Remarks by John Baker
236 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“All right. Thank you very much. And Commissioner Scott.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right, thank you. I have several questions. First, your artist's rendition is beautiful. I hope someday we see that built that way. I think the Paseo, I think, is very attractive, the way that you've designed that. I appreciate the fact that it basically complies with the flop, that You're trying to keep the zoning within parameters. You said something in your presentation that all the utilities had been put in. Now, what do you mean by that? Are you talking about water lines?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“The reason I sound a little surprised, I drove to this and went down near the old Shannon Brewery, And I saw the large pile of dirt. I take that's going to get distributed somewhere. But I was surprised at the vertical development from the south to the north, that Adelaide must be 30, 40 feet above what the other street is. So when you make this wall between your brownstones and the retail development, how are you going to account for that vertical displacement there?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Is it your plan, you've divided this into four sub-areas plus BR for the brownstones, and do you have any vision as to what the phasing of this construction of the entire project would be?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. I, too, have some issues with your... Plan development standards as far as your table of uses. I made only a couple of notes here. Distillery with 1500 foot tasting room in sub-areas C and D is permitted. No SUP. That if you had a distillery that took up one of those entire buildings with an outside, that that one building would become a distillery.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I agree, SUP would be much better. But light manufacturing, wholly enclosed, same thing, permitted in areas C and D, which is all of your retail commercial there in the center of your project. And I'm just saying, worst case, we could end up with that entire development, or a large portion of it, being light manufacturing. When the picture that I saw, which Looks to me like a good place to go walk around and spend some money.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Maybe we touched on this, but in the I think it's in the BR sub-district that you have detached garages are okay by permitted.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“The building heights that you've proposed for...”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, I am correct. Detached private garages in the brownstones by permit only. We'll replace that. Permitted. And my question would be, why would you have detached garages in there?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. You get a promotion for that. On the standards for the Paseo pedestrian and residential, the frontages are 40 feet, 40 feet, and 45 feet. And that leads me to ask the question, are these buildings you're building, are they going to be one or two stories? And are these just facades you're putting on the front of those buildings?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“But if you'll go to what you're zipping through, if you'll go to page 18, 19, and 21, you show that. There you go.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah. The brownstones, if you'll go to page 22, if you happen to have that there, it's the one where you show the bird's eye view of the brownstones with the gray pads.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That one right there. The... You answered my question. The gray pads are just a pad. They're not the garage. So the garage, a two-car garage, is going to go inside that building that's 40 by 25 feet. Yes. If I've got that looking at that. That's correct. But the front, so the front of that, you're not going to build a 40-foot deep garage, are you?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So you're going to have... So some of that elevation that I just talked about five minutes ago, you're going to go, that's going to be one level. And then when you park your car, you're going to walk up a...”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then that's why you could show the residential street as being level. And so then, because I was looking at this for the frontage for the residential, it's 45 feet. And my question then becomes, is that going to be two or three stories from the residential side?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It could be three stories because when I look at that plan right there, 25 times 40 is 1,000. And if you're going to sell it for $1.2 million, you're going to need three stories to kind of spread out that price per foot.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right My question I guess you answered it when you said you think that most of the retail Commercial that being built is going to be single story because I was going to ask about the parking plan That you must have predicated those numbers on a single story throughout it if it had been two stories where you say you have it a base story, which is retail, and then you put an office on top of it. Now we're going to have two times that amount of parking requirement.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“If you will pull up your... You've looked at it, the overhead schematic that shows your green spaces on page eight of your proposal. Right there, you just passed it.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And the four... retail buildings that are in the center. On the east side, you identified that gray street as being not a street, but it's going to be weight-bearing so that if necessary, cars could get through it. And if you'll look at the south parking lot of that series of buildings where the retaining wall or where the wall is between your brownstones and that retail, if I were to turn into your development and go eastbound and I get to the very end there of that parking lot, unless I use your fire lane to get to the north, I'm in a box canyon right there. Do you see what I'm saying?…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. When I got to this part, detailed site plan, number one, applicant is required to submit a detailed site plan for any phase of development within the planned development district for City Council consideration and approval. Now, jump down to paragraph three. Review of the DSP for the entire site provides Council an opportunity to confirm that development details, it lists them, have been addressed and the project may proceed. If the DSP materially complies with the development standards, approval by City Council is non-discretionary and no public hearing is required. I had, when I read…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“what their thoughts are. And so with that, Commissioner Sandoval-Cabanas?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Commissioner Johnson?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. Uh, Commissioner Lysht.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Who are we talking? Oh, thank you. There you are.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026