Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 10
- Play at 1:12:38
“Okay, so there's going to be an entrance warning. So one way of handling that stoop that you need to get up there, I think that because you have that grade up on the left hand side, I think that you can terrace maybe this corner in couple times so the steps are linked into some kind of terracing. So you don't end up getting that stoop with that railing. So you step that whole corner. So this corner. is terrace so you can landscape in levels and you have a garden at the corner and the steps become just a continuation of of the planter and you don't get that stoop with those two railings i…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:13:30
“I'm using that berm that you have on the side so you can terrace around the corner. And I think that you need to go into... You know, the house is broken down into planes. The back is taller, and it's one plane. Then you have the center body, and you stucco. I would suggest that something you can do with the side, with that stucco, with the skinny window, which I don't mind. I think that maybe you can have an ivy growing on that wall. So maybe this pavilion becomes, you know, you have a wall of green on there. I think that the green of the garden needs to go up on this pavilion. So I think…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:16:20
“I mean, I think that... It's up to you guys, but I think that we itemize the changes and make them very clear changes that we're expecting to see. I don't know, it's up to you guys. I think we've pinpointed the changes that we want to see, but it's not for me to decide.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:18:35
“I mean, we're not going to be here, so yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:18:39
“I mean, we're not going to be here, so that leaves it in limbo.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:19:48
“Yeah, if I can add again, I want to simplify this building as much as we can. So we don't keep on going around. I think that we never had an issue with the side of the building. We never really had an issue with the back of the building. I think that We have issues with the materials of the buildings, and we have a bigger issue with the facade onto Harding. So I think if we can pinpoint very succinct five things that we want absolutely changed on it, I think that we can get it. I will be comfortable with moving it forward because I really don't have an issue so much with the massing or the…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:20:39
“I'm going to make a motion to approve with conditions.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:21:51
“It's okay. You'll vote against... approving it with conditions.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:22:09
“I make a motion to approve with conditions.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:22:21
“Thank you. I think that the first thing we need to do is remove the rustic stone from it and change it to what I would suggest to be coral stone, because I think it's the right thing to. I think that all the windows, which I don't know exactly. I'm at a little bit of a loss. I think you were suggesting to be bronze. It could not be black.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:22:52
“Yeah. So I think that they need to be. So we go into that palette. We have the coral stone. So whatever you're coating with stone is going to be coral stone. I think that the top border, which we have, which it looks like a piece of aluminum. I'm not sure what that is. I think that it needs to not be the highlight. It needs to disappear.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:23:14
“All of them. Those lines of darkness, yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:23:19
“All black trim, correct. More monochromatic. I think the side, which faces the garden, I think that wall needs, I would love it to see it covered with ivy because it would be- Adding to the garden. Correct. I think that the corner column needs to be removed, which I think that they don't like it either, so I think it should be removed. The second tiered- May I ask a question on that?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:23:54
“I think that where you're coating the rustic stone in the back, I think that should be coral stone. I think when you have the stucco here, I think that the whole building should turn the corner in stucco. And I think that you could do the coral stone on the far right where you have the rustic stone. As far as the facade, I think that the whole thing needs to be, you need to remove that awning, not awning, that eave, whatever that eave thing is, and those two black columns that you have marching down on this, which are hideous. So I think that the front, so remove all that. I would remove that…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:25:36
“I mean, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to an overhang over that composition just in front of that. And I think that the whole planting that you have, I think that the whole planting to me, you should bring the level you have on the rear and turn it around in in two terraces so you can soften the blow of that stoop. You don't end up with a stoop and those marching railings on either side.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:26:07
“Because it will make the building sit on a terrace. So basically you turn them around into two terraces and then you incorporate the steps into the terracing on there. The right-hand side will be would be coral stone and then you would have glass and the front door all within one panel. And perhaps you can add an awning in there if you have to. I mean these are my recommendations. I know we never tend to do this, but I'm trying to. I'm trying to wrap it up in something that is a set of five things that need to be changed.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:38:41
“She's punished the last day. She's punished me.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:38:47
“No, it's actually, let's talk about the, I think you added that window on the very top, which I think it looks so much better. That was a good move. I think that I still have a bit of an issue with the entryway. I think in one of the drawings, you're showing a planter in the plan. You can't really have the plane railing like that at that height, because it's not going to meet code. that railing is going up about, what, four feet, five feet? So you can't just have an open railing there going up five feet, because it's not going to meet code. So the problem I've had with this house always is…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:40:30
“at grade, but let's continue. Well, a planter at grade wouldn't make any sense there because it's behind a huge wall of steps. So I think that To me, we need to concentrate on the sequence of the... I'll make a suggestion to you, which I don't know if it fits your sensibility. I've always had a real problem with that wall of stone. I think it's... The house is so delicate and so... You know, it's a small house. It's like a little cutesy... It's a very cute, very sweet house. And I like... Everything on the right, I'm totally fine with. Then in your attempt to make it look different from the…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:43:18
“it fixes it i the other question i have is what is the material at the end of the entry is that a window or is that a it's a window okay okay which i love i love that i love everything about it i think that you need to get rid of that rustic stone and keep on going the same stone you have everywhere else open that whole corner let that overhang fly and when you come out of the house you'll see a planter and up air it's yeah the way to go i agree it's a way to go what's your concern”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:44:02
“I know, but you're not going over the sideline.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:44:17
“Is that what you're saying? It needs to stay exactly where it is, meet the rear of the volume, just let it fly there. And then so the planter is outside. It's not sitting within an awning. It's outside. So you can have, imagine, you can have cascading green on that side.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:44:36
“Well, that's what I mean. The planter will be the railing.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:44:59
“I leave it. I leave it. What I'm suggesting is the right thing to do. And I think it's also going to bring an immense more light into the house because that corner That entryway is going to be infinitely nicer because you're going to come out of the house and see a huge planter with plants there in open air.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:45:57
“This is the old plan, by the way. You know that this is the old plan of the first house. Make sure that you know.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026