Remarks by Daniel Garcia
21 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Yeah, I've been doing CFP for a couple years. Love it. Casey likes to call it boring. I think it's anything but. But that's okay. Still convincing him. In the past, I have taken on transportation and some others. Definitely would love to do transportation. But honestly, we'll take whatever. Usually, I think we've had like three people. So we've kind of done it like two each-ish. There's only two of us, and I know... um greg zaynab uh samir have suggested they wanted to do some one i can kind of guess i feel like what i can guess what greg might want to do um i would love transportation fire…”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Transportation always gets like 10 people on it, which is good.”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“I can also throw in like a storm or waste resources just to like round it. Cause I, yeah, I think like transportation will be like an all, like all hands on deck sort of situation. So I feel like it's more, yeah, those ones, those ones are the more ones that we need people assigned to are the ones that are not so popular. What do you want to do?”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Uh, yeah, because I mean, like, transportation, like, Greg, like, let me, like, yes, yes, it's good for me, but also I feel confident that I know Greg is definitely going to look at transportation, like, there's no way he's not going to. Um, and like I said, like, a lot of people are going to do that one, so I feel like, uh... that is good. Um, I feel like as long as we just have somebody that's like definitively looking at each of them, then I feel good. Like Zaynab is going to do a super, super thorough job of like storm and surface water. Um, so yeah, I feel as long as we just have…”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“She's working with the project manager to get some of the cost basis for that facility sent out.”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“In case you just, we then do not have planning commission that Monday, September 7th.”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Cool. I have it on my calendar because I have it like recurring. So now I'm putting in like a big, like no planning commission, which is fun. So yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 25, 2026
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“Do we get Greg out? Has there been a coup?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah. Thank you for the presentation, David. I think last time we heard about this, I think we heard, I think there was a question on like the scale of this. And I think that there's maybe some, like you're going to follow up about this. Do you remember that? And do you have any more information to talk about like the scale of like how many businesses are like, operating in the South cap neighborhood or like how many in Olympia overall, do you remember this conversation?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Sorry, I had a hard time hearing Aaron. Did you say that you want amendments or you don't want amendments?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I heard the motion. I'm asking, Aaron, you're saying there's nothing that will... I couldn't hear the first part of what you said before the motion. You said you want amendments or you said you don't want any amendments?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“okay thank you do other people have comments I guess I just wonder if anybody has like proposed alternatives of like what would we want to suggest instead like I can imagine if in a comment letter you if the plan commissioner recommends like not to approve I'm assuming there'd be some explanation of like what we, like what led us there, like what we want instead. So I guess I'm just like wondering what, if anybody has thoughts, Aaron, kind of looking at you just since you made the motion, but don't want to put you on the spot, but like, just wondering if you had other thoughts.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“L, I hear what you're saying, and I'm not an employment law expert, but I guess that's why I'm kind of wondering, because I feel like I've heard with Amazon, people will say, well, you're not technically an employee of Amazon. You're a contractor or contracted by Amazon. So I'm definitely not an employment law expert. but I guess I'm just saying that I'm a little hesitant to start putting like very specific words like that into the thing just because I don't know like how they affect things. And I guess I'm a little worried that we would like put something in there that then creates like a…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“i just think that if we're going to be making recommendations and these are going to be used for further complaints and it's complaint-based enforcement then we need to be specific we owe that as a protection to the homeowners and to the businesses totally hear you on being specific and offering recommendations but i just think that then maybe we should under understand what that means if you're gonna say employed by then i'm like i again like i don't know what that means if because or like i'm not an expert in like the difference between like employed by contracted by I don't know, like…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'm yeah. I like that. I like that a little bit better of like defining participate better rather than like being like, yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I also just, Raphael, to your point about South Capitol, it does seem like it's a minority of the homes in South Capitol. That's what, David, thank you. I was able to find the numbers that you provided. And it's, yeah, it's like 76 home-based businesses out of 797 residences. So it's like 10%, which like in my, like in my head, what I hear is like 90% of the neighborhood is not dealing with this. And so it's like an acute issue of, But it's not like widespread, I would say. And so that helps me like contextualize of like, this seems like a important but limited issue in that neighborhood.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I'm happy to go with the group. It seems like enough people had concerns that I'm happy to vote with the group and be like, let's vote to not recommend approval. But I'm a little bit confused just on what we are recommending specifically. Instead, so I would love to see kind of like more maybe conversation about that about like what people want to propose instead because I just, I'll say I don't really have a ton of ideas. So, like, I'm interested to see what people think. kind of propose alternatively, because I don't really know what can be enforced. And I think that that's kind of the…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“to do not recommend so yes i i hear you casey and maybe if i need to call them considerations then they're considerations but i guess that's like i guess the like i want to kind of hear more from people what i already i heard the considerations voice today but i guess i just would like to hear more additional like how those are going to be in the comment letter because i guess if i i'm i'm a little confused on what we're saying to counsel with like don't recommend then it's like, why, why are we not recommending? And it's like, I don't exactly understand, but I guess that's what the comment…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“We can move on. We don't need to summarize everything today, but I'm just voicing what I am feeling. I think the group is skeptical, and that's totally great, and we can vote as a group and be skeptical, but I don't exactly know where we're going. That's what the comment letter's for.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“See, this is, I think, where I'm a little confused because, Raphael, you just were talking about downtown businesses being empty, but are those home-based businesses downtown?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yes, I have a meeting that I think Planning Commission will care about. There is a couple of meetings scheduled this week being led by the city talking about the Artesian Well. The Artesian Well mosaic was recently repaired by the original mosaic artist, Jennifer Koons. The Parks Department, I think, worked with her to restore the mosaic. So not the entire site, but just the art piece. There are some focus groups, work groups being organized by the city, one today and I think another on Thursday. So attended that today. And they sound like based on whatever feedback they get from that group,…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026