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That particular location. The blue dots indicate how much graffiti or what the graffiti was at each location in terms of the incidents for 2012. So you can see from here, its not i was hoping for a better visual, but in here in the hot spot neighborhood, this is one example where the hot spot neighborhood isnt as significant as the random area. The random area is showing more graffiti vandalism than the hot spot neighborhood, but the intensity is pretty clear. If were going to tackle a neighborhood we need to be looking here, we need to be looking in here. So its been very beneficial in terms ...

The argument that we keep getting that they are beautiful pieces of art just isnt holding because they are very small pieces of graffiti. Thats just the same visually. Again, most graffiti is text. 90 percent of the text, with all those categories that we have where were trying to depict what graffiti is out there, we can now go to the arts council or anybody else who wants to argue with us and say 90 percent of the observed graffiti we have in edmonton is text only. Given all those options, thats what were finding. So the other avenue thats important for us in terms of how i run my program is...

Large and what can we do to preserve that diversity and moving forward. The first obviously is to preserve the Historic Resources we have the benefit of having the south of Market Survey completed a while ago, we have identified all of the major resource and identified the opportunity to expand the south end of the district to take in more properties that should be part of that district, and moving beyond the individual buildings how can we preserve and especially those that are outside of some of these districts. We are looking at expanding the transferable arts program which is right now in ...

Community especially with ti co and we heard that the hotels are the great neighbor and they are 247 and so, we propose to remove that cap and instead allow hotels as of right up for 75 and above 75, still require a conditional use. And we also want to make sure that we are nurturing neighborhood retail environments along fourth straight. There is something about an nc district that allows for a fine grain and, fine tuning district that you want in your neighborhood which is what we love about our neighborhood commercial districts and the good thing about the district is that you cant have com...

Telling us how we should be managing or programs or which neighborhoods we should be looking at. This is a graphic analysis of the neighborhoods. I dont have a pointer, ill get my head out of the way. Downtown was one of our key problem areas that we started out with but were seeing a steady decline in the downtown core. So basically we have been focusing a lot of our programming in the downtown area. We had a huge decrease in the gardineau neighborhood in the second year but something has happened in that neighborhood to pop it back up. So its allowing us to look neighborhood by neighborhood ...