Remarks by Michael A. Capuano
123 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Are you a good girl or do you have your own?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Sorry, Coralie, I think you amassed me. Do you mean for buildings that are outside of transit zones that this one similarly would be?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, I get all in on getting some additional information. Okay, nothing else before the planning board on this particular agenda item. The chain moves to continue this to the 17th of September. 2nd, my Amelia going to get a roll call please.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Hi, agenda item is continued. It is 751. here's what I'm going to do. We have 1 more agenda item. It's going to. Be a matter of other business. on a potential amendment to our ordinance related to jurisdiction of the planning board. I would like to do the following. Let me see who's still in attendance, both in the audience and in the panelists. Attorney Vigorito is still here. I would like to invite her as well as anybody else who's in the audience, um, to stick around for our discussion on this potential agenda, a potential amendment to our ordinance, because I would like to hear what some…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“It's on the record, technically. I'm not going to ask about the off the record before.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“You can also get my brother's new dog in. You can get Danny.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“She's downstairs. I can... She's probably asleep.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“We are at 757. Planning Board is back in session. Let's do this. Kit, are you with us?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“You are the presenter of this particular amendment. Just so everybody's aware. I see Luke's hand. What's up, Luke?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Godspeed. 7.58 p.m., the planning board is back. I'm Mike Capuano. I'm the chairman of the planning board. We have Amelia Convey-Bey. We have Jahan. We have Lynn. We have Coralie. And we have a quorum. So we can continue with our meeting. And we have, for a matter of other business... A proposed amendment related to the planning boards jurisdiction. Before I go ham, I'd like a quick presentation.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I might be asking a question that you don't necessarily know. Do either versions of the bill instruct on a particular permit granting authority holding jurisdiction over site plan approval or site plan review?”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“What I'll ask you as we move forward, and I'll ask you during the joint hearing, I'm certain, is the number of those particular applications that are presented before the various boards in our peer communities.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“This is something that I'll reiterate during our joint hearing. At some point, this is why I asked Attorney Figueredo to stick around, because she practices before both boards and has done so for quite a long time. No, no, no ages. I've been doing the same. Back in the day, and by the day, I want to say something like pre-2013 or so, the planning board acted as an advisory board to the ZBA. Okay. whereby permits for which the ZBA was the permit granting authority would go before the planning board first, in addition to its own agenda, to have a public meeting, not a public hearing. And the…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Now, you just showed me two calendars. You only showed me 2026, which we're only eight months in. Two years of what the ZBA has going on when it relates to some of the items that we might be What you're talking about is an additional 15 to 20 at least agenda items that we're going to have to work through with everything else we've got going on. Our meetings last hours already. Regularly, people need to be continued because we cannot satisfy everybody in one, two, or three-hour meeting. This process works because you have multiple boards handling various items. You can divide the work into…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Your kids have diaper blowouts as we're going into the conversation from pre-meeting.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“And by the way, I see Amelia's hand and I will recognize you in a second. But this is exactly why I asked you to come.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I know, Amelia, you had your hand up and we went a little off kilter. This is not a public hearing. This is a other business. So let's get on business.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“John, you came in just as we started ramping up these joint hearings that we seem to have every month or so.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I appreciate that, John. Thank you. So, I want to take note of the fact that there are a number of people who are in attendance from members of the public. And I had invited attorney Vigorito to join us as a member of the public, as somebody who had experience practicing before both boards. What I'd like to do, this is not something that I think anybody necessarily expected to speak on, but I would like to welcome as public comment, um, members from the public who might have something to say. Acknowledging that there will be another opportunity to present public testimony. We've been talking…”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I think we're in a place, Kit, where you can take some of the sentiments that this board and at least one person who's practiced before both boards has back to whomever has asked you to present this to us, because I'd like to have them speak to us, too. I won't be nice. That's okay. It's okay. I didn't mean to be mean to you, and I feel bad if I yelled. It's not your fault.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Um, good. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Okay, does anybody else have anything they would like to add for the good of the meeting before I go and try to eat something at 830 tonight? Because we might have like, you know, 5 dormer amendments coming up next.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“I don't do that either. I don't do that either. I live in Sunwell for a reason. With nothing else before the planning board at 8.27 p.m., the chair moves to adjourn, seconded by Amelia Rocco.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Good night, everybody. See you in a couple of weeks.”
Planning Commission · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay, good evening everybody. This is the August 6th, 2026 meeting of the Summerfall Planning Board at 6.01 PM. I'm Mike Capuano. I'm the Chairman of the Planning Board. With me tonight is our Vice Chair Amelia Aboff and our Members Coralie Cooper and Luke Schuster, we have four members of the planning board present tonight. We have a quorum pursuant to chapter two of the acts of 2025. This meeting with the planning board is being conducted via remote participation. A video recording of the proceedings will be available on the city's website's meetings and events page or by emailing…”
Planning Commission · Aug 6, 2026
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“The agenda item is continued. We also have a new case, 6 Wheatland Street, which has requested to be continued to August 20th. Um, Jim moves, continue that agenda item actually, you know, what do we need to read that into the into the record? Can we open it on the 20th person to there? You can open it on the 20th. Okay, let's do that. Then Jim, which continues 6 week on the street to August 20th. 2nd, by Amelia roll call, please.”
Planning Commission · Aug 6, 2026