perfect like look at that elbow stayed underneath still but the left side's already gone yeah yeah so the left side so one of the one of the main things would be would just be like um go back to a bat like when you're going to do if you're wanting to go through any four things um it always needs to be pain-free like anything that we do needs to be pain-free so if you can you go with the band as a cradle underneath you so the band would sort of um the band would be underneath the rings and work as a cradle underneath there like hand on each one goes underneath like the the ball mill hamstrings and just provides you with some assistance so that you can do it then smoothly because there's two things there's two things well let's say three things um one's like a one part of it's like just a pattern and habit have you developed a pattern now that over time you've carried on doing it like this and the left always goes first and if the left is always going first on this like we're seeing that like that that chink in the in the body line because we're shifting we're shifting weight and we're going early on that left side and when we did go early on that left side the other thing would be like can you see that that's if we see a minute bit can we see that that that shoulder is higher than on that one yeah yeah and then that that hip line has to go on the same thing as well so that's why your the lower body the bit that you're seeing for your trunk and your lower body is purely in relation to what's going on the rings um and that your shoulder is like so if you sort the shoulder the left shoulder out the um the the rest of the body underneath will stay in in nice line so the band will give you assistance so you can make it nice and smooth that's what that's where we want to get to so keep it nice and keep it smooth and pain free and give yourself a look to start with give yourself like plenty of resistance on it so that you can literally come through thumb to chest transition through into that nice ring dip and then press out you don't even have to worry about the pressing out bit i just want you to get really smooth at changing that habit that the left is going first now if with the band it still is going early or it's still causing you discomfort then we definitely need to address what's actually going on at that shoulder and i would probably do a little bit of this as well particularly prep work of um just like what is the shoulder um shoulder mobility like into shoulder extensions that's when your arm goes behind your back like behind you yeah and what is um what is your internal rotation at the shoulder like and the big thing being can you maintain good scapular position on your rib cage whilst you're going into that shoulder extension and whilst you're doing some internal rotation work yeah so um it's not just can you do a wall angel and what at the bottom of the wall angel come down can you see me on the screen if you come down yeah like do that internal rotation if i do that internal rotation and bump the shoulder comes forward that's what you're doing on moment so on the on your good side you're coming and the equivalent would be internal rotation there you can see how my shoulder is staying in a nice position whereas on this side it's like to go look to you like running out of range so rather than to get rather my hand coming down because i'm internal rotating the human head you're coming to here and then it's like i'm going to get the hand down by going there and by that i'm elevating the scapula and protracting it round and that just closes off all that space around there that makes sense so it's yeah it's being able to do the internal rotation and the shoulder extension like when i go into shoulder extension i'm going behind me is my shoulder coming up and is it rounding forward to find that range for me because i'm actually lacking true shoulder extension and i'm hiding behind shoulder blade elevation and protraction to allow me to create some position where the hand is going behind me and looking the arms looking like it's in more shoulder extension but it's not actually true shoulder extension so some work on that is your prep work and i would compare the left and right and i feel it's going to be a lot for you around yeah some like some rotator cuff strength will definitely help so in the muscle up program we've got some banded external rotation and banded internal rotation work that you there will be in module one but you might have to maybe you've stopped doing that you need to go back to that little bit of prep work definitely that that will help but there's going to be i think there's that habit of the left hand going first we need to break uh not break you need to break the habit um yeah and then there's so so not trying to do stuff it's too hard to start with these this will then come back easy um so that's the habit and then there's like the strength but in the like strength in the control of your scapula your shoulder blade position because if we go to your dips it's not like you have got a it's not like you've got a problem with strength like you can do you can do dips and they're nice and they're well controlled so slowly down rings are staying nice and close driving up so you look at the dip do you see that difference between that dip and getting out of your ring trans after you've done the ring transition to get out of that dip it's the same as what you've just done there but it looked quite different after you've done a transition didn't it yeah so i saw i sent the dip one because if you you probably see the grimace on my face when i get to the bottom there you go there there it was um there's a point in the push right there where i get that real sharp pain in my shoulder yeah so i think if you see now the position of the right compared to the position of the left that what it's going to so because of where you're in now in that position maybe you're in the bottom of that dip the shoulder here um is then it's like the line of them you're it's hard to see with your t-shirt a little bit but like i can so things that are like the rings are the same distance from your hands which is obviously better and you're in the middle and your body's straight so much better but there's a difference of like the arm behind the back of the body where that elbow is in that shoulder extension on that side compared to here and there's a little bit of and now i said like shoulder shoulder elevation but when you're in this bottom of this dip what that shoulder elevation looks like is this wanting to like dive down and forward it's like up and it's protracted rounded forward so it look it gives that like sloping down sort of feel or look to it and then this elbow tends to kick out more to the side whereas can you see that on this side that elbow looks like it's looks like it's sort of like going on a straight line like back behind you rather wanting to like um rather wanting to kick out to the side so much where that one is a little bit so it's just it's small differences but it's going to make a difference particularly if you know once you've once you start pinching some of those tendons that are running around the front of that shoulder they get a little bit inflamed and then it's going to take less to to to catch them again if that makes sense or to irritate them again so we need to first inform us to take take out anything that's irritating it because carrying on irritating it is is not going to let it go away and then it's being able to control so as i go down to the bottom of that dip i'm thinking about maintaining width across my collar bones whereas because when i'd let when i let the shoulders round forward and in i'm losing all that space i'm then i'm losing space from the shoulders because you do look at the body over that grim where that rib is there like that's telling us something you can see the the where this shoulder here is already wanting to come down and forward which is in a dip do to make sense that in the dip it's like it's up and round and then when i come forward into there it looks like it's lower even though it's still elevation and protraction yeah um and when you're when you're in the very bottom of that um like it has potential to be really like cramped whereas i want you to think about trying to create space width across through your collar bones that will help you maintain some more retraction of the shoulder blades rather than that left one wanting to round and dive forward yeah and then there's gonna be some like some mid-lower traps or serratus work to maintain to stop it from like driving up you know it might be that you do find that left trap is like sort of might be quite um tight and engaged potentially on that upper trap on that left side if because he's potentially doing a bit of the work to try and pull that shoulder up because he's just trying to help out he's like just trying to just trying to help you i'm just trying to keep this keep this in in some sort of stable position yeah trap sort of going into my neck can be quite tight yeah i don't know whether that was training or sitting down at the desk for nine hours a day you get more on the left than you do the right yes i think that's related to this right so a little bit of soft tissue work massage ball in the upper trap yeah and then you know things like with like in our and our sort of like basic movement prep stuff we've got like our ytw's they're fantastic for maintaining and feeling that positioning of the shoulder blade your w is very much related to um that bottom of that dip position you could take that you could go your your y is going to be good for like serratus and mid and mid-lower trap um when you go into your w you could also what would be a really this is actually be really good with me i'm got a tutorial for this but it's going to show it's going to be super easy i'm going to go make myself and big because this is going to be i'm going to quite like this one if i stop that screen share you see a big right so yeah when you go into your w imagine i'm blind flat down on the floor you're going to i'm going to my w position my external rotation is trying to get the hand up on the elbow down but then from there can you squeeze the elbows back and squeeze your hand underneath you and take them all the way behind you without that rounding forward because that motion from there into because that's then you going um into shoulder extension and then as then comes down with some internal rotation and can you take yourself into extension very little loads it's just going to be that your arm the weight of your arm against gravity is your lying flat down on the floor so literally just slide them underneath and yeah yeah w position then i'm going to look where the elbow goes it goes like straight behind me and then now it's like i'm in the bottom of that dip and it's like can i push it back and extend it and maintain this there rather than letting it come into here so i'm going to keep it in a nice position rather than it rounding up and rounding forward yeah yeah that was good that was a real dissection of the of the ring muscle up and ring dips but um yeah it's well i'm i don't like the fact that you're saying you were getting some pain discomfort or impingement type of feeling around the front so we need to make sure that we definitely stay away from anything that call is causing that just go back a couple of steps and and then that that will be fine you're like the strength you've got on your pole and the strength in your dips like think how easy there is a thing called pain inhibition so the fact that they feel you've got like some discomfort at the bottom of that dip it's going to be robbing you of some of some strength of that so once you get rid of that and go back to your dips it's going to feel flipping easy and then those muscle ups will be smooth yeah your other option is just never do muscle ups depends what you want to do yeah there's not so many option people if they want to do that's not redefining my impossible though is it so i don't know exactly i'm just throwing it out there is that is one of the options um cool good stuff thank you thanks mate so thanks for watching i hope that's helped you with your ring muscle ups or your ring dips it's time to ring nicks ring dips it's time now for you 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Hey everyone, it's Ryan Patterson with Peerless Network. Thanks for your time and thanks for joining us today for SIP Trunking Made Easy via the Peerless Portal. We over the next 30 minutes, we've got a lot of great information to share with you and you know, I'm gonna start by going through the agenda here on the next slide and we'll do some introductions. First I want to introduce you to Dionne, first myself, I should say, Ryan Patterson and the VP of the channel. Next we have Dionne Johnson on. He's one of our top sales engineers with Peerless Network. Rick Knight is also joining us. He's the executive vice president of sales and marketing. We also have Jamie Arco, who is the director of channel sales for the East and we have Gloria Wong, who's the director of our channel sales for the West as well. So we're excited to have them on but also very excited to have you join us for the next 30 minutes. I've got a lot of information to share with you today. I see some new names, so I'm going to spend a few minutes going through the Peerless overview. It's a little bit about Peerless. Next we're going to get right into SIP Trunking. It's going to be all about the Peerless SIP Trunking product today. Our features, some exciting new features that we're launching today as well as some pricing. I'm then going to hand it over to Dionne and he's going to take from a quote all the way through the activation of a SIP Trunking order. Show you how simple and easy it is to do with Peerless. Next we're going to go through, just spend a few minutes on installation and turn up. We've got some great promotions going on. Q&A, if we have some time at the end, love to do some question and answers. Please just submit them through the chat and we'll try to get to as many as possible. We also, as you saw from the invitation, for those of you that attend through the 30 minutes here, we have some gift cards for the first 50 folks that registered for our webinar. We've got some great either, I believe it's DoorDash and or UberEats gift cards for you guys. So just want to get into a little bit about Peerless Network. As you may or may not have heard of Peerless, what I like to say is you may not have heard of Peerless, but more than likely you use the Peerless Network on a daily basis. We are a nationwide voice services provider. We started as a wholesale provider for a lot of the UCAS companies, a lot of the CLEC, conferencing companies, video and audio. Today we're doing about 10 billion minutes a month in voice services. About four or five years ago, we decided to launch our enterprise channel and we do that 100% through the agent programs. We're very excited about that. It's definitely one of our fastest growing segments as well. We are based in Chicago, about 150 million dollar company, not too big, not too small, just right, just the perfect size to be able to deliver great services to our customers and our agents. We're really known for our white glove approach, just as a nice differentiator as well as our network reliability and being not a huge company we also can be very innovative and move and change with the industry. The Peerless Network, this is a network map of all of our network, 100% owned and operated by Peerless. We're in over 200 ladders. We can service over 93% of the US population. Honestly, what all these numbers mean? There's hundreds of providers you could choose for your voice services, for your SIP, your UCAS services. You look at all of them and very few of them have a network. What we can say and what a big differentiator that Peerless has is we operate our voice services over our own voice network, so the buck stops with us. So if you have a problem in an issue, we're not calling 50 underlying providers to figure out where it is, the buck stops with us. And that's a big differentiator when you're talking about quality and reliability, which is what people need in this day and age. So that's a little bit about the Peerless Network. I'm going to be throwing a lot of information at you today. Certainly, we're going to have time for a few minutes for Q&A, but your channel managers and directors are going to be here to help follow up after this. As far as our product and services, I said we're very voice focused. We're not trying to be everything to everyone. We're focused on being the number one voice provider in the industry. So in UCAS services, SIP trunking services, inbound and outbound toll-free services, everything is over at the Peerless Portal, and Dion will show you some of the benefits of the Peerless Portal. But today, we're going to really focus on our SIP trunking offering. Let's talk a little bit about SIP. You all know that it's a fantastic industry, and it's very rapidly growing. Right now, it's about a $7.5 billion industry, and the market research says that the industry is going to be over $15 billion by 2025. So why are customers choosing SIP over the other services? Flexibility. Certainly, what we're going to be talking about today. Easier to manage, improve reliability, and one big thing that circled and highlighted is speed of deployment, and that's a big thing that we're going to be talking about today with, and a nice differentiator that we offer with the Peerless Portal. Let's talk about the SIP trunking product that we bring to the market. We'll start with the pricing. We have a few different flavors here. A per SIP trunk, we're at $4.99, our standard three-year pricing. An unlimited SIP trunk is $18. One thing that's very popular, and it's been very popular, is a lot of the carriers are getting rid of their older TDM services is our PRI trunk. That comes with the edge mark device, and that's just under $115 a month on a three-year term. We are also getting a lot of requests for analog lines or IP analog. We sell them at just over $12 a month. You can see our meter grade, that's just our standard rate, it's just under a penny a minute. Very competitive, and certainly for larger LD deals, you can get much more competitive than that. The other thing that comes up a lot with the older technology is remote call forwarding, outer rate center DIDs, things like that. That is not a problem with the peerless product and with SIP trunking, and certainly we'll be happy to put together some quotes for you. Very feature-rich offering, certainly static and registered IP or SIP trunks. We can do PRI and analog delivery, like I said. Failsafe routing, which I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a minute. Load balancing, geo-redundant trunking, all of these things are coming with our trunks. It's a very feature-rich, very redundant product that we put together. Tell you a little bit about the load balancing product by talking about a scenario here. If it's a customer that has multiple PBXs and they want to balance the traffic between the two, you can set weight and priority between the two PBXs and balance the traffic between the services. Great redundancy product and something we're doing a lot with our partners, and we're putting together a perfect solution for our customers that are looking for a nice, redundant quality product. As far as geo-redundancy, this is a new product to the peerless portal that we're going to be offering. We're very excited about our geo-redundancy product. As I mentioned before, we have hundreds of SBCs throughout the country. Somebody that's more of a mission-critical application looks at something like geo-redundancy. If we have a primary path that they're one PBX and then a secondary, we certainly can put together a very redundant solution by provisioning one path out of one of the peerless SBCs and a second path out of a completely other SBC located somewhere else in the country. What we can do is we can establish route labels so that if a customer wants to set up a primary path and if that path fails or if that circuit fails or whatever that's coming in on over, they can have a secondary route that immediately fails over to ensure the customer is never going to experience downtime. We're very excited to launch that product or that feature to you guys today. The next slide, we're going to talk about fail-safe routing. Some of you may have heard of this product, but essentially it's for if a customer wants to establish a backup path for their DIDs, we're essentially constantly monitoring that primary path that those DIDs are routing on, and they predetermine a destination. So if those DIDs were to go down for a down PBX, power failure, anything that happens to that particular location that can be immediately rerouted over to that predetermined destination. So we're very excited about adding that to the peerless portal as well. So that's kind of the overall the features and the offering that we have for the for the SIP Trunking with a lot of disaster recovery tools and are able to literally any SIP Trunking opportunity that we come across, we've got a great solution for. So we're very excited about that. I'll talk a little bit about the enterprise session border controllers as well for even small opportunities all the way up to very large enterprise opportunities. Cisco Spa is really for an analog device that can deliver a couple analog lines if a customer wants facts or alarms or or credit card machines, anything like that. Then we have the ribbon series of edge mark devices for 4806 handles PRI as well as a handful of analog lines in the 4808 handles mostly analog lines and we can go up and continue to grow from there. So we've got a full series of equipment that we can bring to the table as well for your customers and we can either lease those products and services or we can we can sell them to you or your customer. I'll walk through our proposal generator which will help put together a quote for customers for you guys. I've just logged into the portal and I've put on proposal and we'll step through putting together a quote for a potential customer. The first thing you'll want to do is give it a name. After that we have a default greeting message here that you can customize and change to your likeness. Your contact information will go in this section here and then we will select the service terms that we want to propose to the customer. For this I'll go with our 36 months. Then we'll come down to trunking and DID. I'll add a sit trunk here. We'll give it a name again. We'll select how many channels we want to include within the sit trunk. For this demo I will also add a PRI trunk and you'll notice on the right hand side of the screen here as I'm entering data it's automatically calculating the proposal for me. We'll come down and continue and we'll add 40 DIDs with C911 and CNAM delivery. Then we'll include a thousand domestic outbound minutes. After we've entered all the data we want we will get the generate proposal and what it will do is put this in a nice PDF file that can be saved off your computer and emailed out to the customer that you're sending those proposals to. It comes up with the date and the name of the customer. Your contact information was shown here and here's the default message that again you can change and customize to your liking. Then it gives a little more information about the pairless network and who we are, the products and solutions that are offered through the pairless portal, and a little more background and information on the pairless portal itself. Now we get into the actual proposal that we're sending out to the customer. Here's the trunk that we created on the proposal, the number of channels, the PRI trunk with the pricing there, the 40 DIDs, and the thousand domestic outbound minutes. And down here it gives the total monthly cost for the customer, tells them the service term is 36 months, and then the proposal also includes a pricing schedule. This is for a future customer wanted to add additional services, the pricing schedule is included. And then we get to the pairless network support which explains to a customer how to enter and open a ticket with pairless. And also included within the proposal generator is a escalation list with pairless that goes all the way up to our president CEO of the company. So all of that information is put in a nice PDF file that you can save off to your computer and email out to the customer that you're proposing the offer to. Next I will show you how to use our portal to build out SIP Trunks. So from the portal I've clicked on SIP Trunks here and it brings up our wizard to step through building out a SIP Trunks. The first thing to do here again is to give the trunk a name, select the trunk type, go with the static IT trunk. The next would be the PBX type. There's a list of PBXs to select from. For this one I will go with the asterisk PBX. You have your DPMF options in-band or out-of-band ROC 2833. Three different types of number formatting to select from. I'll go with the E164. TLS SRTP encryption is an option for the SIP Trunks. It's simply done by a toggle switch if you want to enable or disable. Next is the PBX location. I will go with Arizona here. Then fact treatment, none, or we have the option of T38 with fallback to G711. After the config is done, the next step is to add how many channels you want on the SIP Trunks. I'll add 35 channels for this. Next is our DID routing tab. This is where the customer wants to receive their traffic from Caroline. So the IPs for the customer where they want inbound traffic to come. You can have multiple IPs here before the UDP signalling port. Priority, add route, and I will just show that we can add more than one IP here. All right, after you include the IPs where you want to receive traffic, hit next and it brings us to the source tab, which is where the customer would send traffic from their network back to Pyralis. And multiple IPs can be added here as well too. After we've selected the IP information, next is the codec option where we offer PCMU G711U, G711A, G729 and G729AD. You can have multiple codec. So for here, I will add G711 and G729. These can be reordered by simply dragging and dropping to put them in the order that you like. And after we select our codec, we get to the checkout page and it gives a description of the SIP Trunks and channels that we've included on the trunk. And once we hit the add trunk button, the trunk is built live real time. The portal actually goes out and communicates with our border controllers and a live SIP trunk is ready for use within a matter of minutes. And that concludes building out a SIP trunk and within the Pyralis portal. Ryan, I will turn it back over to you to conclude. Thank you very much, Dion. That was great. I want to highlight a few things. Yeah, I want to highlight a few things there. Number one, that took a total of five minutes to do an entire quote all the way from the very beginning of the process to place an order and now those 35 SIP Trunks are active with the imaginary customer that Dion just created. So obviously simple, easy, very intuitive and a tool that we're getting a ton of great feedback from agents out there how quickly and easily you can not only add customers, but I would say the number one thing that we're getting feedback on is moves as it changes. So once you've established the customer in here, you can literally add one to thousands of SIP Trunks in a minute for your customers. And the same goes with our cloud. We're not talking about cloud PBX today, but the same thing goes with cloud PBX with an analog line, PRIs, the same process with that Dion could have gone through would take one or two minutes to add a PRI, which would be live and active instantly. But as you all know, it needs a piece of equipment, which is automatically provisioned and shipped out that same day. So we can turn a PRI up as quickly as three to five days. The porting, there is porting that's involved and our project management and I'll get into the installation of these services here in a minute. So as far as SIP Trunking installation, you saw most of it right there was certainly self install. We're not going to charge you anything to use the portal and install SIP Trunks for your account. All you got to do is load an IP address. There's really no onsite deployments or anything for the majority of our SIP Trunking opportunities. Unless there's an SBC, a PRI, an ATA, something like that that needs to be deployed and a peerless technician will be dispatched. Install that onsite for your customer with a PRI that $115 not only includes the PRI, 23 channel SIP Trunk PRI, the edge mark device, but it also includes installation. So there's no charge on a three year other than that $115 for other deployments for a customer wanting SBC for their SIP Trunk service. We would quote that based on size and location. We've done the deployment of quite a few analog devices as well analog lines nationwide. We would do that quote on a per account size, location basis, but it would be very competitive. A project manager is assigned to every account and will oversee the deployment of the services, oversee the installation of any equipment that's necessary, and most importantly communicate with the customer and the agent as to when the ports are due, when they're scheduled, and get that all scheduled and activated for the customer. And finally, they'll hand it off to the account manager who will be responsible for training the customer and or the agent on the portal and introduce the customer and the agent to the account manager as well. That will be assigned to the account. So that's a little bit about the SIP Trunking product. We kind of summarize a little bit about why why peerless. Number one, our portal is a major differentiator that we have in place. Makes it very easy to do business with peerless, to be able to activate services, puts the control in your hands or your customer's hands to be able to do moves as in changes. We're very experienced. From day one, we've been offering SIP Trunking voice services, and we're very, very good at it. You know, having millions and thousands of SIP Trunks as well as billions of minutes on our network. We're not too big, not too small. We're a perfect size to be able to be flexible, customize solutions for you and your customers as well as we have got an outstanding network, very reliable, very redundant and some outstanding products we've gotten placed for you as well on the SIP site. The last slide before we go and I see we have a few questions on the in the chat. Last slide I want to go through is our Q2 promo slide that right now we're paying five times in the form of a gift card for SIP MRCs. Or if you use the portal to place your order, SIP order will pay you an extra one-time MRC on a three-year term. This promo expires at the end of the month, end of June and which is the end of the quarter. So if you have any questions contact your channel manager or you can send it to the entire team at channel at peerless network.com for any more information about the product. So we've got about five minutes. We've got a few questions that we want to go through. If you have any further questions and if you want to submit them through the chat, please do so or follow up with your channel director and be happy to answer those questions that way. So peerless, what is your, here let me see, what is your sweet spot for SIP trunking? So I would say for SIP trunking for the majority of the services or SIP trunking it's really from a very small account all the way up to enterprise, very large enterprise opportunities with big LD minute services. So with the portal certainly our sweet spot is a large range but specifically somebody with a 3CX system, Avaya, Microsoft, these are all systems that we are compatible with and many, many more systems. You saw the list as Deion was going through. So we've got certainly a lot of other systems and equipment that we can be compatible with but as far as the sweet spot, definitely really with SIP trunking, any size customer, somebody that wants services immediately, somebody that has any of the many systems that we are compatible with are all great fits for us. So really anything SIP trunking. I would, what's the, as far as a future roadmap was the next question I believe, let me see, I saw something about future roadmap. Future roadmap as far as our SIP trunking product, as far as peerless in general, we continue to expand our product set with voice services, enhanced features, things like that on the SIP trunking and the UCAS side. We are expanding into Canada as well as the UK. So you'll see certainly call origination and termination in both those markets but also eventually SIP trunking in those markets as well. So that's certainly something additional that the peerless marketing team and operations is continuing to work on but right now we're continuing to focus on voice services, UCAS, SIP and expanding and growing those products and continue to be certified with a lot of other different equipment vendors out there. So that's really all we had. We ended in 26 minutes. Got it through a lot of information at you today. So if you have any further questions, like I said, please direct those to the, your channel team and we appreciate the partnership and we look forward to continue to work with all of you and have a great day. Thanks a lot. Thank you.


We also built a new web app for this. So this also has a web application, which is intended for manual submissional data. So let's have a quick look. You go to the apps menu, you search for data exchange. It has a green icon as you can see. We can then go and select one of the data exchanges. You can have many of them. And this will essentially now load the data. And this is inferred from the definition of the source. We can see there that we have one table per organets. There's time coming on the columns and data on the rows. We can then go ahead and review the data and then we can do manual submission to the target instance. So now this could be like a company submitting data to the donor or submitting data to, let's say, a regional portal and so on.