Remarks by Steven Dunbar
43 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“take it away i mean it's not the first time we've been here we've seen drafts we've been through this uh it is quite something to come to the end of the line and go all right this is this is the end of the line that we've been working towards this whole time five years five years um I'll maybe start with the small thing that needs addressing more so than anything else I could find. The report as it stands today does not have hyperlinks within the PDF and does not have chapters in its PDF. I'm able to get through it because it's my job to get through it. But in order for it to be a useful…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“And it's fair to say that we're constantly trying to integrate all those together to be easy to follow, not just for the applicants, but for staff zone review.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Yes, in terms of the you know we we talked about the purpose of the override considerations. You spoke a little bit to the impacts that are significant and unavoidable, and then being programmatic in nature. Can you expand on that a little bit for the audience.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“will be met through the general plan and that those benefits outweigh the potential significant impacts associated with it so for example in the document it talks about noise potentially being significant and unavoidable as if all the projects get built at the same time with loud construction equipment with no mitigation but that's not what we're expecting at the project level obviously but we have to analyze it in this way for the purposes of the eir exactly yes I heard a lot of the word balance that's the word that I am looking for in this plan as well that's really all you can do it such a…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, I think that covers most of what I wanted to cover in terms of public comments, we are doing our best at conserving all of these wildlife corridors i'm certain that we will look at the. City Council Chambers, connectivity of those relative to our other plans as those continue, but not really taking any action on the places where those might occur or propose, I know we had some sort of grant application in the recent past about. City Council Chambers, Those sorts of crossing so we wouldn't want to be conflicting with ourselves our own grant application anyways. yeah. I…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Just a few things to add. One, on the connection with our neighbor, we added a policy LU 2-8 Newland Canyon Open Space Greenbelt for maintaining the green belt between us. City Council Chambers, I wanted to add a little bit to a public comment I heard, which was about metrics there is in the implementation chapter a specific breakdown of the housing production and affordability jobs housing balance and match economic vitality is environmental sustainability. City Council Chambers, multimodal safety and quality of life metrics that is exactly the highlight of where we're going with that…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Do you can you know move forward with the general plan and, as stated. That is a theoretical possibility, but the site is so complex that doing it without a development agreement. And the city playing hardball by not having the previous development agreement agreed to would be very hard for the developer to actually get through even under objective standards I don't necessarily see that as the biggest risk. Mayor Mrakas, That fair.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 2:56:16
“John Potter, or I will start. John Potter, Staff can you speak to I was trying to pull it up on on my computer i'm looking at exhibit be for the roadway alignment relative to the. City Council Chambers, Where the trail is proposed as part of the earlier items in the evening, it looks like it's sort of an immediate left turn once you hit the overpass has proposed for the. City Council Chambers, roadway alignment, so it would not extend very far onto the section that I know is dirt like go over there, sometimes. City Council Chambers, Is that and and even if it is dirt today, they would be…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 2:57:25
“ACM Conference 29th, But it would need to meet our fire access standards and they will purchase. ACM Conference 29th, Yes, the developer, whoever they may be in the future, we need to find a way to actually meet those for us to get approval in the first place, and that would be just an objective standard that they do or do not meet. ACM Conference 29th, And if they do not meet it, it would be our purview to block the project at that point. ACM Conference 29th, But we're not going to block it at this point because. ACM Conference 29th, they're prerogative to go search for that. ACM Conference…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, I think the concerns about water flooding or the same as the roadway concerns there to be analyzed it's too early to analyze them. City Council Chambers, I hear the concern, but I don't know how to react to it right now, given that just don't have a report of what the design actually looks like that fair. Okay. City Council Chambers, I think we've both been over before you know. City Council Chambers, The school impacts, given the declining school attendance these days, but I do think it's fair to say that there are amenities with this project. City Council Chambers,…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 3:08:50
“So if you're willing to make the motion um if I may add just a few more things okay I'm okay with that I think it expands upon the intent of the ordinance as it was proposed but more specifically um I just wanted to add a few more things one on emergency access I wrote down there is proposed another emergency access easement via the trail via the item that we approved earlier in the evening so that is another consideration here that is addressed at least at a concept level at this point um I I wanted to make the point that we've talked about this many times before. We have a housing element,…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
- Play at 3:23:16
“City Council Chambers, That is an existing facility and therefore qualifies under those exemptions. City Council Chambers, Planning Commission laid that out pretty clearly yes. City Council Chambers, Correct.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, I'll just echo what the others have said and say thank you to both parties of this, the word of the night has been balancing act and I see it here again in this item, so thank you for all the work. City Council Chambers, Okay, great words of the night two words.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, i'll entertain a motion. City Council Chambers, i'll move approval the staff recommendation.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“As I'm an employee of Gillig and have been for 10 years, I will be recused from this item. Okay. Very good. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 34:37
“I'll second with a note that thank you for all the work to put this into one document. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 35:33
“Nothing to initiate, and one I will highlight on the report was just how I felt like the traffic management at the airport went much better this year, in part thanks to the buses. I thank everybody for their patience to get out there. I know sometimes we were at a wait, but overall we had much better access for emergency response to the airport if anything were to happen, so I was really impressed with staff's work and coordination with LAFTA on that item, so thank you.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 36:07
“I remember last year, the traffic backing up on airway all the way to 84 and that becoming a problem. So I was really happy to see this year.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026