Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 10
- Play at 2:27:43
“You were in bed? Yeah. You were watching TV?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“I think that I heard the first thing they're going to do is kick me out of this commission. That's what I think is a middle finger.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Well, they said it to my face, so yes, it is true.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Listen, we all want the same thing, which is the most beautiful and the best town possible. I hope that everyone who comes into the mix feels the same way, because we do, and we worked really hard. I mean, this is pretty intense, what we've done here, so...”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
- Play at 2:32:36
“Well, we're neighbors, so one way or the other.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“What are we getting? What is the gift? What is the gift? What is the gift? What are we getting? Oh, the thermos? Oh, wow.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Apr 30, 2026
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“Okay. No, I have a little bit of a, in terms of what is significant, in terms of design, you know, that's always a word that I really avoid using, because I don't really know what's, significant means a lot of different things to different people. To me, a trash can is significant, but then some other people, It doesn't mean that's the kind of word you use when you don't want to commit. So, yeah, I find that problematic.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“So I welcome your advice on it. My view of it is actually very simple because it's, you know, they bring signage in front of us for, you know, comments on signage to this town on Harding Avenue, which is one of the less sort of significant portions of, you know, that had consequences on what the town feels like.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, to me, the word is, should be anything that gets designed in this town should come in front of us. I mean, anything that gets manufactured, implemented, designed from, because it's what we do. I mean, there's not that many things that get implemented or built in the town, but if there was a selection that's going to happen to the hardware of this town, the benches that go in this town. That's what sort of gives a soul to a town. The light post, the benches, that's what some towns are known for. So I think that those are elements that should come in front of a board because they can…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, we're here to help. We're just here to serve.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“No. Yes. Oh, sorry, yes, yes. Which application? 9048 Emerson.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“The owner of the property, Albers Canasi.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“No, I mean, this is one case that I guess we're not looking at the awning. So basically, it's just a sign, and the awning is just not part of what we need to comment on. Correct. Correct.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Okay. You know, I think that I have a lot to say about this house, but the overall thought about the property, the way you've gone about this is, and why I find it so problematic, is that it I don't know what the house is about. To me, it's a little bit of pastiche of certain things that you like that somehow have been sort of put together into some kind of looks like a house. But I'm not quite sure what this object is. For example, when you look at the ground floor, you have this wall, this water feature that's in the front of the house. And then the house juts up right above it, and that…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Yeah, well, I mean, we need to see, I don't even have the slightest idea what this house is made of, but, yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 26:17
“Okay. Yeah, I mean, that's something that I... And this is a... Is that the part of the wood?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 26:33
“So, I mean, it has a feeling that, especially when you clad an object of this size with these man-made materials, it feels like you just, it's an oversized Tesla house. I mean, it feels like it has a prefabricated feeling to it that is very disconcerting to me. It's also I find the way that the house is being articulated, there's so much going on. I mean, you have a higher portion on the second floor on the right hand side, then you go down and then you have these fins on the other side and then you have an angled. It looks like you went around and saw things you liked and somehow made it to…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“It was in this, but we didn't look at it here.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I think there's one more thing that I just, when you think about, I'm trying to give you pointers of how to move the house forward. I'm not trying to, because I'm not even necessarily asking you to, what I'm asking is to make the house better. It's going to make the house better. Trust me, it's going to make it better. But I think that the second, the humongous terrace on the second floor facing the street, It's also a problem to me, because I think that just the scale of a terrace of that size in a community like Surfside is a very odd gesture to a side street. It's basically like a…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, I think that you have a lot of work ahead of you, but I think that. I mean, I'll be okay with deferring for the next 1. you have to work your 2 sheets off to bring it back to us, but. You know, I think that that's, I mean, we'll be here. So apparently, so we'll be here. So yeah, we're more than half. I mean, I think that since we talked about this, we'll be more, you know, it's basically have a little bit on there. You have three weeks to do this, but I think you can do it.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Thank you for the feedback. Our pleasure.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You have three palm trees. There's three.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You should show the night view, because actually it's very nice. Excuse me? Do you have the night view of the houses? Because we have it here. Yeah. There we go. I think that's a more evocative image of what the house looks like.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You're referring because of the flat roof in the back? Yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 52:39
“I think that in the back, I think the detail of the overhang on the flat part of it should be studied a little bit more. The eave, I think it's a little bit on the chunky side. It's thick. It's a little bit too thick. That's why he's reacting, I think, that way, because it's a bit top heavy. I think it just needs to be, the thickness needs to be adjusted, I think.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026