Remarks by Tim Murry
337 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 14
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“Right. So in order to do that, for them to want to really deal with us, we have to do something with our colts, with our density and everything. We've always tried to keep them to our density because our density is a lot less than the county's.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I just want to, rather than, let's correct it. One of the things we found out, they can't force us to provide services anymore. We used to think that, but then we went back and found out they can't force us to provide services, but what happened is if we don't provide services, they can still go to the county and then they can provide their own, do their own thing, okay, and get what they want.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, to kind of answer that question, sir, well, really the city basically doesn't have very much land to control. Most of the land is yet to be developed in the city. It's basically mostly in the county. We do have some land somewhere in the city that need to be developed, that can be developed with what I call infield pretty much. Okay, but do the city control it? No. Well, we have some say so in the development because the developers have to come. When I say city control, we don't own it. So we can't control it. Okay, but we can have input on highest development through our…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We have already, previous councilors have already looked at things like that. That's why I say we had an agreement with the county. When they come to the county, send it back to us before they make any decision on whether they're going to approve it and let us give input. That was working good up until a year or two ago. Now we don't, a lot of times, like for example, Panther Run. That's all being done. We gave no input to the living and everything, even though it's I think it's going to be hard for us to even try to annex it in because of where it's located. So I think this is going to fall…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Here's the philosophy we would choose. We stop when we're not providing the service. Well, this way, we understand it wasn't really one of those things we really wanted to do, but once we provide the service, yeah, we're going to take it in. We don't want the revenue for it, okay? So that's why we go up back and one of the things we've been doing is annexing all these things that we provide in service for. But if I stop providing service for them, I see no commitment to annexing them. That's me. I don't want to annex any of them. I would not provide services for them.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“You're right. And Panther Run is, that's why I went to the presentation. I went to it and I think, wow, this could be humongous. You know, my concern when I looked at it was the fact, are you going to want us to annex this scene? I don't want to annex it. To be honest with you, I'm not sitting here. But then when I look at the rooms and everything in this location, I don't see how we can annex it. It's been well... on our service line, see? So like I say, if I'm not providing service to me, I'm not providing service, I'm not ready to pay next meeting, okay? But I want her to understand that”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So I'm going to ask you to hold that question and answer that, and then let's go ahead and get through this presentation.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And remember, they went back and amended for live local a couple years ago, and now those three commercial misuse, no, it's basically any property basically on that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The key word you used in there, starting from scratch. That would be great if we would start from scratch. I understand the concept and I totally agree with that, but the problem we have here in Claremont, because all this development had gone on, we didn't develop on that philosophy. So how do you go back and Where do you go back and say you're going to put a town set here that this quadrant and everybody here be able to walk to a benefit from? You just change the rights.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Traffic isn't flowing as smooth as you think out there. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's not flowing as smooth as you think. You go to somewhere, especially around the Winn-Dixie Plaza. We've got a real serious problem along Winn-Dixie or what's that, Bloxham and Armourn Boulevard. There's a serious problem out there. They need to drop over on the other side of Bloxham.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I hear what you're saying. My question to that is the fact that, go back to how much land do we control, how much property do we control in this city? Where do you have the land to be able to put industrial and commercial that will attract that kind of employment?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“But that's part of the answer there. The other thing is a lot of the jobs, the people I talk to going out, it's more in industry, other type of industry. So do we have the capability to provide that? the kind of job opportunities here.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I think one of the big concerns, of course, one of the concerns that I always had is what can we do, a job opportunity to bring the people back, bring our people back here, and to keep the people off the road, work right here in the area, the work and play areas. That, to me, is the biggest thing we need to be looking at in trying to figure out that piece of the puzzle.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, you're right. And as I think I said before, you're right about the medical industry. That is one of the better paying industries right now. And so, yeah, I got crucified. But when we, as he said, when we bought Advent Health in here, a lot of people didn't like it. But I saw his job opportunity. That's one of the things I look at all the time. And one of the things I'm really so thrilled about or nervous about all the commercial down there and the job opportunities that it's supposed to be bringing, especially in the medical area. When I heard they got 175,000 square feet of medical…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I agree with the town centers and everything, and I think she mentioned in her presentation is the fact that Claremont was originally built on that philosophy. Right out there in the same area that we're talking about, Winn-Dixon and everything, we had our little town centers and everything when I grew up here. We changed our codes, our ordinance, and got away from that. We took out our little stores and mom-and-pop stores and everything in the community. That's right. Yes, we used to have mom-and-pop stores in the community. And that's what I've been saying all along. Most cities in the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, there was one concern I had in our presentation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I heard you say parking to one, change it to one per unit.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I thought I heard you say, and of course, some of the units, Diagram you showed one unit.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, that just concerned me when you start talking about one, Nine times out of 10 these days, you know, most homes gonna have five and six cars, so where the rest are parking? On the streets and clogging up our streets and everything, see? Which is one of the other things I say to people all the time back in my day. I mean, I'm from a family of 12, mother, father, 14 of us in the house, but we only had one car to get around, okay? Now today, in my house today, I got four or five, and we got five cars. So, so, so... Parking is one of the things I really want to, I hope we really address in…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah. But other than that, anybody else have anything else before we we move on? Because we do have the downtown activation. Ma'am, but I know you, what is it? It's about two o'clock in the morning or so over there where you are.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Anybody need a break? Anybody need a break? Anybody need a break? Brian, you need a break?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Sounds good, have a good night. No, I'm just saying. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The downtown activity plan. Who's handling this one? Oh, you're handling that too? Okay. This is the last thing on the agenda, right? Yes, sir.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026