Remarks by Ivo Fernandez, Jr.
5 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Yeah, I'm going to agree with my board members as well. I think just the need to separate this was much more important. I think that there were two different debates, and it would have been a lot easier to disentangle this thing, allow these things to live on their own. I will agree, and coming from a design professional who has to interpret all these codes all the time, you have to eliminate the vagueness of the code, right? So there had to be a limitation. You wanted to stop it at 125. and not have a or more, which nobody knows what that means, and it typically requires me making a phone…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“I'll move to adopt with change and with the proffered declaration of restrictions.”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
- Play at 2:02:46
“Well, they're going to have a covenant, number one, and number two, it gets reviewed by the public housing authority. So housing authorities controls all projects, all AMIs. There are over 8,000, you know, affordable workforce housing done by all the major players in the county, and they all have to go through an auditing program every year.”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
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“i don't i don't yeah it will be because it will be part of that covenant right they're going to enforce they have to they have to accommodate the the 120 ami and they will have to accommodate the the 14. now i will i will tell you this from being in that in that space 14 units although i think it's a great gesture it doesn't do a lot right 60 to 80 ami is the kind of product that's done by an affordable housing developer You do not get, and it makes things very, very murky for the developer because when they go get at financing, there's very hard for those things to pencil, right? The only…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026
- Play at 2:34:46
“we're still in questions we're still in questions all right yeah i think i think it's a great counter punch to live local right i think unfortunately and and i my office sits in the bird world art district was predominantly industrial they just tore down a half a city block of warehouses to build 440 units i'm okay with that because those were very old you know warehouses outdated on on a city former city dump so it's going to improve our neighborhood but at the same time the reason that live local was created it was to provide affordability because of the incredible business, you know,…”
Planning Advisory Board · Jun 1, 2026