Remarks by Luke Potts
45 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 48:50
“I just had a question. Is this a totally separate unit or is there when you go into the gas station access to walk over to it?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, just in the nicest way possible, I want to thank the county for getting out of our downtown.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“You mind putting both of them back up? Yes, sir. So my thoughts when I saw this one, my initial thought when I saw the, I'm going to call it number one and number two, number one on the left, number two on the right. When I saw the first one, it automatically reminded me of the Temple logo because they have a star like that on theirs. And whenever I think of Temple, I don't want Belt and Bullock anything like it. but that's what came to my mind first. I also, you know, when you see the five words you put up there, one of them was nature. I think that's one of the biggest strengths of Belton,…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I got to go back. The one you had single that's longer, the Visivell and the number two. I really liked that one a lot.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I just commented about that back when we were talking about it. When we spoke about it, we basically said we need to get to a point where we actually can make a decision so that your neighborhood either gets a yes or no. And with not having any kind of design, any kind of studies, We really can't sit there and say yes or no. So what we moved forward on was, hey, let's look at the design, see if it's even needed. It might not be, but y'all deserve an answer yes or no. And so that's really what we're trying to get.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm actually against having a credit card fee. I mean, no business is allowed to do it. You build that into the cost. Only governments can actually add a credit card fee.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“cash but you're not allowed as a business to just say if you're paying with a credit card you pay two percent so you do yeah you can it's gone i know it happens but no it's totally legal anyway but this is just comment anyway so yeah some are for some are against but i'm just i don't think we should do everyone uses credit card now and the majority of people pay in the portal and i just think we need to build in the cost you shouldn't have a separate credit card fee”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So how can you go back to that? Yeah, I don't understand what that would come out to be like what's What do you change when it comes to the overall cost by doing it that way?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Um, kind of, but I guess what I'm getting at is you're, you're looking at what it was versus what you're saying. You want to go to the materials plus 10% plus equipment. If you take your average job, which I don't even know how you find that, but your average job, how much are you increasing the price of?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I agree. I mean, you need to, if there's a rock quarry that's, you know, tearing through water, they should be paying a higher rate than someone using 2000 or a car wash or a golf court, whatever, whatever, you know, what you want to say. But I think there should definitely be more tiers in the non-residential.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:36:05
“I just had a couple I was taking notes on. The blocker truck fee, can you, I just don't, is that saying if there's anyone, say they have a flat tire on the side of I-35 and a blocker truck comes, they're paying $300? Okay, what is the blocker truck fee? Insurance. When do people get charged that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:37:26
“Well, but I'm glad to hear it's not citizens because I would have an issue with that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:37:38
“The commercial site plan fee that you had, can you go? Yeah. The $150,000 to $1,000, that's a really large increase. What's driving that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And so this has nothing to do with the size of the project or anything. This is just flat. Anyone that comes for a site plan review, they're getting charged this.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I'm just not a big fan of increasing that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:38:42
“I don't know. I don't like increasing fees on businesses.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:38:59
“And then could you go to the new commercial versus new residential per square foot? What is the reasoning for having those two different? Why is commercial getting charged more?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:39:57
“The civil engineering review, how, I mean, is there I mean, it just says actual cost, but can you give us an idea of what that is?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:40:42
“So for just one commercial project, you're paying the new commercial construction fee, you're paying a building plan review, a civil engineering review, a traffic impact review, basic building permit fee. You're paying all that on just one project.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:43:04
“It's hard to do things without there being a few examples of on your average, on X, on Y, your fees are going to go up by X percent of what you're paying now. It's hard for me to make a judgment.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026