Remarks by Eric Diaz-Padron
156 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 7
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“Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. All good. Thank you. Have a good night. Next item, please. I'm James. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Thank you. Can we do the same? Let's just run the same process for all these. Yvonne, please. just give some context and, uh, give some context recommendation and then we'll have the applicant, uh, give, give their, whatever they need to say. Go ahead.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Was there any time in the process where, where the clinic wasn't operating due to construction or, or lack of anything? Was it, was it, was it operational the entire time or?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Okay. And we're, my understanding is it's fully compliance.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Right, because it was more of a long-running fine. Let me ask you a question again, because this is about a CO which had to do with the fire inspection, right?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Right, which had to do with the fire inspection, right? Correct. Were you in compliance with our permits? I'm sorry? Was the business in compliance with our permits? I'm sorry? With our permits, for any permits that was needed for construction from the City of West Miami? Was the business in compliance with our permits?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“but it was a violation for no permit or because you weren't granted access.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“No, no, I'm saying, but was there, was there a permit filed after the fact?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“No, I understand that. But the citation is for construction with no permit.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“I understand, but there's a, there's a citation for construction for no permit.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“We're mitigating something for construction, no permit.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Um, well, I mean, I, I go back to, to this thing where, how are we, how are we citing for no permit if there's no, and then mitigating it, if there's no permit that was required, how are you closing that out? How are you closing that out?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“I think we should do this. I think, I think we should do this because I think, Can we please defer this item and, and, and, and, and have some more context brought? Yes.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“All right. I think that's best that we have all the facts before.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Yeah. Motion to defer motion to defer. second all authority aye aye aye okay okay five zero item passes for deferral well yeah we'll we'll get more context and that way we can properly assess the understanding thank you next item item”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Yeah. If you could just give your name and address for the record, we'll have her give some context and then we'll go back to you for.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“I've never gone into this house from what, from what you do know, just if you can answer the, is this a, or is it, is a claim that is a, an efficiency or detached structure? What's what's the claim that it's been converted?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“Is there pictures in the file? Okay. Okay. No, no, no. Yeah.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“If there's any, I understand this is a 2016 matter with, I don't even know who the code enforcement officer was at the time and what documentation. So go ahead.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“And the city's not claiming that they didn't take any permits out on this? There's nothing, okay.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“No, listen, we have a bunch of I mean, let's be frank, we have a bunch of very old violations that we have limited information on file for because of, you know, the way the administration was set up prior. And a lot of residents that don't know they have liens on their properties because of that. And a lot of word of mouth kind of like this is taken care of. Um, situations, this is not the first time this has happened. It won't be the last time that we, we, we have, uh, you know, 10, 15 year old, uh, claim beauty is because residents here live here so long that it sometimes don't realize it…”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“I mean, we don't have, we don't have in our, in, in, in, in current administration's time, we don't have any claims that they've, they've been renting this as multifamily.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“No, because the code board had put the lien back already from 2017, so they can't go back over there. I mean, it's a 10-year difference in mitigation time, which is obviously... you know, absurd on its face, but you know, it's, it's not surprising. I've seen enough, uh, I seen enough of, you know, record keeping sometimes in the city. So, um, pardon me.”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026
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“no there was there was something there but there's nothing now like that you can't you can't connect you can't anything there and so it was a karate studio previous owner previous owner 15 years ago well whenever i mean when was that a while ago a while ago yeah um look i don't know i mean this doesn't seem to be honest with you like a pressing issue in the city today um You know, I don't know who was impacted here right now. Like who was the victim here?”
City Commission · Aug 12, 2026