Remarks by Letty Hardi
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And the public doesn't have the benefit of seeing the Q&A doc that I think staff put together based on a lot of the questions that we've been discussing. Could you talk more about why we think 48 is important? Because I think previously we talked about 50.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Specifically, I guess, I think I recall from work sessions, several of us were interested in the concept of two over twos, like stacked townhomes. And we had asked for some light research, if possible, in between last week's meeting to now about what have we seen in the region when you actually put two over twos? How much height do we need? Do we think that 48 does not preclude that from happening?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I just want to make sure we are not excluding that possible housing type, given that we've talked about wanting that.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“We're talking about the little notch of C?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you for addressing that. While we're talking about shadow studies, just a comment. As I was looking at lots of shadow studies, what I often find me toggling between is actually the current conditions or existing conditions page with the proposed conditions. And I actually find it more helpful to actually have them side by side rather than have them on separate pages because I find that I keep going back to the previous one or holding up the other one to compare what's changed. So just in case other people are doing the same thing, I thought I'd mention that here because I'm literally…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“This is the poor man's version where I hold the phone up and then compare it.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“If I could refresh my memory. So without divulging details of the RFP responses, I think in the past when we've talked about kind of preserving maximum flexibility in terms of the size of the building, I think staff has said that the sweet spot for affordable housing developers, they hit a certain number of units. It was kind of 100 to 150 units per se, I think is what you said generally is what gets financed. And so anytime you kind of constrain the building envelope, and if you want to make number two smaller, given all the other constraints we're trying to deal with, which is again,…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I think besides obviously what's financeable and buildable is obviously the city contribution and part of it too, right? Like I think that's been an important factor for us is how much are we willing to subsidize? And if the market won't naturally go there, I know that that's something that will weigh on us as well is how much are we willing to put towards the project?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is Snyder on the second? Discussion? Madam Clerk, could you repeat the height caps again?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I guess thinking out loud, I wonder whether we haven't seen two over two state in the city because we haven't had the heights that allowed for them.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So I'm hearing lots of support from council, the idea of a concept of a two over two, so more affordable, smaller, middle housing that can be owned. So separate from this conversation to the extent that we can channel that to urban Atlantic is something that we're really interested in exploring. I think that would be helpful. I think I'm in the camp where I'd hate to cut off a zoning option where that could make it possible. So again, the reason maybe we don't have any two over twos in the city is because we haven't allowed for zoning for someone to bring that forward. So there's a motion and…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Any more discussion on heights while we're here?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, if there's no more discussion on heights, I'm looking. Does council have other comments based on what was discussed last week and the tweaks made by staff?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Other thoughts on the back of the house?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Are we comfortable with giving staff that direction or do we actually want to amend it from the dais again?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I assume the rationale for it to be completely enclosed is not to have headlights into the neighbor's buildings?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026