Remarks by Davison Heriot
79 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Protection of environmentally sensitive lands or sensitive areas, where is that defined and who makes that decision in terms of what is considered to be environmentally sensitive and who, if I'm assuming there is a definition somewhere, who makes the decision that it meets that criteria?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is there any, do we have any leeway outside of the state statutes that ALLOW US TO TAILOR THAT TO OUR COMMUNITY?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“And if I remember correctly, as long as we don't get a hurricane within the next year and a half or declare disaster, we should be out of that umbrella for a little bit at least.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“We, while we do have some wetland areas, our predominantly sensitive ecosystem is the upland. And that happens to also be some of the best, most buildable land. So the state's done a okay job of protecting wetlands, but we haven't, we don't see any protections for uplands. Is there a way to address that in the comp plan?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Kind of overlapping that same time that SB 180 may expire.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'd like to keep that on the front burner so that if we do get an opportunity to amend our code, if SB 180 does lapse, we can jump on that and make those amendments.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“an opportunity with some of those density bonuses that if somebody is willing to set aside land for conservation and put a perpetual conservation easement over it, then they could be eligible for some of these bonuses, correct?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd like to just real quick make a note, not for necessarily discussion, since I think the answer is going to just be that it falls under SB 180, but I'd like to make a note that... If we have the opportunity to adjust, I'd like to look at 1-5.6 again, where the language talks about development within a floodplain that cannot avoid a floodplain or other flood hazard area shall minimize the disturbance of natural floodplain functions. I'd like to strengthen that if we can so that we've had a couple developments, one specifically that was voted down two years ago at the…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Is there any way when we do the clustering or allow for the clustering, is there something other than it just being written into the development order that would solidify the surrounding area as conservation and and what i'm thinking of is you know is a land put under a conservation easement or something to that effect that's more permanent you want to take that”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Logging's a tool for conservation, though.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, if we're going to encourage them to be flexible with site design techniques and concentrate development within suitable areas, then we have the ability to say yes or no to that policy. that plan, and if we're not gonna say, if we're gonna say yes to giving them more, then we should also be able to say yes to the land around it has to be held into perpetuity and never developed.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“And I understand that, but can we include in here that it must be preserved into perpetuity by some mechanism that can be established in the future?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Would that preclude any other types of accessibility if we're just focused on requiring ADA accessibility?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I just don't want to preclude any other type.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Mayor. And just to expound on that point of the courts, we all know that if the courts decide that somebody can do something, then they're going to let them do a lot more than we had the opportunity to negotiate and we're gonna have to pay for them. But I'd like to look at 1-10.3. The original language, they both use the term may, but it seems like in the original language, jurisdictional wetlands, floodplains, public well fields and primary wellhead protection zones and habitat management areas were a little bit more protected in the sense that they weren't, there was a…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“If we could change the may to a shall, that would be more concrete for me.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“To build on that same point though, land use number one is for public private charter schools and educational facilities specifically. So if it's already pulled out and identified separately, I don't know if we could just take a look at that and see if that works.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'm sorry? Commissioner Howington go first. Okay, so thinking out loud, dangerous, but thinking out loud. Since conservation has been an underlying priority for myself throughout this entire series of workshops, Would this be an opportunity where we could even maybe reduce the height, the stories by right to say five stories or four stories and then add an additional bonus for some conservation features or setting aside conservation land maybe even if they have it adjacent to a different project something to that effect, we can incentivize more conservation.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I would actually like it to be. more spelled out specifically for conservation. And I actually object to the idea that we should get rid of the eco-centers, especially considering we have Lyonia Preserve and the area right along Lyonia, around Lyonia is designated as a main street. I would like to see that designated as an eco-center along with the Lakeshore area that's already identified as an eco-center and the area around D Ranch is, I believe, identified as an eco center. So I think we should. Right.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, that specific property was, but the area around it.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Okay, I will challenge you then to Find a way to meet that goal of the eco centers that we had talked about previously by reducing the overall height by right with a specific spelled out conservation density bonus or height bonus. I'll leave that to you to kind of tailor, but I would like to see it specific for conservation, whether it's floor area ratio, height, stories, however it may lay. But I would like to see that specific to conservation and then allowable to be, it doesn't have to be specific to that project, right? Because I don't think there's really an opportunity for conservation.…”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Across the city. The entire city, no density bonuses, no bonuses whatsoever? No. I vote no.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Vice Mayor. Jordan or Zach, how tall is Halifax, the hospital?”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“I remember correctly it's six or seven and then it's they're allowed to go up another one or two on top of what they've already got so so What we're doing by essentially saying no to anything more than six stories at this point is We're taking away our bargaining chip to gain conservation somewhere else to gain to really incentivize unfortunately the way that it has to be done based off of, you know, state law, but we have to incentivize the developers to do what we want them to do. And we're taking that completely off the table.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026
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“So we're not... I'm just disappointed in this commission because, you know, I think at the end of the day we want some of the same things, but we're... we're taking away our ability to bargain and achieve those things.”
City Commission · Sep 28, 2026