Remarks by William Hopper
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“Mr. Chair? Since it's my discretion, I'm going to ask the applicants for number three to wait so we can hear the public comments for item number seven, which was number one.”
“So what we'll do is we'll have the staff report, then we'll have public comment, and then we'll table the motion until, I mean we'll table the item until the applicant comes back.”
“Okay, we'll pause here for the response from the applicant, unless you have power of returning it. Okay, we'll come back to you. So we'll have now comments from the members of the public. Please come to the podium, give your name and address for the record. And limit your comments to two minutes or less.”
“Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak on this item? If not, we'll close the public hearing and put this on pause until we come back to the applicant. And now we'll go back to item number three, sorry, which does not have to be re-announced.”
“Sorry for the delay. Please give your name and address for the record.”
“Okay, thank you. Anything you'd like to add to the staff report?”
“Thank you very much. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak on this item? Yes, sir.”
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“I noticed that it is included with the associated documents. If it's dated November 26 2025. Yeah.”
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“Okay. So... Please give us your address.”
“Sir, the public hearing was over. Your chance to speak on that was over. It's limited to the board now. And your item was deferred. Did you understand that we're not hearing that item today? Your item? My item. Is not being heard today.”
“cannot necessarily afford something like this so it's not an easy decision for us i want you to know that so let me ask you a question of clarification when you were talking you said you had surveyed neighboring houses we have a document um it's page 23 on our document list showing five houses five of the surrounding houses Is that the one you were referring to?”
“Yeah. And it shows five of the, I'm not sure if there's additional houses in between.”
“Exactly. That's my point. Did you see the one I'm talking about? It looks like this.”
“So let me ask you, while they're looking, are there two additional properties here?”
“That would be if they want to go for an asphalt shingle.”
“But if they are able to get funding for the tile roof, they would not have to come back?”
“At the applicant's request. At the applicant's request. Yes. Do you understand all of that? Yeah. Is that the route you would like to go?”
“Will they have to waive their 60 day notification? Yes. Okay.”
“for us to defer your application indefinitely, which means you have six months. So within that six months period, if you're able to secure funding from the commissioner and put on a tile roof, you do not have to come back at all. If that does not come to pass, you can come back with the same application and we can rule on it then.”
“No, you're not wasting six months. You don't have to waste any time. It's just a... giving you that time the opportunity to get the funding together to put the roof on that has been recommended by staff and conforms with historic guidelines”
“So we're going to defer indefinitely, which means you can come back anytime within the next six months. If you need to, If, however, you're able to meet with the commissioner and get funding to put on the file roof, you do not have to come back at all.”
“Only if that falls through and you need to put on the asphalt shingles, then you can come back. The same thing we did today, except we don't have to go through all the testimony again because we've already heard it. And so just to let you know, that's what we're doing. But I need to ask you if you would defer the 60-day time period for the decision. That's to allow us to do that. To avoid having a decision today.”
“Yes. And in order to do that, you need to waive your 60-day time period. You just need to waive your right within 60 days to have a decision. You need to have a decision now, but in order for us to defer indefinitely for six months, you just need to waive that 60-day time.”