Remarks by JC Harris
102 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
- Play at 2:31:49
“Thank you. I'm thinking of Rick Johnson now because years Ten years ago or so, the city was trying to do this redondo, just master plan kind of a thing, and it never really came together as a deal. The trust I have is that a successful commercial venture restaurant there will improve quality of life there. So if you manage it well... it will actually reduce the problems that people complain about organically, apart from anything else. I don't like giving up control. Nobody does to a hearings examiner and so forth. But yeah, when SALTES was there, the area was calmer. And it sounds may be…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“So is option two, that's eligible for the grant or is it, or is that like a separate thing and then we could accept the grant and then have an add-on for the water quality thing or is it?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I JUST DON'T WANT TO, I THINK PEOPLE ARE CHARACTERIZING OPTION THREE OR MISREMEMBERING IT AS SOME KIND OF LIKE ROLLS-ROYCE OPTION, AND TO ME, THIS IS SCALED BACK TO VALUE ENGINEERED CONCEPT.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I'm just, the thing I was looking for, my eye keeps straining to see the interface with the marina steps. You know, like how that's, That's what people always ask is how that's going to come together.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I'll just say option three is what has to happen. It's just normal. It's, you know, option three is not Cadillac or whatever. It's just a normal, complete street that is supposed to be part of the city's policy going forward. And, you know, especially it's not the sequencing that I would have expected”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Well, are we still in the questions period?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“As I was saying, you build the city that you want. You only get to tear up the streets once in a blue moon. And so you should build what the future will want. You know, 216th, it looks really good. And you should basically make every project that we do to a certain standard because you're leaving it to the future. And, you know, a complete street is the city's standard. And, you know, if you go... If you go cheap on this in any way, basically, yeah. I mean, we talk about making this the waterfront destination. If it takes longer, be patient, but do the project you want, even if it takes…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I guess I'm puzzled. And I don't want to put you in an awkward position Mike, but do you consider it a zero-sum?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I'm asking a question regarding funding.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Well, let me finish. Is it an either-or kind of a deal? No. I guess is what I'm trying to say, is the planning process in accepting this grant, does that come at the cost of the other things that we've been discussing?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“It's not a priority. It's a question of our city regularly executes on multiple projects simultaneously.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“And that comes back to us. You can walk and chew gum. We do several projects simultaneously. And what I am asking is... IF WE ACCEPT THIS GRANT AND GO INTO INITIAL DESIGN ON THIS, DOES IT COME AT THE COST OF OTHER, OF THE OTHER PRIORITIES, YOU KNOW, CLIFF AVENUE, WHICH I'M STRONGLY IN FAVOR OF AND SO ON. I MEAN, DOES IT, IS IT A ZERO SUM KIND OF A THING WHERE WE HAVE TO CHOOSE EITHER OR IN ACCEPTING THIS GRANT?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Respectfully, Council Member Vlas, this is like one of those things where it was the value of having committees. It would often be the case that we would separate out the design.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I will speak to whatever I wish to speak to. This amendment... It's micromanagement. You hire professionals to create the best possible design. You don't design from the dais. And so I would just say you figure out a way to have them design it. Then if you have to put it on the shelf for a couple of years, but you're patient. I'm sorry, can you?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Gosh, it seems like 800 years ago that we had committees, but if this were going through a committee process, we would not be having this discussion. You don't turn down the money. You find a way to do the design, and then you move the priorities for construction as you see fit. Nobody wants the Cliff Avenue and Beach Park projects done now. more expediently than myself, but you don't turn down state money. You figure out a way to get to design. And I honestly didn't see this coming, that it's not an either or in terms of priority. It's just, yeah, I'm just repeating myself. You do the…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“The voters objected to the city borrowing money. And I just want to point out that this is not borrowing money. And that's basically it. It's a question of sequencing. And I just think about the original notion of downtown redevelopment from 2008, the UW presentations. I just can't imagine doing something as dramatic as the Marina Steps and then not have something leading up to it that is commensurate with that. And I am willing to be patient as long as it turns out to be someone else's money, as long as it's all of equal beauty. Thank you. Oh, and also the water quality thing. I mean, the…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“So, and I may be misreading this, but the term six months is used, is that the length of time to come to an agreement?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah, so... You know, I had mentioned to the city about having like a little bit of fencing or something around, decorative around the pathway from the activity center into the park, just something. I'm just, the purple or whatever the square, is that really going to be the extent of the development? Will it take away from any of the parking or any of the access areas? from the activity center into Stephen Jay. Does that make sense?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“doing our public outreach as of january oh okay he was just the guy yeah he was the guy for a long time everywhere in terms of just community engagement and um okay so yeah well he was just really appreciated by a lot of people in the area so just point it's worth yeah”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“But that's a different position from the woman you described earlier.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“So that's different from what Brad was doing.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“I thought he was the guy for all that stuff.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“This is real progress, schedule-wise. Thank you. Okay, so I got the compliment. The other thing is, no, it's like really. So since you now, you know, I go on about the magic wand thing, and is there any, you know, you've obviously got your hands full, but if there was some way to create a roll-up of budget requests just to get a sense of what, overall what departments are asking for versus what actually goes through the filter.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you. I would like to amend the ordinance to remove the school zone item from this particular thing and come back to it later. I'm fine with the three, but it's a little bit different.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026