 My name is Monica Garza and I'm the Director of Community Wellness for the YMCA of Greater San Antonio and I am the moderator for this portion of your morning. It's called Scratch Made and is under the action portion of the Built Environment Conference. And before I introduce our speakers, I'm going to briefly share with you about a great event that I have the privilege of overseeing here in the city called Ciclovilla. Is anybody familiar with Ciclovilla? I know Laura is in the frontier. So real briefly I want to share with you about this initiative that the city started almost three years ago now. And most people generally can't say Ciclovilla so that's the first piece of the presentation. But Ciclovilla is a free event to the community. And what it does is it allows us to make streets car-free for a temporary period and open up the streets for pedestrians, cyclists and walkers. It's a really just innovative concept that actually started about 30 years ago in Bogota, Colombia. In Bogota they started with about 8 miles of street closures and now 30 years later they actually close over 70 miles anywhere from half a million to a million people go out and literally play on the street every Sunday. So what it's allowed is it's allowed people to be able to envision the streets in a much different capacity to be able to see that streets do belong to pedestrians, to walkers, to cyclists and we have taken on and adapted that concept with our Ciclovilla. The city was awarded a very large grant in 2011 called Communities Putting Prevention to Work from the federal government and it was overseen by the Department of Metro Health here locally and they were looking for community partners to oversee Ciclovilla with them because they knew for long-term sustainability once the grant was over that somebody would have to be able to take that over so that's where the why came into play. And so Ciclovilla here in San Antonio has happened six times. We just had our last event on March the 30th and I'm just going to real quickly just show you some of the public health goals that happen with an event like Ciclovilla. One of them of course is to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles by getting people active and moving in a community and allowing it to be in a safe environment then people are going to learn how to use their streets a little bit more effectively. We do a lot of education during Ciclovilla. We talk about bike safety, rules of the road and those types of things. It also provides access to physical activity. We have recreational areas along the way where we promote physical activities that people can stop at at hubs to be able to do that or reclavia areas. It also is an opportunity for us to engage the whole family. We have people that come out to our event who are toddlers or parents with their kids and strollers all the way up to seniors and even those who may be wheelchair bound or have limited mobility are able to come out and literally play in the street in a much more safe family friendly environment. It also does promote different forms of active transportation. We've had the opportunity to do temporary bike lanes, encourage people on how to use bike lanes. One of the things that I've seen in Minneapolis which also does an open streets project is that they did a temporary bike track for the day. It was an initiative that was going to take place in a certain area so they were able to mock one up for the day so people could see what that bike track would look like and learn how to use it in the safe environment of no cars so that when it actually came into fruition then they would be a little bit more open to the possibility of that. And then I think one of the big pieces that Ciclovilla does is it actually encourages communities from diverse cultures to be able to come together. Although we may not necessarily see our country in some cases as being segregated we do have a mentality sometimes of the people in the south part of town staying in the south part of town, the people in the north part staying in the north part and there are initiatives all over the country where Ciclovillas are literally bringing communities together of very different cultures. I just was able to experience this in LA at their Ciclovilla that was actually on Wilshire Boulevard and Korea Town was the main focal point of this area so people were coming in to these different communities. So I just wanted to share real briefly what an event like Ciclovilla can do. I have a lot of great pictures. This is one of our mayor and he has been a big supporter of Ciclovilla here locally. The YMCA is very proud to be able to organize this event in partnership with the city and we have some incredible sponsors with HEV and Humana but this type of initiative really does take a community to put together. Our Ciclovillas here in San Antonio have ranged anywhere of 50,000 and above. When we first had our first one in October of 2011 we had about 15,000 people and now we have had upwards of 70,000 people. So when you consider that it's a lot of people getting out into the street playing using the street in a way that we did or they did many years ago and they're also learning how to ride their bikes in a safe environment. Walking becomes much more accessible and so we have this event two times a year. Open Streets projects have grown significantly all throughout North America and there are over 100 of them as well as in other parts of the world and country. So if you have an opportunity please visit our website Ciclovilla.org I'm going to brush through some of these quick pictures of our route and what have you. We're able to share rules of the road, show people how to be a little safer while they're out on the street, work with railway safety also if you're going over railroad tracks that's something we can incorporate to our event for education purposes. And then real quickly before I introduce our guest speakers I want to just share with you that one of the things we got to do at our last Ciclovilla is a Better Block project. Better Block is an initiative very similar to what Chuck was talking about earlier where you take a space and you basically mock it up or urbanize it for a day. We had the permission of the city to do this mock-up on Ciclovilla Day but we took the property on the left which were these two buildings and we made them look like they do on the right. So here's a little bit better. We created a farmer's market, a dog park and we essentially mocked it up for the day so the people who came to Ciclovilla were able to see what a particular space could look like if somebody invested in that space. It was a tremendous success. We had volunteers who came out to help us do the mock-up. We had a farmer's market, we had an olive oil tasting station. It was a great day and a lot of fun and a huge piece of a new route that we were starting in March so that people can see the south portion of our city revitalized in a real positive way so we're excited about that. So again, my name is Monica and I will moderate for the other two folks who are going to be doing some other great speaking on some initiatives that they're doing in their prospective communities. And first up we have Justin Golbabi. He serves as the program manager for the city of Austin and the neighborhood partnering program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in local government city management from the University of Kansas. And he was driven by the question, what environment best facilitates human flourishing? So Justin's career has taken him all over the world from the British Parliament to shelters for immigrants and refugees to work as a city and neighborhood planner. And he will be presenting to you in just a moment. And then we also have Erica Ragsdale. She's led several low budget, high impact projects in and around Austin and both her capacities as community advocate and local government employee. She recognized her love for walkable mixed use spaces in communities while living in downtown San Marcos and attending Texas State University. Now the senior planner for the city of Hutto, Hutto, right? She is the board of directors, on the board of directors for the Congress of the New Urban, Urbanism Central Texas Chapter and was recently just named the 2013 planner of the year by the Central Texas Chapter of the American Planning Association. So Justin, we'll come up first. Monica, I really appreciate it. As Chuck was talking about earlier, there's a growing national trend of citizens basically taking public spaces for themselves and taking ownership of those public spaces. They're not asking for permission. They're just, a lot of times they're going out and painting things and just taking ownership of that space. In doing that, invariably what happens is what they do is not up to code, it's not up to regulation. And the city ends up coming down on them and they, as the cities, we look like idiots to be very frank. I want to give you an example of that in Los Angeles. You had no access to healthy food. If every time you walk out your door, you see the ill effects that the present food system have on your neighborhood. I see wheelchairs bought and sold like used cars. I see dialysis centers popping up like Starbucks. And I figured this has to stop. So I figured that the problem is the solution. Food is the problem and food is the solution. Plus I got tired of driving 45 minutes round trip to get an apple that wasn't impregnated with pesticides. So what I did, I planted a food force in front of my house. It's on the strip of land that we call a parkway. It's like 150 feet by like 10 feet. The thing is, it's owned by the city. But you have to maintain it. So I'm like, cool. I can do whatever the hell I want. Since it's my responsibility and I got to maintain it, this is how I decided to maintain it. So me and my group, L.A. Greengrounds, we got together and we started planting my food force, fruit trees, you know, the whole knife, vegetables. What we do here, we're a pay-for kind of group where it's composed of like gardeners from all walks of life, from all over the city. And it's completely volunteering. Everything we do is free. And in the garden it was beautiful. And then somebody complained. The city came down on me. And they basically gave me a citation saying that I had to remove my garden, which this citation would turn into a warrant. And I'm like, come on, really? A warrant for planting food on a piece of land that you could care less about? And I was like, cool. Bring it. Because this time it wasn't coming up. So L.A. Times got hold of it. Steve Lopez did a story on it. And talked to the councilman. And one of the Greengrounds members, they put up a petition on change.org. And with 900 signatures, we were a success. We had a victory on our hand. My councilman even called in and said how they endorse and love what we're doing. I mean, come on, why wouldn't they? L.A. leaves the United States in vacant lots that the city actually own. They own 26 square miles of vacant lots. That's 20 central parks. That's enough space to plant 700 million, 725 million tomato plants. Why in the hell would they not okay this? Growing one plant will give you 1,000, 10,000 seeds. When $1 worth of green beans will give you like $75 worth of produce. It's like my gospel. I'm telling people, grow your own food. Growing your own food is like printing your own money. As a city employee, that video honestly is embarrassing. That ordinary citizens find city government so inaccessible. Our job as a city government should be to empower people. Instead, we're often looked like this. I did not become a public servant to be this guy. Yet, it seems like organizationally, we've built in this culture of no. And we don't really say no to citizens. It's not how we say it. We term things differently. Let's say for example in this one, let's say an example in this one, let's say this guy here came to the city with a proposal. And this is something that I get a lot. Let's say they say, if you build us a park on this vacant piece of land, I'll mow the lawn and I'll build you a giant birdhouse. If this guy came to the city, a typical response from a city would be, well, we have no funding for that park. We have who's going to, what about the liability issues of you mowing the lawn? Is the birdhouse certified architect going to be doing the thing? And we put up so many barriers in front of people that city government becomes inaccessible. And this is the issue that we find. And so a lot of these grassroots efforts don't get done. We're missing an opportunity to leverage talents of our community. This is Shovel Ready. Shovel Ready is our department public works mascot. He is kind of exemplifies what we try to be as a public works department, which is the department with a heart. What is it to actually embrace our citizens and kind of be that friendly face for citizens? There's three aspects to partnering with communities that I kind of want to talk about. One of them I think is just really important is what is it for a community to have a single point of contact with a city that's friendly, that's the department of a heart that will listen to your crazy idea and see and is empowered in such a way to actually make it happen. So that's one of my roles in the city. I tend to be the guy that people are coming to and can we do street murals? Can we do a garden? Can we do, you know, and honestly I have to go back to the bureaucracy and see if we can bridge that difference and to make that happen. There seems to be also a missing gap in the way cities do business where there's a gap between a 311 call, which is a call for service, there's a litter pickup or something small, and then building a giant facility and there's an in-between project, the small project that Chuck talked about earlier, that's missing. There's also missing between areas that maybe there's nothing wrong but it's not great and cities just don't have funding to do those and so there's a missing opportunity there. There's also this gap between saying there's no funding available and yes, there is funding. There's got to be an in-between there to make it accessible and finally between saying to someone, do it yourself or we'll do it for you. There's got to be an in-between there and that's kind of where our program lives in-between. So I recently became a new dad at January 31st. I have a three-month-year-old and as such, I am very proud of my son. I'm going to show you a video of my son as a three-month-old learning how to roll over and when we talk about empowering communities, I kind of want to use this video real quick to kind of make a point and so this is my son rolling over for the first time I got to see it. Well, that didn't work. Sorry about that. So imagine that was a video of my son rolling over for the first time. That was going to be awesome, by the way, but sadly now it's not. My point I guess I wanted to make was in this video, you'll see my son really struggling to roll over and honestly, he's not like a great rollover, it was like his first time and me and my wife are like freaking out about him rolling over and on the surface, it's like, what are you doing? It's not even a great rollover. Someone else can, I could roll over better and no one freaks out about it. But I think there's something that's special about building capacity that he started from nothing and at the same time learned how to do something himself which was roll over and when we work with neighborhoods a lot of times it's really inefficient. A contractor could do it better, a contractor could do it cheaper but developing capacity empowering people and to allow that and that capacity building is really important so that was going to be awesome example but sadly it's not. So anyways, example our program again lives kind of in between these three aspects, empowering communities developing in between places and navigating city policy and regulation and being that interface between people, I'm sure there's a lot of programming that goes beyond behind Microsoft Word but as a lay person I just press buttons and can city government be that accessible to be a user interface for city government? So we've developed a program in Austin to kind of bridge the gap between communities not getting permission and trying to make these things permanent. We allow communities that are willing to cost share with the city of Austin and effort share with us to work on small to medium site public improvement projects. Community groups can either contribute cash obviously or donated services like landscape architecture services or materials we value volunteer hours at $22.50 an hour or any combination where the community basically makes a proposal to the city of how they could make an improvement and we've got money in our budget to make some of these small projects happen. Some of the criteria it has to be a neighborhood association it has to be or a community service association or an ethnic group or a religious group or the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, some sort of group it has to be on city property and then 60% of the people who live around that potential project have to approve of the project. We've got these different cost share percentages based on cost and then we've got some other sub-programs we're trying to do an adopt a medium program for example where we're just finding different ways where we can partner with our community. So basically the kind of the way it works I'm in that single point of contact someone gives me a call and says there's a vacant piece of land it has this potential it sounds like it's a good fit me and a full-time project engineer go out there we scope out the project we then give the community a preliminary cost estimate and that gives them the material they need to kind of go forward with their application. We work together on this application and then finally it goes to a board of our public works director our transportation director our parks director and our planning director and they decide which projects we're going to fund. So again this is kind of an example of we'll line up the project and say who's responsible for what make sure those percentages are good I'll give my directors a summary of the project break down a cost the approvals that were gotten lines up with the city's comprehensive plan and neighborhood plans and then again our board will rate it on these values the value of community participation cost sharing quality of life enhancement incorporating city initiatives like sustainability and then are we getting projects all across the city so geographic equity. So some projects we've done we've taken the side of a pool house that was really ugly and the community came and hired an artist called Awesome Mural they've come forward with pedestrian islands they've come forward with trails this is a trail that we're building this fall this is a cycle track that's going to be separated from the roadway and the community is actually making the benches and putting in the dog poop stations so these are kind of examples of the things we do and then this is an example of a community that they took a vacant piece of right-of-way and they're doing a they made a logo on a website and they're doing this awesome community garden on a vacant piece of right-of-way and so our program becomes that pathway to make these little projects happen we as a community as a program don't just partner with the citizens but we're also trying to build partnerships to empower our citizens to take the lead on this one of my big concerns running a cost share program is how are we reaching low-income neighborhoods if it's a cost share that can be preventative and so we've teamed up with AmeriCorps VISTA and they've got an anti-poverty program to try to really target how do we reach low-income neighborhoods any time we're working with parks we're working with our Austin Parks Foundation very closely community gardens we're working with our sustainable food center we've developed a partnership with the University of Texas to they basically they're doing civil engineering does some projects for us they might be doing some websites for projects and then lately I've found that one of the big difference between great applications and not great applications is the access to design resources so basically you know if a community and this is an example of this so this is an example of a baseball park that a community has a lot of African-American history Smokey Joe Williams might have played there Willie Mays played there and if you look at it it has nothing commemorating that history and so the neighborhood came forward and basically sketched out well we want to do a wall with a mural on it and it was not a bad proposal pretty costly for just a stand-alone wall with a mural but for their design expertise not bad we teamed up with our city architect to kind of take their vision and their concept and see if we could incorporate it design-wise and he worked with a UT intern and developed something like this as a concept and where the mural there's an entrance to the park and so design is a big part of how we're trying to bridge those resources so what's the future of neighborhood partnering we're constantly looking for ways to improve do we even need an application can we do workshops and workshop a whole concept how do we reach out to our low-income community our Spanish speaking community how do we broaden our professional groups giving neighborhoods all the tools they need to really be successful can these projects be crowd-funded can they be grant-funded and how do we develop a process where we can turn around an application to building it within 12 to 18 months and so our program is again from concept to actually building it we're kind of doing it all so earlier I talked about the birdhouse example and that wasn't a hypothetical example that was a proposal that came to us and the community saw this triangle and they sketched out what they wanted their park to be and this is a project we moved forward with with trails and picnic tables and landscaping and then so this was finished before I got here and then when I got, took over as the manager of the program, there was one aspect left and that was the birdhouse this was going to be a giant birdhouse it was by the time we figured out how to purchase the materials and things like that what else do you need? we need a pole, not a big deal like no, like a utility pole how am I going to get a utility pole so we contact our Austin Energy got a utility pole then there's questions like how are we going to get this birdhouse on the utility pole and so last week we put up a birdhouse a giant birdhouse and in a sense it's stupid it's kind of like my son rolling over it's like we're really spending city resources building a birdhouse how responsive of a city can we be that we're taking the time to actually respond and even doing something like putting up a birdhouse for a neighborhood and so anyways I think as public servants we should all try to be basically have a heart be a department with a heart and one of the best people I know that has done this successfully is Erica and she's going to give some examples of some things she's done in her community thank you all hi everyone I'm excited to be here my name is Erica Ragsdale and I'm a city planner for the city of Hado and I'm also pretty heavily involved in the local chapter of the congress for the new urbanism central Texas chapter so I'm going to share some projects that we've done both in my capacity as a public servant like Justin said but also as part of an organization that really focuses on that kind of stuff and has a little more flexibility the first one that I'm going to talk about is actually related to what Monica touched on earlier with the C-Clovia Austin has a similar program called Viva Streets and a group of us a group of friends basically with similar interests are kind of organized through the congress for the new urbanism chapter we got together and decided we wanted to show a proposed a better intersection design for a particular intersection on East 6th Street so 6th Street was going to be totally closed down to cars for the day and we wanted to show a design solution that would allow pedestrians to safely cross a pretty dangerous intersection that had no crosswalk, no stop sign and actually allowed on-street parking all the way up to that intersection so it was pretty hard for you to kind of stick your head out and check if cars were coming our budget, we had no budget we used borrowed materials and donated materials for the day and that included turf water was a big thing in May borrowed furniture from local businesses handmade planter boxes and plants this is that intersection where the car is right now, that's kind of the dangerous spot to cross so we kind of set up shop in front of that two-story building there we borrowed a lane striper from the bicycle advocacy group down the street and started striping a crosswalk but then realized it was much more efficient to make this concoction of corn starch and water and kind of mix that together in a pan and then we're able to just dump it out onto the sidewalk and it actually makes a pretty good crosswalk, you'll see how well it showed up later in the pictures the funny thing is that striping chalk that we used first actually stayed for weeks so the crosswalk was able to be used and serve a purpose past the time of the event so in addition to the crosswalk we built a bulb out to allow pedestrians to get out into the street safely and be able to have a clear vision of oncoming traffic and so we used some roll out turf that we had left over from a previous project and kind of crafted that into a little bulb out there this looks like someone just learning to use their panoramic feature but I thought it was a cool photo we also had that same tray of the chalk the corn starch and water mixture we added some food coloring to that when we were done using it on the crosswalk and made different kind of shades so we were able to step in and then walk across the crosswalk so it kind of served as a little public art type thing and a little interactive element we even had one of the rescue dogs roll his little tires through it and roll across the crosswalk so that was pretty cool another interactive element we just had some bubbles out by the seating and those were enjoyed by people of all ages you can also see here the different types of furniture that we had built by one of our team members from pallets that he just grabbed from a place for free and the pallet furniture actually I I was feeling ambitious kind of the week before this event and saying oh I'm gonna go out and get some pallets and build the stuff myself despite having no prior experience unsupervised with tools so I got on Craigslist instead and found out there's a business called Western Pallet Furniture and they were willing to donate their stuff for the day in exchange we put out little signs acknowledging their business so that served as advertisement for them and free furniture for us for the day one of the most gratifying parts of this project is when people start actually using the space that aren't affiliated with your event aren't part of your team so it was really cool to see people realize that they were welcome to come sit under the shade and play a game it was really sad when it was taken down this photo looks pretty gloomy I think the weather had gotten bad but it really also captures the vibe after it was gone and the street was back open to the cars so the impact of that project was that of course it provided the resting point at the node along the route but it also drew awareness to the unsafe crossing and provided a crosswalk for weeks after the event the next project I'm going to talk about is kind of switching gears from the group of friends with similar interests this was led by city staff from the city of Hutto where I work does everyone know where Hutto is anyone it's east of Round Rock about 30 minutes north of Austin so city staff we also engage some city council members that were interested in boarding commission members basically any active residents that were willing to get involved our budget again was nothing but we had some great donations for the day and were able to come up with something this is the location that we chose the Texan Cafe on the left is our anchor tenant downtown it is probably our most popular restaurant and anyone that has been to Hutto has probably been to the Texan Cafe for pie Mario's next door is also a popular place so there's kind of this space in between that's used to access dumpsters behind the buildings but there's also two other points to the interior of the block two other entrance points so if we were to close this down and make it into something on a more permanent basis that would be feasible so that was a big part of us choosing this location is that it actually did have potential to be something so we started transforming the place we it's pretty cool how we were able to get this stuff the plants that you see here the trees on the right or on the left I'm sorry the larger trees were actually going to be planted as part of a landscaping project in one of the parks and when we told the parks department that we were going to do this project they said well we'll just push back our project like two days and you can have the trees sit in the pots in the alley for two days and then we'll go plant them later the trees that are sitting on the picnic tables in the right picture are from our mayor's front porch she just let us come over with the truck and load them up actually most of those plants in that picture are hers so we just borrowed them for the day no cost but they really added to the warmth of the place and kind of you know enclosing the alley and warming up those metal walls the origami was something that we did we engaged the Heddo elementary schools and had all the elementary kids do origami in their art classes and so that was really fun for them to come to the space during the festival and find their little bird that they made and show their mom you can see in the picture on the right someone's actually doing that we also had the city booth for the event set up in front of this alley so that we could inform people that hey you know keep walking around as long as you want but when you need a break or when you grab some food come over and hang out in the alley you know it's not a private event yeah the one on the right is my favorite picture probably from the whole thing but you can see that in the background there are some poster boards that we put up some questions just for people to give us some input you know what three words come to mind when you when you are in this alley you know the new alley and what are your favorite parts about Old Town and things like that just trying to get more input I wish that we'd done more of this if I could do it again I would get more feedback but that's you know we didn't really lose anything by doing this project it's just a learning process that I'll learn for next time the plant on the left says Hutto Alley and that's just a way that we also tried to engage people via Twitter and Instagram just trying to get them to share their ideas and their pictures in the short term for the day provided shaded eating and resting space but it also identified the need for a downtown park and for outdoor cafes along E Street for those restaurants so the restaurant owners seeing people outside recognized how beneficial that would be for their business and so when we were looking at our CIP this year we identified that as a priority for that section of E Street they just used the side or sidewalks and factored in them having sidewalk cafes into the future design of that section so there'll be 14 foot sidewalks to accommodate those sidewalk cafes and then I saved the best for last this is actually my favorite one that we've done and it was our first one that we my kind of group of friends got together and did we did have a budget for this one it is it was either less than 200 I'll say 200 just to be safe but this is parking day it's a day worldwide you've probably heard of it but where citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks so we used turf this is where we purchased the turf that we used at Viva Streets it's been a great resource that we're able to reuse we borrowed tables and chairs from the store owner we borrowed plants and made those planter boxes that you saw earlier so here the two cars that are parked on the left are the spaces that we took over you can see that while this is Congress Avenue and 6th Street in Austin two of the most popular downtown streets there's not that much public space to sit down and the seats that are shown here I believe were for customers only anyway so we started transforming the space we laid out the turf unfortunately that white Jetta was there for a couple hours in the morning so we only had one space but it made it cozy it was fine you can see people starting to gather there and you can see the relationship of the location to the capital was pretty cool and a lot of pedestrian traffic in that area so a lot of people walked by wondering what we were doing wondering how they could get involved in something like that you know when people see these things going on that they didn't know could happen they ask a lot of questions and a lot of good comes out of it one thing that we did that we thought was important was our group kind of set together and left the other tables open and again like in other projects this was really cool to see people walking by and kind of glance over at the project and then decide to go and sit down because they recognized it as a public space and that they could use it we didn't want it to look like it was a private party or something that they couldn't be a part of another cool side effect was the kind of micro retail of this ice cream popsicle seller he normally probably walks by two parked cars all day and this time he walked by 20 or so sweaty, hungry, thirsty people and so he kind of hit the jackpot that day so the increased foot traffic to the store that we were in front of was definitely a benefit we heard from the store owner that he had more foot traffic that day than he had a long time so you can kind of estimate that that leads to more sales also more public seating so we demonstrated an upcoming project so a project was already in the works for this site and that kind of led to us choosing it in the first place but the city of Austin was undergoing a pilot project for parklets downtown and this is what's there now it actually looks better now because the vegetation has matured but the parking spaces are no more and a permanent parklet has been installed so they have the steel kind of keeping the travel lanes separate from the parklet and it's a really nice space to hang out it's cool to see it there permanently so the takeaways are that you don't have to be an expert or a professional planner, designer engineer to make an impact and to have a meaningful project and the improving quality of life doesn't have to cost a lot in our CIP review process anyone who works for a city and looks at that stuff it's easy to think that making change has to cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars so this is just one way of showing that you know you can make a meaningful impact with really no budget or a very low budget and then like we talked about earlier today and like Justin talked about this is a way to test projects before you invest so something I like a little phrase that Mike Leiden says is test then invest so some recommended resources because we have there's no way that we can cover all of this stuff today and I know that I've just barely touched the tip of the iceberg today Tactical Urbanism Volume 2 is a great collection of different projects that you could check out and see what might apply to your neighborhood and also the strong towns neighborhoods first report that Chuck talked about today I think was a great report and showing the financial impact of these small projects over time really compelling argument so I'd be glad to talk to you about this further if you have any questions please let me know thanks thank you Erica and Justin we do have a couple of minutes for any Q&A if somebody has questions they'd be happy to answer them they'll answer from the mics over there we're going to use this one as a roving mic but I think they gave some great examples of things really being done from scratch and very simply so if you have some questions please take a moment now to ask them and this question is for Justin regarding your project in Austin what can you describe the process of engaging your 60 percent stakeholders when you're planning to do a project can I describe how formal informal that process is sure so you know one of the big fears with projects that are right next to people's houses is that someone is going to complain and one person is going to say I live across the street I don't want that so what we do is anytime we have a project we outline a project area usually it's adjacent property owners or something within 200 feet and then we basically say these are the houses and you need to get show you the support for this project at least 60 percent of those houses and then in addition to that they also have a petition that to get community support in general besides those 60 percent so they have to show their level of support all right well if there's no other questions thank you for participating this afternoon and thank you to Justin and Erica again if you'll give them another round of applause