Remarks by Ross A. Appel
6 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“be happy to answer any questions all right thank you um miss creech um and i'll just finish this report and i guess we'll go through and prove what we need to approve after that um so the last item on our agenda was a discussion regarding uh an infill um housing uh development over in west ashley at 806 magnolia road and this was uh brought forward because this property was owned in in a local developer was seeking to put some additional uh what we call missing middle housing on this property but was running into some technical challenges again i encourage folks that are interested in this…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, to further fill the air in this awkward time period, um. I represent a few local governments around the state. I'm not going to name any names here, but one of the local governments I represent was sued and it was under FOIA. And the claim was that the ordinances that we were adopting were not following state law because we were not reading them, meaning reading them. like the words of the ordinance, the whole thing, every single one of them. And so we had to argue in court that the word read Doesn't mean read. So the more, you know, um, more, you know, we're, we're, we're doing it the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Community Development Committee met twice since my last report, back on June 25th and again on July 9th. I'm going to do my best to give it a quick run through, but I have to say we are Turn it in burning over at the community development committee. We're there's a lot of exciting stuff happening. So buckle up. First thing we talked about on June twenty fifth was we received a presentation from city legal on both the state and city requirements for construction on known and potential burial sites on the peninsula. Staff walked us through the respective…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Committee on Community Development met back on May 14th. We only had one item on our agenda. It was approval of several HUD-related grants. It was approved unanimously, and it's already been pushed through Ways and Means at our last city council meeting. We're going to have a much more detailed community development report coming up. We've got quite an agenda for next week. But yeah, that'll do it for now. Thanks, everybody.”
City Council · Jun 16, 2026