Remarks by Martin Pyne
165 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 7
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“Yeah, no, this made complete sense to me. It just didn't, I think, explicitly say anywhere That that would reduce units. I just wanted to get that into the record. The. There's there's to be clear, I'm not arguing this in any way, shape or form. I think it's very straightforward. The other question I had, you mentioned improve native species. Could you elaborate on this? Because I'm looking at L dash 2 and I'm looking at your tree palette and I am not seeing the native species.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Okay. I'm just saying, I just, you know, I'm always here asking for more native species. I just, when I heard that, I just, I didn't see it in what we got. So I just... So I'm not going to try to hold up the project.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“I didn't notice that there were eight deodorant cedars on the list of trees to be removed. Yeah. But yes, that's all I had. Thank you.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“It not being ordered, it not being ordered to third, consider my hand as to request to speak at the appropriate time.”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. I agree with what my fellow commissioners have said. I do appreciate the applicant's willingness to work with the city and not just go my way or the highway like we have seen other developers do. I do think it's a good project. I think it's I think will be an improvement to the neighborhood. We're not very far away from the site of this project of this project. I will actually flag the staff that we did not get an attachment that is the noticing radius for this project, which is something we usually get. which is because, and I think it's funny because I was going to pull it…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Uh. Would that cause any potential. Issues with noticing or anything if we don't have a fixed start time for the regular session. don't know the exact details i just know they want to start at six so it they will notice it to start at six i i mean i just know that when we notice things it typically says that like i also will say that i think there are a lot of times when people are showing up for the study session in there and then there are times when people are showing up for the public hearing and i think it would be a disservice to the public to say that we don't to not to give a…”
Planning Commission · Aug 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, staff, for the presentation. These questions are mostly for the benefit of members of the public. I'm pretty sure I know the answers to them. So this already went through the Heritage Preservation Commission, and am I correct in noting that uh they made the findings relating to the that this doesn't have a negative impact on the historic nature of the property our decision tonight is focused on the is is focused on the the findings for the special development permit the tentative map and conditions of approval that is correct Thank you. And also since we had the…”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Thank you. So just as a note to members of the public, We're making the decision. We have to make a decision tonight. There's no scenario where we could have a continuance where we ask the developer to come back and do something else. We can't continue this item passed tonight. We actually have to make a call tonight. So just for benefit of members of the public, this is the last hearing on this item. Thank you.”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Point of order, I cannot believe that remarks made from the audience under the microphone are audible to members of the public listening remotely.”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Jared. Question for staff. The staff report says the original hearing date was noticed by sending 1863 notices to surrounding property owners and residents adjacent to the subject site. Is there any way we can basically confirm that this happened?”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. A couple questions. First of all, the solar study, this is the one that is in our packet as a G-Golf 008 as the solar shading analysis reference. Just for everybody's reference.”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“I just want to be clear for everybody in the room that this is what we've, at least I know that's what I've been looking at. I just want to be clear because I know there was some question about whether there was solar shading analysis. So I just wanted to call everyone's attention to that. Second, there was a comment from a member of the public regarding concerns about the current upkeep of the property. Kurt, do you have any comment on that?”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Yeah, sorry to pop my hand up again, but I'm looking at the, I'm now looking even closer at the date stamps on these and I see that the solar study on G008 is also December 23rd, 2025. So, am I correct in saying that the solar impact would actually likely be be less than what we see on the g008 solar study given the height reduction that's correct there's almost no impact at all like it would never even reach out it wouldn't even reach yeah it's thank you i would say that to staff i it would be helpful in the future to make sure that when our plan sets do reflect things like height revisions…”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“I was going to ask this to the chair. I was actually planning on asking the exact same question that Commissioner Davis, that Vice Chair Davis asked.”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026
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“Yeah, on this project, I'm able to make the required CEQA exemption finding. I'm able to make the findings for the special development permanent hand of map with the recommended findings and attachment through an recommended conditions for approval and attachment for. I live in a fairly small apartment that when I moved in was, had a one-story building in the neighboring lot and i think like a giant like backyard or something i know and some years ago it was redeveloped into a set of three-story townhouses so i am sympathetic to the i am honestly sympathetic to the privacy concerns to the…”
Planning Commission · Jul 27, 2026