Remarks by Dana Crutchfield
30 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 21:39
“It's not a question, but it's just a commendation or an agreement with what you've presented. I think once the commercial is given up, it's obviously difficult to get back. I think you pointed out that we have abundant housing going up all over. I think that As you mentioned, the commercial development is representing usage for all in the form of you made the mention of an aquatic center or those kind of things, not just a particular individual who wants to make money off of a particular piece of property by converting it into residential that we already have an abundance of. So I support…”
Planning Commission · May 21, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, Director Madsen, because I, I think it's important that you are considering that, as you mentioned, the lower density, the bigger setbacks, to the development that's there, that's been there, their neighborhoods. And then again, you're focusing more on the apartments that are up in the north end. It kind of fits. It fits that area, but I don't see that it has a have or a have not. I don't see it that way. I just see it as development that meets the existing and maybe the future vision for Pasco. Thank you for that.”
Planning Commission · May 21, 2026
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“What did happen in Kennewick as far as, I mean, I know what happened, but did they ask for a moratorium then after all of the uproar and the or what happened exactly with that?”
Planning Commission · May 21, 2026
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“So when this talks about the cities, does that apply to county too, that they can?”
Planning Commission · May 21, 2026
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“I know the county, and this was probably definitely before you were here and maybe, I don't know if any other commissioners, but there was a proposal for, it was a girls' ranch, I believe. It was in North Franklin, and it was for troubled, you know, that had, I believe, been in trouble legally. I'm not sure of that. There was quite a pushback on that, and it just kind of, went away, kind of like the thing in Kennewick that I remember, it's been a while ago, probably more than 10 years ago.”
Planning Commission · May 21, 2026
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“Well, I had a question on one of the pictures there, and maybe I didn't hear it right. I thought that you said that with one building and then you could have another in the back of it or what have you. So how does that work with the emergency access, like the fire and that? Because I know that there's been a concern or issues in the past in some different settings where there wasn't room for the fire truck to turn around, to get access to turn around, et cetera.”
Planning Commission · Mar 19, 2026
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“And the one other question, and I think I asked this before and you probably did address it, but when we talked about preventing single family zones, So if you have a piece of property, like that's an acre, 0.6, or what have you, you don't have to put these three or four or five different dwellings on it. If you want to put a single family home on it, you can. Correct. We just can't prevent it.”
Planning Commission · Mar 19, 2026
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“I don't understand that part. Can you elaborate on that part?”
Planning Commission · Mar 19, 2026
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“Yes, this is kind of a crazy out there observation, but When it talks about, thank you, the, let me find my spot, alternative compliance and so forth, the different bullet points on that. Would any of the area that's close to the river shore be considered possibly in that exemption? Where I'm going with this is if something happens to the dam then there's going to be flooding down there. And it's a possibility, especially in the way of the world now. I mean, the dam, is that not right, Jerry? If the dam was breached in some way, much of that area would be underwater. I live on the river but…”
Planning Commission · Mar 19, 2026
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“I had one thing on that because I concur with what you're saying totally and now that we're kind of this fervor of the building, I think it's important to, think you mentioned this maybe some of this will be market driven as well I mean the sky doesn't go to heaven and I think it's important for the city also to make sure that they have staffing for building inspectors and so forth because there are some issues that are happening right now that should be addressed without naming specifics, there's some housing similar to, one of these pictures may represent it, I don't know, but they had…”
Planning Commission · Mar 19, 2026
- Play at 36:08
“No. Crutchfield. I am sorry. That's okay. Sometimes the Hatfields and McCoys, you never know. Anyway, in this setting, thank you for basically these sheets as a review of something that I've kind of known about for a long time, at least on the perimeter. But you did kind of, you know, simplified as far as comprehensive plan, zoning, municipal. And there's several things interfacing here that I really especially like, and I highlighted them. It talks about this process in municipal code, avoiding conflicting or piecemeal changes, providing meaningful public input. And it talks about changes…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“Commissioner Crutchfield, there you go. This has to do with zoning, though. And what do you do if something happens that obviously isn't permitted in the current zone? Then what's the process? What do you do? I mean, we don't have code enforcement, at least not much. How do you handle that? Specifically, I'll give an example. On Court Street. about road 16 of Court Street. There's an existing home and there is a home connected to this home. It's not a detached garage or structure. It is huge. The pitch of the roof of this new building is much higher than the roof of the extending building. It…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“conforming to the current code status, in my opinion. And it also, although the market's changing, it still is necessary to recognize the current development of where you're putting something next to something else that has been there for a long period of time and the neighborhood has you know, made a substantial investment in that, so.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“I mean, that's, to me, kind of at the top of the food chain on that. I just wondered, at that point, maybe, you know,”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“Well, it's easy enough to find out just by going into the website and looking and seeing if it's permitted, but I was never, you know, under the impression that the roof pitch could be, you know, it just looks.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“And yeah, this is, this is definitely, yeah. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“Can I ask a question? Of course. Cause it'll slip. It's kind of within this. Remember when we taught, and I'm not sure I'm going to come exactly right on this, but remember when we talked about projections and that the projections that were before this comp plan were so many hundred thousand or what have you, and that that didn't actually materialize. We actually haven't even reached that at this point. Yes. Do you remember that part? I do. So my question is, with the shortage that we're talking about and the projections where we're not even at the projection that we were supposed to be out,…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“So that does explain some of it, and some of the really beautiful apartments that are up in the Broadmoor area, which, you know, the sand dunes are gone. It's sad, but they are. But those kind of, for people that need an apartment, are wonderful. But all the smaller, smaller houses, I don't know how that is... helping people that need the lower income. Like some of the really small lots, and you are in real estate, so you know I went into like a 1,700, 1,600 square foot home. They're right next, I mean, it's, and it was 410,000. Yeah. That's not a, that's not a, you know, a low or, I don't…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“And they're building, building, building, building, building those, thinking that's a source for low. I don't know. I don't.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“It's a quick one. how do we determine how much is enough at a certain point in time I know that other cities have done that and I'm not saying it's an easy or necessarily popular with some part of the business community others it may be a wiser just to take a pause so that it just doesn't get to be more than what the market may be hot until it's not. And you're probably too young to remember Seattle. You probably all are, except maybe you. Anyway, my grandma told me this. The last person to leave Seattle, please turn off the lights. things just fell. And I don't remember when that was, like I…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“And that's what I was, that's what I'm getting. Yeah. We don't have to go above and beyond.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“by increasing the density get us to this number of units okay thank you chair as well as uh oh sorry you might want to agree with what commissioner i'm sorry brian um said respecting where these are going to go in like areas like areas like”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“All right. Understood. Commissioner Crutchfield? Yes, I agree with these thoughts. Proceed cautiously, slowly, with the idea in mind of, you know, what developments you're coming up adjacent to. One of your comments in the beginning was I could just say I don't like it. And I don't, but I realize that change is necessary. I obviously realize that. And I think that there's one really good example on Court Street that has been there for some time. And granted, it's probably something that we're used to seeing. That may be part of it. But it's higher density than the surrounding, and that's Ivy…”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“All right, Commissioner Crutchfield. Yeah, it's just on this last number three. So going up, like the building over by the casino, the white apartments that are relatively new, how high are they then? Because they look very nice.”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026
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“It looks very nice. I mean, it really does. And I think the other concept is kind of cool too. But again, I say it depends on where you're going to put it. I've seen the commercial on the bottom and residential and I'm sure you're familiar because you've lived over there Pine Lake it used to be forested and now that city's developed and they have that Mercer Island same concept city of Mercer Island but different than here for sure sure but so I think both are great ideas it just depends where you're going to put it yeah well for this instance it would be the red areas on the screen”
Planning Commission · Feb 19, 2026