Remarks by Jason Voiss
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“It's not very often I get to ask a commissioner, did you get everything you needed? Okay. Well, wonderful. Been a long night. Commissioner Adair, your brain is not the only one that's broken. So let's get out of here. We're going to go real quickly through reports. City Council updates, please.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. other business or announcements are there any updates to the calendar or other business or announcements from city staff none all right commissioners anything for the good of the order nope i think we're all in agreement again thank you commissioner adair for your hard work that was fantastic and uh next meeting is a public hearing um So yeah, we'll have that to look forward to. Otherwise, we will adjourn this meeting at 8.52 p.m. Good night, everyone.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Good evening, Planning Policy. Good evening, guests. Good evening, staff. We'd like to call this meeting to order. It's currently 6.32 PM. Today's meeting is a hybrid meeting. The Planning Policy Commission is in person, but staff, members of the public, as well as a consultant, may be attending virtually, as well as in person. So staff, do we have a quorum this evening?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK, great. And we do see Commissioner Zacharoff on our screen. I got you. All right, we want to open with public comment for this meeting. So right now, we're going to hold general public comment for the topics being discussed by the commission. Please note that as part of tonight's special meeting, there will also be an opportunity to provide public comment after the staff presentation. Staff, has anyone signed up to make general public comments right now?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“All right. For anyone who is speaking publicly, we do ask to follow a few house rules. Please mute your microphone when you're not speaking. These are virtual rules. If you're having any technical issues, please try joining the meeting using a different device, such as a smartphone or tablet. You can also use the call-in information in the meeting invite to call in as well. This is an important part of the public process. All of this is taken seriously and factored into the decisions that the Planning Policy Commission makes. Again, we do ask that people keep their comments limited to five…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Great. Thank you, Carl. What did Avalon Bay change its name to?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Great. Thank you, Carl. All right, Amanda. Is anyone else signed up to speak virtually?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Carl. We'll move along to regular business. And our only regular item today is a briefing on continued work related to the Promoting Building Investment Code Amendments. Tonight's focus will be a presentation from Planning Manager Kristen Leeson and BAE Urban Economics that has been assisting the city, along with ARCH, on potential updates to inclusionary zoning, floor area ratios, the city's density bonus and multifamily tax exemption programs. Kristen, please go ahead.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I think we have questions. Great presentation. Thank you, Matt. And thank you, our in-house wizards, for trying to turn up your volume. You know what I was thinking, Matt? I don't know if on your end you can turn up your microphone output. Maybe give that a shot, see if that helps a little. Okay.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“It might be us, maybe not you. Okay, well, we appreciate it. I mean, we could hear. It's a little hard.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Tricks of the trade. Okay, I do believe I saw Commissioner Adair with her hand up.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Is it fair to say, Matt, that basically it's think to even carl's point earlier it's just the feasibility as far as building with all the construction costs what they're being especially the rental ones they're they're just they're not keeping pace and it's it's not necessarily one thing but it's multiple factors and if you got rid of the affordability piece yes that would be a boon for developers because they just keep the mfte to fund their you know help subsidize some of their project with both of them, which was what the city's goal was, was to originally try and kind of balance that so…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, what's interesting too is I think Carl made the comment that we didn't look at the eight-year MFTE maybe as a city, but it does show in Matt's presentation that eight-year MFTE, and basically if I understood you correctly, Matt, that was, you know, in its essence without the affordability requirements on that one slide. So you're seeing that, I forget what that percentage was. 3.7%, so that was a boon. But what's interesting is when you take it farther, if you get the 12-year MFTE with 20%, at 80% AMI, that's actually better for developers, according to the numbers, correct Matt?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“MR. Didn't think it was possible, Matt, but — MR. Who knew? MR. We appreciate you struggling with us, but — yeah. But I think we caught that, and yeah, so I think understanding, I think we're both on the same page. Commissioner Krause?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Kras. And I apologize, we also have Commissioner Millinder-Irwin online? Commissioner Zakaroff? I don't see him on my little screen. There they are.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Let's give it one more round. Does anyone have any further questions for Matt? Well, thank you, Matt. That was a fantastic presentation. It is a lot of information. I think we'll probably all be reading these graphs and looking at these charts again, trying to find which dial to turn up, which dial to turn down to try and find and strike that balance that we're all trying to find. I won't be the Debbie Downer that Commissioner Kras is. We can find it, it's out there. So we'll move along and yes, it's not something we often do, but let's see where I am. Okay, as noted at the beginning of this…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Carl. Would anyone else like to speak while we have the floor open? Somebody who clocked in while we were having that great presentation. No? No. OK. commissioners any any thoughts any other questions I mean obviously you can definitely talk to Carl after the Commission's meetings Matt thank you again for the presentation that was great it's very helpful Kristen promised us a information packed meeting this evening and it was and it's a real life eye-opener and like I said we've got a lot of different things to look at as you know this continues to move forward this PBI…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I got the acronym right. That's what matters most.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Kristen, I've got a question. The urban core is where the PDE recommended taking out parking requirements completely, correct?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And that was just for the two pioneer, that was for the urban core.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“The pioneer program is in the urban core, correct?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And the pioneer program is still just the first two certain amountings. Why don't we take the affordability requirements off those two units and return back to what the original recommendation from the pioneer program was, which I think was no affordability requirements. Let's burn that development. Sometimes it takes somebody to jump in the pool first and maybe other developers follow. But I think that was the original recommendation was from us, which was, so they've already did. of some big heavy lifting by, you know, and that's a PDE, the full council hasn't voted on it. But maybe we say,…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I mean, it's, we're not, again, Kristen mentioned the cyclical nature of, you know, markets. Okay, again, this is two developments we're talking about. We're not talking about multiple, multiple developments. We're talking about the first two that put in their application.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“To see if that'll even... At least for me, that would be something I'd like the PDE or whoever, I'd like them to look at because, again, that was our original recommendation. We didn't really get any traction with the Pioneer program. They've already done the heavy lifting by taking the parking out Let's strip the inclusionary zoning requirements and stick with the eight year MFT and see if anything bites. I'd like to at least see that myself. Commissioner Adair.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Give them a little goose. And again, to your point, that's just the MFT that Matt was showing us, but again, the PDE has already recommended also parking, which is another big factor. And then to Kristen's point earlier, some of the design standards we've taken, you know, relaxed, I guess is a better word than stripped, because we still want our designs, certain aspects. So I think, at least for me, that's a good point as far as the affordable housing part. Let's see what happens.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026