Remarks by David Martinez
101 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Okay, still with the public commenter 633 on the noise element. Do we have noise standards that are different from the typical noise standards when any property is adjacent to a freeway?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“OK. OK. Cool. Let's skip 400 pages. 1,017.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I know last time I had notes and I was vague and I do apologize for that. Um, but were there any amendments to the objective design standards following my feedback from the study session? And if so, what were they?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Got it. Nothing in the facade section where I was most vague.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Also responding to the public commenter. And I think first I'll actually start with the more general, like what authority do we as a planning commission have on editing text in the EIR? I'm assuming not much, but if you could”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Did you see the proposal on EV standards? Yes. And is that... Right.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Those are my questions. Thank you.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I move that the Planning Commission adopt the staff recommendation with the following amendments. Okay. On page 310, change the definition of row house to see townhouse since they're the same. On page 352, continue the list in 13152.1. so that it says and very low-income households senior citizens and other groups to reflect other groups that density bonus law applies to and do similar on pages 355 and 1a and 356 and 4a by saying in housing for other groups on page 354 at the very bottom where it says fee in subparagraph seven, move that up to be a three since that should apply for…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll say, first of all, overall, and before I get into some of the proposed amendments, that I'd like to very much thank staff for all of their work that they have put in to the Neighborhoods Where We All Belong program. This is an excellent job on all your parts. The award is very well earned. So thank you for everything that you've done for this project. So quite a few of these proposed amendments are responsive to the public comment letter that have been submitted, mainly going from more stringent to the objective design standards. And that is intended to be more…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. A few community events that are coming up. First, the Symphony on the Go. There was one, I believe, last week. And then the program will continue at Vista Park on August 19th. and at Schiffer Park on August 29th. Both concerts of the Pacific Symphony are free and begin at 6.30 PM. And I also wanted to announce and talk about the Costa Mesa Historical Society. They are having their, I believe, 60th anniversary event the weekend of August 29th and 30th. They will have a celebration at the Costa Mesa Adobe, the Diego Sepulveda Adobe, from 11 to 3 p.m. on August 29th. And…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Chair. All right. Another long set of questions.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. First, I want to get started with the staff report. Page 7 or 131. So we say that for the sites that we are adding with this new update, there's a bunch of different criteria, and they have to meet this criteria in order to be added. And the final bullet point in that list is sites that have developer interest. So of the sites that have developer interest, do we not care about the other criteria? Are we just saying developer interested and it's a Measure K site? Let's go for it.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“11 property owners who have requested to be added. And then other than that, we're adding 94 new housing element sites. So there are 83 sites where it wasn't requested to be added.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Have we confirmed that they're okay with that? Because I don't want to do this process again where we have another 24 sites who want to get out of the housing element.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“OK, so they've been noticed, and they've hopefully seen all this stuff, and someone agreed to it. Cool. Page 10, or 34. Middle paragraph, basically it's saying, the public review is still ongoing. It ends Wednesday. So we are not seeing the final version that is going to be presented at council.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“I DON'T SEE THE WORD MINOR IN THIS RECOMMENDATION. It just says incorporate revisions responding to HCD and public review. Technically with this motion, if there's a public commenter who says actually delete the housing element, then we've directed you to delete the housing element. So I want to make sure that we get the word minor in when this motion is made. so that we've seen a substantial version of what we are recommending to city council. Let me just write that down. OK. Now for the document itself. Let me see if I can find some page numbers. I'll point out if you can just do a control…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“YEAH, ON PAGE 115 AT THE TOP IT JUST SAYS ON MONTH 2026.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Um, page 153 has map with flood zones and then 155 has fire hazard severity zones. The maps have housing element sites that have been removed. And I believe not all the ones that were added. So just updating the maps, um, to be the new housing element sites. And then. I think this might be city attorney question, might be us. Because I was not here the first time for the first go around for the housing element. So I want to make sure that I understand how this works, how the allocation and the planning works for the different income categories. So HCD, SCAG, one of those two, has told us that…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“OK. So I did say four categories. So we have to plan for enough, I'll just say, very low-income units to meet our requirement of 2,919. Yes. Yes. Yes, that's correct. OK. Why is it that our total potential, I'm on page 252. Why is it that our total potential capacity for RHNA for very low income is 1,974 units when our RHNA allocation was 2,919 units?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. So for the purposes of like no net loss, how do we know that we're still, like are we just saying lower income and then we don't care about the difference between very low and low?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. ALL RIGHT. COMMISSIONER, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OF STAFF?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“What makes it not a Measure K site? I don't have a good image of it.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“That is, uh, we, we, we, sorry, we can't, we can't have a back and forth anymore.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026