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DOB's response to AHV concerns and construction priorities
3:11:06
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Commissioner Oddo responds to concerns about after-hours variances (AHVs), acknowledging the issue while explaining the administration's priorities and DOB's dual role.
- Oddo recognizes the jail project as a priority for the administration with a set timeline
- He notes an increase in total AHVs issued from fiscal year 2021 to 2024
- The commissioner emphasizes DOB's dual role as both an economic development agency and a public safety agency
- Oddo expresses willingness to work with the council member on individual problematic locations
James "Jimmy" S. Oddo
3:11:06
Yeah.
3:11:07
So first, just in order, Ahmed deserves all the love that he got.
3:11:13
We wish the acting commissioner well.
3:11:15
Secondly, the love last year was felt and I I was very appreciative to you and to all the council members.
3:11:21
The love was felt by the team and the team at DOB is is really who deserves it.
3:11:27
Yeah.
3:11:28
You you touch on a very important issue and you touch on the maybe the one of the thorniest examples of that important issue.
3:11:36
And I think, you know from our conversations, the getting those jails complete is a priority of the administration And the decision to continue construction on that timeline, which was actually a delayed timeline, was made and and that wasn't gonna be changed.
3:11:55
I think if you look at the raw numbers, just sort of from '20 fiscal year twenty twenty one handing out around 15 and a half thousand of of the initial oh, let's go with the totals, 49,000 in total rising up to fiscal year twenty twenty four to 61,000.
3:12:19
It's a large increase.
3:12:21
We want to live up to our dual roles of being an economic development agency and a public safety agency.
3:12:28
We want we don't wanna be the hindrance.
3:12:31
But we we have to make sure that every after hours variance is grounded in our standards of public safety or construction with minimal noise or undue hardship.
3:12:43
And frankly, that that valve on the spectrum, I think it may have gone back in the wrong direction of of issuing too many.
3:12:56
Put the jail side aside, we certainly will work with you on individual locations that you think are problematic.
3:13:01
We've done that with a bunch of of And
Lincoln Restler
3:13:03
and we and your team is responsive to a your team is always responsive.