Remarks by Melinda De La Vega
66 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Okay, so there's smaller businesses there.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then your applicant purchased that land?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Through the chair, Hugo, is there? I know right now there's a nine parking spots in that triangle. And that's really the one that concerns me because it's the one that affects the resident residents. Because it's not only your the residents at 652, right? It's also the residents in the front, because you have residents, you have two residents in the front. But is there plans to build something there?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Can't build a house, but developers can get creative.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“OK, so there we are asking for a variance for the landscaping.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“sorry uh another question that i have i know in the code right or the declaration of restriction correct they're asking so no commercial truck or equipment correct in that property”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Six parking spots that will face the neighbors.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Is there any way we can make that fence higher?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I do agree with you on some items, but the beauty of this government, right, is that we can agree to disagree and we're up here respectfully to have conversations. And it's okay if we disagree, right? I will say, I think since day one that I've been here, I've always kind of expressed to anybody who comes up here is that I would love I would love to see less high rises, right? I don't wanna take away from residential. So it hurts to change an R1 to a commercial. But in the space that there is there now, we can't say that that is the least, right? Because there's a restaurant there now,…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“The traffic doesn't. Okeechobee is a traffic site, right? But when you have restaurants, that's something that everybody can enjoy.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Leave Hialeah. So many people leave Hialeah for restaurants and entertainment and stuff. And I would love to just.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Through the chair, I want to say that I love that idea and I think that's a great idea. Are we able to do what we recently did with the boats, the discussion? Are we able to do a workshop?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Through the chair. Yes, ma'am. I'm looking up the property on Google. The...”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. So they're just here to come up to code, I'm assuming?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“There's a building there. They're changing that building?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“You just said you're pushing up the whole thing? Okay.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to make a request to City Clerk. Is there any way we can just get an active listing of any boards that are not active and what seats are open so we can make sure these boards are up and running? Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I just wanted to, before we vote on the consent agenda, I know there is several items on infrastructure and asset management and the selection committee. Is there anything we can kind of go over that? Who picked them? What is this project for?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, so I just had some questions on this, specifically on kind of if somebody can walk me through the additional 275,000.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“On this board, Who will fill this board? What experience legislatively? Because this is a legislative board, so I want to... Sure.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“And then those recommendations will be brought up to the council. Perfect. Thank you. I like that idea.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“It's okay. I had a question for Parks. During last year's budgeting meeting, I know we spoke about an outside inspector or surveyor. who was being brought in to kind of go through the parks and give us a list of projects in priority, in list of priority. I think it was like gonna be the top 10. I know we discussed this during budgeting and just, I never really got a list of that. And so lots of events have happened. Just curious, do we have that report from the outside surveyor?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm pretty sure that's what we had discussed last year.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Somebody was going to come in, assess our pools, and kind of give us a list in priority what should be done first.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026