Remarks by Brad Steward
115 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 5
- Play at 1:39:34
“Yeah, and tune me in here any way that's needed. But my understanding of kind of where we're at is that we are prepared to introduce a motion to direct the parties as it is to go back to the table and come back to us with a new resolution that takes into account the dialogue here, that has some resolution of the fees in some way, whatever that might be. We could either direct some of the specifics of that or leave that to the group to solve. My personal preference would be the group, but that appears, I'm hovering around the motion, but that appears to be where we're at.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:40:20
“We have to direct them to come back with a new resolution, yes.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:43:00
“Well, I'm a little bit reluctant because, you know, 100 acres, you might have four or five different planting zones that have, you know, different impacts and so on. So, you know, to me, leaving the box open a little bit to say to them, you know, more than one but, you know, not more than a rational number, you know, that gives us the ability to have them also hopefully bring it into a larger landscaping plan. Somebody made the comment of, you know, with 100 acres, you could add a lot. That gives them a minute to thoughtfully contemplate where they might place a number of trees. And so.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:16:30
“You know, just a couple of thoughts. I mean, a lot of the, so we're basically, you know, we're taking a village mix use and down zoning a little bit to allow it to be for private use. And I think in general I'm okay with that. And I would say my broad orientation is, is that you guys have created something very special in town that has been what I would call a deposit in the Bank of Ojai credibility. So you've done a good thing, I think. And looking at the local citizenry, a lot of people drive out of town, work Monday through Friday, whatever, they come back on Saturday, no ability to use…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:17:55
“Yeah and I'm just you know making a comment about the walkway people will go where their organic eye line is you know and so with the existing entries and exits you have there I think you can do a lot of stuff but when people come up from wherever and they visit town they follow their eye line for sure and there are a lot of people crossing the middle of the road there so.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:29:27
“Will you guys be running special events out of this location or is it more meant to be a private environment for guests?”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:32:39
“Yeah, on your note there, one of the interesting things is I was asking myself, what are the impact on the other businesses that are in a like for like business with what you guys do? And I actually think there's no connection. I think this is an additional service. We're not putting any of the other places that provide these kind of services out. And so I do think this will be a very popular service. That's part of why I want to maintain it for the community. I have had a lot of people say, hey, I can't go back behind there unless I jump in and stay a night or two or whatever. But I think…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:55:19
“A question just legally to make sure I have a correct understanding. So right now there is no mechanism in the city to do the quote unquote merge of the lots. Is that a correct understanding? There's nothing codified to do that.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 2:56:35
“I guess my comment would just be we have to be very careful on sequencing to condition this on something that doesn't exist as code in the city. We've just gotta get that right or at least have a perspective on the lot line adjustment or the certificate of merger of some sort or whatever we're gonna do.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:00:01
“rectifying old parcel maps and you know you get some benefit from from simplifying through this type of action yeah part of my research on this was looking at the subdivision map act and I'll quickly add I am NOT an attorney but it did seem that there were pieces around that that speak directly to the the convenience of that you're talking about and Katrina it is kind of a common-sense guideline of if you have a a contiguous building across two pieces that, but it looked like there had been a little bit of a change from the state standpoint of them trying to control this subdivision mapping…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:02:10
“Yeah, and we just need to pay attention because we also have a knock-on fact that I would like to understand a little bit about, and I don't know the full issue, but remember there's been the discussion of the state with the parking there at Westridge on the strip right in front of Westridge that's currently marked as no parking. And I know in one of our meetings in the past, there was some consideration for what would happen there. And I would definitely want to know what's going on with that because now you're talking about in front of Westridge on what's currently red, 30 cars sitting…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:11:07
“I would just make a comment. I agree with you that going from VMU to private doesn't necessarily mean everybody's prohibited.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:11:19
“Well, it's Village Mixed-Use going to... No, it's the other way around.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:11:26
“But is it currently zoned VMU? No. That's what we'll be going to, yes. My mistake. At any rate, the spirit of my comment is going from all public to private does change it, and I think it warrants being open to hearing people have a viewpoint on that and being able to listen to that. And then the only other... would be to have an understanding, you know, typically in a business like this. Do I have it wrong? Oh, okay.”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 3:12:06
“Inside of the business, I would imagine there will be service level agreements of some sort, and that might be an avenue to look at some of those issues. Between the two entities, it's likely they will have what's called a SLEI, which will be a service level agreement. It's likely there will be a connection there, so I wouldn't necessarily say that because they're two entities, they're two different things, really. There will be a way that they will be linked that we could look at. they wanted to sell it at some point in time isn't that when they would create the agreement well if anybody…”
Planning Commission · Jul 15, 2026