Remarks by John M. Baucke
32 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“So would everyone like to come up and introduce yourself?”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, it's all good. A couple of questions. I'm trying to figure out who's the right person. It primarily deals with historic preservation. Is there a historian in the room? Do you have your person here for that or... Not, okay, I'll just ask these questions and the right person can come up to the podium. Is the Libero on the National Register or is it just on the city's landmark status? Does the city know that? Does anybody know that?”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“I had one question I sort of forgotten. The subject's come up, which is stormwater. I understand that stormwater is very, very hard to deal with, especially in downtown. What is your plan and how are you going to meet our are in regional water quality control boards. Very, very strict standards.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“That's probably the most logical place for it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, so in your case, you actually have a spot for it, so that's the whole thing with downtown. A lot of properties have no spot for such things. And so, okay, just wanted to know how you're going to handle it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Mr. Chair, since that came up, I didn't know we were going to get into that. I definitely support basically the theory of basically hours of operation as to when those gates should be open. Do you have a preference of hours? The hours would be the hours of operation.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yes. I'd like to move approval based on the findings set forth on page 12 and 13 of the staff report, findings A, B, C, and the CEQA exemption.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“There we go. Go ahead. Is there another slide, too?”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“The findings are A, B, and C are set forth in the staff report on page 12 and 13. along with the required discretionary actions as set forth on this slide. With the following modifications that the conditions of approval be revised to be reflected as set forth in the September 2nd, 2026 set of conditions with the modifications as expressed by Commissioner Wiscombe. with the hours of operations for the gates to be When the facility is operating I'll second the motion.”
Planning Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. First off, thank you for your hard work. There's a lot here, and I think it's part of what we're dealing. This is a lot of information, and it's pretty complex, honestly. Could you pull up slide 14? Yeah, okay. And we had a conversation, a sidebar yesterday, and it goes back to my experience with in lieu affordable housing provisions and other communities. And what I found in our prior conversation, not yours and mine, but the one that the commission had is we, I think we're thinking the livable floor area was that of the inclusionary units. and that the math was all…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“CLOSER TO REALITY. GOOD LUCK TRYING TO BUILD SOMETHING EVEN FOR $91. THINKING ABOUT IT THAT WAY,”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. And then I'm going to go to slide 21, which you asked for some feedback on, which was, is that the right number or did I get it wrong?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I thought it was 21. Maybe I got it wrong. It was a question about... PHYSICALLY BUILDING THE UNITS ELSEWHERE, NOT WITHIN THE PROJECT, BUT OFF-SITE.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And my comment on that, especially when you get to the off-site, I would think we would want to at least harmonize ourself with state density bonus law, which has the quarter mile requirement. Yes. Unless you have some other reason to go beyond that, but I think that would be sort of the starting point is to start with that thought process.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And that leads me to actually my last question here was, has somebody done a comparative analysis of state density bonus as far as the economics of a project based on that versus what our NLU is? Yes, it's in the study. At this point, I mean, it was weeks ago we had that package in my brain. And it was more feasible to do state density bonus law. Probably flushed half of it, but okay.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, one last one once you've triggered. If we're trying to get housing, I think that's the whole concept here. I'm trying to figure out a methodology in which would basically unlock the private sector. and basically go, okay, fine, we'll let you just go at it within our, you know, sort of what our vision for our community is. And that leads me back to something I've harped on as some kind of value capture thing, which is basically let them go do it, but suck most of that change of assessed valuation into the trust fund and then take that money and leverage it How much thought is, I know…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I think this is sort of a bigger level with the city manager's office.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“You just heard one more thought sorry Which is oh, no, we have a staff right now Hi, I'm Carrie Payne.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you. The other question which is back to I remember from reading your big package last time and also other studies and presentations by members of the public and stuff that's out in the public domain as to the fact of the nexus question is if you build x number of market units what percentage of additional demand of affordable housing do we create because that's you know that's we don't want to make this situation any worse and i know that's you know this is where this dialogue about it and Inclusionary housing really is on that foundation Honestly, it's it's not we're out there try to…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And really, back to my fellow commissioners, that's sort of the foundational question.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a conundrum, honestly. And maybe it's just my instincts and knowing what I do for a living and run gap analysis and run the numbers on these things and looked at what the inclusionary impact on a project would be to the financials of what we would sell. Sometimes I was a land seller and sometimes we were the developer. So it's still the same number. You still go do the same math to figure out what the market value of the land is. And in all cases, no matter where it is in the state of California, there's some kind of inclusionary requirement of some shape or…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Actually pretty much as you notice it went back and forth on this and I'm sort of teetering But I think Commissioner wisdom stop Ross's is where I pretty much landed at the end of this which is this is a little premature to jump to that because I think they are our goal is we're giving them a some significant ways to do this different than what we've had before. I think we should at least give it a test ride before we start lowering things. I think we do that later if we have no takers.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I've got a question for the applicant or the architect. I'm trying to understand sort of this is a very long and windy process that we have here that you're going through, and I did take the time to view the September 2015 25 HLC Presentation and discussion and I was looking at your plans and the question is This what we're seeing at least in our package now seems to be very very similar to What they saw in 25?”
Planning Commission · Aug 13, 2026