Remarks by Eric Oliner
19 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Commissioner all owner. I just had a question about the evolution of all of this. Um, when were these standards promulgated?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 13:09
“Just one more comment. I'd like to distinguish between styles and standards.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yes, it was up for a while there. Just a couple of observations. As we looked at the visual examples of good architecture in the various cities, I was struck by how similar they are. And yet, their regulations, their massing, and there are all sorts of different requirements, and yet they end up looking remarkably similar. So I don't want to understate the importance of what we're talking about, but at the same time, if it's possible to design and build a building in Redmond And in Issaquah that look very similar, does it really matter that much that the regulations are dissimilar? The other…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I like everything that everyone has said I think I think keeping them as as guides as recommendations makes a lot of sense but frankly I'm confused and as an architect I shouldn't be but I know that the difference between arts and crafts and And I can't remember the other one. And craftsmen. Are they really very different styles? And who decides what is what? And so I think having them be things that we like and wouldn't it be nice if you, you know, looked at some of things that were Northwest Lodge, for example, and incorporated that but not be prescriptive about it. Thank you. Commissioner…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Agree with all of that. At the risk of adding more complexity and going back to Chairman Voice's comment about Voldemort, I think if we wanted to add colors and be more prescriptive about colors that appear in nature, as opposed to artificial electric blue or whatever, that that might be something to consider. Commissioner Zakharov.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Just a comment about geographic locations. So up in the Highlands, there are a lot of trails. and a lot of people mountain bike or trail bike up there. And so my guess is that there would be somewhat more of a demand up there. But again, if you're living up in the highlands, you can put your bike in your unit if you run out of spaces. So I just think it's somewhat geographically dependent, but I understand the desire to eliminate the tiers. But I am in favor of 0.25.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And I would just add, since they asked us what our rationale was, they had an opportunity to tell us what theirs was, and they did not.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Ulner. Just a suggestion, going back to your very early slides where you looked at increases in rents and construction costs over a period of time. And this came up in a different context with something else I've been working on. But it would be helpful to graph along with those increases what the increases have been in CPI or mean wages over the same periods of time to really start to get a better sense of where the gaps are.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Commissioner Allner. Just a clarification. Can you, Matt, tell us what you've assumed as a cap rate for developers?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Commissioner Ohliner. I'm gonna play a little devil's advocate here. We have an affordability problem in our city and the region. And I feel like this discussion is kind of kicking the can down the road a little bit It's a it's a complicated difficult problem and I don't know that this Commission can solve that problem through all of these tweaks, but I don't want to lose sight of that as an overarching goal of what we're trying to do in terms of building housing as if we're building housing at market rates and School teachers, firemen, they can't afford to live here in the city that they…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Go ahead. I don't really have any questions about changes, but I was some language questions that I had yeah so land use policy d2 the last part of that says including by and planting new trees I think and is super it's not necessary there it's confusing yes by planting”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“The next paragraph. says require and incentivize. If you're requiring it, do you really have to provide incentives? And if so, What does that mean? I mean, developers are going to come to the city and say, what incentives do you have for me to do this?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you. I appreciate the qualification. Are we also talking about EC policy statements?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
- Play at 15:55
“Sorry, I have a question about tree canopy. Yes, absolutely. What is the percentage currently?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
- Play at 16:05
“So we're saying in the next 24 years, we want to increase that only by 2%.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Sorry, I don't mean to monopolize the conversation here. No, it's great. But EC Policy F4 says achieve 100% It is. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
- Play at 18:49
“says achieve 100% renewable energy for municipal electricity use by 2030. Is that realistic? It is, yes.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
- Play at 31:15
“talks about increasing impervious surface. Is that really what we intend to do, to put more paving in? Or is it the opposite, which is to increase more pervious or permeable surfaces?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Sorry, Commissioner O'Leary. Yeah, just a suggestion and piggybacking on what others have said. light rail is the huge variable. And I would suggest if there's a way to work into the wording of the discussion that we submit to PSRC, that that's the huge variable. That's the asterisk to whether these are truly aspirational or unrealistic goals. I just think it would be good to add that in there because that's not up to us.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026