July 30, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

44 (Pages 170 to 173) Page 170 1 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am -- 2 MS. SMALL: -- is -- 3 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: -- listen -- 4 MS. SMALL: -- outrageous. 5 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, it's not 960 6 units. You're wrong. 7 MS. SMALL: How many. 8 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, ma'am, ask 9 the man a question. 10 MS. SMALL: All right. How many 11 units? I'm sorry, I must have misheard because it 12 wasn't easy to hear. 13 MR. ANDERSON: It's 496 units, 966 14 parking spaces. 15 MS. SMALL: Okay. Do you know what 16 Warner Road looks like? 17 MR. ANDERSON: Yes, I do. 18 MS. SMALL: Two lanes. 19 MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. 20 MS. SMALL: And it's blocked at the 21 end. It's a dead-end. 22 MR. ANDERSON: Yes -- 23 MS. SMALL: Yes. 24 MR. ANDERSON: -- I understand that. 25 MS. SMALL: 400 units and 900 parking Page 171 1 spaces and you have apartments that are going to 2 have three bedrooms, teenagers, younger children -- 3 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, ma'am -- 4 MS. SMALL: I -- 5 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, please, a 6 question. 7 MS. SMALL: You're not going to be 8 serving the community as a whole. 9 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am -- 10 MS. SMALL: The -- 11 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am -- 12 MS. SMALL: -- parking -- 13 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, I'm going to 14 throw you off in a minute. 15 MS. SMALL: -- the traffic is not 16 bearable -- 17 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am -- 18 MS. SMALL: -- on Eagle Rock -- 19 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: We're done. 20 MS. SMALL: -- and on Warner. 21 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: We're done. 22 (Applause by members of the public) 23 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Ma'am, you just gave 24 me your bona fides. You should understand the 25 respect you should have for the people in the room. Page 172 1 They're not able to speak because you're testifying. 2 This is a point -- listen to me, please. 3 MS. SMALL: I am. 4 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: This is a point of 5 the meeting. 6 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: No, no. 7 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: No. 8 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: Don't speak to 9 her like a child. 10 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: This is the point of 11 the meeting where you ask a question, not testify. 12 If you have a question, please go ahead and ask it. 13 That's what this gentleman is here for. The people 14 want to hear, the Board wants to hear your question 15 and his answer. If you want to testify, come back 16 during public comment, please. 17 MS. SMALL: What is the purpose for 18 this developer wanting to build these units on this 19 land? It's a question. 20

is answer. If you want to testify, come back 16 during public comment, please. 17 MS. SMALL: What is the purpose for 18 this developer wanting to build these units on this 19 land? It's a question. 20 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: To make money. 21 MS. SMALL: What's the purpose? 22 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: To make money. 23 MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC: To make money. 24 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: He didn't -- 25 MR. PLOCKER: He didn't testify to Page 173 1 that. 2 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Okay, ma'am, you 3 told me who you are and what you did. 4 MS. SMALL: Yes. 5 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: You should 6 understand, the question is appropriate for what he 7 testified to. Okay? Focus on what Mr. Anderson 8 testified to and please ask a question on his 9 testimony. That's the way this works. You know 10 that. 11 MS. SMALL: I'm asking him. What is 12 the purpose of building 400 and some-odd units on 13 this property? 14 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: And if he didn't 15 have the answer, then the answer is he doesn't have 16 the answer -- 17 MS. SMALL: Okay. 18 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: -- which is fine. 19 MS. SMALL: He can answer me honestly. 20 Honesty trumps -- 21 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Good. 22 MS. SMALL: -- everything else. No 23 pun intended. 24 MR. ANDERSON: I don't have the 25 answer, it's not a question about engineering.