Remarks by Amanda Dodd
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
- Play at 2:17:16
“Is the example of the giant drill not being available one where someone could ask for an extension?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:18:05
“Well, is it correct to kind of look at that as like right now it's 180 days, no extensions. We're looking at moving to 90 days, but if stuff is happening and it's not, we'll work with you on it if you communicate with us.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:42:09
“I do like the 70%. I agree that 80% is very close to market rate. Where I don't see us making enough progress is two and three bedroom units. I would love more encouragement for those. I think micro units have a place, and I think near campus, and there are other spots in the city that they make sense, but we get a lot of one bedrooms and studios at a low market rate that matches 80%. I would like to see more family size units. I don't know if we can have different tiers that encourage like for different bedroom amounts or whatever, but that's what I feel like we're not really getting from…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:43:32
“I would love to, without making it so complicated that people don't use it. I do think like two tiers shouldn't be that complicated, especially because we have a great department that our developers can ask questions of. Um, but yeah, I micro units at 80% just doesn't feel like where we're struggling. Like we've seen the downtown building has lowered the, average like household income required to live in downtown Bothell so I feel like that's not the big problem area I am kind of confused about like the life of the tax exemption versus the duration of the affordability I don't like is there…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:58:13
“I do want what comes back to us to be based on what's working in other cities, knowing that we might be, you know, a Red Delicious when they're a Honeycrisp, but Honeycrisp is light rail. But I just, I don't want it to be based on any one group's feedback. I want it to be based on what's working. because that's really where the proof is. So that's, I want us to listen to our developer community, but it can't be exactly what they ask for, it has to be what's working.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:00:02
“I will say, yes, there are a ton of one bedroom and studios with a ton of deep discounts right now in Bothell. I'm not convinced that's what we're short on. Um, the other thing I agree with what you said about arch. And I think that I would look to your department, to take what works for Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and buckle it up. I think that that's not where Arch is going to be successful. I think that's where you guys are going to be successful.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:00:56
“I agree with that, but I would challenge that MFTE costs us in a way that other incentives don't. So is it worth incentivizing what we are not short on? I think that that's the trade-off we have to examine.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:04:22
“Yeah, because I don't think we're going to have more than maybe one or half of one council member being like, it's time for the report to commerce. So if you can just put it in our faces, I think that'd be great.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:05:23
“To be fair to the first conversation, we experienced a global pandemic that really changed our supply chain.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:06:42
“No, and I just don't have a crystal ball. I can tell that you're frustrated that we're having to talk about it again and we haven't had projects. estimates and decisions were made in a completely different environment. Even though things got built, much less got built, and it is now much more expensive to build things. That's the point. It's not just the policy that failed. There was a lot.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:07:10
“And also, the things we need are the things we should incentivize. I think we're all on the same page about trying to get the most out of it. We're just refining where we can do that.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 11:53
“Thank you. Kyle, do you know when the application period closes for the pro-con committees?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 20:57
“Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. couldn't tell you why this was my first question but for the proposed fee or fine to be added to the fee schedule is it going to be scalable in a way whether that's the amount of the overage or like a percentage of their typical bill or some kind of it's not one-size-fits-all so it might fit the situation as of now that is not what we are planning to do due to different”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 25:36
“Sort of building on what Council Member Aguilera said, I know that there's been really great rain barrel workshops for the collection of rainwater. Is there maybe the thought of having some more of those to kind of use it as a way to educate people on the drought situation and all the other stuff that we're doing? Not doing, but experiencing and then responding to.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 35:40
“I did pass the letter on to the city manager's office. I do think given our positioning, how we're surrounded by unincorporated areas, that the hope is that we can push for state law, too, as we craft our legislative agenda soon. But I'm staring at Kyle and Claire saying, please correct me if I'm misremembering.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 37:33
“I move to approve the consent agenda. Second.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 58:59
“Thank you. Thanks for the policy. I think it's pretty important, especially looking at the cost that we are incurring. I support it as is. I do want to add, I think if we get to where we are subsidizing the cost of operating a vehicle for an employee's personal use, I'm not sold on someone bought an electric car so now we help pay for their commute because there will be employees that don't have electric cars. It's not not a trigger of like are they driving the car for work or is there some reason where that becomes the city's job I'm also cautious about charging spots at parks we don't have…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:00:28
“I think about the laughter from Monsters, Inc. That would have been very convenient. But I also think about being a disabled person where I don't always want to use a placard, right? But sometimes I might want to park close. And then that's electric charging at a lot of places now. And so thinking about all my, well, now I have no small children. But if you run around with small children, they have a lot of accessories. And I just don't want to use up too much of a limited resource for that.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Thanks for being here tonight, Nick, and for being all the people on your slide. I really appreciate the work that you've done, that your team has done, that the Parks and Rec Board has done on this. I think it is probably not very fun to get excited about all these future parks every seven years and rebuild a plan for what's possible, and then hope and hope and hope and you know sometimes there's global pandemics and things which is what really affected the last one that i got to participate in um but i just want to call out that that sort of like constant optimism is really…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:12:07
“I totally believe it. Thanks for all the work you do.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:16:28
“I'm ready to make a motion if you're ready to have a motion. Okay. I move the recommended action. Second.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:51:01
“Similarly to the last thing the mayor said, the cool mayor, I'm sorry, is I would love to see a minimum density downtown. And broadly, I think we have too many zones. I caught the note that, I'm gonna probably get the terminology wrong, but I think the downtown transition zone now has a lower height limit than lower Maywood. I understand the logic of how that happened, but that's very silly. And then I did wanna, dig at a few things to understand them. So, Cameron, you mentioned more processes and procedures for public art. So I know we have the 1% on public buildings. I guess, because I…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:53:12
“So it's not just like a bunch of people shopping at the store that's inside the building? Exactly. Okay. That could be kind of fun, but I also think it would be weird. That makes sense. And then the other thing is the stark contrast between Main Street and nearby. I mean, the further our current time gets from when Main Street was built, I think that'll keep going. But what was the specific sort of like harm that was noticed with that?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:54:27
“I'd probably need examples to buy in on more facade articulation. I think pedestrian cut-throughs make a lot of sense. I don't love big, giant buildings, but I also want a lot of housing. I think it's really great that we see that this part of the city is more accessible to a broader range of households. That's really cool. Um, which the cool mayor also already said, so I'm going to try not to repeat it.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:54:52
“I'm just going to say cool mayor every time forever. Now it's totally fine. Um, and then, yeah, I, I would be personally more excited to, to make sure the minimum density makes sense. I'm not given that we require that, um, when you put a building in you, have you make upgrades to utilities to make sure it happens safely. I'm not worried about maximum density so much. So I wouldn't want to limit if we can get especially affordable housing. So creativity there would be great. I think. Yeah, I think this is all really exciting. Do we set like comprehensive planning? We have a statute from the…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026