Remarks by Rita Serotkin
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Okay. Thank you. And to the speakers, you have three minutes.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Does the staff want to clarify anything on the record in light of public comment?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you. Does the applicant want to clarify anything on the record in response to public comment?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you. Do any of the commissioners have any other questions for staff or the applicant? Okay. Commissioner Penniman?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Does any other commissioner have a question? I have one that when you talked about the undergrounding, and I'm not sure whether this is staff or whether this is the applicant, the undergrounding of the power lines, have the adjacent properties been approached about it? Do they know that they're going to have to pitch in to help pay for it?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“That wasn't clear, so thank you very much. Okay, at this point, yeah, did you have?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“OK, does anyone else have anything? OK, in that case, I'll now close the public comment portion of the hearing. And planning commissioners would now deliberate. So if you want to provide your comments. Anybody want to say anything? Did you want to say something? Sure. Okay. Oh, yeah, now I see it. Commissioner Fullerton.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you. Somehow I lost Commissioner Bennett on there. I'm not used to all this.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“And I would also say I think it's attractive. I think that I'd like to see both the applicant and the city talk to the railroad about that possibility of extending entrance road around the back. I think it would be to the betterment of both Elwood Station, you know, the Elwood Mobile Home Park, for fire and emergency vehicles to be able to get back in there. And I, too, would like to see more affordable housing because, I mean, I'm glad I'm in a position that I'm in and not, a new young couple trying to find a place to live in this area. I agree with the public speaker that it is. It's very…”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“So I guess now we would vote. We'll call a roll.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, and then... We need a second motion, I guess, for the second resolution. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Do any commissioners have comments they would like to share? Okay, then I will adjourn. That concludes tonight's business, and do I have a motion to adjourn?”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Second? All right. So I guess we need to vote.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Oh, yeah, right. Oh, no, I didn't want to do that.”
Planning Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“There we go. I thought it was. I make a motion to approve the Planning Commission meeting minutes for June 22, 2026.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“I have a number of questions for the applicant. But since you mentioned the housing, I'm going to do an add-on for that. I have a question. There are eight units that are for farm workers. And then there's one unit that was going to be market rate. Who is that for and why? What's the rationale behind that?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“Right. And one of the things that was indicated in the application was that one area, I guess kind of in the northeast corner, that you were going to put in an orchard. do some, you know, trees. And I remember almonds was one of them. But those require more water, as I understand it. So I'm just curious as to have you really, you know, thought about that in terms of if certain kinds of trees require a lot more water than others.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“It does. Thank you. Then one of the questions, and I noticed that some of the comments from the community brought it up, is about the animals and their location. And I'm just curious, because they are separate from the rest of the functional area of the farm, as is the farm stand. So there's a lot of construction in the middle and then two ends. why it was done that way instead of bringing everything together so that more of the land could be farmed.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“It was very hard to read some of the slides. It looked like the animals and the manure area were on the south side now. Is that correct?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“Yeah. Oh, OK. Because I wondered how close they were to individual housing units.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. It was hard to envision that. And now this is a question for something that's close to my heart. Why was the after school program canceled? In your revised letter, why was that chosen as a cancellation?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“have some responsibility for a little girl who wants to learn beekeeping. She can come to a class. Right. The other thing I wanted to, about the lights, and I think this might affect some of the evening, is there a point in time when the lights will be turned off? Event or no event, just, you know, at the end of the day.”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026
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“And then I have just one more question. You know, I understand 95 dBA... is rock concert. What's 85? Can you provide an example of what that 10 different, the difference of 10 would do?”
Planning Commission · Jul 13, 2026