Okay. Good morning everyone. All right. So, today's class, by just doing a quick review of what we did last week, anyone would like to share what we did last week? What did we do? That is last week's. This week you tell me how Paul reached out to Athens. Okay. What is it? What is the main thing that we took from that sessions? Okay. Understand their culture. What else? Understand their beliefs. Observe how they do their daily life. Okay. Yes. What else? Okay. Using their own, what is belief system to bring about a way to reach out. Who else? Only two of them are saying something. What about you guys? What did you understand from last class? It's very important that not only for evangelism but also to understand the whole scripture of whole passage from Acts chapter 17 and how the encounter of the gospel happened there. What else did you learn? Only this was not recording. Okay. Anyways guys, Nina John says, recognize where people are in their spiritual quest. Surya says culture and their own traditional lifestyle. Yes. Understanding from there. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to move on. We're going to go to chapter 9 and we'll talk about witness and demonstrate. Okay. Yes. We've been talking about witnessing. We're talking about demonstrating. Now, the Lord Jesus has commissioned us to witness through the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, in the early chapters, we looked at why is the Holy Spirit important, right? Acts in Acts chapter one, he says, I will fill you with power to be a witness. Right. So we also look at how, you know, Jesus blew on the disciples, the Holy Spirit, and he also told them, go and wait because you need the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, you and I, the Holy Spirit is in us and it says here, the Lord Jesus has commissioned us to be witnesses through the power of the Holy Spirit. Right. So what is important? How do we be a witness? How can we, you and I be a witness? The answer is just there. How do we be a witness to the power of the Holy Spirit? Right. Now, when the Holy Spirit demonstrates itself, what are the, you have Holy Spirit happening in this? Tell me two or three things. What is the characteristic of the Holy Spirit? Two, three things, characteristics of the Holy Spirit. Sorry. He cleanses us. Okay. He helps us, edifies us. God's love is poured out in our hearts. Guidance. Okay. So these are things that he does for us. But what are his characteristics? What is, what, what is the Holy Spirit? Who is he? Is he a, you're studying it, right? Tell me. He's a person. Okay. What is the characteristic of the Holy Spirit? Okay. That is the gift of the Holy Spirit. What is the characteristic? Thank you so much, Prabhu. He's holy. Okay. What is next? Holy Spirit is holy. Thank you. What else? Come on. See, the online students are so nicely answering. Okay. He's omnipresent. He's omnicent. Okay. He's God. Okay. I'll tell you. He is powerful. Yes or no? There is, Holy Spirit is powerful or no? No? Witness the Holy Spirit through your life testimony. Now, we need the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit enables us to do things we can't do in our own strength, right? On our own ability, we can do many things, but many a times what we do in our own ability is not going to bear fruit. Or even if it bears fruit, it won't be long lasting fruit. Something that is born at the Spirit will always bear fruit. Yes, right? So Jesus has commissioned us to be witnesses in two ways. One, in our life testimony, right? How we live and two, how we speak and how we portray ourselves, right? What we say. Now, it's easy to be a testimony on Sunday in church. Yes? What about Monday to Friday? How can we be a testimony? Now, it says that the Holy Spirit will witness through us to be a testimony.  Now, Paul is writing to the Corinthian Church. This is very interesting.  They are prophesying, there's word of knowledge, there is gifts of healing, there's working of miracles, all that is there. But Paul is saying one simple thing, you don't have love. And what is love? It's a characteristic of the... God is love. Now, so Paul is saying all this you're doing is good, right? But your lifestyle is not showing the same thing. So he's talking to the Corinthians. He's saying, demonstrate what you're doing, right? You can prophesy word of knowledge, everything is very good. But if you don't have love, or we're not demonstrating it in our life, it's of no use, right? So we demonstrate the work of the Holy Spirit in our life. How do we live? How do we speak? How do we say and communicate with people? That is very important, right? Imagine, you know, you're... I think I've used this example, right? I was going in some place and there was this car which had the sticker, Jesus loves you. Did I say this example? Right? Yes, I have. I don't know if it was the auto award, but this sticker had Jesus loves you. But this man from the car came out, there was some small accident. He came out and he started abusing the other person, full of bad words and, you know. But that didn't show, there's no use of putting sticker, Jesus loves you. Anybody can put a sticker. Jesus asked us, He spilled us with the Holy Spirit to demonstrate it in our life. That's where it matters, right? Your life testimony and what you say. And each one of us can be a testimony.  People will notice, even in church, people will notice, right? Why? Because you're planning, you're trying to be a testimony. People will notice it. Many times when I was working in the IT company before joining, there were many times opportunities to, you know, change things in the reports that we make, right? Increase the sales numbers or do something to, you know, just cheat in that whole process. But being true to yourself is a life testimony. Many a times, my own managers have asked me, why don't you put this number? It's okay. Nobody will know. I said, no. I've done badly, I've done badly. If I've done good, you've done good. But those became opportunities to minister the gospel, right? So I remember there was a time when I was working in the IT company, people knew that this fellow won't cheat. No, he will not. No need to ask Paul or no, there was another person. No need to ask these two. They will not do anything. They will not go against the rules of this company. They knew it. Now that is a life testimony. And our life testimony counts. God is calling us to be witnesses through our life testimony. Two, to demonstrate through power and love. Demonstrate the gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit and through the love of God. Right? So how do we minister to people? We've talked about this before. First, to the power of the Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit work in and through you. Right? So how does that count? I got to spend time in prayer. Right? I got to be spending time in God's Word, asking the Holy Spirit to minister to me. God, you speak to me. Speak to me in words of knowledge. Speak to me in a prophetic word. Minister to me. Empower me. So the more we are empowered, the more we will be able to release the things of God to others. Remember this, the Holy Spirit usually takes what is inside and he releases it. If I don't read the Word of God and I'm ministering to people, most often I won't be able to give Bible verses to minister to them. Why? Because I'm not taken in for the Holy Spirit to take and give out. You get what I'm saying? Right? There are times when the Holy Spirit can just give us a verse and we don't even know about it, a chapter in a verse, but most often he uses what we already have to minister to people. Right? So how do we witness through your life testimony? Let's read Matthew chapter 5, 13 through 16. Matthew 5, 13 through 16. Yes. Go ahead. Let your light shine so much through men that people may see your life and glorify the Father in heaven. Right? And so Jesus is so powerfully putting it across. If the salt loses its saltiness, it is of no use but to be taken and thrown away. Right? And if you are the light of the world, nobody takes a light and puts it under the table but you put it on top so that that light spreads everywhere.   Imagine you have a full box of salt, right? You're cooking, you have a full box. But the salt is used lost at saltiness. Will it add flavor to the food? Is it still called salt? It's called salt but it's of no use. So many times as Christians, we may be called Christians but we're not living a Christian life. He is a Christian. He has a Christian name. We're not living as a Christian. So that's what Jesus is trying to say. We have salt but if it loses its saltiness, it's of no use. Right?  Now is this easy or is this difficult? Is this easy or difficult? Sorry? Yeah, why are you so confused? Is this easy or difficult? Our life should reflect who Jesus is but is it easy? It's not easy. Challenges are going to come. Obstacles are going to come. The devil is going to come and cause confusion. He's going to bring his attacks on us but we have the Holy Spirit with us and the Spirit of God will enable us to be Christ-like. On our own ability, we will fail. Right? Philippians 2, 14 and 15 read. Philippians 2, 14 and 15. Somebody else opened to 1 Peter 2, 9. Please. So you can just open those verses. We quickly read. Philippians 2, 14 and 15. Paul is saying do all things with blamelessly and when you do that, you will shine in front of the people that you are in. Right? Now Paul is writing to a church in Philippi which is filled with people who were involved in idol worship. They were involved in all kinds of other activities but he's saying let your light shine in front of them. Do everything blamelessly. Right? Now for example, love your neighbors. Jesus said, love your neighbors. Have you ever wondered why Jesus said love your neighbors? How many of you have stayed, have fought with your neighbors? At least your parents would have. Right? I always thought about it. Why neighbors? When? But very difficult. Right? What about cheating, lying, honouring your father and mother? What about strife, anger, jealousy? These are things that can draw us away from God but Jesus is saying here, Paul is writing to the Philippian church. He says let your light shine in such a way that they see and glorify the Father in heaven. Amen? What a wonderful opportunity this is for all of us to be a testimony, to witness through what you say, 1 Peter 2 9.   Doesn't that really strike us? We are a chosen generation, a generation that is called to live under God's will, under God's promises, a chosen generation.  What does Jesus say? There's a digression here in the book of Revelation. He says each one of us will be crowned with righteousness. Now this is not a fake crown, it's going to be a real crown, crown of righteousness. Rewards will be given to each one of us. But know that the gospel that you share, sorry, know the gospel so that you can share it in simply and clearly, in a simple way and clearly. Don't be ashamed of the gospel and the power of God in that gospel. Three, demonstrate the power of God. Let's read Mark 16, 17 and 18. Mark 16, 17 and 18. So what is the starting there? It says and these signs will follow those who believe. So it is the whole thing of believing and when we believe in God, believe in what the Lord Jesus did, those signs and wonders will follow. So expect God to use you in power. When you go back home for the semester break, don't go back and sit in the church in the back seat, begin to minister with people. Of course you can talk to your pastor and ask them and ask and then do things but then begin to minister. I always say this, when I was in Bible college, always gather the boys around whoever had headache, leg pain and all that, make them stand, begin to exercise those gifts. They would eventually say, okay, I am healed. But then what are we doing? We are exercising those gifts. I love God to use you. Don't limit yourself. Never do that. Never say, I can't do this. You can do it. I love God to use you.  Use your authority. We are to use our authority. God has given it to us. We have to use it. And then demonstrate the love of God. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 16. So even as you minister to people, be compassionate, be loving, be kind to them. God may be using us in different ways but the key is to be compassionate. Remember we spoke about how Jesus ministered out of compassion and love for people. He didn't do it because it was his job and he felt like I have to do it and then I have to be crucified. But he did what he did. He brought healing over people because he loved them. He had compassion on them. So always remember, as you are ministering to people, let love and compassion be the basis of our ministry to people. Okay, let's go to the next chapter. We'll talk about praying for the unsaved. This is a very important, very, very important point and very important chapter on praying for the unsaved. Now we know that the unsaved are... it's a spiritual battle. Nothing that we are doing when in terms of ministry is a natural battle. Everything about winning souls is a spiritual battle. Daniel says there are principalities and powers of darkness that are fighting against each other and the spiritual realms. Right? So God is at work and he is drawing people but Satan also is at work and he's hindering people from being reached. So here we have God working. Here we have even Satan working. Right? Just because you know Satan is or God is doing great things doesn't mean Satan is sitting back and doing nothing. No, he's also working. Right? So how does Satan hinder people from receiving the gospel or receiving salvation? Right? So let's read the couple of verses from there. First one, binding the minds of people. Right? Now sometimes in our mind we think, you know, when we talk to people we say, hey, how can there be a God? There is no God because it's a mind thing. They're thinking it naturally. There can't be a God. How can God become man? It's all here. So Satan binds them in their mind. Do you know people who have read the Bible, who know a lot of things from the Bible but they still don't believe in Jesus? Why? Because their mind has been bound by the enemy. Right? Let's look at these couple of verses, 2 Corinthians 4, 3 and 4, who the God of this age has blinded. Right? Next one, Matthew 4, 16, Acts 26, 14 to 18.  Revelation 12, 9, one of them can read. So the devil has blinded many people through deceptions. What is the word deception? Deception means lies.  Right?  No, this can't be true. Right? You look at this, this is better. This is something that you can believe in and this deception is not a small deception, it's a big deception. Right? Many people are deceived with lies. Right? So the enemy is stopping them from believing in Jesus. Right? Why? The God of this age has blinded them. So you and I, as believers, are to pray that this blindness is removed off. Now, can we go in the natural and say, say anything to the other person from another faith? No. We can just say things. But the, the Holy Spirit, there's a spiritual battle that's happening. Right? So we should be aware of that. He keeps them under a cloud of darkness and these deceptions are hindrances to the light of the gospel. Sometimes these, these deceptions can be over groups of people or sometimes over individuals. Right? But there are deceptions. Right? One of the greatest or biggest deception is how can Jesus die on the cross? How can God become man? It's a lie. Right? How can God become man? It's a lie. So what everyone are thinking like people from other faith, it's a lie. Then how can Jesus die on the cross and rise again? It's a lie. It's not true. It's lies. Now, who's saying that? The devil. And who are the people who are believing?  Their minds have been blinded. So they're not going to believe. Right? How can it be that Jesus rose again from the death on the third day? He went up to heaven and then there's a place in heaven. And when we die, we will go to heaven. Where is this heaven? You see how the enemy works? His deceptions.  Have you ever wondered why people who are in ministry, people who are believers, all of a sudden they go to another faith or they want to do something as they just reject the gospel? Why? Because the enemy, maybe they had one small doubt. Right? And the enemy uses that. He pushes in lies. Yeah, this is not true. You think about it. Person died more than 2,000 years ago. How can he be working now? It doesn't make sense. It's a lie. But Satan himself knows us the truth. But you see the deception he works on. He deceives us. He deceives people. Right? He holds them in bondage. Those questions, how can it be? Why is it like this? These are all questions that can bind people. Right? Then the devil works to hold people in bondage of different various other things. Right? These could be strongholds, bondages, demonic bondages. There are people who are in the occult practices or they're living in sin continuously. And there are people who are involved in sorcery and all kinds of idol worship. Now all of this is only going to increase that blindness. Right? Addictions, prostitution, corruption, trafficking, all kinds of things. Everything, every small evil deed the enemy can use over people. So now you look at this battle. It's not an easy battle. The enemy is defeated. Right? There's a book that I was reading.  Right? But the tail only is doing so much of work. The head is crushed, but the tail is doing so much work. So the enemy is destroyed. He's defeated. But doesn't mean he's not working yet. Doesn't mean he's not powerful. He's still working. And that is why that's where you and I come in. Right? There are many, many testimonies I can share of, you know, places that we went to in North India where people were, you know, possessed by demons. But just the word, the name of Jesus, the power of Jesus, just that declaration of who he is. You know something? The devil knows whether you know Jesus or not.  If you know about Jesus, he will play with you. He'll toss you around. Right? He will take you from one place and toss you around like a chessboard.  He knows this man, this boy, this girl. He knows who's his savior. He knows Jesus. But if you know about Jesus, Satan knows where to get you. What did Jesus say? Jesus told his disciples, be careful because the enemy is like a roaring lion trying to deceive people. Right? So we must be aware of what the enemy's tactics are, the people from who are not saved and in our lives. Close every door. Close every place where you feel the enemy is working. You got to close it. Holy Spirit is not going to close it. You got to take the effort to close it. Right? And so these are spirits of disobedience that are working just like how the Holy Spirit, there is the Holy Spirit and he has gifts. There are spirits of evil, evil spirits that are working. But remember, you are stronger than them.   Yes? Do you believe that? Yes? Okay. Three, another way of hindering the proclamation of the gospel, the devil works to hinder the proclamation of the gospel. Why? Because he knows that the gospel is able to save lives. Right? So for example, you're, you know, you want to become a pastor. For example, right? Or you want to be an evangelist. You want to be a prophet. You want to start your own ministry. The devil will be after you and he will try to stop you in every way, every way. And personally, I've seen that he will try the smallest way to stop you because he doesn't want you to proclaim the gospel to anybody. Why? Because he knows the power of the gospel. He knows that if their hearts are open to the gospel, they will receive it. Right? I was sharing with the second years in the class, you know, we were talking about the past total calling and I was sharing, you know, many years ago when I decided to join Bible College, I was working in the IT sector, moved out, I said, okay, I want to join Bible College and I wanted to do something for God. Right? Now, I didn't join Bible College just to waste my time. I was, I said, God, there's two years I want to see my life changed. So I was excited, just like all of us. I hope you're excited. You've got to be passionate about it. When I joined, I was excited. I was 23 years old. And I joined the worship team at the APC.  I wouldn't talk to people, just always on the word and spending time in prayer. But I remember this one thing, you know, every time the phone will ring. I'll get a message. So I'll stop praying and check my phone. After the prayer, I would feel so bad. I say, God, something's wrong inside. I came here, but something's wrong. I need to do something more. And over time, I kept realizing that I'm spending a lot of time doing other things rather than spending time in God's presence. And I'm doing all other things very well, reading worship, setting the song. It's important. But I'm not spending time in your presence. I mean, that one hour is not enough, God. So there's this sense of urgency. I said, God, you do something. And I felt one day that I have to depart from this phone.  But then after a few days while praying, I'm thinking of who's going to call me, they're going, it's going to say it's switched off. Who's going to message? What if there's a need in the worship team? What if there is my parents trying to call? What if my uncle is trying to call? All these thoughts started coming. I thought to myself, God, it's not helping me. Right. I knew that this is something that devil is stopping me from. Now, what is this? It's a phone. Nothing, no big deception, nothing. It's a phone. What did I do? I went to the toilet. I put the phone in and I flushed it. Two years, no phone. It's like, God, this is for you. Two years for you. I don't need a phone. I need you more than anything. My friends got so upset. He should have given me the phone. I said, no, flushed in the toilet. I said, God, you've got to work in me that I can display God's power. I'm not wasting my time here. Right. So proclamation of the gospel is important, but the devil is hindering us. He will, now all of you are laughing. I think it's through the, I don't know what's happening, but I think through the phones, I don't know. I don't really talk about all of that, but this is something I did personally, but I'm not saying you do the same thing. What I'm saying is cut off things that are stopping you from proclaiming the gospel. Who has to do it? You have to do it. You have to do it. Okay. The devil works to hinder the proclamation of the gospel. One, through any means. Two, by infiltrating into the local church, now the enemy can, you know, cause problems within the church. And in the book of revelations, chapter two, we see the churches that God is to know, Jesus is talking to them, the church in Smyrna. There's a presence of group, presence of a group of people that belongs to Satan and devil is going to cause some of them to be put in prison. So in the churches Smyrna, now let me give you a background. These were real churches that were there during that time, right? When Jesus was speaking through revelation, through to Apostle John, these are real churches, not simply some church, real churches, right? There's a presence of the devil in the church and what is happening there in the church of Smyrna, causing some to be put in prison. What is prison? Not a physical prison, but their lives are being put into a prison, right? Well, all of us sometimes can be in a prison. Okay, I'm here. I'm doing the same thing. I'm living in a prison of sin, right? There was this one friend of mine, he's a powerful, powerful minister of God, right? Very powerful. I like the way he ministers, he was very, very good in preaching the gospel, very powerful. Wherever he goes, there were miracles. One day he said, I want to talk to you and I met him. I was shocked to hear something. Nobody said, he said, I'm in ministry for 10 years now. For the past eight years, I've been addicted to pornography, eight years. I said, 10 years you're in ministry. Yeah, first two years was good. After the third year, things changed. So here, watching pornography, asking for forgiveness, coming, preaching the gospel, but still God is doing wonders. Why? Because God is true to his word. But there came a time when you can't go on. You can't keep full, you can fool one person at one time. Five people, 10 people. But you can't fool everyone all the time. Right? It came out in the open that he was in this prison. And I told him, I don't ask God for forgiveness. God can restore you. He's a God who restores. It's the devil who wants you to stop this ministry that you're doing because you're doing a great work. Right? But it came out in the open. Things didn't go the way he wanted it to. But you see, God, the enemy can put us into these prisons. But he also puts unbelievers in these prisons. Right? So what does Jesus say? To set the blind eyes, to open prison doors. That's what we are called for. We go, we pray for people. We open the doors of prison that they are in. Give them an opportunity to hear about Jesus. Then we got the church at Pergamos, place where Satan's throne is and Satan dwells, the doctrine of Balaam infiltrating the church. Now if you go back in the Old Testament, Balaam, there was a prophet named Balaam and he was involved in idol worship. Right? And so he's saying the doctrine of Balaam, that doctrine of idol worship is coming into the church, infiltrating the church. Right? And the church in Thyatira, false prophetess Jezebel is at work. Now it doesn't mean Jezebel, the prophet, the false prophet was there. The spirit of Jezebel was working. What was Jezebel as a woman? She was a woman of pride, arrogance. She hated the God of Israel and we see that spirit is working in the church at Thyatira. Finally, the church in Philadelphia, a presence of group that belongs to Satan will cause them to bow before the church. Any picture that? In the church, there is a group of people who are involved in the works of Satan. He will cause them to bow down. So believers bowing down to the things of Satan. It simply means believers falling into the traps of the devil. Right? Now we've seen how the enemy can work, but what is the church's responsibility? Everyone say, I am the church. Thank you. I am the church. Say that. The church is not a building. Right? We know that. Right? I am the church. So what is my responsibility? Let's look at that. The church is to be light to the Gentiles, opening prison's doors and bringing those in darkness out of the prison house. What is my responsibility? To be a light to the Gentiles. I love this in the book of Isaiah. Just pull up that. Isaiah 60. Now, 6-0. In Isaiah 60, let me give you this background. Right? The Babylonians have come. The Jews are living in a time of siege during that time, and the Babylonians are controlling the Jews at that time. Right? Now, this is a prophetic word to Isaiah. What is God telling Isaiah? A rise and shine for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. There is darkness that covers the earth and tick darkness over the people, but the Lord will arise upon you. Right? And his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn. So, the Jews are living in captivity. They're living in darkness. Of course, this is prophetic to even the Lord Jesus, but what does it say there? A rise and shine for your light has come. The glory of the Lord will arise upon each one of us. The nations will see the light and glorify God. Right? The church has kingdom authority and spiritual weapons to overthrow what the devil is doing. So, you and I have kingdom authority and spiritual weapons to overthrow what the devil is doing. Let's read a couple of verses there. Matthew chapter 12, 28 and 29. Matthew 8, 12, sorry, 28 and 29, and somebody else can open Luke chapter 11, 21 and 22. You see what Jesus is doing there? This is Matthew 12, 28 and 29. Right? 12. How can a person overpower a strong man unless he binds him and then enters the house? So, Jesus is just using that example of binding. Right? For example, you know, the devil is working. Right? What if, or forget, let's take another example. What if I take a person and I tie up his hands and legs and make him stand in the corner there? Can he move? No.  He cannot move. He cannot do anything. He's there, but he's powerless. Right? Now, that's what Jesus is saying. When you and I know that the devil is there, but he's bound, we're binding the work of the devil. Right? You say, devil, you don't have any authority. Right? We're binding your work, we're binding the parts that you're bringing over people's minds. We're binding your, the spirit of sickness or diseases that you're bringing over people, binding it. Right? That means what you're saying. You're there, but your work is powerless. You can't do anything. Right? And then, how do we overcome? Luke chapter 11, 21 and 22. Right? So, to bind and to overcome or to subdue means the same thing. Let's close with the second Corinthians 10, 3 to 6. Now, this is powerful because Paul is writing to the church in Corinth. This is his last letter and he's giving them or advising and exhorting the congregation on how to live. Here's what he says. Second Corinthians 10, 3 to 6. Read. I love this verse. That's a powerful verse. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty in God. They pull down strong holds. Anything of that? You and I have weapons. Ephesians 6, he talks about the full armor of God. Right? You and I have weapons, but those weapons that we have, they're not carnal, which means they're not fleshly, but they're mighty in God. They pull down strong holds. They demolish arguments and reasonings. Right? Using our spiritual weapons, we can destroy the blindness that Satan creates so that people can receive the light of the gospel. You and I are to use the weapons that we have. Imagine we have a person in the army, right? He's put on the full armor of God. Sorry, he's put on his natural armor, but he's sitting there and he's getting scared and I don't want to go and do the battlefield. I have everything. I have this sword. I have the shield. I have this spear. I have the guards. I have the helmet. I have everything, but he's sitting in the tents and looking and saying, oh, I don't want to go into the battlefield.  He's not because he has everything. His responsibility is to go into the battlefield and fight. Now, God has given us the armor. He has given us weapons for our warfare, but we cannot sit back and say, let others fight and I will watch. No. He's saying, the weapons of our warfare are not carnals. They are mighty in God. We must use those weapons and be ready to go into the battlefield. Amen? Amen? So the battlefield doesn't mean the literally battlefield. We know the world is our battlefield. Wherever we are, there may be souls bound in prison. If we get an opportunity, remember, put on the armor of God and use your spiritual weapons. Right? So we'll stop here. We'll continue from bringing spiritual transformation from next week. Let's just quickly close in prayer. Father, we want to thank you for your word. We want to thank you for teaching us and empowering us. Lord, we pray that we will continue to, Lord, walk in the Spirit to lead with the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon our lives, give us opportunities to demonstrate the power of your Holy Spirit in our lives. We are grateful for what you're doing in our lives, our God. We pray, Lord, for each and every one of us, students especially, that you will bless them, bless them in their studies and Lord, prepare them for the things ahead in their lives, our God. We thank you. We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. God bless you. Have a great week.


und about in the south i'll say the southeast area of that project just just north of colgan creek um the intersection that is uh at datan meadow and north point the new intersection that's being constructed with this project um proposed um has always been considered to be a traffic signal are those the two that you're referring to yeah i just was thinking that part of the the problem for the applicant or proposing the general plan was because that was considered a traffic circle and i know that the school had issues and i'm just wondering what how that discussion happened how it changed or made is wrong could happen so the prior the prior discussion um was actually the alignment of the roadway um the alignment was more of a t-intersection into the school which took away which basically made that intersection um right in front of the datan meadow school uh be a t-intersection whether it be you know hard right turns and hard left turns and we and we wanted to follow the circulation plan that was identified in the general plan and in a um rosin area specific plan to make that more uh curvy linear along there to facilitate more of a through traffic um regional type street which was planned for there thanks commissioner krapke and then commissioner carter and vice chair peterson yeah i have a couple questions versus for the applicant um in looking at your uh presentation the first map that you have on there is an old map and however on it you have um basically a through street from datan meadow to herne through the aloe's extension and on your map that you're you presented for approval that's gone and no longer exists and so in the what i'm looking at here is if al if salian to aloe is never meant to be in arterial street be a through street your phase is one and two only have one access point for all of these homes um so i'm just i was just curious why you removed that um i don't know if that's for robin or mr hines to answer i'm happy to take that robin um it came down to uh i can't remember who exactly would have been the the direction on this but again it came down to the fewest possible uh points of conflict on herne avenue that's already a busy street so we thought taking away that intersection would be better for the overall big picture and again we're we're we've been following this this dream of getting all these roads in as soon as possible and we can only work with what we have but um i wouldn't want it once the ultimate plan is laid out um i wouldn't want that additional intersection along herne if i could help it but i'll i'll stop and let rob take take it over maybe from from the city perspective that i agree that the you know minimum minimal number of intersections we could have on our arterial street the better and so if there are other access points that we can um access on lower volume roads uh that would typically be helpful i guess my question is is it's it's it's not adding it's just swapping in a different location right so sally ann was never supposed to be an access point so if you add one and that doesn't have a street name but we'll call east f1 street uh according to the plan right if you add that and then close off sally sally ann you're not adding anything you're just swapping one for another um that's my concern i i my biggest concern of this and then this leads into my my staff questions is the impact this has on on a Louise and then sally ann i mean i understand that you can um condition uh um this the approval to say you know no construction vehicles can can use that street i've lived in an area where they were building 1300 homes those rules are not followed i don't care what the conditions are and what the city says um you know i've gave nos this mr osborne knows this uh very well that he's he and other city staff have received very very many complaints about you know contractors just point a to point b whatever is the shortest distance um just like normal people and and that leads to my concern about that being an arterial street of people trying to access phase two um and parts of phase one off of her by going down sally ann into all the weeds and so i think if we were able to condition it and now this leads into my questions and i'm sorry um if we were able to condition it with a fire gate um it would it would it would solve kind of that problem um that that that probably is it so my questions are because are one two i guess it's probably a question for mr osborne would be do we have any sort of concept of a timeline on phase three of when that extra uh extension contacting her would be done and then if we don't if it's kind if it's kind of up in the air then i guess i don't know if it would be for staff or or council to say can't can they condition it now to have that uh an emergency fire emergency access fire gate put at the end of al-awiz where a i guess it's a blockade is now so uh just before rob jumps in too much paul lowenthal with the fire department came back on so maybe he can provide some uh insight into the in the gate or or any sort of other um fire access requirements good evening commission other uh sorry i just popped on uh the request of staff so my understanding is the question right now is uh the need for the second access point based on uh the volume of homes that are proposed for this area uh so yes it would trigger the second and whether or not uh the question is whether or not a fire access gate would be feasible on salient uh on al-awiz so we're on al-awiz now where there's just like a barrier it while this is under construction putting in a fire access gate until al-awiz can be extended all the way to the future plant that met his extension so yeah so the and then transitioning from the temporary gate to the permanent access gate at salient as one option yeah i mean just i'm just talking about where al-awiz ends so when you're coming off salient you hit al-awiz where al-awiz ends putting a fire gate there because right right now there's just a barrier while this is all under construction and then once al-awiz is connected all the way through to the dot meta's extension in phase three have a discussion about removing that's presumably when salient would be vacated if i recall that's what um commissioner sisco was saying then removing that gate yeah that looks like that that could work um with a compliant access gate there all right thank you the question i guess would be to what level it was constructed at and how easy it would be to utilize for emergency response and that's something that we could condition and look at further i think that answers all of my questions unless council has something to add to that about doing that right now or anything thank you um commissioner carter you were next yeah i'll start with i what i hope is an easy question the uh traffic impact study recommended modifications to the circulation at meadow wood elementary who would be responsible for those modifications commissioner carter that's a good question um let me uh consult with gay bosburn and circle and and as an add-on it looks like the driveway from the school is awfully close to that new intersection is that reasonable and feasible to work that way okay i'm gonna um robber gave a probably defer to them to answer that question i'll take a shot at it i guess um i think uh and that'd be something that we would have to work with the with the school on definitely to to arrange for improvements to be made um that'd be something we would likely have to plan then through our cip in order to to fund something like that okay um then i have another question for mr ross if i can continue um adam if you could put up the slide on cqa i know we don't have any cqa action with this item but i do have a question about the exemption from your presentation so and just to clarify you are making the finding for cqa with this so okay with the tentative map and the conditional use permit um that would be the cqa finding okay got you thank you let me pull it up really quick that's the one thank you so um you stated that the project is stat statutorily exempt due to its consistency with the rosalina areas best of all road specific plan uh the general and the and uh requirements of the zoning code and general plan um do those uh zoning requirement includes setbacks and things that we are approving alternatives for i'm not sure if their variance is but we're approving alternatives so as the is that second bullet mean once the planning commission approves those alternatives to the subdivision mac it becomes compliant with all zoning code requirements good great question so um so the the sub asset the specific plan uh rosalina areas festival road specific plan it doesn't necessarily identify the setbacks um within that context it identifies you know the circulation element the the density at the site and um and infrastructure improvements those sorts of things so the the uh zoning code for small lot subdivisions is within is kind of like under that and within that zoning code for the residential small subdivision it does allow the commission to or review authority it just it's always the commission in this day so um it does allow the the planning commission to approve those alternative setbacks so it's built into that into the zoning code section um that it's that you can make those of those uh those findings for the alternative setbacks which which has been done plenty times um throughout the city so the sequa so so yes when you approve those alternative setbacks you're you're also saying that it's you know it's compliant with the zoning code and then the zoning code also complies with the general plan and the rosalina specific plan and so forth so so yes um and it's not a variance because it is built into those uh into that zoning code for a residential sponsor the subdivisions does that make sense yes thank you very much and one last question possibly for mr caplan has uh has staff pursued any alternative strategies for implementing those roadway extensions other than the development of the funding parcels so i think that's a it's a game question and or rob i think you know i'll let them jump on but i think it's a capital and it'd be you know a capital improvement project to be done when it's not done by a development proposal um but uh but again i'll i'll uh i know that gave is having some technical audio difficulties trying to be able to respond otherwise i'm sure he would have done so uh so and i'll just here he comes perfect i'm in now good afternoon commissioners um yes i i have probably a few answers to a variety of the different questions that were presented that i can prove probably provide a little more clarity on but that one in particular when it gets into the capital improvements and what the city is going to do i'm going to defer to rob to that one but i'm i'm happy if i can have an opportunity to clear up some of the other points that were discussed i'm happy to jump in on those if if the commission would appreciate that so that would be great thank you okay so i will uh hand this over to rob at this point to answer that one and then i'll step back and give some clarity to the other points that were made over the last 15 20 minutes or so sure so we don't have any current capital improvements to do any roadway construction projects in that area that would be left to the development however we do have a very large uh construction project planned for the hermit interchange um we recently went for and did not receive a 14 million dollar grant that was going to fill the gap in our funding um to fully fund that project we have the environmental and the design 100 done so we are shovel ready with that project we're very optimistic that we will be able to leverage some of the fundings that's being established through the biden administration with the infrastructure grants that will become available to hopefully to fund and fill our our 14 million dollar gap for that project that on itself will help a lot of the uh will help alleviate a lot of the construction or excuse me a lot of the congestion in that area on herna avenue um so we're we are uh cautiously optimistic that will be successful hopefully in the upcoming year or two to help help get some of that funding we are working with our partners at scta as well to help um do that and leverage some of our measure and funds that have been established through that program um so that and that is the only current capital project we have regarding the roadway construction in that area appreciate that answer and and the previous material that was sent on and on the the hern interchange um i'll just close by saying i i hope that the city's good performance on on housing puts us in good stead with award for any infrastructure monies that might be available out there because i really would like to see the infrastructure in advance of or concurrent with the are not phased in as pieces of the master plan or implement thank you okay gabe do you want to um ask do you want to answer some of the other questions and then we'll advice chair peterson had a question too so absolutely and i'll try to make it quick so first off to commissioner sysco point about salian and the potential vacation of that right of way uh just to give a little more clarity about that process for the public um logistically how that would work is once alouise makes the connection to the public streets both to the to the east and to the west and a determination can be made that salian is no longer needed for general circulation for fire protection it is actually eligible for vacation at that point and that becomes a bit of an interesting um the whole process because essentially how it works it could be driven by the previous developer because that land was dedicated by the previous developer they would have the ability to apply for a vacation that land would revert back to the developer the developer would have the ability to utilize that for something other than a roadway the city can also initiate that process which would then still return it back to the developer but it would close off that road so that that is what would happen in that process once the connectivity is made and once robin his team can make the finding with fires um input that it's a safe connection and that that connection is no longer needed so to commissioner dugins question about the park uh basically the way that works in a bit of a master planned area is typically the park the park is funded by a few different ways first clearly in this particular situation we had the previous developer dedicate the land that goes to the city and then as development occurs in that general area that development pays parks fees and that park fee helps to fund that park so as more activity comes in more of the desire to build that park comes in because of the demand and even though it was placed on the city as an obligation in some situations the city can negotiate with future developers to build that park and get additional credits so most times it has a tendency to happen with the adjacent development and as that area builds out that's typically how the park program worked and then uh to um uh commissioner crepti's issue with the connectivity along alawis and salian very valid points um we do through the encroachment permit process do our best to control construction activity we can condition it we can enforce construction entrances um but as was mentioned it it just has a tendency to happen as activity picks up parking occurs there delivery vehicles occur there but we do have another avenue to address that and that is through the encroachment permit because we do have the ability to protect the existing public right of way through that process so we typically do implement conditions of that nature obviously that's a little different than instituting a gate that would be more suited as a condition of approval but we do put forward general conditions that attempt to control that and to try to create peace in those adjacent neighborhoods because we definitely understand the input that can create so we would never let a major construction access occur through that site but as was mentioned there are times when they have to get back there logistically to make that work but we do our best to try and mitigate them so those are the three happy to answer any questions about any additional details I provided but those are the three points that I felt could I could add a little more to thank you Gabe um you could stay on um a little bit more um Vice Chair Peterson I think you had some questions um I do this my question isn't traffic related so I'm happy to wait if we've got some more while we've we've got the key people um are there any other questions um for either uh Mr. Sprinkle or Mr. Osbrun well we have um Commissioner Deggan uh yeah in Mr. Ross's presentation he noted that the improvements on Dutton Meadow and Stoney Point and the North Point extension um are we're going to include a median and um the traffic studies seem to be predicated on having a form median um especially in those locations that limited um turns to right turn in and right turn out only um and but then in the DAC on items number 49 and 51 the language says um two-way median or left right turn lane so um is there a way to to is that still okay or because the traffic study counts on the median it should it be one or the other and that's my question I don't know if you want me to jump in or yes yes please okay so um my understanding is that those are those um there are medians established on North Point Parkway um in its entirety and on um portions of Dutton Meadow um except that I don't know the name but they're the first intersection there is opening for left turns in and out at the second so at the easterly uh roadway intersection there's a median that would allow only right turn in and right turn out at the third street going to the north that would also allow left turns in and out so my understanding that's not a two-way left hand there are not any two-way left hand turn lanes in that on the on the plan um I understand that but but um it looks like the DAC is written that it's the developer's option it says median and or left right turn lane so I'm just wondering if there's a way to make that more um you know that they can't change that it has to be a median can you give me those conditions from the DAC again I have the DAC report open okay it was page 16 um number 49 and number um 51 one second so if you just give me give us a just a couple minutes to kind of review that and see if there's to for us to respond to those specific conditions um would you like us to take maybe a five-minute break while you do that uh that would be cool yes please okay so let's uh come back at eight o'clock thank you yeah we just got a request for five more minutes if you're okay with it five more minutes if possibly yes okay uh so that would come back at eight oh six thank you chairman okay but if you would like to officially reconvene the meeting for the record okay um I'd like to officially reconvene the meeting at eight oh seven thank you chair weeks um so I'm at this slideshow let me just concurrent slide so okay so Stephanie's just a little bit of clarification for two parts here first is we have an answer to the DAC report um and we propose that you we just remove the reference to the um right turn lane on condition of approval 49 and 51 so it would read um so it would read typical half street so this is the one to third sentence of condition of approval number 49 it says typical half street improvements shall consist of a 6.5 foot wide two-way median or left turn lane it currently says left dash right turn lane so it should say left turn lane then on condition of approval number 51 the second half of that condition reads the first sentence of the second half that it says half width street improvements shall consist of a 26.5 foot wide structural pavement section from centerline to face of curve a 6.5 foot wide median or left turn lane so it currently says or left right turn lane so we remove the right from that language so it's basically deleting the word right from both those correct okay and then for the um for the clarification for alloys uh the um staff just wants a little bit more information on sorry so where where exactly on alloys is the um is the fire gate and then at what points of time is it is are the commissioners asking when it can be is it on the interim for construction only is it until all is it all the way until alloys connects to Dutton avenue extension or is it you know or is it um you know indefinitely what just what are those specifics of the question so we could provide a a better answer and then exactly where I think it's right here where it's between the s and the e okay and uh my thought process was to put it in there um my preference would be until alloys is extended to the eventual Dutton meadows extension okay give me one second so this is jessica jones um I think we need to have um paul lowenthal speak uh from the fire uh code perspective to understand it if I understand it correctly that connection would be one of the two required connections um as required by the fire code and putting in a gate there may not meet the fire code so I don't know paul if you're able to speak to that yeah I think Gabe and I were offline trying to tag team this one so I think the question that we're trying to better understand is if the intention is to have the gate in place until the development isn't just through but until the development hits a certain number of of units then once the number of units uh reaches the threshold the trigger is going to require the opening of the restricted gate to a to a compliant access and it's it sounds like there's a desire potentially to keep a gate in place regardless of the size of the development and I think that's where where the concern is or is the request just to keep the gate during construction but again once you hit the potentially once you hit a unit count we're still going to be in the same issue where we don't have the two compliant fire code points of access right and and so yeah my thought was not necessarily unit count I understand that's how you calculated as how you how many access points you need to serve as so many homes um but like my my concern is is sally and street is the only other access point to this entire thing other than that meadow now that the applicant has removed that the uh the uh access point onto her and that kind of brought up my whole thing about like what we put you know if if sally and was supposed to be vacated at some point then you're just kind of switching one for the other so it's not it's um my biggest concern is having been on those on those streets is I mean one construction supply material suppliers are not going to be able to fit on that street um you can barely fit three cars you know three car wide um and I know some of the the residents have video of you know like amazon and ups trucks not being able to get by each other on those streets so my concern from my point of view is that one of the findings we have to make paraphrasing is that there's no uh negative effect on the surrounding areas and if sally and street was never meant to be an arterial street is the only other access point to this entire phase one and phase two um portion of the development it's going to severely impact all of those that live on those streets because those streets were not meant to be arterial streets. Good afternoon commissioners this is Gabe Osburn I think I can add to that a little bit those those are all incredibly valid points typically the way it works with a subdivision of this size is generally when you hit a unit count and this is what mr lowenthal and I were attempting to uncover when you hit a certain unit count based on the number of units a secondary public access is required to the development it's not an eva access it's not gated it allows ingress and egress into the development for general operation emergencies things of that nature and when developments are over that threshold and they have to maintain that connection which this one likely is um we believe it's around the 100 unit mark um that it it can gate that access off for a period of time and that period of time can be up until that 100 unit or whatever that threshold is that occupancy request comes in but at that point it needs to be memorialized as an open access so in some of these situations what we run into is it really is an interim approach and I think that's what we've seen with alouise and salian where the ultimate circulation design does push alouise which is at our minor street to bigger connection points but as it stands now as a secondary access it will have to rely on that salian street connection until that's materialized so I think specifically with the gate a gate can go in but the gate has to be consistent with fire code and it can only remain for that period of time until the fire code states that that has to be opened up as a secondary pedestrian access I hope that helps with the issue or at least the understanding of how it works with subdivision development it does thank you very much sorry chair weeks for hijacking this real quick um but uh so I um my follow my two follow-up questions would would be when you say 100 units are those 100 occupied units with full um uh certificate of occupancy or um is there a substantial completion point for those and then second one of the things I asked earlier is what are the plans for the phase three that would be that extension all the way to the cut meadows extension um where is that in the pipeline or is is that just impossible to say right now I would say basically your question on the occupancy so typically the way it works with the the fire thresholds and and mr lowenthal feel free to jump in if I get anything incorrect but generally the numbers can tweak different pieces so for example if fire needs access for fire it could be based on when you start bringing combustible materials on site so that can be the start of the building permit process when you're required to basically get secondary access meaning for the general public meaning people need to move in and out of that quarter that's typically occupancy because that's what generates that additional load so depending on what it is there can be a few different triggers there for how that gate would need to function or when it would need to be removed but typically the public street connection because of the fact that it needs to move people in and out doesn't need to occur until the additional people are there and as I mentioned paul feel free to correct me if anything in there was incorrect as far as the adjacent development unfortunately that is very difficult to tell you know when we looked at salian clearly tracking that back and looking at the conditions and some of the internal communication that took place as part of that temporary connection it really was unknown as to when that circulation pattern would be completed unfortunately that's the nature of development things come through they slow down it's very difficult to to put a defined timeline on that connection point all right thank you very much yeah I think if you're asking what my preference would be then within the constraints of which uh been uh communicated then I guess it would be yeah have a have a temporary emergency access vehicle gate gav gate there until the 100 occupied homes until 100 homes are occupied and then because that's as far as we can go without having three being developed so that's what I would like to see chair we see might have asked one more question not at all keep going okay thanks and this is more of a procedural thing for for miss crocker um how what is the procedure to do it appropriately to see if there is a general consensus amongst the commission that to condition this I mean that's just an open question like who's all for it or how would we do that appropriately well hi there you could um do a rather informal straw poll or you could um go ahead and introduce the motion as amended to revise conditions 4951 of the DAC report and yeah I just would have to come up with some language I mean maybe at this point just a an informal straw poll on as if the commission would like to continue entertaining um this type of condition which sounds like it might need a little more time to flesh out I don't want to waste any more of the commission or staff's time if nobody else for this but me so chair we said so I think um let's do we do a straw poll by a thumbs up thumbs down yeah okay so then let's I can't see anybody on the screen so but but I can if you can help me thank you I'm in support of commissioner crepti thank you you've said exactly what I was going to say so as always my fellow commissioners always say everything I don't need to say anymore so thank you so um can we get a thumbs up uh or a thumbs down okay so that's six up one down so okay uh commissioner dug in um as far as my question on the DAC language I just want to explain my thinking um for the traffic report they don't advise putting in a stretch crossing across Dutton Meadow um at this time and I'm thinking that um children like going to see a neighbor on the far side of Dutton Meadow from the north side going to the south side um having a median to stand on if there's traffic is much safer than standing in the middle of a traffic lane if it's a two-way turn lane so I would prefer having a constructed median rather than a two-way turn lane that's why I asked for the clarification and asked um if one of the other was um if it was optional for the developer and um if we could change that so that was and I don't know if that has to be voted on but that was my thinking behind that so instead of um what Mr. Ross said about removing the words right on both those it's that there's a median is that how is that well I think Mr. Boss's language suggestions make it that it has to be a median it can't be a it can't be an optional two-way turn lane okay thank you so um where are we uh any maybe we should do a thumbs up or thumbs down on the issue of deleting the word right in both those items um and then because it also did indicate left as an option as well I believe I might well I think it was right in some locations and left in other locations because of how the traffic study indicates it wants to um control right turn in and right turn out in some locations and that was predicated on having to perform median there yeah locations they needed to have like left turn access yeah so um for the median issue um is there um what language um Mr. Osburner Mr. Sprinkle or uh Ms. Crocker would we need to um delete or add unless it's just that word right in those two lines can you help me one of you this is Rob um my interpretation is that the the left right wording that was in there before could be interpreted as a two-way left turn lane which is not what the intent is the intent is to have a median there however at intersections we do want to allow the left turn lane so that's why the word left was was left in as as um and and is standing in there okay so is there um support in deleting the word right in those two sentences thumbs up thumbs down um okay so um that's seven thumbs up on that one okay so and now where are we uh any other questions from um for uh from the commissioners for us F uh commission for Vice Chair Peterson uh so I think this may be for um Ms. Crocker but uh the the public speaker mentioned the deficient disclosure form um where the LLC members are not listed out and so I just you know what do we do with that? Sure um I believe Ms. Weeks had also mentioned that that information was added prior to the start of this meeting so the information is required to disclose the names of the members of the LLC to enable the commissioners to properly determine whether they have a financial conflict and must abstain um we are to identify the members, managers, partners, offices, directors of LLCs, general and limited partners of limited partnerships and I understand that that was uploaded to um as late correspondence in time for anyone to make a determination as to whether um they would have a conflict as a result of disclosure of those names okay thank you sure so is there are there any other questions before I ask somebody to uh enter the resolution um commissioners oh I'm sorry I think we're still just working on I'd like to get some language here for um the condition so that we're clear when you read the resolution that we can say as amended to and then we'll have the language for the condition which we're just depending and which resolution the first or the second resolution uh the GAC is referenced in both resolutions okay that will apply to both and then oh please we're all uh writing here trying to come up with an okay I'd like to be able to read some language for you all to you know hear and react to so we can hopefully make the resolution process as clean as possible okay stand by just a moment so anybody have a joke to tell them I think I can take a try on the fly at least while they're working on the access gate I was just gonna compliment commissioner Holton on his uh doggie so go ahead miss docker revising the resolutions both resolutions to modify conditions 49 and 51 of the DAC report to remove reference to left right turn lane and revise to delete the word right to state only a left turn lane and delete reference to right turn lane I'll I'll make that prettier tomorrow okay but I think okay and then the issue on the temporary access does that need to go and uh rest mr ross will jump in on that in a moment they're just okay in the language hi commissioner dug in do we also need language about um limiting or restricting no construction traffic along eloise help salient and where would that go a good question I think with the language that we're coming up with with the eba access gate it would already restrict access to the site from aloe's and salient and then uh just to point out we I think we do need to get the applicant to agree to the proposed condition for the um for the eba access gate okay I see we have a hand from uh mr miller and mr hinds that would be for each of the proposed revised conditions yes as we um get them out to you okay thank you and robin miller is raising his hand to respond hi yes uh thank you adam and uh chair weeks yes uh to mark is a variable to the condition modifications thank you very much thank you bear with us commissioners I think we are almost there okay and we will be looking at um the eba access gate will be in the cp resolution stand by while we identify which number and then mr ross will read in the proposed language and we shall proceed do you we should probably so he will read the proposed language before a commissioner enters the resolution yes I'd like to get the language before you and then when you read the resolution mr ross can again read the language if you would like and then you can just say as amended um pursuant to planner ross got it or you can just read it in these will be short conditions okay and then to include new condition number x in the cp resolution to read as follows and then you can read that language and if you like or mr ross can read it again at that time yes sorry we're just uh we're just finalizing this language and it I believe it should go as condition of approval number four on the conditional use permit resolution under the general conditions of approval and then we will remember number four to number five and number five to number six this is when I really miss being able to be at the staff table I know this out thank you guys I I'm seeing uh final sign-offs on some language here so I feel like um sure we do your joke idea was okay I think we have it okay sorry they typically start off as this and then you get it to this yeah so um okay so in reading these two we're going to propose two conditions um one is for the eba access gate and for the encroachment permit that would be applied for after entitlement um obviously during the construction phase so this would be as condition of approval number four and five new conditions added into the conditional use permit resolution moving uh condition of approval numbers four and five down one or I should say two so so four and five would then be six and seven um so they read as the first one is an eba access gate shall be installed at the current end of valoese avenue during construction activities until the removal is required in accordance with adopted codes and amendments and the second one or sorry condition of approval number five that was four this is five the encroachment permit associated with the project shall prohibit any construction staging or parking on the existing sections of valoese avenue so with that um would somebody like to enter the resolution commissioner sysco we the resolution of the planning commission of the city of san rosa making findings and and approving it that was subject to a 100 net resident a lot subject 12 percent part here located at two six five oh two six and two six eight four and one one two one three zero three five assessors process number zero four zero seven that zero zero that zero two zero two three and zero four nine one zero two zero two and that's zero one on the c one eight dash one oh one including the heading out you were you were cutting out all right um um and adding uh conditions the new conditions as uh stated by adam ross also amending attached uh exhibit a to the changes recited or by staff modifying conditions if you want to read the reference right uh from those and way further we have account thank you is there a second i'll second thank you so that was moved by miss uh commissioner sysco seconded by commissioner duggin um so uh comments um we'll start with commissioner carter well let me start by saying i support housing on the site and hope to see it built soon um san rosa is a housing first community and i fully expect we will continue on that course as we focus on redevelopment and infill in roseland um i also support the development of infrastructure and community services to optimize the intensified residential uses in these areas um i can make all the findings necessary for approval of the tentative map but i'm still having problems with findings c and d under the use permit should i contain my comments to the resolution the c up resolution um i know let's go ahead and uh talk about both of them and we'll just vote on them separately of course as i said i can i can make the findings necessary for approval of the tentative map but i'm having difficulty with finding c and d that the design and location and operating characteristics of the proposed activity would be compatible with existing and future land uses or that the site is current as proposed is physically suitable for the type and density we've heard from staff that over a hundred units should have two access points and the limited conditions on alloys and um and salient mean there is one access point to this project so i don't think i can make those findings on the c up thank you uh okay so we'll go to uh commissioner cisco well first of all i appreciate the uh the applicant back as uh requested by the council to need this item bring forward a project out the general plan amendment as they had before obviously a lot of work has gone into this in in terms of completing the site uh there are complications as as a result of the the circulation demands and i think that the applicant a really good probably together uh the very much needed housing here in a thoughtful way a thoughtful way with the design to the neighborhood etc um i definitely we need this infrastructure you know it's going to be providing a really important um slice of infrastructure badly needed uh in this area of town and so i really appreciate the fact um in addition to the housing this applicant is um going to be thinking really important contributions to the infrastructure um so i definitely under appreciate the the concerns with salient and al-awiz i how we get that um secondary in on other than this until phase three happens oh i don't know when that so um i'm comfortable with the the conditioning the commission sounds like it's prepared to make on the conditional you much impossible always great so um yeah so with that findings for the conditional use permit at this time and can make the findings as well for the tentative map thank you commissioner duggin um i'm also can make the findings um for the um i guess we're doing the conditional use permit first for the permit plus the small lot subdivision plus the the small changes that are allowed for the small lot subdivision um part of the zoning code um and i'm in support of all the the differences that we've added the two extra added conditions plus the change the revisions to the dac i think those are all good additions and the fire gate i think is a good stop gap measure until um until later in the game so it'll limit construction activities on al-awiz as it is right now and help keep that neighborhood quiet and safe because i know for a fact it's sort of difficult to access in and out of um and i you know i just hope that day three goes goes quickly so then we they have the necessary second access um as the meadow gets extended but i can make all the required findings for the project thank you uh mr holton i can also make all the required findings for the operational permit uh for pretty much the myriad of everything i'm on board with my fellow commissioners i do also want to thank uh the community i want to thank mr deckey for calling in and or for chiming in and and definitely putting his insight and making sure that we were definitely going to address the fire gate issue because i think that's a really really important component uh i can tell the applicant is totally bent over backwards for this whole project and done a lot of really great work and really thought outside the box in a lot of areas especially with uh some of the the front facing housing i i think it's definitely shown a lot of effort however i am concerned as well about the duration of the completion of the project to go all the way through to detonado because that's really really a major impactful uh artery through west santa rosa and you know herne can really i think especially with a lot of the studies uh that were done they were done a little bit earlier and there's been quite a bit of impact in the area in the past two to three years especially where that school is just it's it's it's a hot mess so it's only going to get worse so i really really hope that there's some proactive planning to make sure that we can get that to go all the way through as soon as possible and i know that you know there's a lot of factors involved um but i just have to say that the that that traffic is just going to be an absolute nightmare for the community of the west side but i can still make all the required findings and i'll be in support of this project thank you can we share a crep key yeah first uh thank you so much to staff um meeting up to this and all the hard work and then all the hard work we push you through tonight uh really really appreciate it um also um you know i just want to say thank you to the applicant for meeting us midway just so that we can get this project move forward um i'm i'm in support of the application i can make all the required findings for the c up and the tent map um i don't want to repeat anything that anybody's already said i agree it's just about everything including commissioner carter's concerns however operating under the general plan um that exists with the pre-approved extensions should they get built at some point um we come into a kind of a rock and a hard place of do we not allow housing because we don't have the infrastructure but we don't have the money to build the infrastructure to support the housing um so with that being said i i think i'm gonna you know i'm going to vote favor this uh of this application to move it forward because it's an imperfect solution to an imperfect problem um but you know we do need housing but i think this is a perfect example of how um as commissioner carter said earlier that um we're not just in a housing emergency here in santa rosa we're in an infrastructure emergency as well um and i'm not just talking potholes i'm talking you know being able to for people to drive through their communities and it's uh it's it's important to to not you know to realize that and then then to plan for that going forward so um i will be voting in favor of uh both the c up and the temp map thank you uh vice chair peterson so i i think my fellow commissioners have put this uh the challenge of this project um pretty well you know we're looking at something that's been around for a while you know this this project's been in the works for quite a while um and it was you know initially according to you know the the docs we've seen it the setback came with a great recession and you know who knows what could happen right but we know that herne avenue overpass is 14 million short and you know so we approved the project to commissioner carter's point you know we've we've got kind of limited access i i speaking from experience doubt and herne that whole area is is immovable i mean it is just solid cars uh it rush hour we've approved a bunch of projects in southwest and you know this is the tension where you know this is the chicken and egg this is the you know infrastructure versus housing and and it's certainly not the pressing absolute need for housing um versus like an existing just terrible traffic and transport situation i mean those are really intention for for me and and i completely understand commissioner carter's point um i think the balance here i think i can make the findings in the the c up i think this is is not an ideal situation at least now i think you know again commissioner carter made a great point that it would be these kind of projects the capital projects be going tandem with these developments so that we don't have the scenarios the way they are now i think that would be ideal but i i think with the help of staff and the applicant we've been able to kind of figure out um some conditions that may at least improve the you know the short term maybe hopefully not medium or long term life of the residents while the other phases and the herne overpass get get built out so um with that i think the tentative map is is fine i can make all those findings and um i i think i can also make all the findings in the uh conditional use permit thank you um i also can make all the findings for both resolutions i'm not going to reiterate uh what my fellow commissioners have already said um so with that um mr maloney will you go ahead and call for the vote that was moved by commissioner cisco and seconded by commissioner duggin yes thank you chair weeks starting with commissioner carter no on the uh use permit resolution commissioner cisco sorry about that commissioner cisco broke up i didn't hear you hi i'm sorry one more time hi thank you commissioner duggin hi commissioner holton hi commissioner crepe hi vice chair peterson hi and chair weeks hi so that passes with uh six eyes and one no uh commissioner carter voting no so then we'll go to the second resolution which is for the tentative map would somebody like to enter that but chair weeks i'd be happy to enter it but since i'm breaking up it might be better for somebody else to do that okay thank you commissioner duggin i'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of san aroza approving the dutton meadows subdivision tentative map located at 2650 2666 2684 dutton meadow and 1112 1130 and 1250 herne avenue assessor's parcel numbers 043-071-007-002-0023 and 043-191-021-024 and 016 file number prj18-039 mha18-006 and do i need to include any changes in this the the language in the DAC you got it thank you so much and the the changes the revisions to conditions 49 and 51 in the DAC report and wait for the reading thank you is there a second uh commissioner holton okay so that was moved by commissioner duggin yeah i might just randomly moved by commissioner duggin and seconded by commissioner holton uh so we'll go ahead and mr maloney if you can call for the vote thank you chair weeks commissioner carter i commissioner sysco hi commissioner duggin hi commissioner holton hi commissioner quickie hi vice chair peterson hi chair weeks hi so that passes with seven eyes um and with that unless uh miss jones has anything she wants to impart to us before we leave um i would just i'd like to take uh chair prior chair whatever preference i don't know what there's some word for it um and say happy new year to everybody and i can't believe but it's going to be 2022 the next time we all get together so jesse could you have anything you want to impart to us thank you chair weeks um yeah just uh reiterate what you just uh just uh wishing everybody happy holidays and uh happy new year and i'm i'm just excited to be back with you all and look forward to continued work great so with that i will go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 8 50 7 p.m. good night everybody good night happy holidays all yeah


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Hey, it's Missy! Welcome back to my channel! Today's tutorial is three half-up hairstyles. I think these are a little bit different and more unique than your typical half-up hairstyles, so I really hope you enjoy today's video. If you're new to my channel or you haven't subscribed yet, make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos, and let's get started! For the first hairstyle, I'm going to start by dividing off the top section of hair, keeping some hair down on the sides to cover my ears, and I'm just going to bring this to the back of my head and tie it off with an elastic band. Now I'm going to take this hair and split it into two equal sections. Then I'm going to take one of the sections and begin wrapping it around the hair elastic. As you're doing this, you'll want to make sure to wrap the hair kind of tight so it's easier to pin. You can always go back after and make it a little bit bigger if you'd like. So once I've wrapped it about twice around the elastic, I'm going to start pinning the twist against my head. Go ahead and play around with the shape of it, so each twisted pieces about the same size, and you'll just want to continue pinning it against the head until it feels nice and tight so that it doesn't come loose. I love the way this style looks because it seems like it'd be a lot more complicated to do than it actually is, but it literally only takes a few seconds to do. For the next style, I'm going to start by sliding two bobby pins along the back of my head horizontally, creating a line. These are going to help anchor the hairstyle in place, so then I'm just going to divide off a section of hair on both the left and right side of the head, and I'm going to bring these to the back of my head and tie the two pieces into a knot. So I'm going to place the left side over the right, then I'm going to tuck the left strand up and around the right strand, and then pull the two sections apart to tighten the hair against my head. This is the first half of the knot, and then so the hair doesn't slip out, I'm going to slide two bobby pins into the top part of the knot to help hold it in place. And now I'm going to repeat the same steps again, crossing the left strand over the right, pushing the left strand up and around the right strand to finish off the knot, and then I'm just going to pin it in place again, and the best trick for knowing where to put your bobby pins is to just place them wherever your fingers are holding the hair, and I made sure to tuck them underneath the knot so that they didn't show. Now I'm just going to go back over the hair and pull on different pieces so the knot looks really big and full. It ended up looking kind of like a bow, but I think it's so cute and I really love how this one turned out. For the last hairstyle, I'm going to start by sliding two bobby pins along the back of my head again horizontally to help anchor the hairstyle. Then I'm going to pick up a section on the right side from above my ear and I'm going to drape this hair towards the back of my head and then slide some bobby pins into the hair to help hold it in place. I slid mine underneath the hair so that you don't see them, and I'm just doing this because I don't want the braid to be too droopy, but I also don't want to use an elastic band either. So then I'm going to do the same thing with the hair on the left side, draping it towards the back of my head and pinning it in place with some bobby pins. And now with my two sections of hair, I'm going to twist each section towards the left and then wrap them around each other towards the right. And this is important because twisting them one way while wrapping them in the opposite direction is what will keep the twist from just unraveling. So once the twist reaches the ends of the hair, I'm going to tie it off with a clear elastic band. And now for the fun part, I'm going to gently pull on small pieces of hair in the twist until it's really big and full. You don't want to pull on the entire twist because that will just loosen it up. So make sure to pull along the edges so the hair kind of slides out of the elastic just a little bit. And I love how unique and different this hairstyle turned out. It's definitely not one you see every day. So that wraps up today's tutorial. Be sure to let me know in the comment section which of the three hairstyles was your favorite. And if you want to see more tutorials like this one with multiple hairstyles in one video, be sure to click the thumbs up and I will be sure to film some more of them. If you're new to my channel, make sure to subscribe as well about what you won't miss out on any future videos. Thank you so very much for watching and I will see you next time.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I follow WW and I count calories and macros. Happy Saturday. It is Saturday, so it is grocery haul day. I have quite a big haul for you. We had to stock up on a few things from me being gone and I'm gonna share with you what I'm doing for dinners and Monday's meal prep. Definitely stay tuned. You're not gonna wanna miss it.  Make sure you're subscribed and your bell's turned on so you don't miss any of the five videos that I upload every week. Down in the description box, I will link nutrition coaching where I offer personalized, to you macros and calories cannot stress enough how important it is to know what you should be eating, whether you're on WW or not, to be successful. I have one-on-one coaching if you'd like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to my favorite things and come on over, join our Facebook group, we'd love to have you. So let's jump in to the grocery haul. So here is my grocery haul for the week. I have a pretty big haul. I went to both Walmart and Sprouts. Don't mind my crock pot. I have some beef stew for dinner in the crock pot. So let's jump into the haul. So let's start with Sprout. So this I saw, I used the restroom and they always have like a discounted area at Sprouts and I saw this. This is the limited edition, Three Wishes Pumpkin Spice Cereal. It has eight grams of protein and only three grams of sugar. I have heard mixed reviews on the Three Wishes Cereal. I think it's kind of like that magic spoon. It was only $2.99 a box. Where normally I think this cereal's like $6 or $7 a box. So I picked it up, I'm gonna try it out. And then I grabbed some Simple Mills crackers. These were on sale for $3.50. These are the garlic and herb. I have been really loving crackers and cheese. I don't know why I'm on a kick. And I'm out of crackers that I like, healthy crackers. So I picked those up. I also saw these adorable sprinkles. These are normally $7, which is insane. But they were on sale for $3. So I picked these up. They're a little just red, green and white Christmas decorations, cookie decorations. They're supposed to be an all-natural sprinkle. I am filming my famous Christmas cookie recipe. You guys will see that tomorrow. So stay tuned for that. Seriously, best frosted sugar cookies ever. And I needed some extra sprinkles for those. I grabbed two of the Vermont Uncured Turkey Pepperoni sticks. I love these. And I love having meat sticks on hand for quick, easy protein packed snacks. I also picked up the Seasonal RX bar. I have not had an RX bar in a hot minute. These have nice clean ingredients. This is the gingerbread. And these were on sale for $1.99. So I had to pick one up to try it out. I know they're pretty high in points, but they're not high in calories. They have 12 grams of protein. And like I said, they have nice clean ingredients. And then I grabbed this Sprout Vegan Protein Powder. So in my boot camp, someone had posted in our group that this protein powder from Sprouts is really good. Nice clean ingredients. And because it's a vegan protein, I guess it digests a little bit better than whey protein. So I picked it up to try it. This is the Assaulted Caramel. I wanna say it was $2. So we're gonna try it out, see if it's any good. And if it is, I'll probably end up grabbing a full size tub. I also saw this feta cheese and couldn't pass it up. This is feta with cranberries. Doesn't that look so good? I was thinking this would be really good on a wrap or on a salad or even mixed into meatballs for cheesy cranberry turkey meatballs. Just sounded really good. It's seasonal, so I couldn't pass that up either. I also picked up some of the Sprouts brand of peppermint sandwich cookies. These were $2.50. You guys know I love mint anything. And like I said, I have a couple holiday parties coming up this month. I thought I could take some of those as part of a cookie platter. I also grabbed the All White Meat Shredded Chicken. This is for a recipe. I love this chicken. It is cooked. It's ready to go. Super, super simple. And then lots of vegetables. Sprouts is my go-to for produce. So no surprise, my little mini Persian cucumber. For fruit this week, I grabbed strawberries and blueberries. These were both a really, really good price. A couple of on the vine tomatoes for my lunch meal prep. A couple of carrots for a dinner recipe. Green onions for my lunch meal prep. Two huge, the biggest potatoes I've literally ever seen, Russet potatoes. This is for a chowder that I'm making.  And then I needed some big, romaine leaf lettuce for my lunch meal prep.  And then I just love having avocados on hand. So I grabbed a small thing, a whole milk. I need whole milk for a couple of recipes. Number one is that chowder. I'm using this in place of heavy cream just to save on points, calories and fat. So I just grabbed a small one and then I am out of PB2. It's not something I generally use a whole lot of. I am an advocate of just having actual peanut butter, but I need a PB2 for my meal prep. Two gallons of 1% milk for Troy. He's been going through more than a gallon of milk a week. So I picked up two. Also asked for pre-cooked, ready to go frozen sausage patties so that he can make little breakfast sandwiches. He loves it on an English muffin with cheese and eggs. So I grabbed those. Requested spaghetti. So we're gonna make it a little bit healthier with the burrilla protein pasta. You can't tell the difference. And I didn't wanna use my last box of fiber gourmet because honestly, I probably won't eat a lot of the spaghetti. So I just picked this up. That way he has a big batch of spaghetti for leftovers. I needed some better than bouillon for a recipe and I never have better than bouillon on hand. For my Christmas cookies, it calls for almond extract and I was completely out. So I picked up the Watkins Pure Almond. Two packs of fully cooked bacon. I need this for my meal prep as well as a dinner recipe. And this just makes my life easy. Bacon is so messy to cook. I don't care if it's in the oven, the air fryer. It's messy. So if I can, I always just grab fully cooked. A bag of light shredded cheese. This is for the chowder recipe. A huge bag of flour for baking. It is baking season and of course for my sugar cookies. A loaf of Wonder Bread for Troy. He requested just plain white Wonder Bread for sandwiches. I also needed some dice ham for that chowder recipe. Food coloring for my sugar cookies. I can't remember if I have any and I looked briefly in my pantry last night and didn't see any. So I just went ahead and grabbed a fresh batch. Troy's Dean's French Onion Dip. You guys know he loves this with his Fritos. He also requested a couple of cans of soup. So I grabbed hearty chicken and rotini and then a creamy tomato with basil. Lots of frosting. I use a mix of vanilla and cream cheese frosting. It's kind of my secret for my cookies. So definitely stay tuned for tomorrow's video for the entire recipe. So I grabbed another vanilla and then two cream cheese frostings. A big container of old fashioned rolled oats. This is for my meal prep. I needed sugar because I am completely out of regular sugar. It's just not something I use very often. And this is an organic sugar and it was 30 cents more than the cheap great value sugar. So I grabbed that instead. Some hangers. I don't know if there's a hanger shortage because these were literally the only hangers besides kids one in the entire Walmart store. So I grabbed these. They are drip dry hangers, whatever that means. I just needed some hangers. And I have a couple of gifting things coming up. I have a Christmas party with my boot camp. I adopted an elderly woman for a Christmas gift. And I also have a toy drive for boot camp coming up. So I grabbed a few things. Some of the little Hershey kisses and M&Ms. These are going to go in the boot camp gift and for the elderly woman. I needed candy canes for my meal prep. Wait till you see what's coming up in meal prep on Monday. Cannot wait. And then for the toy drive, I thought what kid wouldn't love this. This is the slimy goop laboratory. So it's a make your own slime kit. So to go to boot camp on Saturday, we have to bring a toy for the toy drive. So I went ahead and grabbed that. I thought that was perfect. So I'm putting together the gift to take to my boot camp holiday party. And it reminded me of a candle that I picked up for myself and then I loved it so much that I went ahead and grabbed another one to go into the gift for the boot camp party. And this is from the brand Time Yard. And this is their 100% soy wax, nice clean burning candle. I grabbed mine in the scent Lavender and Lemon. I love this scent. It is so fresh, but kind of floral and fruity. It smells very, very clean. And it's my favorite candle to burn in either the kitchen or the bathroom.  They come in many different scents.  It makes an absolutely fantastic gift for a Seacra Santa, a stocking stuffer, it would be an amazing stocking stuffer, super affordable for the high quality soy candle that it is. And again, there are several scents to choose from. I really love the Lavender and Lemon only because again, like I said, it's beautiful in a bathroom, beautiful in a kitchen. So I'm going to throw one of the Time Yard candles into the gift for boot camp along with some self care types of things. Put together a little self care, self love package which we all need during the holiday season. I love burning candles all day long. We always have candles burning in our house. I always have a candle in my desk, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the bedroom. I have candles everywhere and I've really fallen in love with these soy candles from Time Yard. So I'll make sure that I link them down below for you guys. Definitely check them out. Again, it would make an amazing gift for a candle lover or someone who you just want to give a little bit of self care to this holiday season. So that is everything that I picked up for the week from both Walmart as well as Sprouts. What you don't see is a case of Coors Light and a case of Diet Coke. So let's jump into what's on my menu for dinner and what you'll see Monday for meal prep. So here is what is on my menu for dinners for the week and what you'll see in Monday's meal prep. So today's Saturday, out for dinner leftovers. I don't cook on Saturdays. Sunday, I'm going to do a taco night. Monday, I'm making cheesy ham and potato chowder. So that's what I needed. The ham, the potatoes, the whole milk, all the chowder ingredients for. Tuesday will be leftovers. Wednesday, I'm going to do spaghetti. Thursday, I'm making a shepherd's pie. And then Friday, I always do a leftover night to finish up everything from earlier in the week. And then here's what you'll be seeing in my meal prep on Monday. So for breakfast this week, I'm making vanilla protein waffles. These are kind of a spin on a chaffle. I know you guys love chaffle recipes, so that's exciting. For lunch, I'm doing the BLT avocado chicken salad wrap. We're going to do a low carb, high flavor, high protein lunch this week, and then for dessert. I'm making peppermint mocha, candy, cookies. I love peppermint anything, so I cannot wait for these. So stay tuned for meal prep on Monday. Thank you for joining me for another weekly grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the good stuff that I picked up from Sprouts, Walmart, all the fun gift things I have. It is the season of giving and I love to give back to the less fortunate during the holidays, so I can't wait to give the elderly woman her gift and bring that toy to boot camp.  Subscribe if you're not, because again, I upload videos five days a week and every Saturday is grocery haul day. Check out the description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And don't forget, come join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. See you in the next one. Bye. 🎵 Jingle bells ringing in my ear 🎵