Remarks by Steve Calle
169 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“Commissioner Bonici, I agree with you. I think that's a great way of getting that communication out there as well. Two other things I wanted to add to that communication once we have it was we do have a facility that we do clinical services for pediatrics. I know the building's in a little bit of needed of repair. I've asked the city manager to spread out maybe we can get the actual inspection report so we understand if there's any financial duties that we need to go respond, and this would be a good way of using that to add money. Secondly, I would love to understand, you know, as we…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Madam Commissioner, we're going to do the consent items. If we want to pull any consent items, we can just do them all at one shot.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Is there anything for item four with Juneteenth that you guys want to announce? Maybe we can announce it now?”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I mean, look, so just recently I started looking at the different opportunities south of 74th Street, where we have a density of 100 per acre, six stories, and it caters back and forth depending. So these units will fall in that scenario, especially when we're dropping down closer to the residential areas. Right. So I'm okay with this going through first reading, but I would love to get with you between first and second reading to kind of go this a little bit further and understand what we can and can't do. For example, I'm looking at some of the scenarios here, and we're not really taking…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“The only challenges that I'll tell you my colleagues is that when you take away a lot of that space, it doesn't come as viable to build. So we just got to take that into consideration. I'll give you an example of something that I saw that it's really close. It's right across the street from Subtext. So across the street from Subtext is University of Miami, and they have five and six-story buildings there, all condos, very quaint, trees everywhere aligned, and it's quiet. And I think that if we look a lot of the community south of 74th Street or along 62nd Avenue, I would love to see something…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I'm going to review it between first and second.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“They don't do it like this. Go ahead. I know Nick wanted to go up there.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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City Commission · May 19, 2026
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City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't think that works. I mean, our thing.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“You know what I mean. It's codifying it somehow is what really, and you can't, right? You cannot. It's so prohibited under the statute. I think Commissioner Bonici, I mean, I agree with you 100%, and we continue to say it. It's just there's no way to enforce it, and there's no way to codify it.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation. I think that we're all looking for action, right? I think the plan speaks for itself. I have questions specifically on the FDOT and the county projects. What we've seen in the past is the, I don't want to use reluctance, but the inability to move forward and implement a lot of the corrections. We've had corrections for ADA studies. we have uh implementation studies from the county and fdot on a variety of different things on us1 corridor what do you suggest or how do we get the process going with fdot to make sure because i mean us1 is the major corridor major…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I would assume they would be having all that stuff. Like we have... We have the underline that we've had to coordinate with f dot all the way across the board, the metro station, the bus systems that we've had south of of dayland. Like, I would just imagine that there's been a lot of consideration from f dot how to do this corrections, the safe planning, you know, the zero plan that goes all the way across the county. I just feel like, for example, a lot of the next steps that we have here is consider the US-1 a great study. What is that? I really don't know what that is. What is the great…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah, can you elaborate? Does it have to do, because I feel like we have so many things going on. Yes. So is this something that we spoke about with the traffic studies or the traffic study that we want to do that has the three different zones that we've identified throughout the city?”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Well, I mean if we're gonna add to that then you know we have With the initial Genesis that we had We've had developers that are doing a lot of the work as well right so we have Avalon phase two We have sunset place that we can start incorporating some of these things like how do we start integrate? How do we start integrating? at great study, how do we integrate the development and traffic studies and the implementation from developers all in that same region so we can combine forces and just have a great execution plan in the not so distant future?”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“And so, last question. So if we're going to go ahead and consider this grade study, that's the next study that we need to consider. How long would that take to implement due and get ready to submit as an overall plan? And is this something that we need to start considering for our CIP budget for next year, the year after that? What integrations with when we have grants and working with FDOT with any contributions from them? What is the holistic plan that we can kind of start?”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Madam Commissioner, for M4, we have someone in the audience that's left. That's probably the only one. Maybe we should take that.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Yeah, look, so I've spoken, and Noah, please come up whenever you get a chance just to give us your feedback. You've been on the board for a while. You're not a resident, but it feels like you are a resident. You love the city of South Miami. But I've been to a couple of meetings with Noah and the rest of the team. I think we can do a better job of using our boards. I'm not necessarily going to say that they need to pick trees, but... No, not pick trees. I know that's what you said. I know what you meant. But what we need to do is we identify, and I think we've done that. I think that we have…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“That's the reason that South Miami's like the other one house That is and once outfit that it is in South Miami.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“Just for the record you want to be part of South Miami and the other houses. Absolutely.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“No, the idea is that we do a resiliency plan, something green, that the green is incorporating everything, right? So originally you guys worked on the solar panel initiative back in the days with Phil Stoddard, right? Right now, Sirami's working on, the director, sorry, Director Cabrera's working on the new initiative that we're trying to replace and better the solar power initiative with what we're trying to do with the resiliency plan.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“So and you guys have reviewed that yeah, okay, so but we are we are kind of work, but I just I just wanted it I don't I don't want to put us in this box.”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“We also have camera reinforcements all over the city. How about Paris?”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“I see the mayor's not here, and I just want to talk. He always talks. The Green Task Force has its duties, right? So it's the development of goals, coordination of green building issues, supportive integration of green building energy and water efficient practices in the city, which, by the way, that's what we're working on collectively, right? So this whole plan. You want to speak? So the last thing before you speak is develop and oversee green building, which is what we're working on, and the initiatives to promote LEED certifications and develop a green building compliance guide, which is…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026
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“coming our way. The other initiative that I thought about was the streetscape plan where we just saw the latest study from the streetscape plan that we have a lot of trees that are either in bad shape need to be removed or are in so-so shape that we should remove. And also to just have community input on, I forgot the guy's name, but The guy that comes here for the trees all the time, Jason, and he has a good understanding of what we're trying to do. And just to get that feedback, whether we all accept it or not, at least we have as much feedback as we can make a decision and move forward.…”
City Commission · May 19, 2026