Remarks by Heather Newall
134 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
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“Yeah, when we talked about it before, I thought that was awesome. Let's get in line. And things change in two years. You can always pull out. But I think it was smart to get our name on the list. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So looking at this for me, I think just what you were saying, the number one would be the court. That's kind of the hinge that's stopping everything. And then to be able to do the fire station. Those two things I don't think are going to impact anything else. They're kind of where they are, where they need to be. The courts need to be there. I know that's already planned that way. And that makes the most sense that they can just be able to travel back and forth between the two buildings. So I am less inclined to spend any money towards doing any kind of design concept or something like this…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That would be good to know. Because it seemed like during the budget that it was almost a net positive to have our own core system. So to be able to just weigh the two. Otherwise, we're going to pay for service versus we can recoup more than the cost. So that would be interesting to know.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Jason, with this one where you've got the 79 stalls next to the library and arts center, and if we didn't do the parking structure, that could also be parking. So the plan could, in this, setup right there without the structure but keeping and just not having the plaza that could be almost like an addendum of like this is more conservative we're not doing a structure we're not doing a plaza but we're going to have more parking plus the annexed uh place or you know when the building goes down that would be more parking as well i think things like that where it's like we can make I'm just…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“The children's Justice Court or Children's Center? It's kind of been talked about.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“i think like just i know we're kind of like throwing out ideas i love the idea of the museum the historical society all of that being close together it starts to fill like a city you're going to go visit and see the museums and history like it brings people downtown so i i would be one that would want to try and get those type of organizations close together. I love to walk across the street from the Historical Society to the museum. I almost feel like they, in a lot of ways, they should be tied together. You go into the museum and there's a lot of historical pieces there that you kind of, so…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes, because there's no minutes. Second.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve resolution 2026-44, approving updates to the Lehigh stormwater management plan for 2026.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Just that it says approved and adopted by the City Council on this.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“It's describing the resolution, not that we're actually approving updates. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“We're approving the resolution, and the resolution is a recommendation.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve Resolution 2026-44, approving updates to the Lehigh Stormwater Management Plan 2026, which is a recommendation to, who's it go to?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Hi, I'm Denia Trapp. I just wanted to come up and say thank you for your time, and also to Jake and Groh. They've been really great to work with, and we just appreciate this process, and we don't want to get tabled or anything and go forward. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah. Can I ask a question? Yes. Sorry, I'm just trying to better understand it because it's hard for me to tell on the map where things are. So where the head gate is placed, how much space would be on each side of that in the easement?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So is the box really close to the property line?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And so then you would have like an additional 10 or so feet of there. Okay. And the other thing I was wondering about is does there need to be access from both sides? I'm just trying to think of a way to be able to maximize, because I'm thinking if I were to buy one of these homes, you know, and I have an easement in my backyard with a power line too, and nobody's ever been there, but I know that I'm like looking at space I've bought, but I can't, grow certain things there, I can't place structures there, things like that. So I'm just thinking like how we can still make sure that we best help…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And so even though the head gate's on lot six?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Do you need access from both lot seven and lot five?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Can I just add one thing? I mean, we defer a lot of things. I mean, the mayor basically delegates all his power to the city. This is just one thing of many things, and it probably comes as a surprise that city council doesn't run the city. So there's a lot of things where we defer it to planning commission or other areas to be able to do their job. I don't think we need to have our hands in everything. I like that they can kick it to us if they want to, but it's something that I'm not overly passionate about that I need to have my hands in it.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“It's the first time. Yeah, that's how the vote works.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“But we're going to continue. It's only 845. We're talking about it just when you want to do it.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, and then you'll also be getting signs coming to Council too.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I like that. And then maybe it's not subject to 10 years. It could be a different timeline, different thing. Like if we just, if we said that if they wanted to have that piece in it, it would need to be a Delta agreement and then we can tailor it towards each.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“My thing is they can always do a development agreement, whether we mention it or not. they can say that we want something different for this development. We're going to do a developer agreement. So I think really what we're saying is do we want to hint at it or do we just remove it? And if that's something they wanted, they would then come and ask for it and we'd do the agreement then. So it's basically we're putting in something in code that's suggesting if you want this, then that, or we just, you know, do we even need to offer it because a developer agreement is always available. if the…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026