Remarks by Preston George
7 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I want to say thank you. I know that when folks come to the Planning Commission, I've seen a couple times some people blink a couple times and say, well, he's pretty young to be up here. So it's nice to be able to give that perspective and A couple of things I want to say, our staff at the city is some of the hardest working staff and I put them up against any other planning department out there. This city works hard on behalf of its citizens. The staff works tirelessly, your BOC works tirelessly, this planning commission works tirelessly. I know out there in the city we hear talk about…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Because I'm thinking and I'm hoping that this happens. Let's say you have a 400 person event. It's a concert. Well, everybody's gone to a concert. And at the end, there's that mass exodus, if you will. You've got 400 people trying to leave at once. Are you going to make 400 people try to wait on a shuttle or a bus or something? I can just envision a herd of people just walking across.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“We ran into one before that was a completely different look altogether, but they had the same square footage and units and everything.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I said this a couple months ago, whenever that monolithic, as you put it so eloquently, plan. I mean, they've got the playbook. They know what to do. So between now and this body fixing it, they're going to use that same playbook as long as they can because they can bait and switch everybody, get everybody on board, get the BOC on board, and then they can pull out and save some money and we'll do it. It's a playbook, and they're going to keep running it until we stop it. I agree with the urgency. I won't be here for that urgency, but I agree that you've got to close that loop because they're…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“Well, and to be fair, I mean, nothing against staff, because staff, at the end of the day, has got to do their job. But it was a rock and a hard place, because they're like, oh, you have to approve it. There's nothing you can do. And I was like, well, the heck there is. I still voted against it because I'm on a more of a spirited vote of what I lay my head down. And I know that my votes are what I thought was best. But, yeah, I mean, they've got the playbook. I mean, if anybody that we see the same people over and over here every single month. I mean, if I'm sitting in the audience and I'm a…”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026
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“I just think the more VOC bite in, you can get on the front end, it'll help at the end. Because that's where, if it's going to stall out, it's going to stall out at the VOC.”
Planning Commission · Jul 16, 2026