Remarks by Robert Vanderpool
80 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Council member Vanderpool I also want to speak in support of this You know there are several things in here. I'm glad our answered and spoken to right Looking at our existing organizations and systems in the community is very important right we have a long history in this community of looking at and food systems, whether it's grub, whether it's work that the co-op does, whether, I mean, there's a variety of history in our community for something like this. And the other part of this I'm looking forward to is that action plan on the other side of it, right? It reminds me of our housing action…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I guess a little bit of a follow-up to that. So one of the things about the affordability emergency is it has a 25-year covenant on it to require affordability. I guess for... Clarity for the ones that have affordable units that are using the MFTE Is there how long are they required to be affordable?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“And when they renew, it'll still be locked in at the price that it was prior if they decide to renew for another 12 years?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Can I ask the question from a different perspective? So if you're a tenant and you're under that covenant and you're at 80% cap and then they renew it, if I'm that tenant, Yes, would it be the same rent possibly or would it be it would be different potentially?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I think You're getting at where I'm trying to get out is that I is my concern is that someone's in there for that 12-year period and their rent is Coveted because it's a covenant you're as you were saying on some of these units. I Get concerned about a jump Before the 12-year before they renew and and that effect on the tenant. That's that's my yeah.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay. All right. So it's not a solid lock at that year. It is a rolling year.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I appreciate the comments. Councilmember Gilman, I'm, you know, one of the things I wrote down leading into this meeting is thinking about the next steps, what's happened, what are things we're working on. I mean, we're working on community opportunity purchase policy. We've been working on that for quite a while now, but I'm interested in seeing how, when we come to that, I'm very excited about that. But a couple of things that I think about from that process, and Council Member Gilman talked a little bit about this, the cost, the upfront cost to help create a lot of cooperative housing and…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I can't beat that. So I didn't expect that, actually. I should have. But I only have a few items here. So on Sunday, I attended the Olympians for People-Oriented Places meeting. They're back. And one of the things we talked about were third places. First place is your home. The second place is your job. And the third place is the coffee shop, the park, places like that. And we had quite an interesting conversation of what are places that we've enjoyed the most? Why did we enjoy them? And then the who, they asked about what if we did a community forum on this? And I was like, well, even more…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I had four events that day, and I brought Charlie along and Alicia, and by the time I got there, Charlie was asleep, and it was 7 p.m., and his bedtime's 9, so I was just like, I don't know if I want to deal with grumpiness. So I came by, I said hi, and then I had to go home”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, a lot of my questions are already answered, but I also want to have praise for this because it seems more tangible now in a lot of ways, right? it's not often you see something go pat and be near 90% design and be that close right i'm so used to projects taking significantly longer, so I really do appreciate the fact that there is a timeline I realized that there's a lot of money attached and you're in you're. Working really hard to fill those funding goals and making sure we get it done, but like it is it feels a lot more tangible. in a lot of ways, I don't usually see big projects get…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Not extensively. I mean, I'm okay with continuing to have it quarterly, as my councillors have said. We also kitted it on Finance Committee, so it's perfectly fine.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right. So Regional Housing Council met. We gave an update to the board on where we are with the jungle by a city manager and assistant city manager that came out and City Council Chambers, Talk to the board about that, and one I guess a couple other things that they. City Council Chambers, brought up some of the board members brought up so they had concerns about illegal dumping, but also made sure that there was concerns about privacy of individuals are kept concerns. City Council Chambers, Well, about ensuring that, like the lacy that that Center. is used as a resource, a part of that…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Can I get approval of tonight's agenda?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. We have an agenda. Public comment. Do we have anyone with hands up in the online or person?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“All right. Can I get approval of the minutes for June 25th?”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“All right. All in favor? Aye. All right. On to committee business. We have a discussion of tenant opportunity purchase arrangements.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“It's $3 million, and there's some changes that are happening recently, or going to be happening, and it'll be capped about $3 million.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I like what I'm hearing here. We've had so much time to think about this and all the different aspects of it. I think that the other part of that is the timeframe, the 90 to 180 days timeframe. having that as a policy makes it more feasible because you have to have that quick turnaround. I mean, even 180 days go by really fast, and particularly if you're trying to get the financing together because even if we can get the opportunity fund out of a regional housing council meeting quickly and have each city go along with it, each member, it would take a bit of time just to get the paperwork…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“The more we get into this, the more we'll realize rules and, like, state laws that exist that we weren't aware of. I know we're not, this isn't about development, but the folks at Hauser Neighbors have expressed to me that there are codes of the state that if you're planning on being a developer for cooperative housing, you can go around zoning. There are state laws that have, you can overlap certain zoning based on if you become a cooperative developer. which is fascinating. I had no idea until I went to, so I talked with them, but there are, I'll be interested in what else we learn from…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Now the next item will be a brief briefing on the short-term rental permitting and enforcement.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“I have a whole bunch of questions, but go ahead. Along that thought, I'm wondering if those receipts they're sending back have addresses attached to them.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“Honestly, I'm interested in the self-regulation part of it. I mean, that's the thing I heard from some providers in the community even a couple of years ago was like, is there a way to create fairness in the system? I think I'm glad it's coming from people who are short-term rental people who have been following these rules, who have two units or less, and that would like it to seem fair as a small business and make sure there's no corporate I guess, you know, multi three or more units in the community causing this unfairness. And I think that that's a good place to come from. And I, so I…”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“As we explore this audit, I think that whatever information comes out of that, I think it would be good to hear, if we're able to hear it back by the time we look at the home occupation stuff in September, late September. I don't know if we'll have it by then, but whatever we're able to find to help inform that. I don't know if that's too fast of a timeline, but”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026
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“It depends on, it depends on how busy people are. You know, I don't know. I don't know what the B&O team's doing, you know, I'm sure they're very busy.”
Planning Commission · Jul 23, 2026