alice made me sit down the [laughter] >> my name is steve perry. the architect on the -- on the project, once again. i would like to go through the -- the changes we've made regarding concerns from the community and the commission and show you what we've worked with, the planning department with. so if i could please have on the screen -- so to begin i

alice made me sit down the [laughter] >> my name is steve perry. the architect on the -- on the project, once again. i would like to go through the -- the changes we've made regarding concerns from the community and the commission and show you what we've worked with, the planning department with. so if i could please have on the screen -- so to begin i would like to just go back to the old design where we have a five-story building and as you turn the corner we have a full expression all the way through the rear yard and to sutter street. and in this diagram we show that after looking at the comments we went back and looked at the concerns and the analysis we did in the past and so starting with looking at the neighborhood and the blingds -- buildings around, we look at the streets first coming up. we have smaller streets come up into a larger avenue. and with this larger avenue you have larger building expressions on the east side of the building here. with these buildings, these are residential buildings, they have a larger bolder massing express

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steve perry is our education pro. come to the principal's office, carol. >> exactly! you know, when i ran for like student body president and i ran to ban paddling from my high school. that's how long this thing has been around. >> it's absurd. one of the biggest problems in public education is nostalgia. we think things were so much better back in the day. something as silly as hitting a child with a piece of wood is still considered something that we may want to do in school. we had a parent hit a child with a piece of wood last week. we called the police on her. you can't hit children with objects. we understand, i understand the need to be creative with discipline but in order to be creative with discipline, you need to have a relationship with the child. you can't just go around saying that they are wrong and that they are bad and that is what happens. >> steve, the only creative thing out there seems to be let's take a time-out. sit in the corner and take a time-out. does that kind of thing work? >> no, we don't