Remarks by Barbara Langdon
7 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Great presentation, and I really applaud the efforts that the whole team has made in order to contain expenses. And I've always been impressed, particularly by the aquatics division. I just always felt that you guys had mastery over your costs and attendance and have been able to sort of guide when you're open and closed based on those times that are the highest demand. You're always in control of your data and I appreciate that. There's a lot here. I have specific reactions to certain kinds of things, but I'll just share some general thoughts and observations. I'm…”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yes, I just wanted to point out to Commissioner Stokes that his comments were not quite as brief as we thought they were going to be. But I totally concur with what he said. We have a wonderful community and we should all support it in whatever way we can. And if volunteering can reduce city costs and keep user fees or anything else lower, then those are the kinds of things we ought to explore, because they do build community when we all have skin in the game. Don?”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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“Probably not surprisingly, I have a different point of view. I recall only too well my first four years or so as a commissioner We did review every single development project. It was quite common for us to have four, five, six quasi-judicial items on every single agenda. And the vast majority of them conformed to the law. There were no variances, no waivers. They went through. No one here to see or hear about the project, nobody. So just for a little look back in history, we went through a two-year and some folks a decade-long process of updating our ULDC. So for myself, it was two years of…”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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“We put ourselves in legal jeopardy. We create great frustration. We probably wind up having to approve that project anyway. It is just not a productive thing to have all of those to start coming to the Commission again for review and approval. I just, I can't support that. Now, yes, the data center all something I think and to have some type of airing of projects I think is a good thing so maybe option two I agree it shouldn't be 15 applications reviewed at a meeting I think we need to agree on what kinds of projects should be discussed openly for this commission and members of the community…”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yeah, thanks, Matt. Just a few thoughts, and they're not terribly well connected. So why activity centers 6 and 10? Just to kind of bring us back to conversations we had four and five years ago, we acknowledged as a team that increasing the commercial slash industrial, I'm gonna say commercial, but it encompasses all kinds of non-residential development. We acknowledged as a team that it was vitally important to the future fiscal health of this city, and as a result its residents, that we increased our commercial footprint. And I think a lot of residents, even though those that aren't wild…”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026
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“Yes, I would agree with that. All of those words to simply say, yes, I think we need to stay the course with our assessment plans out there.”
City Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 5, 2026