Remarks by Nick Miller
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 7:24
“My question was going to be about annexation as well. Would it imply that urban expansion followed an annexation?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 7:30
“Would the category urban expansion have required an annexation for it to be in that category? Correct. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 9:55
“Councilmember Miller just to follow up on this growth management map as a consideration when urban three gave their presentation I brought up and there was some agreement about developing an ROI formula to better understand the minimum tax base built through that annexation to be able to pay for the the infrastructure upgrades over time and to build and then maintain them for our roads or all the infrastructure is there any progress on Developing some criteria for what would the what would the annexation have to generate to be financially sustainable?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 10:55
“So I guess to say this another way, we are targeting our housing goals, but not necessarily weighing that against the long term levy pressure.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 33:03
“Just to clarify, to that homesteaded point, is there any carve-out of these for folks who are only renting a portion of their housing unit, or would these imply any short-term rental within a housing unit?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 42:49
“Mayor Mrakas, Are you i'm sorry Council Member Miller, you have a question that does relate to the policy options, but a different way of looking at this is the the financial impacts for you know, a rental owner, what is the annual light single family rental license cost.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 43:24
“Correct So company one on your earlier slide Pays 175 times hundred dollars, correct?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 43:32
“Are there cities that consider increasing licensing costs with the greater number of units owned?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 43:41
“Because I think that that's a different policy implication of just paying your fair share. And I would personally be interested in looking at those kind of policy options, not to arbitrarily limit the number of rentals of single-family homes, but to make sure that those uses, which are largely a commercial use, with different financing options and different rates of return for profit, compete with people utilizing lesser tools, financial tools to secure a mortgage.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 50:27
“Yeah, I want to build on that. And the issue that I brought up about the rental license fee to Council Member Keene's point, one of our comprehensive plan goals is investing in our core neighborhoods, maintaining stability. And yet one of the primary ways that we do that for services is through our neighbors, which is an agency that exists outside of the city organization. A different, which limits capacity. So looking at the economic ways that better balance the single-family home ownership use as rental, either short-term or longer-term rental, there are ways that we could assess higher…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:02:17
“If I might, I'm talking about the form of a single-family dwelling.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:07:25
“Just to clarify, when you say four units, that's per property? Correct. So if I'm a corporation and I own 25 different single-family dwellings and I rent them all as short-term rentals, I pay 1.25% on each of those?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“It is not the overall ownership. So I could have... 25 unit hotel building and Pay 2% or I could own 25 distributed single-family homes and Pay 1.25 percent for each of those.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:15:19
“Yeah, I'll make similar points to what I said about single family rentals is that I just feel like the first step and I do support at a minimum requiring the license of the platforms to post that the property has a valid rental license for that use. And if they can practically work to remove listings that don't have the appropriate license, I think that's a great minimum step. But I think it's really capturing the value of a business when if you look at something from the street and you see a single family dwelling and a single family dwelling, one of those use as short term rentals is quite…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 1:33:23
“Yeah, I appreciate that clarification that a single family home with an ADU is effectively the same as a duplex. And for that reason, I think our one zoning is too limiting for these uses. And I would also say, I think the other risk that we have in not allowing more ADUs to be created is that they continue to be an unfamiliar building style to the local market, to local builders. And I would be in favor of increased flexibility. I know Council Member Palmer has brought up the idea before of why don't we just apply R2X zoning to the whole city, which would effectively negate this…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I guess two questions. One, looking at the organizations up here, I realize that you say others are not shown in their logos, but named. And it just feels like the downtown employers are represented primarily by Mayo Clinic. I don't see up here. I'm assuming they've been engaged in some way. But I also think of the Rochester Downtown Alliance as being a liaison to many small businesses that have employees who are challenged by transportation and access problems. I frequently hear about challenges for downtown employees who are not male employees knowing where to park, having coordinated…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thanks, I'm gonna build on that too. What I don't see necessarily here is the timing, the day of the week and the time of day built into the problem statement because there are peak times and there are off peak times. There are events at Mayo Civic Center and there are other days that there aren't. So depending on the timing, we either have way too much parking and access or we don't have enough. So there is a timing component too, like when there's the highest demand versus the supply that we have. I think the other constraint that we have is resource, because to go back to that figure about…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“I'll just say yes. And this is the first data that I've seen from city staff on anything that's remotely construction use related. So thanks for being the first to produce the data that I've asked for as far as like, how do we measure changes and trends as construction projects happens? And I think the baseline data is great. So more of that.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
- Play at 2:37:02
“did you want to say something councilman i just mouthed good work oh okay thank you other comments uh councilmember miller yeah two two comments just on time of day again like parking demand making sure that it's not just really on that demand to and from work um but particularly events i feel like are a missed opportunity for parking strategy like when nate varkatsi comes in and we've got people in the streets and people trying to get to the ramps at the same time it feels like something didn't quite work there with program access And then I hear a lot about shared micromobility,…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Just a question. I guess for either staff or our engineering blasting expert, for the comparable airports where there are existing quarries within that radius, are any of those quarries, have they been approved post-airport operations commencing or were they pre-existing and the airport was built there? I mean, do we have some analog to a process that was followed in another case?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:25:34
“And could you speak to the process they're using of coordination there?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:31:24
“I'm curious. I don't remember who said this, but at some point during the presentation, there was a mention of if it were not amenable to keep Zone A into the approval, that you would be looking for certainty to be able to continue with a project that only incorporated areas within Zone C.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:32:00
“Okay. I know that staff mentioned that there's largely no difference from staff's perspective is how I understood it. Would that remain your position here? That it would, should this move forward, Zone A and Zone C would be seen equally there?”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026
- Play at 1:32:41
“So I'm then curious what my colleagues, particularly the movers, would feel about a modification to the motion that would remove the area zone A.”
City Council · Sep 21, 2026