Remarks by Don Penning
157 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 7
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“Can you hear me? Operator error. Sorry about that. Good evening. It is 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 8th, 2026. Welcome to the Planning Commission meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Are there any disclosures of participation by teleconference pursuant to government code section 54953.8.3?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Roll call and declaration of conflicts, please.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Present, no conflicts. And if you could all join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right. Thank you for that. All right. The City of Tracy will continue to allow for remote participation by members of the public at tonight's meeting by using the following option. online by logging into Zoom using the link provided and under public comments raise your hand to speak by clicking on the hand icon on the participants panel to the right of your screen. This procedure will be used to receive all comments received from Zoom during items from the audience and all new business items. Director's report.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. Anything further, Director's Report?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right. We'll move on to the consent calendar. Item 4A, minutes. Have we all had a chance to look at the minutes? I wasn't present at the last meeting. However, I did watch it the very next day, so I'll be able to chime in on that. Can I get a motion?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“We have a motion. It's been seconded. Roll call vote, please.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right, moving on, item five, items from the audience. And if you do decide to speak up, please sign in before speaking up here at the podium. We do invite members of the public to use Zoom to comment under items from the audience. So this particular one are for items that are not on the agenda. Online, by logging into Zoom using the link provided, are there any public comments received by email for items that are not on the agenda?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Okay. Any public comments received via Zoom for items that are not on the agenda?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Looking out in the audience, show of hands, would anyone like to make comments for items that are not on the agenda? It doesn't appear we have any show of hands. The public comment period for items from the audience has now closed. Any comments that were received after the close of the public comment period will not be included in the record. All right. Moving on to public hearings. Excuse me. Item 6A. Conduct a public hearing and upon its conclusion, one, ADOPT A RESOLUTION MAKING A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO, A, AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A PETITION TO THE SAN JOAQUIN…”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“We'll go ahead and cut the recess short. We'll get back into it at 7.10. Staff report.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much for that. Prior to going out to public hearing, are there any initial comments, questions from Commission?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. All right, doesn't look like there's any further clarifying questions. I'll save my comments for public hearing. Excuse me. So now I'd like to open up the public hearing and please, once again, please sign in before speaking up here at the podium. First off, are there any public comments received by email for item 6A?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Are there any public comments via Zoom for 6A?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“And once again, looking out in the audience, anyone would like to make a comment on item 6A, show of hands? No show of hands. The public comment, the public hearing for this item is now closed. Any comments that are received after the close of the public comment period will not be included in the record. We'll bring it back to commission if I can kick it off. So you mentioned, I think it was the first or second slide. that there's no plan, go back one more, there it is, on the bottom, no development included with this application. So I can only assume there's an idea, there's a future plan,…”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“So then I guess there's a built-in assumption that there will be future development. Correct. I mean, if not, there'd be no reason to annex it in, right? Correct. Okay. That's all I have.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“No, thanks for that. So I'm glad you said that. So that being said, maybe go up one more. So there could be another, I'm sorry, the other way. There could be another designation to rezone it again.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Thank you. Any comments?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“I do have one more, actually. You had mentioned, and it kind of just triggered something in my head, but the sphere of influence. Now, is that line, I mean, it doesn't sound like it's very solid. It's a moving, it's a moving, the sphere of influence, like we're...”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“And so are they the same ones? Okay. So you kind of said so LAFCOs. So they're the ones that would initiate the change if there were to be a change on the sphere of influence circle.”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“I second. We have a motion that's been seconded. Can I get a roll call?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Yes, and I want to piggyback as well. Thanks for the clarification on those questions. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right regular agenda there is none tonight so we'll move on to item eight one one last time item items from the audience so similar to the first one right we invite members of the public to use zoom to comment under items from the audience and once again these are items that were not on the agenda by logging on to zoom using the link provided are there any public comments received via zoom for items that are not on the agenda”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“No emails, no Zoom. Looking out in the audience, once again, show of hands. Anyone would like to speak on items that are not on the agenda tonight? No show of hands. The public comment period for items from the audience has now closed. Director's report?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Items from the Commission. I would like to actually... Commissioner Stroud does not have an email. a city-initiated email, and he was kind of, he didn't know they were, he wasn't sure there was a meeting tonight, so he had to actually go online. So how do we get that? Who can help with that?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026
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“Yeah, there's, I guess in the last two city councils, there's, I guess there's an approved alternate position for the planning commission. So last night it was on the consent, so it wasn't pulled. So what's, how does that look? Do we have any clarification on that?”
Planning Commission · Jul 8, 2026