Remarks by Luke Winchester
361 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 15
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“Yes. Okay. On the west side of that lot. Okay, gotcha. Do we have representation that would like to speak to this? Well, let me open it up for citizen comments, and please come on up, name and address for the record.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“The way I see it is that anybody that's going to buy that for commercial value and a commercial price, they ain't going to use that house. They're coming to the highest traffic point, and the highest traffic point is South Green Hill. They will not go to Tanglewood. That's just not what commercial businesses do. They need to be seen. They're coming to South Green Hill, and that's where they're coming for this body, and they'll request an access point right there. We have no restrictions from the ability to deny that. We might get into a TDOT rule as far as spacing off of a thoroughfare or…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“We'd have to look at access points, buffers, things like that that make sense should it ever come forth like that. But I saw it as a corner. My father's best friend used to own that corner piece until he passed. And I think that his heirs ended up selling them to whoever that owner is over there now. But I used to fuss at him about his railroad ties up there at the front all the time. He wouldn't spend any money on fixing those railroad ties, and fortunately, eventually they collapsed. They had to be corrected out there. And my father actually had his personal business in that strip center…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“yeah out that way so we figured that you know one more could at least make that right turn to make it all work maybe limiting it to that or something i don't know the way he's developed his site he can't really have any act or doesn't really have any parking lot access to it and have to come before us to improve that and get get that as a full access point and i would think that we wouldn't be too excited about that ever happened.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“it would make it a lot more favorable okay yeah and i see where you're coming from too you know the doctor's office wanted to get off the beaten path and and do it as something like that and repurpose the house i'd say that's not a possibility but you know could we limit it to that just doctor offices instead of no commercial thoroughfare is uh wide open yeah okay just making sure outside of commercial interstate it's probably our”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I don't think that I'd be excited about it going commercial at all.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“And that's just personal. You're welcome to. I guess you would have to, if you wanted to change your request, I think that you'd have to make my application to change your request, or could he change it at this meeting? Yeah. So it's up to you. You could also defer if you wanted to do that and have further discussion and make a decision whether or not you wanted to press forward. So that's also an option that would be on your table as well.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Let me revisit that. Would you like for us to take action on that, or would you like to defer your requests before this body tonight, or what would be your desire?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“That would certainly allow you time in order to do something like that.”
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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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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“Please, please, please. You can go ahead and give me name and address for the record.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“And if that flood study comes back showing anything different, then it would kick it out of substantial compliance, requiring it to come back here again?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“You can tell we're not excited about it. I think it's a bad development, a bad place. Further questions, comments? very well thank you uh this time we'll call for citizen comments this is wish to make comment welcome encourage to do so on the microphone name and address for the record see no citizen comments this time i'm looking for a motion in regards this item on the agenda Make a motion to approve with staff comments. No, it's not a recommendation. It's a vote. FMDP. It's a motion to approve with subject to staff comments. There's a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Oh, great. Good news. Well, you left us with good news, and so we hope that you have a wonderful vacation.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. Bye-bye. All right. I'll go ahead and open up on that one right there. As I said, even though I didn't put that there, that right there is a reason, as Commissioner Franklin stated, that we're sitting up there loaded with mixed use on something that is going to be developed sooner rather than later everybody because of the project that was just submitted got a full copy of that land use plan as we currently have it if you haven't seen it before i've personally now set on three or four land use plan studies or whatnot for the city in my time here i will tell you that the intention…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“That's a good point. So, Paul, discussion?”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“When was the last time the land use plan was done? I think it was with Lisa Keelan.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Yeah, it was Lisa Keelan, wasn't it? yeah i think uh for those lisa keelum was our uh city planner at that point in time is this a is this a land use plan problem or is it a zoning on this problem i think that's the first order discussion that's a good point because i can as i said i sat on that committee and and what we're seeing now i wouldn't number one i wouldn't imagine i'd still be here that's for sure um We chose, and it's just such a different environment, because we chose mixed use so that we could get a feel to how the city wanted to be developed. And we felt that mixed use was most…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“We kind of wanted to see how it was going to develop because Providence was coming on line. Paddocks was in the works kind of at that time. So we had those, but we... still felt these out boundaries. You know, Golden Bear is just boom now. But Golden Bear wasn't around. There was no thought of the Central Pike. And, Lord, you couldn't imagine the neighborhood on Bender's Ferry. I mean, honestly, that would be, you know, go all the way to Edmond Road, whatever, you know, put mixed use on it. Well, see what but somebody throws something against the wall and see if it sticks and that was kind of…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I'll say this too. So just looking at these spaces right here and saying, all right, guys, here's your color-coded options at the bottom. If we open that door, what color code of that is right? And so the land use plan needs a study, but the mixed use needs a fix. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“It doesn't help, as we saw tonight, it doesn't help anything that's already been previously approved. But it sets a standard in the grounds and ultimately up to our elected officials to either choose or accept a recommendation when it comes down to it.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I'd like to, y'all may be guarded towards this, but what would staff's opinion be towards this? And you can say we have no opinion. I'm fine with that too.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Well, I'll say too and piggyback that I know that land use plan studies the last time that we did one do require funding, do require money. And I'm just going to take a random guess that there is no money in our current budget for land use plan. You know, with CTAS, MTAS, we engaged them and their assistance and knowledge, and they were a huge part in providing us detailed information, and it did take the better part of a year to do that. i'm personally leaning towards trying to craft a uh a recommendation back to our board of commissioners and and take it out but how how do we craft that and…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“How do we make it actionable? I personally, because we've got to be mindful of sunshine laws, as Sam that vacated the phone right there should say, you've got to be careful about that. So I would probably recommend... three members of planning commission, um, and potentially three from the public, uh, as well, uh, for further input, um, kind of a deal. It would be, you know, we'd have to agree. We go to the chamber and ask for somebody or just finish odd. Yeah. So, uh, maybe three members for planning commission to enter the general public. a boc member on there that way you already got a leg…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026