Remarks by Ariel Méndez
8 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 34:41
“But that focused on the 80 to 120% AMI. And so I'm just curious if you could share a little bit more about looking at our Oregon Housing Needs Assessment goals, for example. We've done a lot of incentivizing in the 80 to 120%, but we haven't done comparatively as much in the certainly not zero to 30 or 30 to 60. So why scenario three and what would be the plan for some of these other”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 35:39
“And let me just correct, too, that you're right to point that out. Thank you. It's the 80 to 120 that we have incentivized a significant amount, mostly through BRRA. So 60 to 80 has not really been incentivized much, and not 30 to 60 and not zero to 30. So thank you for that correction.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 43:29
“Yeah, go ahead for new residential construction excise tax. Our current program is a third of one percent for the expected evaluation of all residential developments. Was there any consideration given to you?”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 43:50
“Yeah, but this would be just looking at the residential side. I don't know if this is allowed, but can we do a more targeted tax and either say new homes above a certain size or above a certain expected valuation, over 3,500 square feet or over $2 million or something like that?”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 49:52
“Yeah, thank you. I think this is really hard because I was concerned about the lack of support in the lower AMI quintiles. And the easiest way to address that is with an affordable housing bond. I'm going to generate the most amount of revenue and it would be flexible it would be uh it would have a big impact uh however i think that um i have concerns about since i have mixed feelings about asking voters about an affordable housing bond at this time i don't know that that's something that i'm prepared to go and ask our community to support um So I understand the rationale behind it. I'm not…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:34:52
“Uh, yeah, on the Forest Service special use permit it. I'm not aware of any plans to revisit that and and request additional water rights usage. But if someone were concerned about that, it's not the kind of thing that you could just decide on a very short time period to say, Oh, now the city is going to go out for this uh amended use permit. what would we what would that process entail like in other words what would someone want to look for in terms of the city's process if if they were concerned about that and they wanted to see well is the city revisiting this idea because i i feel like…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:54:21
“Just very quickly in the future, I would be interested in learning about whether the water service providers that serve the other 25% of Ben residents are having similar conservation success or other things that the city could be going to provide them with, you know, The tools to also be successful in that area.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 2:04:14
“Janet Callahan- has been this well, this is great and I, the more I see it i've been I love how authentic it is, and you know I feel I don't necessarily know the people in those photos, but I know the places. Janet Callahan- So I really like it on pilot new and innovative engagement techniques use at least two forms of engagement. Janet Callahan- I don't want to sacrifice the things that we think are good for something that's new, and so I just want to make sure that you know, for example, I thought. the uh the civic assembly was was uh a really good experience and i don't know if that would…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026