Remarks by Katie Maynard
91 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 4
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“That's helpful. Thank you. I guess one last question for staff, and then I'll pass it to my other commissioners. As we were talking about the CEQA exemptions, one of the things that was noted, I think, on one of the staff slides was site has no habitat value, but we also are in a butterfly buffer zone. So can you kind of help us reconcile the no habitat value versus this is within the buffer zone we've sort of identified as a city? And how do I think through that as a commissioner?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Oh, actually, and then one last question. In the 50-foot buffer, so I wanted to just make sure I'm understanding that that will be separated by a split rail fence, and there won't be any gathering in the 50-foot buffer that's just used for that stormwater management and restoration area.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yes. Yes. Just a question for city staff, though. It looks like there is a sidewalk that is being added. I don't know if it's already there is being added, but I see a sidewalk along North Los Canaros Road along the stretch of the project. Is that right?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“I wanted to ask Council, there's a couple of public comment letters that came up. One of the challenges we have is that there is limited parking at Lake Los Caneros. And so there's been a lot of overflow from that use into this parking lot. And so far, the church has been generous with sharing some of that space. But that's not dedicated parking for Lake Los Canaros. To my understanding, I guess I want to verify this with you, we can't require a property owner not to use their space. So we couldn't require a project to not build anything there. That would be considered a taking in some ways.…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Thank you. And then a question, going back to the transportation for a second. So there are two transportation analysis, VMT and level of service. We have switched in many ways to looking at VMT for many things, which we know doesn't address traffic. But the level of service is... is something that's still required by our city that helps to look at traffic congestion. I noted, like in this project, we are below the requirements of the general plan for level of service. So we are thinking about traffic congestion as a part of this. I want to clarify one thing that level of service was level of…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Could we verify? I think we have some transportation planners either from our team or from the – Sure.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Just was – to what extent was level of service assessed on Sunday and the types of traffic that would come up on a weekend –”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Okay. So for both level of service and VMT, the weekend traffic was not accounted for. Correct. Okay. Thank you. That's all my questions.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Sure. Thank you very much. First, I just want to thank everybody who came out tonight. We've heard a lot of different perspectives and a lot of experiences. And I really appreciate getting to learn from all of you tonight. And for you to be out here late on a Monday and putting in that dedication to the community. So thank you for doing that. As we look at this project, I think as planning commissioners, we are a semi-judicial board. We are not a fully... there were different from city council in that sense the planning commission is here to help to interpret the zoning ordinance and the…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“I still struggle that we're holding them to a different standard. And I think that's the thing that keeps coming back to me here. If the primary concerns are parking and transportation, they're not backed up by the analysis or the standards set by the city. And so if there's concerns with parking at the levels that are here, we need to change the zoning ordinance. we need to change the requirements of the community assembly to include not just the assembly area but other parts of the project or to require more parking for a project of this scale. That's not what our zoning ordinance says. And…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Shall I try to make a motion? I'm going to try a motion. I don't know if it'll work, but I'll try it out. I do want to make an amendment to the motion around the e-bike parking space. That's just a small thing that I want to put back in. Should I do that in... Motion one or motion two? Item one or two?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Let's see. Yes, this amendment. With the revision to condition one, as noted in the staff slides. Sorry, can you put that back up so people can see it while we're voting on it? I saw it a second ago. Oh, there it was.”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Yeah, so the motion is proposed in the staff report. This would close out approving the project if you were to choose to approve it. This would add in not allowing the requested exemption of not moving forward with the electric bike parking space. And then, sorry, go back to the other slide real quick. And then it also includes adding this underlined language. Mm-hmm. So you can second, you can choose not to second, or you can also make a friendly amendment to the motion. Just throwing another option out in case you would prefer to make a friendly amendment. And then if you propose an…”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026
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“Would this be a chance that at this moment we could indicate if there was something that would make the project more palatable to the Planning Commission? Are we looking to suggest things that we would like to see changed in the project? Or are we just looking to give guidance to the staff to come up to develop a report that shows findings consistent with what we talked about tonight? I guess I'm trying to understand. What type of feedback do you need from us in advance of the August 10th?”
Planning Commission · Jun 22, 2026