Remarks by Doug Weiss
427 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 18
- Play at 29:35
“Then is the distinction, I know there is a statute I think just went into effect that requires us to have a zoning district that allows for manufactured homes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 31:48
“I know we've got our color-coded zoning map available online. I think the zoning map is going to tell us where the 2F is and that's what's changing. It would be really our comprehensive plan and our future land use map that would be telling us roughly where do we want more density, which would be a concept of where we would have these implemented, but it would be up to the landowner to petition for the zoning change.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 35:24
“well hold on i want to be be clear on that if we if we prove this then do we need to make a change to our future land use map in order to allow people to to apply for that in the comprehensive plan or we make these changes and people can start applying for rezoning as long as their parcel meets the definition within the future land use map”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 38:50
“I guess is this truly a path towards more affordable homeownership?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 39:27
“Right. The developers, the home builders, they're looking to maximize their return on their investment. The question is, does this density benefit create not only them reaching their return targets, but also producing homes that are more affordable?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 41:49
“And we do have development representation on the advisory commission, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 41:56
“So I guess my recommendation from a survey perspective is that we take these and we ask the development community. It's not a citizen-necessary survey. Let's ask the development community. Looking at this zoning district, what would you build? If we gave you these options, would it change what you built? Because I want to... I want to validate the concept before we start going through and saying, hey, what do you think of these things if they're entirely impractical?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 43:19
“There's the developers that are here that are building, and I hate to say it, a lot of developers get comfortable in their own space, right? They have their own market. So when I say we need to survey and figure out if this is practical, it's not just the people who are already building here, it's the nationwide, it's the other individuals who might be looking to get into the market.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 43:51
“But yeah, I would like to understand that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 45:01
“What I can tell you is that I guess I live in a paired villa. Right? Because we don't use the word duplex sometimes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 46:48
“there there are a few infill parcels where i think it uh it could certainly make sense and we saw a 10 or 15 acre parcel here not that long ago but i think that you know these are going to go where we allow them to go this doesn't allow them to go anywhere yeah they're going to go where they uh where someone asks us and and we grant them permission to go uh unless as jonathan was saying you know do we add it to existing areas that's where he gets into your point talking about the blighted areas i tear down and rebuild and someone puts up a six flex where there was a rundown hole right i think…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 48:11
“Right, but that's the example you gave, right?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 48:59
“Well, I think we've had several of those rezoning requests for road loop. We've had rezoning requests for... What is that street? Nimbus, I believe. Oh, yeah. So, you know, those are areas, but do I want to allow this by right, or do I still want those to have to go through a rezoning process?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 49:33
“I don't know that we're talking about land use map updates, but we're talking about rezoning. How much does a rezoning cost?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 51:25
“All right. We stopped you after, I think, slide two. What else do you have to tell us that we haven't asked you already?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 51:33
“We have a habit of getting ahead of ourselves.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 53:12
“No, I have people in the last year tell me, hey, why don't you have car dealerships around here? I'm like, because I don't make money on parking lots. No, anything we can do to reduce the amount of pavement and increase the usable area is going to be beneficial to the community.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 58:14
“Find a way to make it make sense. One other thing I want to mention there, you mentioned the public use spaces. And I just want to make sure we don't leave any loopholes in here. I've seen too many 10 by 10 stained concrete pads to say, hey, that doesn't look like a legitimate public use space that was dedicated for the purpose. So I want to make sure, you know, when we've got these regulations in place, we have some efficacy around them, that they will be implemented in the way intended and not abused. I mean, that also goes for the condo regime land use where we've got single family homes…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:05:00
“Yeah, I think... I'm not sure if I've voiced this to this group. My concern around data centers and energy facilities Related there too is not so much that they bring enough power to supply themselves But that they don't consume the entire allotment of power for a larger area we have we see a I Don't want a data center to come in and turn the area around it into a desert Because there's no development potential around it because they can't get any more power to the entire substation so so yeah, we we need to ensure that that If they have an impact on the power grid, they're mitigating the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:09:53
“homeowners I think the issue I've seen and I believe in some of our kids excuse me in our beauties we've had this and some of our I think the AL you are that we've implemented in the past they require a certain number of trees per lot they require that those be retained I don't think we have any enforcement mechanism so this sounds like it's adding an enforcement mechanism I'm not so worried about people just chopping down their trees. I'm worried about trees dying. And I've seen regularly where a tree has died and someone put in one that's not as big around as my thumb and it tips over after…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:11:02
“So the standard builder installed tree, which is three to five caliber inches, this isn't applicable to that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:11:15
“Yeah, my concern would be related to when we've got these trees in place, the multiple trees will often, one will out-compete the other. And we'll end up with, oh, you're required to have three trees on your lot, but then, well, one of them overshadows and the others don't make it because you've got one large tree. But you're saying this doesn't apply to those builder-installed trees, those tiny little things? The starter trees. Not the starter trees. It would take several years for them to reach that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:13:17
“I did have one of my trees replaced under warranty at one point in time. It is unbelievable.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:14:23
“So to Council Member Ryan's point, I am curious, what problem are we solving with this? You mentioned it only applies to 18-caliber-inch trees, which are substantial trees. I don't know if they're taller than a two-story house, but they're pretty dang tall. What problem are we solving with this?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:15:06
“So what I heard was if we've got someone coming in to flip a house and they want a better picture of the front, so they chop down an 18, 20-inch tree, they've got to replace it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026