Remarks by Robert Dickson
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“right thank you very much mr alexander all right if there's no more questions i'm going to close the item and commissioner dixon would like to make a motion i would i move that the planning commission find that the project is categorically exempt from the provisions of the california environmental quality act pursuant to sequoia guidelines section 15301 and that we approve variance pva pvar-26-0001 BASED ON THE FINDINGS OF FACT AND SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“YES. I DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BECAUSE I'M VERY, VERY, VERY FAMILIAR WITH DIX WITH TWO KIDS IN SPORTS RIGHT NOW AND WE LOVE We absolutely focus on buying things at local smaller shops in Costa Mesa, but sometimes that's just not possible. We've got Ketchum Tackle here, which is great. We've got a lot of great other shoe stores and athletic stores. But sometimes there's things that just that Dick's has. And Dick's has got an incredible track record of merchandising and keeping up on their facilities. And I've never been into a DIX in any location in the United States. And I've gone to…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I think you just did as a second of the motion. I WOULD OCCUR OBVIOUSLY IT IS A PRETTY ROUGH LOOKING HEDGE. ANYTHING ANYBODY CAN DO WOULD BE GREAT. THAT'S MY MOTION. OKAY.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I think that my main concern is that having been on climbing walls of different facilities, the glare is really dangerous. And so I'd want to make sure that the applicant has the ability to... And they do the... They do under 13. Yeah. All right. Did staff get that amendment? Did you... Do we need to restate it?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. And that's still providing discretion and allowing them to have it if they need it. But not binding them to tent. Having to tent. That's correct. Great. And is this?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Back to the that noise and that sort of issue with these properties on harbor. So we're going to have this is part of a former overlay. But it was it was a residential ownership I believe that because I don't I just can't I'm not don't have a map in front of you that shows that but. The ones that are next door, the residential that's next door, that's a live work, right? That was approved as a live work?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay, okay, I just wasn't clear on exactly. So on these, if we're gonna have a miscues, we're gonna be mixing in residential. with other uses all the time. So just as part of the entitlement process, no matter what the application is, if there's within 200 feet, if there's residential, it'll be a hearing.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Residentially zoned properties. But an overlay where it was a former we're still talking about the base zoning, right? So if it's like for areas where there's live work, right? If the base original zoning was an R2, but then they decided to apply an over live work, that's still the base zoning is what would be determinative.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you very much, and thank you very much. I just had a quick question. In the illustration that you showed in your presentation, the site was aligned the other way.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“But my point is that why didn't you orient it with the parking in the back and the courts in the front when you might alleviate some of the noise problems or the issues with the conflict of residence.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Great. And then the other question I had is that I'm very familiar with paddle tennis. This is a little different because it goes off the walls. Correct. So you've got semi... You've got the barriers, so they're only in the middle? Is there where it's open for sound to go through, but otherwise it's glass on the corners? Or polyplastic or something?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“So along the lines of the noise issue, and I'm very sensitive to the requirement for that. a great way to look at these things. But did you do any sort of analysis of the other sort of tennis courts in the city or things like that? Not just the tennis center, but the apartment complex I'm temporarily living in has a lot of tennis courts. And I think they go till 10. I'm not exactly sure. I know the pool does. But so I'm just curious because and those are not going to have the same sort of controls or or noise barriers that this seems to have designed into the mix. So I'm just curious how…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah. Park right next to our complex. It's dark. So OK. Thank you.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“and rearranged, sorry. So I will move that the Planning Commission find that the project is category exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act for CEQA guidelines section 15332, and that we approve conditional use permit 25-0021 based on the findings of fact and subject conditions of approval with the following amendments. For condition of approval number 12, that we utilize the amendment proposed by the applicant. So it'll be the one court and the 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. And that we'll replace that condition of approval number 12 with the one that was in that present…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“More than the standard capacity of the courts or if there's like anticipated spectators or a gathering.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I would like to keep it in a special event permit round.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I will go with Vice Chair Zick's description of conditional approval number six. And then there was conditional approval number nine, was that?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“And then I understand where he's coming from, but I don't, you had mentioned court lighting. Lighting shall comply, so I think that condition number nine, as staff intended, is only intended for court lighting, correct? Not security lighting, not walkway lighting, not parking lot, okay. Correct. So I think we can leave condition approval number nine alone. So those are my proposed amendments, and that's my motion.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Sloppy, I apologize, but I wanted to get that all in.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I think this is a great... more physical activity, more outdoor, more sports, more opportunities for youth to get involved in a different kind of sport. We have the tennis center, but it's over on the other side of town. I live on the west side. My son used to have to try to get over there all the time when he wanted to go to the skate park, but if you wanted to do tennis and stuff like that as well, this is much closer to the west side, and I think any opportunity is great. I hope you do have a mechanism or a system in place with local schools or local youth groups where you can offer…”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE THAT ALONE. THAT WAS APPLYING TO COURT LIGHTING AND NOT THE SECURITY REQUEST.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“I just have a quick one just to make sure I understand everything correctly. So anything that was in a former urban plan that's not a housing element opportunity or inventory site, Mood's going to apply to that and these multifamily residential and mixed use objective design standards will apply as well? Or the base zoning?”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“That's what I understood. So that's during the presentation, I thought we were saying the urban plans would that the citywide multifamily residential and mixed use to the executive are going to that citywide. So even if it's base zoning, those urban plans are now going to be moved as far as those objective design standards.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. So essentially we're losing anything that was unique to the urban plans as far as design standards or any of that stuff. That's all gone because it's going to be this one size fits all. Well, no, it is.”
PLANNING COMMISSION · Sep 14, 2026