TESTIMONY
Whitestone Lanes Rezoning: Testimony in Support from the Chair of Community Board 7
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Eugene Kelty, Chair of Community Board 7, testifies in support of the Whitestone Lanes Rezoning.
He shares that they pushed very hard to get the residential component in the rezoning while pulling the commercial component out of it, and they are hoping it can move to the council quickly to help the community and help the developer.
Speaker 1
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Next, we'll have Eugene Kelly.
Speaker 9
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Thank you, Mister Cher, and it's Kelty, k e l t y.
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I'm the Cher community board 7.
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For over 26 years.
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I've been on the board for almost 40 years.
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So thank you for letting me testify before the council.
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It's it's nice, and I appreciate the Zoom.
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Much easier than trying to get downtown.
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So I appreciate the council's working with the community on this.
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And if there's not Shell, because you don't need to hear repeated information.
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This the project has been sitting.
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I thought it was at least 8 years, not 6 like Eric talked about, but as you said, we were working it in the past in 12 to 10 years.
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We pushed very hard to get the residential component to pull the commercial component out of it.
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Anybody knows the area knows that it's gridlocked over there.
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For anybody in DOT understands that intersection used to be what they call level f, and you can improve the level f.
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And over the course of the years, don't worry.
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You'll hear him testify in a second chukapulian.
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We've worked with a lot of the engineers in the area in the barrel presence previous engine is to get them to put causeways in over there to help improve the district.
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So right now, we got one of the sites that's coming up and could impact us if we go back to a commercial component.
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And that's why we push specifically for a residential component and we put the restricted declarations on it, and we hope that that would make it very well in the same specific groups are going with it.
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We agree with it.
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As I said, there's plenty of development around it.
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You're gonna hear it that there's site networks, which is the Stop and Shop.
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And, of course, the the broadway is the choice of us.
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So I I don't need any more commercial on there.
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I need residential.
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And we need it so it doesn't impact the area.
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And, you know, I know it's kinda tough for a councilwoman.
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She's relatively new.
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But she's not new to the area.
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She's worked in the elected officials' local area, so she knows the area very well, and we're very pleased to work with her.
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But she her office has been involved with this.
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I I'd like to say the Broward president's office was involved in this But as you see, there's a little gaps where he plays out.
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There's a it was needed to be commercial when in fact, we had to bring to his attention.
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There's a lot of commercial already there.
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So You know, we're looking forward to this thing to move looking forward to move very quickly because it seems like it's being strong walled a little with a lot of stuff.
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So we're hoping that it can move to the council for me quickly to to get what we need to help the community and to help the developer.
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Thank you very much.
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I appreciate it.
Speaker 1
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Thank you, Eugene.
