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The board members? Say none. Is there any member of the public that has corrections for the meeting minutes as submitted? Say none. Close the public hearing on that. May I have a motion, please? It's approved. There's a second. I second. Oh, we all second. Did you get that, Mr. Conkey? I got to go to Mr. Scott as a second. His voice was more distinctive, so I don't know. Ah, well, that's enough. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Who's? Nay. Aye, have it. Next item on the document. Next item on the document is the consent calendar, Mr. Colkey. Yes, sir. We have one item on the consent calendar this evening. This item number three, BER 2024-00310, Old Historic District. Request for signage at 6251st Street. The applicant is EAHG Alexandria LP. Stand in Mary and Mary, any one on the board that would like to remove this item from the consent calendar? If you don't remember the public that would like to remove this item from the consent calendar. Seeing none may I have a motion on the consent calendar, please. I move to adopt the consent calendar. Is there a second? Second. All those a second? Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. the city of the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . was active in helping you reach a decision. Mr. Harris, could you pass the sample or down please? My case remains the same. I'm requesting approval on the basis that I understand the prohibition on vinyl windows. The reason that they were prohibited is because they buy people buy stock windows and then they sash up to the size of the window and that changes the look of the home. I obviously didn't do that. I had these windows customated. It took over three months for them to be built, and then they were installed in my home by a custom manufacturer. I understand that the concern is the vinyl. There is a vinyl window. A primarily vinyl window only approved list in the Fibrex window. And all the windows that are allowed in modern homes, whether it's the all-clad, or the five glass windows, all of them contain elements of vinyl. I think the goal should be, people are buying high-quality windows, they're being custom installed, and they're fit to the dimensions of their home. And they're, and you're, we're encouraging people to buy windows that are extremely efficient, which was the reason that I bought these, I bought the most efficient windows that I could buy. And if you had an opportunity to look at the materials that I provided, they are the most efficient windows that you can buy on the market for residential home right now. That's all I've got here. Thank you. I remember the board has questions with the applicant. Yes, I had a question. Last time you were here, we talked about having a surface mone-ed mullion because you can see that. A mutton. I mean, so was that something that was investigated? Yes, it is. So I didn't know how willing the board was to consider that. That is an option. And if the board is willing to consider it, I'm happy to pay for it. Anyone else has questions? Good. Oh, I did have another question. So, and I also noticed that there was a question about the warranty. Yeah. And it looked like in the information that it did have a lifetime warranty. Yeah, they do. That was part of the other reason that I bought them. OK. Thank you. Anyone else? Is anybody member of the public has questions for this applicant? Are there any speakers? Yes. I have a question for you. Are there any speakers? Yes, I'm first speaker from I have is from Patrick Drennan. Welcome. Please state your name and address for the record, please. Patrick Drennan, 16 pit mues. I've lived here for 40 years in pit mues and so since 1984 we have seen many neighbors come and go as well as design guidelines. The builder did not provide adequate windows. They were not properly sealed, no insensulating foam, ask against draft and noise in the winter. Most homeowners had to place storm windows in their windows. In 2010, the first home owner replaced their windows and the ex Alexandria designed as guidelines required that raised wood cross pieces and all trim had to be in wood. They did not allow William Frames and Tracks and Luminum in the sill could be aluminum. The second home was allowed to use Hardy Barrett board instead of wood. On the third home mine was allowed a Marvin Ultimae Ultimae double hung window of aluminum clad outside and wood inside and white aluminum own all exterior's. Three other homes have replaced their windows using aluminum cladding. I walk in and out of the mues every day and see the replaced windows of Sean as normal. I don't have any problem with his windows. Thank you. Mr Harris who's next? The other speaker from I have is from Mark Getty. Welcome. Please stage your name and address for the record. Thank you. Yes, my name is Mark Getty. And I live in the Holden and Stork District of Alexandria at 211 North Pit Street, which is just three doors away from the subject property for tonight concerning the windows. I am here this evening to indicate how important the historic guidelines are for this area of Alexandria City. I believe that indeed, just about everyone who lives in or near the historic area appreciates the value of the guidelines and we appreciate the board's efforts towards those guidelines. I'm also a real estate agent with over 38 years of experience in Northern Virginia and I've had many recent sales in and around the historic area here in Alexandria. I wish to state again that the real tours myself, so many people including the real estate community at large appreciates the board's efforts and the guidelines. We are here tonight because the window improvements at 205 North Pistory do not match the oldenestor guidelines. I am here tonight to indicate that no typical passerby would notice any of the unique features of the windows that have been installed. Indeed, no front windows on the home or even at ground level where anybody walking by or looking at the home would notice it because there are no windows at ground level on the front of the home. The home is also directly across the street from a historic home that has no buttons in the window and probably there are a few around the area as the previous speaker just mentioned that it might be wood, might be metal, might be plastic, etc. Therefore there's a lot of variety in and around it and everybody passing the house would not notice anything and the building is a lot of things that are fantastic, etc. Therefore, there's a lot of variety in and around it. And everybody passing the house would not notice anything unique about the home as is currently attained. I'd like to just mention that in looking at your guidelines for this old and historic area, that even your paperwork says in the use of the design guidelines, it says it must be emphasized that the guidelines are intended only to provide guidance and the board should consider each application on a case by case basis. Therefore, I'm supportive of our homeowner who's gone to that length to make it as wonderful as possible. Efficient, our other homeowners have said they have no concerns with what we currently have. So please work with the homeowner to do what you can to accept what he's done. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Harris, is there another speaker please? That's all that I have. Seeing there's no more speakers who are close the public hearing and begin more deliberation. Who would like to begin? Mr. Lions. Yeah, I was in here when you presented initially, so I'm not quite sure how it came about that the windows got installed and selected without really Maybe fully understanding the guidelines Okay, is that enough? It's on a roll See I'm not clear on how that all happened. I'm not really sure. It was my own mistake. OK. It was my fault. OK. You know, and I appreciate the public comments. And I think there are a lot of things, as far as the last speaker, that there are a lot of materials like hearty plank and windows that may look like from the street and to the average eye. You might not be able to tell the difference. I've read down a house and I'll tell myself and had challenges with things that I thought would look like, you know, what it was from the street. You know, nobody could tell the difference, but unfortunately, just wasn't part of the guidelines. So, you know, in this case, we get a lot of questions about windows. Some of them are definitely in a gray area, but I just feel like this is one that's not in a gray area. And I support the staff's recommendation to deny. Miss Andion. So we will come back and go, yes, you can go. You know, I had a chance to look a little deeper into the material that you provided. And the extrusion of the vinyl windows is almost identical to a fiber window. And given window and given the warranty I was concerned about You know the How long these windows would last with a lifetime warranty and because they're custom For these openings on a basically a newer building I could support these windows in place these these custom windows, especially because they're above grade. If we can get the adhered buttons, I think that would be important. Yeah, I think windows evolve over time. Vinyl windows used to just be almost at the fabric. Yeah, that was covering Miss Miller Thank you Miss Delanio I was curious to hear your thoughts on that as well as my other board members Thank you also to our two speakers and I agree very much with first speaker who said that windows evolve, a lot of our guidelines evolve as well. And I want to apologize in your letter you said that you were, that this entire process had been extremely tough and stressful for you and I'm sorry that that has happened. And I think you've been fiscidious in a pursuit of your window replacements and genuine and not knowing that we didn't look favorably upon vinyl windows in this community in the historic district. Your home is non-historic, it is not a historic home, but it is in the historic district. I'm just gonna kind of cut to the end of my remarks here. I think institutional knowledge matters a lot and the evolution of the windows in our, in the last 40 some years has changed in terms of the materials. And we have had some other window issues this year that were certainly not okay in the historic district as it so happened and there are things that we are living with because of the circumstances. So I can support your application given the circumstances and I'd like to work with my colleagues up here to Chisel a motion that will allow you to keep the windows, have the parts that Ms. Delinio suggested. And one of my thoughts is that we do not want to set a precedence for vinyl windows we never have. And while in our window, our current window guidelines, we say vinyl windows are not appropriate, we probably need a little stronger vocabulary there, and we can work on that. But I think we could, if we can do it as a board, I'd like you try to cobble out some vocabulary that would indicate that this is not to set a precedence, that this is an exception given the circumstances of your case. And that's all my comments this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Adams. Yes. I appreciate that you've worked with the staff and the words you've said that show the community that you understand the guidelines and the mistake that was made. And like Miss Dunn, Nino and Miss Miller, I agree that it's not a historic house. The windows are on the second floor, they're not obviously touchable, so to speak. I would like the buttons, the exterior buttons to be added to them. And I think it's that you have your neighbor's support and also in the similar houses that that's important. And lastly, of course, this shouldn't be a precedent moving forward, but I could support this one exception. Thank you. and moving forward, but I could support this one exception. Thank you. Zandian. I understand that it's a newer building, but my concern is the president's that we would be creating by accepting this. I have a question for the staff. Have you ever approved any vinyl windows or or or the board members? If you're not. Not to my recollection. Have we approved them? Yeah, not to my recollection. Because is there any? I just don't like this to be referred to as a precedence later on. I do think that, of course, the look of the windows and the profile of our vinyl has changed over time. And I think by the addition of the mountains, it will make a big difference on the outside. So I will support your application but I don't want this to be person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person who is not a person we are not a presidential board. One decision is unique to each property and therefore doesn't create a precedent legally speaking. So it's a tough situation because we don't really approve vinyl windows. I do want to align myself with Miss Del Nino's comments. The fact that these, you, not all vinyl is the same, just like not all wood windows are the same. The fact that these are very high quality vinyl windows, and they have a left-time warranty, and they were made specifically to fit your home. And correct me if I'm wrong, these are only on the second floor of the building, is that right? There are no windows on my first floor. No window. It sounds like a dark first floor. It's a garage and a whole other thing. OK, and brick. So I think those factors weigh heavily, especially the fact that they're only on the second floor. And frankly, it helps us a lot that your neighbors showed up and said that they are OK with them. These are open meetings with a lot of advanced notice. notice and we often hear from members of the community that oppose vinyl windows. We haven't heard that in the case of your house and so I think that does weigh in your favor. So I always approach approvals after the fact as though it were an initial approval, right? So I assume you didn't do this intentionally and then try to come back, right? so no harm and no assumption of harm. I think in this case with these specific facts and the support of your neighbors, I think I could support your application. I do think the condition to add mountains on the outside will improve the visibility of your window and the city of the city we can make an exception in this case. Thank you. OK. Although I understand my vice chair has said that we are not a presidential board. I understand that. But in the eyes of the public, we are a presidential board. And as when people come to us, they come to us with precedence of things that we've approved in the past and say, hey, you've approved it here, you've approved it there. So legally, we may not be presidential, but in practice, we are. And so with that in mind is why I can't approve this is because we should not be approving. We should not be approving final windows. But I am in the minority on this one so may I have a motion. I'll make a motion with your assistance, Mr. Vice Chair, if it has necessary. I would like to motion that we approve the vinyl windows as installed. And I'd like to add the caveat that the muttons will be installed on the windows. Now you were kind of requesting that just in the front or on all windows. I think it should just be all the windows. Yeah. All windows. Yeah. All windows. Okay. And then I'd like to see something in the motion that says that this is in one and an exception to our how do we work. Yes. Well, I don't think we need that in the motion necessarily. I think we just note it as a board, because we'll have the minutes, and we'll need to review the minutes carefully next time to make sure that it's part of the record. Right, so basically what we do is, as part of the findings, part of the discussion, the findings that you're basing this motion on, say that because of these specific circumstances, you are making this motion. So your finding is based on all the things that you've talked about. So that's not part of the motion. The motion is the action. The reason behind it is as Scott says is the discussion. Okay, so that's my motion. I think that sounds good and I second your motion. Thank you. This is not a demolition so this will call unless you would like to do a roll call. I would like to do a roll call and I still have something else I'd like to say. I'm sorry. I'm not going to go down the presidential line again but we have had lots of people come here with things that contract was have installed and asked, and I'm gonna use the word mercy, but asked for us to be understanding of their situations and we have consistently denied people. And now we're turning, and I don't really see a good reason why we're turning in reality, but that's just my personal thought. I mean, I can add that I have voted in favor of exceptions to these rules before. So I think my position has been fairly consistent. That was my concern too, because all the people we have said no to previously and coming up. So. We are adding buttons to the outside of these windows. So I see it as. You'd muttons on any vinyl window. That's nothing special. I believe we have a little more training. I don't want to relitigate this. Mr. Conkey, please call the roll. Yes, sir. Yeah, advice chair. I had a second. Miss Andrea. Adams. Yes, sir. Yes, yes. Yeah, advice chair. Seconded. Miss Andiam. Aye. Mr. Scott. Aye. Mr. Adams. Aye. Miss Oniniya. Mr. Alliance. Mr. Lions. Hey. Mr. Spencer. Hey. Thank you. Congratulations. Now we will move on to new business, Mr. Continental. Sir, we have a couple of items on our new business this evening. First item is item number 5 and 6. B-A-R-2024 dash. Excuse me.2024-00273 Oldenstorke District. A question for alterations at 307 North Washington Street. Applicant is Michael Frank. And B-A-R-2024-00327 Oldenstorke District. A question for partial demolition and encapsulation at 307 North Washington Street. Applicant is Michael Frank. It's applicant over there, representative here to be on behalf of the application. Welcome, please state your name and address for the record. Good evening, and my name is Michael Frank. I live at 307 North Washington Street. Would you like to give a presentation or just answer questions? I'll just answer questions, thank you. Have you read the staff recommendations? I have, yes sir, thank you. You agree to staff recommendations? I do, yes. Okay. Any member of the board has questions with the staff? Any member of the board has questions? It's downing, you know, sorry. I was wondering, so you have an existing front door. I think it's, I mean, the existing door on the north elevation of your kitchen that we're removing, it's a solid. That's correct. That door that you see on the left side is a Christian panel with glass on the top of the panes. That door that covering was added I think in the 1970s, along with the addition of the stairs and knee wall that we're also requesting for removal on the back side of the house. There is the original kitchen door, which is represented on the right side of that drawing. So what we're proposing doing is to remove the more current 1970s Christian panel door and replace that with the original door to the kitchen. This property is rather curious. It's actually a belief still commercial. We're working to change that to full residential. But at some point, the residents had four windows underneath the four windows that are on the second floor. The original house was 1808. The wing that you're looking at is 1820. The bay window was added probably in the early 1900s. And then the door way with the covering was added to mimic the window. That's correct and then there was another window that was in the kitchen that was closed in. So it really opened up that side of the house in an odd way and therefore there's a porosity in the kitchen that makes it really unusable. So we felt like the door that the original door would be nice to see. It's a beautiful door. It's I think it's nine lights. It's a little wider. It has basically the original door. We think that that door probably dates back to the original house. We're gonna restore that to a nice condition and have that face to public alley. Okay, I guess that was my question. Is it basically the, well, how close is it to the existing masonry opening the existing kitchen door? Are you gonna need to modify the kitchen door? Are you gonna be moving the frame of the city. So, I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the next slide. I'm going to move on to the If you look at the floor plan on page 19, there's a floor plan on page, I believe, 18 that shows the existing condition. Or there's a, that shows the original rear kitchen door page 19 shows that that we would like to relocate that original door to the side and then put a new window in the place of that door and the elevation for that is represented on page 20 that shows the before or the existing condition and then the proposed condition. OK, right. So I was just wondering about your existing opening that you're going to move the rear kitchen door into. Right. Do you need to cut the existing? We're going to have to do a slight trim to that and we're looking at extending the jam on that door in order to make that work properly. Okay, so you can do that. It's like an inch difference. It's normal. Yeah, it's a beautiful door. Mm-hmm, good. I'm sorry, I didn't understand your question for you. Yeah, I was just wondering if you were gonna need to modify the... Yeah, ever so slightly. I have a question. It's got. So actually for Mr. Conkey, this house was originally built in 1808, is that right? So my question is about the federal style of architecture. As a non-architect on this board, I always like to learn about the history of this architecture we have here in the city. And the only, I think it's great. I like your application. The only question I have is the addition of the columns or the door. And what I don't know is is this type of columned covering something that would you would see in the federal style of architecture? A columned covering wouldn't necessarily be at a place. I'm a federal building. These are a little more decorative than I think we would see necessarily. So the style is a little funny. Nothing said. I think this building has a lot of different styles on it. So that's not a pristine example of it. So I think you could say that these are maybe a little more decorative than they should be if you're doing a strict interpretation. Yeah, my only because you're replacing this with the original style of door, right? That's correct. And just to note, I'm an architect. And my specialty is traditional classical architecture. I was educated at Notre Dame with a degree in classical architecture. And so all my work is classical architecture. So the portico that we're proposing, it was interesting to note that the interablature, which is basically the Cornice portion on the Bay Window, that is original to the 1920s period. During that period, there was a colonial revival, if you will, of architecture. When that portico was added, they worked to emulate the Intablature that is on the Bay Window. And that portico was added, they worked to emulate the entablature that is on the bay window. And it's pretty close. And you can tell there's a few things that are slightly different, mainly that there used to be old paint on the bay. And now it's nicely cleaned up. But in working to emulate that entablature, we're supplementing that in tablature, we're supplementing that a little bit more maintaining stylistically what is on the pay window in moving that over to the portico. The portico is using the most simple form of the column, which is DORIC. The columns are attenuated, which means they're really thin, which is ubiquitous of the federal style of architecture. There's a thinness to that, which in a way knocks down the seriousness of the column. If it's a more robust larger column, then it seems a little more imposing. Whereas using something a little wider really kind of makes it a little more joyful and light in a way. Well, thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it. The reason I asked this question is just from a look at your renderings of the existing elevation and the proposed North elevation, I think the door in the existing elevation is a more prominent feature. So if you're just from my look of it, it seems like the columns and the fence, of course, will serve to distract from your beautiful new door. This is not something that I'm gonna vote against your application on. It's just something that I've noticed. It seems like the door is a more prominent feature in the existing elevation, and I think it looks nice the way that it is, It seems like the door is a more prominent feature in the existing elevation and I think it looks nice to wait that it is understanding that if it's appropriate for the federal style of architecture I'm certainly not gonna be able to understand that. Thank you for that. That's helpful to hear and I think if you look at the page 24 that shows the existing side elevation, there's a little clonkiness to the brackets that are on that. Again, that bracket and porch thing was probably added in the 70s. And keep in mind that what was odd about this, to serve as a law firm for many, many years, in fact, we still get lots of letters from them that we now stamp return to Cinder. But that was made into a public entry. And so I think there was parking there. The steps were displayed in order to invite people in the front doors closed off to the public. That truly served as the entrance to the more public law firm. And so by adding the adding of the fence will help create that more residential barrier but also make it a pure more residential in general. We feel like the columns and the poor echoco. We feel like the addition of the columns will add lightness to that and remove the clonquiness that we feel exists in the enchavature. The entailature to us seems heavy with these brackets in clonquing, and we think that the addition of the columns actually lightens up the whole piece. I have a question. On the same page, I believe it's page 24. You can see the top of the columns. They are extending from the corners. Extending out. Can you explain why is that? Tectonically and and historically columns have the alignment where the, uh, the upper portion of the column, uh, uh, the capital, uh, actually overhangs. And what you have below that is the neck of the column. Um, that neck of the column always is supposed to align with the entablature above that. So if you ever see anything that's not like this, it's wrong. So that column, typically the sides of the column and the neck above the asterical, which is at the horizontal piece, always are supposed to align with that line in the entablature. So historically, this is the correct way to have to position the columns. Thank you for explanation. Are there any other questions? Yeah, I had a couple more questions on the cell television. Are you removing the door? Right. Part of my concern would be it looks like you're now aligning the two windows and I don't I'm recommending maybe using the existing masonry. Is there a reason why you are not using the existing head of the door, the existing maze in reopening, because you'll be demoing, I think the south elevation is going to be. Right, that's on page 20. Yeah, right here. So you're gonna be demoing the top of that door. Right. You're gonna be using the existing brick. We are in what's curious about it, if you could photograph, there is no lentil on top of the door. So we're not sure if that was originally, if they were using brick, they would have had a brick jack arch over that or some sort of a brick or stone lentil. The fact that they have what looks like maybe a metal lentil under that holding the brick indicates to me that it was modified at some point. Perhaps there was an overdoor over a little overlight on top of that, but I don't see. I didn't see anything that indicated that there was anything that would sort of preclude us from making that more of a balanced elevation. So I'm guessing it's like a limemortr, you'll be able to reuse the brick that you're gonna need to demolish. That's right, we're working with Renaissance development, they do historic properties all over Old Town. They've done the reporting about the door that you see there just above that. There was a BAR approval several months ago for us closing in what was a door that was above that. And that door was basically an emergency egress. And there was a metal staircase. And the remains of that staircase were just basically a balcony that came out from that. So the board previously approved, I think, through the administrative approval process for us to remove that metal porch for lack of better words and then also close in the break for that. So that's been closed in by Renaissance and they are definitely using a period appropriate brick and mortar for that. It certainly makes sense-wise to have that much more counterspace in your kitchen. I am. It definitely helps. There's not much. And then you'll be with the plan for below the window. Are you going to be toothing that in? Or definitely toothed in. And we'll definitely emulate stylistically what's going on with the flanking window. There are Sailor courses, a Sailor course of brick at the bottom of the window, which are basically a brick slate flat. And we're working to make both of the windows symmetrical. Underneath that, it's important to note, if you see on page, I guess back to page 18 or 19, there's our adjacent neighbor, 305, there's an access right away that they have to go through that backyard. So in essence, that serves as a little mini alley. So currently there are two the two squares that you see at the top or HVAC units and then we're looking at placing the garbage and recycling bins there underneath the window. But and on this plan it looks like you're infilling the jams so that's a little incorrect. Sorry. Okay. We're maintaining the location of the door, and we have to make a slight modification to do that. But we're working to save exactly what was that. What's existing means to me? Yeah. Sorry about that. Anyone else has any questions? Just so that I understand the Washington Street entrance that gate is not going to be a swinging gate that opens right that's virtually directional to go around the corner because it doesn't open. No that rules to be used as a side entry. The Washington Street becomes a side entry and then a Washington does the front door and Washington Street remains. Remains the No, no, no. The front door on Washington Street remains in the front entrance. That's correct. Yeah. And there's currently that really wide walkway. If you look at page 18 that shows where we're looking at removing those really shallow steps, it's an extremely broad entrance to a residence. And again, it was intended for commercial entrants. OK, that's all from me. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Moore. Any other questions? Seeing none, we will remember the the public has questions for his application. Mr. Harris, are there any speaker forms? No. You said no or yep. No forms. You'll pay. These young people. Thank you. With that, we'll close the public hearing and move on to board deliberation. Ms. Downing, would you like to start or would you like to start with a motion? Okay, well let's discuss it a little bit more. I think that the front new peer and fence, I think that's going to be very attractive. And I think that'll be nice. I'm looking at this and I'm also a Notre Dame architecture graduate. So I was a little concerned about the number of columns in the scale given how deep it is and that they're like six inch columns. And it seemed to me a little in Congress with more of a kitchen entry with this recital, with this relocated kitchen door. So I don't know if there have been some studies with maybe just two columns or, you know, modifications of the bracket, you know, I also agree that the brackets seem to showcase the existing building a little bit more. Because you have like, is it, you have like about a foot in between the columns? It looks like it's pretty. Yeah, just. Right. Yeah, I'm sorry. I asked another question. So let's please at page 28. You've got that. So that's a close up view of that. I think going back to, let's see, 28. Whoops. It's 20. Keep going, sorry. Should be an enlarged version of that. I think go the other way. I'm sorry. Right there. One more. Keep going. Yeah. Keep going. Keep going. Keep this back. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Stop. Right there. Yeah. Why doesn't C28 as well? There you go. Right. This is 28 as well. So if you recall, so it's difficult to point to this. But if you look at the Bay Window, if you see the sides of the Bay Window, those windows and sides of that align with the entablature. So the fact that when they worked to create this canopy, they wound up not having those brackets align with the entablature. So there's a while they worked to try to emulate that stylistically, they missed the boat a little bit with the brackets. So the brackets and the support typically would align with the entablet worth the cornice at the top of that. So we're basically in a way trying to correct and build upon what was done to this doorway and recognize that it relates a little bit more to the bay. and by having those columns. And we can certainly reduce the six columns to four columns that will save $4,000. So I think the spacing of those, the reason that we have, and we could just have four on the front instead of three on each corner. The reason that we have them attenuated again is within that federal style. And the reason that we have the pair of them is because the width would be too wide to have these center columns on that. So pairing of the columns, the two columns in each side of that is really important visually for us to to tactically support the weight of that entailment. So we feel like we can simply remove those two columns in the rear of that and have two columns in each side instead of three in each side. And so you're saying that you know you studied with the two columns and then the span was looking too big. The span would look almost like toothpicks holding up something too heavy. So when you have this long span and this heavy weight, you really want to have something that visually supports that weight. So having, so we didn't want to put a heavy column there because our thought was if you put a large heavy column there, that makes it really too important. And some of the work that we were emulating is that architect, my name, Mott Smith, and one of the things he did was to utilize some of these more attenuated columns on secondary entrances. So while this is a secondary entrance, the front entrance at 307 is still very important. It's got shutters that we're repairing from the hurricane. But it stylistically wins. The side of this will be a knockdown version of that. And while it does go to the kitchen, it also serves as the side entrance to the house. And very prominent facade, I might say, for Brockett's alley. And as you come down to Washington Street, it's a very prominent view coming into the city. Thank you. Mr. Lions, I have no comments. I think it's a great project, and I fully no comments. I think it's a great project and I fully support. Ms. Miller. I appreciate the conversation about the columns and whether it's over-columned or I am okay with it as it's drawn. It reminds me of, I can't think of the historic name of the house at the moment, but it's formerly Betty Wright's home. You'll know, but what's the name of that house? Anyway, very historic house on the 200 block of South Fairfax Street. And it has that. And at first I thought it was overly fancy, and overly columned, but I've grown to really appreciate it. So I'm fine with what you want to do. And I like the fact that coming down Washington Street, it will draw some interest and attention. That's all. Thank you. Ms. Andy on. I have no comments and I support the application. Mr. Vice Chair. I can go, but I just want to make sure Mr. Rasmus will go. I just align myself with what Ms. Delinio said. I do think it's a really nice change. I would support your option to reduce it to four, so you're not wed to the six columns. That would be my only further authority on this application. And Mr. Adams. Thank you. I can see where the, well, first of all, this is a beautiful building. I've always been drawn to it and nice to see you're doing some work to it. I think the confusion over the porches, in the past, this maybe was the entrance when it was a office space. And so it still kind of obtains that. And I wondered if some of the confusion visually to the architectural community is that the door is now a little less formal where the columns are a little busier although nicely done. Did you ever think about changing the roof so it's not the same slope as the bay window and sort of giving the bay window a precedent and sort of downplane the door since it's no over the primary entrance. Yeah I guess at some point money comes into play with something like that so I think what's interesting in our field of work and my partner will and I work together in architecture and what we find is we like to work with limitations and finding limitations and solving the puzzle around those limitations is really helpful. I recognize that it does in a way make that front a little more grand, but I think with what we're proposing with a slight modification to the brick wall, the addition of this picket fence along there, we're going out tomorrow to look at 20-foot tall, or 12-foot tall dogwood trees, a pair of those, to fill in that space, a gas light, things like that. We think it's gonna help. I think it's all the layers. And I think the defense for us is important in our house in Savannah. We added a fence at the sidewalk to create that precinct. So we're really exposed there right now. So in a way, it's creating these different levels to sort of keep people from just walking up to the door like they currently do. So but I recognize that it might be bringing up, but I think from a financial point of view, and the curious thing about that is the flashing that you see drawn on there was the metal color, or was it a dark color, and we actually just had that painted a white line actually reduced the visual weight of that. So little things like that we're trying to do without breaking the bank more than we are with the columns. But thank you for saving us money in the columns. The education is the thing we're going to be doing in a beautiful job. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to thank you again for the presentation and your history lesson. I'm going to need a bit to be a lecturer. No, it's good stuff. I was just shaking my head and agreements with everything you were saying. And I greatly appreciate that. And I think it's a beautiful project. I actually prefer the columns over the brackets. I think the brackets look a little clunky. And I appreciate the idea of layers. And I appreciate the fence. And it's making it feel more like a home as opposed to it being a door that everyone should come to And just place you want to be invited to not just walk up to So I could support this application if I can get a motion I'll make a motion I recommend I am motion to support staff recommendation. I just make a friendly amendment that would give the homeowners the option to use forecamps instead of six. Not a requirement but a consideration. Will you accept that friendly amongst you? Yes, I do. Agreed. Okay. Okay. All right. Mr. Colkey. Sir. Miss Andion. Aye. Mr. Miller. Aye. Mr. Scott. Aye. Mr. Adams. Aye. Mr. Onunio. Aye. Mr. Alliance. Aye. Mr. Spencer. Aye. Congratulations. Aye. Mr. Melon. Aye. Mr. Scott. Hi. Mr. Onninho. Hi. Mr. Alliance. Hi. Mr. Spencer. Hi. Congratulations. Thank you. Mr. Colkey looks like we have one more item on the back of it. On the new business. I'm right under new business, but we still have more to go. You're not quite done yet. Yes. I am aware Next item under new business tonight at number seven the AR 2024-00320 Parker Gray request for partial demolition and encapsulation at 1421 Princess Street applicant to sink Costco Applicant or the representative here to speak on behalf of the application. Please state your name and address for the record. Good evening. Jane Kikosko and the address is 1421 Princess Street. Have you read the staff report? I have not. We would like a minute to read the staff report. That would be great. Okay. All right. We're just going to take a five minute recess. Everyone in the chance to stretch the legs and use the restroom. And he can read the staff report and we can move forward. I'm going to ask it's not a safe room. It's a safe room. So I've been told that it's not safe. I've been told that it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I mean, it's not safe. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go back to what you've been doing. You've been doing this for a long time. You've been doing this for a long time. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And I think that's what I'm going to do. And I think that's what I'm going to do. I have one. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. That was a 90% of the ones on the side. So, you're pretty much just going to set this again. Yeah, use the wash button here. I'm saying. So, you know, there are the red ones. Yeah. And then, it's a little off of the window. Yeah, probably close down now. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I'm going to have a question. Right. Maybe that's a pretty good question. Yeah. That's a clear question. Oh, OK. Oh, you can go to the taxes. OK. That's a good question. That's a good question. No. I'm going to have a story for a role. So, I'm going to have a question. Yeah. I'm going to have a question. I'm going to have a question. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're a professional salt athlete. Yeah, I know that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I see. So, who likes to hide everything else? It's all for you. The fault that's good. Good things don't do anything. I'll do that. You guys can have a drink. Yeah, that would do. I'm sorry. I'm going to ask you go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm going to have to go to the library. I'm not. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask her. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to have to go back to the next slide. I'm going to havevene our meeting and you've had a chance to read the staff report to you agree with staff recommendations. I do, yes, sir. Thank you. Would you like to make a presentation or just answer questions? I'm happy to answer the questions. All right. So, any member of the board that has questions for this applicant? Wow, saying none. Any member of the public? Questions for this applicant. questions for the South can. Saying none. Close the board. Close the public hearing and go on to board deliberation. Who would like to begin Mr. Scott. I don't have any objections or comments. I support the application with staff recommendations. I don't see you have any questions or comments I support the application with staff recommendations. Adams you have any questions or comments? No. Okay. Miss Zandia would you like to make a motion? Sure. Um, I'm motion to approve her staff recommendation. Is there a second? Oh yep is there a second? Second. Mr. Conkey All right, let's see Miss India I Is more I Scott yeah, yes Mr. Adams Mr. Scott. Yes. Mr. Adams. Mr. Adams. Yes. Mr. Nidu. Yes. Mr. Alliance. Hi. Mr. Spencer. Hi. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Have a good evening. May I ask a general question? Yes, sir. I don't want to keep anybody here longer than we have to, but in the future, my intention is to potentially utilize the lots that are at the east of the property. Is this something the board will approve potentially or this is not a good idea? We don't know into easy what you bring to us. Until the plans. And the very first case, they did have some questions about the vinyl windows. In the new builds, is that something that is frowned upon or would is required? I would say it's neither. So neither's the guidelines. We do not have a history of approving vinyl windows. For new buildings, the guidelines suggested a number of materials, fiberglass, wood, aluminum, clad, we take a really skeptical view of vinyl windows as you heard. Sure. So I would expect that. Absolutely. OK, thank you. You're welcome. You have a good evening. Mr. Comkey, Mr. Harris, moving on to other business. All right, thank you. So we have under other business tonight, we have, as our ongoing attempts to update our design guidelines, tonight we are bringing the window chapter to the board for contemplation and perhaps adoption. And Mr. Harris, he's going to go through some of the changes that the committee is proposing. And with that, I'll turn over to Mr. Harris. Thank you. So what we are presenting to the board today is the result of at least five meetings of the design guidelines committee where we've discussed the windows and shutters chapter. So it's gone through several rounds of edits and discussions and what we have today is based on the 1993 guidelines and our discussions and making a few proposed changes to those. So I'm going to first go over the general formatting and other changes, other minor changes to the chapter that we're proposing and then I'll also go over each individual proposal for policy changes for windows and then any of those individual changes we can discuss in the board can deliberate over whether to adopt those changes or not. The first change that the committee made was adding some information to the introductory section of the chapter. So compared to the 1993 version of the window guidelines, the committee added more background and historical information on different window types. Such as when different windows were used on buildings in different periods in Alexandria and for different architectural styles. And then in addition at the end of the introduction, the committee decided to add a graphic showing historic window parts so that people who are reading the chapter can become familiar with the parts of historic window that are referenced throughout the chapter. The committee also plans to add a glossary of different window definitions to accompany this diagram so that's something that would be added if this window chapter were to be adopted. After the introduction section, the committee. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. We will be able to do that. So, the idea here that the committee wanted to create was a more comprehensive definition of what the board means when using terms like maintenance, repair, replacement, and reconstruction and when those terms might be appropriate. So to do that, the committee created a table of four different window repair types, ranging from type 1 to type 4. And these window repair types are intended to help applicants decide whether a minor repair, a major repair, or a complete replication or replacement is the most appropriate path for their window using guidance from staff. So these window types, some range from type 1, which is a routine maintenance. These are a list of things that don't require any BAR review. Type 2, which is minorare is also something that doesn't require a BAR review type 3 which is a major appare or appartial replacement which depending on the window and what type of building it's on could be a staff approval. And then a type 4 which is a replication or replacement and again depending on where the window is and on the building this could be a staff approval or could be a board approval which I'll get into in a second. So the level of review required for these window repair types depends on whether the building is early or late in a couple other factors. Yeah, that's a good question. Yes. Is this the package in its entirety? Can you clarify what you mean by that? Yes. In our meeting, when we came up with these four categories, Mr. Cox had pictures to illustrate exactly what we meant by each type. Are they going to be in the guidelines? Yes. So we do have a diagram on how I'll pull up the page that has that. So as a starting point, we have one of those images here as an example of a window repair type and we do plan to add a couple more images here. And if the board has any recommendations for specific types of images to add to this diagram, we can definitely do that. But yes, the intention is to add a couple more photos to go along with that window repair table. Miss Miller. Mr. Cox actually asked us to remove that, if you're referring to the splinter window. One Cox actually asked us to remove if you're referring to the splinter window. When he asked us to remove that one, because he didn't think that was a good example of a type 4 repair, because there's nothing to repair on that one. So he was, he's leading the charge to come up with the new images that are going to replace. Could be added to the document. Oh, okay. I thought he had very good images. Now, he didn't like, he said he never liked that number, that last image actually. Now, I will point out to the board that quite often on these chapters, the board allows sort of staff, a certain amount of editorial leeway after it's approved, up to the board of course but things like you know swapping out an image here and there things like that and stuff that is we that staff typically does finish up after after approval just point that out. So are there so we are now to find a my understanding that we are mr mr chairman um are we we the board now going to submit photos of the types 1, 2, 3, and 4? Mr. Cox. No, I mean, it's, well, staff along with the members. I mean, we're open to anybody who has any suggestions. Yes. I mean, you know, we're, staff will be putting together these photographs. Okay. But, I mean, of course, anyone has any good ideas. We're going to take good ideas from anybody. staff will be putting together these photographs. Okay. But, I mean, of course, anyone has any good ideas. We're going to take good ideas for anybody. But. Okay. Well, my suggestion is that Mr. Cox would be a very good resource for the window photos. Not many of, well, I don't have many close ups of. Well, we're not, yeah, we're not, we're not asking replacement. We're members to provide photographs. Right. many close-ups of. Well, we're not asking. Replacement. We're members to provide photographs. Right. It's just, you know, again, if you have something, if you have a good idea, always up for a good idea. But we have staff, certainly, take care of it along with. Well, in the case of the case of windows on, in a 500 block of southeast street, I think these photographs would have been helpful to us because we were talking about these particular things. Is it repairable or not? So I think that it could be good to have in our standards. Yeah, the intention is to just go up with a company photograph for each of these levels. Levels of types. I always screw that up. Types, sorry. These types. But really, it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. I'm going to put it in the picture. So it does break it down pretty detailed in that table. Okay, thank you. Okay, now I'm going to move on to the next section, which is the changes to the required approval section. So it needs chapter of the design guidelines that have been approved so far. Each chapter begins with what the required approvals are. Whether that's a new review, staff review, or a board review. So I'm going to go back to that because the required approval section, as proposed for windows, includes some information about the window or paratypes that I just went over. So I'll go through each of those changes individually. So these will be changes from our existing guidelines to their proposed guidelines. In our proposed required approval section, the proposed language is that for any building changing any window size, location, operation, or light configuration will require board review. Currently, this language isn't specifically addressed, although it is the board practice for most of that to already be a board review. So this is adding a couple things, but just making it more comprehensive as to what kind of window changes require a board review versus a staff review. And then on early buildings versus later buildings, changing the window material as well, also would require a board review. Can I ask on that why for modern buildings or later buildings, we would want to bring those up to board review if they're not currently at the board review level? You should direct that question towards the committee members on the board. So I love these repair conditions. I think they're great. I want to thank you guys for bringing these in. It really gives us a way of thinking about the issues. I guess my concern is more this doesn't seem like, this seems more like a process update than just a guidelines update. It seems like we're changing actual processes that are in place, which makes me kind of nervous, to be honest with you, more than just, like we haven't done anything like that yet. It's just been guideline clarification. It seems like this is actually like bringing more work to the board, which I guess I understand if there's a reason, but it's unclear to me what the reason would be to do that. You are correct. This is more of a, this includes more policy changes than we typically have seen. And that was at the request of the committee. Okay, I'd love to know know I would love to know why. I think because these this is Parker Gray right and so it's only in the condition when in a newer building, it's closer than 15 feet on a, like, I don't know if this is a street facing facade. So now if you are, if it's a, I think specifically if it's changing the location and size, it was board review. I forgot about like configuration, and that should be still. I think like configuration was added because the idea that if he changed the button pattern, that changes the style of the building. And that's, that was, when I understand, speaking for other board members who aren't here, other committee members aren't here. That was that was the concern that they had is that if you change a button pattern all of a sudden then you've changed the the architectural character of a building because you've changed the button pattern so they wanted to at the board should board a slash public should have feedback For a chance to review that even if it's on the consent calendar I'm talking to mr. Corky you think a lot of you yeah, I'm up on the consent calendar more than And that and have that come want to pull it off it actually and that reflects the discussion discussion was discussion of the committee was that there was concern that changing Month in configuration is to significant a change for the elevation to be left to staff and that that they were the preference was concern that changing month and configuration is too significant to change for the elevation to be left to staff and that the preference was for that to go to the board. And that was the action of the committee. Is that sound by right? Yeah. Thank you. That's our remember if I mispronounce a recent police correct me. It was a long meeting, but I think that's, that's the long way. We did capture that. That was, that was, that was one of the things that we did, that we made sure we captured, because it was, it was a policy change. Yes. Because right now, you could change, and right now, you can change the muntains on the, on the front of the examples that was mentioned was that staff had been approving one over one windows when it weren't actually maybe stylistically correct for the building. I think that was probably. Yeah, I mean, it has, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's from when you have a, which we have a lot in the city, you have a, maybe a building that dates from a certain time, the building, the style of the, the building was changed somewhere along the way, which happens all the time. And the proposal is to go with either the first or the second style of the building. And to date staff will look at that and say, okay, the second style is now the period of influence or for the building. And so we would approve it based on that. And this would take that judgment from staff and put it to the board. Sorry, just pardon the ignorant question. Is this the same staff that's writing the staff reports we read? Yeah, this is our strippers versus staff yes. Okay. Oh, okay. Just for me, I think the staff does an incredibly good job. I feel more comfortable having them do it with these like easy replacements. I understand why the board would want to see maybe the early buildings with a month and configuration change. That would make sense, but a modern building. Have there been a problem? Has the staff been making mistakes? There's been no issue with a modern building. Month and configure me. It feels like we should avoid major policy changes unless there's a serious problem that we need to solve. Otherwise, because we do have to keep the citizens of Alexandria in mind, and if we have to pull everything to the consent calendar, it's going to delay. I assume the staff processes these on a rolling basis. Yeah, so what would happen if something goes, if a case that is currently done at the administrative level goes to a staff, goes to a board level, consent calendar or not, it still requires 30 days, basically 30 days before the hearing approval, I mean, application, staff would still write a staff report. So it goes from being a fairly straightforward week or so review to 30 days prior to the hearing and then going to the hearing. In the addition of public notice as well. And yeah, addition of public notice and docketing. I mean, I just think we should be very careful about making these major policy changes. It feels like we're doing a territory grab. Which I understand, if we had a problem in old town of bad windows going in, but I know there was one example where the staff erroneously approved what are actually nice windows, but in a historic property, in an early building. So that's one incident, but we, the board, I'm sure have made plenty of erroneous decisions and mistakes. So I don't think perfection is a standard we should be holding. The staff too, and I just want to, does the staff want to give this to the board because they feel overwhelmed or? This is not being driven by staff, this is the committee's recommendation. And I think from my interpretation of some of what the committee members said was the concern is less that staff has been making mistakes and more that they would like to see for some of these window replacement decisions that there's more public involvement, like members or chances for members of the public to comment on their neighbor's decisions, public noticing, that's the main concern. Yeah, that was a statement that was made. Well, I mean, so correct me if I'm wrong, we're just talking about windows here, but there's lots of stuff the city staff approves administratively. Yeah, we have a whole in Parker Gray, which is this one, we've got the residential reference guide, which lays out in very great detail, those items that can be done by staff, or that have no requirements whatsoever. And of course, that document was approved by the board. So, but why would we just single out windows and shutters for public, I mean, you could be reductive and say the public should be able to comment on every single thing anyone does. That seems like it would be a lot of bureaucracy. And that more importantly, it's a huge change in the way the board has operated. I don't know, I'm very cautious to do something like a major. I love the idea of clarifying and doing the routine, like the classifications, because I think that helps the homeowners and it gives really good guidelines for when a window might need to be replaced versus repaired, but I just absent a significant problem with how the process goes. My personal opinion is we should probably allow the current processes largely. Maybe changing around the edges a little bit, especially with the historical buildings or special buildings, special windows, but it just feels like we're taking on a lot of responsibility here. And I don't see the reason for it. I mean, public access is important. Is there any way we can get public input on this through the staff process? No, in an administrative process, there's no placketing and then no public notice. So what happens is every, you'll notice on every docket, there's a list of the administrative approvals that are in every docket. So they're publicly advertised. But there is no active notifications required for any administrative approvals. So it's not being hidden. The administrative approvals are not being hidden. They're in the docket. Our annual report goes into detail to say exactly how many administrative approvals we do a year. And that's quite a large number. the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. We have a lot of things to do with the community. and put them wherever I want on my front facade in Parker Gray. I can do that without board approval. Yeah, that's... So the issue right now is that the Parker Gray Resonant or Reference Guide is not very comprehensive. And it's very... It has a lot of lack of detail. So it'll just say, like, windows are a staff approval. It doesn't say anything beyond that. So what we're trying to do is add a lot more clarification as to what the guidelines actually are and what types of alterations to windows require approval versus what don't. Right, so if I'm moving it, it's always been board approval. Yeah, because it's making a new Masonry opening. I mean, functionally the difference here is really that we're changing the, adding the like configuration to board. That's really that we're changing the adding the like configuration to board. That's really that's as a way it works. I mean the residential reference guy is great and it has served us a long time. It is it is somewhat broad as Richard Harris suggested and you know it was trying to accomplish a lot so these are some more details things that we think that we've found that maybe you know, we don't Specifically spelled out. I mean moving a window on a facade is a modification to the building and that goes to the board So that's yeah, really what we're talking about here is really getting into the into the weeds on the window And we're talking about the mutton configuration. That's where we get deep into the weeds. I yeah This is getting into this is very much getting into these. It's more specificity, which I think is helpful for the public and for the board, the more specificity. Could a common ground be that the language gets adopted, but maybe the board review, the staff decides what's a board review? Well, staff always does. Staff always does. Yeah, I mean, anything that we don't feel comfortable with, we have the ability to... I mean, everything else up there basically goes to the board anyway. So we're just talking about mutton configuration. Right, for the most part. On this one slide on the left. Right, yeah. That's right. Slide to left. If you change the size of a window, you move a window. You have to already, so it's really to the board. This particular thing is not changing a process that much. Other than changing the light configuration, mutton patterns, in this slide, and we're going to get to, we have to submit. Because I've noticed a lot of places. Several more slides. But this one, the only thing that changes is really light configuration practically. I believe the next slide is the more significant process. Yeah so okay that's thank you for clarifying that it makes a lot more sense now I guess my only thought would be like on a later building do we feel strongly about the like configurations I? I don't, I like it's a, I think I knew in question. I think some board members feel strong. Well, Christophe board members. Some committee members feel strongly about that because later buildings start at 1931. That's in 10 years. That's me, 100 year old building. I mean, if you had an art deco 1932 building and you put in six over six colonial looking windows, that's a pretty dramatic change. It's a dramatic change, yeah. It would have needed staff review though. Excuse me? It would have needed staff review. Under the current guidelines, that would require staff review. Under the current guidelines, it would be a staff review and then if staff decides that it's a very significant change, then staff could kick it to the board. Staff will look at the, in the situation that I just gave you, staff will look at that and say, no, that's too much of a change. And it would say you have the ability to go to the board. And that's why I was asking in this change, if it's state as staff review, can we just add the language about the mutton configurations? So staff is looking at that in writing. So we're going to have it in writing somewhere. Move that instead of the red to the yellow. Yeah, we can, I mean, but it's in writing. So we can have that as the wear of the parameters of which staff is reviewing. We can have that level of specificity, which I think is what's missing from here. Yeah, I love the additional specificity, because as a homeowner, you want clarity. So I think that's moving it to the yellow, makes more sense to me. I like that suggestion. Well, moving what? Yeah, we need to be more very specific. The changing window light configuration over to staff approval. Right. Staff rather than be it. On board, review to staff approval. And then the staff always has the ability to raise something to our level. Basically, basically the way it works is that if something, if we say no, and they still want to push it, then they're functionally the applicant's appeal is to go to the board. Okay, so that was only for later buildings or it's basically for all buildings. For all buildings? Okay, got it. I have a couple of comments. First of all, in two red blocks is the first item, changing window size. On the later buildings, we've left out the word material, but we have it in the earlier buildings. So does that mean you can change the material on the later buildings? Yes, so the idea behind that is that if you have an early building, the material should be wood. That's what's most appropriate. On a later building, if you have a building that's built in 1990, you could use fiberglass, you could use fiberx, so there are a couple of options there that are appropriate. You could use wood, you could use it. You could also use padded aluminum. Luminum clad, aluminum sandwood windows. You have lots more options. So I think we purposely left material off that list because there are just a lot of options. That was the reason that material was not included there. It's logic for why we approved your vinyl today. Like there's nice new materials out there. And then later on in the document you'll see where we say, you know, for later building these are the ones that are appropriate. So we're adopting the language that we have. We're trying to capture a lot here. So we're trying to adopt the languages in the window policy, basically. All right, now I have another comment. About three or four years ago, staff was given much more authority on administrative approvals that window prior to your being our guru Alc Stephanie did a window review and Stephanie simple did a Windows review review Yes, and administrative approvals were given Staff was given much more authority on administrative approvals were given, staff was given much more authority on administrative approvals. So is it being said that this is a bit of a concern at this point or we're just going to keep that in place? These modifications, the proposed modifications that the committee is proposing, do a lot of things. Some places they retract authority from staff. Some places they provide greater clarity. So I think it's, I don't know that I would say a blanket statement. I think we've just hit the first one. Yeah. that instead of kicking itself to board review, let it be staff review, but keep the clarity of the language and staff will decide if it wants to be a boarder. You want it to be a boarder. We should keep going. We have more that we should keep going. All right. So from this side, what I've heard from the board is that maybe the light configuration could be moved to staff review versus board review, but the remainder of it can stay under board review. No, I thought the remainder of it was staying under staff review. The remainder is currently under staff review, isn't it any staff kick stuff? All we're doing is saying, we're adding the like configuration to staff review. Yeah, because I thought, based on what Mr. O'Neill said, like all the other things would ordinarily go to board review anyway. If you're relocating, it's like not stated. Typically, we would review. I don't know about operation. Like, would we review that? All operation basically goes along with operation essentially is the same thing as configuration. Yeah. You go from a double hung to a casement. Yeah. Looks totally different. So again, that's where, to me, that would follow under staff, just like the configuration. OK. Yeah. OK. OK. the next change. So this would be the most significant change that was proposed by the committee. So currently our window policies say that on early buildings in the park are great district replacement of windows on the any side of the building is a staff level review. The committee is proposed to change that to be a bit more restrictive and to say that the building is a staff level review. And the committee is proposed to change that to be a bit more restrictive and to say that on early buildings, staff should only have the authority to approve window replacements on non-street facing sides and then any street facing window replacements should go to the board. The idea here was that a street facing window has more importance and that maybe the board should have more per view of a street facing windows. What is I know we're in park. What, in part in the old historic Annabarger Gray, there is a currently administrative path for the replacement of windows on all sides. Okay. And this would restrict that. So, let's feedback. Well, I mean, I, you guys know what I think. I think, I think this staff is doing a great job. So, I love the clarification and the detail, but I don't see why we should be. I feel like there should be an administrative path. If everything is straightforward and it's a wood replacement and everything's the same, it just doesn't, I don't see the reason why we would need to see that. I agree. Unless there's a problem that you decide that it should go to the board, I think there should be option for administrative. I think the committee's thought was that for early buildings that there should be more feedback from the public. The public should have a chance to weigh in on this. If I'm mistaken, Mr. Conkey or... Mr. Doninho, please represent my recollection of the other. That's what I remember. That did come up a lot in the committee. I mean, that was a common reason for those on the committee who supported that. It was the idea of public comment. And what time frame is that board, which I am a member of, thinking of public, the public notice, is that once the application is made but before approval is given? I'm not sure I understand much of what you're asking. What I'm trying to understand why this gives a public more public notice. Because they would come to the board, which means they would have to do public notice just like any other application. It would be on the docket. So that there would be two weeks of a two week public notice period before the hearing takes place for anyone to comment versus the staff review where there's no public comment received. That's basically for any street facing window in Parker Gray. Yes. Early buildings. Uninherally building. Yeah, and I think part of it too was just being able to capture the history of the building and what's being done also in the report. So, and we see that in your good staff reports, that there's, you're always talking about the history of what happened in the past. And sometimes it's kind of thin if it just goes through an administration. I wonder if there's like a, because I just still feel like for an ordinary, even if it's an early building, it's just like, it's a wood window, it's class four or whatever, it has to be replaced. I'm replacing with another wood window. Like, not all windows are the same. There are some beautiful custom, you know, Gothic windows with unique like configurations that really need to be maintained exactly as it is versus like a standard square window. Could is there, I can't, I don't know how I would do this language, but is there a way of doing it where it's like special or distinctive windows come to border with you? So we have two ways of answering that question. There is a, you'll see here in a few minutes, there's a bullet point has been added to our guidelines, which, and I'm going to mangle this, and Mr. Harris will get me, will correct me for it. Basically says that special unique windows type four, which is basically a reconstruction is required. I mean, I would be supportive of paralleling that approach to any window replacement. And to be clear, this is window, any window replacement regardless of the be clear, this is when there were any window replacement regardless of the age of the existing window. Yeah, that's a replica, basically. Yeah, I was saying what we're talking about here. This is this. So we would be reviewing street facing windows of a house built in 1999. Well, I think it would be, if this is in this case, this is early building. This is early building. This is early building. This is early building. It could be a window installed in 1970. Oh, I see it. In an 1850 building, the board would be looking at that replacement of that. Well, I still think like there's a lot of ordinary stuff that happens that we probably don't need to see. I think maybe if it's special or distinctive, that makes sense. create like a much more burdensome process for the people of Alexandria. Absent, I mean, I understand the balance between public comment, but the city council has presided over these regulations for a very long time. And it just seems weird to me that we, an unelected body, would decide public comment is so important when there is a legislative, we have elections. We have like, it doesn't seem like we should be making that decision to a process that's already in place that seems to be working fine. I feel like that should be a decision for the elected officials or a decision result? Is Miller any thoughts? I agree. I agree with this. Seriously, I was listening. I agree with this, not seriously. I was listening and I agree with what you had to say, even though I'm on the community that has produced these documents. I feel like the sport and the city council do whatever they need to do to oversee these things without, and so I fully support what Mr. Scott had to say on it. Okay. No, I was going to ask, is Daniel, did we miss anything representing the committee that we miss any? No, I think that, you know, maybe we can add something to the guidelines saying when you've got a later window that's been put on your earlier building, you'll need to reach out to staff to understand what is the period of significance. I think maybe something like that just so that they know they can't just replace it and kind of it's already an inappropriate window. And then yeah, I can see where that may cause, you know, additional hardship. So I mean, I'd like to, as best we can, I would like to try to get those language ironed out here tonight on these things, as best we can. This is the language that the committee is opposing here. If the board would like to change this, I mean, this is a recommendation from the committee, the board is the one who makes these decisions. Well, so, okay, my recommendation would be, we just leave it as is with current, and then maybe we add something that says like special or distinctive windows. As determined by staff, I don't know like I mean, I'm gonna have to make that call right and that could be added as one of the guidelines. I think yeah, I think what you're trying to add is actually already in here. It's just later in it. Yeah, I just I'm going to put that into here and then I don't know if it needs to be I just this is the regular this portion is the regulatory portion So this is basically saying who decides what yeah, I think it this sounds like the board members are saying for this particular item that Current stands and proposal the proposal ideas just not gonna fly what about mis Mr. Nino's point about, like, original windows versus old buildings, like a historic building that now has vinyl windows that were put in in the 70s and nobody paid attention. Now, on this house, I wanna put a new window in there. How would that fit in? Not sure if that would fit in the process part of it, though. That's what this is all about, process. So I would just have to follow the guidelines. Yeah, that would have staff would approve it if I follow the guidelines. And we'll get to the goons here in a minute. OK, so yeah, then I guess my thought would be leave the process the same on this one. That's my personal thought. One more comment from me on page. Well, we don't have numbers, but in any event, if staff is on, there's a statement a few pages in. If staff is unable to verify that a window complies with the guidelines, the board will review the request. And so I think that addresses your issue, but it's further in the presentation. Yeah, and I think that's further in the presentation. We'll get to that. We're going to go through this. This is, we're trying to get to the procedural stuff, which is this is who reviews what? Who has to come to the board, who does it? That's all the might. So we'll come back to that in a minute. And then we will need to formalize this. If everyone agrees, right, if everyone doesn't agree, however we want to do. We all need to vote. Yeah. I've been making so we can go over the, can we cap all that at the end and maybe make a motion, you know, if everyone agrees on the language. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay, next moving on to shutters. This is another change that has been more restrictive. Currently in the residential reference guide on early buildings, shutters require staff review on the front elevation and no review on the side and rear of a building. And on later buildings, shutters don't require any review. What the committee has proposed is that on all buildings early in late, installing or replacing shutters is always going to be a staff review no matter what side of the building. And if someone thought behind this was that committee members were concerned that with no review, which is. Old historic board has fought long and hard to make sure people don't put vinyl shutters up. So this was something to give people, get it reviewed so that we know that vinyl shutters aren't being installed or plastic shutters aren't being installed. We're getting, if you want shutters, there should be wood shutters. So it is a little more restricted, but it was trying to bring the two guidelines process, a little more in line with each other. And this just requires staff review then. Yes. OK, I'm comfortable with that, Jane. I mean, generally, this is like, hey, let's get you into the system. So we have eyes on it, type of thing. But the intention is not to preclude our board reviewing shutters in a larger application that comes to us, doesn't it? No, I mean, so as with everything, oftentimes you will see a large renovation of a building or something that has components of it that could have been done administratively, right? As part of a major addition, they'll do some siding or something. That could be done administratively, but it's part of the overall thing. What we typically there to try to do there is in the staff report, we indicate those things that say, by the way, these are included in the proposal, however they could be done administratively. We point that out in the staff report. So. Thank you. Okay. So maybe no more discussion on that. We'll move on to the next one. I believe the last proposed change to the required approval section is about security bars. Security bars are something that doesn't come up very often to the BAR. But currently the guidelines say that security bars require staff review on the front elevation and no review on the sides and rear and the committee has proposed that the installation or replacement of security bars requires board review on street facing sides and staff review on non-street facing sides. I'm not sure if we can see the security side. I would support staff review because that's the current standard. I mean, if we wanted to do staff review on all security bars, do it to the board need to see security bars as a matter of first impression. I don't remember the... This one, I don't... I'm not remembering the discussion around this one. What was the discussion around this one? Sorry. It's... I think there was a discussion about... At one time in Park Agree, there were lots of security bars, and now they've kind of gone away. So I think the idea was that if someone really wanted... There are lots of security bars, and now they've kind of gone away. So I think the idea was that if someone really wanted, and we could lower it so that it's all staff and theory, but if someone really wanted it, that it would be kicked up to the board. Because most people are taking them off their homes at this point. The neighborhood is not what it was when these guidelines were in the parker gray. What's they call it the parker gray? Residential reference, Residential reference guide was put in place. It's a different neighborhood now than it was then and it's still changing. I don't think I wouldn't have a problem that would staff still approving replacement of security bars. I mean, I think new bars could come to the board if necessary, but I don't have an issue with whether street facing or not. I agree. Because I mean, I feel like that's the same kind of, you know, they could still kick it up for some reason. They want to put in some crazy kind of bar to replace it. But you know, if it's just replacing bars, then it might be an item. I think that could still stay with staff review. But new ones could come to the board. Yeah, I think it's really, yeah, it's still on. We thought that there was really going to be hardly any bars given modern security and you know, so I can't ever remember reviewing security bars. Yeah, so If we say board review then maybe they won't put them on I think the idea was trying to discourage people yeah them on well, okay I was now a digital idea. I idea. I would support Mr. Alliance, which is basically like if you're replacing them, staff review, and then if you're putting in new ones on a street-facing elevation, the board reviews. That's what this is. We're probably never gonna see that. I think that's what this says, isn't it? No, it's an installation. Ineslation or replacement? Or replacement? So this would divide the authority based on whether it's new installation or replacement. I assume Mr. Kalki most of the time, you're getting requests to remove them. Yeah, I mean, most time people remove them. I mean, and there are some very decorative security bars. Yes, there are. And you know, some very pretty ones out there that are historic. Different than the security bars that we're thinking of right now. Yes, but there are some decorative security bars that don't go with anyone's particular style. So, yes, I agree with you guys that you can be a staff review and unless they're putting brand new ones on, on street facing façades. Okay, and that would apply for government facing facades. Okay. And that would apply for government civilisation. Correct. Oh. Okay. If you want to say street facing facades, I think this came up in this discussion street facing facades or visible from public right away. Anything not visible from public right away, we have no say over anyway. But we don't do below grade. We don't do below grade. Yeah. Right. or anyway. But we don't do below grade. We don't do below grade. Yeah, right. Even if it's visible, we don't do it. Right. Okay. All right. What's next, Mr Harris? Okay. So that's it for their changes to required approval. So now we'll move on to changes to the actual guide by it. Before we do that, I have a question though. Use the way I read the required approvals here. It says in later buildings replacement of windows on non-street facing sides no review and then Administrative staff review replication and kind or replacement of windows type four. So the way I read this is that unless you have a type four window that is literally falling apart It has to go to a board review. And I'd like that doesn't make any sense to me. I'll give you an example, my example. I live in a later building. I have final windows in the front that someone before me put in. I'd like to replace it. I'm not going to wait until they fall. Final windows will be here long after I am. I'm gonna wanna replace them before they fall apart. So maybe in my case, they would go to the board. I don't know, it depends on what I wanna put there. But any, is that the current standard, any window replacement goes to the board? Is that's what I'm reading here. Am I wrong? Currently there's a mystery of path. Would support that administrative path. I thought that's what we reviewed in the first, the second slide. Then we talk about this. The only thing we changed was the light configuration, but this is the early build, the later buildings. I like them. It seems like you can only replace your windows unless they're falling apart through board review under what you've written right here. I don't. I think this is replication and kind or. Well, replication in kind is like having a custom window maker, but it says type four, so that my that implication there is that you can only replace and kind or replicating kind for a falling apart window. That's crazy to me. I think the concept behind the replication in kind for, I'm going to go and administer a review for it first. The replication in kind and theory was set up for catching steel windows that would happen to steel be out there, if I'm not mistaken. If this is Park of Grey, most of the later buildings are not gonna have historic wood windows in them. At this point, a lot of them have been replaced. I have a lot of the historical later buildings. There's still, on later buildings? Later buildings. I mean, there's still some steel windows out there. Yeah. We haven't required, on later buildings, we haven't required steel windows to be replaced with steel. Have we? Well, but it says no review for type one, two, and three. Right? So. Well, but it just says routine maintenance and repair. There's no replacement. So if you read an under no review, you can replace windows on non-street facing sides. What if I have a window that's three feet from the property line, everything else is totally normal? And it's a type one. It's a brand new window that was put in right before I move there, but it's final and I hate it and I want to replace it. That has to go to the board. That would be a staff approval. So a type four is either a replication or a replacement. That encompasses two things. Which maybe we can go to the table. I think your parenthetical type four is withdrawing me off. I think it's the way it's written. The first word to have the parenthetical. Yeah, I think that's what it is the grammar that's throwing me off. Because to me me I read that as only type four windows. I search for something. You know, like otherwise if I want to replace the type, when we don't want to incentivize people to let their windows rot to type four, like replace them when it's time to replace them if they're not historical. So maybe you should say like, replication, I don't know, does anyone have a thought of how we should work this to make it clearer? Well, maybe replication and kind parentheses type four or replacement of windows. Less than you should have to have the less than 15 feet away. But you could also replace a type four window, so you can't, because there's both options there. So why don't we just get rid of type four? Replication in kind or replacing them in windows less than 15 feet from the property line? Think with the community was trying to do and what Mr. Colgate tasked us to do was tie the types to the administrative review to the process so that you could tie the two things together. So if you take the type four out, then there's no type four anywhere in the whole process. For the later buildings. The later buildings. I mean, the type four is meant, I mean, there's a lot of discussion about this. One of the ideas was the type four was for those really unique windows? Yes. Very custom unique windows. Something is unique and character-defect. But the exact same standard under no review, replacement of windows on non-sfree-facing sides or 15 feet or more from property line on street-facing sides does not have the limitation of type 4. So because based on the parkour gray resident who reference guide if windows more than 15 feet away from the property line it doesn't require no review. This is a parkour gray issue notay issue, not a overall historic... No, I understand. I'm just trying to... And if it's not straight, and also if it's not facing the street, it doesn't require a board review, either. So that's why no review is on those, on that particular category. The so difference in the admin is if it's less than 15 feet. Why are we doing that? OK. So I guess the whole thing behind types 1, 2, and 3 was like historical windows that needed to be preserved. So if it's a modern building, that typology doesn't seem to apply. But for a later building, one option that we could do is because there are some circumstances where there could be historic window. One of the later building that shouldn't be replaced. We could just simplify it to say replacement of windows is a staff review. But then for those unique windows that can't be replaced like staff can just say that needs to go to the board because it's unique. And the type 4 was trying to capture very special windows. Right. Yeah. Not your standard window. Right. It's not your standard 6 over 6, that's something really unique. Yeah. And they can happen in a later building. It's a later building that happens in the half a Gothic window in it. Right. Yeah. They can happen in a later building. Right. Yeah. That can happen in the later building. Right. I'm trying to capture that. And maybe staff review. Yeah. If they're going to replicate this, staff review. Well, do you want to say that it's a unique window? I think we say that in the type right up. We say that it's in the type right up. We say that it captures that table and goes with, can you pull off the type right up, we say that it captures that table and goes with, can you pull off the type right up? I would have to think about how I would want to work this, but I just think the way it reads right now is that if you want to replace your window that is less than 15 feet from the property line, it can only be approved through staff review if it is a type four completely deteriorated window. The implication of which is that all the rest of them have to go to the board. Is that what we want? Is that the current process? If it's less than 15 feet. And there's no room for place. No. That's where the board. So it could just be moving some of that language around to make it work better. Right now, yeah, there's a mystery of path. Yeah, and I think from the second slide, we were saying what is considered board review right now wouldn't be there, which is the first item under the latest buildings, right? Because we said during the second slide that we didn't want to change the process. So right now what you're reading is the committee's idea of how the process. So right now what you're reading is the committee's idea of how the process should be changed. The language isn't a flat. Mm-hmm. We can go on. I'm just going to do all of this. That's great. We can go. This is another example of where I think the photographs would really be clarifying because if the window is at the point of no return, then it makes sense that they get some approval. Also Margaret, the window doesn't have to be a point in no return. The window could be architecturally or characteristically unique. That's somebody that's somebody needs to replace, want to replace, and then that's a replica, and that's a type four. So maybe, but the only ones that you would want to replicate in kind are like special windows. I'm not gonna re-sold. If it's to the point where, yeah, if it's to the point where it's type four reconstruction is required. Yes, if I have a 1960s ranch house with small crappy windows and they're falling apart, I'm not gonna replicate them in kind. I know, please. No. So I think what we should say, I think Miss Del Nino is right, it should be like replication in kind and then open parenthesis, type four distinctive or unique, or whatever that language is, type four distinctive or unique or whatever that language is, type four distinctive or unique windows. And then, and replace, replacement of windows less than 15p, then that would be clear. My only issue is that is that we're not describing any of the other types in this process. We're referring them to the next page, which actually has those types. So why do I have to say that here? Because I'm just... We would say you should just say type four. No, because I'm not talking about... I'm talking about the type of window, not the state of repair. So type four refers to the state of repair or condition of the window. I'm talking about unique and distinctive windows versus regular windows. So replication of kind of distinctive windows that are also type four and replacement of windows less than 15p from the property line. Those are two different things. Sorry. No. This is great. No, I mean, this is the type of issue we need to have. I'm sorry. This is great. No, I mean, this is the type of issue we need to have. This is the type of language help that we need. I think we could work something based on that. It's a pretty simple change. Yeah. Okay, let's move on to the guidelines now. The general changes to the guidelines that we made were we created three different sections of the guidelines, some that apply to all buildings, some that apply to early buildings, and some that apply to later buildings. So in the guidelines, we use the four types of window repairs And we made references to them within the guidelines. So some examples of these for early buildings. One of the guidelines says that historic windows on early buildings. So this is where it differentiates between, like if you have a historic window on an early building, or if you have a 1970s replacement window on an early building. If you have a historic window, that should be repaired rather than replaced. And that should be done as a type 1, 2, or 3 repair. And then the replication in Kine, which is a type 4, is encouraged when the windows are historically or architecturally significant. Then on later buildings, windows can generally be replaced. But if there's a historically or architecturally significant window on a later building, then those should be repaired as the type one, two, or three. So I guess this kind of goes back to what we're just talking about on the required approval section. We, because we need to make sure that what we have in that first page matches what's in the guidelines. Yeah, so I get you. I think the problem here, and I'm sorry I didn't mention it, we were looking at the typologies, is types one, two, and three, describe the condition of the window, and type four is a rule for when the board reviews it. I think type four needs to be the window is falling apart. Type 2, for example, repair of exterior windows, replacement of installation of up to 50% of window. Type 4 should be like replacement or installation of more than 70%. Like it is not written in a parallel construction to the other types. And so that's really throwing me off. Type 4 shouldn't talk about process at all. That's just. It's condition. How's the window? Yeah. So I think that needs to be rewritten and then I'll understand the guidelines. Better. Understood. That's a very good point. Mr Scott. Mr. Conkey. You said you hope that we will be able to prove this tonight when we're giving these kind of constructive comments that we agree with. We're leaving it in your hands to make those changes or what? That is up to the board. You can either... The board can say we're giving you the feedback. We're comfortable with you guys taking that forward and publishing it and making it the law of the land. Or you can say we've given you a lot of feedback and there's some conflicting information and we'd like to see the final draft before it gets published. That is up to the board. Thank you. So, let's go to the next change. So, currently our window policies say that fiberglass windows can be insert windows under certain conditions. And the committee is proposing that insert windows are not appropriate on any circumstance, on later buildings. On later buildings? What the window is. I know we did our window workshop. Remind me an insert. Okay, insert window, okay. So an insert window as opposed to a sash replacement. That's really what we're talking about. So an insert window, you leave the existing frame in place. You install a new frame inside of the existing frame. The opening function like it's smaller. So we're suggesting in what we want to really see is, either a full frame replacement. So the frame you get back to the studs, back to the rough opening, or sash kit? Because those two things effectively maintain the size of the window. Just to ask, because I don't know this industry at all, if I'm a homeowner and I have a 1950s house, and the windows are in bad condition, and I want to replace them, is it expensive to do like a sash replacement? Like, is it much more affordable to do insert windows? Not really. I mean, there are some manufacturers who only do insert. Oh, I see. So more about limiting the manufacturers. Is that like the renewal of my Anderson people? Or the... I mean, we've heard from them before. But I think we have a picture of an insert window. We do. Yeah. So, like, just generally from your opinions, this limitation is not going to be to burden some on the people or to expensive. I think this is something that this is a clarification that probably should have been made a while ago. OK. All right. It's just saying, because the insert window is really just not appropriate? Yeah, that's not appropriate anywhere. OK, OK. Should you say insert window per end versus sash replacement? That's a bit bad. If you think it's more efficient. Maybe we should call out like sash. Yeah, if you think it's more clear, this one. Right, I think it is. Yeah, what would we say sash sash replacement is more appropriate than insert windows or Insert windows are not appropriate and then maybe another bullet that says in some cases a Sasha placement. You can put on a distinction between it. So currently the proposed guidelines says replacement window should fit the original window opening full frame replacement or Unframed Sasha replacement kits are acceptable. Oh, okay, great. So it already says that. All right, thank you. Yeah, just trying to, that one's, I don't know if I'm the weird one that it was in, that it was even in there, honestly. Okay. Okay, next proposed change. Currently, the guidelines say that aluminum clad and fiberglass windows may replace steel sash windows on any building when using the same like configuration operation. And the proposed guideline removes the aluminum cloud option and says that only fiberglass windows can replace steel sash windows and add some additional language there except where staff believes in architecturally significant when building has existing intact and a restorable steel sash. This is trying to capture those 1930s steel windows. They're very common. Luminum cloud windows are very common. And what we found is that the aluminum cloud windows, because their aluminum cloud would, the muntons and things kind of thick a little bit, whereas a fiberglass window, because of the fiberglass itself, has more structurally stable, can get a little thinner. And we've found that fiberglass is a better replication of steel than aluminum cloud wood. They're similar. Not, I mean, not dramatically different. Not, that may not dramatically different. That's more of a, this is one of those technical issues. Okay, so moving on to the last one. I'm just to the last slide, so that was all the changes to the guidelines or all the changes to the policies in the guidelines. And just as a final note that Once these guidelines are adopted by the board Staff has been looking at the administrative approval policies and because the design guidelines are only applied at Parker Gray and the Administrative approval policies for windows for the own historic district, often contained the same language. If the board requests it, then if they adopt the Parker Gray design guidelines chapter, then staff could also go through in whatever changes were made for Parker Gray. For the guidelines, we could also just make for the administrative approval policies so that they're aligned and that they don't contradict each other. Now there'll be some exceptions. Yeah. Because for instance, there are differences between the districts. So no policy changes for old historic would be made. This is just, if you're changing language for one guideline for one district, then we've carried over to the admin policies. For instance, if the board wants that. For instance, in Parker Gray, Parker Gray has the 15 foot rule, which is, you know, it ain't beyond 15 feet. You don't look at, old district doesn't have that and we would not change that. This would be just, this would be just those things where we've made a change in this document. You know, I think that there's been a consistency between the two districts for the technical aspects, and we're just trying to capture that for, so that we don't have to, just so that we don't have to wildly different things. But again, we would take that back to the board to review, of course. But we would not be suggesting any significant changes to policies there. If you guys want to explore that, we can do it and bring it back to you. Yeah, I would love that. I've made a lot of suggestions. I'm sorry, I've dominated this meeting. I'm totally here for you all as long as you want to talk to. So I'm a listener as well. But I would like to see the revisions before I vote on it, because it's a lot. And we can do it next meeting. What's it look at our, where you can do it on Wednesday, October 16th, I'm having shoulder surgery and I won't be here. Oh, wow. I'm sorry. But I do want to be here when we look at this. Yeah, we can get, I mean, we can make these changes quickly, and we just have to look at our advertising, docket advertisement requirements and then we'll get, get it as soon as we can. Yeah, I think, um, the changes, you know, are, are pervasive in the document, but they're not, um, so much that I'm thinking we probably don't need to have another committee meeting. Well, it's a present. I, I agree with you. At least not on this subject matter. Otherwise I'm going to go get sold shoulder surgery. Don't want to have shoulder surgery. No. I'm just going to lie down and give a Soto surgery. I just narrowly avoided shoulder surgery. You don't want to. I don't want to have another committee meeting on windows either. So, okay. Fair enough. I mean, I think that's, I think that's, the role the committee is to provide a draft and guidance to the board. The board has heard it, the board has provided response. We're going to integrate that into it. We're not going to make any changes. We're not going to, we're going to reflect what you said and make sure we capture it right. That's all we're doing now. So I think staff has a good path forward based on all the feedback that was provided tonight. Some decisions have been made based on some of the policies and then we just need to tweak some of the language to get that right. So I think we can have a better draft next time and hopefully get it adopted at that point. I do want to just thank everybody on the committee. I know you guys work super hard on this, and I think most of this is excellent. So I know shade. You're a job. You're really like you guys. This is, and just to be, you know, clear with everybody, Windows are probably the hardest chapter we have. Windows are super technical. And so it's five meetings for Windows. Yeah. I mean, Windows are super technical. And so it's five meetings for that window. I mean, Windows are super technical. You know, the knowledge level that you have to have to even have the discussion is pretty high. Because there's so technical, there's so many aspects to them. And then there's so many variables that you're doing. So it's a very difficult conversation. This is the, this has been our most painful chapter. But I think it is probably that way because of the nature of it. So I mean, I'm hoping going forward, you know, we're going to have next chapter we're taking to the committee as signs. We hope to move that pretty quickly and then you know, can you move forward? I think it's the same as the same. No, I have not. City attorney and outside. Yeah, they have not. They haven't gone to the committee. To them. the We had the briefing on some signs are considered art and there's a lot of Supreme Court. Yeah, the city was gonna come up with an interpretive. So the city's doing a Overall sign overall change to the sign ordinance citywide and that's as part of it and that's has not gone to To the council yet. And then we did discuss in our committee the possibility of having, you know, me scenario painted as one color, in which case that way we are not in a position to determine whether something is a sign or a piece of our work So we'll see how that is that it was that reviewed with the I have not yet. No, yeah, we have the center The you know, maybe the trim can be in a color and the other the rest of the building should just be one They can always bring it to the board. Mm-hmm. But that way I have not really that was yet honestly We just you know the coffee I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I have not been able to see it. I'm sorry. Is that anything else Mr. Conkey? Yes. Only thing I want to point out to everyone tonight. We have our next date of our next hearing is weird. It is Monday night, the 30th. We have a. September 30th. September 30th is a Monday night, not a Wednesday night. So don't show up on Wednesday. I won't be here. Oh, I had it as a first. Yes. We had to change it from for a holiday. Just a Tuesday. Yeah, it was a Tuesday now. It's a Monday. That's why I make sure I pointed out that's everyone's night. Could you send us an invite? Yeah. Like an email invite? Yeah, sure. So can I just ask then, is the next one, because you brought up the 16th, because the next one is a Tuesday, right? just because when you mentioned the 16th and I looked at it the one after that is the next one after that is on the 15th which is Tuesday correct yeah let me let me pull up the document so right now okay so we so here's our schedule September 18th that's tonight Monday September 30th that's the next one after that we have Tuesday October 15th yes so we've got some that's the day before my soul of surgery I hate you here. You'll be here. I mean, it's well be here. I mean, you just be worried about your shoulder anyways. I don't think I'll be able to eat anything, but I'll be here. Oh, you'll be in a great mood. It'll be perfect for you. I don't know where. All right, let's adjourn. Thank you. That is a little calendar up there in that corner. Good night. Bye. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. 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I'm sorry. I think most people just kind of see call-click connect and maybe the mayor and some city council issues, but we learned everything from how IT works with old buildings to the benefits of the historical and archeological kind of digs that the city does. It really helps participants understand how city government and services work while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from and city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also we're willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the City Academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our wants upon a time and wants the residents hear it when they leave. They go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very interesting and I think everybody every resident should be enrolled in. As someone who's been through the city academy I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. Alex and Ria's waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys. And our community's combined sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage. And all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. This historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law but we're still working to change it and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Oranoko Bay. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooves One. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Oldtown. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems, because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of storm water and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects, costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans, we'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hello. Can we get your father's? Okay. I'm going to go to the next one. you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do bid. And it's easy and it's fun. And you can make a big difference. For many, many years, Revealing Together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners. And it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. It's so cool to see that some people never came to the park and now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. You know, it makes sense to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were need to a mentoring and that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade three through six, and cultural activities, educational activities, and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of this city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a parkingorship because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money, but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership. And I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you got to back up your words with action. I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the City. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor hasn't that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a Farmers Market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. And you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We had had vendors who have been here for four generations and remember hearing stories about their parents traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raised on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family's had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great-grandfather that started then. We also have a great contingency of really neat arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos, we have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, so there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market, you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their capables, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food and beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area. So it's just part of our life. It's amazing that community and the support that we get here, they're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market has opened year round, range, shine or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. you you The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot, or a street. And it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of stormwater, but also when that stormwater runs across those hard surfaces or impervious areas, it can pick up pollutants. And this water goes straight to our storm drain system, which leads to our local streams, the Potelmic River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives. And we work hard at the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding, and you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water and soil and blocks in the soil line. Leath pick up street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and elicit discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's storm water program. We're building storm water BMPs like fire retention cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire The Fire Tad's a great guy. I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. Add a boy. Wait, Todd. What are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the Baton Trademark Office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home learning how to basically do everything again, speak, walk walk and regain his independence. My name is Brian Brown. Vision Zero is an all-hands-on-deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in city of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community and what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that that happened. you you you you you you you you you I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. 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All the kind comments about my child joy. I don't feel thank you as enough. That's... I'm sorry. I think most people just kind of see Call Click Connect and maybe the mayor and some city council issues but we've learned everything from how IT works with old buildings to the benefits of the historical and archeological kind of digs that the city does. It really helps participants understand how city government and services work while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from and city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also we're willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the city academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our wants upon a time, and wants the residents hear it. When they leave, they go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun, everything. It's fun to come over here and listen, and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very touristy, and I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria, Alexandria. To fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is to fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. Alexandria's waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our community's combined sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law, but we're still working to change it, and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls, or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Orinoco Bay. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek, and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooves-Won. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay and while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design, and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans. We'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. 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You know, it makes sense to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were in need of mentoring. And that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grades three through six. In cultural activities, educational activities, and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of this city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation, and cultural activities, and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners. And then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a partnership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership and I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you got to back up your words with action and I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmer's market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. You can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We have had vendors who have been here for four generations and remember hearing stories about their parents traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raised on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family's had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really neat arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, so there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their caps, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food and beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area. So it's just part of our life. It's amazing that community and the support that we get here, they're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids. And so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market has opened year-round, range, shine or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot or a street, and it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of stormwater, but also when that stormwater runs across those hard surfaces or in pervious areas, it can pick up pollutants and this water goes straight to our storm drain system which leads to our local streams, the Potomac River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives and we were part of the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean aspect of our lives. And we were part of the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay, and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding and you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil and blocks in the soil line. Leath Pickup, Street Sweeping, Catch-Base & Cleaning, BMP Inspection, and Elissa Discharge Detection and Elimination are all part of the city's stormwater program. We're building stormwater BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River, and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. I'm going to get a new one. I'm going to get a new one. I'm going to get a new one. I'm going to get a new one. I'm going to get a new one. I'm going to get a new one. 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One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in the city of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community and what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that happened. you you you you you you you you Thank you. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna go for it. Come on, come on, come on! Become a member of a nationally accredited police department. Accept the challenge. Answer the call. Join our community. The Alexandria Police Department, recruiting now. You're beautiful, right? No, no. You can be more beautiful. I got bullied for wearing glasses. She's so beautiful. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. 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I thought it was really cool to learn from city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also we're willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the city academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean it's our wants upon a time and once the residents hear it when they leave they go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the CD does for their residents. Very touristy, and I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people, helping make Alexandria, Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. Alex Andrias waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our communities combine sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community is already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law, but we're still working to change it, and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls, or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Ornoco Bay. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek, and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooveswun. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the work will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans. We'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I love you. Hello. Can we get your father's? you you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do our bid and it's easy and it's fun and you can make a big difference. For many many years, Rebuilding Together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners and it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. So cool to see that some people never came to the park and now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. You know, it makes sense to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were need to a mentoring and that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade three through six in cultural activities, educational activities and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of the city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership and I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things but you got to back up your words with action and I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmers market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket and you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety and it's just much more interactive. We have had vendors who have been here for four generations and remember hearing stories about their appearance traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raise on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family has had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's, great-grandfather that started down. We also have a great contingency of really neat arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, so there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their cows, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food and beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area, so it's just part of our life. It's amazing the community and the support that we get here. They're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the Farmers Market. The Old Town Farmers Market is open year-round, range, shine, or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to go to the bathroom. The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot, or a street. And it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of stormwater, but also when that stormwater runs across those hard surfaces or in pervious areas, it can pick up pollutants and this water goes straight to our storm drain system which leads to our local streams, the Potomac River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives and we work hard at the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil, and blocks in the soil line. Leath pick up street sweeping catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections and a list of discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's soil water program. We're building soil water BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get you a new one. I'm going to get'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Todd's a great guy. I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. Add a boy. Wait, Todd, what are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. 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No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in the City of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community. And what we've heard is that education, enforcement, and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that that happened. you you you you you you you you Thank you. 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I thought it was really cool to learn from city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also we're willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the city academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean it's our wants upon a time and wants the residents hear it when they leave, they go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the CD does for their residents. Very interesting and I think everybody every resident should be enrolled. As someone who's been through the city academy I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. The Allegs andrias waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our communities combine sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law, but we're still working to change it, and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Orano-Cobai. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek. And the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooves-Swan. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects, costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans. We will also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. 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We mentor young girls from grade three through six in cultural activities, educational activities and social activities all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of the city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership. And I think that's what's key, working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you gotta back up your words with action. And I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog Owners Group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmer's market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmers market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. And you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We have had vendors who have been here for four generations, and remember hearing stories about their parents traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raise on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family has had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great-grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really need arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving. So there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market, you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their cows, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food in beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market has opened year round, range, shine, or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. 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So this is an important aspect of our lives and we were hard at the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay, and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil, and blocks in the soil line. Leaf pickup, street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and a list of discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's storm water program. We're building storm water BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River, and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. You Tards are a great guy. I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. At a boy. Wait, Todd, what are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the Baton Trademark Office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home learning how to basically do everything again, speak, walk and regain his independence. Vision Zero is an all hands on deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths in serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users. And Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on US roadways last year, and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in City of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community. And what we've heard is that education, enforcement, and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to mean that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that happened. you you you you you you you you Music I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna go home. The Police Department Accept the challenge. Answer the call. Join our community. The Alexandria Police Department, recruiting now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Calls me to a coffee, guys. You know you're beautiful, right? No, no. You can be more beautiful. I got bullied for wearing glasses. Share if you're against bullying. We put it out there, just took off. 3 million people have shared this post. Don't let bullies get you down. I stand with you. I call families wearing glasses. Hey. I wear glasses and I'm proud. I even have the army of my kids. All the kind comments about my child Joy. I don't feel thank you as enough. That's... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I think most people just kind of see Call Click Connect and maybe the mayor and some city council issues, but we've learned everything from how IT works with old buildings to the benefits of the historical and archeological kind of digs at the city does. It really helps participants understand how city government and services work while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the City Academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our once upon a time and once the residents hear it, when they leave, they go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very interesting. I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled in. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria, Alexandria. It's the fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you develop some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great Alex Andrews Waterways The Great The Great The Great Alex Andrews Waterways The Great Alex Andrews Waterways The Great Alex Andrews Waterways The Great Alex Andrews Waterways The Great and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our communities combine sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for storm water and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law but we're still working to change it and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Ornoco Bay. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooveswun. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, where especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans, will also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh Can we get strawberries? Okay. you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do our bid and it's easy and it's fun. And you can make a big difference. For many, many years, Revealing together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners and it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. It's so cool to see that some people never came to the park and now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. You know, it makes sense to me, who were in need of mentoring and that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade 3 through 6 in cultural activities, educational activities and social activities all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of this city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that would give you park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership and I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things but you got to back up your words with action and I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the old town farmers market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmers market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket and you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety and it's just much more interactive. We had had vendors who have been here for four generations and remember hearing stories about their parents traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raise on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family's had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great-grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really neat arts and crafts vendors. We have all kind of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, so there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmers market you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their cows, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food in beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area, so it's just it's part of our life. It's amazing the community and the support that we get here. They're very much so into small businesses, handmade artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market is open year round, range, shine, or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. The storm water happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot, or a street. And it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of storm water, but also when that storm water runs across those hard surfaces or in pervious areas, it can pick up pollutants. and this water goes straight to our storm drain system which leads to our local streams, the Potelmic River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives and we were part of the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trunks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil, and blocks in the soil line. Leath pickup, street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and elicit discharge, detection and elimination are all part of the city's stormwater program. We're building stormwater BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. you Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. Add a boy. Wait, Todd, what are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago, my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the batten in trademark office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home learning how to basically do everything again, speak, walk and regain his independence. Vision Zero is an all hands on deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths in serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our road map to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in the city of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community. And what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that that happened. you you you you you you you you Music I'm going to have to go. The Join our community. The Alexandria Police Department recruiting now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Call me Duke, please. You know you're beautiful, right? No, you're beautiful. I got bullied for wearing glasses. Share if you your against bullying. We put it out there, just took off. 3 million people have shared this post. Don't let bullies get you down, I stand with you. I call families wearing glasses. I wear glasses and I'm proud. I even have the army of my kids. All the kind comments about my child joy. I don't feel thank you as enough. That's true. I'm sorry. I think most people just kind of see call-click connect and maybe the mayor and some city council issues but we learned everything from how IT works with old buildings to the benefits of the historical and archeological kind of digs that the city does. It really helps participants understand how city government and services work, while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from the city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the City Academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our wants upon a time and wants the residents hear it when they leave. They go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very interesting. I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the City of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program, I've developed close bonds with people that I still talk to today. The Allegs andrias waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems and pollutants from streets and alleys and our communities combine sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law, but we're still working to change it, and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls, or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Orano-Co-Bae. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek, and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooves-Swun. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay, and while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plan. The rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans. We'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm it. Can we get your father's? Okay. you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do our bid and it's easy and it's fun and you can make a big difference. From many many years, Rebellying Together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners and it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. So cool to see that some people never came to the park. And now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. It makes sense to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were in need of a mentoring and that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade 3 through 6 in cultural activities, educational activities and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see as a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of the city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership and I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you got to back up your words with action. I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that, and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmer's market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. And you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is, of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We have had vendors who have been here for four generations, and remember hearing stories about their appearance traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raised on our farm, and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family has had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great-grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really need arts and craft vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving. So there's always something going on. And the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market, you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and Ask them how they keep their cows ask them how they grow their peppers It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and fresh food and beautiful flowers It's a gathering place for people who live in the area So it's just it's part of our life. It's amazing the community and the support that we get here. They're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family. We get to know their kids. And so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Oldton Farmers Market has been year round, rain, shine or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 Kings Street, which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. you The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a root top, a parking lot, or a street. And it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of storm water, but also when that storm water runs across this hard surfaces or impervious areas, it can pick up pollutants. And this water goes straight to our storm drain system, which leads to our local streams, the Potomac River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives and we were part of the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two VACD-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent bloody. We send a camera down to locate water, soil, and blocks in the soil line. Leath pickup, street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and a list of discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's stormwater program. We're building stormwater BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. No! The End What a sweetheart. At a boy. Wait, Todd. What are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago, my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the batting and trademark office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks, and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. I'm not going to be able to talk to them all if they're not going to get in trouble. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home learning how to basically do everything again, speak, walk and regain his independence. My name is Brian Brown. Vision Zero is an all-hands-on-deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths in serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in city of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community. And what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to effect and change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. 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The Alexandria Police Department, recruiting now. Calls me Duke, could he eyes? You know you're beautiful, right? I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. I'm not a good boy. We put it out there, just took off. 3 million people have shared this post. Don't let bullies get you down. I stand with you. I call families wearing glasses. I wear glasses and I'm proud. I even have the army of mates. All the kind comments about my child Joy. I don't feel thank you as enough. That's... You I think most people just kind of see call-click connect and maybe the mayor and some city council issues, but we learned everything from how IT works with old buildings to the benefits of the historical and archeological kind of digs at the city does. It really helps participants understand how city government and services work while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from and city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable, but also willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the city academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our wants upon a time and wants the residents hear it when they leave, they go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very interesting. I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled in. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people helping make Alexandria Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the City of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you've developed some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed close-ups with people that I still talk to today. The Allegs andrias waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our community's combined sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law, but we're still working to change it, and more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls, or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Oranoka Bay. The second is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Orano-Cobai. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek, and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooves-Won. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% of the bacteria in our waterways. That's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and taken other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store-and-treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost-effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing as quickly as we can to plan, design, and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer-related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans, we'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm you. Can we get strawberries? Okay. you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do our bid. And it's easy and it's fun. And you can make a big difference. For many, many years, Rebellion Together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners. And it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. So cool to see that some people never came to the park and now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. You know, it makes sense to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were in need of mentoring. And that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade three through six, in cultural activities, educational activities, and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see is a long-term result of the partnership. Seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state, of this country, of the city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners and then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership and I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you gotta back up your words with action. I think that's what the Simpson Park Doggo and his group does in partnership with the Business Association and the city. So we appreciate that, and we look forward to more. Work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor has it that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmers market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. And you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We had had vendors who have been here for four generations, and remember hearing stories about their parents traveling to market with Corson Buggy. We raised on our farm, and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family's had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's great-grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really need arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving. So there's always something going on. And the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their capels, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and to get fresh food and beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area so it's just part of our life. It's amazing the community and the support that we get here. They're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market is open year round, range, shine, or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street, which is right at Market Square and front No City Hall. you The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot or a street, and it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of stormwater, but also when that stormwater runs across those hard surfaces or impervious areas, it can pick up pollutants and this water goes straight to our storm drain system which leads to our local streams, the Potelmic River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives. And we were part of the city and the storm water management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay, and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two vector trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is the method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil, and blocks in the soil line. Leaf pickup, street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and a listed discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's stormwater program. We're building stormwater BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the aspect of our daily lives. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you. Tards a great guy. I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. At a boy. Wait, Todd. What are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the Baton Trademark Office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks, and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home, learning how to basically do everything again speak, walk and regain his independence. My name is Brian Brown. Vision Zero is an all-hands-on-deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in City of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community and what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that that happened. you you you you you you you you I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go back to the place where I'm gonna go. The The become a member of a nationally accredited police department. Accept the challenge. Answer the call. Join our community. The Alexandria Police Department. Recruiting now. You're the only one who can't be a good girl. You're the only one who can't be a good girl. You're the only one who can't be a good girl. You're the only one who can't be a good girl. You're the only one who can't be a good girl. 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It really helps participants understand how city government and services work while also providing a purpose for the work that they do. I thought it was really cool to learn from and city employees who all are extremely passionate about their jobs and really not only knowledgeable but also we're willing to give their own time to help us understand how our city works and functions and spends money. One of the things I really love about the city academy is the fact that you get a chance to tell the story. I mean it's our once upon a chance to tell the story. I mean, it's our wants upon a time and wants the residents hear it when they leave. They go out and they become some of our strongest advocates. Fun! Everything! It's fun to come over here and listen and learn. I learned all the details that the city does for their residents. Very interesting. I think everybody, every resident should be enrolled in. As someone who's been through the city academy, I can tell you it was a great way to spend nine weeks learning about the community and meeting some amazing people, helping make Alexandria, Alexandria. The fact that you get to meet so many interesting people who care about the city of Alexandria just like you do. One of the benefits of this program is the fact that you develop some core relationships that can last for quite some time. Since my time in the program I've developed those bonds with people that I still talk to today. Alexandria's waterways are an integral part of our community. They contribute to a high quality of life for our residents and serve as an important draw for tourists. But while they're beautiful to look at, they can be unhealthy to swim or fish in. There are many different reasons for that, including stormwater runoff, pet waste, septic systems, and pollutants from streets and alleys, and our communities combine sewer system. That's why we've been doing something about it. 95% of Alexandria is served by separate pipes for stormwater and sewage, and all this sewage flows to treatment plants that clean the water before it goes back into local rivers and streams. Our community has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that we have one of the most modern and efficient treatment systems in the region. But in the oldest historic part of Alexandria, 5% of the city remains served by the original combined sewer system dating back to the 1800s. In a combined sewer system, both sewage and stormwater flow through the same pipes to the treatment plant. The problem is that almost every time it rains, the pipes can't handle the volume in a mixture of stormwater and sewage overflows into local waterways. This is allowed under state permits and federal law but we're still working to change it in more than 800 communities across the country are working to address similar issues. The overflows occur at four combined sewer outfalls or CSOs. The first is located at the end of Pendleton Street at Orno Co. Bay. The second is located at the end of Royal Street at Hunting Creek and the third and fourth are along Duke Street at Hooveswun. All of our waterways lead to the Potomac River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. And while Alexandria's combined sewer system is only accountable for about 2% of the bacteria in our waterways, that's still 2% too much. For more than a decade, the city has required sewer separation as part of development and redevelopment projects in Old Town. As a result, the private sector has contributed tens of millions of dollars. The city has made extensive structural improvements to the outfalls and take other proactive steps to address this issue. Our remediation plan includes the store and treat strategy being pursued by hundreds of other cities with combined sewer systems because it's less disruptive to neighbors and more cost effective than other strategies. This involves building massive underground tanks and tunnels, some as big as a football field. They'll store the excess volume of stormwater and sewage when it rains. After the rain ends, the system will pump the storage tanks and tunnels back to the treatment plant. Overflows will only occur a few times a year during the heaviest of rains. Removing this quickly as we can to plan, design, and construct these tanks and tunnels. Each outflow requires different complex engineering solutions, and the work for all four outfalls must be coordinated simultaneously while adhering to federal and state regulations. Once construction begins, the worker will require the removal of tens of thousands of truckloads of dirt and many months of pile driving. These are also very expensive projects costing about $400 million over 10 years. That money will come from significant increases in the sewer related fees paid for by residents, businesses, and nonprofits. Because this is such a large effort with significant financial and construction impacts, we're especially committed to involving the community in our progress and plans, we'll also do our best to mitigate the inconvenience of this work as much as possible. There's a lot to do in a short period of time, but we're moving forward to promote clean waterways for generations to come. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. I'm going to get you a little bit more. Oh, hello. Can we get strawberries? Okay. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. you you you you you you you you It's really how our communities only improve when we do our bit and it's easy and it's fun and you can make a big difference. For many, many years, Rebellion Together has had volunteers come into this neighborhood here in Hume Springs and provide the free home repairs to the homeowners. And it's only a natural extension of ours to do community work. So cool to see that some people never came to the park and now folks are coming on a daily basis just because of the rehab. My motivation for helping kids and families in Alexandria is simple. I live here. I want to help kids and families in the place where I live. You know it makes sense to to me to make sure that our kids and families have what they need to be successful. The city gave us a great opportunity to service girls who were in need of a mentoring and that's what we're here to do. We mentor young girls from grade 3 through 6 and cultural activities, educational activities, and social activities, all to broaden their horizons on their society and the world around them. What I hope to see as a long-term result of the partnership is seeing young ladies thrive, go on to college and be successful citizens and productive citizens of this state of this country of the city of Alexandria. A bunch of us got together from the community and we tried to figure out a way we could work with the city parks recreation and cultural activities and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership way we could work with the city, parks, recreation and cultural activities, and the Delray Business Association to form a partnership whereby we could raise funds with a lot of the community members and also business owners. And then the city would provide matching funds that we could do park improvements. I think it's a park ownership because what we're trying to do is show that we have like a vested interest in this. Part of that vested interest is not only raising money but also devoting time, volunteer work, that kind of thing. So part of this is like stewardship and ownership. And I think that's what's key working with the city and the community to get things done. It's easy to sit around and talk about what you want the city to do or demand things, but you gotta back up your words with action. And I think that's what the Simpson Park Dog owners group does in partnership with the Business Association and the City. So we appreciate that and we look forward to more work ahead. The old tunnel Alexandria Farmers Market is the longest continuously running farmers market in the US. We've been open since 1753 and rumor hasnt that George Washington actually sold his vegetables on site here. We have about 75 different vendors here at the Old Town Farmers Market. Most of our produce is local. We draw farms from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Going to a farmers market means you're getting it very fresh. It's usually picked the day before. It hasn't traveled hundreds of miles to get here. There's a great deal more variety than what you would find in a supermarket. And you can talk to the grower and find out information about how to cook it, what the background is of the variety, and it's just much more interactive. We have had vendors who have been here for four generations and remember hearing stories about their appearance traveling to market with Carson Buggy. We raise on our farm and that farm has been in our family for 325 years. My family's had a farm in Hampshire County prior to the revolution. Now it's my grandfather's, great grandfather that started that. We also have a great contingency of really need arts and crafts vendors. We have all kinds of events. We have yoga events once a month. We also do chef demos, cooking demos. We have kids activities like cooking decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, so there's always something going on and the relationships that you build are also important. So when you're shopping at a farmer's market you can actually have that conversation with your vendor or with your rancher and ask them how they keep their capels, ask them how they grow their peppers. It's just really nice to have this great community place to see neighbors and get fresh food and beautiful flowers. It's a gathering place for people who live in the area. So it's just part of our life. It's amazing the community and the support that we get here. They're very much so into small businesses, handmade, artisan products. We have poor customers who come back year after year after year. We get to know their family, we get to know their kids, and so it's a community thing. It's so important for people to shop local because you really are supporting your community when you shop at the farmers market. The Old Town Farmers Market is open year-round, range, shine, or snow from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. We're located at 301 King Street which is right at Market Square and front of City Hall. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. The The stormwater happens when it rains and the water runs off a hard surface like a rooftop, a parking lot or a street, and it doesn't soak into the ground. So what this does is increases the amount of stormwater, but also when that storm water runs across those hard surfaces or impervious areas, it can pick up pollutants. And this water goes straight to our storm drain system, which leads to our local streams, the Potomac River, and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. So this is an important aspect of our lives. And we work hard at the city and the stormwater management program to protect our local streams, to protect the Chesapeake Bay and to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and meeting our state and federal mandates while we protect the environment. The city has two back-to-trucks dedicated to cleaning catch basins. That's important because we have two primary functions. One is to clean the catch basins to prevent pollution from entering our streams and rivers. The second one is to remove the clogging and debris so that it will prevent flooding. And you don't want that to happen. CCTV is a method we use in the city to prevent flooding. We send a camera down to locate water, soil and blocks in the soil line. Leif pick up street sweeping, catch basin cleaning, BMP inspections, and a list of discharge detection and elimination are all part of the city's stormwater program. We're building stormwater BMPs like bioretension cells and wet ponds to treat the runoff of hard surfaces throughout the city. The best way to help keep local streams, the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay clean is to prevent pollution before it starts. Pollution prevention is critical to the improvement of water quality in our streams. Strong water is truly an important aspect of our daily lives. Oh Todd's a great guy. I mean, look at him. What a sweetheart. Add a boy. Wait, Todd, what are you doing? How totally selfish and untodd like of you. Come on, Todd. Come on, man. 18 months ago my husband Ryan Brown got hit by a car while he was on his way home from work at the Baton Trademark Office. The injury rendered him immediately unconscious, put him in a coma for about two and a half weeks and then he was in the hospital for four months after that. 90% of people who have an injury like this never wake up. He has been an outpatient therapy since he got home, learning how to basically do everything again, speak, walk, and regain his independence. My name is Brian Brown. Vision Zero is an all hands on deck approach to eliminate all traffic deaths in serious injuries in Alexandria by 2028. One crash that involves a death or serious injury is one too many. Alexandria is working to make our roads safer for all users and Vision Zero is our roadmap to getting that done. There was 37,000 deaths on U.S. roadways last year and it's expected to go over 40,000 in 2017. We haven't seen sharp increases like that since the mid-1960s. No one should have to experience the pain and suffering that goes along with an injury like this or a death. We have to change this old mindset that accidents will happen and take them seriously and do our part to avoid crashes. If we do that, we collectively as a community come together and reach zero deaths and seriously injured in the city of Alexandria. We've received over a thousand comments from the community and what we've heard is that education, enforcement and engineering improvements are key to affecting change, along with working together to change the culture of how we move around our city each day. If there's something that we can do to help prevent this from happening to somebody else, let's do it. It's important to me that if we can prevent an injury like Ryan's or I know there are several deaths in Alexandria last year from happening that that that happened. you you