Remarks by Robbie Hughes
277 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 12
- Play at 1:55:02
“No, sir. Why not? Only two. Because I don't want you, the builder, to be able to come in, and to Janice's point, you're not going to change the landscape and what it looks like. How do you see it?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:55:25
“You can pick one and six and you can pick five and six and twelve. I like it. I'm just trying to work through it. Five and ten, from there, you're only going to be able to have one of those deals. There's nothing guaranteeing me I'm going to get those.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 1:55:46
“Or we can put it as an RFP. It's going to be the same thing. Or you can make an unsolicited offer, and we have to send it out for everybody to do it. This way it allows everybody at one time to have the same opportunity.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:02:21
“If you haven't owned a house in three years, you're considered a first-time home buyer. There are amazing programs for financing with 5A credit scores. I did my research to figure out that Those that have the lower credit score can still get in. Everybody has to qualify whether you rent or you own. What the city has the ability to do on what we focused on was the affordability and owning the dirt when you put it in there, that hasn't seemed to catch traction. But guess what, they're building houses at market rate over there and they're selling right now. To me, there are more than, there are…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:03:16
“No we're not. This is negative change. That's what we've been through.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:03:43
“I'd rather leave them all there because I want to see what the market says to us. I understood that.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:04:07
“It is. If you're the builder, bring us an offer that says, I want you to give the dirt to me, that means that buyer's probably going to come through ship because it's going to require that you follow that qualification. The reason that those are slow is because there's a lot of government bureaucracy you've got to go through. That's wanting to make this. It takes that out. It moves it.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:05:09
“Here's a good idea. His has rules, more requirements than mine. Let's put them both out there in the same way. Not that we're trying to compete. How does the market react to me? We always come up with an idea, and then we just load it up with all these requirements, and then it's too hard.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:09:20
“But you got white and human building in Glenwood right now.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:10:42
“Everybody in this room will have an opportunity to buy some of these lots. That is not cronyism.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:12:18
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:13:08
“Right. What this is doing is it's also, I've got another idea.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:14:19
“And let's say the amount of money coming back equals the 20% on one of my examples. That can be the money that we get. We don't get that money and then 20%. We can recoup our money that we have in it And if it equals 20% or greater, under my example of what the city gets back at closing, That could mean that 20%.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:15:51
“I mean, that's going to save builders. Right, but we get those all the time. Let's see what comes in first to see how we move through stuff.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:16:29
“And it has to be a primary resident. Yes. We're not selling to investors. That's how you build the neighborhood, is you put primary resident people in homes”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:17:42
“This has been available for them. Since Friday. So has all the other stuff that we voted on. But my concern is what is it that we need to put together? Is it the criteria that I'm confused. And I want to help. I want to do that. I'm just trying to figure out what it is.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:18:13
“This process, it goes out and does. We already did. and here's what we're offering, here are the rules, here's what we need to follow, and here's the contract you're gonna use. Submit it by X. It's that simple.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:18:40
“This isn't about just for the builders and panelists that are connected to the housing. This is for anybody that's a builder licensed in Florida. But the idea would be nice, and then it's local. Do we want to set up that you get a preference? I don't want a scoring thing. Is there preference given to people that are doing it now?”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:19:15
“And what I intentionally did was leave out all of the rules that I just talked about on the special permit. I sent them something on the adopt-a-part. There's all these rules, and it gets bogged down in, I've got to follow this, this, and this. All the rules of contract law are already in place. All I'm asking somebody to do, and they solicit an offer, Pick two lots, send us an offer. No different than what we're going to talk about. All these unsolicited offers, they're doing the same thing except we've chosen the lots for them and said they could buy two only. And you've got to be a…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:20:06
“You're going to have six builders. If you knock it down to three, you're going to have three builders. So I'm trying to give the broadest scope of let's give three different ways to buy. You can't get all the cherries. You get one equals six. That way everybody knows they can go drive around and look at them. And you know that you're buying this lot and this lot.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:20:45
“Yes, ma'am. Now, if y'all want to reshuffle that, but changing the plan from one to one and one, that's a bad idea. Because everybody is being treated the same.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:22:41
“Can I help write that? Yes. That'd be great. All I want is for the public to know, here's what we have, here's what we're offering, if you want to buy, here it is, that simple. Yeah. And Janice, I understand that you want the criteria, but it's the criteria that keeps people from participating. It's all these rules, and builders know how to build. All they want to do is get access to the lot, and then they're going to go to work. That's my only goal. I don't want to sell to investors. I don't want to sell to renters. All I want are nice homes that help the neighborhood, that have primary…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:24:36
“It does. There's two options in there. The third one is all about affordability.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:25:23
“We have a motion and a second. What it does is it tests the market. We do not have to take any offers. If I take that out, now it's all about low to moderate income, and that may not be what sells. But it may be everything. But we don't have to take that. We don't. We don't. And I'm trying to section the market out and say, what's working best without us telling them what they have to do? And us telling the public what they have to do is just kind of a standard, and it just doesn't work that well. I'd rather get information from them that says, hey, guys, you're thinking right, or hey, man,…”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 2:26:17
“You've got to close it a certain amount of time.”
City Commission Meetings · Jul 28, 2026