Remarks by Artie Harris
348 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 14
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“Could I comment on this? Could I please comment on this annual meeting? Sir, excuse me, sir. Please.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“We are not represented by the LCA. Excuse me, ma'am. Could the Garnells go to the community meeting if they wanted to?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“OK. And are there other, this is not the only, I thought we had another school where they have limits on how many people can be there and how many people can, I don't know, wasn't there another school that had issue with parking and this other thing and they had a similar plan or am I wrong?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Would the applicant like to make a presentation?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Any questions or comments from the board members?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“I'm supportive of the request. Just a quick question, just from a timing point of view. When you're ready to say a year from now, you say we're ready to move forward, right, and you start spending money to finalize your preliminary plan and site plan, like, Just out of curiosity, how long would it take once you decide you're ready from the time you took filing your site plan? Will that be, out of curiosity, a year, two years, half a year? What do you think?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“OK, great. Thank you. So I have no further questions or comments. Any of the board members? And so is there... A legal department. Is it two? Well, two votes. So we'll do the sketch and preliminary plan together, and then we'll do the resolutions separately. OK. So is there a motion to approve the 8001 Wisconsin sketch plan amendment and preliminary plan where staff is recommending approval with conditions?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes have it, 4-0. And is there a motion to approve the adoption of the resolution?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. The ayes have it, 4-0. Thank you so much. Hopefully the conditions change where you can move forward with the project. Thank you. We're just going to take a two-minute break to get back on schedule here. Come back with item number seven, friendship, high-h sector plan, working draft. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. We're all looking forward to, as will all of the presentations today, the item number seven, Friendship Heights Sector Plan Working Draft, where staff is recommending that the board approves the Friendship Heights Sector Plan Working Draft as…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Well, great. Thank you so much. On the date set, are we still – I think we're still – Have we set, is it still September 10th?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay, great, great. Thank you so much. So this is my first comment. This is really wonderful. It's very apparent about the... engagement that went into this and and the and using that to with you and the community developing a vision and goals for for Friendship Heights you know the overarching goals and then as you went through each section the goals for each each section like transportation it's historic preservation schools and things like that and so this is I really appreciate the hard work you know it takes years to make this happen and I'm really excited about this plan and The key is,…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Vice Chair Lunden, do you want to go over your questions or comments?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Can I just say one thing as you're talking about these parks? I know in some areas you designate a minimum size in some areas. So I think is there a way in some places you may need a minimum size, but there's some ways that also talk about the function you want there that may help signal to the owner or developers or whatever. You're not talking about X, but you're talking about Y. So whether it's 0.2 acres, one acre, whatever. But it's the goal of the function of what you want there. And then also about some of these public spaces in the past, I agree that some of them were very hard to get…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“OK. Yeah, that sounds great. Can I just say a similar comment in that when you come back, could you show us, if you didn't have that, is there some sort of, we talked about, Rendering, what does that feel like if you did it in accordance with our current zoning? And what do you lose in terms of FAR by doing what's currently in the code? And then also a question, I know that a similar situation, and just you can help us understand what we did then. Remember back here, HOC's property? They had a high, I think it's just right down the street, we approved. The HOC property was a high rise. And…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Just a couple of comments, additional comments. So now when we talk about schools, it's obvious here you don't need a new school. But would it be helpful as we move forward to talk about what are the maybe because this is talking about capital improvements for the long term. So it'd be good to talk, when we're talking to MCPS, about if that school is an aging school there. Is this the point to talk to say, well, maybe that school needs, it doesn't need a new school, but it may be to the point where it needs a lot of upgrades so that MCPS could It's part of the master plan for that. It's not a…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you for acknowledging that. Also, we talk about the real estate market. I'm a little... And in these master plans, we set expectations. And I know a lot of places, we know we have 200 feet, 250 feet, whatever. And what is the likelihood that over the next 10 to 15 years that economics would be right to even go to 150 feet, to 200 feet? And we always talk about incentives for maybe for affordable housing, but are there any incentives even needed to even make the market rate build out on these properties? And so I'm just saying, how do we talk about expectation? I…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“And what I didn't see here, which I just question, sometimes in the master plans, we say how much capacity there will be if it was all built out. And sometimes that sets the wrong expectations, too, because it's sort of hard. And so if there is somewhere hidden somewhere, I just want to make sure the likelihood that only 25% of this will happen over there, or 50%. because sometimes it comes back to bite us when the community sees, oh, there's 10,000 or 15,000 more units capacity, but generally that likely will never happen, especially in a plant like that. So all good. Thank you. We look…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Oh, yeah. Well, no, we were not going to let this hard work go on. Yeah, so is there a motion to approve the Friendship Heights Sector Plan Working Draft as a public hearing draft and set a public hearing date? I think it's around September 10th or whatever it The 10th and the 14th. 10th and the 14th. So two-parter.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Thank you. Wonderful presentation. Thank you to all the team that was here today and all that helped put it together. Thank you. And we're going to go for lunch now, take a lunch break and come back at, what did we say? What should we do? About... Yeah, I want to do 215. Give us a little bit more time. All right, 215. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. We're starting our afternoon session. We're on item number nine, zoning text amendment 2609, rule village overlay zone, vehicle repair, limited use, where staff is recommending that the planning board…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Well, thank you so much. Just a couple questions for you and staff. You can chime in. So the vehicle storage and the setback, I'm not quite getting why that wants to be. She has...”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay, and so that means that when you're looking at setbacks, if they're storing vehicles on the site, even that... whatever the vehicles are, that also has to be within that setback, can be no closer to, has to be set back that far too, right?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026