Remarks by Devin Byrd
42 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Yes, Madam Mayor, I would ask that we add Action Item 14A, a motion requesting a staff report on options to support our police officers during high-risk calls, including drones as first responders and in-car cameras, to the agenda.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. I want to start tonight with something more light. I want to say thank you to our Parks and Rec staff, our volunteers, and everyone who came out for Harvest Fest at the community park. Events like that show what makes this city great and how the community can come together. I also want to thank our neighbors who came out yesterday to talk to us about the Aylor Open Space. They brought some great questions about long-term plans. They gave some honest feedback from the neighborhood adjacent to it. They raised concerns around some of the things that was going on as well. I'll be…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. I appreciate the plans and stuff kind of ahead of time, knowing that it's going to come down the road. I did have one question regarding pedestrian kind of crossings and connections to neighboring areas. There's three schools within walking distance of this specific site. If you look at like a Google map image of the area, you can see that there's a clear kind of like. Path beaten into the grass and dirt for where everybody kind of walks through there. I'm just curious on if the development is going to continue to kind of help build that same kind of pathway and crossings in…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yes, thank you. So I have a couple of questions Adam. One is, I saw that you mentioned Avaya building as being one of the areas that's kind of difficult for us to kind of fill right now. Do we have anything that we're looking at for potentially the meaty building or the large space that's also right here at the Thornton Marketplace? I think it was like 65,000 square feet. It's a big one right next to Home Depot. Do we know of anything that's going in those currently?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Gotcha. Next question. The Strip Along Quebec, right there at 136,000, and then also at Highway 7. Looking at the active development map and seeing kind of what's going in there, I see a lot of things that are being proposed and kind of put there. I saw one of them, I think the Chick-fil-A is actually being built currently. Do we have any kind of ETA on some of the other plans that are coming through? Because I know that a few of them, well, most of them that are going through are going to be fast food, but I know that's going to be a big driver considering they're going to be between two…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Great, and then the last thing, in one of your first slides, you mentioned that restaurants for like a sit-down restaurant, equivalent to between four and five million, which is 4% of our general fund. When we look at our city as being the fifth largest in the state, compared to our neighboring cities, we rank extremely low when it comes to sit-down restaurants. We average 3.8 per 10,000 residents. with a sales per resident equaling about $749. For comparison, Westminster gets about 10 per 10,000 residents, and then they average about $2,037 per resident, which either tells me that they're…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. Under rule four, I would like to introduce a motion to request city manager present a report to council at the November 10th, 2026 council update on options to support Thornton police officers during high risk calls, including but not limited to drones and first responders and in-car cameras. The options already presented to the city and privacy, video retention and public engagement considerations from the April 14th, 2026 task list item. I further move that the council indicates majority support at the update, staff bring any needed agreement or supplemental…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. Sunday night, one of our officers being shot was a very difficult time that kind of helps expedite and kind of push the need for this. The sad part is this isn't a one-time event. Since 2021, our officers have been involved in at least 11 shootings, and FBI data shows that more than 100 assaults on our officers have occurred from 2021 to 2025, eight of them involving firearms. That was before Sunday's event. This year we've seen a sharp increase in homicides and then also multiple bank robberies. Our neighboring cities are not waiting around. Just today, a local…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. A few things I wanted to mention. I attended the Economic Development Broker and Developer Golf Day. It was a great chance to spend time with the folks who are looking to invest here in Thornton, hear what they're seeing in the markets, and talk through how we can keep Thornton competitive without losing sight of what our neighborhood needs are. I also attended the 9-11 remembrance ceremony. Very grateful to all of those that put that together, to the first responders and families who continue to carry on that day. Thornton actually has a piece of the Twin Towers here.…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you for everybody coming out and voicing your concerns regarding the data centers. Regarding those, I'll have a couple of comments that I'll mention now before we get to the point. I think everybody's in the same agreement when it comes to preservation of water. I will say that the effect of a moratorium on data centers has a very minimalistic approach in the water because we still have companies that can come in here at any given time and use water usage without us having any kind of direct kind of stoppage on that. So I think that the moratorium is a weak…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The community has reached out a lot about the impact that it's going to have on environmental resources, noise issues. Being that this would be directly towards data centers only if we do a moratorium, if a company that wanted to do manufacturing came in and they wanted to do a 10 gigawatt facility, would this prevent them from doing so?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Is there anything the city could do from an energy perspective to tell somebody that they couldn't use a certain amount of energy coming into the buildings?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. For water usage, I share this concern with everyone. Have we had any kind of companies come into the city in the past that caused us to change our water usage?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, the business itself caused a water usage change. So let's go into that one instead of the actual business itself.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So with that being in place, we couldn't have someone like Coca-Cola come in and just drain the water usage without us being able to go, hey, you can't utilize that unless we went through the approval process to go, yeah, we can't afford to use that water.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Gotcha. In one of the other areas that has been brought up a lot has been noise. Do we have anything in place to prohibit companies from having noise that would be bothersome based on any company, not necessarily just a data center?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And that affects just any kind of business in general?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just to clarify on this too, because I got commented on by a local business owner who owns a car wash, and that applies to car washes as well. That's correct. So all of the areas that are in place that people have concerns about, specifically the data centers are the problem, there's nothing stopping other businesses from coming in and having these exact same problems?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a couple things I would like to go through. This is that based on the questions that we've gotten feedback from, we don't control the energy consumption that comes through any kind of a business that comes in. We already have regulations around noise. Water seems to be our biggest concern. When trying to put new regulations in place, because that's been the ask of other council members who are here, all of them were shot down just now. One of the few things I think that I'm probably ever going to say at this point is one of our council members made a great…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The $75,000 for the shed, I'm glad that that's getting paid for by a grant because I don't know when sheds have skyrocketed in price so much recently because I don't recall paying that much for mine. How big is this shed going to be?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“For $75,000, I feel like we can build a four-car garage.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, no, that would be great because, I mean, it seems excessive. Again, I'm glad it's being paid for by a grant, but... I mean, I had my entire back patio poured in a shed for nowhere near that pricing, so it's really high, especially considering we're looking at dash cams that are gonna cost $20,000 less, so.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I want to start off tonight by thanking Tammy, our city attorney. Tammy has served as a city attorney since 2021. Tonight will mark her final city council meeting for the city of Thornton. And this is not a small job that she has taken on for our city. She's advised council, staff, our boards through some very hard questions. She's been there for a lot of stuff where we have to seek tons of advice, and she's been great at giving that advice out to us. So Tammy, thank you for your service for the city. I wish you all the best. we're definitely going to miss you from the…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So my question is more for the developer itself. One of the slides showed a breakdown of the square footage that need to be used in lot B for 2,000 square foot for commercial property. It looks like it's in the middle of the actual apartment complex. Do we have any kind of business in mind that's gonna be going into that or is it gonna be more of like a walkable kind of type business? I'm just kind of curious for general knowledge.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, I'd like to introduce a resolution concerning a conceptual site plan for a mixed-use development on approximately 26 acres of land, generally located at the southwest corner of East 140th Avenue and Washington Street, and ask for its approval. Second.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026