Remarks by Art Giles
53 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“saying it the right way with each development versus having a blanket for everything might be a bit tricky but that's why we need the triggers on there and then we would address it it's uh but what commissioner franklin is saying though if you think about this they would make sure they had some tenants which would also take the burden off of our staff at the city to go out to try to find something coming in that would be part of it and it would you know and that and that that may alleviate some coming in it would reduce some coming in but we would have this and so that's why i'm saying i…”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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“Very, very, very unfortunate. And if I may say, didn't all and i wasn't here but didn't use sprouts as an example i mean you know didn't didn't they have two apartment buildings up there building yeah they did the commercial bars they're working on the commercial did the commercial look at all of that that's come out yeah so i mean um”
Planning Commission · Aug 28, 2026
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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 20, 2026
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“anyway does everybody know where this is on here mm-hmm 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 the frontage on that on the Lebanon Road is is CG correct and I think this is coming in as CRC but the thing about it is what I'm 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…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Are you saying this lot has had issues keeping it clean?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2026
- Play at 19:34
“Well, it can, 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 residence.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“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 there wouldn't be a lot of room and i think that's why it would be more Obviously attractive for someone to try to buy both of them or the owner of this to buy that because then you're just talking about the one class.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“But there again, that one's not on Greenville, so they do not have the ingress and ingress on Greenville. Yeah. And 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. So.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, and that's down here on the south side of that, isn't it, where they come in now?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“um and so i hope that something has worked out and and i hope we get to see it again yes sir come sure john please yeah but if there was a ride up in 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 the lots this is the only one that goes to two that could have two ingresses and ingresses on two different roads unless these people down here combine lots together You see what I'm saying?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 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 20, 2026
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“Shouldn't it be signed 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? don't think that we have an issue having that yeah we come with how many spaces I mean I don't know this Todd knows I mean I don't I don't know how many I mean spaces would is the norm for this I mean oh oh I see Melvin”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 50:23
“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 20, 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 they could do something with that building to make that kiosk separate or something. Because it's just like…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I just wanted to point out that the final master development plan does have the three townhomes, so the planning commissioner should not have”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 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 and I've had a total change but there again the final design the design should be for quality to not just quantity because you know time goes by 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 to live…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“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 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 when you have so many apartments together, it can cause those types 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 apartment. so i meet…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“How many times do people come in here, and we give a positive recommendation, and how many times is it 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 were positive? So where does it stop? We talk about that change, but we have the power to say, no, it's negative. A negative recommendation. So we have to look at ourselves, too. I agree. So...”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 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 20, 2026
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“Right? So that's where we do that most of the time.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And as far as the commercial, a lot of your apartments are coming in where that commercial is underneath it, like down here at... And I wasn't here when it was approved. Vintage stations.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Farland 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.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“It is going to be. They're going to have the outside arena thing down there, whatever you call it.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026