Remarks by Jason Voiss
247 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“Great. Thank you, Commissioner Zakharoff. Is there a second? Great. Thank you, Commissioner Millinder-Irwin. Okay. The motion to recommend approval of the Title 18 land use code amendments regarding the change in permitted uses to the urban village commercial retail zones as presented has been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion or amendments to this particular topic? Commissioner Zakharov.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Well, that's summed up very well. Further comments regarding this particular topic? Compliance. I guess the only thing that will probably be asked by staff is why now? Why not wait? We've got time. Yeah, I don't know. Get used to it early. OK, I don't think you're going to get a whole lot of commentary on this particular topic. So if there is no further discussion, and I want to make sure everybody got the opportunity to speak. Okay. There being no further discussion on the motion to recommend approval of the Title 18 Land Use Code Amendments regarding the change in permitted uses to the…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Why not now? I think December 11th, 2017 is the date. Whoa, whoa. Sorry, everybody. Sorry, just gave everybody a little bit of, whoa. 2027. Okay.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Agreed. Anyone else like to add on? Okay. Hopefully you got what you needed. Okay. All right. Here we go. Moving on to the final proposed changes regarding parking. Is a commissioner willing to make the motion for parking? Commissioner Millinder-Irwin. I make the motion to recommend approval of the . Oh, sorry. Leslie, you're going to have to do it all over again.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Even better the second time. Is there a second? Commissioner Zakharoff.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Excellent. Thank you both. So the motion to recommend approval of the Title 18 Land Use Code Amendments regarding parking as presented has been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion or amendments? And we'll start, I'm gonna start by ignoring this rule. Commissioner Millinder-Irwin, would you like to kick it off? You don't have to, I just, I've been ignoring this little note that says, ask them first.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“The maximum doesn't, it's not because of state law. It's not because of state law. Okay.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Because it's sitting in code as of now. Commissioner Adair?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're going to see consensus from everybody, but Commissioner Holmstrom.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I would concur 100%, Vice Chair Patterson. So having said that, yeah, we'll ask for that recommendation to be put in towards city council. I don't think there's anybody who disagrees that we should be looking at town homes more closely. And if I understood vice chair Patterson point, basically what you're mentioning is let's keep the motion as it is in terms of the one parking spot has been that way since 2017 or whatever year I mentioned. So it's not going to hurt anybody moving forward. And then let me ask you this, and hopefully I can ask this type of question. How long do you think it…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“That's pretty quick. So even if you guys did have a, staff had a big workload, I mean, waiting a year, I think we can all live with that for the one parking spot. At least I can, as of now for tonight's discussion. And I want to thank Vice Chair for roping us back into the actual discussion, so.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“What you guys are doing is basically we're making a formal recommendation. Ultimately it's going to be council's decision to make, but what you're doing is what we're taking as our formal recommendation. If Commissioner Kras would like to, you can make an amendment to this parking saying, hey, we caught this during the presentation. We don't like it. We're sending this along with our formal recommendation.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Right. But it is a public hearing in the sense that this is all formal. But you can make the amendment if you'd like. or anyone can make any amendment. But you'd be making an amendment to the proposed title, and again, that's fine. If you want it to be specific, yeah, state your case. Yeah, for sure.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Vice Chair Patterson was filming. Okay. When not facing a public hearing.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I have to repeat it too. Okay. No, you're fine. Okay, is there a second for Commissioner Krasa's amendment? Commissioner Zakharoff has.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Okay, so now we get to go on John's tangent, which is now we're going to wrap this one up before we move on to the whole package. So any comments, deliberations? Commissioner Crafts, you get to go first. You put it on the floor. Defend.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“So it's just really clarifying what we're already doing. Any other comments? Commissioner Zakharoff.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“It sounds like there was a parking update in 2025 in those permits that have already been through the pipeline.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Someone from staff want to make sure that I've covered that?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“OK, but I did get that right, Kate. Basically, the ones that have been built prior were already through the pipeline before that parking reduction happened in 2025.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Perfect. Yeah, just a little bit of context. While they're looking, would anyone else like to continue to comment? We'll take a formal vote on Commissioner Kras's amendment, but definitely keep taking comments. Yeah, just John's amendment right now. I'll just say for my part, Commissioner Kras brings up a great point. This is the popular building trend at the moment, and I appreciate the fact that we are explicitly saying not on public facing roads. I think there's a bigger responsibility when you're taking up public facing public pedestrian facing common areas. But having some flexibility in…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“It is. It is. No, like I said, it's a good catch. Okay. Now we've got to vote on the amendment, correct? Okay. Now I have to state it, correct?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Great. Thank you, Kristen. Okay. All in favor of the current amendment on the table, please vote and say, yay. Yay. So that amendment passes unanimously. All right. With that, having said that, going back to the original conversation, just as parking as a whole and minimums, we'll pick it up with somebody who wants to begin. Commissioner Zachroff.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Okay. How does everyone feel about that? Strongly? Passionately? Because I think if there's not a strong feeling either way, that can be more of a recommendation, correct? Does it have to be an amendment? We can recommend anything to council.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“So when you, when you guys mentioned getting rid of minimums, we're not talking about the state pieces. So like affordable housing, it's none of that. That's just, you're above and beyond meaning, what is it? It is central.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026