Remarks by Daniel Guerra
17 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 59:00
“Thank you, Chair. I think that this is an interesting conversation because it's taking into account a lot of different locations in the city. and it's kind of hard to have this conversation at a broad stroke. I will say that I think the applicant, which is confusing because we're talking about a change and there's an applicant in the same conversation, mentioned that they were proffering to put a covenant that would not allow live local, which some of these properties, even as they stand, already do allow live local and they could find a way to gerrymander that. into functioning, even on a…”
Planning Board · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 1:04:03
“If we vote for a date certain and we need to defer again, we do have that option, yes?”
Planning Board · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 29:40
“Through the chair, I just wanted to get a clarification. So the intention of the contiguous floor is when you have the abutting residence or a firewall or expansion joint, but two different buildings, although they're touching, so that becomes contiguous, right?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 30:18
“You want it to be separate buildings. So it is counting as contiguous when they're touching. You want a 10-foot space between them. Correct. Okay, my question to that is, when we have our setbacks, do we ever have a condition where we have a neighboring building touching walls with a neighboring building? And are we going to... take away possible usage because we're trying to create this. Will that create another conflict is the question.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 30:56
“But yeah, that's... That's why I bring it up. I think the air gap's a challenge. I see what you're trying to accomplish, but you might be causing another situation. And then when measuring the square footage on the apartments, is that to exterior wall and center of the mizing wall, or is it paint to paint?”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 31:46
“I bring it up because if you could define it, it'd be easier. That way we know what we're getting each time, and it's not let's check how one did it and let's check how the other one did it. So that is more defined.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 32:25
“I'll make a motion to consider board and staff comments to approve as is.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:51:54
“Thanks, Daniel. THROUGH THE CHAIR. FIRST OFF, I DO WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU THAT CAME OUT TO SPEAK TODAY. I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. AND TO THE COMMENT OF DUNDEAL, I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT THIS IS BACK IN FRONT OF US BECAUSE WE REQUESTED CHANGES THE LAST TIME THEY WERE HERE. We are by no means a rubber stamp board. We definitely give comments. We reject presentations. We definitely try to call balls and strikes here. So I do appreciate the comment, but I want to make sure that the community knew that that's what we're doing. I do believe that the architect and the…”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 1:56:34
“If I could offer a friendly amendment just to include the board comments as well.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:08:34
“I'm happy to run with it. Um, if I may through the chair. Yep. Um, I have. Lost sleep on this one, honestly, and to, you know, to the point that, you know, it's like, as we mentioned to the crowd earlier that, um. You know, we, we, we take this position seriously. Nothing's ever ever stamp here. So I did speak to merchants. I spoke to residents, neighbors. I spoke to some law enforcement. And it dawns on me that some of the concerns that we need to consider also is what burden does this have, if any, on our services? How many service requests do we get? to or because of this use in our city?…”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:10:39
“It's not defined in this particular verbiage.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:11:24
“Yeah, I mean, the intention of maybe having it seen from US 1 would be challenging because then it means it's seen from very far away as well.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:11:42
“The other thing I would say is, you know, bringing into the conversation of law enforcement, maybe we can add that, you know, the on-site, surveillance cameras are shared with our police department, you know, that there's a more cohesive connection there where the police department is directly involved with this process, requiring minimum a D-class security guard provided by the Department of Agricultural and Commerce Services. And I say minimum because D-class is not like a high-level security guard. It's a certification, but we could even maybe consider going beyond that.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:13:17
“And going back to the resident's statement, the hours of operation are relevant. A lot of these kids go to school really early. A lot of these kids get meals early in the morning at these schools. And to be crossing paths in this process”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:14:26
“And I'll leave you with two other thoughts. In terms of distances, I would say that if there needs to be a reduction to find a path forward, it should be no less than 750, not 300. And we should create a limitation of closest distance between establishments. Because we're not trying to create a district here.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:25:32
“And I would add that it's important that maybe we take some details on the service calls to the commission for them to digest. This is, I mean, and it's not just to an establishment of this genre, call it, but of, you know, anything in and around it because I think sometimes, you know, the problems move off property next door as opposed to, and that's what I heard from a lot of merchants.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026
- Play at 2:28:56
“Right. Or municipal services. Yeah. I'll change that. Municipal services. Any services, period.”
Planning Board · Apr 14, 2026