Remarks by Anne Miller
146 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“OK. Could we get a roll call vote, please, on the minutes?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Aye. OK, next we'll go to item B1. This is a public hearing. Mr. Clerk, could you please open the public hearing item by reading the title of the agenda item into the record?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Very good. Commissioner Penniman, did you want to make a statement?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Peterman. We'll give you a minute to step outside. Okay, we're now going to check on ex parte disclosures. Do we want to go start with Commissioner Maynard, please?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK. I have visited the site, but no ex parte communications. All right. I'd like to invite the staff to do their presentation now. Go ahead.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yes, we'll do questions after the applicant presentation. So you can go ahead over to that. I would like to read this into the record, however. To the applicant, you have a total of 20 minutes to give a presentation and rebut or clarify anything after the public comment. Please reserve time for the latter, that would be the public comment, if you intend to respond to the public comment. The Planning Commission may have questions for you, but your time answering our questions does not count towards your 20 minutes. OK? So go ahead.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK, I'll just note that you have three minutes and 43 seconds left to use during your rebuttal, if you so choose. OK, we're now going to go to commissioners' questions to staff and or the applicant. So did you want to start, Commissioner Maynard? Thank you.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Commissioner Sirotkin, do you have questions?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Are you done for now? Yes. OK. OK. I will ask my questions now. I would like to follow up on the noise issue. And this would be, I guess, a question for, well, I'm not sure who is. We'll go to the staff first. And you can tell me whether it's better suited for the applicant. But Goleta's noise ordinance states that its purpose is to preserve the public peace and comfort of the citizens of Goleta from unwarranted noise and disturbances of including but not limited to that of amplified music played in or out of doors after certain hours. This ordinance also prohibits noise that constitutes…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yeah. I guess what I'm asking though is when you have the ambient noise of lots of people, hundreds of people talking at once, kids playing, vehicles driving in and out, that's additional noise on top of the noise that you're talking about or the sounds that are coming from within the complex.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“So when the music is being played, let's say, there won't be anybody outside? Everything is going to be contained within the building, and there won't be any people coming in or leaving with their cars, and there won't be any people outside enjoying a nice day or the kids playing.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yeah, and I guess the other issue about the ambient noise is that it – so there may be, like you said, 40 minutes of music. Right. But then there's all the time that people are coming to convene to the services and in their cars, talking, saying hello to one another, kids running, playing. You said you have a lot of children in the congregation. But would that not extend the noise? I don't know if it would raise the level but it certainly would extend the time period of the noise.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK, thank you. I think that answers the question. My next question relates to traffic. And this would be perhaps for the pastor. You talked about how there would be monitors and that you would have staggered services. staggered services, and traffic monitors. So number one, let's talk about the traffic monitors first. Are these volunteers?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK. And then also on the cars, the vehicles coming to the next service and the first service, the vehicles leaving. I understand you would have staggered times. How do you plan on controlling those staggered times? Because after the first service is over, do you just go on a loudspeaker and say, okay, everybody who's here for the first service needs to leave? I'm just asking because it seems to me during these times, you know, I remember when many years ago when I attended church services on a regular basis. And particularly when there's a lot of children and a lot of families and a lot of…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Right, so your congregation is used to just the one service where everybody comes together. Correct. And everybody can hang out as long as they want after service, right?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Right, right. But they're all together. So this is going to be something brand new for them. So, you know, to try and, you know, get used to a new system. Is that correct?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“And that's just in a figuring out mode at this point. It's not really an exact thing. strategic plan at this point?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. OK. So let's see. Where do I want to go with this? I'll just talk about the traffic a little bit more. You're going to have your largest parking lot congregation ingressing and egressing onto Los Canarios Road, correct?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Okay. Los Caneros is a two-lane road. There is no... as far as I know, there's no left turn lane that people can veer into to get into the parking lot or come out of the parking lot. So it's really going to have, and there's no traffic light and there's no stop sign and there's no, there's nothing. And that I just, I'm just having a hard time visualizing and understanding how how that flow is going to occur on a two-lane road without a middle turn lane or an outside turn lane, without widening the street. And I know that's not part of the deal. So if you could talk about that a little bit.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Does that also include the bike lanes, the safety of the bike lanes? I mean, did you take that into account?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK, and then because it's been the history that anybody that can't get into that parking lot does their overflow parking in the neighborhood. So as a service is getting out and those that had to park in the overflow in the neighborhood, there's going to be a lot of pedestrians. So did you also take into account that there will be pedestrians to watch out for?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“OK, yeah. Yeah. OK, you did not. You did not. We did not. OK. Pardon me?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Okay. And I think... question, at least for now. This is for the staff. Is there a precedent in the past where the city of Goleta approved a project of this size? And this is the city, not anything that was here prior to Goleta being a city. Is there a precedent in the past where the city of Goleta approved a project of this size in a residential zoned area? One that had this number of assemblies and size of assemblies and amount of traffic up past that you folks have worked on?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yes, at the roundabout. Yes. Okay. So, but that...”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“They don't have daycare, and they don't have nursery schools, and they don't have Sunday or after. They don't have children's classrooms.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026