Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
- Play at 17:15
“Yeah. You thought the material of the planters.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 19:27
“I mean, I think this is a completely different house. And I think it's cohesive. I think it's serene. I think that it feels the outside of the house, the front of the house to me feels effortless, which is what I appreciate. I actually agree with... It's also like we talked about this many times, it's that setback as we're writing into the code. I think that if you've used it to benefit the house immensely, you create a garden on the second floor, which I think is the right thing to do. I also think that, I agree with George, I think that it's just a matter of language. I think that you did a…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 24:00
“I mean, I think that one more thing. I love the fact that you step in the house down, bringing the pool to grade. I mean, I think that that's... This is an example of how you can go up and they come down again. And I think you've made the right choice of stepping down to me and having the pool not in a box sitting in the background with a building sitting in a box and destroying the backyard. And I think you achieve so much more privacy by being lower in relation to your neighbors. Because once you have one of those boxes up there, you're literally eight feet above your neighbors. So I think…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 26:34
“I think that that part of it is still left as a diagram. It's not designed. That's what I'm saying, that your house is still, it needs one more layer of detailing, especially in those moments.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 30:43
“They're kind of in the middle of the yard.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 31:04
“Yeah, well, you can deal with that. They're all within buildings. The palm trees are where the pool is and the other big trees where that terrace is.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 31:47
“I want to say one more thing before we continue. I think that what I meant about the I think that what the house needs, especially if you can go to the back of the house where right now, I don't have an issue with the amount of glass that you have of it. It's just right now, it's very storefront. You know what I mean? It looks commercial. It has sort of a rawness to it that it doesn't look, that's what I meant to it. To me, it's a diagram. It's not engineered properly still for a home. We can't even tell what opens, what doesn't. The next step is to me is to, for example, in that back,…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 34:45
“I mean, I think we should make a motion to approve with a few of these conditions that we spoke about. Are you okay with that?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 35:14
“I mean, I think I have... I mean, it's a leap of faith because I know the work and I know where they want the house to head towards. So I think that it's going to be done. So, I mean, I think if we make it a... What are the conditions you're proposing? I think the conditions that need to be... I think that window wall in the back needs to be... It needs to have a layer of wood. It needs to be... There has to be a layer added to that so it doesn't look like a storefront. So it has to be engineered that way. And I think that the front of the house needs... That whole gray area needs to continue…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 36:07
“Yeah. And I think that balcony needs some protection from the neighbor. That is a Juliette balcony. It doesn't look at Romeo down below. So, I mean, I think that there's some.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 36:38
“I think that the glass needs to set further back into that opening, and then another layer of wood needs to be added, like louvers. You can't have plain glass like that in the West. It's just... It's not realistic. You can't do it. I mean, you wouldn't be able to sit inside that house. You'd be cooked, even with air conditioning on. So I think it's pretty much safe to say that if we veil that whole back with a system of louvers that needs to be done, so it's that added to the house, so it becomes a tropical house where you can control the way the light hits that, especially because it's…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 37:49
“And they're committed to a beautiful house, so I'm sure that, you know, I think that they will do it, so.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 38:35
“No, that hits the whole idea of the green that needs to be higher. The side vegetation. The side vegetation. It's the same thought. All right.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 58:58
“Yeah, just at least so we can see you for head on. Thank you. That's enough. I mean, we have. That's good.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 59:28
“I think that if it's a home or it's not a home, I mean, it's a home as much as I'm Chinese. I don't think it's a home. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We're going to accept it's a home, and that's it. We always accept that it was a home. We have to make it be domestic since it's a home. Whatever use it's going to have, that's outside of my understanding. The thing is strange, but it needs to sit like a pavilion in, because it's part of a garden, because it's adjoining that whole. jungle that has been created, which I actually love. I think it's very beautiful. So I'm actually on your…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:01:48
“I'm going to get to a lot of things. I think that you want this house to open more to the garden, more than to Harding, because I would imagine this house is connected to the garden, to the green. it's gonna be enjoyed more coming from the garden into the side of the house more than the harding side of the house. Do you know what I'm getting at? Yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:02:23
“I'm gonna get to a lot of details of the house. When you look at the side of the house, what bothers me the most is that pilaster in the corner. That heavy column that sits there in the corner with that second piece of black that is over, I think that's completely necessary. I also think that, I agree with George, the whole setup of the front door is a miss. I think that the front door, because I'm not In an attempt to make it a home, you created this hokey front door that it doesn't fit with the sensibility of the rear and the side, which I think is a lot nicer because it's more…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:03:26
“I think in your attempt to make it look domestic and make it like a house, you became cute. And I think that I agree with George. This house sits outside of the realm of regular houses because it's such an anomaly in the town. And I want it to exist. I think it's a great addition to it. I'm not against it in any mean. I love the garden. I really love that. I mean, hopefully someday I'll get to enjoy it too. But I'm just saying. I'm trying to push the house more to a pavilion side of sensibility. So I think in your attempt to try to please us in making more housey, you know, looking more like…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:04:19
“No, no, no, I know, I know, but I'm just saying... the little sculpture. I think the two little windows, one is a window to a bathroom, which is like, one is a window to a bathroom, the other one is a window. So I think that I'm trying to clean up, going back to cleaning up the I'm trying to tell how I feel about it. I think that, again, if we start eliminating that band on the second tier band that is so necessary because it doesn't do any service and it's overkill, and those heavy rusticated sort of stones, I think the pavilion needs to be more like a”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:05:16
“the prior meetings that- There's a little bit of understanding in our part because we're trying to make it fit within how we guide ourselves to try to judge these things. This house is an anomaly in the town. So I want it to be more of an anomaly. I want it to go back a little bit more to what it used to be before. The front have a front door, but be more plain and So it doesn't have this, and also this step. You know, when you do a stoop with two railings on the side, there's no way around, that's always ugly. There's no way around it, because it's, I think that the whole, maybe those steps…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:06:15
“I think the stucco, I mean, you want this to be a little jewel, okay? Because you were going to spend a lot more money in the first round than this round. It was more expensive the first time you showed up to it than this one.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:06:27
“So this is cheaper version than the first one. Much. So since you're willing to spend money, I think that- When you have the expanses of stone, I think that you need to deal with more of slabs of stone with a pattern, something elegant and beautiful, more like the Barcelona Pavilion, something a little bit more exquisite, a little bit hokey.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:06:53
“I think the stucco could be mixed with pieces of stone. Whenever you want to do the rustic stone, I don't particularly like that thing in the corner because I think that's really heavy handed and ugly. You want the building to turn the corner. So I think that whatever you have, the stone, the russicated stone, I think that to me, I would clad the building with a coral stone or something. The building is a pavilion in the garden. You're creating a beautiful garden. I think that this needs to feel not like a house in Homestead. It needs to look like a beautiful pavilion in the garden and i…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:09:34
“I think that this pavilion needs to be lit from down up. You don't need any lights on any surface. It has to be like a little pavilion that floats at night in a garden.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:12:24
“I'm going to make one suggestion, so it's very punctual. I think when it comes to the front door, if you want to enter the house on, I mean, did you want to enter the house on Harding?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026