Remarks by Genevieve Adair
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Oh, I was saying to get rid of the affordable and get rid of that. Right, right. So it would be like you have 0% affordability requirements, but we're not. I'm just, this is just a hypothetical. It's not, I'm just playing around with hypotheticals.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, to those ends, I would point out that, yeah, 5% savings isn't huge, but if you see that we need to get down 20% or 30%, well, that gets us a quarter of the way there or a sixth of the way there when coupled with other things. So, yeah, I think... I'm looking at the eight-year with no affordability would be great. The eight-year with the, I believe it was 5% of affordability, just so we can compare numbers for feasibilities. And then the 12-year with the 20% at eight would be, just to see those numbers and see what, but I overall agree with Jason, I think, let's put some kind of cap…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah. So I guess my overall takeaway right now is I'm kind of with crass in that I would love to read this Heart Lake memo and kind of digest it and dive into the numbers with my numbers person. sort of look at that. But I also, my takeaway right now is I'm definitely open to doing MFTEs of different time spans, but I would like to cap either the number of projects or the time they are available to apply for. So we're not digging ourselves deep in a hole. And then now suddenly we have five projects that don't have property tax and we're in a budget crunch. So that's where I am. I'm open, but…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And can I just point out that that doesn't necessarily benefit us either because if we're trying to hit these RGI targets, then we need them in the specific areas. So I would suggest we incentivize building in those areas that we need.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I can speak to this a little bit from what I've picked up from listening at dinner. So right now we are... I would say making do with what we have budget wise. We are not in a budget crisis. We are doing pretty well, but our reserves are low. They were depleted by COVID. And so The city is going to have and is looking at how to make investments in getting that infrastructure back up to where it should be to have a nice, safe, comfortable infrastructure. Does that make sense? In terms of streets, water issues, etc. there is a big expense coming down the pipeline with regards to water that we…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So wait, what hoops would we, if they still have to meet affordability requirements, what hoops would we be removing?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“hi yeah so as you may have heard uh last week pde took our recommendations on transparency and decided to go in a different direction right they dramatically lowered it to 15 from 45 percent um and that goes for not just multi-family residential but also along natural context areas So as I believe a lot of us reiterated during our meetings that 15% is considered too low, especially in long natural context areas. I was going to ask if we'd like to put together a letter to city council who's meeting on September 22nd that would just basically fully explain the planning policy commission's…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, actually, yeah. Oh, sorry, just to correct you. We had 70% in central urban, and they went down to 40%. So we had 45 across Issaquah, but with 70% in the urban core. And they went down to 40 everywhere.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, I just want to say to build off of what Commissioner Oehner said, I think and slash or would probably cover it because then it leaves it up to us if we want to incentivize, if we want to do one or the other or both. That's all.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“We can come back if you have any additional thoughts on land use.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“I mean, I can introduce myself too. So out of the core target of 2,170 units, how many units have we achieved already? Can you remind me of that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“So if we're doing the math, then that would be like we need 19 projects. And so roughly, just napkin math, 19 to 20 projects equivalent to the Motel 6 or Trailhead within that region. And then over the next 10 to 15 years, and by changing the numbers up, we would have to add one more. So we'd be ambitious, but it wouldn't be hyper-ambitious.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Got it. OK. That was my, I'm thinking out loud.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Just since I'm already on the thing, I would say I almost think let's put down 65% and include we will strive to reach the target, something like that that shows that we're We might not make it, but we're trying to make it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah, and just along those lines, to me, thinking about it as a number of projects, like this is the number of projects we've got to get going each year. Like, you know, to meet this 2044 target, we've got to get one trailhead a year. Okay, let's get zipping on it. That's really helpful, actually, to have in the back of my mind.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“Hi, could you go back to the, I have a wordsmithing comment. If you go back a couple slides to where it's talking about the transportation city or transportation community.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“I think it's before this one. Yes. I just personally feel transit communities served by a full range of transportation options is a little bit redundant. So you might want to X transit communities, my suggestion, but I just wanted to point that out.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“In the case of a street, it would just be specifically the drive aisles, the parking, et cetera. You would still be prohibiting dumpsters and storage. Is that correct? Yes.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“So for the sake of clarity and questions, how onerous would you say the deviation request process is in your experience?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“just to follow up so however to what holmstrom is saying do you think deviation like would you say it would add a significant amount of time to the permit process or to the application process to request a deviation”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“So this would be any what would count as like a level form.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I just want to say I do think this is a really fair amendment. I appreciate the way it's written. And I think it kind of addresses the concerns of the whole facade being too much while still maintaining a level of aesthetic appeal to the natural context areas. And I think that it does allow some flexibility as well. So I appreciate it. I like it.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I'll also say that I did a lot of physical breakdowns myself in drawing, and I felt that looking at it, 50% was looking like an onerous amount of transparency. So that's why I did feel like it was OK to move forward. I also think, realistically, the marketplace is going to demand balconies and windows that overlook natural context areas on its own right that's something that developers will sell and one reason i don't want to relax the regulations entirely is i do think our context areas are community spaces and that we want to enhance the beauty of those and So I don't want to see dumpsters…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I mean, I think what we have here, and maybe Emily, if you go on a little bit more on the difference between a variation and deviation, because I think we're kind of coming up against semantics from my perspective, where it feels like the deviation is in fact baked into the code. If they have an issue, then it's like, oh, if a then be if it's kind of like a flow chart, right? So if you're in this situation, then you can go do this and pick one of these things versus a variation, which is where the uncertainty is introduced.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm comfortable doing it with the deviation as well.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026