Remarks by David Martinez
101 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“First, I'll request the maker of the motion for two minor amendments, friendly amendments, if she would agree. First, in the second staff recommendation, where it says direct staff to incorporate revisions in response, et cetera, make it say direct staff to incorporate minor revisions in response to HCD and public comment.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“AND THEN SECOND JUST REQUEST AND THEN SECOND JUST REQUEST WELL I GUESS THIS WOULD BE AN WELL I GUESS THIS WOULD BE AN ITEM NUMBER THREE TO REQUEST ITEM NUMBER THREE TO REQUEST STAFF TO MEET WITH MR. GRIFFIN STAFF TO MEET WITH MR. GRIFFIN ABOUT THE PROPERTY ON Okay, cool. And with that, yeah, this item, very big item, I'd like to thank staff for all of their work in putting this together. I know when we first sent over the March, I guess it was probably February for us, but the previous amendment to the housing element, my first priority was to get us a certified housing element. And that is…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Commissioner Martinez. I've got questions and comments sprinkled throughout. So if you want, I can do it after public comment.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“OK. I'll try and separate. OK. I'm looking at the links. And I'm going to go in order of the staff report, but I will reference the language that was linked to in the staff report. And this doesn't have page numbers. So for definitions, zoning district overlay. It says in our proposed definition, the overlay zone supersedes the zoning regulation of the base zoning district. I thought that the point was that they can opt into those zoning regulations and not that they were required to have the regulations of the zoning overlay.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. M, Chapter 5, Article 1, Residential Districts. Why limit townhomes to just six in a row? Is there a reason that we came up with that number specifically?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“So if the intent is to do this stuff about facades, and in our objective design standards, which I'll get to, we talk about these facade regulations. Why not just only subject the townhomes to the facade standards instead of giving them this cap of six?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Got it. Okay. The next one is about residential common interest developments. And here we allow for multifamily essentially to become residential ownership housing. And the way that it's been applied in Costa Mesa, I think of the townhomes. So I think I wanted to ask about... if we look at applicability of the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 and like the very low income and low income current tenants, when we look at these applications and if we should include that process in our municipal code.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“OK. Thank you. OK. Next one in the staff report is the mood. Let me try and separate comments from questions. So in our proposal, we have a bunch of different offsite improvements that we're saying are required. In addition to these offsite improvements, a developer will have to pay the various impact fees that we have. So I guess the question is why have these required off-site improvements if we're also collecting the impact fee, which should in theory pay for improvements roughly in the vicinity of a project.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“GOT IT. WHAT WOULD AN APPEAL PROCESS FOR THIS LOOK LIKE FOR THE OFFSIDE IMPROVEMENTS?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Got it. Okay. I'll have comments later. Let's see. Okay. So permitted uses within the mood. I'll skip over to theaters for a question. I didn't find it. But theaters, it's specifically broken out into two categories, which is within 200 feet of residential development and outside of 200 feet of residential development. Being a mood project would mean it has housing. So do we mean within 200 feet of residential development other than the project itself?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Got it. OK. Thank you. Let's see. That's a comment. Oh, yeah. There's setback standards. And one of these was actually presented on site 11. THERE WAS ONE THAT GOT ADDED IN THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN WHICH WAS THE CLAY VALVE 50-FOOT BUFFER. I WANTED TO SEE IF THERE WAS AN EXPLANATION FOR THAT ONE.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. Let's see if I have questions for objective design standards. the upper floor setbacks. I don't have the language in front of me. But it says, roughly, abutting residential zones. So I wanted to confirm, or see if this is wrong, if the upper story setback applies only on a side with a residential zone and not to the entire property. Like the front of the property along the street wouldn't have to have an upper side setback. OK. STAFF?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“THANK YOU. THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS. I'LL HAVE COMMENTS LATER. THANK YOU.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“All right. Go back down the list, but with comments instead of questions. Yes. Starting from the top. Definitions, yeah, let's fix that. Overlay zoning definition, hopefully we can, when we see that next time, we can improve that. Townhomes to six in a row. With our objective design guidelines, I do feel like we can remove that six requirement. Plus, we do have open space requirements, and we do have other requirements. that I would feel comfortable removing that requirement given the other things that we have in there. Back to the mood. I think the biggest... CONCERN I HAD WITH THE PROPOSAL…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“MOVE THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECEIVE THE PRESENTATION, REQUEST STAFF INCORPORATE FEEDBACK AND FILE THIS REPORT.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 17, 2026
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“I am attending this meeting remotely due to work obligations. No one else is in the room with me.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Unfortunately, I can't see the full audience to know just how many people are there. But thank you, everyone, for attending tonight. Two announcements. The GIS strategic plan survey closes tomorrow. So if you're interested in providing input to, I believe it's our IT department on GIS and its relationship to all of our different various city functions, that survey now closes tomorrow. Also tomorrow, um august 11th is a free performance in the park symphony on the go is going to be tomorrow at heller park at 6 30 p.m and then it continues on with a few other uh…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you. I think first, I just want to do a very broad overview, high level timeline question. So I know we said that if this gets approved, it goes to city council. And then from there, a master developer will be chosen by the state. So after that is done, if that's done, I'd like for staff to explain not just what happens from there, because what happens would be the specific plan gets implemented, if it gets approved. But the timeline of when that happens, and then ending with, what is the endpoint of full build out? When would we expect this entire project to be completed?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right, so we're looking at an 18-year time scale, not next year. OK, the broad one, and then I'll just do one very specific one. The staff report provided a link to the track edits For the FTCSP, first I'd like to thank staff very much for taking a lot of my comments from last meeting and making the corresponding edits. And so thank you, staff. The one, I'll say final for now, one that I just addressed is in who maintains the utility systems, the track edits still identify the city. or the association. And I wanted clarity as to why would the city maintain the water system if Mesa Water…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“Okay. In that case, I'll have comments and we'll edit later. Those are my questions. A lot of my questions were answered at the previous meeting. So I'd like to thank staff very much for that. And I'll end. Thank you.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, tonight we are considering a plan that will take two decades to implement, a plan for which those born today will not be fully implemented until their high school graduation. I grew up in this community. I made friends in this community. Unfortunately, those are now future generations will continue to leave because of housing unaffordability. He came to the circumstance because we in this city are neighboring cities and across the state did not bill Clithrow for sharing the concept of supply and demand with increased supply prices drop It's with decreased supply,…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“There is an appendix mentioned for the climate action plan that was not provided to us for this review. And I know that we're not issuing a formal recommendation to the city council, but I wanted to know when we would be able to review this appendix F. Okay.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“Okay. I mean, since we're looking at the cap, I think it would be appropriate to, you know, just bring it back, a receiving file, have us take a look at it so that we can just see it since we're looking at this cap. All right. I wanted to ask about EJ communities. Mapping... occurs yearly. So I wanted to know the process for which we will be informed of the new EJ communities or when an EJ community is removed.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“All right. And my last question is about two specific policies in the safety element, which can be found on either page 783 or 865. Pick whichever one you like. It's at the bottom of both of them. They both talk about two egress methods for... Development, I suppose. And I wanted to ask, does that mean two egress methods out of a neighborhood or out of a single building?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026
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“OK, so just want to be absolutely clear. These policies are about, let's call it neighborhoods and not singular buildings.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Aug 10, 2026