Remarks by Luke Winchester
361 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 12 of 15
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“Very well. Thank you. Shane, Boba Gorge?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Very well. Questions, comments from the commission? Seeing no questions or comments from the commission at this time, let's go ahead and call for citizen comments. Anyone wishing to make a comment about this item on our agenda is welcome and encouraged to do so. Come to the microphone and name and address for the record. Seeing no citizen comments, I'd like to ask for a motion in regards to this item on our agenda.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“motion and a second all those in favor signify by saying aye and raising your hand aye against abstentions so approved next item up on our agenda um is item 7b review the site plan modification for universal gymnastics located at 5010 marketplace miss jill thank you um”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Questions, comments from the commission? I'd like to go ahead and ask for representation of this, too. Come on up. Name and address for the microphone. Just a moment where Commissioner Raz has the floor. Commissioner Raz.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“thank you a couple more piggyback that just a little bit um that's the first thing that i saw as commissioner bowman said was um i know this road does not have sidewalks it's um one there especially with commissioner giles absent tonight um the fact that i would be saying i would love to see sidewalks here would probably shock him pretty good because he and i go back and forth on the sidewalk thing pretty often um My biggest thought is two things right there. No sidewalks, no street lighting at all. And then we're going to push into night hours. And so I have neither, either or.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Street lights all the way up Marketplace? Is that a correct statement?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“From our parking lot to the venue area, probably about 250 feet. Yeah, I wanted to go see it at night. My apologies, I wasn't able to get by there and just drive down Marketplace. I don't know that I've ever been down Marketplace at night personally. Maybe when Roy Vaden was open there across the street years ago, but it's slept many nights since then. So there's kind of my double-edged sword to that. I'm not going to have any sidewalks. I'm not going to have any true streetlights, quote-unquote, out there. And then I'm going to put children and then make the responsibility most likely. I…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“And you, when we allowed the universal across the street with your 40 spots, I guess that is the old Rory Vaden building, right?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Perfect. Is that a striped crosswalk that you guys have right there? Yes, it is. Okay. And you're saying that your lights are right there on the crosswalk?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Are you going to do anything such as portable signs denoting where your parking is going to be or whatnot? No. for directional purposes signs that we can take out for directional purposes and for shuttle pickup and uh and the parking yes kind of looking at it almost like uh um thinking of it like a church you know yeah churches come and they go and and then you know the uh many of our larger churches control their parking their flow with uh that's exactly that's we actually have we actually have some uh older mature staff that would”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I don't know that I want to necessarily make it a requirement, but I certainly would appreciate to make sure that there's adequate lighting, especially if you push all the way up to your Caribbean vibes building. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I mean, these are five different buildings, so I'm going to go buy my one building, and we're going to put this all in one roof, and I'm going to get all my parking in one place because my gymnastics is good, but this new series of events that you're doing is good, so should you move? Hence the reason for this question back for staff. If we grant this in universal moves, does this go away? It stays with it? it goes away if they move out okay okay perfect that's what i wanted to make sure is that it wasn't something opened where um it opens another can of worms for a future use or something…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay. So at least this section would be here. From your standpoint, if we put any – I'm just thinking of a really successful event as I make this comment right here in overflow parking. Okay. Our ordinance does not allow street parking for a road section like this. Would it be inappropriate or appropriate to put signs out there just kind of denoting no on-street parking? And I guess would that be acceptable to the city to even have them install something like that? We'd be happy to do that. I got to make sure that they would be like, yeah, I understand. I don't want to overstep my bounds over…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Okay. I guess that would probably be a condition that I would want added then at least a little bit of something to say. And you can work with staff on location and quantity out there. I don't envision two or three, maybe four if it even gets to that point. just something so it doesn't i heard that you have an agreement with the hoa for the town homes right there which i think is fantastic but at the same time you know if you were living in the town homes definitely don't want to make sure it's a hindrance to their ability to come and go uh absolutely so something along those lines there…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Let me ask one more. I'll bring it to yours before I overstep my bounds here. And crazy enough, I'm going to go back to the sidewalk again. It's something that I'm kind of stuck or dwelling on and I don't know that I can do this. I need to ask staff this question as well. if we put a trigger on this at two years or three years that it's a successful venture it works out great for you but if it's still ongoing at two years down the road three years down the road what be your willingness to install sidewalk along marketplace yeah if if we're successful i don't have an issue with that at all i…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I appreciate the financial commitment to start something like that, and that's the reason why I say it. Years down the road, kind of a trigger out there, and hopefully you can get to the success or get to that point. So to bring that back to staff, I guess since this is kind of an open, there's nothing really to it, I'm kind of looking at it almost like a PUD. per se out there, is it possible to add a three-year trigger to say if the use is continuing that three years to today's date, that a sidewalk must be installed from A to B within one year of that time? I will actually have to refer to…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I'm thinking through that as you're talking, and I would have to agree with you. I don't know that there's anything that we could put there, but a new site plan or redevelopment would trigger that necessity, and at that point we could make a requirement of the sidewalks to be a condition upon approval at that point.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I'll leave that one alone then. Perfect. Further questions, comments? Commissioner Franklin?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“How long have you all been there at Universal now? A long time.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Let me go ahead and open it up to citizen comments. Anyone wishing to make a comment about this item on the agenda is welcome. I encourage you to do so. Please come to the microphone and name and address for the record. See no citizen comments at this time. I guess we need to note a number of parking places. Is that a correct statement? And would this be, this is going to be a vote, not any kind of a recommendation, correct?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“So basically that means that Hickory Station Lane is a private drive. Correct. So possibly making that 10 foot off right away, no one will comment to that point in time. You're okay with ingress, egress out of this?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Does anybody know, I'll just pull it up on my phone real quick so I can see a quick aerial of it. there's a gravel right there that's on it currently. And then there's a tree line to the west of the property down between it and the adjacent residential property. Does the tree line that I'm seeing, and I may need representation to answer this question for me, represent the MBSL on the back, the 20 foot right there?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Please come to the microphone and name and address for the record. Very well. Give me one second. I need a question or answer from staff. I'll come right back to you. John?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“OK. All right. Perfect. So I'm looking at the aerial picture right now through Google Maps of the lot as it is right now, and it's got kind of a gravel on it currently. But then there's a tree line on the proposed plan would be the rear of this building. is that tree line representative is that your property or is that tree line there um the neighbor's property uh i'm not exactly sure i think it's probably the neighbor's property the neighbor's property good i'm looking to make sure that was preserved that's part of the reason why i'm asking that question so that makes me feel even better uh…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026