Remarks by Megan Patton
54 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
“I have one last one. Sorry, I think this one's for you, Bynum. I know we've toyed with this process change where once the public hearing is set, changes can continue to be made during the time until the public hearing is open. Have we done that yet? We have not done that yet. We have not done that yet. Okay. So if you want to change before the public hearing... Don't set it. Okay. Correct. Got it. Okay. And I'll just call out into the ether the applicant for the Capitol Boulevard case. I hope they'll reach out to me. But happy to proceed with the public hearings as suggested by staff. So…”
“Yeah, I was just, in terms of next steps, wanted to make sure it was totally clear, because I think many of our residents were expecting that September 15th was their next engagement on this topic. So I just want to make sure we're saying clearly, we're not hearing this topic on the September 15th, and we invite you to join us on October 12th.”
“Sure, yeah. I think we hear from residents a lot that they would like to live close to something they can walk to. I hear that even in my own neighborhood, so I do think there are a lot of things people would like to live close to. I do think CX leaves a lot of space, and I appreciate that the Constraints that have been put on since the time of the last public hearing based on resident feedback You know our job here is to decide if something's reasonable and in the public interest I think the constraints placed on the commercial uses including the hours of operation and the buffers bring it…”
“Too fast, I didn't have my notes ready. Okay. Sorry, y'all, I don't know what to do when we haven't spent five hours meeting. Sorry, I'm sorry. Panicking. I got, okay, I got him. Good stuff we did through the consent agenda today. We added more ADA parking spaces downtown, which we often hear about. So that is great news for our disabled parkers. And we also approved a bunch of master service agreements for invasive species removal that is... a team sport between parks and other departments that will allow us to tackle invasive species removal around the city at a greater rate. And we know…”