Remarks by Matthew Popkin
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Good evening, Commissioners. Thanks for your thorough consideration, as always, of these proposals. I don't think I have too much for you all tonight. I'll note that some of the last night the Urban Renewal Authority approved additional tax increment finance development agreements for some of the urban renewal areas that this body has reviewed. So just connecting the dots between kind of the plan areas that you reviewed at a high level and then the implementation of that at more of a tax and current financing negotiation and development financing level. We approved an agreement for the Twin…”
Planning Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Council Rep Popkin. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commission, for the good comments here and the clarifying questions. I had one more that I don't believe was addressed. I was just curious with this back alley if there has been emergency vehicle access discussed, needed, and what kind of those parameters would be between fire, police, public safety in different ways.”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And then maybe a question for our city attorney and legal representative here. So there was a discussion about the use of the land, like the use of the property and the land going forward. And I know the applicant spoke to this already. Um, I just want to ask, there've been multiple public funding contributions to this. Am I correct on that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“And I think that's and maybe the applicant correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's city, county and federal that are contributing to this in some way or federal pass through that are contributing to this in some way, shape or form. Is that correct?”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Sure. And how long is the county agreement for, since I know we were messaging about that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you. And I believe one of the stipulations in that, and apologies, this I don't think was in the commission packet, but just given some of the questions and the land use relevance, I want to just ask these on the record. Okay. I believe Section 7D of that speaks to the use of funds and property specifically focused on the use of property solely in furtherance of the program that the agency is seeking to commit, right?”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Great. Do those other affiliates include for-profit leases or other types of sales?”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Great. Thank you very much. And again, apologies, Chair, that that was not in the packet, but I figured I'd add that into the record.”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to give you all an update in case you didn't stay up until 11.45 p.m. to watch our review of the appeal for the variance requests that came through and was appealed from PNC. Again, as a reminder, you can find this recording, I think this was last Tuesday at this point. In short, the council upheld PNC's decision on that six to one. Again, our decision on that was more in an appellate procedural function. And so our decision was supposed to be whether planning and zoning commission erred in its decision. So a six to one finding means you did not, or we did not…”
Planning Commission · Aug 19, 2026
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“Thank you, chair. I just wanted to piggyback off of what Jen was just sharing there as I was the person who made the comment of like, we're not going to disclose the developer for that. It wasn't because it had no relation to the first and main project. I can't put a finer point on that. It was entirely unrelated to it. And this is not the fault of anyone who made a public comment today. This is just purely related to how the article kind of told the story on this. That was a comment made to another commissioner who was asking about, this was a discussion about an entirely different parcel in…”
Planning Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Councilman Popkin. Thank you, Chair. And thank you, Commissioners, for the really thoughtful questions and getting into the weeds on this. I think you're doing the public a service in these conversations, as grueling as it might be to work through some of that. So I appreciate that. I just wanted to clarify, we're using terms like taxes, funding, and financing very loosely here. And maybe I can add a little bit more precision here in this conversation. So a tax increment financing agreement is really a financing agreement for a development project. That's obviously not what the commission is…”
Planning Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“I don't think I have too much to add here. Just wanted to thank everyone for engaging on the urban rental topics are complicated and we're going to be seeing more of them. So continue to get used to this and please don't hesitate to send staff or myself questions as you have them and we can get them whether it's in between meetings on the broader themes or topics or on specific packet items, of course, as you as you always do with staff. So just thank you. Thank you there. The next urban renewal meeting, in case you're curious, I believe it will be settled on the 18th. Yeah, it will be…”
Planning Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Who are the four others? It's county, school district, and at-large representative, and? Yeah. Yes. So it's a group of 11 there. You're always welcome to attend and just to listen in, especially since a lot of what gets discussed there will come to and through PNC at different times. So you're always welcome. We also have had discussions about adaptive reuse, about different types of housing, about TIF financing. I think we'll have a meeting probably in November where we're going to have a little bit of a feature on tax increment financing use cases in the past. So if that is of interest to…”
Planning Commission · Jul 22, 2026
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“Thank you. And then I just want to say thanks to staff, Katie and Jen in the back, Grant and Jeremy up front here. There are a lot of moving parts with the Urban Renewal Authority pieces and the agreements, especially on the timeline. So thanks for the extra work on that.”
Planning Commission · Jul 22, 2026