Remarks by Zach Hilton
121 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
- Play at 2:57:25
“Okay. The second one is, do department directors get notified when some of these standards aren't being met or there's a ticket that's been opened and there's not continuing conversation? Aren't there automations that are automatically sent in there, and how high up do they go?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:58:26
“So, I mean, there's tickets that have been out there that are still out 60 days, 90 days, 120 days. Who's getting notified every day that council members, when we hear from our constituents and they're like, what's going on with this? Who's the department director that I can go and speak to, you know, along with the city administrator copied on it, but I can say, this has been going on for 90 days. Did you know about this? Will they know about that?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:58:54
“They would. So they're getting an email?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 2:59:04
“So, okay, that's good to know. My last question for this round is, I can see that there's some AI technology that has been implemented into it, into some of these changes over the last like 30 days. Maybe that's made it a little bit quicker. You know, it can detect, you know, what they think the issue might be, but it's also being automatically assigned to staffers. And I see that being implemented in the public works division. But how have you decided, are you testing it out in certain departments to see if it works? Or are you planning on implementing that for other departments?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:18:27
“Yeah, so, you know, beautification economic development was a top concern of this council when we met, you know, several times, whether it was a reintroduction with a new city administrator or even before. You know, I can tell you some council members might feel like abandoned cars and junked cars and cars parking on lawns is not a, they don't see it every day, is not a concern that they hear from their constituents and their They're districts, but I can tell you my district and the areas that I've been really trying to help people and coach them to use this tool. Blight is a big concern for…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:19:36
“I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT, COUNCILMEMBER. I THINK THERE IS A DISCONNECT. I THINK THERE'S A DISCONNECT IN THREE WAYS. I THINK THAT STAFF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A TOOL THAT WAS BROUGHT ON BY THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL THAT WANTED TO SOMEHOW ORGANIZE THIS AND GET AWAY FROM SENDING EMAILS AND THEN FOLLOWING UP THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND THEN HAVING OUR CONSTITUENTS CONTACT US AND BE FRUSTRATED. BUT I THINK THERE'S A DISCONNECT THAT STAFF IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO WORK IT AND MAKE IT BETTER, AND IT IS GETTING BETTER, BUT I STILL, I DON'T FEEL INCLUDED IN THAT. I DON'T THINK THIS COUNCIL IS INCLUDED…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:32:04
“Thank you. Great staff report. Appreciate it. Like how you split it up a little bit. My question was, when was the last time the city even hired somebody to do something like that? And I know you came from another agency. Is there like a standard, like, let's go through this, let's do this during the zoning code update, which would happen with the general plan, you know, maybe every 10 years. But is there some sort of standard that we have? Because right now, if we were to look at this, we obviously don't have it.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:33:04
“All right, and just a quick brief statement, since this was my fair memo, I'm more than willing to also split up the power tools and the reduction of the 70 to the 60 also, if that's a, I just want to throw that on the table.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:35:40
“So one of the reasons why I wrote this five years ago was because I was being asked by community groups that I was meeting with if there's anything we can do to limit the time that commercial landscapers would be coming to like the shopping center plaza like next to them when they're living upstairs in the next unit. Like is there any way that we can just, you know, so I was, I love getting into the detail of the code. I was like let me look at the code. And when I looked through the code, I realized it was like, oh, in 2013, it got removed. It just got removed. I can't tell whether it was…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:37:10
“Yeah, I think it's a problem in the residential zoned areas, but I think it's also a problem, like we were talking about, where you have the commercial industrial impacting the residential.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:39:18
“So I want to hear the story on why the drive-thru, because that wasn't their idea. That was our idea. That was actually.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:44:28
“So going back to the drive-thru, do we have enough, is there enough discretion, or do we need to write a, do we need to put in the code to do things like the one where the the project was developed right behind those homes, right? Where second story homes could look down on it. And I don't know whether I didn't think about this until now, like whether staff said, you know what, but you're going to put your speaker box on the other side. So it's not facing the residential. Was that a discretionary move or, or was somebody in staff thinking like, Hey, don't, don't put it in the back where, you…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:49:46
“It's not 10 p.m. 10 a.m. It's 9. All right, let's go to public comment.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:53:01
“So here's my suggestion. If we could put this all together, this would be the three items that I would like to move forward with. Number one is to incorporate the drive-through, those standards, those open source standards that are already probably good practices that are out there. Be able to have those standards put into our code. Number two would be to remove that word prohibited so it's very clear to anybody that reads it. And number three is talking about the power tools yard and landscaping to make sure that that's prohibited, not subject to the L-10 between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7…”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:56:17
“So are you, where were you on the power tools and the yard stuff? Before you said that was okay to put that in there, are you not?”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:59:04
“But also, most golf courses, I mean, if anybody plays golf, they're taking care of the course the entire day. They don't do everything before everybody starts and then go away. They're working around people. They're oftentimes even cutting while people have already shot. So I'm not too worried about that.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 3:59:48
“No, it's not. It would not be subject to any percentage or any level. It's just prohibited.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:00:54
“Well, you would just make it more hard on staff to determine. They'd be like, okay, great. Something happened within those hours or whatever, but let me go out and make sure that it doesn't meet within this decibel. Rather than just saying clear cut, hey, man, I don't care what you're using. We do not, you do not do yard work at this time, period.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:01:19
“They can do yard work all night as long as it's quiet.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:01:39
“I still hear it often when I'm out tabling, when I'm meeting with community groups, especially those that are impacted by us building more residential development near commercial industrial. I hear it often. I wasn't trying to stack the room full of people tonight. But we did, especially the drive-thru one, that was clear years ago. And they haven't shown up here tonight. But that was clear that they wanted us to develop some type of standards, maybe even not allow it.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:02:32
“It drives me crazy, too, being woken up. But, you know, I mean, let's take it piece by piece. I don't know if we could, if that's something that's, you know, that everyone would be interested in.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
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“ALL RIGHT. SO WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN MULTIPLE MOTIONS HERE. MY FIRST MOTION WOULD BE TO CREATE STANDARDS FOR DRIVE-THROUGHS. NO, THIS IS MINE. FORGET ABOUT WHAT STAFF HAD.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:03:55
“I'm piecing them out. We're talking about drive-throughs.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:04:02
“I don't really care about the decibels. That's not what I'm going for. I'm more going for developing standards. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, LIKE WHERE TO PUT THE SPEAKER BOXES, THOSE THINGS THAT ANDY TALKED ABOUT.”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026
- Play at 4:04:22
“SO IT WOULD BE TO CREATE STANDARDS FOR DRIVE-THROUGH, HAVE THAT COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE COMMUNITY INPUT, WHICH STAFF TALKED ABOUT, AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE CAN DELIBERATE ON WHAT WE WANT THOSE STANDARDS TO BE, BUT WE CAN HAVE”
City Council · Aug 3, 2026