Remarks by Agustin J. Barrera
196 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 8
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“No, I mean, in your verbiage here, we were talking about that you would have security guards and or off-duty police officers, and you would go from 1 up until 8 p.m. Correct. To where you go to 3 from 8 p.m. Yeah, but... That was in the prior version as well.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“We can pull this back to 5 a.m. across the board as opposed to the 7 a.m. that was originally contemplated during the weekdays. I'm skeptical about people getting food delivery at 5 a.m., but I do think you would give people a chance to clear the area to get out before kids start rolling in. Absolutely. Before the parents start trying to dump the kids off in the area. OK. And I do think the auto body, again, I don't know how much they're permitted to do prior to 7 AM or 8 AM. Well, you have a bunch of gyms back there too, right? They do.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“I think you have to look at the hours carefully to make sure there's not an overlap with the daylight crowd.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, I talked to Ed about that. I'd like to see it just like we did with, and you were on the board at the time, with dispensaries, where we said we couldn't have more than X dispensaries either within four blocks or whatever the number is.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“The idea, if I remember correctly, on the dispensary piece, we were doing that not to really try to regulate anything other than we didn't want to become a dispensary district. Frankly, we were including CVS, Walgreens, whatever in that whole thing. So it was a retail establishment focused on selling, you know... Prescriptions and things like that so same thing. I wouldn't I don't think any of us would like to become the district of Is incompatible with what we're trying to do in South Miami so?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Gus or Dan, do you have any comments or thoughts? Gus, you're talking and you're not off mute.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“What time would you like? Pick a time. I think what Ed's trying to tell us is we can design what we want to propose to move forward. Yeah. And so if we want it to be 3 a.m., we think that's fair, gives them a chance to clear, you know, whatever we think in the group is reasonable.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“And so on Friday and Saturday, I could make an argument that you would keep it similar or maybe take it to 4 AM. But we have a pretty significant running community in South Miami. They're out on the streets organized and heading out. And that's a ridiculously early hour because of the heat. And so it won't be me out there, but, you know. But so I would propose that we use earlier time as well for Friday and Saturday. Let's say 4 a.m. Okay. If that works for everybody. I see that as a safety issue. I agree.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“And I don't know, we talked about this a little bit, what is a distance from parks, schools, et cetera, that we can use that would allow someone to be in there? But, and I think, so what is a reasonable number? Is it 500 feet?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“So what if we try the 750, because that's not way off what we originally proposed. Okay. I agree. To the extent of not, so we don't develop a neighborhood of late night artistic dancing that we do put in that we don't want to have, they need to be separated by at least 750 feet.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Establishments themselves being both. They need to be both, absolutely.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I think that's fair. Off-duty police. And I don't know. We need to stipulate South Miami off-duty police. If we open up the off-duty policemen in Miami-Dade County, I would think that we would be OK. and that would give them a broader pool to yank from.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“I don't know if that's really feasible. Okay. I think I'd overlay Danny's comments about certification.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Look, I'm not going to try to tell anybody that nothing ever happens outside BT's, but I live six blocks south of it. I mean, directly, same corner of 79th Street. And so, and I'm out sometimes that early, not a lot, but a lot of my friends and my wife run down in that area, and it's quieter than it was when it used to be, whatever the bar was there before. BT's does, I think, a good job of keeping it internal, and so I'm not seeing the same activity down there, and I'm down there early enough that I'd see remainders of it, people still being sorted and so forth. So we need to recognize that…”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“And I want to go back to Danny's comment on signage. I do think we ought to be able to put a height restriction on the sign that would guarantee that it isn't the beacon of, you know.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“And what else do you think we need to make this something that is recommendable, that doesn't put us in dormy or put us in stalemate?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“So with that in mind, we have a motion. Do we have a second?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“All right. All those in favor? Aye. Aye.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“Aye. OK. Unanimous. Yep. All right. Find my agenda here. All right. Sadly, that's the last thing we have in front of us. New business. I don't think we have anything right now. The minutes. Can I make one request, Marcus? I'm not sure how we got away from this. But on the minutes, especially on, and I could live with this on the deferred items only, which would be if we're deferring something, we think it's going to come back, is to have some level of detail. What the deferral we generally say we would like to have some bullet points about the deferral What we were talking about so we don't…”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“All in favor? Yes. Aye. All right. And next meeting date is May 12th. So with that, we are adjourned. Thank you very much.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
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“I don't know. He was on and he was off. Yeah. The new fellow.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026