Remarks by Isabella Chu
44 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“So first of all, I wanted to thank everyone who came tonight and spoke on this matter. I know that there's a lot of strong feelings and beliefs around this very important issue. And just a few questions for Chief Bell. So the first thing is my understanding is our response to the grand jury report doesn't in any way impede our ability to get community input, to pivot to other technologies, to pivot to no technology that that those are quite separate things. The response to the report is what we will do at a minimum, and then our future decisions are separate from that. Is that a correct…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah, so my understanding was that your team went above and beyond the sort of normal auditing activity, caught some things that precipitated this investigation. Do I not understand the timeline correct?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Sorry, I had that wrong. So that's helpful to understand. So I think, you know, clearly your team is going above and beyond sort of the minimum necessary. So, you know, certainly I think that this is an issue that merits far more discussion and a deep understanding of the tradeoffs, the benefits, and the risks. But we are on a clock here. And I think we have to respond at this point in time. That in no way impedes our ability to engage with the community further, to understand what people's concerns and values are, and to be responsive to that. I'll leave it there.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Just a clarifying question. So as I read through the letter, the responses fall into two buckets. One is that we understand the grand jury's concern and agree with it or acknowledge it. And then the second is, have we made the requested correction and modified our policies or SOPs to be conforming with their requested change? WOULD ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY PRIOR TO OCTOBER 26TH BE LIKELY TO AMEND ANY OF OUR RESPONSES IN ANY SUBSTANTIVE WAY? LIKE, THEY SEEM VERY, AGAIN, FORMULAIC, LIKE EITHER WE'RE COMPLIANT OR NOT, EITHER WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONCERN OR NOT. LIKE, WOULD, DO YOU ANTICIPATE…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you for your presentation. And just a few clarifying questions. One is, I actually toured the water purification facility in Redwood City. It was amazing. I'm so impressed. But I actually asked about recycled water. And one of the engineers told me, actually, they've basically gotten so good at purifying water that it's more expensive to lay the purple pipe than it is to do potable water. And so if there's a way, you know, obviously it's a state law, we have to comply. You know, there's no pushback there. But if there's a way to put sort of wiggle room where if at any point it doesn't…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“So if they really want to keep their lawn, they would pay for the purple pipe to be okay. And then for the lawn to be gone, is there any sort of parameters, you know, obviously planting things like native, native flowers, pollinator gardens, things like that. Those are more drought tolerant, but they're not Xeriscape. Could you talk a little bit about are those sorts of plantings also eligible or does it have to be Xeriscape? Is that the right way to say it, Xeriscape?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Terrific. OK. Thank you. That concludes my questions. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“So first of all, thank you so much for this presentation and just the vision to connect our community and to help people have a variety of choices for transportation. So I'll just kind of go through these. The first is the vision and goals. They really resonated with me. And one thing I really appreciated was the emphasis on connectivity. We don't build bridges that only go 80% over the river. It's so important to connect. particularly for people on foot and bike who travel outside of cars. They're so often these disjointed. And Google actually did a study, and those big wide roads, when you…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Can I ask a clarifying question? So are we, I mean, we're not voting on anything tonight. This is more just feedback or? ARE WE MAKING ANY FORMAL?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I WOULD LIKE TO MODIFY THE LIST. I would like to swap out the bay project for improvements to Broadway, if that's possible. Just going back to the Walk, Bike, Thrive plan, Broadway was the most upvoted corridor It got more attention than almost anything else, and at present, there's still no plan to continue bicycle infrastructure on Broadway through the Woodside Corridor, and I am concerned that that's the desired path, and so people are gonna take that, whether there's bicycle infrastructure there or not, because it's the direct route. And so I think that there would be an enormous safety…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Sorry. You know how I feel about bike lanes. So a few concerns. One is that, well, a question. When you were presenting to the, I'm sorry, it was the TAC, was a protected bike lane on Broadway presented as an alternative?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Okay. So the only time that our community has had a choice presented to them, a head-to-head of a protected bike lane on Bay versus a protected bike lane on Broadway, They upvoted Broadway by a ratio of about four to one. And so, you know, they selected Bay because Broadway just wasn't even presented as an option. That's the first concern. The second is that, you know, I was taking scooters, you know, when we had shared micromobility. Shared micromobility is geofenced at any intersection or any boundary between the county and and the city, meaning that Bay is not an option for micromobility,…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you so much to my colleagues for being willing to entertain this conversation and adding Broadway. So my one request would be that we would prioritize Broadway over Bay. Again, when our community had a head-to-head comparison, they preferred Broadway four-to-one. So I love the idea of having six. As I understand it, the Bay project is only about two to five percent. That's what I was told in a previous meeting in the recent past, that it's only two to five percent planned. So I love the idea of adding Broadway. If we could prioritize it over Bay as the community has requested, that…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“So I attended a one-week workshop in Vienna, Austria learning about social housing. It was incredibly informative and you know obviously Vienna is quite different culturally or I'm sorry Austria is quite different culturally from the United States but I felt like there were many lessons that I could take away to sort of implement those sorts of principles in Redwood City.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah, I am participating remotely due to travel for official city visits.”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“There's no one here with me, and I will have audio and video on. Okay.”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I actually raised my hand to say the same thing. I really appreciated her bringing that up. And, you know, insofar as we can automated enforcement, like I think the certainty of a ticket for parking out of bounds is much more important than even the price of the ticket. I remember when I lived in Berkeley, if you didn't park legally, you were 100% guaranteed to get a ticket. And so people tended to be very careful. The other thing I was going to comment on is the education. One thing I would like to pursue is, you know, when I put in my route to downtown from my home, Google Maps gives…”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Oh, I was going to make a motion, but second.”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Great. I'll keep this brief. So, you know, I use Caltrain twice a week at least. And it is such an important part of our transportation system. I wish it wasn't necessary to do these sort of emergency measures constantly and that we had a more rational system to fund transit. But unfortunately, that's reality. And I will be supporting this measure. If we don't have good transit, particularly Caltrain, the traffic will be unbelievable. It will hurt everybody, drivers and transit riders alike, if this measure doesn't pass. And I think it's important that we take a position on it. So I'll also…”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. So I just wanted to respond to Council Member Padilla's concerns. So she is absolutely correct that transit agencies need to be run efficiently, are accountable to the taxpayer, and that Um, you know, they should leverage, especially the land that they have, you know, and optimize it for the most economically productive land use available to them. That is that is absolutely true. But I think the thing we have to remember some things number one. Transit isn't a business, it's a service. It is a service supported by the government, and we don't expect highways or freeways to…”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Thank you so much for this presentation and all the work that your team and the city staff have done to kind of get ready for what is very likely to be some pretty intense storms this this season um just a few comments one is um you know i you know the mobile home communities are in my district and i'm happy to go and you know i i have a good relationship with the managers there and i'm happy to go door-to-door and pass out materials and even if there's customized materials particularly high-risk communities or the mobile home parks or if I can work with you to to sort of customize the…”
City Council · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I am participating remotely due to travel for official city visits.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
- Play at 17:18
“There's no one here with me, and I will have audio and video on. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026