Remarks by Brian Poochigian
83 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“So on the fireworks. Me personally, I felt like there was less fireworks, especially around our neighborhood. I always say, like, on the 4th of July, you expect to hear things go boom and bang. But on the 3rd, 2nd, 1st, or after that, you don't. And I feel like we heard a lot less this year. According to the numbers, it was a lot lower. So I think hopefully the message is getting out about the fireworks. So you guys did a great job. On the 4th of July, I did have one complaint. There wasn't enough porta-potties. Someone shot me a text message that day, so maybe next year more porta-potties. I…”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
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“Yeah, so this will probably be the eighth year that I've said this, that If we're not gonna allow marijuana in the city, we need to have something on the books so the state doesn't come in and says, you have to allow marijuana and the money needs to go to this. That's why I've been saying that at least we now have an ordinance in place so no matter what happens, we should be covered. But you did a fantastic job on this. I think you listened to us thoroughly. You put everything in here. I do kind of agree with Council Member Nelson. We're kind of on the lower end on the community benefit…”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
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“The tension's really building on this online one. We keep saying no, and I'm just waiting for one person. I keep waiting for one person.”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:38:34
“Any question on that? So they do that, do we reimburse them?”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:40:55
“They kind of knew that one was already coming in, it was already kind of in the pipeline, right?”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:55:04
“Yeah, so I'm going to break this up into a couple different sections here. We have design standards. I didn't like the design standards. I didn't vote for the design standards. I passed it anyway. I believe this applicated everything in the design standards that we went over with all the different builders, correct?”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:56:44
“Okay. And then on Lovers Lane, Here's my show Lovers Lane. We're saying they need to put in a sidewalk in the city would reimburse them. That's one thing that we did. We've done that further.”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026
- Play at 1:59:27
“So where I really struggle is we're having this developer, because it's been hard to develop on the southeast as well. It's taken a long time to get a lot of projects out there. And now we're requiring this developer to develop a sidewalk along Lover's Lane on property that he doesn't own, that he's not going to get reimbursed for however it works out. But then, you know, as soon as he gets done, he's going right back to dirt anyway. That's where I struggle with. Also, that we're adding cost to this, you know, with affordability in homes, and we're adding more cost to this, and costing houses…”
City Council · Jul 20, 2026