Remarks by Carlos Aparicio
235 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
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“No, I love that house. I think they did a beautiful job, actually. But it's not a single-family home. It's a very unique house that it's... Multi-family.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“So, and then... Well, I do think that, I mean, in this case, and this is a real problem we have, Those circular driveways in the property that I don't think it was necessarily original to this house. So, I mean, we can point that in another house. We can take rid of this one, but we can point it out in another one because they all have it. But I think that that one is not fair because it's just an ugly old house.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Do you think that they're proud of the house?”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“This house is the single worst house in all of Surfside. It's an abomination. How this... group of people that were before us allowed this house to build is a crime against this town. Yeah, I mean, the driveway covers, the pervious, there's no pervious- I mean that this town, and I'll say it again, and I'm going to take this because it's going to go on record, that a body of people Approved. Some of the other houses, I get it. But this one, this house was approved and went in front of a committee. It's a crime against this town, and it goes here on record. That is an abomination. I could not…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“First of all, this house, the most important thing that this looks, this house looks like an apartment building. It doesn't look like a single family home. It's completely, it looks, I mean, it not only looks like it's three floors, it almost looks like it's four floors. I don't know why I keep on reading four, but it's... Because of the understory on the right. It has that weird understory, that crawl space that I passed by. There you go. On the right-hand side, there we are.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“So the whole thing is paved. Do you see how the second juts out to there? The whole thing reads like it's this three-story apartment building. It's really probably the ugliest house I've ever seen in my life. And this is here in this town, and this is allowed to happen, and anyone who allowed this to happen should be very ashamed of this. That's all I have to say.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, I don't understand what you're saying, because in reality, the guidelines, it's not code. The guidelines is a series, I mean, we're entrusted with this way of looking at these projects and applying the guidelines. But at the end of the day, we have, the guidelines is a tool that we use to, it's not specific. We refer always back to code, but code stops somewhere. Code takes you so far. And then the reason why we exist is that we're the body that protects this town from over development, development in irresponsible, I mean everything that needs to be saved from over developing in this…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, all I have to say is that we pay a shitload of taxes in this town, and I pay a lot of taxes, and if my town is not willing to defend our town and its hold, we have to. We have to. We can't allow this to be built. I don't know the minutia about the legalities of it, but there's something that... We have to put a stop to rampant overdevelopment of a town that just can't support it. I mean, that's our job. That's what we're here for. And I think that we're incredibly accommodating as a board and incredibly helpful to people in a way that no board I've ever seen does. So we're here to…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I know, but we also have to bring people into this town that are willing to work with us. The bodies are here to help them, to help them develop. We're here. We're here for them. We're here to help them. So if you're here and you don't want to ask for help and you don't want to engage in this town and you want to engage in the bodies, there's... That's a problem. I mean, it's a problem. You come here for all the wrong reasons and that has to be stopped. You're not here to work with this town and make this town Then, I don't know, we have to say at some point, no, we don't want you here. We…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I mean, I think that in the DE, it says that it shall seek a planning and building advice on new municipal construction. And it says significant design component. That involved a significant design component. The problem I have with that is the word significant. Because significant, what's significant to you is certainly not significant to me. Not that you're any different than me. It's just significant doesn't mean anything. Because, you know, a speed bump, I mean, I almost lost my... I didn't sleep for two days when I saw the speed bumps that they built. So it is very significant to me.…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You know, by trying not to bother with certain minutiae, you don't present that building on 96th Street and you don't present the memorial to this town. So, I mean, on that note, depends on who's at the helm of this town. They're going to use language in every way they can.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“That's exactly what I'm saying. Just take the word significant out. Anything that gets designed... No, it is. A fire hydrant doesn't get designed. You don't design an application of a fire hydrant. It doesn't get designed.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You know, the other problem with this is that you know there's so much money being spent on decisions that we can make here in this week advice that we can get to this town for free you know this town is spending money in these studies and and and and and hiring people to to put it's like you know why are we here for i mean we're here to to give an incredibly educated advice that is free to this town you know it's like If we're going to redo the benches, come to us. Of course you should come to us. You come to us because we're incredibly educated and we have incredible good taste and we…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“No, I just think that the word to me, I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm just saying the word significant bothers the hell out of me.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I know, but, you know, they built a park on the corner of Bay Drive, and they put a little pergola. They put this plastic brown pergola there with these benches there.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“The pergola is problematic, but that should have come in front of us.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I know, but that happened. We were here. That happened. It didn't come in front of us.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“No, I know, but I'm just saying for someone that is so significant, for us, to me, is significant. So that's where the word significant comes into play.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Anyway, I invite the manager to weigh in.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“Yeah, but that becomes a standard. So that's why you standardize. That's what I'm saying.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“So, for example, when I was talking about the park, which I think is super pretty. I don't like the bench and I like the pergola, but. When when it comes time to choose that bench, you know that if there's a standard in this town. You refer back to the standards. So we code the town. When you see that bench, you say, that's our side. That's what you do in Europe. When you go to Rome and you see the same bench, that's how towns develop language. Correct. And I think you're incredibly sophisticated in thinking that way, because that's exactly the way it should be done. If you have to change a…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I know, but we're here for two years, so I don't know. We might be dead. We don't know what's going to happen to us. Where are we going? I don't know.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“You know, I'll say one example. I have a park at the end of my street, and they placed, you know, that park is completely in shambles, but they placed one of those green things with a stick for the garbage bags for the dogs, the pooping thing. It's the size of a trash can. It's this huge object. They put it right on the path of people coming into the thing. There's a trash can and the thing is like, we need to have a standard. That doesn't belong in a town like this. We have to have a standard, so they need to place one. They know which one it is, and we have to agree with it. But it's…”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“a shantytown with this, you know, we need to find a way of helping Harding.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026
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“I just demolished the house that I purchased, but I had to go through an incredibly lengthy process. It's not a safe structure. That structure is going to cave in. Right, and so do we need to discuss- But we made sure that we showed that there were no trees in it, but we're not touching any trees. Right, so is that part of the process now? We're not touching any trees.”
Planning and Zoning Board · Mar 26, 2026