Remarks by Vivian Ramirez
8 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 10:33
“I do have the one question regarding the question about lighting As pointed out by the DRC a letter. Is there any concern from staff regarding? Installation of lighting. I mean what I'm thinking right now is that sometimes with some stages right you end up having the lighting that can be pointed at the performers, but this being in a intersection area Are there any concerns?”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 22:29
“I will. I just want to say so a couple of things. First of all, it is true this this block and the what this applicant has done with this block both in this current location and it's across the street location. has brought a vibrancy to this intersection on this side, on the east side of this intersection. It is absolutely true. One thing I wanted to consider, however, is that when we go and approve certain conditions for use, my understanding here is that this is attached to the land itself. So we're looking at an approval for the land use. So at some point, if, say, for example, we don't…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 25:06
“It goes back to planning and zoning, not to planning and commissioning, but to planning and zoning.”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:16:53
“Just looking at that, I know that we had talked about this extensively during our briefing and the thought of keeping it completely open through all of the properties, right? Because it looks like some of the vehicular patterns to be able to park into the garages actually traverse the property lines. So... YEAH, I GUESS THAT IS THE CONCERN THAT I HAVE. SOMEBODY DOESN'T SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, I WANT TO PUT UP A PLANTER RIGHT THERE. AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY BLOCKED IN THAT VERY LAST RESIDENT. THEY'RE UNABLE TO MANEUVER IN THERE. YEAH, I WILL ALSO SECOND, YES, ABSOLUTELY, LET SIGNAGE OR some sort of…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:23:05
“I just wanted to echo the same that we're building in this little element that we had approved a little while ago as kind of a new typology into the language of this new project. And I'm excited to see this kind of new modernized coupling happening and this little experiment that's happening in Old Town to see how it's going to turn out, what the use actually ends up being. I would also then turn as well to planning zoning to see like if there's some way that we can track this kind of data and kind of figure it out. and figure out, you know, is it more families moving in? Is it being used as…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:36:44
“I JUST WANTED TO ADD, I DID HEAR ABOUT THE COMMENT REGARDING THE FACING ONTO MADISON STREET, AND IN LOOKING AT IT, I ACTUALLY TRIED OVERLAYING A LITTLE SKETCH ON IT, AND WHAT I ACTUALLY FOUND WAS THAT THE DEPTH OF THE BLOCK AND THEN THE ACCESS, THEY WOULD HAVE PROBABLY HAD TO GO FOR MORE VARIANCES FOR PARKING REDUCTION ACCESS. SO FOR THOSE REASONS, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT DOES MAKE SENSE. that is facing onto Patrick versus onto Madison. But that said, I would say during the briefing I did voice to staff that I was excited about this little park that was showing up on the western side of…”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:45:21
“All right. I'll make a motion to recommend approval of, and we're doing this in two parts, yes, DSUP 2026-10007 for the site plan.”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:06:50
“We felt like two seats on that commission was probably overkill for the work that we needed to do.”
Planning Commission · Sep 1, 2026