Remarks by Jason Voiss
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
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“OK, this one we'll just do an open mic night. Anyone want to chime in on number three, or we'll move right by it?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Any additional comments? Number three? Thank you, Commissioner Brennan. And finally, number four. Any other suggestions? I think we've all kind of more or less informally kind of given you the guidance that we think, which is more homework for city staff, of course. But any other suggestions? Do you have what you need, Kristen?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“We love having you, if it makes any difference.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Excellent. Well, again, I want to say thank you to the development commission. And, yeah, I would love to do this again and keep this going. Always learn a lot from our colleagues around the city. And it brings out the best in us, too. So, again, thank you, Commissioner Stanchak, Commissioner Morgan, Commissioner Brennan, and Commissioner Fassoon, and your staff liaison. So Kristen has everything she needs. We are going to take, what, a five-minute break? We will take a five-minute break to reset, but thank you all again. Have a great night, and we'll see you soon.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“All right. All right. It is very distracting, but anyway. All right, we're here for part two. Our commission just got, our joint commission is over and our commission looks a lot smaller now, around the dais. We are going to begin, however, with our boilerplate items, always important. Where am I? Approval of minutes. So you guys should have gotten two different sets of minutes in your agenda packets for August 13th and August 20th. Let's start with August 13th. Any issues or concerns? That's right, you weren't. Excuse me. Okay. All right, those meeting minutes are approved. August 20th. Both…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Any issues or concerns? All right. Those meeting minutes are approved. Both sets of meeting minutes are now approved. All right, more regular business. Next up is a final review of the proposed 2026 comprehensive plan updates. Kate Caney, our principal planner, will be presenting. So Kate, hopefully you got your computer back and you can now go ahead and present when you're ready.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“We can do this one by one. Makes sense. All right. Any comments or questions? Commissioner Kras, you do like the definition? Okay, fair enough. Great. Yeah, it seems pretty straightforward. I don't think I have anything to add.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think we're going to stop real quick. You thought you were going to make it through all the amendments, Kate.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Wasn't there a story about the Red Robin, the old Red Robin? Yes. Is it? It shows you how far off I go over there. Yes.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Any questions? No, I think to Kate's point, yeah, Vice Chair Patterson, when he mentioned the 62 to 65 and 73 to 75, made a lot of expense, because again, it's aspirational, so. Brought a flashback. So, no, I think that's it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. You guys thought we were done? And more regular business. and it looks like Kate and Kristen might be swapping spots, but our next item under regular business is to discuss proposed amendments to long-term bicycle parking. This will interest Commissioner Craft. Kristen Leeson, our planning manager, is going to begin the presentation. So Kristen, when you're ready and your computer is ready, please go ahead.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I always felt like our bike situation was very bullish. Even I remember when we were doing it, I don't know if we had just everybody on the commission was a bicyclist, but it always felt like it was very heavy handed. I'm actually looking at my first bike for next spring. So yeah, looking at the track down here in Issaquah, those kinds of amazing bikes. Yeah, I'll go with you. Okay, now back to business. Commissioner Adair.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So if I understood that correctly, so one still applies, and you're just saying two would just be down to 2B. You're saying one does not apply anymore.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Right. So 1 and 3 are gone. 2A, 2C, 2D are gone. If I'm reading this right, 2B is the only thing that you're proposing, which is within a field of view of security system.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, you said a good point. Or at least you hope you do. Right. Commissioner Krause.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“But Vice Chair Patterson makes a good point. And I know it's not a size thing, but it does say tier one only. So those are, I missed the one. Central Issaquah, Old Town, and?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. But yeah, it would be good to know if that's triggered by size. Okay. Other questions, comments? Commissioner Matthews.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Zacharoff, did you want to say anything? Okay. Any other comments, questions? I just appreciate you guys clarifying that with Kristen and Vice Chair Patterson about the .25, because originally I thought, wow, that's drastic. And now that you bring up Redmond, and again, Redmond is bike capital of Washington State, so again, that helped put it in perspective. And these still seem pretty, I don't know, they still seem... I don't know what the word is, draconian, as far as, you know, for people to build this. But I guess it can always be looked at. I guess pulling the one, I just,…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“All right. So we have more regular business. Our next item is on July 27th, the Planning Policy Commission held a public hearing regarding several items on the PBI work plan. Regarding, sorry, I lost my place. Regarding ground floor transparency, the commission recommended amending residential ground floor transparency from 70% to 40% for residential, not including townhomes, and from 70% to 45% for commercial uses, except for the urban core where the requirement would remain 70%. The Planning, Development and Environment Committee is making a different recommendation to the full council. At…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, no, that was, yes. Commissioner Adair did an awesome job. Yeah, let's put it on the screen and then we'll, yeah, yeah. We've got four minutes, we're good. No, just kidding. Yes.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Um, I'll just say from my point of view, full transparency did workshop a little bit with commissioner there. Very little bit, very modest tweaks. I actually think, you know, in fairness to the council, one thing they would say is they did deliberate at that night at the PDE. say watch the video if you want to know what our thinking was and the other thing is when writing something like this it should be straightforward it should be dispassionate it's really and i think commissioner adair did a great job of doing that it provides the information the council members will see it in their…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, well, like I said, we've got time.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay well there's their justification I suppose. Again it doesn't really change the way I feel but if anyone else has any edits or comments now is the time. I mean, I think there's an argument to be made. I just, again, I like the straightforward no, trying to make people feel like they made a bad decision and just here's why we disagree.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I second what Vice Chair Patterson said. Yeah, no, and again, what Commissioner Grass, what everybody said, which, again, you did a fantastic job, Commissioner, there. I'm happy to put my name on it, too.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank God. Okay. I hate that thing. Yeah, I don't care. Right. I won't even say it here because we're on camera, but, yeah, I hate DocuSign. Okay. Commissioner Adair, are you happy?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026