Remarks by Patrick Flynn
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Just to follow up on that my questions were very very similar, but there is a section a six talks about coordination with schools and I think that there is certainly a Financial strain that gets put on the district and so I'm wondering just in the description there It says the city will coordinate with bridgefield school district on annexation requests the school district can continue to meet its service standards What does coordinate mean in this context? Does it have to do with? the school district letting the city know where the district thinks the next school should be built or Pushing…”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Does the school district talk with the city? It's okay if you don't know this, but does the school district talk with the city about approximate locations of where they'd like to build a new school?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Well, I think that land might have been donated also so that the next one might not be done okay and then sort of back what was said earlier regarding large annexations and maybe a neighbor wouldn't want to annex in does the city have any strategy for how to, at some point, absorb those islands? For example, if there was like a donut hole type area, what is the city's strategy moving forward? Because it's not in here, right? I mean, obviously, there is something that happens, but there's not a written strategy here.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I'm circling back to some sort of policy language. I think we might talk about this a little bit more when we get to the public outreach section, but I think that I think that some sort of policy language might I'm uncomfortable maybe with the city having a, here's how we want to have someone annex in. I'm not sure how I feel about that quite yet. But I'm also hesitant of the city, the example of someone has a property and it'd be great to have a road through there or trails through there. It would really benefit the greater city. I'm hesitant to have that annexed be sort of city policy or…”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, or pressured from the city itself.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 37:34
“To do something, to sell or to allow for some development on their property. I'm not comfortable with the pressure coming from the city itself.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, that's kind of gangster style right there. Unincorporated areas should annex or commit to annexation or we'll break your legs.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I'll go real quick here. I just think too often the framing around trees and plants is how they relate to animals or development. And I'd like to see just a little more focus on, you know, sometimes a tree is good enough. We don't need to worry about if there's a fish that swims by. Sometimes the tree is a tree and we love it. So just, I think that framing of it, even the section that talks about Trees, just a little bit, it mentions two, I think, types of trees, but the section is called Fish and Wildlife Habitat. And that's what it focuses on. It's 300 words, and there's four of those words…”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay, PI3, communication, talks about how... involving the public, the city's gonna use publications, mailings, broadcast, I'm not even sure what that word means, print media, social media, et cetera. And then it says keep pace with involving technologies, non-traditional means, all that. This was all written before like Ridgefield Roundtable and that kind of a thing. But I kind of think we've run into problems in the past of trying to do it online. and not getting enough feedback. And so I think that boots on the ground are really important, not just sending folks a postcard saying…”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Chair Flynn. This is your free time. You can say anything you want right now. Commissioner Hornbeck, welcome. Good to have you here. And city staff, thank you for this evening, for prepping us, and school is back, which means if the city wants to do a fundraiser, there's a lot of people speeding on Hillhurst right now, and so we could put four or five officers out there and raise a million dollars a day, maybe. Could be more. I don't know. I don't know. It's nuts. But with school comes the Lady Spuds soccer team, and so there's two home games next week, Tuesday and Thursday, 7…”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Thank you for coming to the August Planning Commission meeting. Before we begin, please stand if you are able and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, everyone. Can we have the roll call, please?”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Before we go any further, I'd welcome a motion to excuse our missing commissioners.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Any discussion or objections? If not, motion is approved, thank you. Any late changes to the agenda?”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Very good. In that case, we will move forward with the public comment period. This is the first public comment period of the evening. Anyone requesting to speak to the commission regarding any and all items not subject to a specific public hearing, please come forward at this time. Please state your name and limit your comments to three minutes.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Sir, I'm sorry, could you please state your name?”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 24:18
“Thank you. I see that we have, oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, sir.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 42:54
“To the folks online, I promise we will get to you.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, well, if there is anyone else in person, let's take a break real quick and turn to our folks online. If I could ask just everyone here in person to please keep the whispers to zero. It is sometimes a little bit hard to hear online, so thank you for being considerate to our fellow citizens.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Sarah. Just a reminder to anyone online, if you do want to speak, please use the raise hand feature. And if there is anyone else in person who'd like to speak, I welcome you to come forward at this time. State your name and let me hear your comments in three minutes.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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“Just want to remind everyone that we will have a public comment period later as well. And you are allowed to speak at the second one if you have already been to the podium. So do with that what you will. If there is anyone else who'd like to speak at this point, now would be the time. And if not, we'll close the public comment period I turn to my fellow commissioners now to ask if they have had a chance to review last month's minutes, if they have any questions or comments or corrections. If not, I'd welcome a motion to approve the minutes as presented.”
Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026
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Planning Commission · Aug 5, 2026