Remarks by Elizabeth Losos
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“That, when we get to 100%, it's 100% of native and adapted? That's right.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I wonder if... Maybe we just have a little conversation about what are the main topics that we think we might want to focus on. I think trees and canopy coverage and things related to that. I personally brought some stuff on stormwater and flood risk. John, maybe the arterial roads. I also just want to say thank you, Taz. Those were all definite improvements, so appreciate that they're already being incorporated. I'm glad to see that you didn't forget about that parking.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“So I just put out, what, three? Trees, stormwater, and zoning with using road What do we call that? The four units.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, so we greenways has come up a lot. Do we want to talk about greenways in particular?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I think it makes sense, and I suggest that Jeff write it up with a couple different options, maybe Libby's option, the overlay. Because if we're going to ask counsel to direct staff, or to change it directly, the more details, the better.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“If you think it's fairly straightforward, then it could just be.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I will respond just to say, sir, that part of what we just said was to create an overlay so that those areas close to the university would not have the extra. That was what the discussion was, how to protect that area where it's very close to the university. So I think we are very sensitive to this issue.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Let's come up with, if we want to expand that, let's do that in the next phase. I particularly like you think the greenways have the chance of being more negative than positive. There are more possible negative outcomes of doing this than that we've mentioned. I don't have to repeat them all. And the schools are, where you look where they are, don't really seem like the types of places that if we're trying to direct density, that's where you would want to direct it. But I feel most strongly of taking the Greenways quarter mile out.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“So why don't we have John write up some ideas and and”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I can do stormwater, but if you're ready, Libby.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Okay, I'm going to go to stormwater and come back to it. All right. Josh, I sent a, so do you want to read Mike? Mike sent some notes that he wanted us to consider. I think it's a nice way to set the stage. Mike is the other planning commission member who is not here. This one. You want me to pull it up?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“OK, all right. Anyway, I'll summarize to say that Mike said that was the most important issue to him. And I would say in the two hearings that we had, that was the issue that has come up the most. That seems to be what people feel most strongly about right now. I also have noticed that stormwater is an incredibly complicated and confusing. And listening to the last council meeting, they were just sort of perplexed in talking to some council members. And so I have done a deep dive into this topic and made a presentation which ends in, I think, a few principles that I think we should focus on…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“All right. So I want to start by saying, what are the attributes that stormwater management decisions are made on? They're made on the use and number of units within a residential. There's certain regulations for one unit, two to four, subdivisions two to three, four plus. And then in another category, commercial, and then sometimes other commercial, which is non-resident, things like maybe, I think, churches or things like that. So some of the regulations are focused on the land use disturbance, and there was a change in this regulation. Everything I've talked about is the July version now,…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Next slide. So this is to give you an idea of what these different storms look like. Again, this is heuristic. This is not actual. And again, this was AI-help generated. And if you look closely, you can see that it's actually Eastgate.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I did. His name is Chad GPT. Yeah, but it's good to sort of visualize. And this is why, obviously, so many people are concerned. The two-year storm that you saw, the volume, that's routine. And we should have culverts and drainage and green infrastructure to be able to handle that. I mean, that's going to come very frequently. And we need to address that. When you get to 25-year storms, then you start to have bigger problems. But the 100-year storms are very problematic. And when 500 or even larger are when systems are exceeded. And next slide. So I just pulled up some data from NOAA today to…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I have a couple others in case people were just so interested. Oh, you've got an appendix. Got it. OK. Yeah. So anyway, those are my suggestions and open for comment.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Well, I started to put it down, and that's what I would do. There are certain things that we can point to right now, and I would try and do that in the next two weeks is kind of come up with some places where there are, say, inconsistencies.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Those three were the places where that's the only control. So I just wanted to highlight those. And the things next to them are gray, meaning there's no...”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“So just to be clear, my strong recommendation is that this is more risk-based than unit-based. That's, I don't, These are just the reasons why I don't like picking, oh, well, we want to help these guys, but we don't want to help these guys. Oh, commercial, they can do more than that. I don't think for stormwater we should be picking these things. I think we should identify where there's heightened... Storm risk and have those folks and you know what even if it's someone splitting a lot And they happen to be in a particularly high risk area, then they should have to deal with their stormwater…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I went back and I tried to read the text to understand that because it's a little confusing to figure out exactly what that was. Taz, is this accurate the way I describe this?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Yeah, I can't remember where I got that, but I did.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“No, not, no, the second to bottom one doesn't.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“So other development, I think, is not commercial on the second to last one, whereas the one below it includes commercial. That's why I put including commercial.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“As I said, I prefer a risk-based system, and if you had a risk-based system and you wanted to include this, this, and then the risk overlay, that's fine. I still think there's some very odd choices here. But I don't think anything should be exempted if it is creating significant stormwater risk. I think that is... I don't think the town wants that. We keep hearing that. I think it is very bad for people living here. It is not encouraging affordable housing if people are constantly having to address stormwater problems. And often the people who are most hurt by storms are those in low-income…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“All right. Have to respond. That was a lot. Yeah. First of all, I agree completely that this is just the LUMO, and the town definitely does need to look at systems-wide. I don't think this is the place to have a long discussion. I don't think that proposal was going to have solve the problems for a variety of reasons. We can talk about that sort of afterwards if you want to have a discussion. But I don't disagree that the town needs to invest or we're going to lose all our commercial activity in Eastgate. I mean, it's not a good long-term strategy to hope this just gets better on its own…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026