Remarks by Kit Johnston
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“Yeah, right. Go back. There you go. So the picture to the left.”
“So that picture on the left, that is not a detached. No. That is all part of it.”
“Right. That's what I was... That picture makes it confusing. So that's why I asked. So thank you.”
“Just so before I start getting into, let me get back to my list here. Hang on a second. So before I get to testimony and support of the application, I'm going to ask anybody online that's in support of the application and they're here to give comment to raise your virtual hand just for support, please. And then I will get into the list of people that are here. I'm going to call up next for support of the proposed application, Frank Foti.”
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“I don't see any, there's no more papers for anybody in the room for support and I don't see anybody online with their hand up. So we're going to move on. And we're going to ask for the appellant's case. And I'm going to ask for Sid Friedman to come up. And I'm also going to ask that we have Eve Goldman online promoted, please.”
“Okay. We're promoting her now. Welcome, Eve. Can you hear us?”
“Yes, we can. Go ahead with your name and address, please.”
“I have one question for Ken back to one of the statements that he made that the prior replacement dwelling never qualified as a dwelling or there was no proof. Can you touch on that a little bit?”
“Thank you. Any question? Go ahead. Go ahead. Just something to kind of clarify. I see the direction that you were going with your slides there, Sid. I guess one of the things that sticks out to me, a few of them jumped around from different people. And so you're trying to build this narrative that Heather isn't the onsite. um, caretaker of the property. Um, but to me, I mean, it's an employee. So employees change, I guess, explain a little bit more or confirm with me, would you would agree that a caretaker could change a month by month, year by year, depending on what they do for their job or…”
“I mean, they said it was Heather on the record.”
“But it is going to change, I guess is my point. So what would you want to see as evidence more than Heather coming up to the stand and saying, I am the operator and I live there?”
“But I mean, that's part of the record, I guess.”
“Okay, there's no further questions. We'll move on. Thanks, Eve, and thanks, Sid. My next, if you're online and you have comments in opposition, raise your virtual hand, and then we'll get to you. The next in-person is Mary Wheel. Thank you. Okay, well, I got a few more here and we'll ask maybe one more time before we get to the end. I do have one that says they only want to provide written testimony and it's Terry East and I just want to verify she doesn't want to give verbal testimony. Okay.”
“If you're going to give a comment, come on up. So I just need a yes or no. Okay, thank you.”
“Okay, hang on. We'll get to it. That brings up Catherine. Come on down. Name and address, please. Again, if you're online, raise your virtual hand. We'll get you queued up. Good morning.”
“Oh, thank you. Thank you, Catherine. Don't forget, if you're online, raise your virtual hand. I got one more in-house comment, and you can correct me as you come up, but it's Issa Purse. Ilsa Purse, come on down.”
“If you could state your name and address for the record, please.”
“Thank you. So that was my last in-person. I'm going to circle back to see if Mary Wheel made it online and wants to give comment. Raise your hand if you're there. Okay. I'm not seeing any, so we're going to wrap that up. That brings us to 11, which is our public agency reports.”
“And that brings us to our rebuttal by the applicant.”
“Questions? No. None for me. None. Thank you. Staff recommendations.”
“Thank you. With that, I'm going to close this out at 1.31 for deliberations. Who wants to kick us off?”
“I agree with Commissioner Starrett on how we need to make sure we stay focused on what's before us. There's a lot of opinions that can get in the way if you're not careful. And I mean, some of the stuff that Sid was saying, I don't hold it against him, but it As he's speaking with this slideshow and I'm thinking through just the houses that I've lived in throughout my life, I've farmed all my life and lived in a number of different farmhouses and nothing as fancy as that. But I guarantee you, I lived in a 10 by 14 room and I was tickled to be in that 10 by 14 room because prior to that, we…”
“Okay, appreciate it. That being said, last time we had this conversation, we were going to have a work session to discuss what Commissioner Starrett brought up. I was here for that. We probably should... Get that on the calendar. I don't know how productive that's going to be because we're going down these roads with trying to, I don't see hopefully is this being as bad, but you never know. We start opening up a can of worms with changing definitions on things. And so I don't want to overload Jody with something either. So I'm going to leave this up to you two, but let's put it in the hopper…”