Remarks by Jay Arnold
59 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“You did, but City Manager covered what I was going to say about the regional representation by Councilmember Pascal at Cascade, myself at the Solid Waste Working Group and Capsule Program at Sound Cities. Thanks.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Council member Arnold. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to comment. I don't have any information that I need here. I really did appreciate the amount of research in detail in the Eastside Tool Collective proposal, including the work that they've done to learn from and coordinate with existing tool libraries. The fact that they're matching a lot of this will allow for economies of scale and both for how they coordinate a Kirkland tool library with these others, or perhaps expand throughout the east side. So I was impressed and believe that this draft implementation plan provides a level of…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, just a discussion on this particular item. I really appreciate the description in the implementation plan of the advantages of using the fire station. This is a facility right now currently that's simply being used for storage. And I support examining whether it could be used on a temporary basis for the tool library. But um want more staff input on the impacts of that and uh information on how long that temporary could be given the city's medium and long-term plans for this particular building so you know i'd like to i see the value in keeping both tracks in consideration but unless…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Before we get to a motion, I had a quick comment responding to Council Member Prim's comments.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay. Council Member Prim has asked about... whether the city's contribution is delivered as a lump sum or some form of progress payments. And that's something I would like some more information about versus giving direction for One Direction or not. We've had some previous experience in seeding some nonprofits like the Kirkland Community Foundation and And more recently, East Trail Partners, where Kirkland and other East Trail members made contributions to start that organization. Both organizations have been successfully launched and are now self-sufficient and provide more value than the…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“OK, thank you city manager. I think that addresses my objections and would support whatever comes forward through negotiations in the agreement with. What you see is fit for protecting the city. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“COUNCIL MAYOR ARNOLD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. FIRST RESPONSE TO ONE OF THE POINTS THAT COUNCIL MAYOR PASCHAL BROUGHT UP. THE WHOLE PROCESS OF STARTING A NEW 501C3 It's fairly common. I was involved in this with another organization where there is an existing 501c3 that provides the fiscal sponsorship. And what that allows is for tax-deductible contributions to go to the new organization as it gets set up with its own approved 501c3 status. It is in the Eastside Tool Collective's interest in ensuring that their fiscal sponsor is in good standing because that allows them to do fundraising, private…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Councilman Arnold. Thank you mayor and thank you Ali for the presentation. It you always are so good at. Presenting some very complex topics very easily. I want to make sure I understand some things that I was confused When I first read the memo. When you're talking about the exchange ratios, that's separate from an independent from the additional height bonus for different affordability. That's just something that you're allowing to change the the mix of affordable housing within the development and it would those offer no additional height. Is that how I? Is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, I support that. On the additional height bonus, that's an area where I didn't fully understand. Have you set a standard of what you do to qualify for the additional height bonus or are you asking for feedback on the concept and the upper limits?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“OK, great. So I appreciate the answers. um offer my uh feedback overall um i really appreciate the model of zone equivalences versus coming up with some new standards and specifying this is much simpler to understand i appreciate that i appreciate the focus on development by right in the administrative approvals i support what you're suggesting on allowing for the exchange ratios um through uh As part of the affordable housing and I support and not necessarily just as part of a height bonus and I support the upper limits of the height bonuses that you're suggesting and look forward to further…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Council Member Arnold. Thank you. To Council Member Pascoe's question, I am wondering, you know, it's not just the rent of this, it's the risk of losing these affordable units. And I see that we have Robert Penley and Angela Rosman of Sustainable Kirkland here. I'm wondering if they are able to share, like, from what they have had is what's what's the interest in any alternatives that they have had for this property that um to compare to compared to this to the eco flats if they're prepared to discuss if not um that is fine too i think robert has his hand raised mayor You wanted him to…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Martha, and planning team on this. I came into this where reading the Blocks Hub report was the first I'd seen of this, and I was impressed at the scale of their vision and how to talk about large transformation in this area. There were some intriguing ideas there. That said, I'm not ready for wholesale complete change across the entire southern industrial sub area. My feedback would be to look for options for a narrowed scope for phase two. It's going to be important to preserve the light industrial, especially between 112th and 116th. And then, as was…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Just a quick comment generally on LRMs, we've been pretty open to these because it's just starting the conversation. But for helmets, and while there should be no argument about wearing a helmet when you're riding a bicycle, e-bike, e-scooter, et cetera, the question on requiring this and enforcing it and all this gets very complicated very fast, and I am conscious of staff capacity even in looking at this for an LRM. And so while I think it's an important issue, I'm not sure it's one that I'm supportive of moving on immediately. And so in the interest of prioritization, I'm going to be…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Just to follow up on the Deputy Mayor's comments, if we are staff constrained on the ability to plant and maintain a tree to the point it's self-sufficient, when we have a fee-in-lieu program, are we setting the fees so that it's covering that three-year fee? planting and maintenance costs to get the tree established?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“It's like a potential task list. It is. Something for the task list within the urban forage management.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. My comments on the principles echo what Council Member Falcone had said about integrating with our housing goals. Totally support everything she said about that. When I was thinking about my feedback, it was more about how we do it and how we incorporate those into the principles. And there's a couple of things that I see missing from the principles or could be stated more explicitly. First, it's very important that this plan integrate with the comprehensive plan in our housing goals and not be a silo as Council Member Falcone has said. We have other language and things like the…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Building on some of my previous comments, I do not support neighborhood level management goals. I think that's the wrong frame to be talking about this. It really needs to be based on land use types and say, like, goals based on development intensity, to be able to say what are we doing in each of those categories. So for that particular item of how we close the gap and some of the other language in here, I really would like to see something change as saying that different development intensities contribute and recognize that versus a neighborhood-specific discussion. You mentioned…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Couple of nuances on this particular one. I think this is an opportunity really on your previous slide to say, how do we maximize the benefits? What are the areas we wanna focus in having that urban refuge? And what are the areas we wanna have more distributed around the street trees? I wanna be intentional around how we're looking at benefits, and that may be a different type. The other opportunity on benefits that I think we should look at is, if there are areas we want to be thematic. For example, we've gotten some previous ideas where someone said, what if we, I think it was the Chamber…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“The motion was our next business meeting, is how I heard it. Was that? August 5th?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. I recognize we have talked about this, but part of the discussion is getting the interaction between all of us, and I'm really concerned about taking action on such an important item on a topic that has not been noticed, and so support pushing this to September so the public knows that we're taking action on a particular issue.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Understand that but with this tool we can move them in four days Anyone else Councilmember Arnold I appreciate the discussion from my colleagues and want to do the right thing on this and we have successfully when we think about what happened near 132nd on responding to some RV parking and finding resources. I also recognize here that we are dealing with some code that is decades out of date and just wondering on the path here, because what I think I'm hearing is wanting, and I'm trying to understand which of this is policy and which of this is code that needs to be in the KMC. When I think…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Um, first, this is one of the reasons why we have a planning commission. I look forward to them drilling in on this. I agree with council member Tim Chisholm that we should just let them do the work and do not support the, um, ask for another check in. Um, As far as some of the questions you have here, there was a question in the memo about the tiered approach, and I actually support flipping what was in the memo. We allow some home occupation businesses citywide today, and I want to continue that citywide standard and look for ways to relax Requirements that we have today, but I…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Just briefly, thank you for all the work on this and information. I look forward to the future discussions. Looks like we have a lot coming in the fourth quarter and some meaty, meaty topics. As you're looking at this, I would just encourage the team to... avoid a failure of imagination. We've given some particular area of topics and just want to make sure you're thinking broadly of possibilities both in what could happen that we need to respond to and then just being creative and how we can respond. You'll hear some of this during the detention center discussion, but even in areas where We…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Um, thank you, David, for the, um, and and team for the analysis here. Um. While the analysis states that regulations would likely be effective. Ineffective and preventing citing, um. We need to consider the same strategy and practices that the administration is, which has been even given some plain language interpretation. They are testing every court, testing every assumption in court, and we should do the same because there's value in delay. So while a moratorium is not... Warranted moratoriums used to freeze things while you have time to evaluate. We're not. Vulnerable given…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026