Remarks by Tiffany Taylor
20 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“So moved, but I would like to make an amendment to the approval minutes.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“2288. It was for East Athens Development.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, I would like to make the motion to approve the minutes but reconsider the 228 Fairview item from June 2nd. I'll second. All right.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes. Um, I'm excited, um, about. them turning this into a parking lot. I go into that shopping center every day. And so I see like Burger King is not working anymore. So I think that this would be a good transition along with the library that's about to come online. So it's going to be a whole thing on the east side. I'm very excited about it.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Um, 62 single family houses is what Athens needs. And so I feel like as long as it's in writing and that there is a guarantee that they're going to put the roundabout, that they should be able to continue to work to get housing on the ground.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Quick question. This is also included in the library. Probably specified it, but here we go.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes. First question. How much is in the homeless flex fund? Do we know? I can wait. I'm not sure if I'll go to school. I can wait. Yeah. Also, North Avenue. We own a sliver of land beside the day center. Let's build on it. Add wraparound services. PLR people living in recovery. They can all get what they need. It's in the central area. This is me thinking out loud. I just want to go home. What's a home? Oh, oh, 240 for me. I love you, too. But I'm all right. Oh, yeah.”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“I want to commend the residents of Athens-Clarke County for coming out the way that they did tonight. I think that that represents The diversity of Clark County, as well as, you know, I know they were galvanized. Like, I saw the post, so I know y'all. I know y'all got off a pizza. But, hey, I probably came for pizza, too. As well as First Happy Day of School to all of CCSD, as well as all of our nonprofits who did back-to-school events these last year. couple of weeks to meet needs of families who need back to school stuff. So I think Athens-Clarke County is a unique place where people want…”
Commission · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes, just making my facility and my district safe. Commissioner Link?”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, so Commissioner Myers' question, we had the same question. I'm excited. I use that shopping center every day, so I'm excited to see with the building going out, but that's it.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“So a lot. OK. I haven't spoken a lot, so I have a lot to say. First off, Bruce, you're absolutely right. Mike brought this up. when Bruce presented it to us, Mike brought up all of the points that this community has brought up as well as the reality of riding through Mike's district and my district and a part of Ovita's district is the fact that you see the reality of what ADUs do in single family residential neighborhoods and the fact that Characteristics of communities change. Art Street, when I grew up on Art Street, we didn't even know these many houses could even go in one little small…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“How do we regulate it? I probably missed it. How do we regulate it to make sure that it does not turn into a short-term rental or a party house? I have a red tiny house over on Winterville.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Old Winterville Road. Yes. And it's, and it did get hit by a car. God, that is so not funny. I'm so sorry. But anyway, and it is unproblematic. can't say that I'm against the ADUs and say that I'm for tiny houses, but I do see one in my district. My major concern would be how do we ensure that tiny homes, I mean, because we can't even make sure regular size homes go to families. So how do we, you know, because it could serve all of the things. It could serve missing middle, you know, and it could fit a small family, but when this is allowed to be built, there is already a notion in Clark…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, I get the spirit. I wholeheartedly get the spirit. And I know that we have unhoused individuals that sleep downtown. And I know that it is a situation. But I'm curious to know, where are we going to put them? Are they going to go to jail? Are we going to arrest them? And the reason why I say this is because I know that unhoused individuals end up in jail and a lot of unhoused individuals would prefer to be there because they're safe and they don't have to worry about um being attacked or any other things that they endure out in the street but a jail is is not the place that's not why we…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“I mean, if they don't move because they're terrified at something that happened to them, which is why they're downtown to begin with, because that's literally a thing. And so, and also another reason, our unhoused people, they're not all Athens residents. They're not all families that have just been evicted. These are individuals who have mental health issues, which again, to the spirit of 2020, which is given to the spirit of it, but I also don't think we should leave it up to just the non-profits to also come up with it. And whether we are or aren't, I just want to make sure that we aren't.…”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, because I guarantee you they'll go in Barber Street before they sit downtown. They'll probably traverse down.”
Commission · Jul 21, 2026
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“You know, we don't have to get into it after words, but okay. No, no, honestly. I... I appreciate us going this route to have the planning department look into it prior to us. I'm going to keep my eye on it because I get this pit in my stomach that with all of the new development and all of the things that we're proposing, the high rises, you know, the balloons that's popping out of the sky, I'm weary because I still think about how it's going to impact the people who are already in place. And I don't want to, you know, always be a Debbie Downer, but I also live in the reality that…”
Commission · Jun 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I just think for, I think that we all can agree that we get a pretty bad rap when it comes to transparency, and this is a way for us to I guess open the door for other organizations who feel that they are also ready, and if not, we can come back to awarding it to Envision Athens, but I think for a more open process, yeah.”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026
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“Well, I would rather... know the money be used for the intended place instead of rushing and the money be used for what is not intended for which in the last four years i've seen that to happen commissioner link yeah so the rfp will we be seeing that for approval typically”
Commission · Jun 2, 2026