Remarks by Caroline Bañuelos
15 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“It was wonderful and very efficient. And I really appreciate the work that you all do. I had to take the bus. I can't drive right now. So you're there when people need you and also for everyone else that needs you on a daily basis. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I just had a really quick announcement. Just thought I should announce it. Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, the Violence Prevention Policy Team is going to be meeting over at Steel Lane Community Center, and that's for our community partners, but also for the public. We don't normally meet there. We normally meet over at Findlay, but we're having a joint meeting with the Operation Team, so it's going to go a little longer than usual. But I just wanted to let the public know, because we don't get much public involvement or feedback, and I would love to see you all come out if…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. I think it's great that we, it looks like we're doing nothing but improving by getting more and more points. I think that's excellent. I just had a question. In looking at the staff report, I was looking at the little tiny section on analysis and it talked about you know, state housing law requirements that we have to also meet a range of income levels. And that's an area that I'm really interested in in terms of housing. Because we talk about affordable housing, we of course have, which we'll see in the next item, lots of market rate housing.…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“At this point, we are building enough low income then, if that's what they want us to focus on more than, I don't agree with that. I think we should be looking at both. But if that's what they want us to do, do you all feel, I shouldn't say you personally, but you all feel that we're meeting that need by having the 89 points?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the report. Just off the top, of course, I support this completely. Love to see incentives, because that's what we are always asked about when we're out in the community. Why aren't we offering more incentives? Even though we already are, people think we're not offering enough. So all of that is good. I was just curious about the impact fee study. or doing the updated, is that something that staff will do, or do you have a consultant do that, or how does that get done over the whatever time period you have that you're looking at?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Just one other thought. In terms of incentives, I assume, I hate to use that word, but assume that you all have talked to developers and other folks about whether or not they like these incentives or that these will actually incentivize them to build. Especially with this chart on slide seven, You can see that it's primarily market rate housing that we're doing here. And I know we're talking about mostly downtown and not, I guess what I'm thinking about is, and I've been talking about this the last few meetings, what can we do to incentivize more low-income housing, whether it's low-low or…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Mayor. I move that we adopt the three resolutions as presented by staff and waive reading of the text.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. I really... I'm not an expert in this area either, but I love all these topics. I just wondered, going back to your question and the direction that you're looking for, and kind of along the lines of Councilmember McDonald, looking at your end date, the July 2027, which I know seems, it's a year from now, but it'll come very quickly, I know that. So I'm wondering when I look at your three areas, the parking, the transportation, demand management, and the ministerial housing, what you all feel you have, for lack of a better word, capacity to do…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Let's see. I would say with respect to parking, I know especially when I first got elected, I was hearing a lot about, for example, the Pullman Project and the other one on College Avenue. I can't remember the name of it right now. over by Manhattan and Safeway. Okay, so those were really, for me, really good examples of folks trying to adjust to the parking minimums and really having a hard time. However, I will say lately, and I knock on whatever this is haven't got any complaints because initially I got lots of complaints so I'm thinking you know with the and I'm just…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. Let's see, so it seems like you have two issues, or I know many more, but essentially the on-time issue, and I understand as we've come out of COVID, and I know I feel it as I drive home from Sonoma State, how impacted the traffic is, it takes me like, less than 20 minutes to get to work and it takes me an hour to get home no matter which way I go and I go every way. So I know that it's really impacted at those peak hours, those peak business hours. So I'm just wondering, so there's that issue and how that affects the financial part of the bus…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right, and I know, I realize, I mean, first of all, let me say, I just really appreciate the complexity of designing these routes, oh my gosh. Just especially that one slide 22, I'm just like, oh my God, it's overwhelming. So I take my hat off to you and your staff. It's amazing the work that you do. So I'm just wondering, there's probably more than one way on many of these routes to get to Coddingtown, to get to Kaiser, to get to the round Fountain Grove, so to speak. that if there's a way to keep, and this is just my own thing, because I didn't even know, I'm embarrassed to say, that…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I move to appoint Vincenzo Signoretti to review for position of archaeologist architectural historian or historian position on the Design Review and Preservation Board? Second.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, since we are asking questions, I was wondering about 13.6 and I just wondered, oh I see, I think Megan is still here. I wonder if Megan, if you wouldn't mind just talking about it a little bit for, really for the purposes of the public and anyone else who's involved, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So this particular project was already slated to happen eventually, right? I think I remember it was like the next, the final phase, like you said. So is the application that you're submitting, that's the new part right now, is that you're finally moving forward with it?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'm sorry, and the clientele that it's going to serve, that was the clientele that was always slated to be served, is that correct?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026