Remarks by Jack Allen
53 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 7:36
“Can you just explain what you struck again to me?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 15:16
“Yes, I have a question. I think I know the answer to it. Section 1138 prohibited invasive species you added to the list that we had. Where did you get that information and why was it added?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 18:48
“Doesn't A cover that, though? I mean... If you look at C1, I agree with you, if you just look at C1, but if you look at A, it still has the 60%. I don't think that C1, the way they have it written up, negates the responsibility to follow A.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 22:11
“If you can't tell we spent months on this.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 24:54
“Yeah. I'm really impressed with your knowledge of what we went through, and thank you for doing it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 29:50
“I get that if it's open, like you're going to go to Drake field, you're not going to leave your truck out there. But if that vending site is at a construction zone that has a garage and they can store it in an enclosed structure,”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 30:50
“Well, it just struck me that if... I used to do construction for a real short time, but they would bring the food truck, they'd just leave it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 30:57
“No, but they would park it inside. It was at a school, they would park it in a garage.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 31:04
“Okay, but that didn't say that here. Well. It just says it can't be there.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 31:37
“I agree with the concept, but I don't like the wording. It strikes me that if I could park it at a data center, it's outside today, we're selling food, and at 5 o'clock I'm putting it in a garage at the data center, this says I can't do that. For food trucks.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 31:56
“And still, if it's hidden and out of sight, who are we to say you can't park it there if the data center is okay with it, if the avenue is okay with it? I get if it's in plain view, it's a problem.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 34:58
“Why can't I put my food truck in that garage is my question.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 35:03
“I get that we don't want it outside where everybody can see it. But why, if I've got an agreement with the place that I go to every day, and can I park this inside your... garage, why we're not allowed to do that.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 35:24
“All right. That's not the way I read that sentence, though. That's why I was asking the question.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 44:43
“Can you store a food truck there? Tell me if I'm wrong on this, but the one thing that gets me, I like this better, but my question is, if you knew you had to get approval for the original build, why didn't you think you had to get approval before doing the construction and making the change?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 45:15
“A better choice of color is presumptive, right? I mean, you did make a better choice. Yeah. But if you thought bright pink was a better color, maybe nobody else does. So my just question, I'm concerned about doing the construction without getting approval and then saying, you know, rather ask for forgiveness than permission.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 46:58
“I agree with the choice. I think it's beautiful.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 53:54
“Yeah, you mentioned that the shrubs are not and that that will change the percentage, but I assume they're still within the percentage requirement?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 55:53
“It states that AI states that Adagio Maidengrass is invasive, so we would want that replaced.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:04:40
“I would like to make a motion that we approve the UDO Steering Committee's meeting for March 9th, 2026.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:16:10
“It's all good. While we're waiting, can I ask a question?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:16:14
“So you mentioned the... new versus the old, and if somebody comes out and says, hey, this used to be here, Is there a wait for them to, is there a table of contents that says this used to be here and now it's here?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:16:50
“But it's easy to find. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Okay, thanks.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:38:12
“Go for it. In Boston, about 15 years ago, they were doing a wash. And I saw you guys were up there, too. But they were doing a wash about 15 years ago and found that there was still a law on the books from the 1700s that said you couldn't take baths on Thursdays. When you're doing this for us, are you, is the process looking for outdated material and, or we've talked about this a lot, just conflictions statute, this says ordinance, this says you can, but ordinance, this says you can't, or do you find those conflictions or outdated material?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:40:10
“On top of that, so I guess this would be for staff. If you find four different definitions for right away in a document, how do you decide that we're going to go ahead, since they're all legal documents, you decide, well, we're just gonna stick with this one instead of, I mean, it's not just random decision, right?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026