Planning Board - 110420 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T Craig Benedict: Also, along the lines of that you talked about making an assessment at that first meeting, how many 169 people are interested and you can collect that entire list of people that want to speak. What was done with the 170 Commissioners’ meeting on September 15th and 22nd was they got that full list of about 90 people and decided to hear 45 171 people the first night and 45 the second night. Also, on the 22nd, the second meeting, there wasn’t more people that could 172 sign up that night, it was advertised the first meeting and that meeting was continued to allow more public input. In this 173 case, you could make the notes, as Perdita said, to the people to be aware that there will some time limits on these 174 meetings so please participate, sign up or attend as necessary. You could by knowing the 3 minutes timeframe, determine 175 the amount of speakers that would add up to whatever time, 10 p.m. if you wish. Then you would know how many would 176 speak at the next meeting. 177 178 Kim Piracci: I do think 11:30 p.m. is too late, I think probably 10 p.m. is a good time to end. I think it’s impor tant that the 179 public gets to speak, not twice but once. Even if we have to go to a second meeting. 180 181 Randy Marshall: I like the suggestion that if we have a continuance that we stick to the original list of speakers and not 182 add additional people or repeat speakers. 183 184 Hunter Spitzer: Not just limiting it to written, limiting the number of people that are allowed to speak. I think we should try 185 to accommodate present and verbal comments as possible. 186 187 Patricia Roberts: With Zoom, I’m able to go later. If we don’t have to drive home, I’m happy to go later. 188 189 David Blankfard: I think the way we have it open ended, we can decide at each meeting how late the group wants to stay. 190 At the beginning of each meeting, we’re going to decide how long and how many people should be able to be heard and if 191 to have a continuance and when that continuance is going to be such that everybody can attend and we are going to take 192 the first x number of people and the next x number of people will have to come back to the next meeting. 193 194 Randy Marshall: A little further down, I like the suggestion that language could be added to discourage repetitive 195 comments while allowing for a range of viewpoints. I think we can say we want to hear from everybody and we want a 196 range of viewpoints, if someone has already said and made the points you want to make please don’t repeat those 197 because we’ve already heard them. 198 199 David Blankfard: I don’t have a problem saying please don’t be repetitive but I feel there is a tendency for people to keep 200 saying the same thing. 201 202 Melissa Poole: I agree we should mirror what the County Commissioners have done. 203 204 Craig Benedict: The comment I made earlier about written comments would only work if you are going to continue the 205 meeting. The written comments would really only be applicable if you have the first meeting and decide on a continuance 206 and want to capture everything and take written comments between meetings. 207 208 Adam Beeman: I don’t know if Buc-ee’s is coming up next month but if it does, I anticipate the same amount of interest 209 and public comment we got from RTLP. We definitely need to figure it out and hammer it out by then. 210 211 Kim Piracci: It seems cumbersome to listen to everybody’s comments, especially when they are repetitive, but sometimes 212 things come out with the public that aren’t necessarily brought forth by the developer. One thing we missed on RTLP was 213 the property the County had set aside to preserve and that didn’t come up before we voted. I think it’s very important that 214 we give the public an opportunity to speak. 215 216 David Blankfard: I think from what I’ve heard from the Board is: we want to determine the time the meeting ends at the 217 beginning of each meeting and if there are a lot of people signed up to speak, we’re going to take the names and say how 218 many we listen to tonight and we’re going to have a continuance to another night and those people who didn’t get to speak 219 will get to speak at the continued meeting. The Board will determine the date of the continuance and then we will 220 reconvene. With the opportunity to provide written comments. 221 222 Adam Beeman: Is it possible to get our own link for the public to send us emails? I read every comment submitted to the 223 BOCC google link. Is there a way we can get one for the Planning Board so we can go directly to that site and read them. 224 10