Remarks by Erik Leist
80 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“size is 32, but the zoning has to be 25 to fit the 32.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I mean, the applicant knows what people will buy. I don't know that I would buy a really nice house that backs up to that bus corral every morning, every evening.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, so just a general question, and I think since it goes into the next item, if the applicant could come up. We have this project. I won't get too much into the next item, but can you just talk to me about how you plan this particular addition to interact with the area as far as you're also planning to kind of do a facelift on this multi-tenant building?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay. And where, just so I understand, we frequent Color Donuts, so this is a very important building for my family. But so can you just help me orientate myself? What part are you going to, are you towards the east section of the building or the west section of the building that has the gas station?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, so that makes it as furthest as possible from the other drive-thru business. That's right.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“That's really helpful. My main concern was just that drive-thru traffic from Andy's not having two drive-thrus on the same side of the building. One just I think visually that's not great, but then two, that could pose some traffic problems in the parking lot. But those are the questions that I had. Thank you.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, actually, sir, this is the public hearing. I do have some questions if the applicant could come forward. And sorry, could we get the... On the slides, could we get all of the variances up? I think that would be the most helpful slide. I was going to ask for that.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Great. Well, first, I want to, like, this kind of project, before I serve, before we began serving on this body, I served in economic development and it's been important to the city just in general to revitalize this corridor, right? We have a lot of buildings here and then also in our 377 corridor that are very dated, great businesses in them, but obviously design standards in the 80s are different than now. I mean, to say Keller has changed is an understatement. So I see a lot of these variances are is it they seem to be just related to because if my read is that it's because of how like…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, so how much under-parked would you be if, for instance, we did a 30-foot buffer? That obviously strikes a lot of your parking, right? It's a full row of parking you lose. But how much under-parked would the property be?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“And what's the staff, what's the parking requirement for this multi-tenant building? 61. I know it's going to be high because we have to use the highest use for the whole thing. So it is 6-0. 61. 61. That doesn't include ADA, though.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“And how many exist today? How many are you proposing? Proposed condition with 58. 58? Okay, so slightly under-parked. And then if we lose 14, then you're at 44.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“not going to call it a plaza but a large landscape area right there that exceeds the 30 feet in depth and how many with these um the the islands that you're going to install in the log because i believe there are none today right it's just it's just asphalt um how many parking spaces would you gain back if you didn't do any islands four four that's not that many um Kind of, I think where I would like to be on it is, my inclination is do the 30-foot, do the 30-foot buffer. I know that's a little intensive on cutting your parking out, but that plus you changing the facade of this building, it's…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I think... That's a fair thing to point out. Yeah. It's just really an idea. That's kind of the end of my questioning and wisdom on it. I want to hear where the rest of the brainpower up here goes.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I understand they have to come back for an SEP, right? No, they don't. Sarah, does the coffee shop have to come back for anything? This is an SCP and a site plan. We're good after they do both these things, right? So they don't have to come back. I just want to make sure they're not coming back to discuss any of the layout. This is what we're talking about today.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, two quick comments before I make a motion. One, I would encourage you, I think that, and I don't know if this needs to be in the site plan for council. I think it makes sense. I think it would be nice for them to queue single file to go underneath their awning, and that would take care of the traffic issue turning out, especially because you said with how narrow it is getting in and out on pay-to-work, having those two, like you're going to have two people turning in is double-wide, you can barely turn in and go out at the same time, right? So I think that they should queue in single…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Maybe instead of doing a 30-foot setback, could you maybe see if you can change that to grass and get rid of the 80s orange whatever that is there? Might help a bit with that. I move to approve item e2 Commissioner Johnson second All right.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. So it's actually not been, I don't think it's been brought up yet, but when I saw this proposal, all I could do is stare at that gigantic bus parking lot and the lot's right behind it. And I mean, it's free market economy. I would never would I ever buy a house that backed up to a bus parking lot. But I'm also, and I'm not a big environmentalist like my counterpart here, but also I'm just worried. I think there's like 40 buses that park in that lot. And when they fire them up in the morning, And if the winds are from the south, I mean, I don't know if they can smell diesel exhaust…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, obviously I think the fencing takes care of that. I mean, yeah, it's just, to me, I'm like, my initial reaction to this was like, I don't think, like, I don't know that I would support this getting built because I think that, like, it's proximity that is just so strange to me. I don't think that's, as I studied it, that's not my position that I'm like a no on the whole project, but I just think it's very, I don't know. I mean, y'all got to sell it. Someone wants to live in Keller bad enough, I guess they'll have a yard that smells like diesel exhaust, but.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I already got my spot over another part of North Calgary. We're not leaving. It's just strange to me. It would be like a... 3,600 square foot lot backing up to a Walmart parking lot like that. It's just like, you just don't see it. It's very strange to me. But I get your, the lot is what it is. The school district doesn't want to sell their bus parking lot. So, I mean, and they just built those tennis courts on the last bond that got passed in town. So, they're not tearing down their tennis courts. That's really it. It seems like there wasn't a lot of thought in there because it's just a…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“We don't need one, but motion to adjourn.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, I think it would be helpful for everybody to get all the presentations at once, because especially if they're public comments, they're going to make comments that are probably more germane to the SUPs than... You mean to the cyclone? Yeah. It's just because the comments are all going to be in the middle, so it would be helpful to just get everyone's feedback at the beginning.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do we still legally have to do two public hearings?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Are there any other questions? Has Kroger, since they have acquired the Tom's Tom, have they discussed what the plans are for that particular grocery store? Since it's a different brand, but they own that grocery store.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's a pretty germane discussion for me because their plans for that building and that grocery store are fairly important to how I would consider a vote on it. Because if you think of... that corridor, if building this new super program causes two large commercial spaces to go vacant, I don't want two Spirit Halloweens on 1709 River Snow. That's not what I want in town. We have one member from council here. I know that's not what council is gonna want on our main corridor. I think it's pretty important. I would like to hear from the applicant.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026