Remarks by Edward Henley
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I mean, I think there's some opportunity for, for clarification, hopefully alignment. It seems like there's been some conversations with the, property owner and the council member. And it seems like there's also been some discussion with the council member to potentially withdraw this item. I think we're past that now, but I understand staff's recommendation. I guess the approval would be based on it being appropriate for the area, but I think the What we've heard from the property owner is that it's inclusive of more property than is desired or maybe discussed as far as the intention. So, I…”
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Chair, if I can, I'll finish that. Thank you. Thank you, Director Kemp. I think it's important from my perspective to note that not opposed to an RM20 zoning in this area, but this very specific case, including property that may not have been intended by the property owner.”
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. Commissioner Hanley. Thank you, Chair. Again, I think in order to meet the desires of the landowner, at least as I believe they were presented to us, I think it is meaningfully a disapproval because it materially changes. It would be a different parcel allocation to the rezoning. Saying that, I want to directly encourage the landowner to not fold up shop, like continue to work with the council member because this is an opportunity for housing that I think we really want to have come back before us. And also, I think, you know, to point out, you know, our staff report usually lists…”
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. Make a motion to disapprove the staff recommendation to approve RM20NS.”
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Item 21, which is parks. Thank you, Chair. I'm bordering on thinking I'm talking too much now, but I'll be brief. I was extremely pleased to spend last Saturday at the rescheduled opening of Mariposa Park. If you have not had a chance to get out there, it is a fantastic space. It was really fantastic last weekend to see a very dynamic and quite honestly, I think, appreciative community celebrate the opening of that park. It was one of the best experiences I've had in the city, especially in the parks board role. So just want to compliment park staff and obviously all of the partners that came…”
Planning Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you. I note the point that councilman reporting is making. And I think I'm curious as to, you know, our approval here on its basis, is there still opportunity at the council level, especially with the expressed concern that was just presented here for there to be some type of context in which we can share our recommendation. I mean, I too am inclined to approve the staff recommendation, but even if it's just, you know, matter of fact, so that they understand that the intention of our approval is not to create some disadvantageous approach to the, to the permitting expedited permit that…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you for that, Lisa. I just feel like having that expressed clearly is important. There's no reason for that to be misconstrued. And I think, obviously, the work that the staff has done to this point has expressed the rationale. Thank you, Commissioner. Any other discussion?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I'm glad we allowed Commissioner Dundon to go first because that was one of the points I was going to make, so saved a little bit of time there. I mean, I think it's an interesting site, I mean, largely because of its shape and placement. I do want to ask... one or two questions because I'm trying to interpret the, um, the site plan. And so I'm curious, I would say maybe on the cul-de-sac to plan north, is that actually connected to the interior street or is it meaningfully separated? And that's just like a sidewalk that is, that is there where there's like a roundabout, I…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Correct. Yes, it is. Okay. I was curious with the shading there. Yes. With that being said, I think, you know, we obviously heard some of the comments about the trees and the tree canopy, and I think that was already addressed. The other comment that I heard was kind of meaningful to the traffic flow. I think, you know, with the increased density, I see some pretty... along internal streets, which usually helps with that. It kind of mitigates an immediate dump onto some other corridors. But is there anything inside of this that calls for kind of internal traffic calming inside of the site? Or…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah. I mean, I just, I tried to double check reading through the end diet comments and they have some conditions in here. I think, you know, just with anything, it may be better to allow for there to be some responsiveness to new travel patterns, but I know, and I talked to community members a lot, they, they actually don't like that. They prefer that there's some concrete language in some of these agreements. I think if, if, you know, if there was some opportunities to, to do that, um, I would encourage it. I think it makes a lot of sense when you're creating, again, some new traffic…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“And Lee, you're recognized. Absolutely. I make a motion to approve the staff recommendation to approve with conditions and disapprove without all conditions. And without knowing an appropriate recommendation to make, I would like to make a request that there is a traffic calming focus on perhaps an additional condition in that manner.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“And Commissioner Hanley-Parks. Thank you chair. One update that I'm, I'm extremely proud of, um, where many hats and one of those hats allows me to sit on the parks board, but also on the greenways and open space commission. And recently we had a fantastic presentation that was delivered by Anna Grider, um, that gave an overview of the greenways and open space, network vision for the East Bank, which was great to see so much work that was done here at this body being carried forward at some of our other adjoining bodies of the city. And so just wanted to give an update there. If you want to…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026