Remarks by Michael Serrone
237 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 10
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“And I have another card from Marlise Jimenez.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right. I have no other speaker cards in the room. Are there any remote participants?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right. Uh, so now, um, uh, now the, uh, let's see the, uh, applicant, uh, can we'll speak for five minutes. We'll have the opportunity to speak for five minutes, followed by the appellant speaking for five minutes.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Now the appellant. You have five minutes for any additional comments.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right, so I will now close the public hearing and ask for discussion or motion from my colleagues. Commissioner Shukla.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Let me just ask a question of staff, which I tried to ask earlier, but I think what I heard was that an application for a hairdresser at that location would never have been approved. Is that correct? Because it's too intensive.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Because it is a less intensive use, which is why I was asking earlier, why are we being so specific about that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“so i mean i think what you're what i'm hearing is that even if this if the applicant you know leaves and goes someplace else and that's that's empty that the city would still not approve an mpp for a hairdresser in that location again if someone else wanted to do a hair salon let's just say if the applicant vacated and um”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“You're saying a hair salon could use that?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“so long as there hasn't been a one-year lapse of use so that the use can continue but they wouldn't have have have the requirements for the limited use you know they by by appointment and uh”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“OK. All right. Thank you. OK. Well, I'm not seeing any other hands. I'll just also comment that, to me, the competition aspect of this is, as has been repeatedly said, there are many uh hairdressers all over the city and uh in my experience and yes i have had my hair cut that uh i've never been to a place where there was just one person cutting hair you know it's always a lot of different people there and and uh and and they operate just fine so um uh but the uh you know so the to me the more plausible point is the um applicant uh moving and presents prevented the appellant from expanding in…”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“okay we moving on to our next item 26-0639 the this proposed project is a related applications on a 4.44 acre site special development permit to demolish the existing 96 410 square foot one-story industrial building and construct 137 townhome style condominiums within 13 three-story buildings and there's a vesting tentative parcel map to create 137 condominium mutants and subdivide into four lots is there a staff presentation”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation. And I'll now ask for questions from my colleagues. Commissioner Pine.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. I've got a couple of questions at the study session. I was concerned about the the BMR units that were they were reduced in size and and not necessarily distributed. and uh i asked questions about uh you know can you get a a density bonus based on the bmr units and then get a cons and get a concession and then use the concession to reduce the number of bmr units which seemed like kind of a uh you know an end run around the intent of the law but what they have done here to address that is they increase the number of bmr units Although they are smaller and, interestingly enough, the…”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, well, I won't. I won't argue with that. Larry Paxton, reasoning, in fact, the smaller units are presumably more affordable. Larry Paxton, By design, in addition to being subsidized so. Larry Paxton, I think that's. Larry Paxton, A good thing, hopefully hdd won't complain and. And maybe this was asked, but the bike lane along. Well, both two sides. What are these connect to the tracks there and. What are they connect to.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Commissioner Segura's comments about the noise or vibration from the train. I worked for a number of years in a building that was off of Kiefer along the tracks. And when people, we were used to it, but when people would visit, they would frequently think we were having an earthquake when the train came by. So it is significant. So I appreciate that comment. Commissioner Vigoni.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“If there is an applicant presentation, the applicant gets 10 minutes provided at the beginning of the public hearing to address the planning commission, along with five minutes at the end of the public hearing. Is there an applicant presentation? Yes. Okay.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Go ahead. Thank you. After that, we will, members of the public can submit a speaker card or raise their digital hand or dial”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. Seeing no other commissioner hands, members of the public now have an opportunity to provide comments on this item. Please submit a speaker card for people in the room. Submit a speaker card to the recording officer. For people, remote speakers, raise your digital hand or dial star nine on a telephone to indicate you wish to speak. Recording officer, do we have any Speaker cards in the room.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. And do we have any remote speakers?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. Okay. Hang hard, please. um chair did you have language to read before i call on the speaker well remote speakers are warned to limit their comments to the agenda item being considered speakers who are ruled out of order will not be given another chance to speak on this item thank you hangar you have the floor to speak now okay”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right. So I will close the public hearing. Now the applicant has the opportunity, has five more minutes if you want to use it for any questions or”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Vice Chair Davis? I'll second the motion. All right. Commissioner Pine, to your motion.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“and uh i will also be supporting the uh motion this uh uh project is significantly improved from the uh last time we saw it at the study session and uh as everybody's pointed out it's a a great improvement over what's there what is there now and uh you know a well-designed project i look forward to seeing it built like everybody else i wish You know, we could get more density, but we basically, the incentives in place encourage these townhome projects, which we see over and over. So this will certainly be a great project, and I'm happy to support it. uh seeing no other hands uh recording…”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“John Potter, and planning officer, do you have any agenda items or comments.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026