Remarks by Andrea Marr
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 15:01
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'll move to approve the consent calendar.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Can I request that we pull public hearing item number two from the agenda so we can prioritize our focus on the FDC item and postpone it to a date certain?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Does the city manager have a date that she'd prefer?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Sorry, I'm spanking this on you. I also feel like it's not a terrible item to push to a second meeting in November, given the...”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“AS LONG AS THE CITY MANAGER. POSTPONE IT TO NOVEMBER 17th.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I KNOW MOST OF YOU WERE HERE FOR THE CLIMATE ACTION ITEM SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'd like to just make a recommendation. There's a lot of folks here just doing some simple math. Everyone getting three minutes means 20 minutes per hour. 60 people speaking means three hours of public comment, and it's 10 p.m. I do not want to be voting on this at midnight. I think that's poor practice for public policy. I think it makes it really difficult for most of us who work during the day to attend and listen, and so I'd like to request that if we get to 10 p.m., we reduce time to two minutes.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay, pulling that thread on density bonus. I know that's the boogeyman in the room, right? That we get much higher densities than the 2300. That assumes that a developer chooses to add more than 920 affordable units, that they stack additional affordability on top of that, and that's how they're triggering density bonus. Go ahead. Correct me, please.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think the thing that's hanging me up on this, though, is that at the end of the day, this is not intended to be 100% affordable development. We are very likely to encounter a master developer who is also a nonprofit accumulating tax credits for the purpose of solely building affordable housing. Like there were also economic feasibility constraints that will cap the likelihood of the density increasing, particularly under the scenarios with increased affordability, correct?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“PARTICULARLY IF WE CONSTRAIN THE OPEN SPACE, RIGHT, AND WE CALL FOR A HIGH OPEN SPACE NUMBER, THEN WE'RE FURTHER POTENTIALLY CONSTRAINING THE FACILITY. GO AHEAD.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Understood. But nevertheless, I mean, this is a high percentage of affordability. And that plays into the economics in a way that does not suggest that we're just going to keep stacking units on units. Anyway, all right. For the benefit of the public, I've got three lines of questioning. I think they're all things that you were curious about. Number one, fire station and public services. So looking at page 7-12. It is important to note that the specific plan does not identify or propose new public safety facility sites, but also does not preclude the siting of future public safety facilities,…”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Why not just force the issue? Why not just say a fire station is required, period, full stop, if we think we're close? I mean, we've got a 2019 to 2023 standards of cover study that basically says that we're pretty maxed out.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm going to keep going for the sake of time here. You know, I think that there is a number of components in this public services section where we're using shoulds and not shalls. Is there a reason for that? Like, can we be far more prescriptive in terms of what we're requiring, both on the emergency services side and then also in the library, right? And some of these other amenities that we've heard from the public are important.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And then back to Councilmember Buhle. So you've got a 2300 unit alternative. Are you saying that if we had a 2299 unit alternative, we would not require a secondary road?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“But my understanding is we could use Merrimack as a secondary access for emergencies, correct?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Chief Pyle, you might want to start walking down to the podium here. So, all right. But again, we're talking about a phase 12 to 15 years, in which case the plan says 2300, when we cross that 2300 threshold, then we're talking about a road through the golf course. So they could build a thousand units And then in 10 years, build another 1,299 units. And then in another five years, build two more units. Something like that, right? And then we would say, oh, now we need a road through the golf course?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. So there are multiple scenarios in which this is not happening for 15 years. Yeah, that's correct. Okay. Thank you. And then last, I told you I had three things like last train of thought here, commercial. There are so many numbers in here about commercial space. There's, The back talks about page 6 in the appendix talks about 29,000 to 55,000 of retail. That seems to be the range. If we built 2,300 units, 10,000 units becomes the minimum. I'm unclear if that includes the other commercial category. And then there's another section where we're back to talking about 29,000 to 55,000. It…”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Got it. Okay. Uh, chief, if we had 2,299 units and you had the existing access road off of Harbor and emergency access through Merrimack, would that be sufficient?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“I mean, the plan literally says we can use it for emergency access.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I'M DONE. THANK YOU. THANKS.”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, we're at almost 11 o'clock. Can I ask that we go to two minutes of public comment in person?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Because I actually have some thoughts on this. Yes, yes, please. So, I mean, it's not so much that they're forcing us to cut through the golf course. It's that the study is saying once we get to a certain number of units, The likely traffic impacts will make it really difficult to come out of one exit. We all agree having them 0.3 miles apart doesn't make a ton of sense. And so I think maybe it's an order of operations issue, right? Like number one is force a negotiation of some type, first to confirm the emergency vehicles. I mean, secondly, there's a discussion about pedestrians and bikes…”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026
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“Can I ask a question about the commercial? Yes. I'm sorry. People have their mics on, so I don't know if I'm jumping order here. the commercials continue to confuse me. There's a commercial and then there's other commercial in the plan. And so if we say 15,000, we're talking about retail. Are we leaving the other commercial at 76,000 or do we now need to adjust that number based on the open space number and the other commercial number?”
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL AND HOUSING AUTHORITY* · Sep 15, 2026