Remarks by John Krass
29 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 26:02
“This is more of a clarifying question. So it relates to this and probably other things like parking, which we'll have a lot of time with. This is for new construction only, or is this also like a remodel? And if it's a remodel, at what level does this get implemented? Because that could have an unintended consequence. I'm just trying to understand when are these rules implemented?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 26:43
“So it's 50% of the entire property value?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 26:52
“Is that the same threshold for everything, even like parking?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 27:00
“And have we found in the past when you do that, it stops people from wanting to, if they know they have a different set of rules... Has that been a barrier for them to actually say, I'm going to redevelop this because now it's made some of these new rules impossible for me to do what I need to do? Or is this?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 27:46
“I thought I saw it in the packet. So the thing that made me think of this, and once again, it's all about our own selves. There's a building down the street from me that's being redone, which looks really nice. It's at the corner of where the trolley goes by on Dogwood. And they're redoing the facade and putting new windows in and all of that. And it's a commercial building of some sort. It's an office building. So with this trigger, I have no idea that, oh, they have to put bigger windows in because of this. Or I'm not sure what the rule changes would be for that example. And I'm just…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 44:23
“Commissioner Krause. Thank you. This is actually something I saw in the packet. And I was in here two weeks ago, so you may have covered this. So this is regarding maximums and maximums related to single families. So I saw we break out detached single family. I think it was four, if I remember correctly. Um, but townhouse was, uh, only one which I, my question is how did we get to that? Because a lot of townhouses are built with a two car garage. So are we going to say now you can't build a two car wide garage? Like a lot of them are being built right now in this new, and I wonder why we got…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 45:22
“That was already existing, that there's only one?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 45:26
“I'm curious how they built all the ones off Newport that have two-car garages, because those are townhouses, and then they have two-car garages. I'm looking at you, Kristen.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 45:38
“Because I do feel, so I'm going to throw this one out there. You look at ones that are what people want, and that is something that is a more desirable thing they want to have. If you're buying a million dollar townhouse, you're probably going to have two cars. I would like us to revisit that or at least understand, I'm not sure if we're opening things now as part of that or is this only things that you want to change versus what's already there as part of this discussion?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 46:25
“Could we, especially on single, I mean, I understand with retail and all that, I mean, a lot of times we have, you know, a lot of things are overbuilt in parking and all that, but I think residential hits an emotional chord when someone is looking for a home and it has to match their needs. So, Kristen's about to.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 49:13
“If you look at the things that don't sell or tandem, it's a little deliberate.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 49:22
“Yeah. You could be parked in the back. That sucks.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:00:29
“I mean, straightforward common sense. I think it was well thought out. And the fact that we didn't have huge deliberations shows that it was common sense and not everything has to be hard.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:05:33
“So I make a motion to recommend approval of the proposed Title 18 amendments related to the requirements of transparency as presented.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:14:58
“Yeah. So, um, we talking about something broader or something very specific because I think the motion should be based on something very specific of the thing that we're talking about not that we think code should be more specific and have less things which sure we should have things be as specific as possible but that's not something that I would say is a motion to put in something very specific of what we're talking about so that's why I'm confused by that and I would rather just have that more of a guiding principle of when we look at things that are code related, how do you, and you guys…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:25:46
“Yes, you get to speak first. I get to speak first. So the one thing I liked is it starts putting, like the way we measure things is the way reality is now. Building windows to five feet, I mean, You know, look at anything new that's been built in the last 30 years. You have taller floors, taller buildings, taller windows, and all of that. So it just takes into consideration not only the way buildings are being built, but the way we want them to be built. So I think that kind of lines up. I think you mentioned earlier, I'm not sure, does it help the numbers? That's probably an output of it,…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:38:12
“So this may end up in an amendment, but let me throw out my thought. And I'm kind of cracking open something that was not originally asked, which is when I go back, I mentioned this earlier, is maximums for single-family townhouse. Right now it says one or a tandem. I would like to look at that to be... Maybe matching what we do with single-family detached, because if you have a townhouse that has a two-car garage and maybe there's a driveway, it just allows you to have that flexibility. And I think we would be too limited to do what we have in our current code. And I'm not sure, I'm looking…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:39:52
“So I'm curious. So 50% of your facade on a townhome may need to be rethought. I mean, I think... Garage door, double car is 16 feet. A townhouse is not going to be 32 feet wide by most of them. But I think if you have, I'll use the ones, the example I gave earlier that are off of Newport. You kind of drive through. You're not even seeing it from the street. It makes it a more usable setup than the tandem. I was a little flip earlier on the tandem comment about the person who gets stuck in the back is not very good. um so i just want to make sure that we have the flexibility for people to have…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:41:21
“I think because, and maybe we wouldn't have predicted this, you know, 10 years ago, but townhomes is the thing getting built and that's the people don't want to build condo style, um, like stacked condos for all the reasons of insurance and all of that. Townhouses are more affordable than single family, detached. And if you look at what's going through at least the areas in Central or Isco Valley and all of that, there's a lot of townhouse developments. So I think having something well thought out on townhouses is a great idea. I would ask maybe in the interim on this one, we have some…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:46:40
“I'm still confused. There's three developments. They're all pretty big that have two-car garages that are all being built, like the Front Street ones next to Jerry Gold. You've got the ones off Newport, and then you have the ones that are near the Vail Apartments. All have two-car garages. So if it's a standard, I'm just surprised that that's the case. Either they've got variance for them, which means that's what people want to buy and build, And if that's the case, I think we may want to do something even before a year or two that keeps the momentum and not has this thing, which I see as a…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:47:52
“I would like to not wait a year or two to make that change. So what are my options? What are our options?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:48:00
“So like I said, no, no, no. Here is an option. Can I make it? Can we make an amendment? to change that from one to a different number than one to two yes you can okay”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:48:39
“Those three, none of them you can see, the garages.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:49:13
“So I think I agree with that. But I think, yeah, so I think the table didn't say that the table to said, yeah, the tables.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
- Play at 1:51:12
“Is this even a recommendation or we're just like, we're essentially just writing down what we're already doing. Well, you deliberate.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026