Remarks by Mary Lydecker
12 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 1:26:37
“Thank you, and thank you to all my colleagues for such good, smart questions and discussion leading up to this. my feeling is maybe what folks are getting at it's it's the owner occupied in particular relative to the cap um that feels like that one doesn't seem necessary to me this is when someone is sharing a space in your home um owner jason is a little bit different and then autonomous i think that does start to stretch into we're in a an environment where housing is very tight And so my understanding or my guess is obviously the reason to do this is to, to, um, discourage uh um um home…”
Planning Commission · Aug 4, 2026
- Play at 1:30:37
“Unless I missed something and you're saying it is written somewhere else. If this is kind of the first time it's codified in some way, it's just a point of thinking about what is it. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 4, 2026
- Play at 1:20:46
“Thank you. So one more point of clarification that came up in comments and just to give the applicant an opportunity to share was the shadow study. It looked like it was in the appendix, the graphic appendix. So if you might talk to that a bit. And then my second question was, if you could maybe speak a bit of how the engagement process from January informed the design that we're seeing today.”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:11:55
“Thank you. And I'll start out by maybe echoing Diego and appreciating seeing a multifamily housing project come along. We've done a lot of reviews lately and haven't had a lot of special permit reviews like this. So that's exciting to see. I appreciate the team working and the developer working with a very irregular lot. and making it work. You know, it's very unusual, the kind of Pac-Man aspect. I do have some concerns about the way it resolves, mostly on the northeast edge. The view number two, I think, is the most telling. It's the one where the existing buildings on the on the road create…”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:28:17
“Right. So I'm glad that Dan brought it up and it's come up, the roof deck. So I think one question I had is I'm also very underwhelmed right now by that space. It doesn't seem very welcoming or it's hard to figure out how it's... serving the users and I was wondering and this has to do with say shade we've had so many hot days and you know you know how much shade would be important so the trellis if that's a shade structure doesn't seem large enough I think the hammerhead aspect seems challenging to understand what that would feel like and certainly we didn't see any drawings that really show…”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:40:38
“Well, I would have said that at least the rooftop needs should come back, right? Like that should be a condition no matter what. But I think because so much of today was really focused as it should on the traffic and parking, which is such a neighborhood concern. there were enough unresolved. And Ashley pointed out a great one, which is those windows. I would love to see, you know, where I was talking about that building, the gaps between the existing building and the new one that are hard, some views into that. The 3D model you did was great. So we might spend a little bit more time. I just…”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 57:49
“Thank you. So my question is staying a bit on the Linehan and the private way. On the south side of the building where everyone's talking about the roughly 25 foot, is there a reason you couldn't plant within the property line area, pull out the planter area? I'm just wondering if there was any reason it has to be paved versus soft scape.”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 58:27
“I guess i'm asking there's the 10 foot that's already functioning for the driveway access and that turns into 10 foot on the private way, especially hearing from a butters relative to visibility, it looks like you could get say at least a 10 foot say planter and still have a 15 foot wide. you know, paved that's broader than what it is today and get trees into that zone potentially. So I was just wondering, is there a logistical reason why that couldn't be planted?”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 59:34
“I think maybe I'm not being understood. It's 25 feet wide.”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 59:45
“Yes, exactly. A two-way. I think you've answered the question.”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 1:10:15
“thank you um so I think relative to everyone else here I feel like the reasons this has come back have been well articulated and it's clearly a rezoning issue so I have no problems with the building uh adding the extra stories it's not to my taste exactly but I I truly just don't think it's an appropriate forum to have those conversations that time has passed Now, I think echoing the staff memo, the public realm and the landscape is not complete. And so my comments relative to say the drive are really relative to pieces that have not been designed. And I say that because even if it has gotten…”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 1:51:35
“Mary. Thank you. So the first comment I think is everyone says thank you for putting together such a comprehensive report and outlining it so clearly. And it does seem very positive. I felt like that, you know, unambiguous, which, you know, was very nice to see. I was especially happy to see that the distribution you know, it's hitting lots of different neighborhoods. It doesn't feel like it's just one place. And that is so many family units and maybe picking up what Mary Flynn was just describing is seeing so many under construction. Cause I always wonder that too. It's, you know, well, has…”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026