Remarks by Estelle Bussa
70 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“I think we are ready. The time is 5.30. All right. Good evening, everyone. I am now calling the September 23rd, 2026 regular meeting of the City of Ventura Planning Commission to order.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. The City of Ventura acknowledges that we are gathered on unceded Chumash land and the full City Council adopted Chumash land acknowledgement is available on the City's website. Will the Clerk please call roll?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. Before we begin, I just want to do a few quick items for the agenda management for this evening. Unfortunately, I will have to be departing the meeting early this evening. So in order to maintain quorum on all of our items this evening, pulling 211 first or after the approval of the minutes we'll get through the approval of minutes and then we'll hop into 211 and then we'll move on to project 26 1199 of the alley and then our final project 26 1195 for the evening thank you okay we will now move on to our public communications this is the opportunity for members of the public to…”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. All right. Any more public comment?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. We're going to move on to the consent calendar and approval of our minutes. On tonight's approval, we have the August 20th, 26 draft minutes and the August 20, 26 draft minutes up for approval. I did have a question for staff. in the August 2026 draft minutes, I believe it says that we approved the August 20th minutes, so it's double approving is what I had captured, but now I just exited out of the agenda. Did anybody else catch that? No.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. That's the delineation? Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Any other questions for the commission? Okay. Yes, Commissioner Zuckerman.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Any other comments or questions? If there are none, I'd entertain a motion. Is there a motion to approve the minutes?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“We have a motion by Commissioner Abbey and a second by Commissioner Winnegar.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, as noted earlier, we will move on to project 261155, 211 condominiums, condominium map 211 East Thompson. Yeah, I was gonna, I'll read through and then I'll ask for, yes, thank you. Project 26-1155-211 condominium map at 2011 East Thompson, a coastal development permit, a tentative track map, and one density bonus concession and seven waivers to merge three lots into one parcel and convert the approved 75 unit rental project to for sale condominiums. The Planning Commission is the decision body this evening. Because this is a quasi-judicial item, I will ask the Commission to…”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. We will come get you at the conclusion of this project. And with that, I will invite staff to proceed with the presentation this evening.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. For modification, does the applicant have a presentation tonight or is this available for questions?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you for that. Then we can first start from questions from the Commission. And if there's questions to the applicant when I open public comment, we can address those as well. But first, questions to staff on the project.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, using our Commissioner Comden.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Just one clarification question on the for sale versus for rental. Since we have the for rental that steps down into the very low and low, when we have the for sale at the moderate, is there a band beneath that or is that the lowest band in the for sale?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. I see there's no more questions from staff. I think our questions are now for the applicant. As a rule of order, just a point of clarification, do I need to open it up to the public hearing, or can we ask questions of the applicant before opening up that public hearing? Mr. Clerk?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“All right. I'm going to kindly ask the applicant to step forward. I think we can start with just the main question. Why did we go from rental to condos? Could you help us understand that a little bit more?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Commissioner Winninger. Question for the applicant.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Any other questions for the applicant? Commissioner Cromden.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay, any other questions for the applicant? the commission okay seeing as there are none i will now open it up to the public hearing um and as i understand there's no uh formal presentation uh so mr clerk do we have any public speakers or written comments on this item thank you chair we do have two public comments on this item our first speaker is vince daly followed by natalie broughton thank you i've already spoke so sorry i apologize uh one speaker natalie brotnik”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. All right. That concludes our public comment, our public hearing. We can close our public hearing unless there's any responses back to the public speaker. Okay. Then we can bring it back to the Commission for Deliberation. Commissioner Comden? Correct. Commissioner Comden?”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Winninger. Myself, in terms of my comments for this evening, I am leaning in support of this project. We need more housing. This has been a project that has been delayed for a lot of reasons to get built. We want to see more units in our housing stock to help support our community. am amenable to the the concessions that are being asked for to in order to continue to provide affordable housing units at the moment I will also state that you know I think the I'm not going to speak on behalf of the applicant but I can imagine the holding costs that…”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Abbey, and thank you to the commissioners for your insights and comments this evening. It seems as though we are moving in a direction in favor of approval of this project, and if it pleases the commission, I would entertain a motion at this time to approve the project as conditioned.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“We have a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second.”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm going to go get Commissioner. Okay, thank you. I will also hand over chair duties to...”
Planning Commission · Sep 23, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, seeing as there is no other public communication at the moment, Mr. Clerk? I will close public communication. All right. We will now move on to our consent items of the evening. And on our agenda tonight is the approval of the draft minutes from our June 24th, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, not to be confused with last week's meeting. These are just our minutes from last month's June 24th meeting. Commissioners, are there any questions, corrections, or requests on our consent calendar or on our minutes from last meeting? Seeing as there are none, okay. I'll entertain a…”
Planning Commission · Aug 26, 2026