Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 10
- Play at 1:51:43
“I'm seeing the railing you're showing there. You're showing a railing that says 3-6, and then you have in the back elevation, you're not showing the height of it, but you're showing the cross section of the building next door, and you're showing the height of your pool. That is not six feet. I don't know what that is, but that's not six feet. So... You have 4.8 between the berm and some height, and then you have more pool, and then you have the berm below. So we're talking about this thing is about eight feet, if not more. So in the back elevation, I'm just looking at it. I mean, I'm looking…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:00:57
“Yeah, I have just, you know, I've seen this before, and I think that what I recommend is, I was just looking at the section, the cross-section of the entryway. I'm a little bit, the only thing that hits my eye is the height of the front door. I think that I think you have a chance of making that indentation there as tall as possible. And I was looking at your cross section, and that's all new. And you're dropping a ceiling there in the cross section. And I think that you have a height of 1010. And then you're putting the header above the front door. And then you have a drop ceiling of nine…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:01:49
“Yeah. I would recommend visually, I think that that should be taller. I think that the heaviness of that beam there is a bit disturbing to me. I think that you should Make it smaller, raise the ceiling inside to more than nine feet.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:02:14
“Everything. Yeah, because you have a ceiling here. You can raise this here, take this down to its minimum. take this down to here as much as you can, make this as taller, and then go down. I think that because the gesture you're making on the outside is pretty much is so simple, but I think the front door is the biggest, the biggest gesture is the front door. I think the front door should be as grand, as tall as possible.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:02:53
“You can. So I think that, to me, that's really heavy. I think you should minimize that, bring it as high as you can, and then I think it will look...”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:03:18
“Yeah. I mean, it's already a tall door. You're bringing everything high, but then you're bringing the door back down again. It needs to go up about a foot.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:03:29
“And then, because the rest of it is so simple. I mean, it's such a dry, the only bang you're doing is that- The door. That whole composition of the front door. So it needs to be as grand as possible, so it justifies the height that you're raising everything at. So it's a very simple comment. Because the garage door and the other one could stay where you have them, and then just make that as glassy as possible.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:04:21
“The only- It will use it as a garage, because they're going to put a golf cart and- A golf cart, yeah. They don't want to have a real garage?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:04:33
“No, no, no. I think it's also in terms of the landscaping, I think that it's a little bit bare.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:04:41
“I think that- know the house is going to be very clean very elegant and what's being built next door is also very nice so it's they'll they're going to work off each other which i think is going to be beautiful best idea to work together with the neighbors yeah and i would work on uh i think a landscape plan yeah i i i would so my comment is really about the trees and landscaping i know you have to get rid of that tree to build a house but i'd like to see you plant”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:06:35
“No, they have Clusias in the front of the house, no? They were Clusias in the front of the house.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:06:42
“They're saying to make a tall hedge in the front of the house because the house next door has a tall hedge. Just to continue the same tall.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:07:19
“It's a little bit suburban looking in the perspectives. It looks like it's just a house in the south, you know. It needs to be luscious. It needs to be, you know, it needs to be tropical. It needs to be just beefier, like a beefier sort of landscape. You still need to provide that level of detailing in the house. I think it's a little undercooked with the landscaping.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:08:04
“She has two in the soffit, but they're in the entryway.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:08:35
“I think that the next, you know, on one layer I need to add is the understanding of landscaping and exterior lighting and uplighting the house at night. You know, it needs to be luscious. It needs to be, because it's a very plain, it's very simple, it's very dry. So I think it just, it's one step that you need to provide to the house. I think it's a landscape sort of sensibility and understanding really the lusciousness of this project.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:09:04
“Because right now, just a lawn just makes it look like it's a suburban house. But I think it's just missing. I think it needs to be considered.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:09:24
“I would like to approve it. I mean, I think we should approve it with conditions of, you know, the few things that she was discussing about the lighting and the landscaping, yeah.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:10:38
“I mean, you're Brazilian. You know how to do landscape. Come on. I mean, it's like, come on.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:10:44
“Just do the Portland marks and just do the whole thing.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:11:10
“Light up the property from up this way instead of up.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:12:00
“I mean, I think that, the last thing I'm going to say is that, the entry threshold is what you're really doing. It's that entry door needs to be, the whole threshold needs to be the feature of the house. I think the little sconces on the side, a little bit mingy, a little bit, I would get rid of those and I would maybe put lights on the floors, up light and very small ones on top and maybe two on either side to make that whole entryway very dramatic. I think the drama needs to happen at the entryway. Okay. And you don't need those concerts there, because they'll give you really mingy, sort of…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:16:06
“So the question is changing of must to should.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:16:17
“Overall, the feeling, so. Yeah. I mean, when you want to use should, it's because they want to get away with what we don't want them to get away with. That's why you use should.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:16:50
“Well, I mean, the design guide, it's about being binding or being, you know, one is code. Code is binding. You know, this one is recommendations.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
- Play at 2:17:16
“I mean, to make it very clear, a guideline, you know, code is code. A house can meet code. Guidelines, since we've come into place, is a tool that we have to fight presentations into this town that don't fit. through a completely different series of criterias that has to do with aesthetics, that has to do with sensibility, things that are very hard to regulate only by a body that is qualified to make those judgments. So it's not... That's what guidelines exist.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026