Remarks by Greg Quetin
65 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“all without any rational connection to land use and i respectfully urge the commission to reject them thank you thank you julia up next will be linda coons and if you would like to testify at the public hearing please raise your hand hit the raise hand button”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Thank you. Up next will be Holly Gedbach.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Thank you, Holly. If there are other folks online that would like to testify, please raise your hand now. All right, not seeing any additional hands, then I will close the public hearing at 7.31 p.m. Okay, now is our time for the planning commissioners, if we'd like to discuss what we've heard, have questions for David, and any other thoughts or comments about the the proposed amendments. Go ahead, Daniel.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I think it's right at the... Right at the end of list of changes. There's a research and information requested section.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Other questions for David? David, one question I had, and it came up in public comment, is the issue of principal resident. And I may be glossing over some of the edits, but it seems like that was a requirement in the original code. Am I incorrect in that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“residence but that is proposed to be put into the affidavit okay and then so the to me the one of the main changes there is that instead of the permit holder which we haven't required permits for some time it becomes the business license holder and so if someone had a registered business at their residence, but was not, but also, you know, had an office and for whatever reason they wanted to register at home, how would, um, would that be a home-based business, uh, to the city if they worked somewhere else, but, but registered the business at home? That's really a question for, um,”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“No. So it's definitely a business. So they have a business license. Okay. I'm partly thinking of enforcement, but they don't work. You know, they have a office somewhere else. And so for whatever reason they registered, they didn't register at the office. I don't know why, but yeah, Like that to me is not a home-based business, even though it's registered at the home because none of the work is happening at the home.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Casey, remind me of our options for tonight. We can recommend as is, recommend with revisions or not recommend. Is that right?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“So if there are changes after it went to land use?”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah. Uh, so I would welcome, um, I would welcome a, uh, motion either to recommend, recommend with revisions or recommend not to adopt that we can continue to, um, hold our discussion under, and we can always table that to a later date. If we need more time, or if people want to comment on whether they feel like they need more time, we can do that before we make any motions. Go ahead, Aaron.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“I would suggest that you make a motion to recommend not to adopt and then see if there's a second we can talk about it. i will make a motion to not adopt the amendments uh so aaron is making a motion uh or a recommendation not to adopt is there a second second uh so aaron has made the motion to recommend not to adopt and samir has seconded are there uh discussions or amendments”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Sorry, it's hard to hear you. Recommendation not to adopt. So that doesn't have any amendments. We can revise that motion or make recommendations and change it to a...”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Are there any... I certainly share some of those feelings. Do you have specific areas and or do other folks have... points that they'd like to bring up as kind of like specific discussion points. Go ahead, Samir.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, Rafael, to follow up on the remote work, question i had is is if the if the activity of remote work is the same as a business that's that's registered at the home it doesn't doesn't feel fair to me that like you know i i work from home and like i'm working for some other company at home i'm not i'm not causing any more uh consternation for the neighborhood or impact on the neighborhood um than someone who's also licensed at their house um And I think I shared, Casey shared around the article where they kind of laid out some categories of remote work or of not of remote work, but of…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“So it'd be like how many employees the business has.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, the only thing that draws to mind is if If you have a home-based business, you're the only one that works on site, but then had, you know, a hundred employees that also worked on their site, whether you'd come afoul of that. I think I, but.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, it does. I know, I'm not sure it came out specifically in the comments this time around, but previous comments were talking about, you know, having multiple people have a meeting at home and if those, you know, they're all part of the same firm or some other business that hasn't come up quite as specifically. Yeah. That also doesn't seem like it's putting a lot of pressure on the neighborhood to have some meetings like that. Nor would we want to try to figure out whether they're social or business related. Other constructive points? Go ahead, Raphael.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, my recollection is too early for that. From the APA article I shared is that they just noted that there might be some like state or federal standards for how much square footage you could use to, or some tax considerations for that. And so there might be a jurisdiction above us that has some, but it doesn't necessarily mean we need to match it if it's limited some other way. David, you mentioned, so to me anyway, the fundamental issue is that the business activity is, you know, ancillary or secondary to the residential activity. And you mentioned that having it be the primary resident…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Right, but I think we've discussed in the case of someone spending a lot of their time where it's sunnier in the winter or something like that, the home doesn't lose its kind of residential structure. characteristics because of that, even though I understand the kind of consternation with folks that have empty houses in their neighborhood, that can happen for a lot of reasons. Just part of it that I'm thinking about. I could imagine if you had a residence... And it was being maintained as a residence, whether there was someone living there or not. And then someone was doing some commercial…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah. Huh. Well, so one of the things that seems like some of the public comment and hinges on is this principal resident issue. think in both in you know kind of both sides of some of the comments and whether or not that's that's necessary to kind of like establish establish principal residence at a place to be able to run a home occupancy out of it or if you're you know if i are remote working at at uh and i guess remote working is gonna fall somewhere else but if i were uh registered registered my business at my home, but I was doing work at my friend's house because we had some…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Well, I'm thinking in this case, if it's not remote work.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, so I'm thinking if it's, I guess maybe you'd say your business is registered somewhere else, but you're, I don't know, maybe you're doing physical training in the garage or something of a friend's house. Like is that, like that activity is the same, it has the same impact as if you were doing it at your home. Right. But I understand it raises some complications because that person is maybe now renting their accessory structure to a business, even if it's a residential. But it's still maintaining. All the things that we're talking about of maintaining consistent residential aspects of…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Yeah, I guess my understanding would be if they live there, that would, that would fit comfortably under the current ordinance or the current proposed. Yes. They were. But if they didn't live there, they would not. That's correct. But if the person who lived at the house, I realize this is... But if the person that lived at the house had their own business but had an employee that worked in the accessory structure, then that would be Well, okay, I'm trying to remember whether we're allowing anybody to participate or no one to participate, but assuming you allowed a few employees to…”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“David, do you know if, has there ever been enforcement on a residence turned into an office, which I don't know what portion of buildings it's suggested that's happened with, but has that been enforced or been attempted to be enforced ever? Because that seems like that's outside of the scope of this set of amendments, but I'd be curious if it's happened.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026
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“Okay. And do you, It also brings up the question of what the, I guess the line there would be if there is, you know, if it's not accessory to residential use, then it, you know, I guess even an empty house that was used as an office is now just being used as an office, potentially, and you could enforce that outside the kind of home-based, but if it's... I guess in thinking about creating kind of as expanded an opportunity for home-based businesses as possible, where that kind of line bumps up against like a fully commercial business. Just in how we define it in the words.”
Planning Commission · Aug 17, 2026