Remarks by David Martinez
101 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“right commissioner dixon it's a pretty full agenda so hold off tonight okay thank you commissioner martinez of course that won't stop me um yes so uh there's a council meeting tomorrow a lot of different planning commission items on there they have a bind they have actually two binders ours is this thick and both of theirs are that thick so if you're interested in attending their meeting that is tomorrow 6 p.m Commissioner Andrade mentioned the Saturday Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at Lyons Park. While you're there, you can also visit ArtVenture at the Norma Herzog Community Center.…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll start with the conditions of approval. Actually, my only questions are on the conditions of approval. So starting with handwritten page 58. Handwritten, whatever. Condition of approval number five. is on the windows for the climbing wall area. And it says that they shall be tinted or obscures to minimize light pollution. However, we also have them doing a lighting plan and photometric study in condition of approval number 13. So why have them do tinted or obscured windows if we don't yet know what the light pollution impacts would be?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“So but we don't know what the light pollution impact will be? Not currently, no. OK. So maybe that's a conditional condition. OK. Conditions 8 and 11 are on landscaping. And they both say that the landscape plans will meet the requirements of our municipal code. However, this is a legal non-conforming site. So I wanted to first check that they're not going to meet the code once they're done with the project. So should these conditions meet the requirements of these code sections, or IS THAT PROPERLY WORDED?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“That is the code, right? That's the code section that says that you can go further in conformance with to get to what our code says. But in our conditions, it says that they have to meet it.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. And condition of approval number 16 starts by saying, show method of screening for all ground-mounted equipment.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'm assuming that it should read something like the plans should show the method of screening for all ground-mounted equipment. I'm assuming that's just something left off of a copy-paste, but I would be willing to be corrected.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yes. I just wanted to ask about windows, since you're the architect. Obscured or tinted windows for the climbing wall area? I noticed on your climbing wall slide, it looked pretty transparent. You could see in from the outside. You could see out from the inside. Is that also the intent of... this one that you'd be able to see in and out and how would tinted or obscured windows affect the vision?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“WILL THE MAKER OF THE MOTION CONSIDER FOR CONDITION OF APPROVAL NUMBER 5 ON PAGE 58 Beginning that condition with the clause, unless the lighting plan and photometric study submitted pursuant to condition of approval 13 shows it's unneeded, comma.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Unless the lighting plan and photometric study submitted pursuant to condition of approval 13 shows it's unneeded, comma.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“And then for 16, beginning that condition with the plans shall show the method of screening.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean this right now is a vacant or soon to be vacant business which we're now allowing a business to open up here. So I'm excited for that. It's in my district so that's really cool that we're getting new jobs, we're getting new retail. So I'm happy to support it. Thank you.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. I want to go on to the path of travel from the sidewalk. Just based on the plans, like I just see striping going from the sidewalk up to the entrance. Do we know if it's just going to be like painted stripes like what is presented on the plans? Is it going to be a curb up elevated from the parking lot? What is the exact plan for a path of travel from sidewalk to the entrance?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'm talking about from the sidewalk to the handicap parking space to the entrance so your question is how is it drawn my question is how will it be built Is it going to be stripes on an asphalt parking lot? Is it going to be a curb?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“So from the sidewalk, it would be painted along that edge.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Does that help? Yes. And then for grading, I'm looking at a page that I think is talking about grading. I see the path of travel has a 1.9% grade horizontally across it. I want to make sure that that's okay.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah. One of the original questions I had written down but did not ask was, what do we mean by tournament in condition of approval number six? Since I'm assuming that is not a word that is defined in our zoning code. So I guess first, I'll give you the opportunity to answer what do we mean by tournament. And second, I'll ask for staff's opinion of the proposal of the applicant on simply requiring them to comply with the special event permit requirements of our zoning code.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“And why not just cover it under the special event permit requirements?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“SIMILAR BUT RELATED. DIFFERENT BUT RELATED. THE BACK GATE. IS THAT OPEN? IS THAT CLOSED?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“happening on site so the the court capacity is going to be 40 like eight times five courts is going to be 40 special events is 50 so either one okay so your proposed amendment was just to replace this the capacity is four per court per four per court 20 20. so yes bad math all right let's put in a definition for”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll start with the general abroad of seeing this application, I wonder, if we had to have seen this application as the Planning Commission. Like we have our noise ordinance, we have these other things that control. I wonder if this had to have risen to this level. Otherwise, I do think, It's a good application. It promotes, as Commissioner Dixon said, physical activity. Great. We get some more open space out on the west side of Costa Mesa. To answer Vice Chair Zick's point about buses, it is literally right next to a bus stop. So anyone who is taking the 55 or the 43…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I mean, if Commissioner Andrade would like to go first, because I have quite the list.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have questions from page 261 to 1,017. So let's go through this. 261 is the staff report area on the ALIC. I wanted to know if we have a map of which properties we excluded based on the ALIC feedback.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. I will go on while that's being pulled up. Page 314, I'm in zoning code definitions for zoning district overlay.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“BECAUSE I THINK THE WAY I READ IT WAS THAT THAT SECOND CLAUSE IS WHAT'S UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED BUT NOT WHEN A PROPERTY OWNER CHOOSES TO EXERCISE THE PROVISIONS. BECAUSE THE WAY I READ IT WAS THIS IS LIKE BASICALLY ABOUT HOUSING ELEMENT SITES.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“OK. I think that's fine. Page 352, density bonus law. How much of this is repeating our, oh, wait, hold on, ALIC map.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026