Remarks by James Harrison
160 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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“Mike, can you go back to your Frankenstein concept that you did that was very impressive?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 5:59:35
“Maybe it's so late, I'm just so fascinated that you did it so fast. But for the development on the east side, are those yellow dots, are those apartment buildings or townhomes?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:04:27
“And you'd rather have it on retail anyway because you don't want, I mean, neighbors don't want cut-through traffic off of a business. Precisely.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:05:06
“Do you have the photos or concepts of the single family homes? I thought I saw it, but I can't remember.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:11:03
“Those, if you go back to the previous concepts, what are those curved things?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:11:46
“For the retail buildings outside of the grocer, are there specific retail you're targeting, or is it just?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:12:27
“Yeah, I think this is a lot more attractive, I think, than the last time we talked. I really like the additional retail. I like that there's no condominiums. which i think we covered last time as well um i love that you're adding additional parking um i think the i guess the one thing i'd like to see a little more of is just a tiny bit more open space or green space within the residential development just because it looks fairly packed i don't know if that's a possibility or not but i think this is a big improvement from our last discussion”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:24:13
“What kind of, I don't know if you can name the hotel, but can you give us a start?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:28:25
“It looks like it's not much of a grade from 2100 or Redwood.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:28:33
“Yeah, even the freeway, it's probably only 10 feet up.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:28:39
“Yeah, it's like 10 feet at least. Yeah, when you drive it, it's a lot. The front of Drota is even great. But even from the freeway, I think you can get a street view of that as well.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:31:14
“So I guess for the development agreement, I guess you want some answers for what what that would consist of. As far as what you're presenting here, how much can you commit on this? Because I know it's conceptual. It's like ideal state.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, the definition of the development agreement are... certain commitments, right? And so if there's X amount of retail square footage, like even looking at this now, That makes me happy. I don't know the total square footage. You know, there may be.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:42:38
“So I would say, if we can quantify some of this retail space, square footage, whatever, as well as a hotel, that would be helpful. I think we've come a long way. The only other thing that I feel as a Westsider myself, and I know Emily is also out West, if there's any possible way to swap some of those units, even just a few for a soccer field or some green space. Because even when I drive through there, it's just row after row after row. And there's concrete and there's homes, right? That's it. And there's some small, tiny, tiny community parks. I know that you have some amenities in there.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:53:53
“Yeah, I think that summarizes what I would have said as well. I would just say, for the agreement, just so we can see the concept, like I'm a visual person, so being able to see the concept like we've been viewing it tonight, along with the quantifiable numbers, in addition to maybe the pedestrian connection, maybe some additional green space in place of a few units, and then, yeah, I think that covers it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 7:00:25
“I think as long as they can pay in any of those 15, like even on a Sunday or Saturday. Because if it's 15 calendar days, but four of those days they can't pay, I don't know how it works. Luckily, I don't have any parking tickets. That's a good question. So if they can only pay Monday through Friday, I would say maybe make it 15 business days.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 7:05:06
“and ad hoc trying to figure it out. It just simplifies it. It simplifies the whole process.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Eliminates the backlog. Is that additional budget for the contracting? For the contract?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sure. So back in January, we passed two resolutions, one on transportation and one on housing. And then we tabled. A copy of that but built for a multi-city resolution for each topic so and correct me if I'm wrong Tisha But we we tabled those multi-city ones just because we had just come into office We didn't have really enough time to coordinate with our cities surrounding cities to get their buy-in. So I think now we're just discussing the multi-city resolutions for housing and transportation. And if we're good with the current language, then I think the plan was for the mayor to kind of…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“guess for the other council members are we I mean we did pass our own version earlier this year so I don't know if anything has changed but is everybody is everybody good with the language that we had in both of those resolutions did we pass both of them or did we just pass one I felt like we just table”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So we passed the housing one. Yeah, that's right. No, you're right.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So I guess now we're just discussing for, I guess, both of those for a multi-city resolution. And I'm good if we want to sign the transportation one as just an individual city as well. But I think it's more powerful coming from our neighboring cities that agree with our strategy and preferences. So... So I think I guess the goal is for the mayor to take both the housing and The transportation one once we're good with the language and the transportation one and then work with other cities is my understanding then Yeah, I think my concerns on the housing one and also on this one is just the…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I guess who would, members of staff, who would be willing to help us with some of the language and the numbers and the transportation one? Would that be Jason? I guess Jason, what's your preference?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah. I think a lot has changed just in the last six months.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
- Play at 8:56
“I guess sorry I was just gonna say for the housing one the I think the one factor that's hit us pretty hard in the last few months is the water issue and I think I would be okay if we modified the housing one for a multi-city resolution at least to reflect concerns around you know considering water if the state does have certain mandates hopefully Any mandates are funded, but that's a wish. Regarding these state laws coming down on affordability or whatever, I think we should include the consideration that we would prefer that the state consider the water situation as they push down these…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026