Remarks by Adam Gersten
152 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“Before we do the roll call or attendance, is there any, did anyone submit an absence waiver request?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Okay, is there a motion? Make a motion. That was Collins and Metoyer. Collins, second. Or Mann, or whatever.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Great. Are there any online public comments so far?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“We'll leave those open just for a few more minutes. We'll close them after the first item. Madam Mayor, I see you're here. Did you have something you wanted to? I do. Come on down. Hey, everybody.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Thanks so much. Okay, well, with that, should we do start with number one?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Thanks so much. Would anyone from the public like to speak on this item?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Thank you. Anyone else? Just to follow up, can you clarify, the presentation started out talking about T3O. but on one of the slides it mentioned T3 in general, and all T3s were mentioned. So can you clarify, this does or does not apply to additional T3?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Right, but it could be a non-conforming T3R. That's correct. Right, so it's not limited to T3O.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Okay, that's important. Okay, let's bring it to the board, please.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Right? Typical garage, you're It's what, like 20 feet, 18 feet or something, depth-wise?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“I mean, we do it for so many other things.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Great. Same amazing presentation. I really believe that great examples and shame combined will force people to reconsider their poor design choices. When you start putting one or two of these out, people will say, I want to build that, not that. I think the porch question, I think I'm always the one who's like, okay, this is great. What's next? And how can we do this everywhere? Obviously, there are some elements of this that applied to standard T3 lots would affect design choices in a positive way. I think some of these ideas encourage neighborliness in all neighborhoods, right? The…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“I thought that was alluded to at the first, second slide or whatever, but I just wanted to.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Great, okay. So does anyone, oh, sorry, you had one more. I apologize.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I think that is going to go one way or the other. Do we want to just kind of see where that falls in terms of a motion?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Okay, right. The two, the sort of the two ways of approaching the same question.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“With that. Okay. I'll second that. Okay, there's a motion and a second. So with that amendment. I'm sorry, is there any other?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Thank you. Thanks, good work everybody, that was really great. Thank you. Thank you.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Is there anyone from the public who would like to speak on this? Seeing and hearing none. Oh, public comments. Do we close them? We'll close them. Consider them closed.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Does anyone on the board have any questions or comments starting on my right?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Sorry, I was just going to say, I mean, if this is one that's slated for a big redo, then obviously wouldn't they be looking at making it better and more efficient and maximizing all the things that are kind of changing all the things that are wrong with it? Like what's the point of doing all this if there's not a plan to, you know, if they're going to go through all that trouble? It seems like some of the questions are answered by the fact that it's getting redone, you know? So to me, I think, sorry, I mean, that's what I see, is that if they're asking for it, they have a good idea of how to…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“I mean, and also we don't know that they wouldn't come in anyway with that as the obvious change. You know what I'm saying? Whatever's there now, we don't know what's, you know, they're going to come in with whatever makes the most sense, whatever makes it a better fire station.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“So did we have a motion at all? No. Okay. So is there anyone who wants to make a motion on this item?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Okay. Is there a second to approve this item? Second. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Could we please have a roll call?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026
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“Great, thank you very much. We have one more?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · May 20, 2026