Remarks by Rachel Freeman
284 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 12
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“Just wondering for this, we're looking at option three, the secure path from the judge, from the chamber to the courts. Is that a requirement of?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, can I ask? OK, so you're saying if you say about 84%, is that by acreage or by population? That's by acreage. OK. And I believe red's commercial. I think I know that one off the top of my head. What is pink and purple?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can I say something? So something that's important to me, and I think a lot of residents, is water. And I know you listed the different elements, and I think water's integrated in there. And I know at the state level, there's an adjudication process going on where they're seeing how much water do you actually use, and do you need, and can you return some of that? Because what has been found is that the water rights don't always match up with the physical water that we have and I think that we've this has been discussed at state levels that also like our level and to me that's important to try…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. I know one of the main challenges is getting water up to the bench area, kind of the traverse area. Water flows with gravity, so everything has to be pumped up and then be able to flow down. And I found out that we're one of the only cities with our fire hydrants on pressurized irrigation. Which, yeah, just changes things a lot. Anyways, we have to have bigger pipes for that than we would have otherwise. So I just think it's something to consider and think about. And I don't know how we can get a good grasp of that. But I know that's a future goal I've talked to the water department…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can I ask for the north part? It looks like you were talking about the Porter-Rockwell connector there. And then this part here, is that going around? It's pretty much going around Camp William, so it's going around the Holbrook area, not quite through it. Is that what I understand? Correct. Okay. So I really appreciate that, that it's taking that into account instead of going through subdivisions going around it. Something I was looking at, I also do know of some state-level discussions about this possible freeway-to-freeway connector. I don't know how to reconcile that with what's happening…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“okay and i appreciate that um something down at the 700 south area where that said there's a local road only um i know uh if i'm oh this one right over here yeah if i'm referencing the general plan right that we just looked at and remembering right i think we had that zone that was a potential commercial zone so maybe that's just something for planning to look at too if we have you know reconsidering commercial right next to residential and possible access and whether we want to change it to neighborhood commercial or something, because is someone going to want to build commercial there? I'm…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, yeah, and just like 300 West, a lot of, The east side of that is just a fence. But on the west side, you have a lot of homes. And I was driving there looking at this thinking, all these people couldn't park a car out anywhere if we have a bike lane there, which is a fact. And so, yeah, I guess that's a different discussion, kind of. That's the bike ped plan. But I don't know if it's integrated into the master transportation plan. It's just...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So basically it's clubhouse drive or what this is. What the yellow line is, I'm not sure what to call it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There's not an option one, so it's the option. It's the option.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I just want you guys to see that. I get that. Well, I just think of like, you know, again, 3200 North looking here, I mean, or you have SR 92, like, yeah, you potentially have that bringing traffic to those neighborhoods. However, The way that it's designed, it kind of bypasses people's backyard sort of thing instead of actually, it might be bringing traffic to you, but it's not directly cutting through. Do you know what I mean? So it's a little different of bringing traffic versus cutting through.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then it'll help Holbrook also, too, to be able to get out in some of these other neighborhoods, potentially, because some of them, like, we don't want to be in a position either where these people are stuck without a place to get out. That's a concern to me, is we want to create opportunities for them. I know, you know, you see some of these frontage roads along I-15 crossroads, And people here at Thanksgiving Point are trying to use some of those because it's difficult to access. I've seen some people from Traverse use the frontage roads. So there's some opportunities there because if…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I believe the Waterwise Parade of Homes is this Saturday as well, but I don't know if Todd's going to be here for the Waterwise presentation. I don't believe he is going to be here for coming up for the council meeting, but that's something we'll get some more information out about from the Environmental Sustainability Committee.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There might be character and competence based on the selection of the...”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just wanted to, I had questions, but I got them answered. I just wanted to point out to everyone, the purchase orders, there's three purchase orders in there for power. And one of them was a bathroom remodel, which is almost $150,000, which looks a little ridiculous to me, but I got into it. And it's to more than double, most likely, it's actually four times, it'll be more than double the amount of bathrooms for the power department. So that's where that purchase comes from. I just think it's important to note, since it's a large amount.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't have a question about the kilowatt change. I was kind of wondering on, it talks about not being, on page 19-3C, it talks about something not being built on a ridgeline, the wind energy facility design standards. Can someone explain that to me? Isn't that where there is a lot of wind? Is that just like a design thing? We just don't want, we don't want, I don't know if this, I think this is more planning probably question, but it talks about wind energy facilities and not having them built on wind, on ridgelines. I'm just kind of curious as I was reading the entire chapter, is that a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's kind of the idea behind it. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I don't really have any questions for you, Jules. Okay. As I was looking over the chapter, some things that stood out to me that I think that we should consider as we're going through all of the code is looking at what is the legislative and what's administrative decisions. Like, again, on 19-3, under 9, I believe, it talks about how the planning commission may modify this requirement. And some things in this chapter talked about how the director of power could make some changes to some of these things. With that, I think that might even be…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I can't direct you by myself. I mean, are there city council members to support or not, so... I mean, I'm open to, there's a few options. You could approve this and say, hey, let's look at some of these modifications and updates in the chapter. Or we just say, let's wait and table this and come back in two weeks with some of these other things updated.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Good thing I think to pass it help our residents, and it's a small thing, but maybe we can come back and address some of the other concerns That's fine with me I can also send you my notes of all the where it says whether it's something that You know maybe that just we have the zoning administrator look at versus what we look have the City Council approve Point out those areas Because it might be other places in the code I mean that might be something separate to look at more in depth and other parts of the code as well so yeah I just looked at this one this one chapter where we were updating…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“department okay yeah yeah there's not an appetite to talk about it saying that's fine I'm happy to bring it back later because I I don't think that might be stood out to other people as much as me but I'm yeah I just think it needs to be brought to a discussion at some point I'm happy to entertain a motion councilmember Freeman Well, I move to approve Ordinance 37-2026, Privileged Development Code Amendment to Chapter 19, Renewable Energy Systems, updating the maximum allowed kilowatt for residential systems. And I hope that we, I would like to direct, hope that we as a council can ask that…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And please include all DRC comments. I do not see the Planning Commission meeting minutes. Otherwise, I would see that. Are you OK with that, Council Member Stallings? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I'm looking here at number four. It says naming rights. And I love that there is going to be, you know, a plaque or a monument that says recognizing the donation of the property by the Anthony T. Peck and Janice A. Peck family. It does, one of the requirements of this donation is to designate the property as the Peck Mill Pond Recreation Area. And I think that's a very honorable thing to name after, you know, recognize the property as the Peck Mill um, pack area. One thing that I, I do question just because I did talk to the water people and parks and that are going to have to, um,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. But you want to have it be Peck, would you be satisfied with Peck Mill Pond or area or what? Peck something.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So it's a good solution. And once we have it, I would love to go really view the property in person since I haven't been able to. So we could hopefully do a little city council field trip down there.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“It says petitioner Lehigh City. Oh. Mike? Come on up. This is water. OK. I don't know. It says petitioner Lehigh City, so.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm not comfortable with changing the zoning to heavy commercial. I've said that before. It's incompatible with surrounding residents. But I do think I would have considered some commercial uses, and I do think that a development agreement is the way to go. I don't know if this development agreement is... ready for satisfactory to what everything that I am looking at. The berm idea on Trinnaman, I talked to the developer to question what that was, and he said it was a suggestion by a resident, but it would need to be agreed upon by the three residents across from Trinnaman. So I would…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026