Remarks by Harrison Earl
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Call to order the September 16th, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Jane, would you mind please calling the roll?”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you very much. As we start every meeting, we'll start with the land acknowledgement statement. We acknowledge that Longmont sits on the traditional territory of the Cheyenne, Arapaho Ute and other indigenous peoples. We honor the history and the living and spiritual connection that the first people have with this land. It's our commitment to face the injustices that happened when this land was taken and to educate our communities, ourselves and our children to ensure that these injustices do not happen again. First item is communications. Grant Pendland.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'm okay with the cooler weather. I don't know about end of summer, but thank you. We'll move on to approving the minutes. This is minutes from our August 19th, 2026 minutes. Commissioners, anyone have changes, corrections, or motions? Commissioner Boone?”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Sorry to cut you off. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Edgley-Wells. Any further discussion? Jane, can you call vote, please?”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I am sure we will have questions, but because it's a public hearing item, we are going to open it up for public comment. We have the ability to call you back up for questions. So thank you. I'm going to pause just a second. Jane's getting the signup sheet. For anyone who is going to make a public comment, just the reminder that we'd like you to start with your name, your address, you will have five minutes to make your comment. Everyone's allowed to speak once, you can't give your time to anybody else, none of that kind of stuff. First on my list, I'm gonna go down my list and then anyone…”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Next on my list is Sharon O'Leary.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'm sorry the five minutes are up, but thank you, Ms. O'Leary.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Next on my list, and I apologize, I'm probably going to mispronounce, is it Kyle Schutzschultz? Your handwriting's better than mine, but it's still a little challenging.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“That's the end of those who are signed up on this sheet. Would anyone else like to come forward and speak? Seeing no one, I'm going to close the public comment part of the hearing. Commissioners, who wants to start? Commissioner Wang.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Boone. Other commissioners? Commissioner Edgley-Wells.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Edgley-Wells. Anyone else here? Commissioner Lang.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So I'm so sorry. We can't have the interaction, and I know that the commission is somewhat encouraging that, and so I'm going to shut that down. No, we're all to blame right now for this, but I would appreciate it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“The give and take is wonderful, but it's just not allowed in our rules.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So noted. All right. That's all I got for now. Thank you, Commissioner Lang. I've got a couple. I know there's a few in the queue that we'll come back to, but I'm going to at least do a first round really quick. One, I really want to give a shout out to the Historic Preservation Commission. Their packet was phenomenal, so both kudos to staff for that, their minutes, the discussion they had. I found that extremely enlightening, and I really appreciate the work that they did. And I hope that you'll pass that back to them, because it was really helpful to kind of frame the issue for me. So I…”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Could you repeat the question? So we know that a detailed survey, not the ILC, has to be done as part of the building permit. Is it appropriate for us to have it as a condition on the variance that a survey has to be completed?”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“fine if it doesn't it's still going to happen so well jeremy well you're answering questions then on the variance itself um we have you know an application to reduce the side yard setbacks we have the packet does this variance only apply to the garage in question here or is this a variance for anything that happens on this lot”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'll move on to another question in a second, but do you mind looking at that? Yeah, I'll take a look. Okay. Because I think that would be really helpful and potentially address some of the comments around what this means as a future. future precedent for this lot as well.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“theoretically theoretically well theoretically that this garage the variance is approved the garage is built it's permitted everything else at some point in the future the garage is demolished and someone wants to rebuild do they need to set a new variance for that”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Sorry to dive over a hole, but I appreciate that. And I will appreciate future comments on the PCR. And then I want to explore the building code for a second. And it's really commissioner Boone's comments that I am, I defer to her expertise on that. And I believe there was acknowledgement that her interpretation was correct. And I'm concerned about basically the design we're seeing for, I think you said specifically, the door and the windows. Does that mean that there's a different design that is part of the building permit? Or how should we try to reconcile that for us if we're…”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“you know miss boone had spoke of okay so to interpret if i can the design that we see is not what can be built because it you you wouldn't issue a permit for this as is no not right now okay and so you would have a much more detailed set of plans you would you know some of this would change we are we are talking about the variants i recognize that i recognize hpc is you know approve the kind of overall design that's not the design you're approving no And nothing we're doing in any way touches not following the code, doing anything that's outside the building code. There's nothing about…”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Last, and I'll reserve this for a little bit later, we heard comments about notice and signage. I know this is a topic that's come up in the past. I will bring it up at the end because I just want to talk about it because I think we've had it as a future agenda item as well, but want to acknowledge that I did hear that. I will go on to others for right now. Commissioner Jordan, you're next up.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Wang. Commissioner Edgley-Wells.”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026