Remarks by Mike Riley
42 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“is not a part of it. They were going to relocate, but you're telling us now that that is not going to occur, that the current homeowner does not want to be displaced, wants to keep his tract of land there. And so now you're going to build whatever remaining part. Is that correct?”
Planning Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I actually have a couple of questions. Well, we can maybe we get to this extension thing a little bit later. But Michelle, if you go back to the present, sorry, I'm bouncing between a couple of different parts of my screen here. If you go back to the presentation slide labeled housing, it's approximately slide 16 that shows the The 230 units, the less than or equal to, I guess, and you may have said this, and I may have been bouncing between a couple of different documents here. I'm not really sure how I understand how. Less than or equal to is consistent with the resolution. Resolution…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“But it implies they could do less. And my understanding is 230 is a minimum. So how can less than 230 be compliant?”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“We just want to make sure for the record, then the staff is telling us that actually what it says in the document we're asked to approve tonight is different than what's on the screen here. And that those are minimums. That's what we're passing tonight.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay. All right. So my other couple questions here. I think you've answered, I guess if you go back to the the defensible space language on that wildfire mitigation slide that Councilor Platt was just asking about. So creation of defensible space, I mean, I think to Councilor Platt's point, if we're not, I'm not sure when we're expecting submission of the master plan, but if that does come after the council has acted on the likelihood of the defensible space coming forward, and I know the staff is working on that now, If that has been adopted prior to submission of their master plan…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“They're not required to do that. They could do that if they choose to. That's the way this is written.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, so my question is, what is creation of defensible space mean? Do we have a way we can interpret that in the absence of an adopted defensible space code that actually applies to this specific development, depending on how the timeframes of all those things work out?”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“So maybe I'm being really dense here, but the way I read what is on the screen, it says that a wildfire mitigation plan prepared by Professional Forester is one of the options that they could choose to do, that they could choose landscaping and hardscaping and avoid the wildfire plan. So is this another thing where what's on the screen is not actually what's in the other documents? I guess you're confusing me. I'm sorry about that. That's the way this is written.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I don't read it as a requirement. I guess I don't know what other counselors think, but it seems a little confusing to me and a little like, if we don't have create defensible space stuff developed and have real criteria that, and then we're going to have arguments from between experts of what qualifies for it and just create problems for ourselves. So we haven't figured that out. It seems like maybe we should.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I have two questions. The first one is, can you just talk a little bit about the phasing? I mean, it sounds like you're close on the master plan, so maybe you have a little bit more of a sense of that than what's described here in the photos and sort of, you know, roughly when we're going to start to see the production of the affordable units. You know, in that first half and just and I think I'm trying to get it like the timing when when are we likely to see some of this stuff to start to happen at least once the master plans approved.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“And timeframe wise, I mean, do you imagine it's going to take a year roughly after approval of the master plan or shorter than that for some of the first construction to start?”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 2:27:40
“Okay. And so I think you answered that might be my second question. And that is about the master plan schedule. So you have to wait until the DLC D process has completed right in there. They've approved it. And we've gotten the county also their approval on the UGB extent expansion correct before you can submit that app master plan application.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“okay okay thank you thank you so much any other follow-up questions for staff before we get to public testimony okay all right and i think we have mayor keidler i do have one question for staff okay go ahead sorry um so the improvements on knot road um can you all kind of outline show us um can staff show us Joe DiNetto, M.D. : That kind of geographic scope of where those improvements are going to occur that are going to be triggered by this development as it moves forward.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“So there's nothing as far as we know from the information that we have to date and based on that transportation analysis memo, which I know is preliminary that triggers any improvements that are required at the China hat, not road intersection. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I mean, my question may be more for staff, but you guys can start with an answer. And that is when I look at the map here, it looks to me like Woodside Road is a pretty obvious way to connect to Knott Road and that I would expect a fair number of people when the development's built. to use woodside to connect to not road so i'm just i'm wondering why it was left out of the transportation improvement requirements um so yeah so woodside road will be improved to a local city street throughout our development i'm asking about a roundabout”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Sure. So I sent an email to included Eric and others and so maybe it can be displayed for a possible revision to the wildfire policy. I think it's 187. I guess my concern is that It's 11 dash 182. my concern is that. We could be in a situation where well, what I'd like to see is this development basically be required to. You know, do something if not similar to very close to a combination of our. I'm home hardening code as well as the likely defensible space code that's going to come on and they're not, I think they're not too distant future. That would be my expectation. And I'm a little…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, mine is similar to this, but it goes a little bit farther. So if you put mine up there, I think it reflects the changes that staff made about putting that reference to the wildfire mitigation plan up front that it has to be part of it. I think it makes the language a lot clearer. When I read it, but then I had some additional stuff.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“is there if somebody else has a comment that they can make well it'll take or do you have it yeah we have an email yeah Ashley's got it there okay so this is Mike's edit that incorporates what staff already included about a professional consultant and then can you explain what's different here no so then it says that um show um shows how urban wildfire risk will be mitigated through creation of defensible space beyond minimum required use of construction and material and building materials beyond the minimum required and it was that second phrase construction materials that's already in what…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I agree. I mean, I guess that's my my fundamental problem is I don't know what the definition of create defensible spaces. So if we're you know, we want to take some extra time and have our staff work on that and come back to us in a couple of weeks with some better language that gives us something that's a little bit more it's easier to objectively define. I guess my assumption is that there's a good chance that the master plan is not going to be it's going to be submitted before defensible space code is adopted so i'm just trying to get us somewhere where where we get some of the defensible…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I understand that. Get that part about defensible space, but I don't even know why we're proposing. I mean, that use of construction and building materials beyond the minimum requires they got to do more than than that code.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“what that means and the applicant has to live with that right so that's so that that that would be fine with me to put that language in here that is my goal is to get it something that is a little bit tighter on this development having to comply with that defensible space code that's likely to be adopted soon but we I don't want to um Brett KenCairn, Set up a situation where they're essentially able to get around that because the policy we're adopting here isn't quite clear about it right, and so I would say I don't think it doesn't need to be defensible space beyond the minimum required.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“I mean, I just wanted to make the point that my understanding is that the original resolution resolution 3144, whatever the right number is actually explicitly gave the council. The authority to extend that deadline. Um, and so that that's sort of the basis for how and why we're able to do that tonight.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I just wanted to echo in particular, I think really all the comments, but what Councilor Francosa and Perkins said, and that is, you know, I share a lot of concerns about our ability to keep up with the infrastructure needed, you know, from a day-to-day perspective, and especially when it comes to roads. I think that's the hardest one for us to pay for, and there's a lot of it That's a lot of the challenge is how and when do we pay for this stuff in the sequencing. But we're really going to take a close look at Knot Road and what other kinds of improvements we need to make. And look…”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 4:45:47
“I would support that. I guess my concern is just that we're going to be repeating a bunch of work and then changing some rules again in the not too distant future, assuming a council in sometime next quarter one or late early quarter two of next year adopts dark skies as an actual goal and gets onto the work plan. So it just concerns me a little bit that we're doing some things that are at cross purposes here. And we didn't have an opportunity to provide a little bit more direction on this. As a council, I support, I guess what council or Francis is proposing.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 4:46:36
“Right, it's just more of a mess. Trying to fix a mess by creating some mess.”
City Council · Sep 2, 2026