Remarks by Emily Lockhart
163 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“Is it all right to ask Corey a question? Sure. Thank you. So I really appreciate everything that you said. Thank you for additional context and for coming tonight. One question that I had is when I was on-site walking it, I did notice that some of the employees were leaving your facility and – Maybe being a little antagonistic with some of the pets that were behind Kate, like their fencing and things like that. In this period of time between now and October, what efforts are you making with your employees to about decorum parking, the way in which they treat the surrounding neighborhood, as I…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“mayor if i may i just wanted to thank council and um the mayor and then of course all of staff for the involvement in roundup week it was incredibly successful and a huge shout out to all the staff members who made the rodeo watch party happen that was a really exciting event to go to and i just am very very grateful for those team members who went above and beyond to provide that activity for our residents so thank you to everyone involved and for everyone's participation in that”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I have a question for staff and you as well. So it says that the Lehigh, this has to be approved by both the council and the city engineer. And I just, Brad, is this something that you are going to approve?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And I guess this that might resolve my next question But it said the DRC red line comment that this design does not leave enough room for sewer and water mains in project and I did that comment get addressed and Yeah, our civil engineers addressing that comment and we were making room for all the needed utilities. Okay. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion. I move that the City Council approve item 5.1, consideration of approval for the change to the storm drain system located at 4218 West, 1700 North. With the findings that it does conform to the goals and policies of the general plan, and that our city engineer has signed off on it. I would also include all DRC comments.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mayor, if I may. So zoning is kind of what you have and the general plan is what you can become. And that without objection, essentially, right? That's what these documents give property owners is here's what you have and this is what you can do in the table of uses. This is your zone. Here's what you can be and you can have access to these without objection. And when that general plan was passed, those were given. And it's really hard for me to, I hear and empathize and absolutely agree with the concerns of the surrounding neighborhoods. And I'm bound by constitutional property rights for…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, and thank you for that. I think the neighborhood understands this would be the Walker family coming to the table when this is an option to them, but they're showing that they want to be a good neighbor. And so if every council member has felt heard, and the mayor is willing, I'll take a motion. Or I'll make a motion.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I don't know if in planning commission, and this might not be true for council, but if you come in late in the mid-item, you don't vote on it. I don't know if that's true for council.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I just am clarifying because of what I'm used to.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 2:50:37
“Mr. Mayor, if I may, no offense was meant with my comment. I'm just used to other procedures, and so I want everyone to have equal opportunity here. It was just used to a different procedure.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mayor, I move that on the Walker zone change, item 5.2, ordinance 27-2026, that the city council table the item and direct staff to work with the applicant on a development agreement that narrows the scope and captures the discussed development that they've talked about tonight and also puts mitigations in to mitigate the impact on the surrounding properties.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Council members, if I could add, I met with a concerned resident who I don't see in here tonight. I've met with several. And they actually described that they had a similar situation happen just off Main Street several years ago, and that they did what he just mentioned. I was going to mention it, but they moved the fences, created this easement, and then it was overgrown, full of weeds, and That just was the consequence. But then as soon as they no longer, people were no longer using that ditch, then they moved those fences. And that was how they solved that problem. It was just off Main…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“four by four box so it'd be yeah solution scenario that dotted line is where the residents would put their fence until the line was no longer needed then that pipe closes and they move there they had the opportunity to move their fence 20 feet West yep guess my question is does it need to be a 20-foot easement”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I support Council Member Freeman's position.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 3:55:42
“I read here that it says that you originally requested R3, but you moved it down to R2.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And can you just talk to me about why you chose to do that?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I do. I just want to clarify that no permit is required for these. It's just this is how they are compliant with code once installed.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 4:09:17
“What is a qualified environmental consultant? What would be qualifications? Like who are we looking for?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“But we're not defining what qualified environmental consultant means in the code?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Like it's an industry standard kind of thing. Okay. Just wanted to make sure we didn't get people without a specific cert. If we wanted a specific certification, I would want it listed. Yeah, they would have to have those certifications on it.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“too much yeah because yeah you know anything yeah anything now ra1 r122 already allows it so yeah thank you mr. mayor I have a question for Kim I'm worried about item let's see D where it says located at least six feet away from the primary dwelling Is that enough? Six feet? I guess if it's what state code says, but I'm concerned that that's really close.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Sorry, just to clarify, is it 5-0 or 1-5? The 15 or 50? 50. 5-0.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“OK. Mr. Mayor, I just had a question on number three. where it looks like we're automobile sales, and then we've added and rental businesses. Help me understand. I thought the scope was pretty narrowed into auto sales, but why are we adding in and rental businesses?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Because I didn't know we were, my understanding up to this point is we were just dealing with sales, not like car rental business. Yeah. Does that give anybody concern? It's just not where my brain was at. But when I noticed that addition, I wanted to make sure that.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And rental businesses is added in. That's new.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026