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Thank you so much, Reverend. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let us pray. Almighty God, we thank you for the opportunity to gather here tonight. You have great plans for us and the power to make them happen. Give our Arlington community leaders and officials the knowledge of your will for your people. Let them remember that they serve a public trust beyond personal gain or glory. Let them remember as Christ instructed the poor, the sick, the needy, the homeless, who need our compassion and care. We give you great thanks for those who are nearing the end of their work with the city, knowing that their hearts of service will continue past any title or position. We ask you to prepare and bless those who will be joining City leadership soon that they may hear your word and your wisdom. May all of us see that no community lives for itself alone, but is responsible for the peace and well-being of all your people. May the agenda tonight be productive for the Shalom of all Arlington citizens. May the agenda tonight be productive for the Shalom of all Arlington citizens. In the name of our God who is our creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Amen. A pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivis individual, the liberty and justice for all, honor the Texas flag, the flag of allegiance to the state of Texas, one state of the world, one in indivisible. Okay. Well, this is always an exciting part of the program in which we recognize individuals or organizations who have really made a difference here in our community. Well, to begin with, we would like to recognize the greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce. They have done remarkable things here in our community, bringing our community together, but not just for the businesses because they believe that together we succeed and they certainly have symbolized that throughout so many of the difficulties that we've had here over the last few months. have it have symbolized that throughout so many of the difficulties that we've had here over the last few months. I'd like to call upon Deputy Mayor Pro Tem, Miss Hella Moe's to read a proclamation here for the Greater Arlington Chamber and which all come on up. It looks like we have several representatives including the President, Chairman of the Board, incoming Chairman of the Board and past Chairman of the board. Good evening. So this is a proclamation from the office of the mayor of Arlington, Texas. Whereas the city of Arlington is pleased to recognize the greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce for the work to bring the business community together to champion economic and community prosperity in the American Dream City. And whereas the greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce earned a five-star accreditation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the highest distinction a chamber can achieve, which elevates them to rank among the top 1.5% of chambers nationally. And whereas there were also one of only 13 chambers in the United States to be named a chamber of the year finalist by the association of Chamber of Commerce executives, the most prestigious award they present annually. And the greater of Chamber of Commerce advocates for the small businesses in our community by working closely with our local county, state and federal officials to ensure policies are enacted that help local business entrepreneurs succeed. And the greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce work diligently to bring economic growth to Arlington through big projects like the New Ballpark and the National Medal of Honor Museum, as well as the creation of the new Economic Development Corporation. And whereas the greater Arlington Chamber of Commerce rapidly developed key initiatives to deliver timely, pandemic-related content and professional development opportunities for our business community. Now therefore, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim April 27 as Chamber of Commerce Day. Thank you. So I guess I should keep this on right. I can take what I'm talking. So let me thank the mayor and the city council for this recognition. Our mission is together we champion economic and community prosperity. That together can't happen if we don't have a strong relationship with our city staff, our city elected officials, our mayor. The relationship that we've had over the last five years, which is how long I've been here so I can speak to that, has just been outstanding and I'm really pleased of what we've been able to achieve by the slogan that the mayor mentioned early on by working together, because together we succeed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, in the mix of all that we've gone through in these difficult times, one of our organizations that's really excelled in trying to take care of our mental health there and give us some recreation and some hope has been the levitt pavilion. And we'd love to have your staff come on up here, here, Latisha, and we are so grateful for them. And I'd like to call upon Mr. Raul Gonzalez here to read this proclamation. Thank you, Mayor. I apologize for the clear off my head, but that's the way it is. This comes from the office of the Mayor Proclamation, whereas the event pavilion for the performing arts in Arlington celebrated its opening night with more than 1,800 people on October 10, 2008, and their successes continue to grow in both action supporters in the years following, and whereas members and guests of our community can enjoy free live music, ticket and concerts, and events in a safe, friendly family, friendly environment that reaches all ages from diverse backgrounds. And whereas in 2019, the Levitt Pavilion hosted over 53 concerts, which were attended by more than 73,000 people from various countries, states, cities, and whereas in 2020, the Levitt Pavilion hosted live stream and on long concerts, expanded the digital reach and relevance to music lovers nationally and internationally, and spearheaded Allentance Designation by the Texas Music Office as a friendly, music friendly community. And whereas the Levitt Pavilion with its new meeting space, the Levitt Center, will continue to be a resource for Arlington to host and celebrate community. Whereas this year the Levitt Pavilion is celebrating its 13th season, a free outdoor concerts that include a wide range of artists and entertainment that not only bridges music and community but brings joy, camaraderie within the American Dream City. Now therefore I, W. Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Orange and Texas, and on behalf of the Orange and City Council, do recognize April 27, 2021 as a Lov of that pavilions 13th anniversary. Woo! Thank you. Thank you. Great. I just want to say thank you, Mayor Williams. Thank you so much for all you do for our community, for all the support with the levitt and all the things that we did in 2020. You were on the stage supporting a lot. Share with them some of the creative things you did to get things out. Yes, and thank you to the council as well. In all you, the community that supported the Levit, whether you are on the lawn in August, on the 28th when we had actually the only Levit across the country that had on the stage performances by artists. So, y'all, that's fabulous. That is just tremendous what that had on the stage performance as about artists. So y'all, that's fabulous. That is just tremendous what this city did in working with the Fire Department and the Police Department and the city staff to get us active and having people enjoy music. Because what does that do? It brings joy to all of us when we hear music from all over. All ethnic breakdowns. You should see our line up. Be ready May 7th. And then this past year we had two North Texas giving days. Are you getting that support in the 11th, whether you are on the lawn, and August on the 28th on my hand? Uh-oh. I think you may be needed to hear that again. Yes, our city should be so proud. And it was just, it was a great year. We have some big things coming on North Texas Giving Day and partnership with the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation. So just be listening. Follow us on the social media. May 7th, it's going to be a great one all weekend. So Mayor, thank you for all you do. Appreciate it. And thanks to our awesome staff and board, Josh Hengens is our board chair. Y'all have to make sure that this staff is incredible and our board and they've just helped us really get through this crazy past year and just, I'm grateful. Thank you. See you on the live at lawn. Thank you. Thank you. Let's get a picture. I'm excited to see a picture. We'll have an amazing number of needs here in our community. And one of those organizations that has stepped up to help meet the needs of our citizens has been Arlington Charities. And Deborah Capola, thank you for always being there and getting your volunteers working and making a difference, even in the midst of when tornadoes hit you. There, you all had a lot to do there in the mix of that, but I'd love for you and your volunteers to come on up. And then I would like to call upon Councilmember Dr. Nunez here to read the President for the opportunity to address the importance of our health and health and health care. And I would like to thank the President for the opportunity to address the importance of health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and health care and address food insecurity in Arlington, and in response to destruction caused by a 2020 tornado, Arlington charities continue to serve by working without power and utilizing rented freezer trucks to ensure that Arlington residents did not go without food. And whereas in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Arlington charities switched to a no contact drive-through service. Where families may receive groceries twice a month, increased food distribution from 60 to 250 households daily, and implemented innovative new programs, such as a grocery delivery program program and a shop online program. And whereas in 2020, Arlington Charities distributed nearly $8 million of food and provided over $30,000 in utility assistance served over 143,000 individuals with food via the drive-through pantry, mobile pantries and grocery deliveries and provided 2,710 lunches to those experiencing homelessness. And whereas during that period, Arlington Charities volunteers contributed 12,000 hours of their time to assist citizens in their greatest time of need. And whereas in response to the winter weather of 2021, Arlington Charities increased pantry visits beyond twice a month to replace food lost, provided food and water to the Arlington live shelter to feed their residents and partnered with the city of Arlington to provide water to frontline workers. And whereas we are grateful that Arlington Charities is committed to making Arlington a better place to live. Now therefore I, W. Jeff Williams, mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas. And on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim Aprilth, 2021 as Arlington Charities Day. Congratulations. Thank you and on behalf of Arlington Charities, our volunteers and our board members that are here today, I want to thank Mr. Mayor for always being there and always being supporters as well as City Council have always stepped up and answered questions and the city staff has always come through to help us in our times in need, like no power after a tornado and still lots of hungry people in need in our community. So we are very grateful, additionally to the Arlington community. I think this past year has really shown what Arlington means and how our community has stepped up to the challenge and made sure that everyone in our community is able to live the Arlington during. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Evie. Thank you, Jim. What do you see a theme here throughout some of the most difficult times when we've had a pandemic going on, winter storm, tornado, so many different needs and all of these organizations stepped up. So no surprise that the next organization that we want to recognize is Mission Arlington. And whereas Mission Arlington began serving the citizens of Arlington on August the 1st, 1986, under the strong leadership of an amazing woman, Tilly Bergen, with the support of the founding church, First Baptist Church of Arlington. And whereas in 1990, Mission Metriplex was formed to join many churches from around the nation with Mission Arlington. And whereas since then, they have expanded to serve people with a multitude of services. Tilly, Jim, come on up here. Tilly and Jim Bergen, y'all. Right here, please come on up here. Applause. And they are providing a multitude of services, including after-school programs, transportation, furniture, food, clothing, financial aid, medical and dental clinics, Bible studies and more. Whereas throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Mission Ornington has assisted 89,913 families with food and given 239,336 dollars in financial assistance to 3,717 families. Whereas Mission Arlington provided over 90 pallets of water to 34 apartment communities and financial assistance to 180 families during the winter weather of 2021. Whereas this year Mission Arlington is celebrating 35 years of service to our community. Now therefore I, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do here by proclaim April 27, 2021 as Mission Arlington Day. Miss Tilly, we want to hear from you. I think what we've experienced even tonight is what this city is founded on its unity among us, the diversity among us, and the way that we all can serve our Lord and Savior and the Effective in a community because of the leadership that we have in Williams and this council is we've all we all know that and so the chamber certainly is a major partner And so we just want to say thank you on behalf of the Mission Arlington. There are more of us than just the two of us, but the rest of them are unloading trucks over there and we want them to keep doing that. But it's just such an honor for us to be here and be part of a city that we believe God put in place so that people can have success in their lives as they live in this community is no other community so thank you. So many have stepped up. So stay tuned to future council meetings because we'll have more to honor but very appreciative of these four organizations and what each one of them has meant to our community. Now begin the business of the evening and we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions and I'll turn to Mr. Alex Buskin, our city secretary. Thank you Mayor, we have no appointments to boards and commissions. Then I'll move to speaker guidelines in general to Quorum, Mr. Buskin. Thank you Mayor, we ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and to Quorum of this meeting. Any person making personal, profane, slanderous or threatening remarks or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and city of residents for the record. During public hearings for zoning cases the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make a presentation. Speakers and supporter opposition of the item will be given three minutes each to make their statements. The applicant will then be given three minutes for any rebuttal. For all other items on the agenda and during citizen participation, speakers will be given three minutes to speak. If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar public testimony, those speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals to provide public testimony on behalf of the group. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Thank you, Mr. Buskin. Mr. Buskin, we'll next move to consideration of minutes and again I'll turn to Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor minutes for consideration this evening or the afternoon and evening meeting minutes from April 13th 2021. Do any council members have any additions or corrections? Okay, seeing none I'll call for a motion. Do we have any speakers on this, Mr. Busskin? No, sir, we do not. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Nunez, a second from Councilmember Odom Wesley. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to consideration of consent agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 10 minute orders, one ordinance and one resolution. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal of annual requirements contract for the purchase of cold water meters, two and three purchase of ITS plus camera video detection system components for the public works and transportation department and of resale items for the parks and recreation department. 4 purchase and installation of a backup generator for the fire department point of distribution facility. 5 sole source purchase of the annual support and maintenance contract for the Amanda software. 6 sole source contract for vapor wake detection, K9 and handler training, 7 three year lease of personal computers, 8 modification to the 3 year contract for a third party administrator for workers compensation, automobile and general liability and subregation claims, 9 engineering services contract for the water treatment plant scatter program integrator, 10 South State Highway 360 corridor development strategy professional services contract. The ordinance seeks to authorize 11 zoning case PD 20-33 Frank Kent Cadillac 701 East Interstate 20 highway. The resolution seeks to authorize 12 tax increment re-investment zone number seven amendment. Thank you mayor. This concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in support of opposition of the items on the consent agenda. No sir, we have no speakers on the consent agenda. We do have three non-speakers on items on the consent agenda. On item 7.11 we have two non-speakers in support. It's Cliff McCoskey and Jacob Sumpter. And on item 7.12 we have one non-speaker in opposition. That's Richard Weber. Okay with that I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Nunez, a second from Councilmember Woolridge. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. this is the first meeting of the Council. Next, we move to public hearings and consideration of ordinance first reading. We have the South Cooper Street corridor strategy and I'll call upon Ms. Anne Foss, principal planner in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Ms. Falls. Good evening, Mayor and Council and FOSS, Principal Planner, Office of Strategic Initiatives. This is a presentation on the South Cooper Street corridor study, a strategy which describes the study of a five mile section of Cooper Street from UT Abel of Art in the North to Barton Road in the South. The purpose of the study was to examine the corridor and develop the strategy to improve transportation, enhance economic development opportunities, and position Cooper Street to help connect the broader Arlington community. For this project, we completed an existing conditions analysis, developed a community vision for the corridor, drafted recommendations, and created the full strategy document. Throughout the process we have had multiple opportunities for community engagement, including four meetings of our advisory committee, three public meetings open to the general public, three online surveys with a total of 850 participants, a project website, and regular briefings to the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council. With our stakeholders, an overall corridor vision was established, which sees Cooper Street as a community connector, where people can think, work, and play in a regionally significant destination that is active, attractive, and safe for all. Due to the length and complexity of the corridor, which is a five mile section, we divided it into three zones to study. Zone 1 runs from UTABL of ARD to Arkansas Lane and is anchored at Bay, UTA. There's a vision statement for Zone 1 and four key objectives to achieve that vision. These include reimagining the intersection of Matlock and Cooper Street, exploring additional housing options, enhancing pedestrian safety at key intersections, and establishing a Community Lead Public Arts program. Zone 2 runs from Arkansas Lane to Arbrook Boulevard. Again, we have a vision statement and four key objectives for Zone 2, which include exploring a business innovation district strategy for the area roughly bounded by Arkansas, Cooper and Medlin, establishing or exploring additional housing options, establishing a well-connected street grid, and improving access to work for day labors. a well-connected street grid and improving access to work for day labors. Zone 3 runs from Arbrook Boulevard to Barton Road and is anchored by the Park Small. We have a vision statement and four objectives for this zone as well which include reinforcing the mall as a regional destination, improving pedestrian connectivity within the zone, improving pedestrian safety over Interstate 20, and developing a strategy to address increases in e-commerce pedestrian connectivity within the zone, improving pedestrian safety over interstate 20, and developing a strategy to address increases in e-commerce opportunities. There are also five key objectives that apply to the full corridor, which include encouraging green infrastructure development, seeking drainage improvements to Johnson Creek, increasing pedestrian and bicycle facilities, establishing Cooper Street as an innovative mobility corridor, and developing design, aesthetic, and visual enhancements along the corridor. For each of these 17 broad objectives, the strategy describes detailed action steps to implement the objectives and the community vision. There are a total of 53 action steps and a timeline is identified for each one. There are a number of shorter term actions which could be realized in the next five years, medium term actions which could be realized in six to ten years, and 12 longer term actions that may take more than ten years to realize. The strategy also identifies project partners for these action steps, as well as cost estimates and potential funding sources. While some of these actions may take additional resources and investment to complete over the longer term, many of the action steps could be accomplished more quickly and at no new cost to the city. And this concludes my presentation. Thank you very much. Any questions for Ms. Foss? Ms. Foss, thank you for the work here that's been done in your leadership on this plan. Very much appreciated. Thank you. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have three speakers in opposition as well as two non-speakers in support. The first speaker in opposition is Tony Femme. After Mr. Femme is Darren Truby. Hi. Good evening. If you could state your name for the record here. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Thank you so much. My name is Tony Femme. Um, I'm a UTA student currently attending at UTA. And sorry, if this is my first time attending a city meeting for a very long time. So distinguished members of city council and mayor. Thank you so much for hearing me out. I think it's fairly controversial, uncontrollable, I should say that there's a few problems within the Cooper Street as problematic to say the very least. And I'm really excited to see that the city of Arlington is looking into redesigning the Cooper Street. But after reading the full plan entirety for at least 200 pages, I think there's a couple of points I like to make. Number one is that there is a lack of UTA representation within the public comments in here. For example, within the first part of a public engagement, there's only 6% of respondents who said that they visited UTA within the last six months. And personally, I do think that there should be a lot more input to be listened to for UTA students because right in the study, it says that UTA is the third largest college graduate producer within the North Texas region. And personally, I do think that students should be made aware of this plan better because despite even there's Mr. Greg Ladick, I'm aware that he's on the advisory council, students and even student leaders of the highest youngest student government weren't even made aware like myself. The second thing about why I'm here is that because of my friends, she was, I have a friend of mine who had a job interview, and she was very excited to be attending this job interview regarding this. But unfortunately, the meeting was conducted at Beiru Cafe, a very well-known establishment on Cooper Street, and unfortunately, she couldn't make it because number one, she couldn't drive, and number two, she doesn't feel safe walking on Cooper Street to get to the point. So two, she doesn't feel safe walking on a Cooper Street to get to the point. So unfortunately she could not make it to the meeting. And unfortunately she didn't make the job. Another friend of mine who was an avid biker and a walker could not even navigate Cooper Street because of so unsafe. And so when I heard about this, Playa was really excited to know that the city was looking into this, Playa was really excited to know that the city was looking into this, but I was deeply disappointed that the plan did not actively address this concern on the ground level of how someone like me and many others would be walking on the street. There are so many things that could have been done, but I think it's not enough for this study. And I do think that there needs to be more to be looked into this. Cooper Street should be redesigned as a street, not a highway. So I yield the for the study and I do think that there needs to be more to be looked into this. Cooper Street should be redesigned as a street, not a highway, so I yield the floor. Thank you, Mr. Fam. Our next speaker is Darren Truby. Hello, my name is Darren Trub. I'm speaking in opposition for this just because I want this to be amended upon. I'm mostly in support, but I think there are additions that we can make to Cooper Street when we consider this resolution. For example, if we added a bike lane, these cyclists would be a lot safer. And with wider streets, bike lanes limit streets face. And you might think, oh, that's terrible because we're gonna generate traffic, but you're not, because you're gonna have more bikers, more walkers, and it's just not a slightly safer, but this also increases visibility for businesses when you slow down. Honestly, I drive on Cooper Street every day, I'm sorry, to the cops here, ice feed likes all the time. It's a little bit silly, but I know everyone here has. And I want it to be safer because there's these bike clubs in Arlington that have these rides of silences. Chicago has a population of 2.1 million. And they have a ride of silence because of the amount of pedestrian deaths that are here. The fact that Arlington has one with a population of less than a million is sad. It's sad that that event exists having that right of silence. And honestly, if we added a bike lane, this would be a great for the economy. Some might see this as a more liberal sanding, but if you want to come to a conservative standing, when you have more bikers, you have less people buying oil and oil when people buy oil it leaves the local economy. So adding bike lanes to make the city more safer and increase the economy a little bit more. Cities like Portland, Oregon, they drive 20% less. Cities like Austin, Texas, where Arlington uses a lot of their infrastructure from. They use that Austin as an outline and the basis for everything. They eventually developed bike lanes because it's overall better for the economy. So if we're going to create these crosswalks, we're going to have to do it right in the first time because we're saving money this way and we're making an investment and we're going to have to do it right in the first time because we're saving money this way and we're making an investment and we're keeping money within Arlington. So not only on a safety side, but this is economically better for the city of Arlington. Thank you for your time. Thank you everyone here. I appreciate it. Thank you. Our next speaker is Michael Fanning. Thank you. Michael Fanning, Arlington, Texas. I am here as an organizer of Liberty, Arlington. Organization dedicated to cataloging and fighting gentrification in Arlington, and I'm here to talk about the South Cooper Street corridor strategy, specifically points two, six, and four, which are concerned with the diversification of incomes in housing and the beautification of South Cooper. More importantly, I'm here to talk about the community that this development plan will affect. I'm here because their voices have been ignored in these discussions. In the past week, Liberty Arlington has made an effort to inform residents of monumental changes to the city plans to make and found not only an overwhelming descent towards the gentrification in general, but also very almost no one who knows about this plan already. It seems almost like the decision-making process in who to inform about these changes, left out this neighborhood entirely. We can also see this in who the city consulted when constructing this plan. The largest citizen survey conducted, fielded fewer than 700 people, less than half of those respondents reported even driving in the neighborhood regularly. Why were the residents of these zones not consulted? Is it because the city knows the harmful effects of its actions? In fact, one member of City Council said, quote, where well aware of the dark sides of gentrification. Well, Councilman, what you call the dark side of gentrification, we call our extermination. The city's plan for diversification of incomes that will affect, will affect a part of the city where 27% of people live below the poverty line compared to the city's 12% average. Why should anyone reading this report come to the conclusion that in one of the poorest parts of the city, that diversification of income does not simply mean an influx of the rich? How can anyone think that this will not adversely affect the poor when property taxes and rents go up with land values? And as I said, something this city is well aware of. That same councilman who used the beautified language to describe our economic plight was also quick to say, quote, affordable housing can be accomplished in a variety of ways with different tools. So I must ask, where, what are these tools, and where are they in the city's plans? Because in this otherwise verbose document of 229 pages, not one sentence was dedicated to the subject of affordable housing. In fact, the words affordable and low income don't show up once in the South Cooper plan. No outreach, no concern, not even one mention of those who will be affected by the city's plan to gentrify. It seems like this is a plan designed to happen to residents of Arlington, not for residents of Arlington. A sneak attack that will increase the wealth of developers, but harm your own constituents. It's time to stop calling this a plan for development and call it what it really is. And a strategy of class warfare. Thank you. Thank you. Any other speakers, Mr. Baskin. No, so that concludes our speakers on this item. We did have two non-speakers and support Randy Hendrix and Jelanda Hendrix. Okay. Then with that, I'll close the public hearing and open it up for discussion here among our council members. Dr. Neneus? So I'm the person who is being quoted as the dark side of gentrification and I was taken out of context. So what are the tools for affordable housing? 9% tax credit properties, 4% tax credit properties, neighborhood empowerment zones. There's so many different tools, housing vouchers, project-based vouchers. We have a lot, we have the Orange and the Housing Finance Corporation. There are a tremendous number of things. So when I used the phrase, the dark side of identification, it was to imply that what I do not want to have happen is to displace those seniors and those people who are of lower income from the homes that is their only asset. I do not want that to happen here in Arlington. So I want to make it very clear. This South Cooper Street corridor, there are many neighborhood organizations that were involved in this. Mr. Hendricks, who was named as one of the supporters, is part of the Westador neighborhood edition. I know that there are representatives of the Westador neighborhood edition. I know that there are representatives of the Heart of Orange and Neighborhood Association that were a part of this. I know that there are members of the East Orange and Renewal. ZIPCOTS 76010, 76011, 76013, 76014. Some of the neighborhoods that are the most concerned about gentrification had some of the biggest impact on this study So are we out to have class war? No, we are not. I won't stand for that And so I just want you to know from my perspective that I don't like being taking out a context You know this is my next to last city council meeting. And of all the neighborhood associations, go ask them what they think of my performance here over the last two years. God, I think that it would be beneficial for us, the city council to pass this quarter plan because we're not going to ignore UTA. I'm a UTA alumni. I'm one of your distinguished alumni. I care about the University of Texas like you wouldn't believe. I'm on the the the advisory council for the College of Science. A science major. My gosh. I know that UTA needs bike paths. I know that the students are hungry. That many of them don't have enough money to pay for their own food. I know that, but I also am so proud of the University for what it's accomplished since I graduated from there in 1975. That's how old I am. But I'm not going to lose sight of the University of Texas at Arlington. And just because I'm stepping down from City council doesn't mean that I'm going to go why I'm going to continue my involvement at UTI and continue my involvement in the city Because I don't want bad things to happen to people in this community So with that mayor. I'll turn the mic back over to you others Yes, Dr. Odom Wesley I'll turn the mic back over to you. Others? Yes, Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Am I on? Thank you, UTA students for coming down and sharing your thoughts with us. And I wanted to give Dr. Rivas an opportunity to respond to the lack of UTA engagement, the point that you made. Because I know we talked about that when we visited getting UTA involved and how we would provide some opportunities for social gatherings. That was something the UTA president asked about. So can you address the concerns and talk about the engagement that UTA had in preparing the study? Yes, ma'am. So we did have representation from the University of Texas at Arlington on our advisory committee, Dr. Greg Ladick, who's the director of parking and transportation with the university's representative. So he gave input throughout the course of the project. We do have a number of our objectives that are geared towards the UTA community. One of those in particular is the Public Arts Program. We see that as an opportunity for both university students, faculty, as well as Arlington High School students and other community members to be involved with Public Art Program in that zone one for Cooper Street. We do think that the area around UTA is an ideal location for more walkability. So we have the pedestrian and bicycle facilities are one of the elements that are recommended in the strategy and continued retail and housing development that would help to serve the university community as well as other businesses and residents throughout the study area. Okay, thank you. So would you conclude that the concerns that were expressed here tonight have been addressed in the study? I think a number of the issues that were raised are items that are recommended in the study. And as we move into the implementation phase, Council can provide direction to staff to address any of those concerns with higher or lower priority to direct the actions that we take next. Thank you very much. Really appreciate the input here of walkability and also the bicycles, of course, are very important. And then, Ms. Fals, I do have a, I want you to clarify something here too. We actually do have a state highway. Cooper is a state highway. Not that we necessarily want it to be, but it is. And so we're having to deal with that. And one of the things that has been done in the past is we've looked at the roads running parallel to Cooper, therefore our bicycles, not pedestrians, but bicycles. And of course, Cener Street has been one of those main ones. But do you want to talk about not that where we do not want to ignore bicycles or pedestrians? And can you talk about the discussions that Chalapad had on the corridor study? Because it was a very robust discussion from what I've heard. Certainly, yes, Mayor. So it is a TechSdot facility. It is State Highway 157. So the city has some limitations about the actual physical layout and design of the roadway due to it being a State Highway. We did have our local district engineer from the Fort Worth Text. Office Participate in the study he served on our advisory committee as well and helped provide guidance throughout the process and as the mayor alluded If we aren't able to put Bicycle lanes directly on Cooper Street There are a lot of opportunities on some of the adjacent streets that cross Cooper Street as well as run parallel to Cooper Street and some of those are highlighted in the city's adopted hike and bike master plan. So Center Street as you mentioned also Davis Drive and a number of others where pedestrian and bicycle facilities could be provided more safely. And then I'll also share with you that Miss Fals was taking notes. So your comments tonight are well taken and the same with Mr. Fanning there too. And I think you heard here from Council Member Nunez that that's not our intention here at all and we will work towards a set of so I really appreciate the input that we've gotten tonight because I think it was good stuff. There, and of course, there is things that this committee wanted to have happen there too. So any other? Yes, Ms. Walridge. Part me, Ms. Files, this is our first reading on this. Before second reading, will you agree to meet with the UTA students and student government and include their ideas as we go forward? I'd be happy to meet with them. Yes. I appreciate that. Thank you. Any other? Yes, Mr. Gonzalez. I'm love seeing you, Tasty and Tear. I'm also a fellow UTA student in Mr. Fannie and I appreciate you coming out here. You and I spoke. I know one of the things that you mentioned is affordable housing. As I mentioned, we do have a planning session this Friday where we will be discussing looking at the unified development code where hopefully we can make some changes. Look at it possibly where people will be able to afford homes because that is important to us. Affordable housing, affordable housing for students is not $300,000 starter homes. And so we understand that. So it's important that we all work together and make it better. So I'm like Dr. Nunez. I'm a big U-taste supporter. And I think it's it. We look at it. It's one of the biggest things that we have here in Allington. So I do appreciate you coming out by I promise you we will be discussing affordable housing. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Moise. So thank you for coming out to speak tonight. Like most of us here, we've lived in Arlington a long time. We we earned our group degrees at UTR, LinkedIn. So I have my's in business from UD Arlington. I want to talk about it from a slightly different angle that I think means a lot to many, many people in Arlington and that is jobs. The Cooper Street Carter is a job generator. And what we've seen in recent years is it's not generating jobs like it used to. We want jobs not just for the population living in the area who deserves better paying jobs in what some of our service industries offer, but we want jobs for students who graduate. So we want to create the feeling that where we have aging infrastructure and substandard buildings. And if you drive down Cuperstreet and look to the left and look to the right, you see it and you know that those buildings aren't going to be there forever. So this gives us the opportunity to have Stephen put some public money into job creation. And to me, that's part of what we're talking about tonight, with the passage of this. So housing's important, gentrification's important, but for the future of Arlington, we need to be a job creator. So that's just my point I wanted to make that I think this opens up economic opportunities for all of Arlington. So thank you. Mr. Gonzalez, thank you, Mayor. Ms. Faust,. Thank you, Mayor. Ms. Fowles, do you mind the most exciting part for me? Obviously, you know what I'm going to bring up. Is the utility poles. When you go down and look at it, it's like, oh my gosh, what a difference. So can you talk about what the plans are for all that? Sure. So that's one of the actions that falls under some of the aesthetic improvements for the corridor. And we have a couple of items that are both shorter term and longer term related to those utility poles and some of the visual clutter along Cooper Street. So in the shorter term, we see opportunities for consolidating some of the existing poles. We might not need all of them out there and we can consolidate the utilities onto a fewer number of poles. And then longer term as properties along Cooper Street redeveloped, we think there are opportunities for those redevelopment plans to relocate the utilities to the rear of the lot away from the roadway or potentially burying them to remove some of that visual clutter. Okay, any other comments, questions? Dr. Frouhr Mars. Thank you very, very much. I became a Texan because of UTR-Lington. They hired me as a system professor and they brought me down here. Like my students predicted the first day of class, I am a dammy Yankee because not only to come from the north, but I stayed. And look at me now. I just want to say thank you to the UTR LinkedIn students. I want to remind us about what we're doing here today. It's like the strategy itself is about a vision. That's really what this is about. This is about bringing all the stakeholders together to come together and talk about what we want to see for the future of Cooper Street. Because we all can agree that we don't like what we see now, and we want to see something better in the future. And that vision of putting that together, I think one of the things that was most eye-opening in this process was that the strategic conversations that happened made us see that Cooper Street is not one. It has different zones and different identities. And I just want to applaud the two students who came, the three students actually who came today, and the one who actually emailed and asked me questions regarding housing and what we were doing in this study. Because I think one of the things we're missing is this opportunity for what we're having right now with Ms. Woolwich encouraged to happen. This is not the end of the conversation. This is just the beginning. The strategy is about what we're visioning for the future. It's about what we want to create going forward. And so I'd encourage each one of you not to think this is an ending, but think this is a beginning. That by passing the strategy tonight, we are saying collectively we want something better for the city. And here are steps to go. But by now means are not all the things in between. The implementation is going to take each and every one of your passions that you show tonight. So let me challenge you back. As we pass this, and I will be supporting the passage of this because I do believe it provides a pathway forward in this vision. But I would encourage each one of you who stood here tonight and those listening at home. This is your strategy. Help us implement it to the way and vision that you envision for the city going forward. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. With that, I'll entertain a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Gonzalez, second from Council Member Odom Wesley. Please cast your votes. Motion passes and as. Foss will be getting with our UT Orange and students and here before the next reading, very much thank you Ms. Foss, appreciate that. Okay, next, we'll move to Unified Development Code, UDC Annual Update, and I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Topall. I know I won't. Jensy, you wanna introduce who we have to. Thank you Mayor. Ms. Chasdee Benson, our planning manager has been leading this project and is here to present this for us today. Thank you, Ms. Benson. Yes, thank you Mayor. Thank you, Council. Good evening. Chasdee Benson Benson. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilor Good evening. Chasty Benson, Planning Manager, Planning and Development Services. So again tonight is the public hearing for the Unified Development Code Annual Update. We have been working through this update for some time now. This year, the UDC obviously was adopted in 2014 and has been updated various times throughout its existence, including most recently with some modifications in 2020. But the last annual update, which is a comprehensive look at the code, looking to make minor changes to wording, to clarify certain provisions within the code to improve its usefulness. And so the process began with some input from the developer roundtable. We had discussions with the municipal policy committee as well as work sessions with P&Z and public hearing, which P&Z did recommend approval. And then we went into a detailed presentation with you all at the last work session. After that work session, we did have a follow up meeting with the developer round table just to go over what those final discussions were with council, and then we are before you tonight for the public hearing. So as I mentioned, we've gone through detail in the work session presentation. So tonight, I just wanna highlight some of the things that we've discussed since that work session discussion. Most notably the Article 2 provisions are primarily to make some clarifications to some of those tables and setbacks and how we apply those setbacks to non-residential uses that are sent to single family. Article 3, there were some minor updates to the table of allowed uses to modify some notations in the references for the supplemental standards. During discussion at the last work session, there was a question related to the daycare provisions adjacent to gas wells. So we did revisit the gas well ordinance and recognized that we needed to modify the language in the UDC to align with that. So the supplemental standards have been modified to align with that. So the supplemental standards have been modified to align with that provision, which is that daycares and their associated playgrounds should not be located within 300 feet of an approved gas well. Excuse me, an existing gas well or approved drilling zone. So we did make that clarification based on our last discussion with council. Article four, the only proposed change in that article is related to swimming pools just making the clarification in terms of their ability to be within the required setback. Article five, we did have some proposed amendments to the infill, residential infill compatibility standards to broaden that standard to residential-owned properties that were platted prior to January 31st 1984. This is kind of our first step in trying to address some of those infill and redevelopment strategies that you all be discussing in greater detail later this week. We're also proposing to modify the landscape buffer design standards to allow an exception to reduce the planting ratio within the landscape buffer when there are some unique physical characteristics such as preferred materials being used on the building that gives staff some flexibility to work with the development community on that provision. And then the modifications to their residential design standards on village on the green was simply just to clarify the range for the minimum contiguous acreage in that table. And then the airport overlay was just to include office as a compatible use. It's already allowed in that district. We just wanted to make that clear. Article 6, which is our subdivision regulation section, we just wanted to add some additional language to address unique plating situations such as flag lots. Article 9, which was proposed to have some events just to clarify the membership appointment in terms of office for the zoning board of adjustment, PNZ, and landmark preservation commission to ensure that all of those red are the same. They read a little bit differently, so we're making those modifications as well as clarifying the quorum requirements for ZBA. Article 10, we did our proposing some modifications to clarify some things in Article 10 are primarily the most notable is revising the public notice to 11 days for zoning changes. Right now, the UDC has a 16 day notification for PDs, SUPs, but it does require 11 day notice for a straight zoning change. So this will allow for the public notice to be consistent across the board. Again, we're still in alignment with state law, which is a 10 day notification. So we're proposing that modification. And then we've also added some appeal language to clarify the specific appeals process once a case is denied by P and Z what steps the applicant must take in order to be considered with the public hearing before the city council and then when you change one section you got got to change them all. So there are some cross references that we have to modify in the sections that are noted here with the addition of that new appeals subsection. Article 12 is the definition section. So we did, again, add live entertainment as a land use classification title to the nightclub provision. We didn't change the definition itself, but we just added the live entertainment as a land use classification title to the nightclub provision. We didn't change the definition itself, but we just added the live entertainment venue wording such that nightclub evokes a very specific business type but that definition was definitely geared more towards a live entertainment venue. So we thought it appropriate to add that wording. And then again, in our discussion at the work session on the 13th, there was a conversation related to slaughterhouses and how those would be handled in the UDC. And so we are proposing to revise wording to remove the slaughtering or processing of animals from the high impact use definition, which is where it's currently housed. Again, the updates that are proposed are pretty high level correcting errors, eliminating clear, unclear language and clarifying wording. Certainly substantive policy-related changes can always come forward through the text amendment provisions that are already outlined in the UDC, and certainly we do think that that may be an opportunity to revisit some additional things as it relates to your discussion on housing policy and infill and redevelopment strategies. Again, tonight's the public hearing and then adoption at your next council meeting. I am available for any questions, Mayor. Any questions from Ms. Benson? Ms. Moeze. Mrs. Benson, I've read through this and it's tedious. So I just want to say thank you to you because now we know that you know that UDC better than anyone here, right? But anyway, I do appreciate all of your work on this and I had a very nice compliment from you. I had a call from a developer yesterday with some questions. And Jinssey put him right through to you. I said, you need to call the city, because I can't answer the question. And he called me and was very pleased with your responses. And it's someone who really knows the UDC, because he helped write it in 14. So you won him over. So thank you for your hard work and we appreciate you and I support this with all the work you've done on it. Thank you. Any other questions from Ms. Benson? Okay, thank you, Ms. Benson. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two speakers in support on this item. Our first speaker is Taylor Oldroyd. After Mr. Oldroyd is Dixon Holman. Good evening Marin council members. It's great to be here Taylor Oldroyd, a proud new resident of Arlington and new President CEO of the Arlington Borough Realtors. It's just too good of an opportunity for me to come here and in person and say hi and congratulate the staff. And I've heard a lot tonight about planning and it's so important. It's not always the maybe sexy side of government. It's super important though. So we applied to your steps and effort to provide clarification. Does anytime we can streamline a process or clarify things that helps both city staff and of course applicants in that process. And so it's important and anytime we can do that, we look forward to being part of that. You know planning is the key. I mean we've talked about vision, we've talked about housing, we've talked about jobs tonight. I've heard all those really important words. And so this is how that happens through some of this, maybe boring or tedious things, but this is super important. So we look forward to working with you, our Unicron Board of Realtors is full of experts. And so we'll reach out to staff and look forward to being part of this process going forward and I know that it was mentioned upcoming opportunities to do that through the Union to Council recommendations and others. So just look forward to being a resource to you and apply to you for this effort and appreciate your time tonight. Thank you. Welcome Mr. Eldroyden. Glad you moved here to Arlington and looking forward to continuing great things here from the Arlington border realtors. Very much appreciate it. Thank you. Our next speaker is Dixon Holman. We are with City Manager, our city attorney, and honorable council members. Glad to be here tonight. I'm Dixon Holman 73 or 4B Chase drive, Arlington, Texas. And I take my mask off because my glasses fall out. So I didn't want to stand here and not be able to see you while I talk to you. Just wanted to, again, echo some of the things Mr. Old Royd said. I'm chairman of the Ar Mr. Oldroyd said. I'm Chairman of the Arctic Board of Realtors, I'm honored to be doing that for the second year in a row, but I know all of you from many other things in this community and you're doing a great job and this revision, along with the others to come and operate through all of the items in this revision are well thought out. They don't bait and switch anything or make changes that people will find out later meant one thing when they thought it meant something else. And I think it just clarifies it gives already some flexibility as Ms. Mitzend pointed out out with the housing, the pre-1984 or January of 1984. And we can continue to move in that direction and do things for the citizens we already have here, present new opportunities for citizens who will come here, and also address the things, the affordable housing that was referred to earlier and that flexibility will help us in things like the South Cooper Street study as well. So the areas that were studied in the decisions and recommendations. So again, great job. I'm here to applaud you and say we appreciate it. And again, echo my colleague with letting you know that we are here as a resource for you anytime that we can be and look forward to working with you as we move forward to the rest of these issues and decisions that you will make. So have a great evening and look forward to it. Thanks. Thank you, Ms. Trullman. Thank you for being a champion for Arlington and please pass on to the realtors. You guys are some of the best ambassadors we have for our community and please pass on to the realtors. You guys are some of the best ambassadors we have for our community and thank you for all the good work. I'll do it, thank you Mayor. Thank you. That concludes our speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and ask for any comments here from our questions here from council. Okay, saying none, then I'll call for a motion. Okay we have a motion for approval from councilmember Nunez, a second from councilmember for our mires. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you for all the work on this, Ms. Benson, and all those who get several in the audience. I know that we're working on this and in several of our council members spend a lot of time there too and very much appreciated. Thank you. Okay, next we move to item 10.3, zoning case PD 20-25, the market, Ar Arlington 100 West Arbrook and Alternumist Jinssy Topal Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you Mayor. Item 10.3. The applicant requests to change the zoning on approximately 21 acres of land located at the southeast corner of South Center Street and East Arbor, Boulevard. The current zoning is Office Commercial O.C. and General Commercial G.C. The request is for a planned development for RMF 22 uses that's residential multi-family 22 uses with a development plan. Earlier this year on January 20th, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that applicant take some time to revise their plans and comply with the UDC standards. The applicant since then has made several changes to the plans and on April 7th, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval for this project. The development plan proposes a gated community with 649 units in four story buildings. The proposed density is approximately 31 units per acre, exceeding the density cap of the proposed base zoning district of RMF 22, which is 22 maximum density of 22 units per acre. The project is divided into two phases. Phase one will be the southern portion of the property and consists of approximately 317 units. Phase two will consist of approximately 332 units separated from Phase 1 by a proposed wet detention pond and water feature and occupied the remainder of the property. The project's primary access will be from South Center Street. There is a secondary access point proposed on East Arbor Boulevard. In addition, there will be an access point from Highlander Boulevard whenever that is built. The development proposes 88 efficiency units, 330, 1 bedroom units, 1952 bedroom units, and 24 3 bedroom units. The primary building materials are CMU on the first floor, mostly brick and less of cementitious fiberboard on the first floor, mostly brick and less of cementitious fiberboard on the upper floors. The applicant exceeds the minimum parking requirements for covered parking and tuck under garage parking. The plan also provides for electrical, electric vehicle charging stations as well as dedicated right-chair parking along South Center Street. The development provides approximately 11 acres of open space with amenities. This evening we have Grant Robinson from CPG Development present this case for us. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to introduce Grant and just be very brief. I'm Cliff McCoskey, 519, East Border, Arlington. Here to introduce the market, Arlington and Grant Robinson of CPG development on zoning case, PD, 20-25. Before grant presents the case to you, I'd like to thank the City Council and the staff for the time and ideas you've generously given CPG team. They've listened to work hard to everything you've said and taken it to heart to develop a plan the city will be proud of. In closing the Markle add a vital component of new quality market rate housing near the Arlington Highlands development, the existing office in the area, and the existing medical in the area. With this being said and if the council will allow it, I'd like to turn over the microphone only. Grant had my remaining two minutes for his presentation. Thank you Mr. Mckosky, certainly Mr. Robinson. Thanks, Quint. Hi, Grant Robinson 9026 West Breyer Drive, Dallas, Texas. Good evening Mayor, council. My name is Grant Robinson with CPG development. Before we get started I'd like to thank staff once again for other efforts and making the mark what it is today, which is truly a community that is built to, you know, a community, sorry, a community uniquely built to meet the needs of Arlington. And we really worked hard with all the community members, with staff, with planning and zoning with you all to make this a true community development for the city. Over the last 10 months, we've been asked many times what makes the market Arlington different. And that's the question I'd like to answer for you tonight. It starts with our team. CPG is candy, shape, Preston, and grant. We're local, we're family owns, and we're long-term holders, meaning we plan to own the mark for many years as long-term investors in the City of Arlington. There's only six total people behind the market Arlington, the four of us at CPG and our two investors, both of whom are also local. We have long ties to the city of Arlington. Our two investors are forming minority owners of the Texas Rangers. And Arlington is my hometown. I was born here, raised here, my friends still live here, my family still lives here, including my parents and sister who are sitting with us tonight. And it's been so incredibly rewarding to come back to the community, this great community that raised me, and be able to contribute to the fabric in a material way. Nevertheless, another thing that makes the Mark at Arlington different is that because of its unique location and design, there's much more public policy supporting this project than working against it. For example, the mark is one of the only projects in the pipeline that's located in a district that specifically targets high density residential and the comprehensive plan, the Regional Activity Center. The mark is one of the only projects in the pipeline to create a true 10-minute neighborhood as Cogford and the special council presentation you heard in March. The mark is one of the only projects in the pipeline to create a true 10-minute neighborhood is called for in the special council presentation you heard in March. The market is one of the only projects in the pipeline located in the shadows of a large employment center, which is special council presentation that advises developers target for higher density residential. The market furthers the housing needs assessment of 4,200 new housing units needed per year to keep up with population growth, and answers to call the Unity Council to provide diversity and high-quality housing that's attainable to a large segment of the Arlington population. Besides support from policy, the mark has a lot of support from the community. From ring doorbells to walkability to hiking bike trails, shared co-working facilities, shared ride facilities to cross-reference programs between our applications and Arlington's open warrant database. This project is as much designed by the community that supports it as it is our team. We're incredibly thankful for all the community support and the feedback necessary to make this a true community development. But what we're most excited to tell you about is the unique vision, the unique experience that this creates for the city of Arlington, especially South Central Arlington. That experience starts as you drive down Arborick and drive down center. You don't see cars, you don't see parking, you see a wide trail system, a multi-use hike and bike trail, with landscaping and lighting. You see building facades made of real brick and stone that are well lit at night. You see private first floor yards, interactive water features are in seating areas. And most importantly, you see people outside enjoying these features. As you drive down center, you see the most visible portion of this site, which are two large ponds with fountains in a bridge spanning them. You may see people feeding ducks, reading a book, or maybe a fishing line or two. A truly unique living experience. That experience just gets better for the Mark residents. Behind our gate you'll find multi-level gyms, community club houses, relaxation rooms, resort-style pools, fire pits, putting greens, electronic delivery lockers, and much more. We're also especially excited about our green energy features, including car charging stations and outdoor solar panel work stations. We're providing two co-working facilities with direct elevator access, private offices, conference rooms, coffee bars, reception area, everything you need to host a meeting, work, or study. Shared ride pickup zone to promote safety and convenience for our residents. You know exactly where you're being picked up and exactly where you're being dropped off. And a coffee partnership with a local vendor to further that experience for the mark. At the end of the day, we're asking to bring $100 million of private, non-subsidized capital to the city of Arlington and the form of high-quality housing that will undoubtedly create a halo effect, inspiring further investment and redevelopment in the community. High-quality housing that's needed, supported by the community and supported by public policy, the market Arlington. Thank you for your time and we sincerely appreciate your support. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. Any questions from Mr. Robinson? Dr. Farah Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Robinson, for that response to my original question, which is, why are you different? So I appreciate that. The time, attention, and detail that you've spent, it's also very impressive to see that this project has so much public input in addition with our many of our neighborhood leaders. You even, I noticed you even talked to our police for a step find out about security on this, which is quite commendable. I have not seen that on the list checklist before. So with that, I feel a little nitpicky here, but I'm going to be nitpicky. I'll just a second. Please. One of the deviations is a Cemetery, just fiber board. And I, a developer talked one time about this and I've really convinced me this is something that I need to ask for every time I see this, which is I really love to have a stipulation placed on your, on this tonight that indicates that every 10 years you'll be painting those and that you'll be refreshing those and you'll make sure that you'll do upkeep on the grounds. Again, I feel nitpicky asking because I like the level of quality that you provide it. You really, I think far exceeded what we think about in terms of multifamily. You've really created a planned community here. And I like what I see, but like I said, I feel with our UDC requirement, I feel that I need to ask for that. So if you are fine with that stipulation, which I hope you all are, I'm seeing a lot of netting heads, so I think I would like to make sure that is included. I think C. Ms. Thopel, if I'm going above beyond Miss Thopel, let me know. I just wanted to respond to that that in the attached ordinance that stipulation is already added in. Fantastic. Is that cover for all the? Yes, and thank you, Dr. Farmer's. And we'll actually do you one better. And we've been working with Bob Kimbo on this document. If I can find it in our lengthy appendix here. So we completely agree with you. And we're long-term holders. We never sold one of our properties. We plan to be long-term investors in the community of Arlington. And upkeep and maintenance, it gives multi-family a bad name. And as long-term operators, that's something that's near and dear to our hearts. And something that we want to make sure that we hold ourselves to. We hold ourselves to a higher standard and we want to legitimize that or document that. And so we actually drafted a declaration of maintenance covenants that we plan on imposing on ourselves. So this is a legal document that we are going to record in the property records and assign enforceability to the city of Arlington that goes above and beyond ordinary code compliance. And things like you mentioned are in there, such as painting all stained exterior material on the property as much as often as necessary, but no less than every 10 years. Property must be kept reasonable and clear of all trash and debris. All trash and recycling facilities must be kept in clean, orderly condition. Any damage to the brithessage or the fences or anything like that needs to be repaired within 60 days. Things like that to really hold our feet to the fire and this will run with the land. We never plan to sell this property, but if we do, this will run with the land and hold the neck developer's feet to the fire. Well, then Mr. Robinson, I want to say thank you for anticipating that question as well. Miss Opel with your guarantee that it is included in the ordinance. I feel very comfortable and by the way, I did raise this also because the standard that you said in this, I hope everyone else is listening because this is a standard that I'd like to see going forward. So thank you for your efforts. Thank you Mayor, appreciate the time. Thank you. Any other questions? Dr. Odom Westley. Thank you Mayor. And thank you Mr. Robinson for bringing this project to us. Thank you for the improvements that you've made since the last time we saw it. I did want to mention the other deviation that we have in the staff report. And that's in the setback requirement on the arterials. The requirement is 40 feet and you're coming in at 20 feet. Could you address that for the council, please? Absolutely. Thank you for the question. And a critical component to this project and a vision from the beginning was to really create that walkability, that urban streetscape. And those setbacks are very critical to making that happen. Very similar to Arlington Commons along 30, where you need to bring those buildings to the street front in order to create that urban walkable feel So that the building becomes part of the community With the lighting the landscaping the the architecture Bringing that to the forefront putting the cars parking infrastructure everything that behind them Really creates that synergy that you know is inviting that creates that warm welcoming, that allows people to get out on the street and walk to Arlington Highlands, walk their jobs at GM Financial, whatever they choose to do. And we think that street escape is critically important to this project, and that's where those deviations come from. Absolutely. Ms. Mollies and then Mr. Gonzalez. So we spoke, I guess that was yesterday, it seems long ago, for about an hour. And you answered all of my questions and I felt like when I hung up the phone, wow, this is one that I don't need to do much too. So I want to thank you for that. What my thought was when I hung up is that this is a true urban project in an area that needs a true urban quality project. And by that I mean, I like your proximity to the sidewalks. I like that you're close to it. You're creating, you're finishing what is a live workplace environment because we have the other components but we haven't had the high quality housing. We actually covered yesterday your market rents that you planned for the buildings and some of the Dallas BC projects up to 220 square foot and you're talking 165, 170 square foot. That's affordable for most young professionals who want a small unit, but want quality and want walkability and want to be close to the action. So I applaud you for really creating that urban project near the Highlands that kind of gives us a finished area down there. So thank you very much and I support the project. Mr. Hughes-Ealls. Ray presentation, I thank the family for being here. It's neat to see a family working together. It's not, you know, that's a blessing. You and I, we all spoke earlier. You know, I wish the ideal situations that I wish you were replacing some older building there. Because it's, you know, it's a prime location. You know, it's commercial. That center, you know, road just got opened up. The overpass recently, I know I used that road quite a bit. And I'm looking forward to hopefully some job opportunities for our college students to be able to hopefully some jobs, some of these corporations open it off as building our somewhere like that where people can stay here. With regards to, first I want to thank P&Z for holding the developer to the fire. I mean, to see that they actually looked and made, recommend these changes. And there are still quite a few deviations obviously. And you and I spoke already, but obviously the biggest one for me is the 22 units per acre, 31, and you explain, you know, can you explain it again? Sure, absolutely. Your thoughts on that? Yes. And we didn't start this project with the goal of, hey, let's hit 31 units in acre. Our goal for this project was to create the best possible project for the city of Arlington. We thought we possibly could. 31 units in acre is a product of the design that we came up with. I think Arlington, and I think we can all agree that Arlington needs more density in order to meet the 4200 new housing units per year to keep up with population growth. And I think it's important that we focus those higher density uses in locations that call for them. And the Regional Activity Center is one of those locations. The Regional Activity Center is an overlay district on 20 that allows for multi-family density up to 90 units an acre So we didn't feel was appropriate to go that high So when we when we settled at 31 units an acre knowing that the regional activity center calls for density three times that We felt like it was an appropriate Density to meet the needs of the area without overextending the resources of Arlington. And that's where we arrived at that number. Thank you for addressing that, because a lot of people see 22 to 31 and not realize that could have been 90. So I do appreciate that. And then with regards to the, obviously changing the zoning from commercial to RMF, I mean, you mentioned the thought along with all the air business around what their thoughts were on that. Do you want to discuss that also real quick? Sure, and if you don't mind my business partner and very good friend Preston is much more well spoken than me and that he's going to answer this one for you. I pressed in Munster 5447 Vickery Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. Thank you, Mayor and Council for everything that y'all have put into this project. Thank you, Councilman Gonzalez for the question. We've been talking with GM Financial for over two years now about this project. And last year in July, they awarded us the contract by this land because their intention was to have us bring a complimentary use that supports the needs of their employees. And they believe that other businesses in Arlington have that same desire to have high quality, walkable housing adjacent to their facilities, and that they promote that synergy and that halo effect, and that places like the Market Arlington will attract other businesses, and also help support the existing ones that are adjacent to it. Does that answer your question? Yeah, and I appreciate you thinking and working in all intents and making things happen in all intents. So thank you, Tal, for being here, and I appreciate you thinking and working in all intent and making things happen in all of this. So thank you, Tal, for being here and I appreciate the presentation. Absolutely. Okay, seeing no other questions, Mr. Robinson. Thank you. Thank you. Next we'll move to Mr. Buskins if there's any speakers on this item. Yes, sir. We had two individuals registered to speak. The first speaker in support is Preston Munster We had one individual registered to speak in opposition that's Richard Weber I'll go ahead and get the questions. I'll go ahead and get the questions. Break your Dweller 2703 Cressmore Court. First of all, let's talk about everyone sees the need for this density. Wrong. Arlington already has a density greater than Dallas. Arlington already has a density greater than Dallas. Arlington already has a density more than one and a half times for worth. When I moved to Arlington as a 22 year old college graduate, that's something you'd like to attract for some reason. It was because it wasn't Dallas or Fort Worth. The changes has happened, it's changed the great city of Arlington in the wrong direction But my main objection to this project is that the use This is commercial. This is your valuable commercial property And here you are just changing it away earlier tonight with the Cooper Street Strategy, we're going to make Parks Moral a regional destination again. That's on the one side of Arlington Highlands. Now on the other side of Arlington Highlands we just recently opened up the center street road over the bridge. And now while we're going to give up on this commercial property to make it high density apartments, you're doing this all wrong. This is not the right way to go. Not the right way at all. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers on this item. We did have three non-speakers in support. That was Sue Phillips, Jacob Sumpter and Alicia Gray. Okay with that I will close the public hearing and I'll ask for any comments or questions here from Council. Seeing none then I'll call for a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Nunez, second from Councilmember Moe's, please cast your votes. Motion passes. We thank you very much for your investment here in Arlington and also really putting in a great amenities package and working so well over many months here with many of our citizens and our council and our staff So we look forward to this product that we hope will land not only to the quality of life here, but also to help continue that deal of creating places for people to live here for our businesses so that we can create a better quality. Thank you all so much, appreciate it. Okay, next we'll move to the zoning case PD 20-26, Eden Springs 819-825 West Mayfield Road. Now turn to Ms. Jensy Topall. Thank you Mayor. Item 10.4. The applicant's request to change the zoning on approximately 12 acres of land addressed approximately as 819 and 825 West Mayfield Road. Generally located west of the intersection of West Maple Road and Map Lock Road. The current zoning of the site is a planned development for all office users plus a hospital. The request is to rezone the property to a planned development for RMF 22 users, residential multi multifamily users, with a development plan. The plan proposes a gated community with 106 units composed of individual buildings giving the appearance of single-family detached homes and duplexes. This produces a density of nine dwelling units per acre. Based on planning and zoning commissions recommendation, short term rentals will be prohibited at this project. The project's primary access will be from West Mayfield Road. There is also a secondary emergency access point, again on the same street. The planned development will have 78 single-family detached and 28 duplex building types with a combination of one and two stories. They consist of 32 one bedroom units, 34 two bedroom units and 43 bedroom units. The units are proposed to have the affront facade and the primary access from shared green spaces. The primary building material is proposed to be cementitious fiberboard. The secondary materials are CMU vignier and brick vignier. Additionally, the development does not comply with the minimum unit area for one bedroom units. The applicant meets the minimum parking requirements for covered parking and garage parking. The development also meets the open space requirements. At the plat stage, a floodplain development permit will be required due to the proposed work and may also require a no-rise certification. Based on the traffic impact analysis and variance requests from the applicant, a westbound right-turn deceleration lane will be required at the main entry on West Mayfield Road. This evening we have TJ Moore from ECM Development presenting the case for us. Thank you, Jensy. TJ Moore, Arlington, Texas. Mayor and council, I am excited to present our newest community to Arlington. And it's been really cool tonight to just see as we've walked through the different strategies, you know, as an Arlington resident, that we look for in creating jobs and housing. And we talk about UTA and how do we ultimately, how do we keep the talent that we're producing at UTA here? Right, because right now we are getting them to go to jobs here and then they're living elsewhere. Well, it's really, we need to bring all of these unique housing opportunities like the mark that just came through and then ours as well. So I want to run you through this. So here is our site plan. This site does have a PD on it for office and medical and it's been in place for a little over 20 years and we asked, you know, as a group, we sat down and asked ourselves, why? And there's a lot of development challenges on this. And it starts off on the Eastern boundary, it's Johnson Creek. So the first thing that we knew we needed to do, and Nikki really, my wife, Nikki really did the heavy lifting with this meeting with all of the neighborhood leaders here. And you know, we all know, as Arlington residents, Johnson Creek's concern for flooding so we did a full flood study and showed that this specific zoning type housing type provided no negative impacts to Johnson Creek and a lot of that has to do with our green space as you see here just look at this you know this we've got 12 acres we're really only developing on about eight acres of it as we left a lot of it undeveloped and preserved Johnson Creek in its natural state. And then on the north side we've got a pipeline easement on the western side we have a big water easement and that's really what delineated this site plan. We really wanted this to feel like a normal neighborhood and so when you drive through you'll notice it's on street parallel parking the homes front on the roads and then we do have muse oriented homes as well and the reason why we want to do that is we want we want people sitting out on their front porches talking across and creating a community feel right now you know your options really are living in a multi-family development or buying a home we don't have community set up for renters by choice that want to live in a rental home. Right now what they're doing is they're leasing homes in existing neighborhoods. And typically those homes are 30, 40, 50 years old. This allows a professionally maintained and managed community that truly provides a maintenance-free experience. That's what else we want. And this is located close to the hospital. We think a big demographic of who's going to live here and who we're going to retain as residents in Arlington are the medical professionals of the hospital. Where they want a true lock-in-leave lifestyle. All of these homes are smart home technology. And so, you know, you can press a button and let us know that you need your light bulb change and our maintenance staff will come take care of that for you. The big thing with this community is this is just built to a really high quality standard. David Weekly Homes is actually our general contractor to build these homes for us. David Weekly is traditionally a move up home builder and they're going to build these homes for us. David Weekly is traditionally a move-up home builder. They're going to build these for us. All of our homes have these 10 foot ceiling plates. I'm going to walk you through that today and what that feels like. So when you build something smaller, you've got to go vertical with that. And that creates massing as you drive through the community. And we're going to walk through that here as well. But let's really want to focus on who are target audience is. First, renters by choice. These are people that have the incomes to buy a home they just don't want to. We're seeing a new mindset in the housing, really coming from empty nesters and then the millennials. And that is a subscription-based mindset and housing. But they really just don't have a community to go to where they wanna live in a home. All of these homes have private backyards. And I wanna walk you through our elevations. Jensi mentioned that we are using a lot of cementitious fiber board that's intentional and Dr. Farah Myers, I wanna address that as well. In our PD, we are maintaining these and painting these every 10 years if not sooner. But what Cementaceous Fiberboard allows us to do is it allows us to create basically to help with monotony. That's what we don't want. And so you can see the different shapes and textures and orientations of the Cementaceous Fiberboard. Cementaceous Fiberboard is not wood- siding, it is not vinyl, it is cement. It's got a classic fire rating, and the manufacturer warranty on the paint is 25 years. And so here's our one story two bedroom elevations. You see the big picture windows. You see the front porches, all of them are designed where you can have two chairs and a table out front. Here's our two story, two bedroom elevations, and then our two story, three bedroom elevations. And we enter mix this throughout the community, so it does feel like a normal single family community. And there's a picture of our interiors. And the last thing I really wanna touch on is the taxable value. Currently, this site generates $7,000 per year for city revenue. With ours it will generate $135,000 per year which comes out to in essence $11,000 per acre and we're only doing that with nine homes per acre so it's less city resources for police fire and maintenance. And then last year our community investment and we talked about mission Arlington tonight. Any questions for Mr. Moore? That's for our Mars. Not a question, just a thank you for hearing my my concerns regarding the upkeep and maintenance. So I do appreciate the fact that you've already articulated that. And I notice she's nodding at me so I don't even have to ask for you to exemplify. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Anyone else? Mr. Gonzalez. Thank you for coming to the City Council. Appreciate your presentation. You know, one of my biggest concerns is all the deviations again. You know, it's like, I know we're going to talk about it on Friday. I just wish this would come after Friday, but I just, you know, just on the different sizes of the advocate of the bedrooms and everything else. So can you explain, you know, just the gross living area? I know that's, you know, it's less than what is expected under UDC, your thoughts? Yes, sir. We named. Yes, sir. So we purposely wanted to have outdoor space for these homes that are their own outdoor space. And so while we gave up on the interior, you basically have a place to let your dog out back, which you don't have in a traditional multifamily. And also another thing is we sit on the developer around the table as well and are very actively involved in the UDC. You know, 600 square feet or 633 square feet feels a lot different than 750 square feet felt 10 years ago. We've gotten way better with our floor plans. And so this, when you walk into one of these and I think I've walked most of you through one story virtual tour. It did not feel like 633 square feet, but the big reason are those private yards. Thank you. Sir. Anyone, anyone else? Okay. All right. Miss Woolridge. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just have a question about the one bedroom units. What is the cost for each one bedroom? The rents are going to be about $1,400 a month. And that's $600 and how much square foot? $633. Okay, thank you. Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you very much for this project. And as we visited, I think it's very interesting. It looks nice and I like the quality. I do have one question. There are a couple things. One is the setback deviation. If you could address that and then the other thing that I think is unique and just have you explain why we've got three feet in between each unit. These actually have seven feet in between them. I'll be here next week with another project. There's three feet in between them. Did I get confused? Yes, ma'am. But let's talk about the setbacks. So the setbacks are we have a 20 foot setback off of Mayfield Road and we are going into RMF 22 and if we were building a three story building the setbacks for that are 40 feet. If we're building a traditional single-family home, I believe the setbacks are 15 feet. The neighborhood to the south, they are set off 15 foot for single-family homes. And the only thing that is 20 foot off is this leasing center. I believe everything else is 30 feet off as far as our homes are concerned. Yes. Any other questions from Mr. Moore? OK, thank you, Mr. Moore. Thank you. Mr. Busch, are there any speakers on this? No, sir. We have no additional speakers. We do have three non-speakers in support. That's Cliff Makoski, Sue Phillips, and Jacob Sumpter. Then I'll close the public hearing. I ask for any comments or other questions from council members. Seeing none, then I'll call for a motion. Here we have a motion for approval from councilmember Nunez, a second from councilmember Odom Wesley. Please cast your votes. Okay, motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Moore. Next, we'll move to Zoning Case PD 20-37. We have prologists 3601 Allen Avenue. Call upon Ms. Jensy Topel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.5. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately 51.5 acres of land addressed at 3601 Allen Avenue. Generally located west of New York Avenue and north of East Arbor Boulevard. The current zoning is split with residential multi-family, RMF-22, and community commercial CC, with a specific use permit for the Matlock drill site for about 5.9 acres. The request is to change the zoning from CC on the north portion of the site and RMF-22 to a planned development for limited light industrial LI uses and keep the base zoning of community commercial CC at the southeast corner of the site for future commercial uses. The development plan proposes four class office warehouse buildings totaling approximately 737,000 square feet. The site is bifurcated by an electric easement that runs north-south. Additionally, the portion of the property identified as tracked one on development plan will remain as undeveloped regional drainage area. And that separates the site with two buildings proposed on the west side and two buildings proposed on the east side. The applicant has proposed nine access points for this development, two from East Mayfield Road, three from New York Avenue, one from East Arbrook Boulevard, and 3 from Allen Avenue. The plant development proposes 4 one story buildings with warehouse uses consisting of a total of 736 square feet. The office or administrative uses will consist of 25% and warehouse will be the 75% of the development. The site does not share property lines with any residential single family development and is separated on all sites by adjoining right of ways. The development plan does not include a truck route and an internal circulation plan. The docking doors are on the interior side of the lot with the intention that the loading and the noise associated with it will be screened aluminum storefront and tinted glazing and a pre finished aluminum canopy system. This evening we have Jacob Sumter from Mikoskin Associates Inc. representing the case for us. I got it run again. I'm going to submit the report. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. before you tonight. I'm here to present zoning case PD 20-37. It's great to see you all back in person. We missed you and I'm glad that we had an opportunity to come here and do this live. Before I get started tonight I wanted to make a real quick introduction to our team. Tonight with me is Mike Bailey over my right hand shoulder, the current land owner and representatives from Prologist, which is his development partner. We also have our architect, mine heart, and associates, our planning consultant, and landscape architect, MMA Texas. Still an engineer in hydrology modeling is half associates, and our traffic engineers Lambeth engineering. The property total is approximately 69 acres is currently zone multi-family community commercial with an SUP for gas drilling. Our request tonight is to rezone the property to limited light and dust drill to keep the base zone in community commercial to south east corner of the site for neighborhood commercial uses. The property is currently undeveloped. You're probably familiar this property where it stands down in the Northeast corner or Northwest corner of I-20 at 360. It's founded by Mayfield, New York, Harbrook, and Allen. Our development plan includes approximately 16-17 acres of open space that we utilize by the city to improve drainage in the neighborhood's North Fish Creek corridor. Development of the remainder of the property was designed to have no adverse impacts on downstream flood flood elevations and minimize neighborhood traffic compared to uses allowed under the property's current zoning. Our plan is to develop four buildings in two phases with construction commencing in late 2021. Other commercial uses will be developed as an amenity to the project in the neighborhood. Robus landscaping that exceeds the city's requirements is planned for all buildings to screen parking and loading dogs from neighborhood views. The buildings fronting Allen are designed to keep truck movements and access off of Allen Avenue. Multiple internal access easements will also allow trucks to cross under the properties on-court overhead transmission lines. The next few slides will show views that develop from the adjacent right of way. This slide is a view from the corner of Arbrook and Allen. And here is a view of the building at the corner of East Mayfield and Allen. This elevation illustrates our upgraded entryways to the development from New York. And here is a view from the corner of New York and East Mayfield. The benefits of our project to the neighborhood, it eliminates multi-family zoning and other undesirable uses from current land use. It benefits the neighborhood with approximately 17 acres of open space, which will improve drainage in the neighborhood's North Fish Creek corridor. It minimizes neighborhood traffic compared to current allowed uses. It'll bring a lead certified logistics development to East Arlington. And most importantly, elevate the neighborhood with an important employment center. You'll add commercial tax base to both the city and the school district, and it will attract leading regional national companies to Arlington. And what we always like to say is going to maintain local ownership for the project long term. And now for the most important part of our project, and that's our outreach that included meetings, both virtual and person, direct mail, social media, and walking the neighborhood. We met in person or virtually with Sue Phillips, who helped us connect the dots with the neighborhood. We met in person or virtually with Sue Phillips, who helped us connect the dots with the neighborhood. She introduced us immediately on the project to Deputy Chief Disco in Lieutenant Erkstrom with the East Arlington Police Department to give us a lot of valuable input in our development plan. And Sue also introduced us to Claudia and Fred Gromowski, who were here tonight with us who were crime watch neighborhood coordinators just north of our site in East Arlington. We also reached out to Alicia Gray and why this project is not in the Hanan neighborhood. We looked to Alicia because she's a great mentor on how to approach neighbors. And we consulted with her on a couple of different phone calls and how best to reach out to folks because we knew we couldn't have a public meeting during COVID. We also reached out the Dan and Linda Diaphrot and Ginger Paulster and had a tour of the Dan Diaphrot Career and Technical Center which is just a couple of blocks north of our site. We feel like they're going to be an important partner for us as we move forward. And I must say that was the first time I've had an opportunity to go to the Technical Center. And I'm very amazed and proud of Arlington AISD for having such a great asset for our community. We also have two churches that are adjacent to our property. And we reached out to Pastor Lee Deeds, I met with him personally, and spoke to him, and he spoke to the senior pastor. And we talked to them about the project, as well as Pastor Phil Smith of the living Hill Church on New York. We melt letters, we follow it up, we walk the neighborhood to garter support. Just quickly just as introduction Michael come up and speak just in a minute but Mike Bailey has been serving Arlington for 30 years and see a few of his projects here on this slide. And his partner, Prologist, has got over 12 million square feet in the Great Southwest District. That concludes my presentation tonight. And just quickly, I do want to thank staff, both the engineering and planning staff, for being an incredible team. I'd like to applaud their efforts on helping us get here tonight. I'm now available for any questions. Any questions from Mr. Claw? It was always. Well, I just, of course, I've known people who know me know I've known Kevin for a long, long time. We kind of grew up in this business together. But what I wanted to say is I met with Kevin and his partner and what I really like about this project is that it's local money, local family, and that you hear counsel when we talk about wanting not to rezone everything from commercial to multifamily but you're doing the reverse. You're zoning it from multifamily to industrial office which brings jobs and that's a key component of what I talk about so often is that Arlington needs to be bringing jobs and not only that you bring us a partner and prologists that's recognized worldwide as the leader in the industrial and office warehouse market. So thank you and I also like the amount of open space you're leaving for us. So and no tree mitigation. So thank you. I appreciate what you're doing and I appreciate your partners. Thank you. Any other questions from Mr. McGlod? Thank you Mr. McGlod. Thank you. What's going to we have any speakers on this item? Yes sir we have three speakers in support on this item. Our first speaker is Mike Bailey. After Mr. Bailey is Christy Lambeth. after Mr. Bailey is Christy Lambeth. Good evening mayor, council members, city staff. Good to see you guys again in person. This is a nice change from what we've all been through. My name, again Mike Bailey. My address is 122. What's Carpenter Freeway, Irving, Texas? My company is WinStar Development. WinStar is an affiliate of the owner applicant, Arlington Matlock partners. As Kevin mentioned, WinStar has been developing and investing in this city for almost 30 years. And we're very excited to have the opportunity to bring another quality, unique project to the city of Arlington, as well as the East Arlington community. We think it's gonna be an outstanding project for that area in that neighborhood. And hopefully we'll bring a lot of jobs as we anticipate and be a very quality project for the entire community. We've owned this property since 2006. We bought it with a very patient mindset and knew it was gonna take a lot of time to come up with the right plan, the right strategy. We've vetted through many different opportunities over the years, as you might imagine. In our opinion, the development plan for you tonight is the highest and best use for this property, not only for our investment group, but as well as the city and the community as a whole. I would like to echo Kevin's comments about working with city staff. It was a very collaborative effort. A lot of moving parts, they worked very well and very efficiently with our entire team and kudos to them, much applause for their help and support. Also, wanna echo what Kevin said as far as the community outreach. We were very fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with Sue Phillips and get her input and wisdom with respect to the community. The Gromatskis were very special people, very nice to meet with them and we welcome their support and help with the crime watch going down the road as we developed the project, as well as Alicia Gray with the Hanna group. She was, as Kevin said, we're not in her neighborhood, but she was very appreciative and very helpful in taking the time to visit with us about the project. Again, thank you for your time. We respectfully request your support for the project tonight. And thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bowie. Our next speaker is Christy Lambeth. After Ms. Lambeth is Art Barkley. I think she's gonna pass and just showing her support. Go ahead, Mr. Barkley, come on up. Good evening, Mayor and honorable council members, Art Barkley, 5146, Metacrestriot, Dallas, Texas. I'm here with Prologist. And I'm responsible for Prologist's development activities across the Metroplex. And before I get really started, I'd just like to thank everybody, particularly the city, the city staff, the mayor's infinite wisdom in terms of being, you know, business friendly and really future-proofing the city in terms of understanding the value of the product type we're trying to build. The staff was remarkable to work with. We don't always have this experience across the, across the Metroplex and this one was really unique in that regard. We've been long-term owners here, and the kind of response we received, and the just interaction has made us really want to continue to find opportunities and work with the city. The project itself, I'm convinced, will be a big winner. There's a huge need for the product type. It will be a powerful employment center, and I think very much future-proofing in terms of providing a tax revenue base that's sustainable for the future. That's what we're seeing, and really what we've learned through the pandemic. We believe it's a local business. Mike Bailey has been a terrific partner, we're pleased to be partnered with him. We love his long term roots here. And our plan, like all of our buildings, is to hold them long-term. That's the shareholder that buys ProLitis is somebody looking for sustainable dividend. So anyway, hopefully this is, this is the project will be approved. I think it's a great fit and we can be more excited and hopeful for your support tonight. Thank you Mr. Barkley any questions from Mr. Barkley. Thank you. All right, thank you. That concludes our speakers on this item. We did have five non-speakers in support. There was Randy Ducic, Jacob Sumter, Sue Phillips, Cliff McCoskey, and Claudia and Fred Gromatsky. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and ask for any comments. Okay, that's for our Mars. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to echo a little bit of what Ms. Moise said. You know, we struggle sometimes with and I'm reminded of comments that were just made by one of our constituents that it's always a struggle in a city to make decisions about commercial property versus residential property and how what's the highest and best use. And I just want to applaud this applicant for really looking strategically for a long period of time and holding onto the land until you found a way to build something that is going to create future jobs for this and really repurchasing what would have been or could have been residential multifamily into something that can be actually a job creator going forward. So I just wanted to say thank you for that because it's not easy to make those decisions here and I just want to applaud you for really taking your time with this and listening and also working as diligently as you did with normal projects and a commercial like this. It's very heartening to see how much you're inculcating the neighborhood and the citizens of the city in the development of itself. So I really want to applaud you for doing that because your outreach was quite extensive for a project that usually on a community commercial you don't see. So I want to say thank you for that. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate the time. Thank you. Any others? Yes, Ms. Woolrich. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank this developer for bringing to district three something other than a multifamily development project. It means a lot to me because we've been looking at a lot of that for a long time. And I like the idea that you bring to district three more job possibilities and that you bring into District 3 more job possibilities and that you've reached out to those neighbors and made communication with them so that you're accepting by those that are around you, even though you didn't have to. So I wanna thank you for that. Anyone else? Then I too, Mr. Bailey, you have a long history of developing here and doing great projects for us And we appreciate this once again and then a model process to Mr. Bailey Mr. McLean I mean it really set a great example here of reaching out to everyone There around you and letting them know what you were going to do and Then you brought in a great partner and protologists They have done so much great work Mr. Barkley. We appreciate we look forward to not only this but what else you're going to do here in our community and we very much appreciate the investment here that you're making with that. So with that I'll entertain an emotion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Gonzales, second from Councilmember Moe's, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you very much for your investment. Appreciate it. Next we'll move to 10.6 on the case PD 20-31, Hogan's Cottages 6701 US 287 Highway. Again I'll call upon Mr. Topall. Thank you Mayor. item 10.6. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately eight acres addressed as 6701 US 287 highway, generally located east of US Highway 287 and south of West Sublet Road. The current zoning of the site is residential single family 7.2 RS 7.2 which requires a minimum of 7200 square foot lot area. The requested zoning is for a planned development for RS 5 which is residential single family 5 with a development plan. The proposal is for 43 single-family detached homes with a minimum lot size of 40 feet by 100 feet, with an average lot size of 4700 square feet. The proposed zoning case, the proposed site has two points of access, one from US Highway 287 Frontage Road and one from a settlement drive. The access point from the Frontage Road shall require approval from text.prior to the development of the site. All residential developments are required to preserve a minimum of 35% of the existing total protected caliber inches of trees. The applicant is proposing a preservation of 25%. The applicant is proposing to remove 1,463 caliber inches with the species mix of American elms and post-docs. The internal street scape includes a grassy area six feet wide between the five foot sidewalk and the back of the curb. Part of the unified development code, the street scape trees are required to be planted within that six foot grassy area. However, the landscape plan shows them to be planted within the front setback of the private property. The applicant proposes a variation of materials on elevations for visual interest of homes. The homes will consist of either 100% brick, 100% cementitious fiberboard or a combination of both. This morning the applicant emailed staff the two conditions that they would like to add to the PD. One related to the number of homes that will be of a specific building material and second the maintenance standard for the Seaman Chichis fiber board. That letter was forwarded to the mayor and council earlier this afternoon. This evening we have the applicant Michael Martin from Mikaski and Associates presenting their case for us. as. We did that on purpose. I just wanted to make a statement first of I know Arlington is very diverse city and tonight's a great example of diverse projects coming before the council and happy to bring you something a little different too as well. So I'm here on behalf of Gary Knot. You're probably familiar with some of his developments he's done recently and Graham Hart Homebuilders. We're looking at this site located off of 287 in between Eden Road and Sublet Road. Very oddly shaped property challenging to develop. With everything we want to look at the city's plans with the recent adoption of the 287 corridor plan. We dissected it and looked at how our proposed plans fit within the corridor plan. Our site sits within the area right underneath the 287 symbol, which defines a medium density residential area. Within that area, a medium density defines a density between 4.5 units to 8 units an acre, preferring to have smaller single family detached lots, and recommended to be located within close proximity to other medium density residential uses. The existing zoning of the property courses with Jensy and mentioned is RS 7.2. We do have RS 5 directly to our north and also RS 5 on the other side of 287 and a little further to our south. We are surrounded by established community. We have access from 287 Frenitz Road which we've been working with Textot for the last six months going through their process and we also have benefit of three streets that are stubbed out to us from established the established community. We only need another point of access. So we've chose to connect to the settlement drive Access to the furthest to the east The other two points of access we've created an open space directly to our north to account for the drainage coming on to us So we can capture it and take it through our site What's unique about this development is the product that we're bringing to the city. It's a 30-foot product on a 40-foot lot, 4,000 square foot minimum. It's a product that Graham Hart's currently building up in Great Vine, having great success. I think it's very sharp looking. Like I said earlier, the property is somewhat challenging just due to the shape of it in the size. We do have some flip plane to our south that we're staying out of, and it is heavily treated. With the recent adoption of the landscape ordinance, we've worked with Kevin Charles and Jensy Staff on creating a sample tree survey, but in really challenging the survey, the entire area. So that's where the 25% comes into, because we're applying two sample areas across a larger spectrum and we Clif knows I mean he's taught me everything I know tree preservation is number one for us and the 35% is very important But then also we try to make something unique bring something creative to the city and we're trying to preserve as many trees as we can And we think we can get to the city and we're trying to preserve as many trees as we can. And we think we can get to the 30% tree preservation, whereas what we're showing now, just based on the sample survey, is a 25%. Some other elements of our plan, which are great recommendations of the PNZ, was creating more of an open space feel along the frontage road of 287, and then creating a low-impact trail to our southeast with the trail head and seating area. We will have a screen wall along the frontage road and all the lots that are backing to which roughly 62% of our lots will back to an open space. We'll have an iron fence so they'll be able to see the tree preservation area. The product is what's driving everything. It's a Nantucket capestot style product. Homes will range anywhere from 1800 to 2500 square feet. And again, the variation of building materials is done on purpose, because as this example, the image on the rights recently completed product up in Great Vine, it's 100% cementitious fiber board, the one next to it's 100% brick. But with the recent addition of our conditions, we've somewhat defined how many houses would be of each. This is another example of product we bring here, different element that you haven't seen in the city. I think it's very attractive, very nice housing product that new citizens are willing to look to live in. Some of our development standards again are minimum lottery, 4,000 square feet, our largest loss, a little over 7,900 with an average lot size of 4,700. The other deviation that we're asking for is purely because of the garage width. We want to make sure we can maintain a two car garage, so we're asking for that 65% of the total width. And I think I've spoken to many of the enhancements that we have. I appreciate all the time, and I have any questions. Here's your thoughts for our Mars. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I have a couple questions. Well actually a couple clarifications. So the building's materials of 100% brick on 15 homes, 100% simultaneously five or board on 14 homes and a combination of both on 14 homes as stipulated in your earlier email is what you're holding to. And then also your simultaneously five or board maintenance that you also the standard that you'll be placing in the HOA that's also stipulated to. Okay, I just want to read that into the record to make sure since we got it by email. The last thing you did articulate, you are really the first test case for our new tree remediation, preservation, new rules. So I guess I heard you say and I just want to make sure, because I'd like to put this as a stipulation. If it's agreeable, you did indicate in your case 25% remediation or excuse me preservation. You said you could reach a 30% is that correct? That's correct and it's only here. There's some trees that are along the edge that I know we can preserve. But just because of the do sample area is just taken out but I know there's trees there that we can preserve and we'll make sure we'll survey those and make sure we don't grade into them. I realize the limitations of the sampling and we did did obviously when we passed the preservation standard but I want to be clear if you're fine with that I'd like to add a stipulation to this that you would reach the 30% preservation. Yes, ma'am. That's agreeable. Yes, ma'am. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor. Any other Dr. Odomusly? Yes, thank you very much. Let me ask about, we're still on the tree ordinance. What types of trees are you going to be removing? There are American Alms, there's postokes, there's some hackberries. There are postokes. Yes, ma'am, there are. So I know that you get additional points for preserving post-docs. Which we are in that area to the south and to the southeast. There's a number of post-docs, mainly post-docs in American Elm that are there that we are preserving. Is it possible that you can reach 35% by saving some post-docs? I've looked at this long and hard for two weeks and I don't wanna promise you 35 when I know I can't do it. I know I can hit 30, so that's, I know I can do that, so I wanna be honest with you. I'm just thinking you can get additional points, more points by preserving post-docs. It's the placement of the tree. I mean, there's a lot of trees that are within the lots that we're preserving, are proposing. So we're taking account for the credit for the post-docs that we're preserving already. And that's accounted into the 30% that we have. Okay, so 30% is all you can do. Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you. Mr. Gonzalez, thank you, Mayor. Thank you for your presentation. Back to the trees. You talked about including 63 trees that you were planting. So what kind of trees are you looking at planting? It's a mixture of seeder alounds, oak trees, street trees don't mean what we typically use for street trees. So you can't plant any of the type that are being those there's not plantable right? Post-docs you don't have to be natural right? Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Moly's. A couple of things. So when we talk about trees, I'm gonna get off the trees just yet. It occurs to me, I mean, you're a lot dept on some of these lots is 140 feet. Yes. That was quite a large backyard. How difficult would it be for you to reach the 35 by, in these really deep plots, putting a tree in the backyard? You know, mitigate. If I can get to 35%, if I can get to 40%, we're going to save as many trees as we can. And with Gary's other developments, I mean, you've seen where we try to preserve trees. And that's, we try to do that on them. Well, that's what I was asking is where we have deep back yards if there are trees already existing. We will preserve them. That's just all I'm asking you to do. So the second thing though is a little bit different. So you mentioned a screen wall. So when we spoke we talked about the raw-ye arm fencing along the shallower lots there to the north property line. And I love that idea because it's going to feel like they have much more yard than what they have, even though they have 150 block, which is generous in some ways by today's standards. But what about along the highway? Because that's where my main concern is, you know, I get communications all the time about the noise on 287. And so I'm wondering if what you're using as a material in a sound barrier along the access throughout the room 287. Yes, so here would be base ramp accommodation of brick and stone. Okay, typically Gary likes to use a larger stone column with the brick thin wall in between. Okay. So just along the front, what's going to be along the back of the deeper lots there? The back here, and they've, Gary and Rick have visited. They know the individuals to the south would do a cedar fence there six foot tall Board on board. Yes, okay, so can probably wrap it around that one lot and then I think we'd probably do our infants here I'll say iron all along there Right iron wherever we have Treasurer or you want to create that view and then six foot board on board along the backs of everything else. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, you know, there's all kinds of different materials you can use as sound barriers anymore. And I'm not sure if I don't know if that part of 287 is higher than this section or if the section is lower, but have you done any sound studies down there to see what it's going to be like to live right on that highway? No we haven't done a sound study. We do have a 20-foot buffer adjacent to the frontage route which we are planning on our trees so you'll have to help mitigate too. It'll help mitigate there too. So the trees will be inside the fence line? They'll be outside the fence line. If it's your soil line, it's trees. So you'll have trees and then, okay. Yes ma'am. Okay, I got it. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, thank you, Mr. Sunder. Thank you. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers on this case? No, sir. We have no additional speakers. We do have two non-speakers in support. It's Cliff McCoskey and Gary Not. Thank you. Then we'll close the public hearing. And ask for any comments or questions here from Council. Mr. Gonzalez. I strongly recommend it. I know I studied because I'm dealing with a house out there that's just I never thought would be that loud. I was really surprised so just if you can. Thanks. Mr. Year's sake. Others? Yes, Ms. Woolridge. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Jacob Sumter, for that presentation. I'm excited about the fact that we've got someone bringing in some single residential properties instead of multifamily. I am concerned, and I will vote in favor of this, provided you will promise 35% free preservation. That's important, especially in this area around 287. Okay, and we're going to mitigate the sound. Can't do that. All right. I've got to have my 35%. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Anyone else? Okay, with that, I'll call for a motion. Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you for the presentation, Mr. Sumter. Mr. Nott, thank you for your investment here. If I may, thank you for coming. I'm not sure who made the motion here. Okay, was the motion to include the three stipulations? Yes. And so whoever seconded. And you agree with the stipulations and so everybody's aware they're voting on the three stipulations that were discussed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Nod. Appreciate your investment here and also the creativity on a piece of land that's set there for a long time because such an irregular shape and issues that are on it. I think you've got a very productive use and looking forward to seeing this one built. Thank you very much. Okay, next we'll move to Zoning Case PD20-14 River Park Hotel and golf center, Northeast Green Oaks Boulevard. I'll turn to Ms. Jensy Topall. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.7. This case was continued from the last meeting on April 13th. On April 21st, the applicant emailed the mayor and council with the requested information about irrigation water usage. Yesterday, I emailed a memo to the mayor and council with an attachment of 16 letters of support for this case that were not included in the packet. Since then, one of those support letters have been withdrawn by the River Legacy Foundation. This evening, we have Mr. Mauricio Galente to present any further details about his project and answer questions. Good evening everyone, Mauricio Galantea, one-trigger one, office queen, Occupy Levard, one-of-the-golf center of alliton. I would like to thank God first for the gracing favor. For my family support, my beautiful wife is here, Mauricio. She told me don't mess this up, otherwise, I'll be in trouble tonight. Great support. And Mr. Mayor for the kind words last time and for the support of being showing for this project for our council members, all that visited and spoke with me prior. And especially my district council member, Mrs. Elmouiz, yesterday we have a very productive meeting with Mrs. Tofil, Mrs. Benson, and Mr. Charles, and I feel confident we answer all the questions and we are excited for the future ahead. The continuous was for the uses of the train river. So I'm going to go real quick here. Deeper insights on the preservation practice that we we planning for this project. Our brain already have the standards that there's a program called room to be green and the hotels are classified in three levels of system sustainability level one. All the hotels are required to have LED lighting, linen and towel reuse program, recycling receptacles, and choose a green leader on the property. Level two, use energy start portfolio manager to track energy and water consumption and join the clean ward to recycle the soap for charities around the world and using eco-friendly cleaning products in level three renewable using renewable energy sources such as window solar that's the case so we're gonna be classified as level three very few hotels and the brand has the classification. Are you telling us this cost based on the CBRE study for the hotels in the area? This is everything. Energy, water, gas, all the utilities, rounds around 4% of ratio to sales. Energy alone is 2.4%. Our solar panels will save us 50 grand per year, seven years of return investment on the investment. Mr. Rogo Zal is asked what steps we're using to conserve energy last time. I'm just going to point it out using equipment and energy star, CO4 and APA, a couple of sea-based controls, using AMIs, energy management and information system called base system and commercial heat pump water heaters that saves 50% on electricity on water heating. Going to water consumption today, we irrigate at an increase of the land and after construction we only irrigate only nine acres. We only use, we need 12 inches of water during the entire year to regain the land. Today, if we buy water from the city, we'll be paying $43,000. After construction, we're using max 35,000 per year in water consumption alone. The hotel is planned to spend $40,000 a hotel alone per year. Those are the source of water, city water for all users. We have all water hookups for everything, for users and irrigation. The rooftop harvester system that we plan to install can give us a $7,000 to $9,000 savings per year. He's gonna depend on the size of the water tanks that we can put in there. Water well, we have a water well which we are currently using that can save us $35,000 in irrigation. And it's 200 river, and that was the question of my district council member. We are working together with the TCUQ to determine how much irrigation we can pump from the river, and this might take a year or so to be determined. That will be the fourth and last option. Some water conservation strategies. I want to point it out for all those. The ozone laundry system can reduce 40% of water uses in laundry, which is a big deal in hotels, and has a payback of 18 months only. Some recycling waste reduction, reuse recycling program, recycling receptacles, food waste program and composting, refillable containers and gas engagement, a good corporate and social responsibility. And to finalize, we plan to use local food suppliers, eco-friendly and clean supplies, reduce and avoid plastic. You use gold electric and reduce and avoid emissions. Gold electric, as a matter of fact, my business now is turning everything to electric. Our landscaping equipment are turning to electric. And this year we make an investment together, the golf carts, the picker, and everything electric. So the future is electric, so we just jump in on board. We are out of the game. BEEP. Our motto is stay play and preserve. And we just want to contribute to the society and to the community. And thanks for the opportunity again for letting me present this project. Thank you. Any questions? Ms. Moeys. Thank you, and we did have a good conversation yesterday, and we talked about really several points, one being the need to square things up with the Trinity River Authority and TCEQ, everything above both on the pump that pumps directly from the Trinity, which I believe right now is not permitted, I guess is the word to use. And they need to understand that the authority also requires because it's groundwater that belongs to the training, that the irrigation well that you have needs to be permitted. So that's something you need to work on apart from this approval, getting your TCQ approvals for both of those means of using water out of the Trinity. But let's go to something else. I've had some reach out from community members. You know, this is an ecosystem that is a treasure to Arlington. And that's the Trinity River and because it's our water source. So one of the things that comes to my attention is that this is part of the land is in the floodplain, some is in the floodway, and that it's very likely that you're going to have to determine with FEMA what your building lines can be. And I don't explain this really well because I'm not an engineer. So I've asked Amy Cannon to be here. And I'd like for her to explain to us and to my constituents who might be listening tonight about and who are concerned with the ecosystem here what is going to be required by FEMA for you to build this hotel on this site. So I'd like to know if we could have Amy come up and talk to council members and the community about what's required and then perhaps come back and ask you some questions. Would that be all right? You want to answer the question all, or often? No, no, I want Amy to fill us in on what is required by FEMA on permitting for this site. Okay, then you'll have a chance to respond. Then I want to talk to you again and say, how much of this you already knew? And I haven't even heard what Amy's going to say, so we need to hear from Amy. Yeah, just for the record, the construction is outside the floodplain. All the construction is outside the floodplain. It's being addressed by this staff already. OK. address by this staff already. Okay. All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Amy Cannon, Assistant Director of Public Works and Transportation, and I also serve fill placed within the floodplain or the floodway, there's going to need to be additional approvals to basically show that it does not cause a rise in those areas and that there is compensatory storage, which is basically whatever volume of the floodplain is taken away from fill. It's compensated somewhere on the property and it can freely flow back into the Trinity River. And so as we go through the development process with this, they'll need to demonstrate that there's no impacts with that. And there could be, depending on what the final form of the project is, there could be a need to submit to FEMA, what's called the conditional letter of map revision, where they go through and they review and concur with any changes to the floodway or what's called the base flood elevation through the Trinity corridor. There's also additional considerations with development in the Trinity corridor. That's called the certificate of, uh, the corridor development certificates. Sorry, that's called the Certificate of, corridor development certificates, sorry, it's been a long day. And so basically there is a regional partnership that we have with the majority of the cities in North Texas that have frontage on the Trinity River where basically whatever fill is placed in or whatever is developed within the Trinity floodplain that it is mitigated for and each community that participates in this program is allowed to review and comment on the project. So with that I will take any questions that you have about development along the Trinity. So you can go ahead. You go ahead. So looking at the picture, we have the picture here. That one, yes. That picture over there. So if I understand you correctly, if I were building this and I bold does the area that I'm going to put my foundation on and build a hotel on. And if I were to theoretically take that dirt and dump it somewhere else in the property that was within the flood plain, that would be something that the training, who did you say FEMA would obviously say, if you're going to do that, you better come to us first. Is that correct? So it's FEMA and then it's also the regional partners with the Trinity Common Vision. If I took that dirt that I dug up and put it in trucks and carried it away and that dirt was not put anywhere in the flood plain, where it's FEMA's impact then. We would still need to go through the corridor development certificate process, but very likely if they're able to show through an engineering study that they don't cause a rise, then the FEMA need would basically be taken away. And I want to understand your definition. So in order to cause a rise of property that is within the flood zone, you have to put either a structure or dirt or fill something that actually takes the elevation of the land and elevates it upward. And that's, is that what I'm hearing you say? Essentially, you can also alter the drainage pattern, but in the case of this project, it would be placing fill within the floodway that could potentially change the base flood elevation. And that's where we would need the additional FEMA approval. So now I'm going to address my question to Jinsy. Jinsy, are the planners aware of this particular condition or does it really apply here in your opinion? So we would only find out all this with the final drainage study plans that comes during the plat stage so we don't have those plans here. So that's something that if we approve the zoning, it would matter whether it was a hotel or some other structure. Correct. The developer slash owner of this property is ultimately going to have to go to FEMA because they're in the flood plain or the Trinity River quarter and so we really don't have any say so over that as a city council body. Is that correct? It's really not within our jurisdiction to make that decision. So at the zoning stage, you could be looking at all the different things also. That is one of the criteria that in the UDC that allows you to look at adequate drainage systems and all that. But at this stage, we have not asked for final drainage study with this plan. It shows that the building is the building footprint is outside of the flood way is what it shows the parking lot is current existing parking lot some portion of it is in the flood way and that's the portion that may have they're not showing any buildings in that area but when they come with the full-blown engineering plans is where we'll come to know if there's anything happening there. I understand. OK. Thank you. So, Jitsi, we have some erosion in the area of the parking lot. It's pretty substantial because part of the parking lot is now in the Trinity. So what has to be done to mitigate the loss of the, I mean, we definitely have some erosion. How does that get addressed in this process? So we have added a stipulation in the ordinance that is attached to the packet that actually refers to that because that was brought up in the last meeting and it does say that the erosion repair at the parking lot needs to be addressed at phase one of the construction because it's not a safe condition there. So that's the reason that has been added and whatever they need to do for making it safe they will have to do. So Amy with the applicant says I'm not building in the flood plain I may not need FEMA because I think that's what I heard. Is that true? If they place fill in the flood way or flood plain and it results in a rise they will need to receive a conditional letter of map revision from FEMA. Let me maybe I can ask a clarifying engineer here. Let me ask a clarifying question. Miss Cannon, you'll require the engineer of record to show exactly where the floodplain, floodway are and all the impacts which we don't have that right now. And I think that's what Ms. Topel was saying earlier. Is that not correct? Isn't it correct? Yeah. So, and I'm kind of addressing the mayor on this, if we approve this, can we require before a building permit is issued that any required FEMA studies have been completed to be part of the application, but then how do we confirm that a FEMA study is actually needed? Well, actually Ms. Topel, you want to talk about the process there because they'd have to do that and go through the process. And that's a great point, Ms. Moeys. Whatever will be required will be at the plat stage. At that time, we will get the full engineering plans. The plat comes with a site plan, with the public improvement plans, the flood study, whatever we would require for the plat application, they will be submitting that. At that time, it will be determined if FEMA, FEMA, a clomer is required or some other provisions are required for those plans that they submit. And if that's required, no building permit will be issued until those things are taken care of. So we could conditionally approve this, as I see it, with two conditions. One is that all of the requirements that might come with building on this site be met at the time that the application is submitted and the drawings are submitted. And I don't know how you inspect to make sure dirt's not moved into that during the construction process, but I guess that's possible. And secondly, to make sure that in phase one, we mitigate the erosion that's occurred and that can we ask that the final CO not be issued until all erosion issues are because if we can either require it to be done ahead of time or we can require that they be done as part of the project. So could we agree that we're not going to issue the CO for the entire project until any mitigation required on the erosion is also complete? So this stipulation that's included in the ordinance says the erosion repair at the north end of the parking lot edges into the Turing River shall take place during phase one of the development. Meaning the phase one is where the building is supposed to be made. So, the decision to be made is one of the development. Meaning the phase one is where the building is supposed to be completed. So, with the completion of the building, yes. That is exactly what it means. The CEO will not be issued until that erosion repair near the parking lot is repaired. Completed. Well, the erosion required, I mean, is this going to, because it's about a, I think, a 12 to 15 foot drop at that point. Are they going to have to shore up that whole shoreline or what will they have to do? I do not. Does that have to be engineered? Yeah, I do not know. And the stipulation was included mainly for safety reasons of the residents coming into the hotel that they don't fall for. Fall off the cliff, yeah. So, okay. So, Amy, is there anything else you'd like to add? I do not have anything to add. Okay, thank you, Amy, for being here tonight. I appreciate it. As you covered things that I know nothing about. So, I guess now it'd be appropriate to let Mr. Galantica back up and... Yeah, you had any other questions of him? Yeah. They'd go ahead and say, I know, but I feel like we ought to give him a chance to respond to this because I think we've covered a lot of territory, Mr. Galantica. Yes. I really, you know, we have to be certain that the ecosystem here is protected. And more than that for you, the developer, you know, we know that there's soil conditions on a lot of this property. It could make it difficult to build where you might need piers. You may be, I mean, my house sits on 60, 30-foot piers. So I'm aware of what can happen in what you might need to do because of this location. You also have a very high water table there is what I'm told about people who are familiar with that area of the Trinity, which means you can poke a hole in you have water coming up, right? So that changes what you need to do from the engineering standpoint to develop in Bill of the Senate. I just don't want you to get into this and then find problems that are costly for you because it hasn't been engineered correctly. So with that said, I mean, are you fine with what I see as stipulations to this which is that You know their FEMA requirements you meet them and that we complete Anything that's required in terms of mitigation for erosion at the time the hotel is completed Of course, we're gonna do everything whatever it takes to get on the party in place. Yeah, sure We always being doing this and the won't be different for now I just let me just clarify here, the project is in two stages, the first one, the hotel, the hotel in the driving range. The only place, the only place there that is inside the foot plane is the tennis courts, which is parking lot today. The FEMA permit to transform the parking lot, just part of it, which is in the floodplain, in tennis courts, which is not a building, it's just changing the grade. It's going to be in the second phase. If they don't give us the permit, it's going to continue being parking lot and nothing changes. And the hotel, the whole structure is outside and is being addressed already by the staff. And who's your engineer? My architect is here. He can give a couple of words. Mr. Jim is the last student from Type 6 in Naruto. Yeah. We have a very professional engineering firm, Kirkman Engineering. They've done lots of famous studies. They're very well aware of where the female foot plane lines are. And we've addressed all of these issues already and we do plan. The only reason we're doing the tennis courts are phase two is because FEMA floodplain, we know we're going to have to apply for FEMA flood studies and they could take a year. And so the goal is to by the time the hotel is getting bill we'll have all those FEMA flood plain studies and all of the proper paperwork done and then we can start on the tennis courts towards the very latter part of the hotel construction so that when we do get to see it all it'll all be done the same. It'll all open at the same time. That is the goal. It will most likely leave a green space and secure whatever it takes to secure the river bank. Okay. So I'm gonna look to our resident engineers. This all seemed to fit from your knowledge as to what might be done here. I appreciate Ms. Moezy bringing up because there are a lot of steps to go through and so forth here in it. And I think to ensure that we know that we're protected because the zoning is only the first step. Ms. Topel mentioned that. the zoning is only the first step, Ms. Topel mentioned that. The zoning is only the first step, but there are a lot of other approvals that need to come. And then with this being the first phase, there too they will have to show that they are out of the flood plain or having no effect as we heard from Ms. Cannon. We have studied that very closely. We're very well aware of where the flood, the hundred year of the floodplain, the floodways are. And there's no dirt being moved or construction happening for the actual hotel in the floodwire flood plains. Mayor. Yes, Dr. Nene Yes. I don't want to belabor this issue, but there's something in my memory, and I don't know who can answer this question, but, and I don't know if the law has changed, but a river like this, a trendy river, it's my understanding, and please correct me if I'm in error, but I don't think you can do anything to the riverbank, because FEMA won't let you. That was my understanding. Now you can pull away, you can do certain things, but the natural course of the bend of this river, there's erosion that's going to go north at the top bend and where the river comes back and hits this area, which is that parking lot. In fact, I drove it last week. The erosion is terrible and it's going to get worse. But what will FEMA allow anybody to do in that situation? I don't know if they'll let them do anything. This can't and we're going to need you to come back up and she can explain. There are a lot of very, you can, but there's conditions and you want to talk about that. Yes, you can definitely fix a creek bank in this case, but there are a lot of conditions base flood elevation, which sets the limits of the floodplain map. So you're looking at the 100-year water surface elevation. So that's what FEMA will need to conditionally approve. If that's the case, if they do go in and need to do work along the bank, and so they'll have to submit an engineering study. The demonstrates basically there's not a rise and that there's not any impacts to these surrounding properties. And then FEMA will quote unquote sign off and conditionally approve that project. Okay. So I have a question. And Amy will that need to be done before we can issue a building permit? Typically yes. If they're gonna,. Typically yes. Yeah. OK. Yeah. So this goes to a discussion that I thought, I talked to a couple of people about this today. How do we approve this? Because the applicant's not going to spend all the money on the engineering that's required. If he doesn't know that he's got his approval. And if he has his approval, how do we know he's going to spend the money that he needs to on the engineering? It seems like a kind of a catch-22. Well, I think Ms. Tobal can answer that. So can you go through the normal process, if say this zoning is approved, what are the conditions that are still need to be met to make sure that he has FEMA approval and that he does the process there? So the typical process and for any project the process would be that they get the zoning, which is the land use entitlement, the development plan approved. And after that is where they're trying to get the development actually to get started, the first process in that is the PLAT application. And with the PLAT application is where full-blown flood study will be required during its studies. And if it was something else, there would be a traffic impact analysis study. All of those will be required with the PLAT application. And during that time, staff will review it. A flood study will even go to our third party consultant to review it. And at that time, those provisions or requirements will be made known to the applicant. We cannot approve this plat until these things are done. So there may be a plat disapproval sometimes based on what all are required. But if the plat is approved conditionally but those requirements, it moves forward. However, a building permit cannot be issued until a plaque is approved and filed. So all of these processes will have to be taken care of before a building permit is approved. Okay. And it won't matter who's doing it, it will run with whoever owns the name. Whoever. Yes. So I think Mr. Mayor, I'm pretty comfortable with this as a solution. And I feel like it protects the ecosystem there and the Trinity and some of the things that my constituents have called me about. So that's what I'm after. Thank you, Ms. Moise. Any other questions here, Mr. Galantin? We'll move. All right, then we'll now ask here, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on the side of? Yes, sir. We did have one additional speaker and support. It was Mr. Lusty. Okay. And he's already spoken and don't have anything else to add. Okay. All right. Okay. All right Okay All right with that then I'll close the public hearing and ask for any comments or anything from council members Mayor yes, Dr. Nene yes, I just want to thank mr. Galantai and his family for bringing this project it's creative. It's your history with this particular piece of property and how bad it was in the past and what it is today and what it's going to be in the future. I give you my whole heart of support for this project. I think you're going to be significantly successful. You are a hard worker, you're a great neighbor, and I'm gonna support you on this. And I think you can see Mr. Galante that our council really wants this to be successful. And we wanna be sure that you know of everything that's involved and you're right there at the Trinity River and we've all seen it there with it. And our citizens there that have called us You know they want to make sure that it works and then it'll happen so everything what I say whatever it takes I'm gonna go get it. I get it done with your help like it is being so far. We're gonna get it done together All right. Well, thank you very much there with that so We have closed the public hearing. Any other comments here from council members? Okay. Seeing none, then I'll call for a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from council member Woolridge and a second from council member Nunez, please cast your votes. and a second from Councilmember Nunez, police catcher votes. Motion passes. There, thank you very much, Mr. Galliante, for taking a abandoned piece of property as Dr. Nunez said and creating something special. And we hope that we wish you all the best and as you move forward here to create even more special piece of property there. Thank you very much. Okay. Next we'll move to consideration of minute orders and resolutions. And I'll ask here on 11-1 construction contract for 2019 infrastructure erosion repairs, phase B Randall Mill North, Whistler, Hedrive, Hinstell Drive, Willabendrive, Key Branch, project number PWDR1901OB, and I'll call upon Mr. Keith Brooks, Director of Public Works and Transportation. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Keith Brooks, Director of Public Works and Transportation. This was an item that was tabled last week. There was a little confusion as to the, there was a citizen that came in that was concerned about, it was actually key branch tributary four. So it was not this project. So there was a mix up on which project that he was had concerns with. This project is an erosion infrastructure repair project. So there's three different locations. And there are in different locations than what the citizen had concerns about. So I just wanted to represent this tonight for approval, your consideration. But this is for erosion there's infrastructure that was damaged in three different locations and various locations in the city during the 2018 floods so we're coming back in to fix those infrastructure erosion issues. for that clarification. Very much appreciate that. And any questions for Mr. Brooks? Okay, then I'll ask Mr. Buskin or any speakers on this item? No sir, we have no speakers on this. Okay, and then I also want to mention this is not the project that Mr. Livers had talked about to their Mr. Livers had talked about last meeting. Different project. That's correct. So with that I'll call for a motion. Oh, Mayor. Yes, Dr. Nignus. I'd like to move to remove this from the table. Very important. Thank you very much. Okay, do we have a second? Second from Miss Woolridge. All in favor? Please cast your votes. Okay, so we've removed it from the table. Mayor. And Dr. Nunez? I'd like to move to approve. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Dr. Nunez. And we need a second. We have a second from Councilmember Fraud Myers. Please cast your votes. Okay, motion passes. And then the next resolution, I believe we want to leave it, tabled, could we have a motion here to table next meeting? We have that from Dr. Nunez here and a second. We have a second from Council Member of Woolridge. So please cast your votes for a tabling list to the next meeting. Motion passes. So we'll hear this in the next meeting. With that, we'll move to citizen participation and I'll call upon Mr. Buskin to go over the speaker guidelines. Thank you, Mayor. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time, as these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. I'll call upon Miss D. Crane. Miss Crane, if you can state your name, I do live here in Allida. I'm the mother of Tabis Crane who was killed in 2017 by an audacent police officer. And I understand that we now have a new chief and I did request to speak to that new chief. And again, I was denied. I understand that he was not able to speak to me based on my son's case but that is not what I was wanting to talk about. I wanted to talk about how he was going to build a better community so that people of color, the black and brown, can know how the Arlington PD is going to change their way that they stop our sons and daughters in traffic stops to make us feel safe. However, I was even denied from him, even to talk to him. He did not ask me if I wanted to speak about my son's case. I did not want to speak about my son's case. I'm also the founder of Slam's, which stands for second look at my son's. That's basically what I wanted to talk to him about how he can talk to mothers like me and make us feel safe calling the police who have, we all have seen all over National TV that they have been, there's been more police brutality against the black or brown people. I wanted to know how he was going to make allington safer for me as a taxpayer mother, as well as a mother of color, as well as a mother who has lost her son. And again, he is a new chief and I was denied. And I thought that that was totally unfair. And I've reached out to some council members and I haven't gotten any answers and I still wanted to speak with the chief. Thank you, Ms. Crane and I'll turn to our city litigation, I'm prohibiting from talking with you directly Mrs. Crane because of the litigation. We can get in contact with your attorney if you'd like and see if we could arrange them. It's not about the case. It's about how you can show transparency. It's two different things. I understand. I can't't really because it's not on the agenda. I can't even talk to you to explain why we think it's interconnected. But I'm happy to talk to Mr. Washington and have him convey that impact to you. So that you'll understand what the concern is. Even though it's not about the case, I can explain to him what our concern is, but because it's not on the agenda, I can't really talk to you about this right now. So again, I'm being denied. Well, I think she's saying she'll work through your attorney. That's correct. Well, I'm happy to call Mr. Washington and talk with him and see what we can arrange. Thank you, Miss Crane. Charles Kilpatrick, I live at 2015 Misty Creek Drive, Arlington, Texas, 76017. And I'm also a proud graduate in 1975 at the Business School at UTA. So, I just wanted to add that. I wouldn't speak about the Misty Creek erosion problem I did two weeks ago. Number one, the extreme stormwater runoff is damaging many properties in our neighborhood, which encompasses Wimbleton and the estates above Wimbleton at a rapid pace. Just last week, after a moderate rain, another tree has fallen in the creek. A 40-foot red oak is just a couple of feet away and when it falls, so will another large section of my and my neighbor's backyard. Number two, the city approved and constructed a concrete ditch upstream after knowing about our series of rows and downstream. They saw erosion in 2016 and 2019 and still approved the concrete ditch in February of 2020. Is this negligence? Hopefully this is just a case of Council not knowing and I feel strongly that is the latter. Number three, the impact to our neighborhood is greater than several improvements that were approved and constructed in 2020 after the city was aware of our situation. We've tried for many years to bring this issue as city storm water staff with no help and finally had to send a letter insisting the city stop the flow until the matter is resolved. My backyard is now dangerous place. We asked the city of Arlington to repair and stabilize the creek for the benefit of many residents as soon as possible. It's just not right for the city to funnel stormwater from such a large, hard-scape area on both sides of Cooper that obviously was too much for our property to handle and destroying our property values and then saying it's our responsibility to fix what they created. It's very poor planning in the 80s and 90s. Let's write a wrong and help fellow citizens. I really appreciate you giving me an opportunity to speak and again I really appreciate your serving the city of Hamilton. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Kilpatrick. Okay with that we'll move to announcements Mr. Buskin. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings or rebroadcasts on Sundays at 6 p.m And on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m The Council's afternoon work sessions or rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. And on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlingtontx.gov Any other announcements Okay with that seeing all the business concluded our council meeting stands adjourned. Thank you for your participation I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the Thank you. you You Here is the site to create this task force, the Unicouncil, to study the issues within the city and bring them a report back, detailing all of the work that we've done and also to provide some recommendations and solutions. And so that's how the Unity Council came to be. Why did City leaders and the Council feel this report would be important to put together and what were the outcomes? Where the outcomes?