Remarks by Patrick Keane
68 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 1:21:14
“Yeah, a couple points. One, I just want to follow up on Council Member Fredericks here. I agree with him that the fines are this bad behavior, and I think that is a lot of the complaints I hear about it, but I will take it a step further. I think we should suspend licenses after things, and I think that's where you get into, you say, hitting the pocketbooks, but that's where people start saying, this doesn't pay anymore. They'll still rent. Not when they don't have a license. And so that was one thing. I still want to go back to this thing, and I don't mean to just be laboring it, but there…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:29:43
“Yeah, I would agree that I don't think we have the rental and the land constraints in place such that it really drives people towards ADUs yet. I've seen some interesting investments up in the Twin Cities, but they're more like improving, going out and making an apartment in the garage. And they really are pretty cool. But at the same time, they were probably, you know, the projects that I saw were like $280,000, $300,000 projects. projects. So I'm really glad to hear this thing with that one of the cost things was that idea of the separate lines running from the street for the ADU. I think…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:32:32
“And just to clarify, the 20K that the city's offering as an incentive, it doesn't matter if it's a duplex or not, they could use that money?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:32:44
“Okay, that's kind of what I was implying there, that if it's, I guess when I look at us and we say the thing that the builders did in Northwest is an ADU, it looks like an attached apartment to the unit. So if that's an ADU, then I would think the thing I'm thinking of is too. But if we need to change language in what that is, I would be interested in that as a policy change.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:02:58
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Yeah. And again, I feel, again, I don't know if this is just We're bad communicators, we being council members and everybody else, but it has become a zero-sum game that if you make it safer to bike downtown and make room for bikes to park downtown, you mean you're going to take capacity away from me. And that has been the discussion on mode shift. And even the BRT has... positive as I think the role is still, as far as how that's gonna operate, it still is this idea of like, if I were higher up at the clinic, I would get a park downtown, but I don't have the seniority, so I've gotta go here…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:26:11
“And I would say yes, but we have to be a little careful that when you're because the trails, this is this is good. These are good factual basis things to go on. But I'm not sure if you're assuming those trips on the trail are commutes versus. Whatever you know what the hundred of other kinds of reasons people can be out I thought when you said people were working from home more I thought you were gonna come to the thing that leads to more trips in the evening because people aren't doing their Things on the way to or from or at lunch when they have their automobile. They're going out at…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:38:17
“Yeah, again, on the MnDOT active transportation, I do like the counters, but I'm still looking for, when you start talking about action plans and roadmaps and implementation strategies, is there also sort of a... call it objective, maybe it's more subjective of our most dangerous points as opposed to our highest use points and trying to head off any of these sort of more dangerous things. When we're in that decision making point, I think having these kind of like here's how many pedestrians, riders, that, but I also would like to see some sort of judgment that says our highest risk areas are…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:48:33
“First, just again, geographic proximity. Who is going to do the benefits that if a project is one mile from where the water is that the neighboring properties won't be negatively impacted but the person will say I've done everything I needed to do? Is that your department will have to make sure that if somebody's buying credits from another location that they're not having a negative impact on any other property?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:49:25
“As far as the pricing, and when someone comes in and says, is this very objective, or is there some sort of expertise to say, the amount of treatment you want for this is a little more because of these other extenuating circumstances, or is it objective enough that there's not going to be, like someone's going to come in and say, it should only cost this, and we think it's up here. Is it very objective, or is it...”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:50:49
“Just last question. I think I understand the answers, but let me just ask it here anyways. What is our, as a municipality, what's our goal of taking on this complexity of having this other method? Is it just to allow more land to be developed, or why would we do this versus saying the system as it is is working fine? If that project doesn't make it, it doesn't make it.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:52:26
“Very good. Thank you for the explanation. I would be supportive. And thank you and the department for taking this on.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 13:54
“Just that there was a. Last a late change if anyone was watching that there is a change in the resolution for G1 on the agenda. It's not a change to the agenda right now, but I'll just point it out. Thank you council member.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:10:14
“I have a question for our attorney. We're in a quasi-judicial thing here and one of the Applicants said, you know, focus on facts and openness and I have a quandary that I have facts in front of me that were documented in reports. And then I have other experts who come in and say, those are incorrect. Is there a certain way that we're supposed to weigh these? Is there something with public safety outweighs taking of of land assets? Is that just our job to pick the expert we believe? Thank you, Council Member Keene.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:11:34
“perhaps can contradictory points in front of you follow up as is helpful to you thank you and then I wanted to ask not sure if it's community development but one of the resolution whereas is the report received concludes that the quarry would create a direct aviation hazard And we've been talking to those specific facts, or is that a finding of fact based on that report? Or is it based on other, uh, other, uh, professional judgment?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay, and let me ask Mr. read just in it is it the almost way it came up. How did we pick that group to do this assessment versus another group that would be more familiar with our airport zoning or our airport construction work on that runway or somebody that, yeah, how do we pick them as the experts?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. And last question. This is just on the, uh, when I get into this idea of this, if it did go towards approval versus denial, and then you end up with these conditions, can you talk about the. Administrative complexity and what the authority is to to, um. Uh, enforce those sort of conditions.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:33:50
“Yeah, again, when Council Member Palmer made this motion, he talked about this last minute report or being out of state. I've been following this a little closer. It sits out by the airport and other residential parts of Ward 1. This has dragged out a long time, and I think the staff did a good job of showing the things starting there. But this idea of like degrading that report over somebody's local, that's a finding of fact that I just can't do. And based on that, I'm not going to support this motion.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:39:36
“I'm just gonna reach out to Community Development and let's say this is the second meeting in October. What are you looking for? I'm not sure what the continuation is gonna do there. I think we're trying to work on these six conditions. Is that the idea? But I'd rather get something from staff or how you feel we'd move forward if this were the direction.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
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“But I guess what I'm looking for here is what's gonna happen in the four weeks. Is this a negotiation to say here are the conditions and the specifics and we have an agreement that we could do this? I mean, I'm not sure if I'm putting the onus on. Is that the onus is on the petitioner or is the onus on the airport?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:41:12
“Okay, so if you don't mind, I'm gonna portray out that there's gonna be a, it'll be on reports and recommendations, it'll say recommend to approve or deny, and then it'll say if approve, it's with this operational agreement, and that would be an agreed to thing, or maybe the thing comes back to us, it says we couldn't get to an operational agreement, and we recommend denial. Is that, am I thinking about it the right way before I vote, or is that, am I making this up?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:47:29
“Yeah, I just want to add to this. Again, I'm looking down this thing and I'm getting to the point I'm okay with the continuation because it's getting the right facts here. But I don't want to imply that I'm willing to accept like this, create a direct aviation hazard, like even if it's a one in a thousand, one in a million. That's not what I'm hoping to hear from this. But I'm also telling staff that, I mean, if this is a Degrade degradation to the airport. I want to make sure you tell us that and don't say, well, that's what they wanted. Because I am not comfortable on this trade off that…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 2:04:35
“If someone would like to make that motion, I'll make the motion, which we probably should have before we opened it, but authorizing the opening of the required public comment period regarding the 2027 annual action plan as required by the US Department of housing and urban development for the receipt of community development block grant funds. The public comment period will close November 2nd, 2026. Second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 2:23:11
“Council Member Keene. Yep, I'm looking, again, I've gone through the study sessions we've done on this. I think we've done this. like i've gone through it enough but it's interesting to me that a resolution the language is slightly different we're not talking about percentage difference we're really talking about the real number of tax levy and the real number of budget is there um is that a consistent way we do it or is this because i was looking for the preliminary tax levy increase of 5.59 and that's not part of the resolution council member i believe we've always made it the dollar amount…”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 2:24:03
“Very good again, I think the dollar amounts do for us. It is a cleaner way to communicate. I just, I just feel like we're changing the language to the public and I guess this is really setting our dollar our agreements with the county. So they can send out our statements.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026