Remarks by Lynn Hurtak
246 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 10
- Play at 14:03
“I just wanted to say, please make sure you send us all those invites so that we can put them on our calendars. You got it. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
- Play at 29:31
“Can you go back to the slide that had the really, really small font?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah, the Dennis slide. The DR font. So the thing that concerns me about this is that as the building gets larger, the rate gets smaller, and I really don't want to be incentivizing larger residential properties. Commercial... that's fine, but residential, what we're trying to do is build more housing here. And some of that's going to be smaller by nature. Um, anything that's above 5,000 square feet, they really need to be paying that 33.35. I'm sorry. I just like, if you're, if you're building a massive home, then you can afford massive. like fees like that I just I don't have any I don't…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“That's fine. But I was just curious because that Hillsborough County is a significantly more. And so I'm just curious. Hillsborough County generally is because it's our true next door neighbor. I'm interested. I don't know that was Hillsborough County in all of these comparisons. OK, it was so. But this is the one that just made me stop for pause. And I wanted to make sure that that was like a rationale because we don't have a lot of commercial And we do need to keep the commercial that we have and incentivize more. So is that one of the reasons that we're? And whoever has their phone that's…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Well, I appreciate it. But also the secondary thing, I would love for someone to talk to Hillsborough County. Like, how are they coming up with these numbers? It doesn't mean that we need to do that, that we need to go to these numbers, because I do believe that being lower numbers for commercial really does incentivize commercial to stay within the city limits but but how are they how are they coming up with those numbers just because they're our neighbor yep and jc probably can also talk too because of he sits on boa which is building officials across the state you know how other…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I think you overestimate. I think our generation might be one of the last that kind of does that stuff themselves. Just going to throw that out there.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I am shocked at the amount of things that people pay for.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I agree, but I'm just saying I am shocked at the things that people won't do themselves.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I don't, I'll just, I'm just going to be clear, I don't like to hear that he's reducing his head count because, just one, but still, I'm, like, those are areas where we still had some money, I mean, I know we're going to be talking about this in October, this is now on my list of things I want to talk about because this is a department where we're constantly hearing we need more people, so even if it's just one head count, we can help you with that. So I know, I know, but I just, this is not a department that needs to be reducing costs.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Well, what I wanted to say is that the cost for a PD, I believe our chair would agree, should be high. um i have the note right here it's good to be higher because we really want to disincentivize pds like our goal not not right now but we will once we have our new land development code the whole goal is to disincentivize pds so that people use what the what the base zoning because that's why we're redoing our land development code so that might not be something that we change now and make higher, but this is something I really want to be high, to disincentivize PDs once we pass our land…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“So as far as some of the things, is there a specific email for this? And if there is, if you could tell us what it is and make sure that it's on the website for this. It is.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“because they really will read those and put those in. But not only that, after October 21st, whenever you're coming back to us, I really think that you should bring us back this new information and everything you learn from these emails, from that meeting. I think we need another conversation before a vote. So that's what I'm going to ask for. It doesn't necessarily need to be in a workshop manner. It can be a little bit quicker than that. It can just be a staff report. Maybe on that day we could have four staff reports instead of five or something like that. But that way we have a little bit…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“So my question is, does the mayor have a deadline for which she can veto?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“I'll wait until we get to that part, sorry.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Um, how do we want to, how are we organizing this? How are we going to go about this? Are we going to go based on the strike through?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Well, but no, I would bring more than one.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah, bring all of these things. Oh. Alan's thing, the questions. The questions I'm going to let other people deal with, but Alan's thing in this is what I want to. Can you pause my time until he gets up there? Thank you. Please do.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Because I really believe that we should have people, like, as we're talking about it, the public should be able to see what we're talking about.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah. Maybe we can borrow the clerk's copies.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Perfect. The most dangerous thing Sam Thomas has done is going to Costco or wherever he does and gets the big bags of candy. I know, I mean, it's constant. Yeah, I mean, Sam Thomas's best or worst thing he's done. I'm 1,000% with you. Can you, yeah, go back. Yeah, there you go.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yes, you got the hands for it. So Lisa, can you go to the second page, page two? And you can start my time again. So I'm just going to say I don't know that the rezoning process of a zoning hearing officer has any support with this council. I'd be shocked. I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea in the long run. I just don't think that we're quite ready for it. Also, I believe that this should be handled during the land development code updates. We're having some conversations about this there. So that's just my two cents. If you could go to page five.”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Anybody have an interest in this? Okay, well, there you go. Problem solved. Okay. Yeah. So then page 5 of 8, the progress of city projects. This is fascinating and this clearly I don't think they understand the cost of projects because any funded project in excess of $100,000. that would take us that would take us multiple Council meetings and I just don't know if this is a needed thing we get updates every six months on major projects through the city I just I'm now I'm asking for me just looking at this initially I just don't I mean, I'm fine opening it now. If you all want to comment on it…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“So I guess for me, I just instead of letting, I mean, you can talk during your time, but do we have like a show of hands if we think this is a good idea?”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026
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“Yeah. And then the, I'm going to Alan's. It's just a black and white that says independent inspector general. Okay. So I agree wholeheartedly with this, especially the fact that we should not have the mayor, the council, the city attorney. This independent inspector general idea is great, but it should not be touched, it should be wildly independent it should have none of us should have fingers on it except for the day-to-day operation can be addressed by ordinance the ordinance that the City Council puts together I think this is a great idea I know other people want to talk about it so I'll…”
City Council · Sep 24, 2026