Remarks by Lynn Cherry
134 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“Okay. Yes. But I think the policy as it stands now with the addition of those keywords is good.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Right. Sure. OK. We've got two questions down. Yes. All right. So question 21. policy 1.8.1. When I read this, you know, my mind just went to data centers when it says the city shall provide land use needed for public utilities. So my radar went, how, if we're going to shall provide public utilities, does that mean data centers no it's public utilities water sewer no for data centers water water for a data center utilities for a data center I was just concerned that we're opening ourselves up by the retooling of the sentence that somebody could come in and imply that, oh, well, I know we're…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“So the nuisance could be, our safety net. Correct. The nuisance part is... We don't want to provide necessarily the utilities that a data center needs. So we're going to deem it as a nuisance.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. All right. Okay, keeping on page 21, objective 1.9, my bigger question is where's the action in this objective? I see conservation, I think of, maybe of historic resources within the city.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay, okay, thank you. Conserve historic resources within the city? Is that actionable enough?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“OK. And that's a part of our statute, too. Good. Thank you. So within that, then going down now to the policy, we've got kind of my, And this is where I think historic resources, historic building, archaeological is a patchwork within different elements. And here's one example of that. So in this section, we're talking about historic resources. So if we'll just flag that. So when we get to other elements that talk about historic resources, we can come back to this one. Because what I'm seeing here is the city shall seek grants, yada yada. Good and or develop a master plan, and so one of my…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. So which department would this objective and policies fall within in the city? So who's going to be in charge of conserving our historic resources?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“And that may be why it's our historic buildings, historic resources, archaeological sites, you know, that spattered of those kinds of words within the different elements. And, you know, is, so I guess I kind of ask the question is future land use element the best place for this objective?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Understood that to be true. So, but I think the historic element of our city, if we could, when we get done with this, if we could look at it and say, okay, we've got it in future land use, we got it in record. We got it into recreation. We got it in X element. Have we thought about all the all. everything we need to say about our historic places. What I'm seeing is it's more like if you were gonna make a shirt, I see one sleeve is over here, another sleeve is over here, and the front part of the shirt is here, but there's no buttons. There's nothing that ties it together, and there's nothing…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Chairman, I have a disclosure. I went to see all properties that we were viewing today. OK, thank you.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“Not for staff, but I do have one for the property owner.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. When I went by the property, I noticed that there was a for sale sign on the property, so... Why are you selling the property and wanting this variance?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“Chairman, I have a motion. There's no other questions?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“You asked. Okay. Yeah, you asked. Yeah, you asked.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“So do we have any history in terms of what the city was originally going to do and what they may or may not be doing now with this area that causes them to need this?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“So does the city have any future land use anticipation for Ferry Avenue or this area that would cause consternation of approving this? No.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“for your to come in and out of you put the road, your entrance road to your development on Elizabeth is what you're that's what initially looking at it.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“That was to the property we were just discussing. So that they knew. Yeah.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“Motion to approve contingency the easements that the city would be needing.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“And chairman, I'm, I apologize. I'm forgetting when I publicly noticed I had visited all the properties. I forgot to mention that I called staff about this. I had some questions and I apologize for not saying, um, it earlier, but just, just mentioning it now that came to my mind. So I apologize again for not announcing it sooner, but I did speak to staff about this project.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“Are there any questions or jabs for the applicant?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“I just have more of a process question. So under the assumption that this is approved, you have 12 months to develop the proposed whatever it is that you're going to do related to land use. But then within that 12 months, will you have things like public comments come before the planning commission again? Will it be public hearings of the city? Just kind of. Walk me through, if you will, what's the next steps after today?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“um and i think it would be good for the public to deliberate amongst itself and us as the planning board and city council members to hear those you know live hear hear those comments as we deliberate right and you uh staff to to hear what the public says about it sure pro or con absolutely yep So I'd encourage that because I know we've got a 12-month marching. That was part of my question. We've got 12 months.”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“So what do we do month 9? What do we do in month 10 so that we meet that month 12 deadline?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026
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“So how are you defining water body? Would a wetland be a water body? No. Would a stream or a creek?”
Planning Board · Sep 14, 2026