Remarks by Diego Macias
9 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 1:11:03
“Hi, I have two questions. The first one is. So I generally. I'm kind of not sure. About distinguishing between, like, owner adjacent short term rental and autonomous unit short term rental. I understand the definitions and why they're different. Um, as opposed to, like, why 1 of them will require 90 days as opposed to, or an arbitrary amount of days and 1 wouldn't. Um, I think is like a secondary thing that I'm thinking about, but the primary thing I think about when I think about these definitions is. at the end of the day, if this passes, we'll have a collection or a data set of these STRs…”
Planning Commission · Aug 4, 2026
- Play at 1:36:19
“Yeah, just agreeing again with all the colleagues. I think everyone said a lot of great points. I agree with no cap. If there is one for autonomous, I feel like it should be done after the fact, not in the first place. I think that it'd be interesting to see some data for that and see if that's being abused. And then I think I heard some stories about the, you know, living in one place in Cambridge and then buying in Cambridge. So your previous Cambridge place became your short-term rental. To me, that's like another level above autonomous where you're still a resident of Cambridge. So I…”
Planning Commission · Aug 4, 2026
- Play at 1:19:27
“Sure. I was, well, another public comment thing that came up, I was wondering if the petitioners can answer, which would see if mixed use was ever looked at. I know that was a interesting thing to see whenever we see projects come through to have like a little cafe or something.”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:08:48
“Sure, I'll start. Yeah, first, thank you to the petitioners and to staff. I think it's a really interesting project in so many ways. And for the public commenters, I think it makes my job easier when I have public commenters who are bringing up topics that they're familiar with. I am familiar with this location. I really understand that Bay State Road and New Street intersection. It's something that I bike through all the time. And with my kids, it's one of the parts where I really have to stop, make sure that people are seeing you. It's probably the most dangerous intersection that I have to…”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:40:01
“Yeah. I'm kind of the same as Ashley. I'm, I could go either way. My trouble is when, at what point do we allow staff to continue design review with the petitioner? And what point do we ask for a new, another design review? I also like the previous, you know, times when we had two design reviews, and I'm not sure if that's going to become a standard where we start to have two for these projects, you know. That's it, but I'm good either way. Mary.”
Planning Commission · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:22:11
“I think I'll add some perspective on the affordable housing overlay and multifamily zoning change that I experienced because I kind of came into the planning board when those two changes were happening. And they each seemed like such long processes of like, you know, city staff presenting us with documents. really long documents a lot of public input and there were a few few meetings of them and then I remember just researching past meetings with City Council about each of those changes and then I think this has happened before we get a petition to change it and it seems so sudden so when I…”
Planning Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 2:02:00
“uh just to also say yes to the mural I think it's a great idea and uh yeah and I'm also concerned about the uh the screen and I know you're gonna go with the city staff review the the film but I'm pro like environmental graphics on that and making it more lively um I don't think that we should not allow the dentist office to be there because I think it's good to have something there as opposed to being vacant.”
Planning Commission · Jul 14, 2026
- Play at 54:10
“Um, I guess I have 2 questions and just the follow up on the name court, because 1 of the public commenters brought this up was kind of curious. If thought has been given to the trash pickup, and if they could exit on that private way onto winter street, and also sort of that landing in court expansion that actually was talking about is going to be sort of the. loading area for like drop-offs and pickups um and then my second kind of that first part was like two questions but the second part is um again following up on Ashley's because I don't know if we got a response was the that grass…”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026
- Play at 1:07:45
“Yeah, first off, thank you for the discussion on the driveway. I know it's talked about a lot, but it's just a lot of interesting stuff that came up, but I appreciate the responses by the proponents. I'd say two comments on the memo. One of them is the pattern on the on the building. I'm not the biggest fan, but I can see it kind of tying into sort of the building that's across the street. If you're looking that way, the taller building kind of has the same language, you know, the white, black and sort of random I don't know, I just think it needs a little bit more work and I think that's in…”
Planning Commission · Jun 16, 2026