Remarks by Elizabeth Losos
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Can I just ask a question on that? Yeah. That sounds great. What would it take to make that happen?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“There are places that have prairies. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“She's saying in the area that it has trees in it. Place under the canopy, not in the open lawn.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“You think about that. I have another question. Going back to the beginning when we were talking about native species and the issue of adapted species came up, could you remind us what, besides the stepping up, is there an incentive for native species, but if you can show that you can't get a native species, you can get an adapted species, or they're equivalent?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“And that's just during the interim period until you get to 100%?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“So two questions on that. Well, one is a suggestion. The other is a question. The suggestion is... There is usually still an advantage of a native over an adapted species. Adaptive species are non-invasive. They're able to survive without needing extra water and extra pesticides. But they usually don't serve the same ecosystem function like for pollination and... biodiversity, and they're often not as well adapted, although they might be. So it would be nice if somehow it encouraged native, but where not feasible, allowed adaptive rather than treated them on equal footing. That would be my…”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“articulated and enforced reasonably uh consistently let me ask i believe county has required my question is about chatham which already is a hundred percent and their developers are doing a lot more development than our developers so is that for native and adaptive or just native”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“They can, but I can't believe that those are the only developers in Chatham that there aren't also people building single family duplexes. Do we know that they're hearing that they can't? They would, in theory, be even at a worse position than ours because they're competing with other developers right there. Do we know that they're... I mean, if they're already doing 100%, it just seems a little suspicious to me that our developers are... more lame than their developers that we can't do it and we need five years to be able to get ready and they're able to do it already.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I'd prefer native, but I'm OK with adaptive. But like Jeff, I think we need actually a list of what is permissible. And if there's something you want to plant that isn't on the list, then you need to get permission.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Species that are considered, I guess, both native and adapted.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
- Play at 3:17:55
“So light industrial is by right up to 120,000.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“That may not be possible beforehand. I'm going to be...”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Can I also suggest, we've talked about this over the years of bringing our recommendations to council meetings. I think this is significant enough that one or more of us should show up at the meeting the next day and actually present it and walk through our points and why rather than just send them. Yeah, I agree.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“I don't think I saw this. And I can bring this up independently with you. Was there any language in the lieu of this is around sustainability and energy issues about battery storage units and best practices for if the town decides to start investing in batteries which is what a lot of towns are doing now particularly as they start bringing online industrial scale solar and other backup units rather than”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Somebody sent me, and I can't find where it is, but I will look for it, and if it looks like it's useful, I will share it with you.”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Is it a big project, like something that's going to take a lot of time? Could?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Are you going to be out of town in two weeks, or that was another time?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Are you not going to be at the meeting online? Should we send the information to someone else then?”
Planning Commission · Oct 6, 2026
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“Sorry, I tried to turn it on, and it looked like I was in a dark, you know. So my camera's broken. Apologies. Thanks, Taz. We did go into this whole discussion two weeks ago, and I'm not going to repeat the whole thing. But I just... want to push back again on this idea that this LUMO is do no harm as far as stormwater. I think that that is a good philosophy. And I also think that this LUMO revision is most definitely better than the LUMO that we are currently operating under. It definitely strengthens multiple different systems multiple different stormwater requirements, but it leaves lots…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Is there some upper limit to how many of these sublots you can divide into?”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“And also things like, you know, recreation requirements. different requirements that you might have if you had a multifamily or if you, I don't know, it looked like there were all sorts of, as I was getting into it, it seemed like they were going down different trajectories depending on if you were subplot or if you subdivided. But anyway, so you've thought carefully about this not becoming a loophole.”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Just was wondering if you could put that map up while you're talking. I think it's much easier for everyone to understand what you're talking about if they could see it. Or Josh, would you mind putting that slide back up that Taz had?”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“So I want to add some questions about this map and appreciate that last comment. Taz, I also have some other thoughts on what maybe we could do going forward. But my first point is in looking at all this, I looked through the LUMO to find what these arterial and collector streets were used for. John was talking a lot about housing density and I think allowing three and four units, but I also found that it was used for neighborhood scale retail, food, beverage, food and beverage, permanent supportive housing, general civic facilities, places of assembly, religious assembly, daycare centers,…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“So, Taz, that kind of leads me to my suggestion. And that is, as John said, these arterial roads, really, they all are pretty major. And there's probably commercial on a very high percentage of those roads. Why not? I think people are freaking out at some of just You can't see. If you move this down, you'll see there's a road, a couple of the roads down there, which goes for a very long way. The thought that we would be encouraging density way out in some of these collector roads, why not... say that these rules apply to the arterial roads plus the first, say, one-eighth of a mile where they…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, that's good. But why not? I mean, Part of the idea of doing it right at the very close to say an eighth of a mile down the collector street from the arterial is then you're really encouraging densification. Otherwise, you're kind of spreading density everywhere.”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026