Remarks by David Rogers
111 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“A motion to postpone this three weeks. And I thought Rudy seconded that. Did we have a motion to second? Yeah, I can second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Well, those of us who have lived in the Metroplex know where Hearst is. Yeah, HEB.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“They're just like on the other side of the street.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I've got my hearing aids turned up to 11, so just if you could speak up a little bit. Sure. Thank you. And closer to the microphone, that'd be helpful.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I want to pick up on what the mayor just said about that. Now that Mayor Gonzalez is gone, everybody up here is from somewhere else. So we have these ideas. I lived in a fourplex and I loved it, but is that appropriate uh here you know i think jonathan mentioned he lived in a duplex in the past and and he enjoyed that um so i am curious as the mayor said about what the developer side demand is for this because if there isn't any it won't be built and we're just spinning our wheels um and i don't want to i don't want to waste your time mr sparks if if we're developing something that nobody's…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The development that's happening in North Dallas and what's happening around here are not necessarily the same. But it's certainly what we see in North Dallas is much more likely to be something that will play in the market here than something, you know, say in the northeast or in the far northwest. So, you know, if the developers are saying, we want to build this, but your code doesn't allow that, obviously we want to be accommodating to that. And also, you know, to the extent that there are current residents who say, I would like that. build a duplex on the lot next door to me or you know a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, let me pick up on that and also what the mayor said about you don't make any money off of parking spaces. When we let the market determine how many parking spaces they build, the answer is generally, well, my neighbor has parking, so I'm just going to piggyback off of him. We've seen that in downtown Pflugerville, where there is a lack of parking. And there's been disputes about the business a using the parking that actually belongs to business B so I am concerned about Completely eliminating those requirements Having some flexibility depending on business type strikes me as reasonable…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm hoping that Pecan District will come to life someday.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“During the snow populace, a lot of trees died. You had a dead tree in your front yard, of course you're going to knock it down. And you're not going to replace it with a tree that's the same size. One of my neighbors had a tree that was substantially taller than their two-story house. They didn't replace it with a new tree that was substantially taller than their two-story house. They're not going to, and it's completely unreasonable to expect that. And you can say, okay, you need to have X number of trees. Most, if not all, of the HOAs in the city have some kind of tree requirement. The vast…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You don't have to get a tree removal permit if your tree is dead.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do we have to have somebody come out to the house and certify that the tree is dead? Yeah, how is it police?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I want to get rid of all the trees and just have cactus in the front yard. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You're going to ask this person if you need another look at this? It might be useful to see what they do with the feedback they got from us today, especially if, as you say, Mr. Mayor, there's something that one or two people put forward that the other five or six of us don't necessarily agree with. We might want to see that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You say a stack. The other thing that I think we want to think about is what people say and what people do are not necessarily the same. So you may get verbal feedback, I would like X or Y. And then when you look at behavior in the market, it actually turns out people don't want to buy X or Y. They want to buy E and F. That's what they actually do, but they feel like they should want X or Y. So I think it's important when you bring the feedback back to us that it's not just what they say on the survey, but how does that stack up against actual behavior? Behavior in the marketplace.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, Mr. Mayor. I have three items. And because today is Star Trek Day, I'm going to give you the letters in the names of alien races from Star Trek. So that's E. L. Aryan. F as in Ferengi and H as in the Horta.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“$2.2 million for $2,500 per feet is a lot.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The contingency number that's hot, that's bad,”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let me bounce off of some of those ideas, because I want to first of all aggressively agree, if you'd like to say, WITH YOU THAT OUR PRIORITY SHOULD BE POLICE, ROADS, WATER, AND PARKS. THOSE ARE THE FOUR, TO MY MIND, ESSENTIAL THINGS THAT THE CITY DOES. I WOULD, HOWEVER, TAKE SOME EXCEPTION TO YOUR statement that none of this was predictable. In 2020 and 2021, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the federal government printed an unprecedented amount of money. The idea that you could do that and not have large inflation after that is just ridiculous. Everybody knows if you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Because the council approved spending almost double on it without going to the citizens. The idea that we couldn't foresee that there would be substantial expenses and that the number of FTEs that are required for those new buildings, which are greatly in excess of our current needs, that we couldn't foresee that that would cause an economic problem, and that it would cause shortfalls for the budget going forward. is just not credible. It was completely foreseeable. I foresaw it. I warned this council about it. And of course, Councilman Coffman wasn't here then. But the rest of you all…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“To bounce off of your question, Mr. Mayor, are the sworn officers getting two different adjustments or just the one adjustment, the market rate adjustment, not that plus the COLA, it's only the market rate adjustment?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. So the sworn officers will be getting a larger percentage raise than the general civilian population in the city. Okay. Thank you for clarifying that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'd like to move two amendments. Mr. Mayor, I would like to move a one-third reduction on the roadway impact fee. And I would like to move that we move that $800,000 that was discussed earlier from the overage for this renovation to the work on pause. That's the Pflugerville area animal shelter.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, it's on, okay. I'm sorry, I thought that was a part of the master fee schedule. No. All right. Well, then, just a motion to move the $800,000 from the overage.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There's the debt and the M&O. So you could do no new revenue on one and not on both.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026