Remarks by Jenni Berz
42 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Anything else? No, ma'am. Okay. I see no other lights. Karen, thank you. Just with regards to CMU-1, we'll be discussing that at the September planning commission meeting. I know that the commission asked for some more information relative to drive-thrus in the urban overlay.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other questions for Karen before she switches out with Brian? Thank you, Karen, as always.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I don't see any immediate. Oh, I do see a light now. Just as I was getting ready to say something. Councilwoman Hill, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“That's all, Madam Chair. I see no other lights. Just a quick question, just comparison. Well, there's two parts to the question. There are limits to what the Regional Planning Commission can deny a subdivision plat. We have to follow certain laws, correct? Can you do a quick comparison? You kind of alluded to it, the difference between the approval of a subdivision plat and the approval of a rezoning of a property? Sure.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And so the Planning Commission... Their hands are kind of tied. Their hands are tied.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So one other question, and I think unless I see any other lights, we'll move on. If I buy a piece of property that's not zoned for what I have in mind for use, which comes first, the rezone or the platting?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. So lots of times when the subdivision plots, more often than not, when the subdivision plots come before the planning commission, the property's already been rezoned for that particular use. So it's just a matter of, as you said, what is the conceptual plan now that it's been, say, rezoned for that particular use?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Brian. I see no other lights. Chairman Davis, have your, did that satisfy the information you wanted to communicate? Okay. Okay. And what time would you like to recess until?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you all. We will recess until 5.15, and we do have an attorney-client meeting.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“It's always good to get a little education session in every once in a while. And then one thing that I failed to mention during our committee report is the next Planning Commission meeting will be September 14th, again at the new location at the Development Resource Center at 1 o'clock. That's all, Mr. Chair.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“submitting these amendments, I think it clarifies some things for me in addition. And the only thing that I have some additional questions about or would like to discuss is I still don't have a clear understanding of when the committees will meet, and I guess that will come, who's going to decide that? Will it be the chair of the committee? What determines that meeting schedule? And I also think we need to flesh out a little bit more what the additional responsibility of our council staff is going to be because i i see this is adding some additional responsibility to them and making sure that…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I don't have a good sense of when you're talking about an annual utilization report, you have the additional meetings, which I imagine are going to be public. that's it's not just our time it's council staff time it's maybe um av assistance so i think when we finalize these rules i think we have to incorporate the other folks that are going to be involved because it's on top of what they're already doing on a day-to-day basis so I think we have to consider that as part of the plan. What's the capacity to meet what we're talking about, whatever the changes end up being? Because I agree that…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Mr. Chair, there may be others who have not spoken yet, and I'll yield my time to them first.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“council members back to you okay thank thank you mr chair um you know i appreciate everybody's comments because i think that we're i feel like we're so much closer than we were several weeks ago and it's interesting when we had our strategic planning meeting today how these these three initiatives came out of our conversations that i could totally see going to these various work groups if you will that almost mirror what we're talking about expanding our committee meetings and into these three initiatives that we've talked about so i feel like we're we're so much closer i still have i think…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Vice Chair. I appreciate the response. I think in regards to the staff and to Councilman Henderson's point, when When he talked about the fact that the committees have never really operated to the full extent that maybe there was an intention, then I think this is going to change the staff's workload. So while I'm not opposed to asking them or having them be part of this because they have to be, I think we need to bring them into the conversation and make sure that we're considering them as part of that workload because if three of us decide to meet on a…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Chair. No committee report, but I do want to announce again I'm having a District 6 summit on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. It'll be at the Family Justice Center, and breakfast will be served. So I invite all of you all to attend, the community as well. There's flyers outside if you want to grab one. And we'll be talking about connectivity, economic development, and entrepreneurship. in district six and how that how that connects to our economic and workforce development to carta to the chattanooga airport of course the chattanooga library and some of our entrepreneurship…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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City Council · Aug 18, 2026