Remarks by Art Giles
53 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“I saw I wasn't here last month, and then I had a chance to relook at this. And I know that the body gave them a negative recommendation, but I really think that this should go through. And here's the reason for it. We're supposed to have a visual up here. Okay, John, you want to explain this?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Anyway, does everybody know where this is on here? Okay. So here's the thing. Here's the thing that if you look at this, and I think some of the comments from the last meeting was that we've not had one like this, but here's the thing about it. If that zone, which the frontage on the Lebanon Road is CG, correct? And I think this is coming in as CRC. But the thing about it is what I'm hoping will happen is is that someone will either buy both of these or this front lot will buy that because they don't have any room for anything anyway and with one lot there I mean we don't have a whole lot if…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Are you saying this lot has had issues keeping it clean?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Well, when they do that, they take a chance and have the contingent upon this body approving it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“But if you'll look over to the east, that's Thoroughfare Commercial right there. You'll see the color, which is actually deeper than this whole lot. And this whole lot acreage is what, John?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Yeah, 2.1. It's not very wide in the center. Yeah.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Well, it can. um but but they would have a class d buffer as we all know so that would shield some of your obviously that would help in your there's a buffer on the other side too and it's yeah and i don't mind the buffer it's the ingress egress could they even could they even build yeah you're putting you're putting access in the middle of a turning line know he's saying could they even build a building with the buffer because these days creativity of setbacks as you can come to this meeting or yeah no no bounds well there would be there would be a class debuffer and you've got a good point…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“You make a good point about it, Luke. There again, I mean, y'all gave it a negative recommendation. I would have voted positive. I'm going to vote positive tonight. Sure.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“On the south side of that, isn't it, where they come in now?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Commissioner Giles, anything good? No. John, you got anything else to say?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“North Green Hill Road, then that would take traffic off from Green Hill Road if they were going into this site. And as far as counting the lots, this is the only one that could have two ingresses and ingresses on two different roads unless these people down here combined lots together. You see what I'm saying?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, that would be the best, but you probably want secondary somewhere just for safety reasons. I mean, we're talking about the one on Mount Dewitt Road for the circular. I mean, you would want that if that redeveloped.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“so no dedicated parking for the mail kiosk it's not dedicated now shouldn't there be some that says so many minutes to park close to a kiosk I mean, like you have that when you go into retail places. I mean, restaurants, you normally park there a certain few minutes while you go pick up something. Would that not be consistent in this many units and have your mail in one place?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“we come with how many spaces i mean i don't know this yeah this one todd knows i mean i don't i don't know how many i mean spaces would is is the norm for this i mean oh oh i see melvin really that's right one i know we offered the tail it might be two all right”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Well, how many times does somebody go to the post office like I go every day and there's more than two cars there? I go almost every day.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Well, the only thing I have about the pool is this neighborhood probably is not going to have a lot of children. It's going to be one and two bedrooms. So you don't have a lot of younger people that go out there and want to maybe see this kind of thing. Like when we go to Florida, a place, you know, they've got islands in the pool. Of course, it doesn't do anything for me. But, you know, kids and younger people, it does. So I don't know. I don't have a problem with the pool. But I think that they could do something with that building to make that kiosk separate or something. Because it's just…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“and and adjust accordingly pardon me i just wanted to point out that the final master development plan does have the three town homes so the planning commission should not have an issue with that very well”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“quality is that in the future then the rent will drop and you're going to have some situations and i never voted for apartments in my previous time of commission never And I do now because there's some places that I've had a total change now. But there again, the final design should be for quality too, not just quantity. Because, you know, time goes by fast. And so what's going to happen 20 years from now? If people are not satisfied and they have to walk all the way across for this, or they have to take the trash all the way across this whole development, and... And all of this, who's going…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“future and I can only speak for me but I think the rest of the Commission would probably say let staff work on this on what you were talking about before i think it's exciting what's going to happen on a golden bear and i think that's going to add a lot of some things that we wanted in the city and we're going to see that develop there as far as apartments are concerned i also understand where um when you have so many apartments together it can cause those type of troubles but we you know there's some other places that we don't have apartments that would probably be good places to have an…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“i think we're going to run out of time we're going to find ourselves in an awkward position because too many times i've seen ain't never going to happen and it's happened i think this one will happen too unfortunately please if i might comment dealing with the land use cement a land use plan you made the the the comment about all the land use how many of those did we pass how many times do people come in here and we give a positive recommendation And how many times is negative? So out of tonight, how many were negative? I know of one that I wanted to be positive. So how many of the others…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“And that's exactly what they're saying. Fix that. So, yeah, I mean, I'll,”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Go ahead, please. Okay, so don't we normally put the traders on the preliminary master development plan?”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Right? So that's where we do that most of the time. And as far as the commercial, a lot of your apartments are coming in where that commercial is underneath it, like down here at... I wasn't here when it was approved that... Vintage stations.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“McFarland is what I'm thinking about. So, you know, in that situation, of course, the apartments obviously support whatever that commercial is down there. But there could be, that could be brought up to do. And that's something that I think it's at the preliminary master.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Well, that development is going to be awesome. It is going to be. They're going to have the outside arena thing down there, whatever you call it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026