Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
- Play at 1:48:10
“I think it's also to get rid of that rustic stone and continue with the same.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:48:45
“By the way, before we move on, if you were to have, I don't know exactly what the stepping is, but I think that the whole piece, the entry sequence, if you can have split it into, there we go, I think that Because we're going to have a planter there, and then you're going to have a step down. The way that step meets that needs to be where the planter is what needs to be. But you're still going to have a bit of a problem on the right-hand side, because you still have a need for railing on the right-hand side. Do you understand what I'm saying? So we still have an issue with how you're going to…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:49:44
“I mean, I trust that you can solve it, but I'm just saying you still have that issue on the right-hand side. Listen, the front of the house is about the stairs, about the entrance sequence. That's your idea of the side one and the side entrance and all that. So the way that the stair and the entrance sequence is the project. You know what I mean? It needs to be really like a little jewel, like it's perfect. And I trust that you can do it, but I think by... Suggesting what we suggested immediately opens the possibilities to make the right move. And I trust you that you will.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:50:31
“One more thing. When I look at the rear elevations, I don't know what the... It's like you've... You see, I don't understand why this is so thinly drawn because the front windows are set back and beautifully... It's like Adrian was saying. You have beautiful bronze section. It's the wrong rendering.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:50:54
“I have a suspicion that... I have a lot of suspicions, but I'm just saying the back of the house... I'm sure the back of the house needs to match the front of the house. Yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:51:07
“I'm saying it's the same. You're not going to let fall off the cliff with, like, what this looks like.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:51:43
“Sorry. Sorry. One more thing. You haven't solved the rear stair either. That perspective is not up to code, so I don't know how that's going to be solved, because that's not code.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:51:57
“No, I know, but I'm just saying, statically, you still have an issue with that one, too, that you should keep on working on both, and maybe making cohesive, so maybe they're the same treatment. Okay?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:52:15
“I make a motion to approve with conditions.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:52:38
“You've been great. Always a pleasure. You've been great.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:57:53
“Right. So I think that, I think that my issue with, with, uh, Harding is right now it's a combination of things because it's, it's some are incredibly, uh, poorly kept and the problem is that they paint the facade so the storefronts matching colors you know we have a beautiful i find that i show was found a very beautiful i mean i will blow up the whole thing and do it all over again we have a beautiful cohesive uh... downtown our downtown is actually quite beautiful the palm trees are really beautiful but you would know what happened to him i want to blow up half of this town to do it again…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 1:59:54
“Well, I'm trying to, I'm saying it's a package to me. It's the color of the storefront, but I don't know where the color of the stores falls into the guidelines of this town. I don't know, I don't think there's any guidelines for painting the commercial space.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:00:07
“Right, it doesn't include the, so these people can literally paint their storefronts purple if they want to.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:00:17
“Sorry, it's a question to her. Scarlett. I don't know what the guidance are for her.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:00:38
“I know, but that's not enforced because this doesn't come in front of us. So who's going to enforce it? It's like saying nothing.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:00:45
“I know, but if they don't come in front of us, there's no way of compatibility. It's basically saying nothing.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:02:56
“I mean, I think that what I was trying to gain is for the weirdest reason, we're looking at signs. I mean, if you have standards of how big these signs are and what you can do and the colors and that, why are they coming in front of us? I mean, why we're wasting our time with signs when we actually, what thing that impacts the street the most is the awnings, and that's what's catastrophic, and the paint of the colors, the color paint of the buildings. So I think that we can't just retroactively go back and force people to change their colors, but I'm saying if you come in front of us, a lot…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:03:46
“The glass, the storefront, you know. I think that, you know, it's the soul of our town. You know, we have a downtown. I mean, Coral Gables, they protect fiercely the downtowns and, you know, what things you can't do and cannot do, the planters. And I think that we have a laissez-faire... i think the palm trees are so beautiful and the street is so beautiful but when you look when you walk down and the experience of walking down it's so chaotic and so dirty and so it's not beautiful it's not beautiful and i think part of it is it's that randomness of it all so i think if we put a little bit of…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:05:47
“I think if you're going to open a building, are you going to make changes to the facade, a commercial, being the renter or being the owner? Yeah. We don't know.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:05:55
“what needs to come on the board the same way the renters, the one who comes here with the sign, it's not the owner, it's the renters who come in for the sign. I think they need to come with a whole packet. They're already showing the awning. Every time we see it, they're already showing an awning because they're probably putting a new awning. That's why they have it in the drawing because maybe even the same company is providing them the awning. So we're asked not to look at the awning, but the awning is in the drawing. So it's actually very simple. I'm saying where someone is presenting, it…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:07:53
“But we're not on Worth Avenue. No, we're not. If you give him letters, you know what it's going to look like.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:08:06
“We have another issue. It's that a lot of the awnings touch each other. We have a situation which is very different from Worth Avenue, where you have beautiful storefronts where the audience sit within a facade. We have a dumpy little commercial spaces, and the audience are literally one next to each other, or very, very close to each other. So we don't have that stretch of awning that gives you breath where we know what we're referring to. So we have a lot of very, very tiny little storefronts.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:10:09
“a very cohesive streetscape. And we have an insanely beautiful string of palm trees marching down the street, which are the two key elements to make something beautiful. If you clean up the signs and you clean up the storefronts and the paints of the buildings and you clean up the awnings, it will be a jewel. You don't have to do... No one has to spend one penny more than they are. It's just it's not cohesive, and that's the problem. We're not asking them to spend money. We're asking to rule so it's all more cohesive. Because when... The two most expensive and more complicated things to have…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:11:48
“We start a conversation, I think, in the right, we're moving the conversation to the right.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:12:31
“There's responsibility of all kinds with owning property.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026