Remarks by Jesse Patterson
46 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 56:28
“I'm going to give a leading question to Kristen here. Are people building these styles, our existing seven styles? Are people building them?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 57:26
“That was a... that was a lead in so you can get to your considerations.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 58:11
“Maybe like a time box discussion on this.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“In alignment with a lot of what's been said, I like the idea of leaning more into the design intent, utilizing some of those styles as examples. I think leaning into the categories a little bit more, but loosening the specificity of them is probably a way to kind of move that needle more, or swing the pendulum, if you will, more towards being a little bit more flexible there.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. Yeah. I think just an analogy is that currently I think a lot of the categories read as checklists and they should be more like guidelines and just kind of go back to the whole rule book thing. So, definitely in favor of trying to find a way to loosen the, the specificity of those a little bit. I will take a second to ask Kristin kind of a follow up question related to something that was said here on this round, which was one thing we don't want to do is kind of, you know, one step forward, two steps back. And if we go in the direction we are, which is loosening the standards…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
- Play at 1:57:39
“So the proposed row has only 2B in the. Correct. That's what we're getting confused with here. Ah. But is that all the existing, but the change to 2B?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“2B, the adjustment on the screen, the red.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I'll just throw in some justification. I am good with it. I guess the one thing I was thinking to myself was like, is there data that would back this up, meaning like ridership, ownership of bikes? The only thing that came to mind is I remember we looked at a study at one point in the last couple years where it was like how people get to work, and bikes was like I don't even think it was categorized as part of other. It was like 1.2%.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Um, yeah. So, I mean, I guess like anecdotally I would imagine one in four people has a, I don't know, like I was just trying to think of like how it would make sense. I do think like one to one or 200 units to 200 spaces, probably a little extreme.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah, so I think the data speaks. I know we're a bike town. I would assume Redmond is also, as you just mentioned. So that lines up. The only other question I had was commercial bike space. Is that the thing?”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Uh, one more kind of comment suggestion. I think one of the letters from the public mentioned something about, um, basically other ways to find bike parking, like investments, whether it be city parks and rec maybe type of thing. Um, I know it's not strictly residential, but like to provide bike parking options throughout the city. Um, I know like Sound Transit might be another option to explore. I'm thinking about the park and ride over by Tibbetts has like bike storage lockers. There's like a dozen of them. But like I think there's things that exist that could help the vision or the intent…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I hadn't thought about that, but now that you mentioned it, I think it's a reasonable request. And I say that because they kind of ask the same of us, right? If you recall, there was a very strict script of like, why did you feel this way? Like what recommendation are you making? Why did you make it? Like they wanted to know from us, like why we felt the way we did about the things we recommended. And so I think that's probably what was jarring about this was that it got to that point. We, at least thus far, we haven't really heard kind of why they went that way which was very different from…”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I guess I'll ask the staff, like, did they provide rationale? Like, should we go watch the video? I don't know. If you have it off the top of your brain, or I can go figure it out myself. If you don't know, it's okay, too.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I guess I'll throw one other just, I guess, suggestion out, which is do we want to provide a fallback line? Meaning we say, like to add to what you've already written is like, do we say 40% or no less than 30 or something like that? Or is that too much? Okay. Then I think we just live with it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Yeah. But yeah, other than that, I think it's a great letter. I think you did an awesome job. I,”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“A quick question on this slide as well. With the 12 year and the state policy requirement of 20% affordable, do we know what AMI that affordability is at?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'm once again trying to string together a one thought with like 500 things going on in my mind. I do think that as I've collected from our development community that's spoken in various public comments as well as our consultant that shared tonight is the Pioneer Program has at least kind of moved things in the right direction. It just hasn't fully taken off. And so I do agree with this approach of modifying that to be more appealing and hopefully do get the two projects over the line that we were aiming for. So I'm in favor of looking at removing the affordable housing requirement for the…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I also want to put on the, like, I live here hat for a moment and just explain to some of our developers and staff and everything about, like, I think why we're so apprehensive to going full tilt boogie on like, we want, you know, a year at MFT across everything. Like, I think that obviously there's a lot of consideration into like what the long-term impacts are, what the downstream impacts are of like, you know, you heard about it a little bit tonight of, you know, what about the schools? And those are all, I think, legitimate concerns is if you live here, you don't want to sacrifice those…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Please, Vice Chair Patterson. More of a question on this, but I think one thing that would be helpful, especially considering beyond the Pioneer Program, would be to understand some of the impacts of MFT. If there's any data available or anything that we could understand to say, what are we potentially sacrificing? That's an intense word. But what are we missing out on by doing that from a city perspective? And just a little bit more on that would be helpful.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Clarifying question for you, Kristen. Is that a citywide program or just an urban core or central Issaquah?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“In that case, I'm a little bit more in favor of it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I guess my one apprehension on eliminating the development bonus program goes to my earlier point of knowing what the city's plan would be for affordable housing. It seems like if we're to get rid of the affordability requirements in lieu of the MFTE and not having affordability requirements, it's one of the few levers we have left that I'm aware of right now that that would exist. but maybe it sounds like that might not be the right vehicle, so maybe there's an alternative.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Uh, thank you chair. I'll try and string together a coherent thought here. Uh, lots of things swirling, but, um, kind of on along the same line we were discussing about like the 62 to 65. Um, I think if we were talking about going from like the 37 to the 62 or the 37 to 65, like I'd probably feel a little bit more like those numbers are super aspirational. But going from 62 to 65, I think I start looking at, you know, we currently have conditional approval and we're trying to meet these conditions. And so I think we should, I guess I'm leaning towards like trying to honor those as much as…”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“I have one curious question. I noticed the boundary grew from 461 acres to 465. I was just curious if there was a story behind the additional four acres.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026
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“One more kind of going back to the light rail discussion. I've thought about it some more and I'm wondering if it's possible to look at numbers of those other cities who got light rail stations and how many units it did like spurn or spark in that area. That might be something we could leverage or look at in consideration for our numbers or like telling that story, like building it out as like, If you look at Bellevue or Redmond or that track in between, like how many units were built around there that we could kind of hope for or like consider as part of our target.”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026