Remarks by Artie Harris
348 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 14
- Play at 6:57:59
“So my recommendation is is to not approve the acquisition. And in the letter, we would say why it's already purchased. And there's no sort of formal how the housing and the library would work. And approve the B, C, and D, because I just think that it's The county is going to move forward with the library at the proposed location anyway. And the commissioner, Vice Chair Linden, would like to just not approve A or, I guess, A, none of it.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 6:58:59
“recommending that we do not approve the acquisition because it's already purchased. And there's no plan for how the library and the residential would work together. I mean, there's just no. And then, but approve the design of the library. I mean, because you said it meets the requirements. water quality plan, because DPS has approved the water quality plan, and we have no issues with that. And D is the forest conservation plan, because we reviewed the forest conservation plan, and it meets our requirements. Is that what I hear staff saying?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:01:48
“But they're not removing that. Its design is based on removing the forest. But in the temporary, if they only build the housing, they're not going to remove that forest. But the calculation was assuming that they were going to remove the forest, right? They're not going to remove that forest if they're not going to build the house. So I can make a motion for what I said. If you don't approve, we can do another motion.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:03:47
“I would not do that. I appreciate your... I would either... Director Sartori, great. Because we had not planned to talk really about this, meaning about this is more information that we had not... understood before today, at least for me, that I would prefer to defer it, one, or two, what I had proposed. Because I think the county, these wonderful people from the county were here to talk about They're not, they weren't here when, in the room when it happened, okay? And so, so I think- And reasonable, I completely agree. So I would prefer that we have, we defer it for a week to get some of our…”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:06:37
“Yeah, I would not do it next week. I think they need some time, the 30th, and to see if that's a reasonable time with the county.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:06:58
“So is there a motion to continue this item on the 30th to get more clarity on why this site was chosen, the timing of when the residential is also coming, more fleshed out plan for that, the question about what happens to the previous property that was deeded”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:07:51
“I agree with that. And I do know that there's been a lot of discussion with the community, the county, and the community about finding a library site. The library site was really important for the community. So I know that there was a lot of discussion with the county and a lot of thought through this. So we need to have someone from the county come and talk to us about it. Thank you.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:08:28
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:24:48
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:32:48
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:33:02
“So maybe we can go over again with staff. This dedication, it solves this issue of you put up there where the road sort of does this jig. Can we just go over what?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:33:22
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I just want to get to the gist of it.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:49:39
“I'd like to get all the conditions, all at once, please.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:54:30
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Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:55:18
“And did you guys talk through this list at all, that letter?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:58:03
“So before we get to that, I think that's the biggest thing.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:58:07
“These other things, like this, I'm just trying to just, just so we can, this tree buffer requirement, you know, is that a big deal or, I don't know, is the, I'm just saying, are the, Are all of these other things just, I mean, are there, in terms of importance, Andrew, you think?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:59:01
“I'm just trying to think what... I know, you're trying to get to the tougher ones.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:59:10
“And one of this tree buffer requirement, what is the, you said you didn't understand what that was. So can staff, what was?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 7:59:49
“No. So I thought it was something on site. So this is on a, so you can't have a tree, what?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 8:00:27
“So if a tree falls within 35 feet of a center, I'm trying to understand.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 8:02:30
“Yeah. OK. So all of these are about the do you have public dedication or not. So my piece here, one in this, so a DOT. So any time you touch a property, someone is asking for a public improvement easement. The applicant is saying, I'm not doing much to this property. Why am I creating a public? Why do I have to dedicate? Like even if I, I don't know, and we're saying.”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 8:04:04
“Or vice versa. But isn't, though, the play area, I'm just trying to figure it. The play area wants to be around the building, correct? I mean, isn't the play area around that you open the door? Let me see that. Didn't you have the screen thing that the play area is”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 8:04:36
“And where is this related to the whole where the road is?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026
- Play at 8:04:54
“I don't kind of see it. Okay, so if you had to do the dedication, how would that site, I mean, is it encroached five feet into that fence area, 10 feet into this fence area?”
Planning Board · Jul 16, 2026