Remarks by Paul Mann
69 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 38:37
“Would that effectively- gives them an extra floor, doesn't it? It's not just for mechanical elements, it's an extra floor to use, and that means you gotta have cover, because you can't have people sitting out there, and if it starts to rain, what's everybody gonna run for the elevator, run for the stairs? So now you're gonna put a roof over the restaurant, and now you've got an extra floor. Now, I don't mind that happening downtown, and I think it's fine that it happens in the design district, but what I'm worried about is that this will get picked up across the city including in T3s where we…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 39:39
“I know that. I know that you don't mean that, but the word means that. So I would recommend changing that word. I mean, the rest of the word may not be, may not, let me, this is taking too much time. Okay. To save your, I mean, I just want that, I think it's a good idea to change that word. The other thing is, what's a compact stall? What's the dimension of a compact stall?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 40:04
“That was under the parking changes. Does that mean smaller cars? What does a compact stall?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 40:24
“And changing sign standards to increase flexibility, quantity, and quality and visibility does that mean brighter lights bigger signs more signs i don't care what happens in the design district or downtown so much as that the intent here will carry over outside the sap and it'll be much more difficult for us to try and control it when it affects single-family homes or even T4 condos. We already know that downtown people complain about signage in the buildings downtown. So, are there any limits? I mean, this sounds like you're just opening up the limits to what people can do with signs down…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 46:48
“Thank you. The last item I had was the setback. Changing the metric that you're using for setback, obviously I would imagine that that would benefit the property owner by reducing his setback requirement. Would that be correct?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
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“Through the chair, if I could add something? Yes. I would support a motion to approve if anyone that makes that motion would accept a a textual change. For staff, I just did a little AI search here on the word habitable in a commercial context. And what it says specifically is that habitable refers to residential and it includes living, sleeping, eating, and cooking. But in a commercial property, it's quite different. And the word that AI suggests using is occupiable rooftop space, because that does not include living and sleeping. It allows restaurants, it allows a number of other things,…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:51:07
“I mean, that's going to be an increase of about 5,000. Yeah.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:51:30
“You've mentioned the county a couple of times. Does this mean that it's a done deal? It doesn't matter if 100 people come in here and scream bloody murder, it's a done deal? Well, nice presentation.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
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“The only thing I would ask for is completely unrealistic. And that would be capping the heights. 24 to 30 is you're building a new city in the middle of a low-rise area. And we all know that concurrency in this city is an issue. And it can't take a single more car, much less 5,000 more cars in that area. I mean, I understand that the city is pushing density. And in order to get additional state and federal funding, you've got to get up to a million people. And so this is how it's gonna be done. I don't think there's anything that we could ask of you that's gonna make it more palpable to the…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:53:59
“In addition, all- And how does a traffic study overcome the fact that every one of our roads are already F?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:54:08
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Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:54:28
“She said something about Verde ports, about the city going vertical and transportation going vertical. And so that's, you know, that's Jetson territory, you know, from the 1960s. I think it's great, but I think you guys got to be, I know you're imagining how much resistance you're going to get here, so. I don't think there's any way we can sweeten it for the public, especially if it's a county deal and it's a done deal. We can talk until the cows come home and it's not going to matter much.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:01:45
“Did you say that there was going to be more parking than the minimums?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:01:55
“Yeah. I'd play that up. when the crowd arrives, that'd be a big public benefit, I think, if you had a lot, if you had quite a lot more parking, I think it might be more palatable.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:02:16
“To get people out of cars, but this is Miami, so, you know.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:02:39
“I can just hear it now. They're all gonna park in front of their houses.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:09:40
“Between the three areas? I think I did just a rough count and- Yeah, it looks like it, yeah. About 12,000, something like that? Yeah. So about a third of that would be commercial?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
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“So if you figure one and a half, that gives you roughly 8,000, so you got 4,000 extra. Mm-hm. And 1,600 is commercial.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
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“So there's still 2,400, roughly 2,400, 2,500, that are public parking? Is there any just open public parking being offered?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:16:23
“Did you just say that the county is going to follow the city's zoning?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:16:32
“So we are... I think that'd be a pretty good trick if you actually got the county to agree to build less, to follow the city's code instead of their own.”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 2:20:59
“Thank you. We're going to see quite a number more of these types of projects, aren't we?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jul 1, 2026
- Play at 1:53:44
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Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jun 17, 2026
- Play at 1:54:22
“Because if this is, what we've had developers in the past try to, knowing that they would have a very hard time trying to upzone the T5s there, that they had accumulated more than one property on Coral Way, and they had purchased all the abutting T3s behind, which were also, they had a line of T3s behind a line of T5s, and they knew they would not be able to get very far trying to upzone to T6 there. So they tried to upzone the back to T4 with this, and they failed. the neighborhood, I think the city at that time wanted, was amenable to a T4 liner on the north part of 22nd Terrace, saying…”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jun 17, 2026
- Play at 1:56:34
“On what basis would this board be able to deny it?”
Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board · Jun 17, 2026