Remarks by Alex Sanchez
24 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Do you have categories more or less of what they're gonna be competing against?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Would it be both mental challenges as well as physical challenges?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, then I'm in favor of it, thank you.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Sure. So I was here for the public workshop that GMX did about a month and a half ago. And I saw everything and I during public comments, I got up and spoke about the offering specifically in 67th Avenue. We all saw the traffic today on 67th Avenue going northbound. Today was a bit of an outlier just because it was an accident in front of our Lady of the Lakes. But even on a regular school day, we're outside of summer already. We're back in the normal routine. Everybody's back to school. Everybody's back to work. It's we're getting back into the flow of things north of Miami Lakes Drive…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Now, somebody brought up the idea of an exit on 87th Avenue. If you bring up over the bridge that crosses into Hialeah, if you lose an aerial view on that bridge 10 feet away from that underpass, you have an exit onto 138th Street. It's way too close. They won't, FDOT will not approve that exit, that entrance being so close to an on-ramp. 170th street one of the first things that we introduced when i came on this day was a resolution supporting on ramps onto i-75 at the bridge on 170th little did i know that was a project that was already in the works for quite some time…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We are here to represent you, but you equals 35,000 residents of the town of Miami Lakes. 35,000 residents that when they leave their homes by Royal Oaks Park on 87th Avenue, takes them 45 minutes to reach the Palmetto. We are here to represent the residents in this town that when they try to go north on 67th Avenue to get on the A26 Highway to go either southbound or eastbound to get to I-95 or the Golden Glaze Interchange, takes them an extended amount of time. but doing it in a safe and proper way. There's no black and white. It's doing it in a safe and proper way. It's doing it in a way…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I've traveled the world. I've seen how bad the world can be. I've seen it on deployment, even on visiting port countries that you would assume were nice for vacation. And I've seen things there that I don't want to see here. Miami Lakes is a jewel. It will always be a jewel. It will continue to be a jewel. But the quality of life is also in the balance here. If it gets to the point where we go from 35,000 residents and Live Local affects it to get to 45, 50,000 residents, what then? It's going to take an hour, hour and a half to get to the Palmetto. So it's an all-encompassing, it's an…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So the email for Teddy Garcia is T Garcia. At GM X dash way W a Y dot com.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“so to what the vice mayor's point earlier about if this is going to extend the timeline one of my questions during my one-on-one session with the gmx team was if the off-ramp component is removed what happens then they said they would go back to the drawing table it would take somewhere between the two to four month range for them to do the complete analysis to see the the toll gantry where it would be located things of that nature before they would come back and say yes it's feasible yes it's not feasible which is why i brought up the whole thing about this just this isn't a decision saying…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right. So to speak a little bit on the background of this, it has to do with the item that we just voted on. It's anticipated.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Oh, wait, before. What happened? We need a waiver of 7.2.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you. So the proposed GMX interchange that we just discussed project is anticipated to result in an increase of vehicular volume and elevated vehicle speeds along Miami Lakeway north and south, Lake Patricia Drive, Lake Saranac Avenue, and Lake Candlewood Court. At present, no traffic calming infrastructure exists in these corridors, leaving police enforcement as the sole means of speed mitigation. It is recommended that the town council...”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“In anticipation and to get ahead of what could possibly be, it is recommended that the town council direct the public works department to coordinate with Miami-Dade County to evaluate the implementation of appropriate traffic calming measures including, but not limited to, speed humps, roundabouts, or other engineered solutions in the affected corridors in order to proactively mitigate anticipated increases in traffic volume and vehicle speed resulting from the possible GMX interchange project. Second.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just to get back, the reason why I put these items into those specific streets, Mr. Vice Mayor, is because of the experience with Royal Oaks being used, 79th Avenue, as a cut-through for those individuals that go down 82nd Avenue, cut into Royal Oaks, and they speed down 79th to get to Miami-Dade Drive. So the path that I see here is if individuals are trying to get to the Gratney Expressway, for example, from Eagle Nest, they wouldn't have to go all the way to 67th Avenue. They would cut through possibly Miami Lakeway South and into all those streets, Lake Candlewood, Lake Patricia, and use…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So the implementation is not the implementation of the actual, the physical barriers, is the implementation of them going out to get the ideas?”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Because I know it's not gonna take from one day to the next.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Councilman Sanchez, you're recognized. Well, as always, outstanding job and great job on the first day back to school. I know the street lights were a little bit of a nightmare there on 79th, but the whole department handled it the way that we know, the excellence, the gold standard. That is Miami-Dade County, and you're the crown jewel of Miami-Dade County. On Saturday, though, around 3 p.m., I was coming off the Palmetto, heading home, and I dialed 911 because of what I saw. There were a group of about 20 to 30 teenagers on dirt bikes doing wheelies, passing in front of the golf course,…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“The worst thing we can do ourselves is take physical action. We cannot go after them, obviously. Absolutely not. That's law enforcement. We are not law enforcement. You are law enforcement. Yeah. Right. Okay.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So I love the spirit of this item. I really do. Councilman Garcia. I just I see this more fitting within the scope and the mission statement of the Public Safety Committee. They love to do publicity. They love to do those training types of videos where they can reach out to those other municipalities, especially with the success that we had last year with Cards for Heroes, where we had first responders from as far as Homestead come to our town. So I really do believe instead of doing a separate body in its own, is feeding this through the public safety committee and developing it through that…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes. Councilman Angelo Cuadro Garcia. Before accidents, three of them were in the daytime. One of them was in the nighttime and it's been over in the span of four years. So adding lights for the it would really be for one accident in the span of four years. Now, if I may, Councilman Cuadra Garcia, there's also, you know, there's a few of us that live right along that street, and I drive it every single night. Yes, there are parts that are dimmer, but there's also the neighboring, the people that live in that neighborhood, like on Jacaranda and on Big Cypress, that enjoy a little bit of that…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So due to a personal family health-related issues, Gary Cardenas missed several meetings, which caused his removal from the Veterans Committee. Since then, his situation, his family situation has improved quite well. And it is my recommendation that Gary comes back to the committee with a waiver of Committee Rule 11H due to the 180-day requirement.”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Councilman Cuadra Garcia, I completely understand where you're coming from, okay? Because family means everything to all of us. It's not just you, it's to all of us. And I can understand the frustrations that you went through. But we also have to set aside something that I've said for a long time. The professional from the personal, okay? We are in a position of public trust. Even when I was working for the federal government, I had a security clearance. I got to a point of a top secret one, but the first one was a clearance of public trust. And that word means a lot. The people have trusted…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So I don't knock on that neighbor's door and tell them, hey, your paint is bad and your roof is dirty. I'm like, you know what, this seems a bit suspicious, so I reach out to the town manager and he filters it out to the proper departments. Or if I see a pothole or a lifted sidewalk or something that just doesn't look right. But for me to say, hey, or I'm gonna pull over a car because I see them speeding, we don't have the ability to do that, we don't. We're not law enforcement, we're not court enforcement. We set the guidelines for them to do their duties, but we do not carry out those…”
Town Council · Aug 18, 2026