Thank you very much.
Welcome to our committee. I would like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
I'd like to ask Mr. Koch some questions.
I was most intrigued by your paper, quite frankly. If I were going to write a report for our study, I would probably write it along the lines that you did, with that kind of basic information. With your permission, I'd like to delve into a few things more closely.
I'm looking at page 4 and the statement that:
An urban conservation framework should provide the criteria that recognizes ecosystems in the built environment…and the relationship to the environmental, economic, social and cultural attributes of a community.
I wonder if you could expand on that. What kind of criteria are you talking about?