Remarks by Bill Carlson
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I want to ask a question. A few minutes ago you showed the picture of the live local option and then you said it didn't work because the FAA rules. Could you just show us what you think you could build under live local? I don't know if you have one without the FAA providing a variance.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“So what do you think the FAA would have, what is the FAA?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, just to explain my question in case probably most people in the public understand, but it used to be that if we, on big projects, if we turned them down, there was a chance that a developer would sue. Now, because the state has created Live Local, instead of suing us, they're going back and just doing whatever the state allows, and we have no say in it, and that's why I think it's important just to know what they could do, although it sounds like the height would end up being less than this, but it's just important to know.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Could you show that 138 rendering again? This is...”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I'm happy to make a start with a motion. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah. I, if she wants to make it, I can, we can just add, let's go. I just like to make a motion to deny the, the, um, the request. Um, and I'll cite, um, the, um, the staff's, um, report regarding rezoning, the, um, the waivers that were requested, um, the, um, the, the fact that it's not compatible with a character and scale with the surrounding residential built environment. Land use policy 1.2.28 that says limit the use of planned development district rezoning petitions to allow development consistent with the future land use designation but otherwise not permitted in the current standard…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, just going through the criteria section, this is the waiver criteria. And do I need to state the waivers? They're already on the record.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, so of the criteria, number one is this is 27-139-4. Number one is the design of the proposed development is unique and therefore is in need of waivers. It's from the evidence presented and see it justification for reducing the parking or reducing the dock size, reducing the buffer, et cetera, or reducing the vehicle use area landscape that number to the The waiver, if allowed, will not substantially interfere with or injure the rights of others whose property would be affected by allowance of the waivers. We see clearly that the neighborhood is concerned about the parking and they feel…”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, I said, it said that number three says the waiver is in harmony with and serves a general intent. And my comment was that I went through several other, um, citations of, um, zoning and comprehensive plan to state that it wasn't.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“We also have the issue where Council Member Hurtak and I were on the Charter Review Commission, and several of you, as council members, approved our recommendations, and now Scott Steady is saying that somehow the city attorney at the time didn't include some of that. Did I remember that memo correctly?”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“And so shouldn't we put that on the same agenda so that we can see what was... I don't know if there's some kind of investigation.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think we ought to, I don't know what Lynn thinks, but I think because we were under the impression that they were, there were catch-all descriptions that captured everything. And that's what we represented to the public. And if somebody did that by accident or deliberately, I think we need to have a discussion about that.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“What we were told is that there were summaries that were buckets of several things, and now Scott's interpretation is that several things weren't included. And I don't know what is behind all this, but we need to make it a transparent discussion.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“intended to proceed on this and i really would like to have him on board before council makes and again this this is broad enough that it would capture what your intent is could i just ask one question because i'm not allowed to talk to council member outside but she ended up being the spokesperson for the the unofficial spokesperson for the charter review commission she went to illegal women voters all these different groups but wasn't it your recollection that that the four or five categories captured all the all the things that we were trying to put”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“Can you not hear me? No, there was a buzzer.”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026
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“there was a misrepresentation of it because council voted yeah we approved it and council voted on it but somehow in the city attorney's office or something it didn't get in there this is the same city attorney's office that said it was okay for the city attorney to not approve to not have council approve um uh settlement agreements and so i i have concerns about that and that i think go beyond just what needs to be on the ballot okay um i'll have a report for you next week okay um well let me knock these i got two little things that i've knocked out”
City Council · Sep 10, 2026