Remarks by Katie Maynard
91 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Commissioner Fullerton, do you have any other questions? I think you were in the queue before me. OK. I'll go for it. Just a couple of quick clarifying questions as we were talking about the other things. Looking at the landscaping plan, I actually don't see any trees along Hollister. So I don't think there's any landscaping right along Hollister there. Is that correct?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“That seems like a good choice. Well, thank you. I'll actually go to staff on this one. So there was a discrepancy there of the staff report saying 41 feet was the maximum building height, and the applicant mentioned 38 feet and 6 inches. Is that just the difference of electrical or HVAC equipment, or is that a change in the building height? From what's being proposed, I just want to clarify that.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Steph, that seems accurate to you all. OK, thanks. And then can you put the turn map that you just had up a second ago? Yeah, that one. So I think in comparing this to some of the drawing ones, so the entrance Because this beautifully displays the Cannon Green entrance. But the new entrance of the property would come into that green triangle in the middle. That's kind of like where it's across from that green triangle in the middle. Is that right? Is the entrance to this property.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“That's what I was looking for. Thank you. Yes. Okay. That was all my questions.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“And I think that's why we're omitting 15AV. Correct. Because 15AV would imply that. Right. Yeah, okay.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“And Commissioner Maynard. This project has met the requirements in order for us to approve this project, and we are bound by state law to approve the height increases as well as the traffic reductions. I do have some concerns with the project, but not ones that I think we're in a good position to be able to argue against given the restrictions of state law. I think they met the requirements that they had to to get the project approved. And so I will support the project as is.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Actually, can I just ask for a quick question? Do we need to add the errata to this first motion or to the second motion?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“A couple of quick questions. There was some conversation around the ability to have a left turn lane going into the property. Was that considered as an option for this project?”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Can I ask the applicant if you considered adding a left turn lane and if there were reasons why you chose not to do that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“OK. Thank you. With, I guess, another sort of question towards staff, there was some public comment letters that did some comparisons with other local projects. And some of the ones that they noted as potential mitigation measures with the Islamic Center, there was a requirement that if they had any events that would trigger more parking requirements than they currently are able to accommodate on site, that there's an overflow parking strategy. Has staff considered any type of mitigation measure that if with special events or some of the weddings and funerals and other types of events that…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Council could tell me if I'm going too far with this one, so let me know. But with the Islamic Center, we had some of those requirements. Was that because that project had less parking or was under-parked in some way on site? I wasn't here when we voted on that one.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“had a lot of you know if they had events that exceeded the number of parking spaces that they would seek out other locations okay thank you that's really helpful um and then uh similarly one of the things that i know the applicant put forward was the ability to do check-in after a year which i thought was um really a good opportunity for the community to give some feedback um but i know with the islamic center project they also had a a check-in after one year and also after two years and then also that those check-ins would be at a notice public hearing rather than only with the planning…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“I'm wondering if staff could pull up. I think it's the first packet, and it's page 29. It has a transportation assessment that was done, and it shows some of the left-hand turns versus right-hand turn estimates. Is it possible to bring that up?”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Might be a little. Okay. Maybe that's more complicated. What I am seeing, and maybe because staff can verify, so like on page 29 there, I'm looking at the assessment that was done to try to estimate the traffic. And it looks like left-hand turns were estimated. And so for like the Northern driveway, it's an estimated of 19 left-hand turns in the Southern driveway of seven left-hand turns. And so it is looking at a higher right-hand turn. So on the southern driveway, it's 48 right-hand turns. The northern driveway is 32 right-hand turns. But it looks like there was some planning, some of the…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“I do find that this project is consistent with the transportation assessment guidelines that we've given to the project and to the parking requirements that we've given to the project. In reviewing this, I have found some places that I'd like to consider changing our zoning ordinance for future projects. But in terms of this, I think it's important that we can And be true to what we already said. I think, you know, Commissioner Srotkin asked a couple of times, who set that? And I said, I did. Like, we did. We set that here on Planning Commission. We wrote that zoning ordinance. And we might…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Yes. It looks like number one was to deny the project. Number two was to approve the project. Do we need to vote on two if we already denied the project in one? Or am I missing what the second resolution is?”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you. That helps me get clarity. I appreciate it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“I would just add that I would also be interested in that policy discussion. And so as we're giving feedback to city council, I'd like to say that I would also have an interest in that discussion.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Maynard. I do have an ex parte communication. I spoke with the president of the Fairview Gardens Board on Friday, Jeff Green. I did not learn anything that was not a part of the public record or shared in the applicant letter that was just made public today. I also did do a site visit. I drove around the site and particularly tried to look at some of the areas that had come up in public comment.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“Got a couple of questions for different audiences. So we'll jump around a little bit. Let me start with staff. With the stormwater planning that was done, to what extent have they looked at some of the potential flooding issues, particularly on the southeast corner where we've run in? There's been some record of challenges in the past.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“And that designing and revising hasn't occurred yet?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“And then while I've got you, there is a culvert that runs along there. Is that a creek escha or environmentally sensitive habitat area? Or is that kind of a man-made culvert? And can you help me understand what's going on on that east side there?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“And on the trees, can you help us remind me how many trees will need to be removed and to what extent have we seen where those would get replanted and size of trees that would be replanted? I think this may go into the issues around having a landscape plan, but I wanted to get your guidance on that.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“I guess this is maybe a broader question for staff. So Fairview Gardens, one of the things that I think is so amazing about it is how beautiful of an ecosystem it is and that it really focuses on organic, regenerative agriculture. So I'm trying to get my head around it not having an impact on the environment if there was some construction in this beautiful ecosystem that Fairview Gardens has built. So usually when we do infill projects or CEQA exemptions, it's based on a a piece of land that's just cement or just gravel. This feels quite different from that. But you also mentioned that it's…”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“And so, for example, where the farm worker housing is, that will be mostly replacing agricultural fields or sort of what's there right now?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026