Remarks by Anthony Segrich
100 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Yeah, I thought we had said we were going to look at a repeat for August, September and October because the educational campaign has not yet launched. So there still might be some people caught up in the beginning of October.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, no, I just wanted, you know, when we gave direction on Tuesday, the direction was to include October as part of that reprieve. Up until the point we were able to send out a postcard mailer or some sort of heavy educational campaign. So that's what the direction was set on Tuesday.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“It does. We would just need one more person to change the direction we gave on Tuesday. We can't really change what we already did because we can't vote on anything.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I was just going to say, I just want to underscore the outreach and the door hanger. So when we talk about it next, I'd like to know an update on that in terms of what's our timeline, when is it going to happen? Because I do understand and appreciate staff's concern that as we just continue to do these, we are racking up more and more households that we will have to deal with retroactively. And, you know, my thought on that is the sooner we get the educational campaign done, the sooner we don't have that problem. So that's where I think we need to focus right away is let's get that…”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“It was it was during the citation process.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I do. I've given them to Troy for legal. So there's a number of things that I have questions on with that. So to preface this, I don't have a problem necessarily with us charging commercial rates if it's done legally, right? So there's a couple different issues. One is that when our code and fee tables were set such that they were charging transient properties, commercial rates, our definition of transient only applied to hotel, motel, or similar structures, which means just because we're going to reinterpret it, it we're adding it, we're doing it new, right? And we've never done it before.…”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, that's one of my questions for confirmation. So that's base rates.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“There's just, I know Ed has his hand up, but there is, and I will try to get it to you. I'll see if I can dig it up, that there is ordinances that the vacation rental mega companies like Airbnb and VRBO are supporting in Florida, specifically for registries. And there's other municipalities where they've done it and they've kind of been applauded by those big lobbies and agencies. So hopefully we can learn from that and really lessen our legal exposure.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I think because hopefully the mayor will be there and we'll have five. I think we'll be able to come to a decision. For me, with this particular ordinance, As I said last time, my concerns was more on the micro units and the boarding houses and all of that language, which I thought as a group, we all agreed to all of that. And the only point of contention was the commercial rates on vacation rentals. So I'm a little bit disappointed that we're going to have to necessarily rehash all of that. I would have liked to have seen that marked up in this version that's coming forward. I will have to…”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Step one, Tate, let's take step one, which is correct all this stuff that William and his team spent a lot of time figuring out. And then step two, let's immediately move to implement the registry and get out to bid for a partner who will help us with enforcement.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, none of the way I put it to people who ask me is... None of what we would call common sense regulation on short term or vacation rentals is in this ordinance. This is basically step one, just recognizing that we have them in the city. They will be allowed in the city. And then step two is, OK, how are we going to have common sense regulation on that?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Well, that and, you know, the legal argument of the grandfathered clause has been challenged. And, you know, we already know it's on shaky ground. It's not, you know, it might not survive a court challenge.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I've got a couple. So just one very particular question on line 211. Fill in material. What is meant by fill in material? Is that like landfill or like sand?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“That's what I meant, yeah, like dirt. Yes. Okay, so you can't just pile up a whole bunch of used artificial turf to fill in a hole, essentially.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I've definitely seen it. So thank you for providing a lot of the clarity in and around the single family home, one acre or less. So that's that applicability section. It takes a little... bit to cross-reference it, but it does, I think, a good job there. My big question, so with the one acre or less single-family residential, the only question I have there is, under the permit requirements. So currently, you know, via the state rules and requirements, they're not requiring site plans. They're not requiring soil surveys. They're not requiring any of that stuff. Do we risk running afoul by…”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“without a permitting process it requires a bit we wouldn't have that information but the nrcs web soil survey that's not required to meet the state statute”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Understood, but that's not a Natural Resources Conservation Services Web Soil Survey.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Line 298, we're requiring a natural conservation services web soil survey. What is the purpose of that?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I understand that about large projects, but for your homeowner who only has to adhere to 10 inches per hour, I think it is, right? Yeah. That's not going to tell them that. The perk rate afterwards is what's going to tell them whether or not they've succeeded, as well as the material spec and the base material spec and so on is going to govern that, not the current existing condition of the soil. So if your soil right now drains at... 800 gallons a second or drains at 10 gallons an hour is irrelevant. Just after they install the artificial turf, it has to drain at 10 gallons per hour.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“And if somebody's just putting this in between their landscape pavers, we're still going to require that?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I don't want the permitting process to be overly onerous because a lot of these installations are very simple. it's i want it in between my landscape pavers because no grass is growing there i want a putt-putt green in a small area of my backyard um you know we're i think we're over engineering a lot on the side of that question”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“I agree. Yeah. No, I think something like that would be prudent, right, to do because we get enough flack about our permitting process and everything and that it's overly onerous. So something like that, I would say, would be a very prudent thing to have. My other question is this. Currently, it's been stated that that currently artificial turf is allowed anywhere landscaping is not required. So I've always interpreted that meaning like currently we can have artificial turf. Is that a correct statement?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Yep. So with that, my concern is over SB 180, because whether it's, you're currently allowed to have 50 square foot or 50% of the property as artificial turf, We have now greatly limited commercial properties' ability to utilize artificial turf by adding this in. Does this, since it is currently allowed and now we are making it a lot more burdensome, are we allowed to do this by SB 180?”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Good? I am satisfied with that, yep.”
City Commission · Oct 2, 2026