Remarks by Larisa Svechin
341 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 14
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“Oh, we have another 10 minutes. OK, go ahead.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Right. Well, obviously they would have to agree to it, but there's nothing that prevents us from doing it or locks us into another year.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, and so how long, and again, I wasn't prepared for this conversation, so I'm sure you weren't, but how long would it take to procure someone new? Let's say we wanted to go with someone new. It would be at least three months, correct?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“All right, so do we have consensus to ask them?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Right. Well, if it's terminated. All right. So three months? Sure. Okay.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“time we bring it to you for that's perfect four months all right let's see if that's possible if they agree to that okay all right next item the next item is 4d discussion by commissioner citizen regarding the elimination of a beach the beach event requirements okay”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. So for clarification before I take comments from the commission, right now, if you want to go and have a birthday party and set up a table and a tent on the beach, do you have to get a permit for that?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“On the weekends, we see people come on the beach, and they have boom boxes, and they put out a whole spread. Are they getting permits for that?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“You're just dragging it all up yourself.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So for clarification, because I've had residents ask me, how do I get a permit? And I want to make sure I gave them the right information. So people that wanted to bring chairs and wanted to have poetry readings or they wanted to have some yoga. I guess yoga, and no electricity. They told me, we want to put out candles that are on battery. And I asked them, I said, are you going to have music? And they said, yes. I said, well, as long as you're not putting up a stage and you're not putting anything up that is preventing people from around to enter that area, you probably don't need a permit.…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So if somebody wants to have a party at Samson, who do they apply to?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“But let's say, so to Commissioner Simpson's point, so she's saying that nobody can apply privately. But we have three, right, three places on the beach that technically those are, so we have Pier Park, we have Ellen Wynn, and we have Samson. So if somebody says, I don't want to work with whatever, whatever building, Sam's Point, I want to do it at Samson, where we do have electricity, we do have water, would they apply to us?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“They cannot apply. No, no, no. That's not true. Hold on a second. Please let one person at a time.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“What I meant is who is considered the upland owner?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE AND CORRECT ME IF I'M”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So let me just play a scenario. So if somebody wanted to have an event, let's say like yoga, every week, every month, and they rented it. And we could do rent Samson Park. And they rented it every last Friday of the month. Would that mean that that would prevent the people from Winston Towers from using that area of the beach?”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I'm asking, was the peer included in that exemption? No, the peer was not.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, so, I mean, obviously there's a lot of questions here, and since you are revising the code, I think it's a good conversation to have.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Look, I've seen many teenagers at the end of the school year set up parties on the beach. And they do what they do. And if they do it wrong, we kick them out. But people are using the electricity there to charge their phones or whatever it is. They listen to music. So it is a public service. It is a public park. It is being used. It's not being limited.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I don't think anyone on this commission has said that. No, no, no. I didn't say anyone here on the commission.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And certainly we want everyone to be able to enjoy the beach. I think that the challenge is specifically for an organized event that requires water and electricity and the right of way to get to that area. So I think the solution is the three areas of the city that we have control over. Sampson is always going to be a challenge because unlike Pelican first floor, you know, That beach is used by Winston-Towers every single morning, from morning to way past when it's supposed to be closed. So it's not something that we can just say, OK, you'll just have to deal with it, unless you want to deal…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“RIGHT. AND I HAVE ACTUALLY ALSO HAD PEOPLE ASK ME SAYING THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE AN EVENT AND THEY WANT TO CHARGE. AND I SAID DO NOT DO THAT. YOU NEED A PERMIT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT COMMISSIONER LAMA YOU WANTED TO SPEAK.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“OK. So I want to be careful that we're not over-regulating something, because I do agree to Commissioner Stevenson's point that there was those yoga people that were being asked to move. And I think that was because there was not clarification on our ordinance but on the other hand I also don't want to be in a situation where we're gonna have a wedding on the beach every single you know weekend from outside the city because we can't just limit it to residents it has to be everyone it's it's in trust for the people right exactly so you know right now what would stop me and And I'm assuming…”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Yeah, but that's a good point about the concerts.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“So it doesn't matter. You could find ways.”
City Commission · Aug 20, 2026