Remarks by Andy Friederichs
32 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 29:13
“What I'm hearing you saying is corporate can be a little misleading. It could just be a group of two people and you call it corporate.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 29:20
“Yeah, okay, because I think a corporate, when you think of corporation, what do you think? I think of McDonald's, you know, and two people's not that. So that's just, it's a little bit misleading to me that corporate owned is more than one person.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 36:09
“So are we saying no single family home rentals, period? Are we saying short term? Or is this?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 36:20
“Wow, so Northfield has no single family rental permitted?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 44:20
“Thank you. I like to see all housing options. I do like the short-term rentals actually, single family even, because families do come to town to get care, lots of them, and having a home for them is nice. They may, and a lot of times they end up being here longer than they anticipate, and it kind of brings them some normality, if that's what they're used to, is that kind of an existence wherever they're coming from. It brings them some comfort while they're here, and I like to see them have that option. I'm not a fan of making a change at all to our, I'm a make no change guy, I guess. Another…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:02:05
“Are you saying that the corporate-owned apartments should be assessed more? Go ahead, Council Member Miller. So who do you think that gets passed on to?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:02:21
“any of it, any residential dwelling period, when your assessments and your taxes go up, who do you think that's passed on to? The renter, that's not what we're after.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:12:54
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:13:13
“But anyway, I'm saying there's a good amount of money coming back and that pretty good return on investment.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:13:38
“I'm a fan of make no changes or require hosting platform to include rental license information because I do believe when we're tapping into short-term rental, you are, in theory, taking away from hotels, motels in this community, which you want to see all those entities do well and keep heads in their beds for a lot of reasons. So it's important to make sure that people that are doing this are paying their fair share.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:18:05
“I usually don't bring this type of stuff up in our meetings and stuff, but I will. This one, I'll give you a good example of, and I'll just let you take it from there. We own the Parker Apartments right over here. There's 62 rooms in that building. In our average rent, there's right around 800 bucks. And right now, our assessment, our sales tax, our property tax each year is over $70,000 on that. and less than nine years ago it was around 10 grand. So I personally have an issue with that because we are trying to hold them down because we're providing people in their first legs of their…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:28:00
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:39:33
“Well, he asked me a couple weeks ago, so he's gonna get what he asked for. I agree with President Shubring.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:10:31
“on the council that came before us on being proactive on these issues, our congestion issues and things that are more than likely coming down the pipe. The most complaints I actually hear about is about bike lanes. I know I'm on a very bike-friendly dais, but the most complaints I hear about are bike lanes over and over and over again. That's the only complaint I hear about the transportation. But ironically, I do ride my bike and I feel like I'm gonna get run over on Highway 14 and I ride that bike lane, it's like, I'm very scared. And I don't get scared easy, but I definitely do out there.…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:13:47
“It parlays into other issues too. People aren't leaving their $3,000 bike just anywhere and everywhere. I see, I have had to cut several just bike frames off the bike ramp outside the parker. You know, I'm picking up bike frames, bike parts. They go missing. And then the facts are out there. So there's a lot of things that go into the reasons people don't do certain things, so.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:14:14
“Yeah. We had two of them stolen from tenants at our parker. Two of them have been stolen. One of them right out of the locker right underneath the train bridge. That's a shame.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:29:00
“The park and rec facing trails, I think, are a great amenity to this community. I like them. They're used. I hear a lot of positive feedback about them. On street, a lot of the streets I'm seeing bike lanes on, they're downright dangerous. We only have so much money to spend a year. We can only budget so much money to do things in our community. The question we always have to ask, are we getting the most use of our money? And is putting millions of dollars into bike lanes for 2%, I don't know what the number is, but percent of our population that uses them, is that a good use of our money? Or…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:38:03
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:41:07
“Yeah, I know. That's why I said. Pull it through in there. You don't have to use it all.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 39:21
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City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 39:27
“How much time would you have, Chair? I think five minutes. Five minutes? Five minutes it is. Okay. I'll second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:29:35
“Yeah, just one of the things you said at the end there, Council Member Palmer, did you state that only seven blasts a year? Correct. Is that fair? I should ask that before I jumped on a second.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:30:16
“I just don't want to pigeonhole you and impede your operations if it isn't effective and you need to do a few more. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:32:57
“I don't believe in land restriction as low as possible. And if we're within guidelines and safety measures, I like to have them the freedom to operate in their space.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:39:08
“Help me with that since it was your idea.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026