Remarks by Yoshiko Grace Matsui
218 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“Thank you. Sure. Thank you. Just because I know we have a lot of interested parties, I wanted to do one question and then I'll cycle back through. So anyone else have a question? Council Member Blass.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I want to ask a little bit more because that to me doesn't seem to be directly related to this developer agreement.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Councilmember Simons, do you have a question?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Go ahead. Councilmember Desmoning.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I HAD ONE FOR YOU. I WANTED TO CHECK. SO THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT PARKING ORDINANCES, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME, AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF I'M READING THIS CORRECT, THAT IF THE DEVELOPER AGREEMENT FOR THIS PARCEL IS APPROVED THIS YEAR, THE CURRENT CERTI-CODE WOULD BE IN EFFECT. AND IF IT WAS DELAYED, THE NEW POSSIBLY LOWER NUMBER OF PARKING SPOTS WOULD GO INTO EFFECT.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“OKAY. SO BY APPROVING IT NOW, WE'LL NET MORE possible parking spots.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Council Member Harris, your second bite.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“department of ecology permitting so i am very fond of our riverways and so we will we'll keep them safe all right i just want to check back in with you councilmember simmons okay thank you i will now close the public hearing is there a motion councilmember netting”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Do I hear a second? Council member Desmonee did raise her hand first. I'LL TAKE THAT. ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Hang on as we dial that back here again, or maybe it timed out. Any other discussion? Deputy Mayor Oxiger.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Council Member, I wanted to check to see if Council Member Blas had any comments before I go back through. All right, Council Member Desmonet.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Simons, did you have any final comments?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Sure, thank you. I want to say thanks to everyone who came out today to express their concerns or their excitement for any of these projects I do believe that there has been a lot of thought into what this development might mean, the impacts to the community, and like Councilmember Nutting said earlier, this is just the first step. This is just reaching out the hand, and there are so many more touches that we will have over the concept, the design, and how it will be implemented as we move forward. I'm very concerned and really aware of some things that maybe other folks don't have to think…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS. I thought you did. I saw you go like that. Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Council Member Desmoning.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“COUNCILMEMBER SIMONS, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“No, we don't. Second time for Councilmember Harris.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“We're still in the questions period, yes.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“All right, if there aren't any, did you have any questions, sir? Okay, if we don't have any other questions, let's move into, I'm going to ask for a vote. And I would like to make sure that we have this in a vote format rather than a hand raise. Councilmember Desmone?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“OK. Why don't we make the, we'll see if there's a motion first, and then we can see if there's a second, and then we could get to discussion.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Is there a second? I can second that for discussion. So it's been moved and seconded. Let's move into discussion of option two, which is the minimalist, as we discussed earlier, without the addition of the water quality grant. Discussion? Councilmember Blass.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. Discussion? Other discussion? Councilmember Desmoni.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Just a second. Just a second. I want to reiterate before I go back around that I agree with some of the points that have been made here as well that we're talking about a project as if it was put on this because it was necessary to do. And that's the question that we're considering right now. Is this a necessary project to do at this time. Because option one is don't do the project and save all of the money. So I want to consider that what we are doing is basically leapfrogging other priority projects. That's what will happen here if we take this commitment. It's not free money. It's a…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I'm sorry, but that sounds like an opinion that we were asking for, or you were talking about funding?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Because that seems to be the ‑‑ Councilmember, I'm going to interrupt there because I want to say that that is actually a council decision. Council decides the priorities. And so...”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“And the question is what order of priority they should go in.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026