Remarks by Lynn Cherry
134 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
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“And, Chairman, I went to go visit both of the items on the agenda, and I spoke with Alara Gutscher on our comprehensive plan.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“I have a question for staff. I noticed in our packet that was mentioned that the owners at 214 that they bought the property that's 216 and now it's their whole property. So if we were looking at this separately and we were looking at this as just 216, would it mean that it would have to have a variance?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Well, if this was just somebody had bought. The address of 216 and had a home there, they would have. That would have been okay if it was a house?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Of 216? Yeah. If it was individually looked at?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“I have one question. Going by your property and everything, will your proposed pole barn be behind your fence?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay. And then It was hard to tell where the po barn would be to the big oak tree that's closer to the road. So how much of an impact?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“I suspected that's what had happened. That's what led to me the questions. I thought that Michael would have taken that house down. But we just don't want to have two lots. That's why I absorbed it together. Right. And you absorbed it. Sure. Thank you.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“No questions, I know, right? It's just like, Lenny, you don't have a question?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“this chair chairman if i if i may i'd like to have a kind of a different conversation with this i couldn't help but scratch my head when i saw this and think about um the property that we had on frankfurt remember the dentist and he had the general um commercial too he had bought the property behind him and hoping to expand his business, but that was residential. And so, you know, the staff recommended denying that request and then we ultimately as a board agreed and denied. I haven't seen them come back yet. So when looking at this property, it looked like we had general commercial two and…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“So has the city commission then approved that? So it so they're taking care. Oh, yes. Yes, ma'am. Yes. Yes. Okay.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Right. I have kind of a scratch your head kind of a question. So what would the 400 feet enable the city to continue its gateway vision? And, you know, I know a lot of thought has gone into our gateways and purposefully noting those within the concerts of plan in the plan department. So why go back to 200 feet?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“So, John, did I read it wrong? You're going from 200 to 400? I thought the strikeout was from 400 to 200. That's right. Correct. So you just made a case. If I heard you correctly, you just made the case. No, don't go 200. Keep 400.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Yeah, I was thinking 11th falls into our discussion, one size may not fit all. Business 98, Harrison, and 11th has the opportunity for consideration to be differently or have the 200 feet consideration, whereas the others could remain 400 feet.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Well, it's not saying you can't develop 200 or 400 feet. It's that your development needs to be aesthetically in a gateway parameter. So it's not saying you can't develop. It's just when you develop in these roads, because they are gateways into our community, they need to look differently. They need to act differently. They need to function differently. Like we don't want what you see, D, it prohibits those use flea markets, dating services, bottle clubs, those kind of businesses are prohibited.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“CHAIRMAN, MAY I HAVE JUST ONE LAST COMMENT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED IN KEEPING IN MIND THAT THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS AN ENORMOUS ROAD DESIGN, AND WHILE IT'S NOT FUNDED, IT WILL BE PART OF OUR FUTURE. The city of Panama City has worked amazingly with D. O. T. and as we look at East West us 98, what we now functionally called malfunction junction and then North South 231 as it comes in, we're going to have. Bridging and we're going to have overlays we're going to have parks underneath the bridging and so as we think about that we're going to have major…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“And then do we, and we're adding the recycling centers Properties within a 1000 feet, right? So we're adding that and the impact does the motion have to include both of those?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Chairman, I have some kind of overarching questions, and not necessarily unique to Future Land Use, if I may ask those. Can you help me frame some of the answers that we received? Just a fundamental question in terms of the comprehensive plan and what the state allows. So does the state allow a comprehensive plan? Is there a possibility that a policy within the comprehensive plan is Can we have something that's not required by Florida statutes as a policy in our comprehensive plan?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay. And then same kind of question. Does the state allow us to have an objective within our comprehensive plan that's not required by the Florida statute?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Yes. Okay. Okay. So... think that the answers to yes will come into play. When you see some of the questions that I asked in each of the elements, that most of the answers, you may remember in our last meeting, I started asking questions. And we got the responses that most of the items within the comprehensive plan that's being proposed as deleted were mostly duplicative, that that sentence or meaning is somewhere else in the comprehensive plan, so there was not a need to have that sentence or its intent stated in two different elements. So, okay, all right, so then we asked, okay, if this is…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Okay. So, and you heard me say this in our September meeting, where is resilience located within the plan? And our answer was throughout numerous policies within the Comfort Plan and mainly within the coastal management. Well, that didn't answer the question. When I think of resilience, I think of our infrastructure, I think of utilities, plans for local hazards, emergency services. I think about things. What do we do to prepare? What do we think to do to respond? What do we think about in terms of recovery and adapting and making this city more resilient? So once again, where are those…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“understand that to be true, but I still, I think it'd be an effective conversation for this board to see the exact policies, the exact objectives related to resilience so that we could look at them and say, okay, yeah, boom, that's got it. It's the best thinking. Got it. Oh, Is there something we can scratch our head on on this one and make it a little bit better as we think about the year 2046?”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Until we know what the objective or policy is, we don't even know. So the thought is, you know, we talked about a library.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“Right? And so I can imagine that there will be better tools, better strategies that we can't implement now, but we can say, hey, let's put this in our library. And that's the kind of conversation I'm hoping that we can have, particularly related to resilience. So totally agree that there may be our most of what we could imagine would be better can't be implemented this year but they can be implemented in the hopefully in two years and maybe that's something that over the next two years we work on to improve but until we have the conversation we don't even know what it is well but then we're…”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“you know throw out your entire comprehensive plan because you decided something in no way trying to communicate that that's what i'm proposing but until we know again what those policies are what the objectives are we don't know what we need to contemplate related to resilience and for for staff's sake um”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026
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“That's why I'm asking the question. So your resilience might be different than their resilience.”
Planning Board · Oct 12, 2026