Remarks by Gary A. Costales
73 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“The finish on the garage door? Yes, that's a good point. Yeah, the finish on the garage door matches the wood finish that's prevalent in the house, the brown finish. And also, what about the finishes on the windows on the second floor?”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yeah, they match the archway and all that. Okay, so you're just talking about the garage door.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“All right, so basically the motion is to approve with... adopting staff recommendations, and then to match the muntins on the second floor window facing the front facade to match the muntins on the first floor, and also that the garage door match the wood grain that's in the existing windows on the first floor. Second? I'll second. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Aye.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hopefully we don't see it too much again, but I have a feeling we're going to be seeing you. It's coming along. It looks great. I know this is often more difficult than building a house to add on like that.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yes. And I don't recall that we've talked about that. Maybe we talked about that a long time ago. It's a question of money. We basically don't really have a budget. So I think that's a great idea. I think that we need to, first off, I think we need to find out what is already there and what placards or plaques are there. Because I think there is somewhere in the city that there's something.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yeah, that's a great idea. And there's so much that's going on now with the city. And there's going to be so much construction. I think it is a good time to sort of keep tabs on that. And I guess this is a problem where the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. And this reminds me of when there was one of the previous plans to – changed city hall when they did the RFP, the city came up with all sorts of plans to move the Sylvan Martin building, which is the only city-owned historical property. And we had no input into that. But another arm of the city handled that pretty well,…”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yeah, I think so. I imagine in the street master plan there's all kinds of benches or features. I don't know what the general term would be that It's already planned and it would probably be pretty easy to work in something of an historical nature.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Anybody of a certain age in South Miami has a romantic memory of smelling bread and all that. The extent of my involvement is I remember the bakery center. I don't remember the bread, but I remember the bakery center, and that was pretty cool at the time. Me too. So yeah, I think we could further discuss that at another meeting, add that to an agenda, add that to the next agenda. But and I think we have lots of time. I don't think any of this is going to happen anytime soon. So I think we, I imagine, or.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“No, no, either. OK. OK. All right, we'll add that. As far as what we were talking about, which was disseminating the brochures, and I know time is a bit limited, I don't know if there's a whole lot to say. We had talked in the past about having them in storefronts. We had talked about. having them available or having uh somebody hand them out somehow at one of the art fairs you know some city event um we talked about having them available here in city hall i didn't see any coming in um you know there's brochures and all that but i didn't see any maybe i missed it or something but um i don't…”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yeah, and we can provide a link. There's a link on the website and all that we talked about.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Right. But I think we need to, at the next meeting, I think this idea of going to the schools is a great one. So I think we have to develop that and talk about the logistics of it and the pragmatics of doing all that. Yeah, OK, that's a great idea. Anything else?”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“OK, all right. That's a great idea, yeah, a QR code and strategically placed in different places.”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Yeah, that's a good idea. OK, the next item of business is the approval of the minutes from February 23. Yeah, we have like two minutes. Yeah. I move that we approve the minutes from February 23. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. aye okay i think believe that is the last item of business and um we will be back on april 27th this meeting is adjourned”
Historic Preservation Board · Mar 30, 2026
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“Okay. I'm sorry. I'm just pulling up the”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay, and then we have a new, you said that we have a new board member?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay. All right. Then I'll call the meeting to order. The first, unless there's anything else before we start the meeting. Okay. I haven't heard nothing. We'll do the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, roll call. Gary Costales, present.”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“All right, so there's... There's nobody on here that's going to give any sort of testimony or statement, correct?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay. Stephen, do you plan to give a statement or any sort of testimony or anything of that nature tonight?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay. And I see that the applicant is priority one, the signs.”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay. Are you able to answer questions and make statements that are binding on priority one signs and the applicant?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Okay, second All those in favor For the record Marcus could you confirm the date to which this item will be continued?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Bye. The next item on the agenda is public comments, new business certificates, or appropriateness discussion. That is, I guess that's related to the applicant, correct?”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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“Yeah, I agree. There's not many. So basically there was a change to a historic building that was not like for like, is what you're saying.”
Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026
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Historic Preservation Board · Jan 26, 2026