Remarks by Letty Hardi
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I guess on top of that, I think there was data that affordable housing units usually have less than market rate units. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“We do have that listed somewhere. I'd have to go back into one of our documents. I can try to pull that up. We have that data for essentially all nine of our mixed-use buildings whenever we last did a parking study, I think.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“If I can jump in on shared parking because I think it's probably an agreement where something where all seven of us agree is that we want to encourage a shared parking arrangement. So similar to the two over two concept, to the extent that Urban Atlantic is listening, I think we want to push very strongly on that because besides the George Mason Square garages, I actually think we have three garages within a block. So 301 West Broad, Tenner Hill, Pearson Square and Tax Analyst, actually four garages that from the data that we've seen are all pretty over parked. And so there's economic…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, let me just see if there's other people who want to chime in on parking, because I feel like it's just been three of us debating this point. Other thoughts on the staff proposal of 0.6 for the affordable units, one for townhomes?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, others who would like to chime in on one per townhome or 0.6 per affordable unit?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So just to jump in, I think I heard five of us okay with one per townhouse and 0.6 for affordable. And then the side conversation that we wanna encourage shared parking arrangements as part of the interim agreement with Urban Atlantic. So given that there's five of us comfortable with it, do we need to debate how much is actually gonna be offsite versus onsite, or we just leave that as part of I think that's a different piece. Because I think while we're on zoning, I just want to try to contain the conversation a bit. That if there is a majority of council that's comfortable with 1 and 0.6,…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Do we think the concept of on-site versus off-site is really zoning? Or is this because of we're negotiating with a... developer and we think that they're going to have parking needs that, so let me rewind. So developers often come in asking for relief from parking requirements because they don't want to over park. They think our parking requirements are arbitrary and they don't want to pay for $70,000 of space. In this case, we are partnering with a developer. We also should not want to pay for $70,000 of space because of the economics of this deal. and so we're going to want some parking…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“In my opinion, if they were able to negotiate all their parking in Tenner Hill and they were able to rent their units with all the parking that's at Tenner Hill and they think it's buildable and financeable, I think that's a good idea, especially if they're meeting the affordable housing requirements to access the overlay. Right, like the builders have an incentive to build the right amount of parking. If they think I can lease or sell these units with all the parking being down the street at the Tenderhill building, and they think that it is still marketable, why wouldn't we let them do that?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“This zoning district applies everybody, right? Whether it's city owned or not.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Which is why I don't know whether we want to put a percentage right now.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay. So I heard a majority okay with 0.6 for affordable units and one for townhomes. With the encouragement that we do shared parking arrangements in our negotiations with Urban Atlantic and a future conversation on how much should be off-site versus on-site, but for now not putting anything in the zoning. Is that an accurate summary?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, so we've covered heights and parking and the back of the house stuff. Other broad topics...”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, the bulk plan applies here as well, right?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Because the bulk plane governs this edge as well. Okay, anything else on zoning? We've covered heights, back of the house stuff, parking, park. I had one question for staff. So what came in public comment was a request for handicap accessible units. That feels like an IA discussion as opposed to a zoning discussion, but wanted to confirm that with staff, make sure that didn't get lost.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So again, not the zoning discussion in front of us tonight.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“If there are no further discussions on zoning, is there a motion? Do we have any amendments to... My note said that both amendments failed, and I don't... Okay. People are welcome to make more amendments. There were things that we had just discussed that would be included, but... I think the main thing that we directed staff was around the back of the house stuff that we didn't want to... try to wordsmith on the dais. And so we asked staff to take the thrust of what we were discussing and come back with more refined language by second reading.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“So do we need to say that in the motion?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I assume we'll get check-ins when it's to the Planning Commission and back.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is there anything else besides that? To be clear, they're not like substantive amendments, because I think the intent of what we want is largely there, and I think there were some tweaks, and so I'm just a little hesitant to outline that for that reason, but...”
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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“I'd like seven more brains at the table. So I appreciated the planning commission's comments. And so I think I'm at a point where I'd like the planning commission's comments to noodle this because clearly we can spend a regular meeting as long as we do in work session. And so the seven of us certainly debated this and we probably would invite the planning commission to help us.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Do you wanna call me? I guess we're gonna call the roll now then, if we're done with comments. There was a motion and a second. Call roll.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026