Scott Wyant and I served together for five years on the Planning Commission, and I had known him for three years before that.

As a Planning Commissioner, his outstanding personal traits carried over.

Scott was a highly intelligent, very focused, well-informed person.

Those are the traits he brought to the Planning Commission. They helped to give him a complete understanding of the issues coming before us.

Scott knew the questions to ask.

He knew exactly how to elicit information from applicants before the Planning Commission.

Scott understood what they were saying, and he knew how to turn that information into action.

In his personal life, he was warm and genuine, highly intelligent.

Like me, Scott was a technical geek.

We both worked on computers, computer networks.

We helped people understand technology and use it better.

In addition to that, Scott was very protective of our environment, He was a surfer, a member of the Surfrider Foundation, always fiercely protective of our ocean and the environment in general.

Scott also was a resource for many people around our city. He volunteered as a board member with the Education Foundation. He was a technical source for IndieCade when they were here.

Scott was a technical resource for City Hall people as well.

He was greatly active in our community.

You can see his death is a huge, huge loss.

I miss him personally as well. He and I were very close.

One reason was that he had a complete understanding of the issues in front of us.