We are going to move on today to increasing your.NET productivity with Visual Studio 2019 with our friends Kendra and Mika. Hey, hey. We have two stages, so sophisticated. Yeah. Smooth transition. Hi, I'm still Kendra Havens, and my name is Mika Dumont, and we're here to talk to you about increasing your.NET productivity with Visual Studio 2019. Yeah. So we have a ton to cover. We're going to first talk about Live Share, and then we're going to talk about code fixes and refactorings, analyzers, code cleanup editor config, the new code analysis project properties page, and then we're going to talk about IntelliCode Test Explorer, and maybe if we have time, we'll talk about some new preview features. Right. If you're good. Okay. So first off, we want to talk about Live Share. I'm going to go ahead and say, if we're repeating a lot of concepts today, and you've heard about Live Share before, or editor config or code cleanup, all of the stuff we're going to cover, we get thousands of new users every week, several thousand new users every week. So we want everyone to be on the same page. That's what we're going to do. Okay. So Live Share is an excellent tool for a collaborative co-editing experience. It's all about peer programming. So let me go ahead and start a Live Share session from my machine. As soon as I hit that button at the top right corner of Visual Studio, it generates a link. I'll go ahead and paste that link over to Mika in my favorite chatting app. If we go to Mika's machine, you can actually see when she clicks on this link, it will launch another instance of her favorite editor. So this one is set to Visual Studio. She can also join the collaboration session from Visual Studio by just pasting in that link. So when this loads, she'll get my full editing context. We'll be able to debug. I could step through her debugger. I'll know her variables. What else can we do? I actually can write code in Kendra's editor right now. So that's pretty sweet. No, you're leaving me something to do. Yeah. Okay. I need to tell you. You can see what I select. She has full access to my solution explorer. What else do we have? Yeah, and I also can access your terminal, as well as your server, all from Visual Studio. So share with people you trust. Yes, that's a lot of access. Okay, make sure you know these people. Cool. So I'll next talk about, we'll dive into the refactorings. Let's see. Code fixes and refactorings. There we go. Okay. So I have a ton on this slide. So these are only the top few that we've chosen from the last few releases ever since Visual Studio 16.0. We've released hundreds of code fixes and refactorings in the past year. So there's a very, very long list. All of them are covered in my docs. So please know that this is just like a small example of everything that you can access. So I'll go ahead and stop my live share session. Sorry, Mika. It's okay. Okay. So let's say you're re-architecting your app, and I might be having a problem with my display because I was using multi-desktop, and I was not communicating with the Channel 9 team which one I should be. But I can drag that over to my second desktop and just display that. Does that work? Oh, I should probably exit presenter mode. That's probably what I needed to do. There you go. Oh, worked for a second. Oh, this is all on me, and I was saying everything would go smoothly today. Maybe duplicate. Exit? Yeah, trying to get out of here. Do I want to keep ink annotations? I'm going to discard those. Okay. There you go. Okay. Now you can see this screen. Excellent. All right. So let's say I'm re-architecting my solution. I am dragging and dropping files into new folders, all of that. A lot of people want their namespaces to stay in sync with their file structure. So I can do that by placing my cursor in a namespace, hitting Control-dot, or opening this little screwdriver icon to show all of the available quick fixes and refactorings, and I can change my names as mean to match my folder structure. So we're automatically, we can read what folder structure you have and suggest the right naming that you want to use. Next one that I'm very excited about. So Mads and Bill just talked about switch expressions. So let's say I have a switch statement. I can now easily convert it to a switch expression with a clever little refactoring, and check this out. Wow. I know. It saves so many lines of code, much, much easier to read, refactoring, converting switch statements to switch expressions. So to use this, you do need to be using the C-sharp 8 features switch expressions. So go ahead and upgrade that. All right. The next thing I want to call out is, yeah, over here in Emoji search. Okay. So let's say that I'm importing something into a file. So let's say I'm trying to use JSON convert, but I don't have the using for newtonsoft.json that library at the top of my file. I'm still getting intelligence completions for this. This is completions for unimported types. So we're now able to offer all of the types in your intelligence list that exist in any of your dependencies on your project. So this makes your intelligence list a lot longer and a lot have a lot more options of what completions to offer. If you wanted your intelligence list to be scoped to only the things you have imported at the top of your file, you can use this little filter button to scope it again. Right. So if you liked using that before, you don't lose that functionality. So if I go ahead and accept that suggestion, you can see it also added the needed using. Yeah. Okay. So if I go ahead and write a bit more on the rest of this line, the next code fix and refactoring that I want to show is we have a ton of ways to generate different variables within your scope. The most recent one we added was generating a parameter. So then it automatically appears up in my findEmojis method. Pretty sweet. Let's see. What do I have going on here?  In order to read calls a little bit easier, we now have wrapping chained calls. I believe this was a community contribution too. So thank you so much to the community. So now that I have these, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm actually have some needless duplication in there. I can go ahead and clean that up a little bit. Cool. So that was wrapping chained calls. Next up is toggling a single line comment. So we've had Ctrl KC, Ctrl KU for commenting for a really long time in Visual Studio. Recently we've added Ctrl Shift forward slash, that's the multi-line comment, as well as Ctrl K slash. So that'll comment the entire line. And if my cursor is anywhere inside that line, if I Ctrl K slash again, it will toggle that comment off. And now so if I have any selection, I can Ctrl Shift forward slash, and it adds a multi-line comment to the entire selection. And again, if I have my cursor anywhere within this block and hit Ctrl Shift slash again, it toggles off comments for the entire block. So this is a commenting method that they had in VS Code that was really popular, that we were like, well, let's add it. Let's add a few more keyboard shortcuts. All right. Next thing I want to show off is also suggested by the community. So this is splitting and merging if statements. So if you have an if statement with multiple suggestions, or multiple conditions, you can actually split it into two nested if statements, which is pretty sweet. Yeah, I love that feature. Right, and if I wanted to say, I had a lot of if statements and I wanted to say, hey, can I actually merge any of these? You can also merge with your outer if statement. Pretty cool. All right. So you might have noticed I have actually had, well, first off, I have some unsorted usings. This is kind of hard to look at. Why don't I go ahead and use Ctrl Q, and I'll go ahead and search for sort usings. So we've added the sort usings command. Didn't we already have that? Yes. So it might look kind of familiar. And this is actually a good point for saying that feedback is so, so important to us. So we knew that remove and sort usings were called almost all the time right next to each other. So we were like, why don't we just combine these two into one command? So we did. And then we got lots of feedback that that wasn't the right thing to do that. So just checking to see if everyone's awake. Thank you for feedback. We added it back in as a completely separate command because there were totally scenarios that people wanted to sort usings without removing everything that they had there. So I can go ahead and sort my usings. And you can find that under edit intelligence as well. And lastly, for the quick fixes and refactoring, I have the ability to now decide where I want to place my usings and actually enforce that as a code style across my entire project.  So why don't I go to Ctrl Q and I'll search for code style and it'll pop up all of my C-sharp code styles. Yeah, that I save in my project. Here's where I set my using preferences. Right now it's set to inside a namespace and I'm peering as a suggestion. So now I can get that a little bit more regularly across my whole project. Right, so all of these code fixes and refactorings. Mika, what powers these? Yeah, so all these code fixes and refactorings that you just showed are powered through the Roslin analyzers, also known as the .NET compiler platform analyzers.  So if you're in, and this typically manifests in the editor as squiggles. So if you're in Visual Studio and you see squiggles, those are Roslin analyzers running in the background. Wow, yeah, it's pretty cool. It analyzes power everything. Okay, yeah. And if we take a look at my error list over here, you can see that analyzers also come with severities. So there is an error severity, a warning severity, as well as an information severity. There's also a fourth severity called hidden, but it wouldn't show up in your error list because it is hidden. And you can go ahead and configure these severities with an editor config. So next I wanna talk about editor config and code cleanup, but first for those of you who don't know, an editor config is a single file that documents all of your code style options and it lives at the root of your repository and it can be managed by your regular source control and share amongst your entire team. So that's pretty cool. And so here's where my editor config is and this is the analyzer that Kendra just showed. So this is the Usings, Insider, Outside and Namespace analyzer. And let's say my team is like super adamant about having this analyzer, having these namespace, these Usings within the namespace. So I wanna go ahead and bump the severity of that analyzer to a warning instead of having it on silent. So then I will notice if I'm violating that code style option. So going back over here, you can see that I now have these warning squiggles and my error list has been updated with all these warnings. So I can just place my cursor over here and type control dot. And here I can actually move these Using directives to be inside my namespace and those warnings will now disappear. But notice how I have these faded out Using statements and if I hover my mouse over here, Visual Studio is letting me know that these Using directives are unnecessary. So again, I can either type control dot and accept that code fix or better yet you can actually run a code cleanup with this. So you can move these along with other code style violations with our one click code cleanup. So you can pretty much use code cleanup by clicking on this tiny little broom icon or by typing the keyboard shortcut control KE and that will fix all of your code style violations on the current document. Oh, but what if I wanted to apply it to my entire solution? Well, yeah, I thought you would never ask Kendra. So you can simply just right click on the solution name within the solution explorer and you can select Analyze and Code Cleanup and then you can actually run the code cleanup and that will apply those fixers. That was fast. So that applied a subset of all of the fixers that could be applied to my project. Yes, exactly. Gotcha. Okay, so code style, analyzers help imply them through errors and warnings. Okay, cool. And if you take a look at the next warning I have over here, if I hover my mouse over this, Visual Studio is letting me know that I should add a serializable attribute to my class. No. I haven't seen that before. Yeah, so this is actually not built into the IDE but it is actually a NuGet package called Microsoft Code Analysis Ethics Cop Analyzers. And so what our team did was we took the most popular Ethics Cop rules, code quality rules and we ported them into this one NuGet package. And it was a bit too verbose to have within built into Visual Studio so we kind of just created a NuGet package so anyone can just go ahead on NuGet and grab that. So this NuGet package is actually changing what errors and warnings I get in my IDE. So it helps me code. It's not necessarily a library that I'm taking a dependency on. It's something that affects Visual Studio. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's really awesome. It just helps you be more productive, write better code. So I love this NuGet package. Sweet. And this package will live under this dependencies node within the solution explorer under this analyzers node and then I can just expand this and these are all the different analyzers or rules and you can simply just right click on one of these and you can actually set the severity of this. Wow. Yeah, but a brand new feature that I am super excited to show off is the ability to configure the severity level of an analyzer within the editor. Show me. Yeah. So here if I type control dot, I can select configure the severity and here let's say I want to bump up the severity level of this analyzer to an error instead of a warning. You can see here that my error list has now been updated. I have a red squiggle. Turned into an angry red squiggle. Yeah. Super angry. And then if I scroll down over here, you can see that it actually just added this rule for me in my editor config and the severity level has been updated to an error instead of a warning. Nice. And if you don't have an editor config, it will go ahead and just generate an editor config for you. So it's pretty awesome. Sweet. It's pretty easy to edit your editor config so, you know. Oh yeah, it's almost too easy at that point. So make sure as you're going through and using this cool new fly out menu to configure your analyzers, know that when you push that editor config to repo, which is one of the great things about editor config that it lives with the rest of your codes, your entire team will have the same one. But that also means keep aware of like merge conflicts and stuff. If everyone's editing one resource of course. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, cool. Yeah, so with great power comes great responsibility so responsible guys. The next thing that I want to talk about, so a lot of people have asked to have the ability to have, you know, third party analyzers to actually break builds, but not necessarily like show up while they're typing. So I want to talk about the code analysis project properties page. Fancy. Very fancy. So I'm going to close these nodes a bit just to clean it up a little, yeah. Yeah, you know.  And under this code analysis tab, I can actually deselect run on live analysis and you will notice that the error has disappeared. Vanishing act, okay. And not only that, if I go ahead and type control shift B to run my build. It reappeared. Yeah, my build actually failed too. Ta-da, oh my gosh, it failed your build. Yeah, so yeah, so we now have the ability to configure these, you know, to break builds. So it's pretty awesome. So if I don't only want to see certain analyzers when I'm about to check in, so like when I do a build and make sure my build completes, I can, but while I'm actually coding, I don't need all of those sort of, yeah. Exactly. Cool, so I can actually configure that. Exactly. Oh, I like it. Me too. Thanks so much. All right, what was our next off is IntelliCode. IntelliCode, yeah. I'd love to talk a little bit about that. So IntelliCode is Visual Studio's AI model that was trained over 2000.net repositories. Yeah, to basically give you the right hints. So we have dot completion, we have argument completion, we have a few things in preview right now. We've also recently added visual basic to its completion scheme as well as MySQL. And MySQL also has a VS Code extension. So you can still get SQL completion and VS Code. Pretty cool. Okay, so now I went to show and this takes some concentration. So I don't really trust my tests until I see them fail at least once. So I'm gonna go ahead and add some assert fails to these lines. And naturally, as soon as I get to demo it, even though it works fine the first thousand times, hold on, let me see if I can recover. It's really cool, guys. You guys, I've seen this demo, it's amazing. And this feature is in preview.  Okay, well, let's try it one more time. IntelliCode suggested edits. Please, please, please, please. I didn't make enough sacrifices to the demo gods. Let's see. Okay, if I close out, if I save it, I exit. This is the ritual that we do to please the demo gods. Okay, you actually can see, let's see. Oh, you know, I'm not even getting IntelliCode suggestions in here. So my extension could have crashed. Do, do, do, do, do. Anyway, so now that I have some failing tests, let's go ahead and run these in my test explore. So you might have noticed we have a huge test explore update in 16.2, so it's a lot more customizable. We are focusing entirely on better handling of large test sets. So we have customers with over 200,000 tests. Right, so organization and customizability of everything that's in your display is really, really key. So, test explore, I got a pretty big face lift. Okay, first thing I wanna call out are these filter buttons. So I can easily filter down to only the failed tests or show past tests and not run and all of that. We have easily filter buttons. Next two things are these buttons at the top. So this is repeat last test run and the repeated failed test. So I can go ahead and hit that. So those were keyboard shortcuts that did exist before, but I would get asks for them to add them to the product about once or twice a month, which is pretty frequent. So basically we didn't think people were discovering them, so now they have icons. They are icon worthy, I like it. All right, so the next thing that is pretty cool in this test explore is being able to kind of customize what columns you see. So you guys probably noticed I didn't have my duration column here. So if I'm not doing performance work, I can actually hide my duration column and uncheck that check box and all I need to do is right click in order to display certain columns. Pretty sweet. The more customizability is your group by. So by default, the group by is grouped to a project namespace and then class. This is each tier in the hierarchy that you see. So this is the project namespace and then we go down to the class level. So you can also completely customize this group by. So if I wanted to group by state, notice state has a one beside it and then class, I can do that. And as soon as I click out, boom, it's back to being failed and then a class name. So that is a customized group by. We also have the ability to create these playlists but now they open up in a separate window. So if you really wanted to focus in on the subset of tests, kind of ignore everything else in your test list, just focus in on one thing, it's really easy to do because you have a separate tab to do that. And you can save this just like you normally would as a dot playlist file. But if you don't, if you want it to kind of be an impermanent thing that you build up and then it goes away and you don't have to worry about it, you can just exit out of it and it's not a permanent kind of test list. Along the playlist lines, I actually want to talk a little bit about live unit testing. So live unit testing is an enterprise only feature that run tests automatically in the background as you type but it only runs the tests that were impacted by your code changes. So it kind of runs this subset. So it appears, it gives feedback right in the editor of test that failed. And if I go into my product code, but I go somewhere with a little bit more test coverage, there we go. I can actually see how many tests are covering which lines of code. So yeah, and also it'll give me feedback. I can navigate and run those all from my product code. And as soon as I break something or let's say I retype something, it senses those changes and reruns only the tests that cover that line. So in live unit testing, we also had the ability to include or exclude certain tests. Now we have a live unit testing window that will actually help you keep track of your whole test list that you've included or excluded. I also have little buttons to help filter and all that goodness that you like in the new view. My very last thing I wanted to call out was you may have noticed we are a much easier handling of multi-targeted tests. So not only do I have a target framework column that easily lets me know, hey, if I have a test that's compiling against both Netcore app 2.1 and like Net461, I know which one is which when I look into the test explorer, which was a bit of an effort before. I can now easily see that and I can even group by my certain target framework. So if I wanted to easily kind of delve into bugs that I was experiencing on a certain platform, I can. All right, let's see. Do we have time for preview features? I think we do. They've been good. They've been such a nice listeners. Great audience, yeah. All right, let's jump into it. So preview features, this came out today, right? Today, yes. Yes, we successfully shipped 16.3. Awesome, so the first 16.4 preview won. Yes, okay. So the first feature I wanna show is go to base. Go to base allows you to navigate up the inheritance chain. So you can right click on here and now go to base is a right click context menu option or you can use alt home which is the keyboard shortcut and there you go. Now I just jump to my I tweet alert interface and this also works for method override. So here if I place my cursor and type alt home in this method it will open this window and I can just jump to either method that I have overridden. So that's pretty, pretty sweet. Okay, and the next feature I wanna show is it's actually an analyzer that was built by one of our very own interns this past summer. Yes, and it's add null checks for all parameters. So here if I place my cursor and type control dot it will actually and select add null checks for all parameters will actually add all these if statements that checks the nullity of all these you know, nullable non-checked parameters. So I don't have to go one by one anymore. Exactly. It was a new mall one. Visual Studio, let's do that for you. I like it. It saves you a ton of time. And then you might have noticed all of these XML comments. So we now have code cells for these. If I hover over the I tweet alert interface you can see that quick info will show me italics as well as bolding, bullets, and a clickable link. A clickable link, clickable link. Finally, you can link directly to more documentation from your code. Oh my gosh, that's awesome. And if you add this inherit doc tag over here my tweet alert class will actually inherit the XML comments from my I tweet alert interface and it works for method override. So here I have a method that says this method is something and then if I hover over this method it'll actually show that inherited XML comments. So it worked for both the class that inherited the interface as well as the overridden method. Yes, exactly. Nice. Pretty sweet. Sweet. Let's see. Do we have resources to share at the end? Yes, so we do. Okay, there's resources. So if you wanna file bugs on our team or on all Visual Studio go to developer community.visualstudio.com. If you wanna check out more all of the refactorings that we just packed into this please visit aka.ms slash refactor. It'll take you right to our docs. And yeah, so our team, me, can I work on the .NET tooling team or Roslin, which is our compiler. So go to aka.ms slash Roslin to engage with our team and file bugs or contribute. Yeah.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2021 film the call It is a shutter exclusive and it's coming to shutter on Thursday July 15th So since this review is coming out before that it is a no spoiler review I will just give you a very quick little synopsis of it basically and then Not too much actually because I don't want to ruin anything because if this is the film You're interested in and you want to watch you should definitely watch it now. I say this all the time especially with films I'm not a big fan of I didn't really like this film, but I will say I'm gonna repeat this Every film in my opinion is worth watching at least once just to figure out how you Individually feel about that film just because I wasn't a big fan of this doesn't mean you're not gonna love it And I've already seen some people out there on social media talking about really enjoying this film And that's great. There should be a fan base for every single film and they're pretty much is so Just check it out if you have interest in it But I will tell you my thoughts on this film right now Directed by Timothy Woodward, Jr. Who also did films such as finders keepers the root of all evil Seven faces of Jack the Ripper, which sounds like an interesting title Nome alone. Yes actual like little gnomes and the final wish I've not seen any of these films But I will say based off what I see in this film from a directorial and cinematography standpoint There's some good pedigree there With with Woodward, Jr. As far as directing and an eye for cinematography and the cinematography is working with So there's some good stuff there My biggest problem with this film was actually just the script the script was the biggest issue It was written by Patrick Stibbs speaking of the script. This is his only credit So this is the very first script he's ever done You can see maybe why there were some problems for that reason But once again, like I said, some people might like it I did not It has the big names in this one Lin Shea You know, obviously everyone knows limbs Lin Shea most from the movies like insidious the conjuring You know all those types of films. She's been in a lot of films over time though I think my my favorite role of hers was actually in Kingpin the Randy Quaid and a Bill Murray film Kingpin. Oh, I'm sorry and Woody Harrelson How can I forget Woody Harrelson? He was in that as well. So I think that's my favorite role of hers I'm sure a lot of people love her in that role But she does a good job in this as you would assume because she's a very seasoned actress And Tobin Bell is also in this and Tobin Bell also did a really good job in this I think my favorite parts of the film are when Tobin Bell is on screen delivering his lines I really do feel like he kind of steals the show and he just really kind of Choose a scenery as much as he can. I like I was saying I don't feel like the script is that good So I really do think that Lin Shea and Tobin Bell really did the best they could with with what they were given And for that matter the actors in general some of them are really not very good at all some of them are okay Other than Lin and Tobin But I think they all kind of tried to do what they could with the materials, you know to varying degrees really but Just my thought on it. So like I said to repeat coming to Shutter Thursday, July 15th Now this quick synopsis. I don't want to give you too much. So it's basically about some friends I think they're in high school Yeah, I believe they're in high school they Get involved have kind of an altercation to a degree with a local woman who's kind of you know Everybody knows about this growing up There's always like that house or that person in the neighborhood that people kind of whisper about behind their backs and say Oh, there was a murder there or this person's crazy. They're a shut-in. You know all that type of stuff So Lin Shea's character is kind of one of those people these high school students have a run-in with her Things don't go well and then she ends up dead That's not really You know spoiling much because that's not what the film's about So the these kids then are contacted by her husband played by Tobin Bell who says Interestingly enough you were left in her will but in order to get the money There is something you must go through and that's where I'm gonna leave it So interesting concept. I do think it's set in the 80s for some reason. I can't really figure out What the 80s was bringing to it except maybe just the ability to easily and ignore cell phones That's my only opinion on it because I don't see like otherwise I don't see a reason to have set this in the 80s unless you know the writer of the film and or director of the film just Really like the 80s. So they're like, I just want to set it in the 80s. It just feels very arbitrary You could just set it in times now and there there are other easy ways to kind of explain away cell phones But you know just saying There's a lot of fluid motion camera work with movement around things and following characters Which looks really good, which is what I was kind of talking about talking about directing cinematography It keeps things engaging from a visual standpoint But at certain times it actually does kind of go a little bit overboard where in particular There's a moment where the the students are together with with Tobin Bell and he's kind of explaining things And there's a lot of camera movement like every single shot It's the cameras moving like from side to side on characters And it really starts feel very overboard almost to the point where I was feeling like I was almost getting motion sickness And I'm like, that's a little yeah But just say the score hits a very nice tone for the film early and really does enhance the overall film for the Most part but it kind of devolves towards the end of the film into being Severely repetitive you start to hear the same stuff come up over and over and over and over again And it's not like great music so I Don't know and just like sound-wise that there are certain sounds that they use throughout the film to signal things that Very repetitive just keeps happening over and over and there is a lot of repetition in this film too And I'm gonna talk about another aspect of it in a little bit The dialogue is rough It's overly simplistic and creates a barrier from seeing much of any personality for most of the characters It also makes everything feel extremely choppy Many films I will compliment them if the dialogue is really good for having conversations that feel really realistic These conversations feel very detached like you're kind of missing part of the conversation in a sense And for that reason like I'm saying it's it's very choppy it comes off very choppy and unrealistic and Simplistic and just the dialogue is not good It's it's it's not good dialogue really and it doesn't develop anything really It just kind of seems like like a bunch of the writing in this It's just there to move things to the next plot point for the overall story I think there really need to be more time taken with the script to kind of work things out The characters are paper thin and oftentimes just do things to move the story forward with no real reasoning That's another thing. There is one Actually not one there are a few very key things that end up happening in this film They have to happen in order to move things forward But should have been done in a different way that feel more realistic Because there are definitely things that characters do where you're like really this person is gonna do this But then maybe again, that's supposed to be hearkening back to the way kind of a lot of horror films We're in the 80s where people were just kind of doing dumb things just because you know Everyone remembers watching those 80s horror films, especially slashers being like why would you go into this room? Why would you go into the basement when it's dark, you know things like that? So maybe that's what they were going for I don't know But it doesn't play that well at least not nowadays in my opinion for a newer film But other people may enjoy that about it There are scenes that are held a bit too long Which kind of takes you out of the film because you're kind of It's because it ends up feeling kind of like that moment after a conversation kind of ends and people are still standing there and Neither person knows what to talk about but you're still just standing there looking at each other and waiting for each other to talk like that moment of like Okay, I think we covered everything now What's going on like those are the moments that get hit when these scenes are going a bit too long and there's a Good amount of those that happen in the film Really those scenes just need to be cut a little bit earlier when it came to the editing portion So yeah, and then for that reason as well it kind of messes with the overall flow of the film as well Nice shooting locations and set design. I will say that they did a really good job with picking the shooting locations They look really good Appropriately creepy sets up good atmosphere and the design of them really great job on that Yeah, builds great atmosphere the scares are unbelievably disappointing in my opinion Especially because they're almost all exactly the same scare This is what I was talking about with more of the repetitive stuff. It gets unbelievably old very very fast They just keep doing the same type of scare stuff over and over and over and it's just like Where is the variety and especially for a film like this that you know, it's not written super well The characters are not super interesting. It's an okay concept You need something and you need like good scares. You need good kills. You need that type of stuff and it is Definitely not there. It's not even close It really take it really took me out of it. It really made me feel like I didn't have anything To be interested in in this film really and there were a lot of moments where it really did feel like they were just wasting time Just trying to hit a certain runtime which the runtimes like I think it was like an hour and 37 38 minutes something like that So like the runtime is not bad But the story is not there To get there and there's a bunch of other stuff that's not there to keep you interested like interesting characters interesting character interactions scares practical effects all sorts of stuff Very lackluster ending to the film as well in my opinion Just not very good Once again though directing cinematography good music for the most part good set design really good and location scouting great job on that The script feels like it was a first draft that's plagued with poorly written characters poorly written Dialogue and a bunch of things written out of convenience Really does seem like a first draft like a really a Someone trying to write a script for the first time and it's their first draft and they just shot it Maybe the people will think that's a little bit unfair But that's the way I view it but that's also why I'm telling you just go ahead and watch it If you have interest because you might actually find something else in it And if you do go ahead and comment down here and let me know You know, I think that I loved it because blah blah blah, you know, tell me did you agree with me? Do you disagree with me? I'm always open hearing other people's opinions Because maybe you can enlighten me a little bit as to something I may have missed You know some sort of subtext that puts something else there in the film The film is slow and feels stretched for a certain runtime. That's the other thing so That's all I kind of have to say about the call not a big fan So out of five stars with half stars in play, I'm gonna give them a One-star rating on this one. I was between one star and one and a half stars But I just think that the script writing is so low level that Yeah, I mean, that's the foundation for your whole film really and there's not really much that anyone else can do After they take a script that's not well done, you know You can't do a whole lot to fix that director cinematographer Costumer actors actresses like and You'll see I feel like a lot of people with the film did what they could but the foundation is not there So one star rating on this one would like I said would love to hear your opinions on it Go ahead and put it in the comments. 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Je vais donner la parole à Madame Juliette Toakley, qui nous vient du Ghana, la directrice et fondatrice de Family China Associates et président de comité de gouvernance de United Way Worldwide. Madame Toakley, vous avez la parole. Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, for inviting me to say a few words. So much has been said already that I would have certainly been happy to discuss. And I think I will speak more from the perspective of my working in civic society with United Way Worldwide, which is the world's largest private NGO, as was described this morning, with annual revenues of $5 billion. And the reason why I would like to focus on that is because United Way's model is to create community impact using business models and community partnerships. I think that I've been hearing the word partnerships, partnerships, partnerships over and over again, new types of partners, new types of alliances, which are all critical. Certainly as a physician, the fellow that spoke about his program in OCP was music to my ears, because certainly I consider food security a public health issue as a physician. And I don't think it's often addressed that way, but within civic societies such as United Way, we can introduce that concept of food security being a public health concept and work with communities. And certainly I look forward to having some conversation later with our colleague to see what kind of relationships we can develop with them. But having worked for many years on the continent, I'm actually from Nigeria, I work in Ghana. Having worked on the continent, Southwest, particularly, and East, there's been an erosion of trust I find in our populace, especially our young populace. There's been a hounding of civic society, the space within which civic societies can do what they need to do, and it's at a time when we need them more than ever. I don't want to rehash the comments that were made by the fellow on my left here about the terrorism situation, but there's an absolute relationship between what's going on in the Sahel and with Boko Haram, and the fact that the military governments of our day destroyed our educational systems, which once were amongst the best in the world, and they speak from personal experience. And so we have to support civic society groups to reintroduce health education. We can quibble about whether it's education, then health, or health, then education. But it really makes no difference.  But I think we need to revisit how important civic society is within our countries and really start developing mechanisms that indicate trust between the governments of our day and the civic organizations, instead of having this high degree of distrust and high level of hostility, which permeates into the younger folks, our youth don't trust us at all. They have no reason to. What have we done for them, really? What have our governments done for them? They don't even recognize them half the time. And I do like the point you made about it's not migration, it's an exodus. It's disgraceful what's going on. Absolutely disgraceful. And we sit there talking about it as though it's an excellent coffee table dinner chat. No, seriously, we've got to start getting serious at all levels. But I do think that the most cost efficient way would be to expand the role of civic society groups and allow them to operate. I'm not putting a plug in for United Way worldwide. But in the five years that I've worked with them, I have been thoroughly impressed with the way that they do not reinvent wheels. They take examples from southern communities such as in India, Korea, Asia, Latin America to apply within the African continent, and they work. Because we all face very similar issues at all the different levels, rather than looking to Europe and America all the time to bring models that are not fit for purpose half the time. In theory, yes, but in practice, no, because there are so many other issues that we have to deal with, not the least of which, of course, is low literacy. So yes, education must be fit for purpose, but to achieve that, we do need to take some more security's routes. I think that we also need to look at agriculture, I mentioned that earlier. I think that we need to rebuild trust in our young people for our structures at each level of society. And again, I think this is where civil society is particularly important. I think that the diaspora may play a very critical role here. I was a diaspora myself. I knew about United Way when I was at Harvard. I was at Harvard for nearly 30 years, and I heard a lot about United Way. I never thought once that I'd ever be directly involved with it, but recognized once I returned home that the models that were being used were very, very effective, and we could adapt them accordingly. And so I think the diaspora needs to be encouraged, not just to come back and do, but to come back and give back in ways that they're comfortable with, and again, supporting some of the initiatives of organizations such as United Way. It's not the only organization, certainly, but that's the one I know best. I do think that we need to take the climate change situation very seriously. I'm also a Rotarian, and I'll never forget the day about five years ago when I met a group of Rotarians from France, I believe, who had taken it upon themselves 10 years ago to fly around the coast of Africa, and who decided 10 years later to fly again around the coast of Africa and draw what they saw. It was shocking. We're losing our countries. We're losing our coast lines. And again, nothing gets said about it. We watch poor people building their cities on ground that we know is going to be submerged in a few years, and nothing is said at any level. I think that we've got to really start taking green economies seriously. And again, I think I'm going to sound like a broken record. I think this might be another space, of course, for civic society to play a role. As a private practitioner, when I hear people talk about public-private initiatives as being the way to go, I agree in theory. But our governments, I don't think, always understand how important they are and are fearful of engaging often with successful private groups. Because I think of a sense of being found out, perhaps, not doing things properly or correctly. I don't know what it is. But there's always a little bit of pushback, and it never, in my mind, seems to be as effective as it could or should be, mostly from the government side, not from the private sector side. And I do think that for all of us here who are in this room who are involved in governments in various ways, please look at this again more seriously. Because I do think that as a private practitioner and as most private practitioners are, we focus on cost-effectiveness. We have to watch the bottom line and make sure we're getting enough out for what we're putting in, in a timely way, which is not always the way governments run. And so I do think when you have a genuine relationship and a genuine partnership can be extremely valuable. And I think we are cutely aware, I think, of how critical we are in terms of our health and education areas. And I think this is where, particularly, we need to start really looking at funding from some of the larger banks in these areas. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Toakli. And I thank you all for being here.


4 hours 24 hours surveillance with motion detectors video surveillance of all exterior access points all interior areas the entry vestibule inventory of payment inventory and payment and the path of travel surveillance will also be 24 hours camera quality will provide clear and certain identification of any of anyone within those areas just and with that our surveillance system will be able to support any criminal investigations that shall be maintained for 60 days this also includes sensors to detect entry and exit from all secure areas and all windows we will provide an alarm permit and our headers and the head of security contact for the Santa Rosa police department dispatch database cannabis products shall be stored and secured in a manner that prevents diversion theft loss hazards and nuisance the facility shall be designed to prevent unauthorized entrance into areas containing cannabis products limited access areas are only for authorized personnel cannabis products that are not used for display purposes for immediate sale shall be stored in a secured product safe within the secured product storage area on our site on our proposed floor plan touching base a little bit more on security regarding the install the burglar alarm will be yule certified door contacts motion detectors safe contacts wireless panic buttons the system will be monitored by our preferred local security company which is bail arm and a gentleman named mr mark cook who did our plan there'll be a high decibel point of entry detection on all doors and exterior access points the panic buttons there'll be three or more door and window contacts and our vault room will all have will all be secure our security guard service and here's a little bit of a letter of support from a company called american veteran security who's local to the county jiva's head of security which will be a local hire in a full-time position will contract with abs who are military grade security guard service provider here locally and again there's a letter of support from them fire safety is imperative and we will obtain all annual operating fire permits with inspections prior to operation our goal is to comply with all applicable california fire codes fire safety measures are designed to ensure prevention training and emergency access and our goal is to obviously be in satisfaction with the santa rosa fire department standards access with with a fire department lockbox for keys to gates and doors shall be provided if requested as a common concern we have taken preventative and proactive action which jiva's air quality consultant mr trentheel as seen in his conclusion um of the order control and air quality plan cannabis odor will not emit outdoors additionally we have outsourced a local licensed mechanical engineering firm to implement filtration and odor mitigation as provided in the memo as you see above uh that was shared with the city we want to share that all of our cannabis products for sale are pre-packaged and sealed and at this time we will not offer on-site consumption community benefits is very important to jiva our goal is to establish a generative relationship within the community at the core of our company ethos is a relationship between jiva and the community the city and their constituents are best situated to understand the community's mission and values due to having a personal stake in the safety and success of santa rosa thus we will be good listeners and proactively implement our community benefits plan we want to we're going to establish a community benefits coordinator we would like to focus on youth awareness initiatives our desires to work with the with local santa rosa organizations potentially uh kids off chemicals to collaborate and strategize the most effective means of supporting the mission to reduce substance abuse and improve the overall health of santa rosa's youth we want to service economically disadvantaged community patients we will be offering reduced pricing plans for qualified low-income patients customers sorry low-income patients and or customers and military veterans we want to champion the city's most important goals we want to support santa rosa's priorities such as affordable housing homelessness and community development jiva will look for ways to support santa rosa's the partnership program towards a strategic goal to strengthen youth and families and build safe communities by leading mobilizing and aligning aligning community resources jiva will commit funds towards maintaining the measure o choice grant program we believe in the choice grants in the past that provide a variety of youth and parenting programs which focus on gang and anti-violence education prevention and intervention community safety and social services in high in high needs neighborhoods one important thing that's that that we pride ourselves on is is to annually contribute and volunteer competent professional service volunteering i feel like is a valuable resource that we can provide and help with to the city in addition to the previous community benefits and part of community engagement is a medical first approach that will safely introduce consumers to the evolving and revolutionary cannabis industry our retail facility strives to enrich the community through strategic partnerships with established local organizations our community endeavors will be focused on advancing educational opportunities in santa rosa santa rosa residents will benefit from informational seminars supportive initiatives and charitable contributions we want to provide exceptional service and access to cannabis for the elderly adults with disabilities and terminal clients through our delivery service just to go over a few of the local economic incentives uh stimulate the economic prosperity in santa rosa with the commercial cannabis business tax create 20 plus full-time jobs within the first five years of operation provide employees with generous compensation and benefits provide charitable contributions and funding towards recommended santa rosa nonprofits we want employee retention and with other retailers that we've spoken to in this industry or others dealing with employees is is a major issue our goal is to compensate them well so we can have them long term our commitment is to contribute two percent of profits annually to local organizations collaboratively with the recommendations of the city's community service committee we review the city's affordable family housing development program and recognize its desire to allocate funding for local nonprofits for example cap sonoma our projected five-year allocation would exceed approximately 75 000 by the third year of operations we strive to exceed recommendations and to diversify within various local nonprofits in alignment with the city our objective is to create an open line of communication that instills confidence in our business and our commitment to our neighborhood as of may um earlier this uh this summer we have delivered an introductory letter you'll see a snippet of the as seen above of the bottom and we hosted an open house as well that was distributed to i believe residents and property owners and businesses within 500 feet of our proposed location as i mentioned before we'll establish a community benefits coordinator but more importantly specific to the neighborhood will be a dedicated position as a neighborhood liaison that will work directly with our community benefits coordinator our good neighbor policy that's in our operations plan and our community benefits plan in our proposal to the city will be a focus of our neighborhood integration our staff will take proact a proactive approach to assimilation and our existence will increase general security in the surrounding area as mr holister indicated about the lighting interior and exterior lighting shall utilize best management practices and technologies to reduce glare any light pollution and illuminated at an intensity compatible with the neighborhood we will discourage and correct objectionable conditions that constitute a nuisance in parking areas sidewalks alleys and areas surrounding the premises and adjacent properties during business hours finally we want to provide an enhanced retail experience our facilities comprises slightly over 3200 square feet um jiva's proposed location offers a generous retail floor area the expansive layout provides dedicated secure product storage id ver and id verification podium reception and concierge station in the center of the facility a dedicated medical product pos counter and an express an online order station and seven point of sale systems jiva's fundamental ethos starts and finishes with the professional quality of service by employees we will encourage and enable employees to think creatively and divergently while maintaining a compliant facility jiva will feature hospitality driven customer engagement with an aesthetically pleasing storefront that will utilize premium materials for interior improvements and with that here are a couple of renderings of conceptual design showcasing a general showcasing the general retail floor area and the dedicated medical product counter jiva is committed to working with santa rosa and values the opportunity to serve its residents as a meticulous operator jiva will deliver on its commitments we're greatly appreciative for your consideration and valuable feedback jiva looks forward to honoring and upholding the values of santa rosa and its residents thank you i'm going to pass it on here to our local kid mr gearmo bravo my name is my name is gearmo bravo and i was um born here in santa rosa actually in northwest santa rosa copy park you know being a part of the community growing up here myself i actually went to schaefer school i went to comp stock i went to piner high school i went to sonoma state i'm an alumni there and uh have been you know have been uh involved in the community on several levels playing competitive sports and also through education um you know i've been in the cannabis space for about six years now i have a technology and marketing agency that i started and serviced retail dispensaries across different states in regards to technology and marketing um you know i grew up about a mile and a half from this location uh that's what really brought this to my attention and he's out you know i've you know the experience is that everyone has uh been through over the last few years in regards to the fires i wanted to do something to contribute to the community uh my sister who is part of this project lost her home uh in northwest santa rosa and she you know wants to lead the community outreach and be a part of this uh in the community and just contribute and uplift the community any way that we can and you know that's all i really i really had to say uh you know but my goal is to just be present here uh and add value in anything any way i can to the community great thanks very much uh commissioners any questions for the applicant at this time commissioner rascisco yeah just a quick question um you know beautiful interior improvements can you describe what exterior improvements you're going to make specifically are you going to paint the rear of the building yeah um good question currently we we may do a green wall um but our exterior improvements are going to be minimal um for the most part but you are going to paint the rear part of the building yes yes yes yes yes and we'll we want we want to beautify the facade um it's going to be much nicer than it looks right now okay good thanks sure commissioners uh any other questions mr weeks um can you expand on the advisory board that you mentioned yes yes absolutely so the advisory board consists of two doctors uh pharmacist uh two retail strategy advisors uh in the second slide you may have noticed two brands that were from washington uh they're part of that and the reason that we did that is a not only to to kind of stack the merit that myself and rco has but to have a level and a system where people can use multiple different consultants and advisors if as needed and some of the advisory board folks are also financial interest holders one more question um you talked about some of the neighborhood outreach did you get any response to that we did not um our letter really was focused on having them reach out to us uh to if they wanted to talk to us to have a meeting uh also that letter included the invite for the open house um we're going to do another round just as the chairman had said in the other um with the other applicant this is common knowledge uh when you're applying you must reach out to the neighborhood and the community prior to getting here commissioners any other questions okay this is a public hearing um I have a number of cards that requested to comment on items 10.1 10.2 and 10.3 or or some combination of those I suspect most if not all of those people who filled out a card are I have left the building that I am going to read all of them first and uh for those of you might not have been here if you are here and wishing to make a comment about this item uh you may go to one of the podiums at the top of the room and begin by stating your name for the record and you'll have three minutes uh in which to make your comments I'm sorry uh chairman I think your mic is your microphone on I'm sorry would you like to open the hearing uh yeah I was just explaining the the procedure before I did that thank you okay I'm going to open the public hearing and I'm going to start with uh Michael Brewster thank you my name is Michael Brewster I live on Nightingale Drive about um halfway between this proposed project in the the former proposed project um I was going to present to you that it looks from your information that's subjected online that there's um significant overlap with the two schools uh Monroe and Comstock but from the presentation tonight um that appears to be not so so I'm confused I don't know which is correct um so I would encourage you to please update the online information so the public has correct information when we're looking from our homes for example the spreadsheet is not correct in either of the reports so we don't have current information out in the real world um with that said I'd like to say that that that little commercial district is very cleverly nestled in between three schools three schools so that's what I'd like to say there addressing a comment by a previous speaker about crime being a little further out than the security area respectfully mr chairman I disagree with you I believe that in the area that I live in where we already have crime um that we're in the crosshairs of potentially two facilities and the crime will be right in my neighborhood where people will be looking to steal things um cash them in and and go by their recreational marijuana so that is my opinion and my feelings regarding crime because I won't be in the immediate facility of this great security I'll be farther out and I'll kind of be right in between um thirdly there's traffic issues you can only approach this facility from westbound gernville road you cannot you turn you can't come out and turn left and go east on gernville road it is a mess I tried to turn on the ravello way to go talk to my neighbors and I had to go down and really make a very unsafe turn in front of the community church a little further east so I believe there really is a real traffic issue here um that is not being addressed I know in the report it says it's been addressed but as a practical matter just like over on piner road heading east if you try to turn into the wall greens you're not going to be able to do it unless you use the lights so we know the idiosyncrasies of our roads um and uh I think it needs to be addressed in some way um so that's kind of what I'd like to say about those things um and I'd also like to say to our planning department you know if you approve the three dispensaries tonight and add them to the one on dutton in college and the one on cleveland already exists that's five that's five in northwest santa rosa you're really condensing them I don't care what you say about approving one on sonoma you're going to approve some on the east side you're approving five in our neighborhood with three new ones and two existing so um that's what I have to say thank you thank you I'm going to uh read these cards in case any of these members of the public are still in attendance uh leilani bruster okay marie piazza janine freeman jerry rossi de guvara sharon doherty and Stephen fisher and unless I see uh other people enter the chamber I won't read those for item 10.3 unless that's a legal requirement so okay uh is any other member of the public here wishing to speak doesn't look like it I'm going to close the public hearing commissioners any questions for staff or the applicant would any commissioner like to move the single resolution I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of santa rosa approving a conditional use permit for jiva life LLC's medical and adult use retail cannabis dispensary with delivery in an existing 2917 square foot commercial tenant space on a 14810 square foot parcel located at 1831 gernvill road suite a apn 036-101-036 file number c up 18-075 and wave for the reading second the resolution was moved by commissioner duggin and seconded by commissioner cisco commissioner cisco would you like to start sure this is a very tight application very tight presentation so thank you for that and um appreciate the fact that you have at least made an attempt to do neighborhood outreach from the start that's a good thing and I can make all of the findings on this project and we'll be happy to support it commissioner duggin I also can make all the findings and am in support of the project commissioner calio I actually think this presentation has probably been one of the best ones that I've seen on the planning commission so I thank you for that I can make all of the appropriate findings to support this project and I really appreciate the thought that you've put into the community benefit aspect of the proposal and the employee benefits as well thank you vice chair weeks I also am going to be supportive of the project reiterate what my fellow commissioners said about the tightness and the completeness of the application and the project description and the community benefits proposal I think is fabulous in your whole kind of holistic approach to this new business for us and I also can make all the findings thank you commissioner chronica I have nothing further to add I find can make all the findings on this project and I support it commissioner Peterson I echo my fellow commissioners comments I think this is a really um excellently prepared presentation in particular I appreciate the the specification of these sort of types of jobs the types of economic benefits that that will hopefully come to Santa Rosa as a result of this project being mindful that that's not the sort of determining factor in this type of decision-making again I think the outreach is good things like an open house or I think a good way to deal with a lot of the public comments we've seen at both this meeting and other meetings and in particular I also like the the community benefits not only is sort of the ethically correct thing to do but also again it's I think it's a good business decision it's good as this new industry kind of comes into its own and becomes more normalized throughout the city with that the location isn't great I think that the public commenter is is correct that's a it's a pretty tough location to deal with very car dependent but that's not the fault of the applicant for sort of historic design decisions made by the city so with that I'll be able to make all necessary findings to support this project and I'm strongly in support of this project I completely agree that it was excellent excellent application it I think is is going to stand a good chance of having ripple effects and improving the area around it in particular you know if there are you know attentive and thoughtful exterior modifications as commissioner sisco discussed earlier the interior looks like an apple store quite frankly except except it's a place where I might actually be able to afford something so anyway a very very good project and I can completely support it and make all the findings the resolution was moved by commissioner dug in and seconded by commissioner sisco commissioners who votes please and that passes with seven eyes and that concludes item 10.2 and we'll move to item 10.3 public hearing for the hook dispensary conditional use permit for 817 russell avenue sweet sea and I'll wait just a second for everybody to get where they're going well you might as well do it now commissioners this is an ex parte disclosure commissioner calia anything to disclose I visited the site and have nothing further to disclose commissioner dug in I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose okay commissioner sisco I visited the site and have nothing new to disclose best your weeks I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose commissioner groiniga and I visited the site and have nothing further to disclose commissioner peterson I visited the site and have nothing further to disclose and I visited the site and have nothing further to disclose and with that the staff presentation will be by Gary Brod. Thank you Chair Edmondson and planning commissioners. Gary Brod I'm a planning consultant and the project planner for this application and this is an application for the hook conditional use permit at 817 Russell Avenue in suite C sorry it's it's moving on my screen but it's not that doesn't do us any good yeah I'm sorry we have it on the iPads as well but the public will be denied the benefit because we have too many we have too many open there we go this is conditional use permit CUP 18-041 which has been filed by our ex-boys incorporated slash Eddie Alvarez which proposes to operate a retail medical and adult use cannabis dispensary with delivery at 817 Russell Avenue in suite C this proposed dispensary is on the smaller size with 1350 square feet of gross floor area of which just under a thousand nine hundred ninety eight will be involved in the retail operation and additionally there'll be a hundred seventeen square feet of office space and a hundred twenty five of stock room and a hundred ten square feet of break room and bathroom and the proposed hours of operation are daily from noon to 7 p.m. which is compliant with the permitted hours by the cannabis ordinance this application started with the neighborhood meeting back in April of 2018 there were no members of the public attending that meeting the CUP application was filed approximately two weeks later and in August the department mailed out a notice of application to neighbors and to interested parties you can see the project location it's on Russell Avenue just off of Cleveland Avenue and the aerial shows a little more clearly it's within a complex that is known as the Russell Square Russell Square which has 11,700 square feet of commercial space within the two buildings as shown highlighted within that rectangle the zoning for the property is general commercial the property surrounded by commercial uses to the east which are restaurant uses there's the Motel 6 to the north of the property to the south of the property is Sonoma County law family law structure and just south of that the heat is an empire college or healed college for Empire College thank you and to the west on the same side of the street are three contiguous apartment buildings and also to the south and to the west is a low income housing development and you can see in this slide that the zoning and general plan the property is within the band of commercial general commercial zoning and the general plan is retail and business services and then there's medium residential zoning and general plan designation to the west of the property and PD development to the south of the property sorry you can see the site plan for the property the proposed suite C is just to the left of building a building a is an existing grocery store there's an architect's office to the west which is to the left of the proposed suite a and building be in the back has a hair salon a Mexican restaurant and additionally has a laundromat in it the proposed cannabis dispensary is going into a space that previously was used as a tanning salon this is a picture of the front facade of the building and the applicants indicated that essentially the only change they would make to the facade would be to replace the tanning salon with a sign for the dispensary which would be compliant with the overall sign plan for the development as previously mentioned there was a neighborhood meeting on April 4th the only public input that the city has received related to this project is we received letters from all three of the adjacent property owners to the west of the project site which the Commission received and all three of those letters articulated concerns with the impacts of a cannabis dispensary in this neighborhood and a feeling that it was an inappropriate use for this neighborhood which contains as previously mentioned a number of apartment buildings and also low-income housing and the Commission received the fourth letter this week which was again from one of the adjacent property owners I should have given you one more slide of while it's covered within the staff report is the compliance of the project with the city's cannabis ordinance the project does comply with the many requirements that are required under the cannabis ordinance as was covered in the staff report the project is compliant in terms of the parking requirements in that it is within the required the necessary parkings within the required 52 spaces provided on site for the shopping center the centers compliant with other mandates including the odor requirements lighting requirements the staff report discusses the applicant's proposed security proposals related to the application additionally the staff report discusses the appropriateness in staff's opinion of the proposed dispensary in terms of the relationship with surrounding land uses as shown in the previous slide the proposed dispensary is central to the existing commercial area there is no lot-to-lot passage permissible from the shopping center to the adjacent adjacent land land uses it's either blocked off by building or by six foot secured fencing and so the only access from the street to the cannabis dispenser would be through the main driveway into the shopping center and the staff believes that the necessary six findings for use permit approval can be made for this application one of the necessary findings is the environmental review finding and staff has determined that the project's categorically exempt from CEQA under exemptions class one which is existing structures class three which relates to a proposed change in use and finally the infill development categorical exemption which is class 32 and that all six of those necessary findings can be made for the project staff is recommending or the planning and economic development department is recommending that the commission approve the proposed CUP for dispensary at 8 17 Russell Avenue for retail medical and adult use cannabis and in doing so approve the resolution including the findings and conditions provided to the commission and I the applicant is present to make a presentation to the commission which will delve into more the operational characteristics of the proposal and I'd be happy to answer any questions from commission members thank you commissioners any questions for staff right now the applicants here and wishing to make a presentation if you'll state your name for the record place yes good evening my name is Joe Rogaway I'm an attorney here representing the applicant our ex-boys ain't for the hook mr. Eddie Alvarez is here in the audience as well he seated here gentlemen wearing a tie and we did actually have a PowerPoint presentation that I believe is included in the agenda and perhaps we can we can go through that briefly I believe that mr. Broad's presentation sufficiently covers a lot of the materials as relates to the general applicability of the ordinance to this particular project as well as the application materials which I think provide significant detail into not just the the local ordinance requirements but also the state regulatory considerations for both the storefront as well as the delivery okay so I got so let's see if this works okay so this is thank you very much so as has been noted the proposal is for suite C at 817 Russell Avenue this is more or less adjacent to highway 101 it's I think one parcel over and about essentially across the street from the civil courthouse as mr. Broad noted there is just one method of ingress and egress to and from this facility in the shopping center and the the parking in the center meets requirements percent of the ordinance also noted here and noted previously is the very limited changes to the exterior of the building as as noted just the word tanning for the prior business I was there will be replaced with the name of the current business and is going to comport in all ways with the city's ordinance as has been noted the location is in all ways compliant with both the city's ordinance as well as state law and is situated as you can see on the right hand slide in the center of this portion of the shopping center the school setback is met here as has been noted in prior presentations the city has a setback requirement of 600 feet which comports with California state law and that is met here there is transit nearby there is a bus stop for the closest one being at Cleveland and State Farm and it's fairly walkable from the bus stop to this proposed retail establishment here is just a another photograph demonstrating where this is it sounds like everyone has already gone to the facility and seen it firsthand but just for clarity in this presentation everyone can see it again here neighborhood impact there is no members from the public here this evening voicing any concerns about this particular use that is consistent with our experience at the neighborhood meeting which also do not include any concerned neighbors there were a few letters that were received from owners of the apartment buildings that are next door to this use but there are no statements of any kind from any of the the tenants of any of those apartment buildings importantly no one objecting to this particular use about the applicant mr. Alvarez is a local member of our community has demonstrated not just the the centrality of the importance of the community to him but also has demonstrated leadership here in fact mr. Alvarez has run for city council for the city of Santa Rosa I believe also ran for board supervisors for the county of Sonoma is well respected member of the community his family owns a business in Santa Rosa on Sebastopol Road and he is also in the process of developing other non-canvas businesses here in Roseland which I know is an important part of the city and what the city is looking towards in terms of future opportunities and development for that community there and mr. Alvarez is in the process of developing a food truck park down in Roseland on Sebastopol Road and has been working with other noble members of the community mr. Marco Suarez who some of you may know is someone who mr. Alvarez has been working with pretty closely furthermore mr. Alvarez has served as a board member for the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has served as a member of the community advisory board for the city of Santa Rosa has served as a president of other local business organizations and has been on member of the board of directors for one of Santa Rosa's community banks so so all in all a very strong member of the community that is looking to continue to support the community through this business here at 817 Russell I believe that the neighborhood concerns have been addressed through the application itself but just to ensure clarity for this particular presentation we as the applicants are not concerned that there is going to be loud intoxicated people outside of this establishment the comments that I believe were received from the owners of the apartment buildings in my mind were somewhat of a conflation of general sort of property crimes or vagrancy issues or issues related to use of alcohol I believe one of the letters addressed concerns over purported drug addicts that would be at Motel 6 which is nearby and somehow this would contribute to what was happening at Motel 6 I in my opinion I don't believe that those concerns are particularly well-founded I think as has been noted for prior presentation having a well-regulated outlet retail outlet in the transparency of all of the local and state laws is a far cry from the illegal world of the black market and the criminality that is a part of that and there are just things as a matter of state law which really serve to mitigate those types of concerns in particular bullet point number two on this slide there is a state requirement for 24-hour security at the site in addition to the the non-personneled security and that's just a matter of law and is going to of course be incorporated I'm here at this facility and and all in all it's important not just in terms of compliance with the the law as it exists about the state local level but also it's important just intrinsically to Mr. Alvarez to be a good neighbor and to be a responsible business owner for for the hook here is some information for your consideration related to odor and noise mitigation this information is contained within the materials that you already have as a part of our application very standardized forms for example of odor mitigation with the canned filtration we also have a stamp certified odor mitigation document in the application materials as well traffic is another issue that has been addressed here this evening for other applications and again for this application the the traffic will have a slight the there will be a slight increase in trips to the site but it's going to be acceptable within the confines of the traffic engineers and again this is very close to 101 so ideally there'll be mitigation of people driving across town to to get to and from this location on the surface roads just given its proximity to 101 there is a local hiring plan and it's very important to be hiring from the local labor pool and there the plan is and this is delineated as well in the application materials that we would have full-time employees eligible for for benefits and you know there is again other other matters of state law for example that limit the availability of 1099 independent contractors is a recent ruling from the Supreme Court of California that really diminishes the ability for employers to hire independent contractors for types of jobs that are court to the functionality of the business and of course mr. Alvarez and and his business will comport in all ways with California state and federal labor laws and the facility design from the exterior it's very limited we're just talking about just the change as mentioned previously in the signage from removing the word tanning and inserting the name of the business here but other than that there isn't going to be large-scale exterior modifications here is the site plan and this is already incorporated in the materials that you have before you as well in the application as you can see it's a it's a modest size retail outlet and it's simplified in the layout in so far as the public consumer-facing section is at the front of the facility where you can see that that large almost 50% of the the layout is dedicated to that portion of it the back portion of the premise is the non-public-facing section of that and all of this comports with both local and state law as well there is I think for any business that comes before the city a real need for the utilization of green business practices and to the extent that we can here in this particular business the hook will be employing those as relates with energy efficient lighting water efficient fixtures and just limitation of the the other types of things that can happen inside of the facility that can just add the consumption of energy and so all of those things are taken into consideration for this design and so that is essentially all I have for you by way of the presentation but of course I am available to answer any questions that you may have and Mr. Alvarez is staying next to me if you wish to ask any questions of him as well thank you very much commissioners any questions right now for the applicant or as representative commissioner Duncan yeah I've got a couple of questions how are deliveries of wholesale product going to be handled will they happen during normal business hours or before opening or after closing so as relates to distributors distributors are not going to be coming in during normal business hours they are going to be coming in through the the front door of the premise and that will be outside of the court business hours as have been delineated to you in the application okay and also as far as the security plan are there going to be security personnel on on site during the business hours yes okay and can you say anything more about the security plans I don't remember seeing much yes actually in detail in the in the packet so there is a security plan that has been submitted for your consideration I have an extra copy here if you haven't had chance to to review that but the so there are state regulations that dictate issues related to security personnel and as is delineated on page one item number two under the heading security personnel there's a citation to the regulatory provision for the BCC regulations which is section 5045 which controls how the security personnel will be there and so essentially there's a state mandate that for all retail facilities there is on site 24 hours a day security personnel and so there's not a particular station for them they will be throughout the city and there's a state certificate for the BCC regulations and that's what the city has to look like it has to do with the security personnel premise which is a relatively small premise. Thank you. Mr. Weeks. I have a couple questions. Other applicants applications we've seen have had a community days on for lack of a better term. Do you plan on having a position like that? There isn't an official title that we whereas it has spent a significant portion of his life reaching out to the community and being not just a member of various organizations but also being a leader in those organizations as well. And so there isn't a particular position.  This isn't a large scale operation like what we may see with other projects where there is these kind of large corporate infrastructure and this just happens to be like one of many outlets for a larger corporate apparatus. This is essentially a business that is being owned, run and operated by Mr. Alvarez, employing local members of the community without some of those fixtures that can be accoutrements of a much larger business model. So then my assumption would be that if there was an issue that Mr. Alvarez would directly respond personally or have one of his small staff do that. And that people in the neighborhood would know that. Yes, I mean, Mr. Alvarez is, for what it's worth, a very personable individual and from my experiences with him, has been very willing and able to accommodate members of the community as relates to issues that come up in the realm of the cannabis industry. So to answer your question, yes. He is available to them if there was a complaint, if there was an issue. The buck stops here, so to speak. And so that would be the way to accommodate that. And of course there is the mechanisms that the city has to address any problems as well and Mr. Alvarez would be responsive to those considerations. Good, personally I think it's important for the neighbors to know that there's somebody that they could talk to or if there's an issue, especially the people in the apartment complexes around there. So thank you. Absolutely. Commissioner, is there any other questions? I just have one quick one. The hours of operation are very interesting, different than any of the other applications we've seen more limited starting later in the day. Could you comment on the decision-making about that? Yeah, my assumption is just a matter of preference. But yeah, okay. So Mr. Alvarez will address that point. Good evening, my name is Eddie Alvarez, the applicant. The reason for the hours are actually that I'm giving a chance to all the other competitors to have a chance. Well, I need to hear that all the time, do you? But in all seriousness, with the hours of 12 to seven I've seen, I've witnessed that most of our business traffic happens after hours. And I mean that through our jewelry store or grocery store. So in regards to the earlier part of the day we'll be dedicated to the stocking of the shelves, so to speak, the inventory intake. I find that the hours can be most efficient and effective between the hours of 12 to seven. That also allows for the smaller amount of employees to two shifts. I just have to have one shift, which I'm a part of. So that's really the reason behind the 12 to seven. Now, can that change in the future? That depends on the traffic in the business that we receive. Thank you. Okay, thanks very much. That was indeed a personable comment. Any other questions at this time? Vice Chair Weis? So this is a question for Gary or Claire. If the hours were to change, would that need to come back to the commission? Well, the hours would be locked in with this use permit. So we'd have to evaluate what's the correct process as it come back to the planning commission or does it come back to the zoning administrator? There is a section that talks about changes to an approved project.  If I don't have a lot of time to look at it and I would say to have to come back to the planning commission to amend their use permit. Thank you. Can I follow up on that? Would it be possible if it were the pleasure, desire of the commission to make it clear in the permit that the zoning administrator could be the review authority for that modification? Yes, the planning commission could add that condition that if the applicant chose to modify the hours but still in compliance with the limited hours that are set forth in the code, that that amendment could be acted on by the zoning administrator, that would be fine. And that would be our request as well. It's not necessarily anticipated, but just to save us from having to come back before the commission for maybe a slight modification to hours at some point in the future. Okay, thank you. Any other questions for staff of the applicant at this time? Okay, this is a public hearing. Anybody who's here wishing to speak is invited to go to one of the podiums and have up to three minutes to make your comments. And I am going to open the public hearing. And I am not seeing anyone approach the podium, so I'm going to close the public hearing and ask a member of the commission to move the single resolution. I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Santa Rosa, approving a conditional use permit for the hook dispensary, a medical and adult use retail cannabis dispensary with delivery in an existing 1350 square foot tenant space located at 817 Russell Avenue, suite C, APN 015-101-027, file number CUP18-041 and waive for the reading. Second, but I'm wondering if we wanted to include that condition now, as opposed to doing it from the amendment style. And if so, where would it be placed? We don't have to specify what number it would be called, but you can make that as part of your motion to add a condition directing that the zoning administrator would have authority to evaluate amendments to hours of operation compliance with zoning code. Okay, so I have to say adding a condition that the zoning administrator would be able to modify the open hours without having to come back to the commission. Because I don't think the hours are written in the resolution. Yeah, I can't find them. That's why I was questioning. See them under the description for one of the findings, finding C on page two. Is it under C? Oh, there it is. Yeah, okay. But that may not necessarily be where we would put this content. Yeah, I just was looking for it too. Okay. It's 14B. So you could amend that. That's where we could place that new language. And it would be that any amendments to these hours could be acted on by the zoning administrator. Okay, so that would be under 14B. Okay. So with the amendment, it's late and I'm tired. With the amendment to allow the zoning administrator to act on any requested change of hours. And we have further reading. Second. Resolution as amended was moved by Commissioner Duggan and seconded by Commissioner Cisco, Commissioner Collier. I can make all the necessary findings to support this project. And I think it's going to be good one. Commissioner Duggan. I can also make all necessary findings and I'm in support of the project. Commissioner Cisco. And I am also in support of the project and can make all the findings. Vice Chair Weeks. I also am supportive of the project and I would like to say I appreciate that you're working with the Economic Development Board on the local hiring plan. I think that's a great addition. And I can make all the findings. Commissioner Moranaga. I support the project. Commissioner Peterson. I also support the project as you've heard in the other presentations. I like to see the local hiring and the benefits and the pay in the presentation itself. I think it's good use of the space. I think it has a good chance of improving the security of the area. And I want to take a moment since this is going to be the last meeting of the year to just thank staff for all their, the tremendous amount of work they've done in the recovery from the tubs fire and just in sort of the general day-to-day operations of the planning commission. It's really greatly appreciated. And I think planning and economic development does an incredible job. So with that, I'm in favor of the project. And I'm in favor of the project. And I'm not happy that Julian took my idea to thank staff, but he's absolutely right. And I can speak for everybody up here and we all are in fantastic hands with all of you. I'm in support of the project. It is a really, really quality application, yet another one well thought out the exact kind of business that we want in the city run by the exact kind of proprietor that we want in the city. Couldn't agree more. And I like that it's near the courthouse, whether you're a judge or a lawyer, a staffer, or a member of the public. Anytime you spent an appreciable amount of time in that building, you are looking to frequent this place when you're leaving. Well said. Okay, the resolution as amended was moved by Commissioner Duggan, seconded by Commissioner Sisko, your votes, please. That passes with seven ayes. And that concludes this meeting of the planning commission.