Remarks by Jimmy Hallyburton
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Matt and Mary, if we can pause right there and make sure we don't take up too much of the clock time. Specifically here, you're talking about what you might be able to do on the parking lot. Is that correct?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“And just really looking at what multi-use types of things you could do. So does that mean potential parking garages plus classrooms plus housing? When you say multi-use in the parking lot, what kind of projects might that include?”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Great. Appreciate that. I think I usually get excited anytime I can see an opportunity to turn a blacktop surface level parking lot into something, you know, better than a single use for that. So appreciate you expanding on that a little bit more.”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, just a couple quick comments. One, I think it's always great to bring a plan forward and for us to be part of helping work on that shared vision going forward. I appreciate sort of the land use model. And I think that that sort of shows how when future development is going to happen, you know, particularly in this parking lot, the process and what that will go through and then coming back to council and those types of activities. So while we're approving a master plan, we're not necessarily approving a specific project and those types of things, you know, depending on what they…”
City Council · Oct 6, 2026
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“Matt and Mary, just a couple of comments. First, I want to say congratulations to all the new folks sitting on this council. It's a really big deal. And I want to say congratulations to our two council leads who finished last year's program and now are kind of leading this way through the second one. It was really interesting to sit through your meeting as a former firefighter and to listen and learn from you all. about what you were working on. And then just a few months later to see our Boise foothills catch on fire and a huge fire in Spokane that burned so many homes. And it was also such…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Madam Mayor? I'll kick us off here. See if there's any more. I'm going to see it up first. Thank you for the effort to convert the Utah to access to emergency and pedestrian only. I think that was one of the major consideration or concerns that I had really kind of pushing a lot of that traffic into that neighborhood. But also being able to keep it open for pedestrian activity, I think, is great for everybody in the area. A couple questions about, so the widening Gardner Lane, can you explain to me sort of the addition of that and the reasoning behind it for the project?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So for that, we're just essentially widening to create some of that extra capacity. I think it's kind of mentioned on the side column there that there's potentially some vertical deflection devices that are going to be put in there or speed bumps. With the widening of the road, is there addition of sidewalks or is there addition to any sort of, you know, off street pedestrian pathways? What is the widening of the road help solve as far as like safety concerns for some of the folks that are moving around in that area?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you for that answer. That's very helpful.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right, Ann. Thank you. I will have them bring up the, again, why they aren't going straight out. They brought that up in the last meeting, but I'll ask that you bring that up again so that we can make sure that we have that conversation. I'm guessing since you live there and you've done this quite a few times, you've driven up Gardner and then turned on to Utahna left or right?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. So when you're driving up there and you're turning left or right, is there a stop sign at that intersection or is there no stop sign?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“It's kind of one of those kind of old country roads where, yeah, take your chance. Have you ran into any issues with people with that being a problem?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Not recently. Do you think that when there's additional traffic that's coming out that you'll see increased issues with that?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. Um, any other specific issues that you're worried about with, um, with Utah, knowing that we've got, um, potentially some, actually, let me rephrase that. So a couple of the things that they're trying to do to address some of the speeding issues would be to put on the speed bumps, um, on the street. Is that something that you think would be helpful?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, you think that would be helpful right now? Yes. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, great. All right. Any other thing that you've seen that you think would be helpful as far as if it did go through and there was going to be folks living there and using these streets that you would help address, that would help address some of those safety concerns?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I do have a question. Not for our stuff, but I don't know if we have ACHD online on this one or not. All right. Maybe we'll shoot for a question for staff. So You may not be able to answer this, but I'm just going to throw it out there anyway. So we've got an intersection up there at Gardner and Utahna that certainly is going to have more traffic. Somebody is going to be going that direction. We don't know how many, but we can assume that there's going to be people that are going that direction. Right now, there's no stop sign at that intersection. So if people are leaving, they could just be…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, I'd ask that the applicant, if they know anything about conversations with that stop sign, that they address it or lack thereof.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I think that we've talked about this before, but I'm just going to see if you can remind me of the timeline a little bit. So in 2020, I had the conversation with ITD, had currently proposed to have everybody exit out onto the street, and they said, nope, it doesn't meet the standards. At that point, I think afterward is when the developer then purchased the two additional lots so that there could be some other access points. So you ended up purchasing those after ITD said, no, you can't go down onto State Street. Is that correct?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So for that period of time between when you built or before, Between when you went to ITD and then you purchased those lots, was it just an undeveloped lot? ITD says there's no way to access this lot if it changes from anything from a nursery. I'm trying to figure out how you wouldn't have access to your lot if at that point it was essentially landlocked.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Great. Yep. I appreciate the extra context.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Oh, I'm sure that you tried pretty hard to get it to have a direct access onto State Street there.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“A couple of other questions that might be able to answer them, but feel free to stay up. So just a little bit on some of the phasing. So when phase one goes in, the widening project will have already taken place, including sort of that, what we're calling a protected pedestrian and bicycle sort of walkway. So that'll be done in phase one.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And then some of the other traffic palming that you have on here, the speed humps on Gardner and Utahna, what phase for those ones do we know?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, great. I think those are all the questions I got.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, just before that discussion begins, since there's two different things here, maybe we just include the discussion for both. Oh, that's fine.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026