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Clips from City of HoustonClear
0:13

Adam Rein

“And then, and then it says restore, protect, and improve public access to lakes. And I feel like it should say the river too, but it's a public access, it doesn't even matter.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:13

Adam Rein

“So that's kind of the plan on the new business of the resolution that is going to go forward to the city council.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:12

Adam Rein

“I think the big— the biggest one in this is number with where it says the city council take action to identify. That's a big— that's a big one alone.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:10

Adam Rein

“I don't think it's so technical that it— that— well, you didn't say river, so you know, we'll identify all the public accesses.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:16

Adam Rein

“roughly 2 weeks from now, 11 AM, uh, 5th, it's the 19th, so yeah, about 18th, Wednesday at 11 AM.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:34

Adam Rein

“is that oftentimes it's a 3-month process to get. Oh good, so that's excellent, and we're already gaining traction.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:20

Adam Rein

“we want to, we want to make sure that we can find access. We want to identify the accesses that are available to the rivers and the lakes. And, you know, if there's junk cars and there's things, if there's houses on them, then we start the process.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:57

Adam Rein

“there's a lot of public easement accesses to the lakes and the rivers. And this is something that we're going to take a look as a group and look at where they're at on a map and also defining them physically. And then at some point making a presence, whether it be getting a sign out there or something. We will, we will come up with a plan on how to improve the visibility of the city-run easements, because they're public easements. But oftentimes people, oftentimes people, if they're not maintained, people tend to forget and they turn into driveways and things get built on them.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:07

Adam Rein

“So, and this will be just a work session that we'll just pick— we'll just pick away at it throughout the month.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:33

Adam Rein

“if we want to put a resolution forward, or if we want the city council to— to— we want something to get to the city council, we do it in our meeting. We approve it, we send it forward, it goes to the Planning Commission, the Planning Commission approves it. Or kicks it back to us, and then, then after the Planning Commission, it goes to the city, or it goes to the, um, City Council.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:55

Adam Rein

“my goals during this work session would be to, to move forward with some information on our to actually bring a packet to the city council that says, here's what we've identified.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:18

Adam Rein

“I think at this point that the more work sessions we we can get in, the better, I think, really, to get the ball rolling. I think it's a good idea to do a— since we meet every month, one to do one in the middle. I'm— I'd like to just start with one 2 weeks from now.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled Parks and Recreation Meeting 11.05.2026 ·

0:11
Jeff Brasel“thank you, Charlie, for the work on the block grant. I don't envy you in door knocking around here, so have fun with that.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 ·

0:20
Jeff Brasel“Advanced a matching grant for the point— for the Joint Public Workstation 93 facility. Staff working on getting all the requirements completed. The next administration will need to finish this effort.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 ·

0:07
Jeff Brasel“Funded Station 93 feasibility work. It was completed on October 4th, 2026.”

Houston: Special City Council Meeting 10.19.2026 ·

0:34
Kevin McCabe“ADA doesn't know what business they're thinking about putting up there. Um, so there will be much public comment, there will be much public process involved if it if in fact it does happen, and I'm not convinced, like Senator Rauscher is, that it's going to happen. I think there's lots and lots of pressure on DNR.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:15

Sean Darnell

“Data sheets note special firefighting procedures specifically directing dry chemical water fog or foam should be used, not to use direct stream of water, indicating, uh, using solid streams of water could actually spread the fire.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:30

Sean Darnell

“The state of Alaska is now involved in investigating this contamination. Shouldn't the city wait for the state to complete their investigation for conclusions, including cleanup efforts needed to address the contamination at this site?”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:16

Sean Darnell

“I respectfully request the city council to deny this CUP. Protecting public safety, our water, air, and neighborhoods should come before approving a site for industrial use whose impacts have not been adequately determined.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:12

Tony Woolers

“I'm actually a victim of the contaminated water right now, 'cause it's all flowing directly at my property, which is going to cost me a very large sum of money according to the state when this all settles out.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:19

Patrick Simpson

“it's a requirement for us, it's state law that we have to report these things. I mean, it's not— there's not an option.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:35

Patrick Simpson

“I think what we're planning to do, what I'm planning to do, is monitor probably with permanent wells at, at least 2 locations on site for the next 5 years.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:15
George Rauscher“They're going to read them all and they're going to make some, probably some decisions later after they've, they've calculated all of the limite that they got. But I just thought that the takeaway is it's going to happen.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:41
Kevin McCabe“A few other things, uh, I listened to Senator Rauscher talk about, um, the DNR ADA land transfer. Keep in mind that Senator Rauscher was talking about the ADA response to the public comments. All those public comments that you made, that everybody made to, uh, on this transfer, went to the DNR, and the DNR makes the decision on this, whether or not they're going to transfer it to ADA.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:36
Kent Mitchell“Personally, I'd rather see DNR land in the city limits of Houston be turned over to the City of Houston. That's my opinion. I'd rather be there to manage it as a city so that the people have a say in what— I mean, it seems like they are willing to work, and it didn't seem like they'd be difficult to work with, but So yeah, we've had a kind of an issue with this process of DNR not filling us in or putting us in the loop before they make these decisions.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:39

Sean Darnell

“I'd like to provide comment in opposition of approving a conditional use permit for Alaska Plastic Recovery to operate an industrial plastics processing operation at this location.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:23

Patrick Simpson

“what that indicated to us was that contamination of the groundwater, which wasn't coming from us from any of the soil sample measurements, and was also in an area where we weren't storing any plastics, was actually coming from further upstream somewhere above us.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:28
George Rauscher“And it didn't seem like any question that I asked probably would give that opinion that they were ever going to do that. So it was going to stay no matter what. Does that mean they got a data center in mind? They kept saying no. They also said that there's no future for a data center here because of energy, because of, uh, the, uh, oh, you got a fiber optic line, few other things.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:32
George Rauscher“And, uh, so they did say they were going to keep that in. And since they said they were going to keep that in, that just tells me the whole land trade is going to happen.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:03

Tony Woolers

“If the answer is no, then please do not grant this permit.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:36
George Rauscher“it seemed like, uh, ADA thought that the comment periods were something that they could take into consideration, but no matter how bad they were, how good they were, it would not change their opinion, uh, if they wanted to still go on with the transfer of the land. That was what I was getting at. Now, I did ask a question about the data center, uh, and I basically asked if they were going to actually think about removing it because we had heard that they would take that out of the mix.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:13

Tony Woolers

“So on my conclusion, I want to ask each one of you, if it was you in your backyard, would you want this in yours?”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:25

Sean Darnell

“Information presented recently by Three Tier Alaska at a community meeting identified diesel contamination in the groundwater. The source is not currently known.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:32
Jeff Brasel“I think that 2620 was a big win for the city tonight, and I want to thank Council Member Johansen for drafting pretty much the entirety of that. All I did was modify it a little bit into being temporary and try to work on the language some. Um, but that gives us an opportunity to get our renewed planning and zoning folks on track with plenty of time to make that happen, and, and I think we're gonna come out the other side of that in better shape than had we, you know, gone the original direction.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:07

Tony Woolers

“This is 3 times the legal limit for for consumption. That means technically I can't even shower.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:17
Lisa Johansen“And overall, I think this ordinance makes everybody happy in terms of what the other council members were looking for, what I was looking for. So I think we came to a happy medium, I would say.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:53
Lisa Johansen“As the council knows, I brought forth an ordinance to ban data centers in the city of Houston. Some good discussion ensued, and Council Members Lewis and Brazell specifically had concerns about what I had brought forth, and they brought forth some, some good ideas. And I think this ordinance in front of us, uh, is a good balance between what I was looking for and the concerns that the other council members had. Um, it gives us time as the city to get our planning and zoning involved and looking at things.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:37
Kent Mitchell“The purpose of a conditional use permit hearing is to not, not just to hear the public. I understand there's a few members of the public that spoke out against it today, but some of the comments can be invalidated with proof, and I think that's what we saw today.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:34
Kent Mitchell“Yep, I agree. I think this is a great compromise to a good idea. Um, thank you for your work on it. I think this is You know, this is a good thing for Houston to be able to work through the planning and zoning process, just to set up Houston to where we're not going to get things in Houston that the people of Houston don't want. Um, we have the opportunity to draw some boundaries around businesses that come into the city, and I think that's a great— that was a great suggestion by Deputy Mayor Brazell.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 10.08.2026 ·

0:33
Carter Cole“They have a hard time answering your question, but I will tell you, they're great at giving you answers, but they could not— I had the same question. They were unable to answer my question.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:28

Kelvin Goode

“the reason why I'm here is because of the proposed just under 20,000-acre parcel, or it's something that Ada put a request in.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:33

Kelvin Goode

“in the future, I think there were some lessons learned here for me personally. And in the future, I think that engagement ahead of time, soliciting feedback from council members, from the mayor, you know, that, that's something, something that we'll definitely do, right?”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:22

Kelvin Goode

“we're not planning to, to put a data center up here because what— when we put our submission in, it was all projects under the sun.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:35

Kelvin Goode

“I know that there's the prospect of oil— of gravel, excuse me, gravel, a material for for that. And one of the other thoughts was that from ADA's perspective, with all of the development, you know, access to gravel, that's something that would be important for infrastructure.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:17

Kelvin Goode

“When they're talking data center, we're looking at something the size of a Connex. We're not looking at anything larger than that. It's more micro scale.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:16

Kelvin Goode

“to answer your question about why we didn't, the land's technically not ADAs, right? And so we first have to come up with a development plan and with an application, and that's what triggers that process.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:17

Kelvin Goode

“we didn't— we put all projects under the sun. We don't have a single project in hand, no proposal, no nothing for that land, no plans for that land.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

0:24

Rachel Longacre

“DNR was approached by ADA to help find land that was suitable to fulfill their mission of creating development and economics. That is not DNR's mission, that is ADA's mission. We are the landholders, so they came to us and asked us for certain things that, you know, it was land within close proximity.”

Houston: Regular Scheduled City Council Meeting 09.10.2026 ·

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