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Welcome everybody here to our wonderful Ben senior center that is now part of the whole marks for community center, which is a great amenity for our neighborhood here in southeast Merritt Bend.
We're really happy to have this presentation for you all tonight, recommend have a roundtable session with some representatives from some neighborhood district boards, and then we've left time again for counselors to come and talk and answer questions as well as we'll have
a round edge these tables to help answer questions as well around all the growth activity and change that is happening in this corner of town.
And that's going to be a lot of what we're talking about we know people are concerned about growth and change and people are concerned about wildfire and other topics that we're going to touch on tonight and just kind of have a discussion on here and then be able to talk
about what's going on in the crowd and help get questions answered. And so some of those questions might actually be answered by our staff and Bryce is going to do this off with a presentation, kind of give us a mystery and what's going on in the neighborhood.
Thank you, my name is Russ Grayson, I'm the chief operations officer for the city of New York City, assistant city managers and with me is Brian Reinhardt who leads our great management group that makes it all of our long range for the city.
So, tonight's presentation is really going to be about how do we plan the city, how do we do that with Brian's going to go over all the components of that and we're also getting ready to select the next 20 years, the big North Way I'm bringing the hot ice map and then I will give you an overview of all the current things that are going on in your neighborhood, which is just a couple of things, including all the developments going on and the infrastructure that's coming just to prepare you up for what you see over the next five years.
After that, as Melanie, as Mayor said, there are tables, after we've done the round table, she knows you'll talk about that. At the end there's also a fishbowl in the back for just any general comments, grab, drop in concerns and questions from the neighborhood or just input that you want to provide to the city, please do that in the back.
So please as we go through this, I'm not going to take questions during the presentation but there will be times where you ask questions for staff so please jot those down and then I will give you kind of operating instructions after that. So with that, I'm Jimmy McGrian.
Thank you. Well, God gave Russ the height and he gave me the hair.
You don't usually get all the things.
Actually, no.
So let's advance the slide. So, Reagan, I get to leave the city's long range, it's an honor, it's privilege, and it's a challenge to lead the long range planning program with the city so this rest site all started out, and then Russ is going to go.
Finish up this presentation, we'll get to the more fun discussion.
So first question for everybody. Is there anyone here who was born here or moved here before 1975. Oh wait, put your hands up.
And that's awesome. Okay.
So, I have a friend who's local, and she's like well if you're born, if you're born race here especially that long she like her unicorns.
We're like magical rare management animals are just hard to find part of spot.
But that means the rest of us.
I moved here after that point.
And I know it's gonna be hard to see the details this is not about the details I don't even think I have to explain this to you, but this is a chart of our population growth here in bed from 1975 till today.
And we're going from about 20,000 back in the day to over 100,000 now.
And I just want to share that because we have to think of growth is something you know it's the next time that's coming into town, and it's rarely ourselves.
Right. But we're all part of this process of growth that has occurred over this period of time, and it led to all the changes in our community and it's also.
We also reached our families, we have friends, if you look around this room I'm sure there are a lot of friends and family here as well.
And so that's part of growth as well. And so I know there are a lot of difficulties as we're going to talk about those we're not shying away from them or trying to shine you on, but also to offer that, you know, two sides to the same point here.
Right. Sometimes there's really good things and how long this growth and changing.
So maybe let's, let's switch the slide.
Next slide, please.
Thank you.
All right. Again, you're not expecting to see the details of this.
This is a picture, an aerial photograph of the southeast area in 2014.
So I just 12 years ago, and that 12 years ago you look at that you go well okay I see a few subdivisions, and if you could look closer at the roads you see rural roads for the most part, right, rural roads two lanes, shoulders no sidewalks, no roundabouts down
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