Remarks by Bobby Newman
58 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“There was a note about landscaping in lieu of the fence. Were you okay with that under screening?”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“We did have a community meeting. Thanks for having that. I think that you pretty much addressed the concerns that were brought up with the TEs today. I knew I was going to do that. With that being said, does any of the other commissioners have any other comments, thoughts?”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Well, then I'm going to make a motion to move to make a motion to recommend approval with the TEs as read into the record.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“No, this is a vote to make a recommendation to the City Council. This does not actually change it. It has to go before the City Council makes the final decision upon it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“It will stay what it is currently until it is heard before city council. And at that point in time, if the city council approves this SPUD, then this will take precedence over what it's zoned right now. Okay. But it's not going to straight zoning?”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Right. If that case, if someone wants to rezone that, that would be a completely separate case, be re-noticed, and there would be a separate hearing on that case.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“anyone that purchases any piece of property in Oklahoma City can request rezoning.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Well, we're just here to address the zoning portion of it, not the... financial portion of it. But to answer your question, the property next door is a separate issue. If someone would purchase that property, they could choose to do a spud on it, or they could choose to change it to a straight zoning if they wanted to. Or they could leave their zoning as it is.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Okay. We have done a couple other cases along this strip here. I don't know quite what the deal is, but most of these buildings were built in the 50s, and they were all built on R1 back in the day, so it's kind of... This place has been there, I don't know how long, but I know it's been there a significant amount of time. So with the changes we discussed, I didn't really have any additional concerns about this. Does anyone else have any concerns or questions?”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“So do they have to do that before we can change the zoning? No. No. So that would be in addition. That's outside of our purview. Yeah, that's a state application. Okay, that's what I thought. I didn't realize. I'm starting to figure I've had something to do with this I didn't know about. Okay, so...”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“We have to be first. Okay, I wasn't sure what the order was at, what you were bringing up. I wasn't either.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Um, with that being said, I'd like to make a motion to recommend approval to city council. I would like to, unless you have an objection, I'd like to delete the TE1. It's fine. Okay, and then I would like to add TEs, we'll call it TE, delete TE1, add TE2, which deletes 8300.5 alcoholic beverage sales and retail sales, 8300.22 bingo parlors. eighty three hundred point five seven payday loans uh... t three uh... no sir dispensary well at this point uh... that's the three new no marijuana use is allowed and then t four under architectural regulations change uh... the first fifty percent of…”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“I'm leaving the drainage stuff. I'm sorry.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“Alcoholic beverage retail sales. Bingo parlors. Payday loans or title loan agencies.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“You know, to me, with the limits on this, you're going to have a window of noise versus where it's at tonight. Where the current zoning is, you could have, as he pointed out, speakers all night long at a drive-thru restaurant. So to me, that's a downgrade on the sound. The traffic, I think, versus... a drive-through restaurant is significantly less. I don't know, I just, I kind of see this as if I had to choose one of the two next to me, I'd probably choose this one. That's exactly where I was too, so.”
Planning Commission · Sep 24, 2026
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“I'm pretty familiar with the areas in the map, and you are correct, there's a small portion of Ward 5. But I do, I am happy to see this moving forward because I think these areas certainly need some sort of economic reinvigoration. Yeah, I think you definitely hit the target in terms of areas that can benefit from this.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay, sure. Thank you for the change. I think this is much more suitable to the neighborhood and surrounding areas. Unless anyone else has anything, I'll go ahead and make a motion to recommend approval to City Council.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“So basically we're saying we might have one parking space. We would add one on-site. You may or may not leave spaces across the street.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And how long is that letter, I mean, how long is that agreement good for? I mean, the building's going to be here for a long time.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“You know, I appreciate what you're doing with the dumpster. I've had difficult sites before too. Um. I just with some of the use groups here, I still have concerns about the odors and potential issues with the dumpster being so close to basically the space you're living in, working in, and the neighbors adjacent to it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think you've done a good job in terms of the architectural characteristics of the house, but I think splitting the lot into two, looking at the rest of the houses on the street really puts the facades out of proportion with everything else I see on the street. And then I also agree with, you know, we asked for you guys to get with neighbors and that was for a reason.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“And I'm not going to disagree, but I want to point out that 35 to 25 is basically a 25% reduction. And then you're having two facades within that lot that has a 25% reduction. So just an observation.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I feel like this is the wrong purview for this whole conversation. No, it is. On that TE, for sure.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“The manufactured home usually, though, is on a permanent foundation. It can't be moved again.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026
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“I think you did a really nice job on the detailing, so I hope it does look like that.”
Planning Commission · Sep 10, 2026