Remarks by Mariano Corral
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
- Play at 1:39
“How are you? Good, sir. Hey, how come? Oh. I must show my happy face.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so who's today? So besides me today, we've got Angel, myself.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“So regardless right now, item one will be approved and everything else will go through staff, correct?”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“I just spoke to Danny. He's going to show up. He's just having a problem with his computer.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“That's strange because I did get it from Nikki and I did get the email from Marcus. Oh, Danny's in. good morning good morning good morning part of me i had some technical difficulties this morning no no worries okay we have quorum now great yes so what i do is i recuse myself for the first item either way and but it still has to be read into the record and i'll i'll i'll just say bye-bye okay”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“What about the architect? Arturo Fajul is on.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“But regardless, in the future, when they do put a pool in there, that's going to take a lot of the solder away anyway, so.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“And I'll give you a list of it, and I'll give you my comments on some of the things that I see, and then we can go from there.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes, I am. Arturo, first of all, let me tell you that I like your home. Okay, that's very important. And I do have some comments and I'll get back. Normally, I do not speak about the architecture. I normally leave it to Angel as the architect, but Even though I'm entitled to it, I try to stay away from it and stay in my lane, but I must say these things. First of all, your articulation of your elements is not boring. They're interesting. The front of the house has a lot of movement. The rear of the house has a lot of movement. On the, shall we say the, let me see, on the south side of the…”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 26:07
“I mean, eventually you're going to have to bring it in back to the city anyway.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 26:21
“Okay. So going back to that north side of the wall, my concern is that we don't have any photographs of what the neighbors are. What do they have on both sides? But your design, in terms of the size of the lot, just fits perfectly, in my opinion, okay?”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“And so, but, and so, I don't know how the board will feel on that, but I'll leave it again to Rick and Danny and Angel to see if they see what I see. In addition, not knowing where all the underground utilities are, because you do not show them, we have to work with you i am one of them we'll we here are board members we try to work with the applicant to make it easier for you to go through this whole process okay and see and mention things that i see so getting into the landscape portion of it this thing um i came up with nine trees that need to be placed on this site two of them you've got…”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Sometimes I get reprimanded here because I don't follow the land development code. I look at the site. I look at what the proper trees and species should fit on that site from that aspect. If we have to go by the code, you have to put large canopy trees in here. And I ask myself this question. Why in the hell are you in a portal? Because of the tightness of the house and the way the tree will grow. But Elizabeth, you're too Spanish stopper. I have one in front of my house. It took 16 years for it to grow to 16 feet. 16 years. I planted in 2005 and it wasn't until 2016 that the darn thing was…”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, let me tell you. The backside, when those trees grow to be 15 feet, they'll grow relatively fast. It's going to give you color. Your Hamelia patterns, again, in one season, they should go to be about four feet in height. Correct. In two seasons, you'll grow bigger. So your choice of palette is not my problem. It's the lack of landscape that is my problem. And this is where I think that you guys should balance it out. I'm more concerned with the front. I'm more concerned with the north side of that neighborhood. Take a second look and then go from there. Otherwise, I think I... I don't…”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Elizabeth knows what to do. She knows what to do.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“She knows what to do. But again, I understand because of the big window in the front. and you want to see that, what kind of a low shrub? Remember, you've got to meet the woody shrubs. And if you use Fakahatchee grass and so forth, well, that's counted, but it's not considered woody. So as long as you have 70 woody shrubs, you're good to go.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“It just needs something just to break up. Maybe you don't need a window. It just needs to break up that space.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll make a motion for approval with staff comments and board member comments.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. By the way, let me just say this to you, Elizabeth and the owners. Technically, from my perspective, I would have deferred this, the landscape, to come back at a later date. But because now everything is tied in, if I would have gone for a deferment, that means that the architecture also as well. I'm going to trust you, Elizabeth, that you are going to provide the proper landscape that we requested and so forth and the balance that we requested. And staff will review that because we'll never see this again. All right. But again, in the past, we have been hurt by it. And so I'm going to…”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Can we do it right now? Can we do it right now? Because I already got my, I already want to tell you, I'd say Danny to continue as chairman of the design review board.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Under one condition. The condition is we stay here on this board and review everything no matter how long it takes.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“All right, so I'll make a motion that Danny Guerra should be the new chair.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“I make a motion that Danny Guerra should be the chair.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll make the motion for Angel Lopez to be vice chair.”
Design Review Board · Aug 18, 2026
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“Sure. There's a few discrepancies here. Because if you look at the Landscape Architects Plans and you look at the Arborist Report from the applicant, if you look at the Arborist Report from Curtis and Rogers, if you look at also the survey, they say that that tree on the right-of-way It's only 13 inches in diameter, but yet it says on the actual report that it's 17 inches from Curtis and Rogers, if I'm not mistaken. Let me go there just to make sure. And so, yep. So here's the issue. If you have a tree that is across the street that is overlapping into their property, if you want to look at…”
Design Review Board · Aug 4, 2026