Remarks by Jimmy Hallyburton
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 1:13:44
“Madam Mayor, I appreciate the motion. I appreciate the things that the developer has done to address some of the traffic safety issues. I still have some concerns there, but I think a lot of the primary concerns I think that you've addressed to the best of your ability and a lot of that really driven by input that we've heard from folks who've come and testified and who emailed before the meetings. I do think that the closure of the exit straight onto Utahna will be a major improvement and will also provide some greater access for folks who are walking or riding through the area. I do think…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, if I could just add one more. Bill, thank you for continuing to serve our city. As it's been noted, these are all community members. They're volunteers. They're volunteering their own expertise, whether it's professional expertise or lived experience. And it makes our decisions on council easier. A lot of times you're making a decision at an airport level, commission level, or a parks and rec level that are filtering all the way up. or even people who have specialty in plumbing and mechanical stuff that we aren't going to have that same level of technical expertise and that makes…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Yeah, Madam Mayor, just to be clear on this one, we're not declaring a drought emergency with this ordinance. But really what we're doing is acknowledging the challenges that we have with water in Boise, especially with years like we saw this year where we have low snowpack and not as much water. and making sure that going forward that we have the ability to declare an emergency and go through measures if we need to and really those measures come in a phased approach that we talked about during our work session today starting with education and outreach moving to voluntary action and then in…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Mayor, maybe I can kick us off here. I imagine that there will be a couple of other comments from other council members and perhaps you as well. This is an ordinance that some of our staff, and I'd like to recognize Emily Brie, our legal team, has put a lot of work into helping navigate what is sort of a situation where technology has evolved faster than regulations. and really what this ordinance is doing is defining what an emoto is and what an emoto isn't so a lot of times we see these new devices that are on the road and maybe it's an e-bike maybe it's an e-scooter a skateboard a…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 31:55
“Yeah, Madam Mayor, just one quick question. So I think that this one originally came in front of us at an earlier date, and then it was deferred. Any reason for the deferral?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 32:12
“So technical error caused the deferral, technical error asking for the rezone. That's correct. Hopefully tonight we can fix a couple of technical errors. All right.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 33:24
“Yeah, Madam Mayor, just real quick. You know, usually when there's a rezone, there's a lot bigger discussion, a lot more stuff going on. You know, we've got some really old maps of the city, lots that have been developed a long time ago. And so sometimes we end up seeing these errors on the map where things just don't make sense. And so I think this is pretty straightforward, pretty easy, making sure that we're just getting the line where it needs to be and following all the existing code that we always follow. So, yep.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 40:00
“Matt, Mary couple questions when I think more just sort of on the process side, so this is coming up for to us as an appeal today had it not been appealed would it still would have come to Council as a cup or a variance request or would it not have.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“uh provide the final decision on condition to use permits so the only time that council would decide our condition to use permit is if it was through an appeal like this process then what about the variance part um i guess if the applicant agrees to the variance in the or agrees to the conditions that are put in the pnz meeting it doesn't necessarily come but typically if there was a variance um for some reason i thought that that would have come up through us as well had they been asking for that variance”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“got another question I think it falls outside of the grounds of the appeal i've never seen us put in a condition to require permeable pavers before and i'm wondering if that is somewhere. Somewhere in our comprehensive plan or code I definitely understand the intention with groundwater retention, but I also understand how expensive permeable papers are so. I know that that might be a little bit on the edge of what we're discussing tonight, but could you speak to that a little bit.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 42:08
“I guess you know, maybe I would just add in if you have a comment i'd love to hear it. We love permeable papers right like. They're great. You know, we've got them in our alleyways. We've done a lot of work to do there for that groundwater retention. But there's also some other ways that people can do a parking lot as far as the way that the water, you know, runs off and recharges into, you know, different drainage areas to do some recirculation. Do we require any, you know, that separate one where we use like a pave areas and swales and stuff to recharge or is that not within our code either?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 43:01
“Yep, that are capturing some of that drainage and going back into the groundwater system.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 59:35
“yeah madam mayor um again thank you for being here it's never easy to stand down there um even when i go and testify sometimes at the state it's a lot easier to sit up here than it is to be standing yeah um i'm presenting so thanks for being here um you know one of the challenges i think that we sometimes face on city council is that when we hear public testimony you may hear somebody who's entirely for something or an audience who's entirely against something and we don't necessarily um stand up here kind of tallying you know who's in favor who's you know who wins that way and it really just…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Yep. Thank you. And then any others? So you've kind of cited, I think, some safety concerns, some compatibility concerns, some fire access concerns. I was on that fire, by the way, when I was on the Idaho City Hot Shots back in the day. Any other ones that you wanted to highlight?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“pastors and maybe city council members are good at saying yes to a lot of really good ideas when sometimes the reality might be a little bit different. um so with the pathway and easements and a variety of other things that go in there certainly i think something to look at my question is more related to specific conversations with the fire department and if you could kind of expand a little bit more on any questions concerns that they've had or if that actually isn't a reality you can speak to that as well but just wanting to note that that was one of the concerns that was brought up to us i…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“great that's kind of what i figured usually they're flagging stuff for us i'll follow up with staff on a similar question related to conversations with with fire um generally i think i would disagree that uh more parking is the solution and not the problem on a lot of things i can see how that's probably the case uh you know with a church when you've got that many people coming in and out um do you think that this will reduce the amount of people that are parking on the street do you think that there will still be some on-street parking can you talk a little bit about the impact that you may…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Yeah, I would imagine even with that max capacity in your church, hopefully people are carpooling or coming with family. So it probably operates a little bit different than you might see in a regular household. Thank you. I guess the only other thing that I would note is that while, again, I'm going to say I love the idea of these permeable pavers, whoever your architect, but mainly the fundraiser, I think was my concern when I brought that up because I know how much”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Yeah, Madam Mayor, a couple quick questions. Sometimes when we have a development come in front of us, whether it's a CUP, rezone, subdivision, sometimes they're required to do street improvements. So when there's additional traffic that's coming in, that they're adding additional safety measures, I'm wondering if you know in the history, you know, when the church was built, if it had to do any modifications to the green belt, you know, that section, if it was responsible for paying for any of those costs, or if it's been involved in any of the, you know, kind of bike ped improvements that…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“Yeah, Madam Mayor, a couple of questions here. I'll start with, I don't think we have anyone from ACHD here, right?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 2:12:48
“Oh, wonderful. If ACHD could just speak to a little bit as far as their requirements for when they have to do a traffic study or the requirements that they would have on an application like this as far as weighing what sort of changes may or may not need to happen.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
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“thank you mayor uh and council member uh sorry while you were asking the question i was loading into the zoom so i wasn't able to capture it yep no worries at all um now i can actually see you while i'm asking the question so the question is there was quite a few folks who uh had some questions related to why wasn't there a traffic study required for this and that they believe that there should be i'm wondering if you can speak to when achd determines whether or not a traffic study needs to happen with the development and then also what are you know the requirements that are what are you…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 2:14:13
“And I might interrupt. I'm a little hard of hearing you. See if you can talk maybe just a little bit louder.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 2:17:32
“Great Thank you that was really helpful and again I appreciate you hanging in here all night with us it's almost 830 and you're still here, so you might probably started at 9am in the morning, so thank you.”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 2:17:45
“Yeah, Madam Mayor, not related to ACHD. So the other question I think that we've heard a little bit is related to fire. And I was wondering if you could just talk a little bit about that process, the conversations that we have with fire, how they weigh whether or not they approve, and did they in fact, you know, look at this application and let us know that there wasn't concerns on their end related to fire access?”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026
- Play at 2:23:16
“Madam Mayor, I'm going to give a motion to shot here. It's a little bit new to us with these de novo bills and making sure that we're doing it correctly. So I'm going to move that we partially deny the appeal and partially grant the CUP with changes to condition five related to the permeable pavers just making sure that they're meeting the requirements that we already have for paving runoff and groundwater recharge and then modifying condition six to include on both intersections when evaluating safety to consider the use of a raised crosswalk so that when they're going across the greenbelt…”
City Council · Jun 30, 2026