Remarks by Adam Gersten
152 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 7
- Play at 44:17
“All right, let's rise for a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 45:49
“Thank you. Before we get a motion, can we just, who's not here who also did not request?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 45:57
“Did anyone not show up that also did not request an absence waiver?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 46:10
“I just want to start keeping track of those. Is there a motion?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 46:24
“Great. Any opposed? Sorry, and forgive me, are you the alternate? Okay, so we're going to have the alternate acting in capacity, full capacity, I think, today. Yeah.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 46:51
“Please close online public comment. Thank you. Are there minutes for approval? Deferrals?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 47:35
“Thanks. I just, if you all indulge me for a second, I have to start with a really weird note. So it was brought to my attention, and I had a friend make some copies.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 47:53
“But it came to my attention that emails have been going out from an email that is not real or not real from anything. We are from the board and they're really well written. They look really official to applicants with all their application information, soliciting wire payments to the city. And they're signed in my name, so I definitely wanted to talk about it here to make sure people knew that it wasn't coming from me. It's like a .usa or usa.com email address, but other than that, everything about it looks very, very real. In the time since I received yesterday, or was it today, an…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 51:04
“That's a good idea. Yeah, can you all make sure that that goes out on the city of Miami? Just saying that we know that people are getting these fraudulent.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 51:36
“Well, it's definitely pretty public now, so if we can maybe do it that way now. I'm sorry if I ruined their year-long investigation into this, but I'd really like to let people know.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 52:13
“All right, so I guess we'll get started with item number two.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 54:40
“Does anyone from the public like to speak on this item? Seeing that there is no one, and I'd like to bring it back to the board, I would assume not for much discussion, but.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 55:23
“Anyone else on this side? This side. Member Bailey.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 55:55
“Great. All right, is there a motion? Motion to approve. Second. All right, Member Bailey with the motion. Second. Patinkin? Roll call, please. Okay.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 57:52
“Sorry, real quick, we had a question from a couple board members. Just myself, just three and four. These are land use and zoning changed to the same property. Well, I just, we're bringing it up and then we can, I think maybe let's just make that decision at the end. Okay, thanks.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:02:27
“Would anyone from the public like to speak on this item? Seeing that no one does, I'll bring it to the board. Starting on my right, Member Vann.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:03:56
“Could I follow up on that real quick? Does that mean, though, that the two properties abutting on the left in this map, those already are T3O, or they also will need to... No, so at some point, they'll also have to come in and do an application as well, if they so choose.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:04:32
“I'm just saying in terms of, as far as cleanup goes, is there anything today that we can do to make more efficient the process or it has to be chosen by the property owner?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:04:57
“Yeah, I mean, just knowing, yeah, it seems like the right thing to do.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:05:09
“Okay, great, thanks. All right, sorry, go ahead, anyone else? Okay. Okay. Well, would anyone want to add? Would we add that to the motion then? Or would it be a separate action that the board would?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:05:34
“Okay, great. All right, so we have a motion and a second on the land use item, or can we do them together?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:05:46
“Okay, so yeah. So the land use item, that was a motion and a second. Please roll.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:07:46
“Okay, so same address. Motion on the zoning change?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:07:53
“Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. Public comment. On the same address, zoning change. Is there anyone who would like to speak on this item? Seeing none, bring it back to the board. Motion to approve. Second.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026
- Play at 1:16:33
“Or, you know what, let's, there it is. Just kidding. So the ones that are specific are in bold?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 15, 2026