I'd now like to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and I'd like to call upon Mr. Kevin Anderson, pastor, go to the medium middle podium there. Well, here it is. He's got it. What about there we go. All right. Let's try this again. Let us pray. Almighty God, we come before you tonight seeking your guidance, your wisdom. All right, let's try this again. Let us pray. Almighty God, we come before you tonight seeking your guidance, your wisdom, and support as we seek to better our community here in Arlington. May we use our skills and our judgment as we consider each topic brought before us. God, our discussions this evening as we discuss and make decisions that will affect our schools, our businesses and our entire community. May we be open to other ideas and opinions so that we may not only listen but hear what others have to say. God fill us with your grace tonight and remind us of why we are here. Allow us to always act in a way that is in the best interest of our entire community. Got our minds, guide our hearts and guide our speech tonight and moving forward. And your name we pray, amen. Now will you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to this republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Under the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Well, this is always an exciting time of the meeting in which we get to honor people who have done special things or special times of the year. And I'd like to begin with Council Member Walman here with first proclamation. Thank you Mayor. And I would like to ask Sidney Kelly, a senior floodplain engineer to come up because she here. Oh you. It's Sidney. I don't know why. Thank you. Good. Thanks Sidney. Come on up. We're going to read this thing. All right. This is about floodplain. Good. Thanks, Cone. Come on up. We're going to read this thing. All right. This is about a floodplain. Yes, that is correct. And I was going to say, I've waited through it many a time. Whereas each year brings the potential for flooding and flash flooding to Texas. And whereas flash flooding is the number one cause of weather-related damage and can cause significant damage to commerce, public and private property, and result in the loss of human life. And whereas dangerous floods and flash floods often have a higher frequency during the spring and fall, flooding can happen anywhere and at any time of the year. And where is the reduction of loss of life and property damage can be achieved if appropriate flood preparedness control and mitigation measures are taken before flood by both the city and its residents, including observing flood watches and warnings, development of flood preparedness plans, the purchase of flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, development of flood mitigation, capital improvement plans, and adhere to prudent land use planning. And whereas the Texas Flood Plane Management Association and the state of Texas have joined together to urge all citizens to be informed and prepared for floods and flash floods and to educate themselves on safety strategies and to always be mindful of signs and barriers warning of blood dangers and to always turn around, don't drown. Therefore, W. Jeff Williams may Mayor of the City of Arlington, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, you hereby proclaim the week of May 20, through 24, 2019, as blood awareness week. And thank you, all of you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, okay. Yeah, free words, as stated in here, Okay. Yeah. Three words as stated in here. Flooddy can happen anywhere. So sometimes the common misconception is I don't stay in the flood planning. So I don't need flood insurance. It is wise to purchase it because with the unusual rain fall defense that we have seen and witnessed around here, anyone can be subjected to flooding. Last but not least, whenever you see water going across the road, you don't know how fast it's moving. You don't take but four to six inches to float a car. So never try to be a hero and go across it. Turn around, don't drown. Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we'll turn to Council Member Thalman. Okay. I'd like to invite Craig Cummings, our Director of Water Tilties Up, along with Brad Franklin, our Assistant Director of Engineering, Craig Gantt, Acting Director of Field Operations, Darryl Westbrook, Assistant Director of Business Services, Andrew McBride, Acting Assistant Director of Treatment, and Metria, sorry if I'm as proud of that, Broad Health Financial Administrator. Whereas water is our most valuable natural resource and the Arlington Water Utilities provides safe, high quality drinking water to Arlington residents and visitors 365 days a year. And whereas only tap water delivers public health protection, fire protection, support for our economy and the quality of life we enjoy. And whereas any measure of a successful society, low mortality rates, economic growth and diversity, productivity and public safety are in some way related to access to safe water. And whereas we are all stewards of the water infrastructure upon which future generations depend. And whereas the City of Arlington operates two water treatment plants, Pierce Birch water treatment plant and the John F. Caballo water treatment plant. With the combined production capacity of 172.5 million gallons per day, and whereas the department has twice been recognized for the best tasting drinking water in the state by the Texas Water Utilities Association and has been named a superior water system by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. And whereas each citizen of our city is called upon to help protect our source waters from pollution to practice water conservation and to get involved in local water issues by getting to know their water. Now therefore, Mr. Jeff Williams may have the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim May 5th through 11th, 2019, as Drinking Water Week. I guess on behalf of the 200 dedicated water utility employees, I want to thank you for this proclamation. We're often called the silent service until the faucet doesn't turn on or it doesn't flush down. And then we get the call, but we're always there, Johnny, on the spot. So thank you again. Next we have Councilmember Glass-B, our Mayor Pro Tem. Could I get Mr. Brennan-Clock to join me? And the whole group. Okay, all right. What is this Mr. Joe Beale, who's standing there for Brighton Clark, Proclamation. Whereas today's society is finding more citizens involved in motorcycle-ing on the roads of our country. And whereas motorcycles are roughly unprotected and therefore more prone to injury or death and a crash than other vehicle drivers. And whereas campaigns have helped inform drivers, excuse me, riders and motors alike on the motorcycle safety issues to reduce motorcycle related risk, injuries, and most of all fatalities, through a comprehensive approach to motorcycle safety. And whereas it is the responsibility of all who put themselves behind the wheel to become aware of motorcyclists regarding them with the same respect as with any other vehicle traveling the highways of our country and It is the responsibility of riders and motorists alike to obey all traffic laws and safety rules and whereas urging all citizens of our community to become aware of the inherent danger involved in operating a motorcycle and for riders and motors alike to give each of the mutual respect they deserve. Now therefore, I Jeff Williams, the mayor of the City of Allington, Texas, and on behalf of the Allington City Council, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2019 as motorcycle, motorcycle safety and awareness month. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. On behalf of Brandon Clark, we'd like to accept this. We thank you. You know, just a little quick, quick history lesson here. But about 15 years ago, this kid by name of Brandon Clark at a severe medical issue was in a coma and a group of bikers had a severe medical issue was in a coma. And a group of bikers decided to step in and help out the family and help him. And when he recovered, Brandon wanted to do something for us. So that's something that he organized and that he's done every year except this year has been motorcycle safety and awareness month in our city of Arlington. And we're forever grateful to him for this and he can't Be here this year because his father sick and he has priorities and he made the right decisions So I know you're watching thanks Brandon and we just ask you to be aware of motorcycles everywhere. Thank you Also Arlington a bay has made these signs. We do have them available to anybody who needs them The A-Baid has made these signs. We do have them available to anybody who needs them. Put them in your commercial area or in your front yard or your home. We try to make them aware that we are out there. There are some of us that only have motorcycles and not cars. But this is Brandon. Please say a prayer for his dad. His dad's got pneumonia. So that's why he's not here. So he's here in spirit. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, this next one is to honor a special individual who always is there to provide leadership and who has made tremendous contributions here to our community. Of course, I'm speaking of Chaplain Rich Dogland. Most people say Chaplain Stogland. And of course, everyone comes to attention. There when Chaplain Stogling comes into the room You'll often see him either doing the invocation or run in a meeting so many times and if not always giving meaningful input But he has made a lot of different contributions here in our our city and I've asked the mayor pro-tim to be up here with me because We serve on several different committees with him and different things, but also in particular the community influence leaders round table in which he is the chairman and has been that has made tremendous difference here in our community in several different ways. But I have a proclamation here for Chaplain Stoglin. Whereas Rich Stoglin served 28 years as a Chaplain in the United States Navy and served in a variety of numerous highly distinguished positions within our armed forces which earned him more than 20 recognitions for his illustrious service. And whereas Chaplain Stoglin devoted the first part of his life to the military, however he now works to help others reach their goals in several ways throughout the community through programs such as the Redemption Bridge, which developed a model for reentry and reintegration for ex-offenders, veterans, and juvenile offenders back into society. And whereas he is an active member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, where he initiated and chairs the community influence leaders roundtable that foster's minority inclusion in the business community. And whereas Chaplain Stodland was appointed to serve as Civil Service Commissioner for the City of Arlington in June of 2017. And under his leadership as issued 39 decisions on commission matters, including appointing a civil service director and electing a commission chair and boss chair and review of discipline issues. And where he has, he was recently appointed as a board member of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapist, and whereas Chaplain Rich Doglin has dedicated his retirement to the advancement of others in and around the American Dream City. And we are truly thankful and inspired by his loyal service and unwavering determination. Now therefore I, Jeff Williams, mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, dear here by our claim, May 7th, 2019, is Chaplain Rich Dogland Day. Chaplain, Stogland, would you and Ray come up here? Right? You've got to come. We know there's a woman behind the man there Chaplain I'll present this to you and love to have few words from you here Well, thank you mayor mayor pro. Tim all city council members I want to thank tray y'all but in for nominating me to the city council I want to thank all of the City Council members. I want to thank our City Attorney's Office. I want to thank our City Secretary. I want to thank the other commissioners and the team that make up civil service. The mayor has read to you just a caption of what the civil service does. And for those of us who have veterans, we still stand. Right? And if you have veterans, that's staying with me for a moment. If you are veteran, if you've ever served, I don't get what branch. And for those who may not be aware, only 1% of the population, including this gentleman standing behind me, who is a combat veteran of Vietnam, only 1% of the population, including this gentleman standing behind me, who is a combat veteran of Vietnam, only 1% have ever done the uniform to protect the 99%. And so we want to thank this city, we want to thank my wife for standing behind me for many meetings and we have been involved in many things together and at 2 o'clock in the morning we still are there on behalf of the city and as those who know me I'm always asking what is best for the great state of Texas and what is best for the great city of Olanton Texas and finally I want to say that Mayor Mayor Proteam the city council run price many other people the library helped us for the first time in the history of Tarrin County and the city of Olanton, Texas have the LMFT, the license marriage and family therapist board for the first time in the history of Tarrin County and in Olanton, Texas here last month. That is history. I want to thank TCC Southeast Campus because once we did, and I was state of the library, which was a beautiful night, we had a fitler, and we had the beautiful ambiance of it all to see downtown Onton. And the next two days, we then went to TCC Southeast Campus where a board was held to help this state move with a positive, comprehensive mental health plan so that our officers and our firefighters who have to deal with between 25 and 30% of the people they are resting deal with have mental health challenges. We are trying our best to preclude them from not having to deal with that. And we need, they need your help, we need your help. And as I conclude, I want to thank everyone involved in this. For those of us who serve, we don't seek these beautiful honors. But we are grateful that you have recognized us. And for that, we are thank you. Thank you all. Next, we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions. Mr. Buskin, our city secretary. Thank you mayor. We have 12 appointments to boards and commissions. To the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Allen Rose, Place 1, Carl Cravens, Place 19, Gerald Alley, Chair and Place 18, Jim Brothers, Place 8, Kevin Hidaly, Place 13, Kevin McGlaughan, Place 5, Larry Fowler, place six, Michael Jacobson, place 20, Scott Nasser, place 11, Willie Rodriguez, place three, to the mechanical and plumbing code board of appeals, Michael V. Low, place seven. Mayor, that concludes the appointments to boards and commissions. Okay, do we have a motion for approval? We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Ferrar-Meyer, as a second from Councilmember Glaspy. Police cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to speaker guidelines in general, DeCoral, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attend its assistant preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane, slanderous or threatening remarks or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council are 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 address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation, and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and supporter opposition of an item will be given three minutes to make their statements. To the extent possible, please refrain from repeating testimony which has already been given. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please wrap up your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Okay, next we'll move to approval of items from executive session, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, mayor. We have two items to approval from executive session. One, determining the necessity of acquiring a 541 square foot drainage easement in under over through across and along on property otherwise known as 3805 Shady Valley Drive Arlington, Texas for the public use of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining and using drainage facilities and all necessary occurrences relative to the country club road, local drainage and channel improvements project. Two, all cash contract of sale for the purchase of fee simple property rights with Nathan W. Burham and Kerry R. Burham for property located at 2906 Lake Shore Court, Arlington, Texas, relative to the 2019 flood mitigation byouts project. Mayor, that concludes the items for approval from executive session. Mr. Busk, are there any speakers on these items? No sir, we have no speakers on these items. You know I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Thalman a second from Councilmember Moeese. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to approval of minutes. Mr. Buskin thank you mayor minutes for approval this evening or the afternoon and evening meetings from April 23rd 2019 to council members have any additions or corrections okay seeing none Mr. Buskin are there any speakers on this item no sir there are no speakers on this item and I'll call for a motion for approval of minutes. We have a motion from Council Member Wolfe, a second from Council Member Wom and police gesture votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of Consent Agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. The Consent Agenda this evening contains 10-minute orders, three ordinances and 13 resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one in two annual requirements contract for directional boring services and drill chefs and for roof repair of city owned buildings. Three renewal of two year requirements contract for supplemental taxi services for handy train operations. Four in five purchase of 16 area, ray, prochemical, radiation detection monitors and support equipment, and a three-fire apparatus, six through eight engineering services contracts for the 2019 residential rebuild various locations for the review of flood studies and detention analysis for development projects and for lower Johnson Creek Dredging. Nine professional services contract for veterinary services. Ten amendment, amendment of minute order number 03192019-010 related to the purchase of building automation system and energy services for the Arlington Municipal Airport. The ordinances seek to authorize 11 zoning case PD 19-3 Avila Lake Ridge, 82-24, Webb Farrell Road, 1-0-0-3, Ragland Road, and 1-1-2-1, Debbie Lane. 12, Zoning Case PD 18-23, JPI at Washington, 7-15, and 7-35, Washington Drive. 13, Unified Development Code Amendment, Hotel Design Standards. The resolutions seek to authorize 14 fee adjustment authorization related to short-term rentals, 15 and 16 interlocal agreement with Tarrant County for construction of a new parking lot in River Legacy Park, and for the resurfacing of Garden Corner Road, Myers Road to Willow Branch Drive, and Myers Road, Sublet Road to Garden Corner. 17 participation in the local government investment pool, Texas class, Texas cooperative liquid asset security system trust, 18 and 19 adoption of debt and disclosure policy and of investment policy, 20 resolution to deny on-course application for approval of a distribution cost recovery factor, 21 program year 2019 HUD action plan for CDBG, home and ESG, 22 designated polling locations for the runoff election day voting if required. Mayer, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in support of opposition of these items? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition of item 8.14. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. Kim Feele. Kim Peele 409 North Elm Street. My mother-in-law was running a short-term rental at 406 in her home. She would stay with us when she would get customers. She had an account with the VRBO and she always complained how expensive that was. She never really complained about the 9% hotel occupancy taxes that she paid to the city. She did her own cleaning and maintenance. It was a hardship on her sometime at the last minute to get everything ready and then have her boxes with all her personal stuff and haul it to our house. She does have the home state exemption, but I fear for the other people that don't have a home state exemption and they own rental property that they have been using a short term rentals and they are in the entertainment district where it's now going to be allowed because $500 annually for a permit is cost prohibited. It's not able to compete with what you charge for businesses, for their annual inspections and permits. It's going after the short-term, rental business to put them out of business. And I am speaking on her behalf today. She said it's ludicrous. That's the word that she used. $500 a year is ludicrous. Now, my long-term rentals have gone up. The property taxes on average, I have two of them, 85%. I will be protesting that. But when you look at the property taxes that you're paying and how to advertise your short-term rental, how to get it cleaned, and pay another people to clean it if you're not doing it yourself, and then having to pay a $500 per minute annually, that is cost prohibitive. So I've read that there's only about 18 short terminals now that are going to be allowed in the entertainment district. And with the 500 annual fee, you might as well say you don't allow short terminals in Arlington. Thank you. I'd like to call upon Ms. Topel, our planning director, to talk about how we're just trying to do cost recovery on this money. That's all it is to try to keep our taxpayers from footing the bill for STRs. Ms. Topel. taxpayers from footing the bill for STRs? Ms. Topel? So the fee is only for a cost recovery of our services. It is not to make any kind of profit. So the whole implementation plan related to short term rental will have a code inspector, a code compliance officer, and a person to process the permitting, as well as a third party vendor to collect all the listings information that we have. So for all that services, that is the charge that we could come up with, that could help with the recovery of our services. And that is $500 per year? $500 per year per permit, yes. Okay. All right, thank you. Lots of call upon council member K. Pant. Thank you mayor. I'd like to remove 813 for separate consideration. Okay. One question for Jansi. A13 for separate consideration. Okay. One question for Gen.C. Gen.C. Ms. Topall. I have one quick question. So, says the speaker, Estimae Subi 18, how many short term rental homes do you estimate in your budget? We'll have in the entertainment district. Why don't you base your $500 on that? The $500 was based upon 300. Or a year. Thank you. All right. Any other comments? Questions? Any other speakers, Mr. Baskin? No, sir. We have no additional speakers. We do have four non-speakers. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Non-speakers in support of item 8.12, Cliff Makoski and Kim Fale. And then non-speaker in opposition of item 8.11 and 8.12, Richard Weber. Okay. Then we've removed 8. Which one was it, Ms. K. Point? 8.13. Okay, so we've removed 8.13 from the consent agenda and so I would ask for a motion for the rest of the consent agenda. We have a motion for approval of the consent agenda minus 8.13 from Councilmember Walman and a second from Councilmember Moe's, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Now Miss K. Partt. Thank you Mayor. I moved to approve 8.13 and we will, the motion includes the most updated reading that we received and are at our places right now. Okay. Yes, Ms. Tobel? The updated ordinance that you have is not for 8.13, the one that is the 12.12.2. Yes. I pulled the wrong one. So, yeah, the one that's in the ordinance, the packet, that is correct for 8.13. Okay. So if you'd like to move for approval of 8.13. I would, I would, but not the reason I stated, okay. Thank you. All right, so we have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part of 8.13. And do we have a second? Let the electronic sketch up with us. There it goes. So a motion from Council Member K. Partt for approval of 8.13 a second from Council Member for our Myers Police Guest Revoats. Motion passes. All right. Next, we'll move to public hearing ordinances. First reading. Go to zoning case PD 18-15. Green Oaks preserve 4,500 westpine air parkway. In 1611 west green Oaks, Autornomous Jinssy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. The applicant requests to change the zoning on approximately 60 acres, generally located southeast corner of West Greenoaks Boulevard and West Pioneer Parkway. The development plan is for a mixed-use development consisting of two office or commercial tracks and a residential track. The development will contain 111 single-family residential units along with eight proposed commercial structures. On January 31, 2019, the applicant held a neighborhood meeting and as a result, updated the PD by removing gasoline sales and firearm sales from the allowable users on track 1. And also adjusted the southeast portion of the subdivision to increase the preserved has added deceleration lanes at the entrance to single-family tracks on greenoaks as well as pioneer parkway. Since the Continuance at City Council on April 23rd, 2019, the applicant has met with city staff twice and met with council member K. Park once regarding changes to the layout of the residential portion. They have eliminated the cut through roads and provided additional curvilinear street and culli sacks for enhanced view corridors. Incorporated split rail fence and signage at the perimeter of the underbrush clearing adjacent to the preserved area. Incorporated a variation of lot sizes, added a visual break to the view corridor along West Pioneer Parkway, committed to planting pollinator plants at entryways and in the open spaces, committed to preserving trees and areas that will have minimal grading during the final design of the development. These adjustments led to the reduction of one lot. Two letters of support have been received. All position is at 7.8% within the 200 foot buffer. And the related map is included in the packet. Mike Clark from Winkleman and Associate's Inc is here to present the case this evening. Mr. Winkleman, if you could state your name and address for the record. Excuse me, good evening. My name is Michael Clark. I got to raise today, I guess. Yes, with Winkleman and Associates, 6750 Hillcrest Plaza, Suite 215, 75230. Here representing Bill Peeve and Neil Accommoner, here with me tonight. I was a sweet 215, 75230. Here I represent Bill Pavy and Neil Accomenter who are here with me tonight. There is not a great deal that I kind of went through my list here, then Jensy pretty much told you everything that I was gonna tell you. Couple of things I would like to add, the commercial on the corner, we have increased landscape buffers and plant material. We're not asking for any variances for either the commercial or the single family. And we've established some parameters for additional development for the single family lots. And as Jensie said, we have committed during construction and final design to try to save trees, as you guys are aware, there's a ton of fall in this product. Excuse me, property in a lot of grading, they'll take place, but as we get into final design and know exactly where roads are, and we can run topographic data, and whatever we find in area that we can preserve trees, that will be our goal as we move forward. And we do concur with all the other statements that the agency made from the changes from the original plan to the plan you see before you. So I'm happy to answer any questions and we'd respectfully request your approval. Any questions from Mr. Clark? Ms. K. Bar. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Clark. I just wanted to publicly thank you and your company for, I think, creating a much better project. Certainly one, I think, is more interesting now that you have really more curve a linear to it. And the reason that I had asked you, if you would consider this split rail fence, is we have several areas in the city that have neighborhoods with open space dedicated as a part of that development. And invariably, as neighborhoods turn over, you'll get new people in saying, there's wildlife coming from that area, and there's snakes coming up, and there are coyotes. And so to try to help the people have and manage expectations when they move into a preserve about what that really means, I think the fence with appropriate signage will be very helpful. And I think people will embrace it. It's just that when they're surprised about it, that's why it really drives a concern generally. But thank you again. This is really in my mind a much better project. Thank you. Any other questions for Mr. Clark? Thank you, Mr. Clark. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. Okay, then I will close the public hearing and ask for any comments or a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part, a second from Councilmember K. Part II from Councilmember Wollman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes, Mr. Clark. Thank you for working with us like you did. And thank you very much for y'all's investment. Appreciate what you're about to do here in Arlington. I think it'll be a great addition to your to our community. And thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Mayor, a point of clarification to Ms. Stopel, my motion did include the letter. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Next, we'll move to 11.2, speed limit, school zone, and one-way street revisions. And I'll call upon Mr. Keith Brooks, Assistant Director of Public Works and Transportation Department. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Keith Brooks, Assistant Director of Public Works and Transportation. I'm here tonight to present an amendment to Article 2 of of vehicles and Article 3 speed regulations of the traffic that we would like to make to those ordinances. The couple of one-way designations on Lovers Lane and also on Oliander Drive. This is to facilitate better traffic flow at Rankin Elementary. We actually got a request from the school for some of these changes. So we're trying to accommodate the school to make sure we have better traffic flow with those one-way street designations. And that's just one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon as children are arriving and departing the schools. We're also for added safety. We're also adding four new school zones, one on Garden Lane, one on Farp Street, one on Parks Springs Boulevard, and one on Bard & Road. Just adding more safety as children are walking to schools and we have maps along with this presentation with the ordinance to show you where those school zone designations are. And then the rest of the school zone revisions are just to make sure that the ordinance matches up with recent changes that the school district has made to start and endates dismissal times at the various schools. So we're just making sure that matches up in the wardenets. And then we're also going to be conducting some administrative cleanup and clarifying the limits of some existing speed zones. And then lastly, as more protection for the safety of the construction workers out there on 360, we're going to have some, we're proposing some speed limit or construction speed zone revisions on highway 360, just to make sure as we're going through construction with the 360 widening project that the workers are safe and we get travelers to slow down. So this concludes my presentation. At this time I'll answer any questions that you might have. Any questions for Mr. Brooks? Small ease. I have just a quick one, Mr. Brooks. So as you're talking about school zones, did you look at Summit International, 1305 North Center? You had schools grown to over a thousand students and we've had some reports of a lot of high-speed traffic going through there during hours at school. It does their intake and their exit. I know that I've worked with someone in traffic on this and I understand it made it somewhat better to put the speed limit signs up to read the speeds and ask people to slow down as they're driving through. As soon as they took those away, the speed immediately increased again. Can a charter school be treated as though it's a public school getting the same kind of traffic signals that slow people down during peak school load up times? You're talking about as far as like flashers? Yeah, something that's permanent. We can we can we can take a look at that. Yeah, because I think I think Center as that school continues to we're hoping it's not growing anymore. I understand it's not but back as we still have 1200 students that get in there more which is larger than some of our public schools and Center travels at such a high speed that we'd I'd like to take a look at it at least. So if you'd call me if we can't do anything today. Right. If you'd call me I'd appreciate it. We have some other charter schools like this on Bowen that we don't have necessary flashers out there but we can take a look and see if there's something we can do to kind of help slow things down We also look for we also work work closely with our Police Department as far as enforcement As far as getting people to slow down in those areas. Well, I think like our public schools It needs to be something permanent because we just took the flashing signs with speed limits on them down two weeks ago Right and then they're we've down two weeks ago. Right. And then we've already speeding through it there. Okay, we'll take a look at that. I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm happy. Can you also remember Gillespie? Thank you, Madam. Just a general question, Mr. Brooks. Is there a cycle while we assess while everything is proper or do we typically wait on school districts to let us know they need to change. No sir, actually we actually do every year we assess everything we actually go through the ordinance and we make sure like this year we did a lot of cleanup based on construction over the years where streets of you know connections of track change and intersections have changed we make sure that the ordinance lines up with that make sure that the ordinance lines up with that. Make sure that that still makes sense. So every year we conduct a thorough search as you can see. We have quite a bit of changes here to make sure. And then we also do take into account a request that are made not only from the school district, but also from citizens. And then we're driving and looking at it ourselves to make assessments to see what other things that we can do to make things even more safe. Any other questions from Mr. Brooks? Okay? Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No sir, there are no speakers on this item. Okay then I'll close the public hearing and we'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe, a second from Council Member K. Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to 11.3 tax increment reinvestment zone number five term extension call upon Mr. Bruce Payne, Director of Economic Development. Thank you Mayor Bruce Payne, Economic Development Director. This is to request that that council conduct a public hearing and consider first reading of an ordinance that will extend the term of tax increment reinvestment zone number five in the Arlington Entertainment District to go from termination from December 31, 2036 to December 31, 2049. The extended period is requested to more or less reset the zone in contemplation of future development that's likely to occur there. The zone was originally established to foster the creation of the former development, proposed development called Glory Park. That park, that development never got funded because of the great recession and the TERS has been in place since then. We now have a number of other development opportunities are coming forward and the T needs to be updated and so That is the request before you Any questions for Mr. Pain Okay seeing no questions there Mr. Buskin are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition to this item when When I call your name, please come to the podium. Richard Weber. Richard Weber, 2703, Chris Moore Court. I oppose the ordinance to extend TERS number five for another 30 years. TERS works by deflecting money that would be going to the general fund. If there was no TERS, and deflecting it to the TERS account. TERS projects then get prioritized because they have funding, Terce projects then get prioritized because they have funding Where if they didn't have this special funding that would be prioritized against other general fund items 30 years is a long long time to be collected reflecting this money that would be going to the general fund Well now it's almost halfway over 13 years into it, and now we're going to extend it another 30 years. This is not fair. This is awful. I oppose this extension. Thank you. Any other speakers? No, sir. Okay, I'd like to call upon Mr. Payne. Mr. Payne, could you share with us where this investment goes as far as in public infrastructure and why the mechanism of TURRS? Yes, sir. So the TERS mechanism is one in which the existing valuation of the property that's within the boundaries of the TERS remains with the jurisdictions that are participating which would include the city and any other taxing jurisdictions that are engaged in the agreement. What is captured is new value coming from new development that would not have occurred but for the participation of the TERS. Could you say that again? That could you repeat that? The revenue would not have occurred. Would not have occurred and the reason that I can say that is because normally infrastructure requirements are extensive and go beyond the the funding ability of a given developer for certain large projects because oftentimes those projects are being done in places where substantial infrastructure is either substandard or just doesn't exist at all. And the requirement to put that infrastructure in place can essentially make the project infeasible. So a Terrors is an excellent mechanism to allow for the construction of that necessary infrastructure and therefore the what I would call the vertical improvements can go in which are all taxable and then it builds the value of the terms over time. And then again it's for a limited period of time and then even though I do agree 30 years as a substantial amount of time but you know in the development world it's not as long as you might think but it allows for the development world. It's not as long as you might think. But it allows for the necessary infrastructure. This is a 2,200 acre area so there would be significant infrastructure over time that's likely to occur. And then the TERS ends and any monies that remain that haven't been expended would then revert back to the taxing jurisdictions. And the new value that's created is then equally shared by the taxing jurisdictions based on their individual tax rates. Okay, and I'll call upon Mr. David Pettit, our consultant here, and I'd love for you to add there you have been in the middle of so many successful tours, and I'd love to hear you answer that. Thank you, Mayor. My wife, Mr. Fain, you did a great job. You did a wonderful job. And it's 13 years. I have a lot more gray hair and a lot less hair, since we originally created this. I think the key that, a couple of keys that I want to focus in on is the butt-four. Butt-four, this turrs, there would not be any increment that would be going into the fund. And so is helping facilitate that development. And I also want to focus in on that there's not 100% of the tax revenue going into this. We have a 70% of the city's revenue. So for every dollar generated, 70 cents goes into the TERS. 30 cents comes back to the city. And we're proposing that for all taxing jurisdictions with the exception of the community college district. So we have a development projection. A lot of times these TERS take several years to get going up their upstart. We know a successful one of downtown Fort Worth, they started in 93. It started really getting its momentum right around the recession and it had to take a little bit of a bump and it sold a little bit. And so I think that yes, we are trying to plan out, but these have tremendous value to the development community that is trying to make investments. And without this, we wouldn't be able to make the projects happen. And so the real key here is the but for. But for this investment, but for this tool, there would not be the investment that we anticipate. And your staff has done a great job and our projections. We don't go very far out. We go to 2030 on looking at potential developments. And because my crystal ball as anybody's probably gets a little fuzzy beyond 12 years, 11 years. And so we think we have a conservative estimate. But so I like to say that 30% of something's better than 100% and nothing. Because that's what you're gonna be getting. So thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Pettit. With that, I'll close the public hearing. Oh, we have one, Ms. Moise, you have a question. I don't really have a question. I just wanna say that when we talked about this today, and this is for anyone who might be listening, the thing that I thought was really interesting is that just because we're saying we're extending this for 30 years, doesn't mean it's life will be 30 years because we just closed the one on the Highlands, what, just before I took off as I think last year, and it closed much earlier than the term it was granted. So if the payback is complete, then of course you're finished and you close it early. You give it such a long term so that you don't get, it's like you wouldn't finance your house for 30 years and paid off in 15 if you wanted to, but you still want to finance it for 30 so you have the option. So that's what we're doing is we're giving ourselves the option of the longer term so that we can hopefully, like Ranger Stadium and a few other things, pay them off way early. The sooner the development comes online the quicker this pays off. Yes. And I was involved in that term was heard by the Arlington Highlands and that was very successful and then we did pay it off early and we even had additional development to pay for center street bridge. Right. Thank you. Said. Thank you, Ms. Moeys. Thank you, Mr. Pettit. So I'll close the public hearing and I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Wolfe, a second from Councilmember Glaspy. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to tax increment reinvestment zone number five, amended project plan and financing plan, Mr. Paine. Thank you, Mayor. Again, tax and current reinvestment zone the entertainment district and this is the second part the first part that you just that you just conducted your first reading on was the creation ordinance which essentially is about term and about the boundary. The second piece is the project and financing plan and that's what creates the opportunity for about term and about the boundary. The second piece is the Project and Financing Plan. And that's what creates the opportunity for funding, depending on the limitations and the specifics that you put into that plan. And as I mentioned to you earlier, what's different about this particular Project and Financing Plan from the one that was done back in 2006 is that that original plan was for a single project. It was a it was a one project plan if you will which was Glory Park which is a retail operation and it had certain elements such as parking structures etc. There's a plan for it. Everybody knew where everything was not too dissimilar from Arlington Highlands. However in this particular case we've re-engineered the plan to be more like what we call our downtown tours or tours number one, which would be on a project by project basis and you could evaluate the need of the particular projects based on its value as well as the availability of funding within the tours. So it gives you more discretion with regard to future projects. As David mentioned, you start getting 10 years out. It starts to get harder and harder to predict specifically what might occur. And this gives you the ability to respond to that. Okay, any questions for Mr. Payne? Okay, thank you, Mr. Payne. Mr. Busskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition. Richard Weber. Richard Weber, 27.03, Chris Moore Court. And again, on this one, the city realized that their plan and financial plan wasn't going to work early on and yet they kept on torsing us and now we're 13 years into it and we're going to do a 30-year extension for this new plan. The plan that was originally set should have already been done or thrown out and this 30-year extension for this new plan just doesn't work. Thank you. Mr. Buskin are there any other non-speakers? No sir. Okay then I'll close the public hearing any discussion or a motion. They have a motion? We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Wolfe, a second from Councilmember K. Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to Ordinance's first reading. Boundary Adjustment Agreement with the City of Grand Prairie. And I'll call upon Mr. Stewart Young for real estate manager Good evening, Mayor City Council Stewart Young real estate manager what you have in front of you tonight is First reading for a boundary change agreement with the City of Grand Prairie Some of the key points was shifting mutual boundaries in order to place the public street in the same jurisdiction as the adjacent property to help with police and dispatch services. All current city assets within these services are within these areas such as sewer and water will still remain under our control and maintenance. And our listed as an attachment to the exhibit to the agreement. I'd be happy to answer any questions, Mayor. Any questions for Stuart, Mr. Young? Seeing none, thank you Mr. Young. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No sir, we have no speakers on this item. Okay then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from councilmember Walman a second from Councilmember for our Myers Police Guest Revots. Motion passes. Next we move to amendments to the gas drilling and production ordinance and I'll call upon Ms. Jessica Youngblood, gas well coordinator. Good evening, Mayor and Council. So the City of Arlington recently amended the gas drilling and production ordinance by way of multiple city council work sessions as well as public hearings. And during that particular time, we removed one, which was the supermajority vote requirement for setback reduction, and it was removed and taken to a town hall meeting. So currently our ordinance allows for 600 foot minimum external setback from a gas, from a gas well of drill zone boundary to a protected use. So this can be reduced to no less than 300 feet, either by a supermajority vote of city council, or by a simple majority vote in conjunction with consent of 70% of property owners within 300 to 600 feet of a drill zone. So the proposed amendment would eliminate the option to obtain a setback reduction waiver signed by 70% of the applicable property owners in the simple majority vote option. So in effect the external setback for new drill zones must either meet the 600 foot setback distance requirement or receive approval for setback reduction by a supermajority vote of council. Staff is open for questions. I'd like to call upon Ms. K. Part. She was there in that town hall meeting, and I'd love for you to give the explanation because we sought input from citizens on that Ms. K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. And yes, and thanks to staff for being there that night and a couple of my colleagues were there as well. It was very well attended. We had a lot of questions that we attempted to answer. But more than that, the way we got here mayor is from a different town hall meeting, which I referred to as the Phantom Farms meeting, and out of that town hall meeting, and it was dealing specifically with a Fed and Farm drill site, but they brought up a number of issues that were applicable to all the drill sites that we then brought back to Council, and as Ms. Youngblood's already stated, the Council has already voted on those, and they're now part of the ordinance. But the one remaining issue was, do we continue with the waivers? Or do we go simply to the supermajority vote? So that evening, after a lot of discussion, we took a vote and it was unanimous. And so the entire— From the citizens. From the citizens. And so the citizens said that they want it to always be a supermajority vote of the council. I brought thatity vote of the council. I brought that information back to the council and so tonight that is what the council is determining whether to go forward on. But all of this, all of this, was citizen driven. And we were responding to the needs and the concerns of the citizens. So it was democracy and action, mate. Okay. Any questions from Miss Youngblood? Okay. They have Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in support of this item. When I call your name, please come to the podium. Kim Phil. Kim feel for on on North Elstreet. I was at that meeting. and I did ask about the silica dust standards that OSHA has in place that the oil and gas industry is exempt from for a later date and you check into it and do you have any answers? I do not but the question before the group last that night was about the super majority vote and I did get that answer. Thank you. So the final phase in revising our gas will ordinance, while I do support this particular item, we're voting on the need for a super majority vote to make exceptions to the 600-foot setback in protected uses, there are other considerations not just like protected use. The language itself doesn't take into account all breathing living receptors of human, plant, animal life, and air quality concerns for those not covered as a protected use such as employees in businesses. So for example, when the need to mandate electric rigs for a fluency, traveling to those non-protected uses inside a 600 foot and those receptors outside 600 foot, there's no protection. And until the industry can prove where and how far the emissions travel, you are not taking the precautionary principle and extending our setbacks. And another item we're not considering, the low frequency noise vibration. The other things we're not considering and revising the ordinance is the particulates I talked about from OSHA. And one thing we haven't done is challenge House Bill 40 a ban on fracking vans where we do have Texas code 253.005, the Texas statute states in section 253.005, the lease of oil, gas, or mineral land, partial C. A well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality. You have all the ammunition you can to increase your setbacks, way farther than 600 feet. So after this passes, and we do away with the payoffs when the industry essentially buys the votes from property owners within a 600 foot buffer, the pollution and other disruptions do extend past that as you heard from your frown hall meeting. When will more updates be made to our gas will ordinance, they take real steps to mitigate pollution coming from storage tanks 24, 7, then coming from lift compressors and their maintenance blowdowns coming from fracking phase with the sand blowing around coming from the diesel trucks idling during offloading. Do we wait for another emission event subsequent fan and farm frown hall? Thank you. Any non-speakers Mr. Baskin? Yes, sir. We have two non speakers in support. Catherine Rogers and Rangana Bandari. Okay. All right. Then I'll now move to ask for any discussion or further comment from Council? Before we take a vote here, I think it's right now this Council has worked very hard for a number of years and then specifically the last few months to try to be as restrictive as we can within the guidelines that we have, and I might remind you that we have pushed the gas industry very far. And we have continued to try to be more restrictive and try to listen. And there are things that Ms. Fale talks about that are concerns that need to be taken to the state and the federal levels. And we are trying hard here to listen to the citizens and try to move forward and create a restrictive protective ordinance within the bounds of our local laws. And so that's the theme of what that's at and you can watch the at and encourage in fact to watch the afternoon work sessions in which the theme of that is as progressed and you can see it there for yourself on trying to for us to work within the bounds of law and still create as restrictive ordinances we can. So with that any other discussion or a motion? Okay, Ms. K. Partt. Mayor, just in response, if I could ask Trey before we take our vote, to talk about the House Bill 40 and what our staff did to help with that. So when House Bill 40 was being discussed I think two sessions ago our fire chief and then planning directors in Parijon were down actively trying to represent city interests there not only just for Arlington but everywhere and preserving our rights to be able to control certain things that were not preempted by the state so where we still have issues is in some of the areas that are being talked about. Air quality is a state domain, not a city domain. A city domain is noise and roads and those kinds of things we have some ability to influence. And so to the mayor's point, Hespo 40 restricted this while we worked hard to prevent as much of as we can, but now that we know kind of that outer boundary, we've been trying to come closer to what our limits are and you all have taken action here last few months with two or three modifications trying to get to the point where from a city perspective we've gone as far as we can go and now it's the state's dominion and we need more responsiveness from either legislators or the TDCQ or some other entity that has responsibility for the concerns that are being outlined. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. And I just wanted that on the record, mayor, for clarity for the people that are listed. You bet. Any other discussion? You bet. Any other discussion? Seeing none, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Thalman and a second from Councilmember Moe's, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we'll move to amendments to the health and sanitation chapter related to hotel premise regulations. And I'll call upon Ms. Amy Rockhill Carpenter, Health Services Manager. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Amy Carpenter, the Health Services Manager for Planning and Development. I'll be briefing you on the development of our hotel sanitation inspection program and the proposed hotel premise ordinance, which you should have that final copy placed on your desk by Jensy Thopel this evening. Any questions for Ms. Carpenter? OK. So as you can see here, Any questions for Ms. Carpenter? Okay. So, as you can see here, there's been quite a lot of discussion around hotel design and standards of operation over the past few months. The concept of a hotel sanitation inspection program grew from the desires to implement a high standard of quality for lodging establishments here in Arlington. Hotels already receive an annual fire inspection and health inspections for their food and beverage services. The proposed program would expand the health inspection portion to include guest room inspections. By working with industry partners and researching similar inspection programs nationwide, we aimed to achieve an ordinance that protects public health and promotes healthy successful businesses. The first goal of our sanitation inspection program is to build partnerships with hotel operators in our city. We wish to serve as subject matter experts on health and sanitation topics through consultation and in-person technical assistance. By performing inspections of 5% to 10% sample size of unoccupied ready rooms, we will capture a sound evaluation of sanitation practices and maintenance standards while remaining virtually invisible to hotel guests. Inspection frequency will be determined by risk matrix that rates the establishment on a set of measures, including existence of an internal audit process, functional health and sanitation procedures, inspection and complaint history, and responsiveness to corrective measures. Upon implementation of the ordinance, each hotel will start out with an annual inspection of random selection of 5% of their total guest rooms. The first inspection will function to set a compliance baseline. Most hotels will continue to receive an annual inspection year after year. We anticipate that a small percentage of establishments may need a little more attention with routine inspections occurring twice a year, and an even smaller percentage will likely require significant coaching and will have quarterly inspections. On the other side of that spectrum, there may be some operations that clearly exceed expectations on a consistent basis. For those operators, we will eventually move them from an annual inspection process to an annual verification audit. In NIH, we will perform a record review to ensure that they continue to operate at a high standard of excellence. It's important to note that most well-run high-quality establishments will likely fall in that annual inspection category. Many corporate hotels already have high-quality sanitation standards in place. Having those standards doesn't always translate into proper action by staff or the expected product outcome. Our inspections will help encourage necessary improvements, identify training opportunities, and reassure ownership and management that the standards they expect are being implemented as envisioned. For those operators who do not have a comprehensive sanitation program in place, we will equip them with the knowledge and tools to operate in a safe and healthy manner while assisting them to optimize conditions in their establishments. The items being evaluated during inspection are considered industry standards and consist of basic sanitation and safety requirements. An inspection fee will be charged to cover the cost of inspection services. Reinspection fees will be charged when an in-person follow-up is necessary to address critical violations. Implementation of the ordinance would occur on October 1st. This ensures that we have enough time to expand upon our discussions with the hoteliers regarding preparation for sanitation inspections. Much like with our previous ordinance adoptions for food establishments in childcare centers, we want to be sure that our stakeholders are fully informed and comfortable with what to expect. Upon implementation, my team would begin performing the hotel sanitation inspection component as an extension of our routine annual inspections that already take place in those establishments that hold a permit for food or beverage service. Those establishments that do not offer food or beverage service should expect to receive a health and sanitation inspection within the first quarter of fiscal year 20. Again, I'd like to point out that you should have that final revised copy of the ordinance there on your desk before you for consideration. And at this time I'm prepared to take any questions that you may have. I'll call upon Council Member Glaspie. Thank you, Mayor. Just one question. The inspections are they random or is it scheduled when you will you will do the inspection? How do you how would it be implemented? I guess it's a question. Sure. So the way that we do our inspections now for the ones that have a food permit or a bar permit is that we perform unannounced inspections. So these inspections would be done in tandem with those normal functioning inspections that we do, so they would be unannounced. The only time that we may do an announced inspection is on a follow-up, for example, where we're expecting to have certain corrective measures taken within a certain period of time. Those would be scheduled. Any other questions from Ms. Carpenter? Thank you, Ms. Carpenter. Thank you. Mr. Busk, can there any speakers on this item? There are no speakers. We do have two non-speakers in support. Ron Price and Jack's Patel. Any discussion or a motion? We have a motion for approval from councilmember Walman a second from councilmember for our minors. Please cast your votes Motion passes Next we move to citizen participation and I'll call upon Mr. Buskin to go over the speaker guidelines in the court 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. Okay, the first speaker is Ms. Kim Phil. I'm actually speaking about two consent items that were closed tonight that I just found out about. One of them is about the Washington Drive, where we're getting 346 apartments in history on that, was it was slated to have a gas well on there, and because of the economics, that didn't happen, and yay, we're developing it finally, and we don't have to worry about how close we are to this infrastructure. On the flip side of that, a villa lake ridge. That's at the Raglan drill site and there's extensive piping there and I really was hoping you guys would, I could talk to you and actually to table it and take a picture of what's happening in Mansfield because they actually have bought out the citizens and the industry came together last year and said we don't want this development so near the MISD performing arts drill site there's a path site and a compressor station behind MISD performing arts it's got 17 gas wells and one compressor station so both summit and eagle ridge said they didn't want that development as well as the neighborhood. And what happened was the city made them go back and try to work with the stakeholders in what's resulted as an offer to buy out and shut in, permanently, shut in, plug in a bandin, the 17 wells and remove the compressor station. TCQ has asked them to remove the soil. And there's a second of a third vote happening May 13th. So please keep your eye on that because as we are landlocked, we are looking at the wasted land at some of these gas wells and we can only build so close to these gas wells. You can never build on top of a gas well. Keep in mind an Oklahoma that there was some homes that went in and there's some people that can't live in their homes because there's gas rising up. There's some people that can light their car park on fire. There's cement where the grass grows up. They actually have gas that's coming up. So well you plug in a band and you can never guarantee it will stay plugged. So we really have to see what we've done here and try to figure out as we're landlocked and we try to have new development and coaching to the drill sites that we work with the developers to try to buy them out and plug in a band and we don't have to worry about these intrusions. So pretty much I was going to read from what I emailed you today, but that's the gist of it. In increasing the 63 acres at the MISD development to 81 acres, they're able to fit 121 more homes for a total of 284 home development. These aren't apartments, these are homes. But we really have to look at what we've done now. We've got a lot of pad sites. And we're still trying to fit apartments and houses in Arlington. So let's see if we can decommission a lot more. Thank you miss Phil Richard Weber Richard Weber 2703 Crestmore Court Ironically, I want to talk about the same tooth that items talked about. I want to talk about requirements and multi-family use. I'll probably spend more time on North Arlington, so let me start with South Arlington, Southeast Arlington, because it's the more important item. When there's footing, usually there's thunderstorms that train, there's wave, there's a wave that just hit the same area. Well if you look at your coming events for public hearings coming through the Planning and Zoning Commission, Southeast Arlington is about to be hit by a bunch of apartments and multi-family and we don't need Southeast Arlington to turn into North Arlington as far as the apartments. So I hope you all wake up and see that and don't prove everything just because it's in front of you. Bigger is not necessarily better and I'm not sure how many of you actually believe that. North Arlington you approved the 346 apartment units. North Arlington, you approved the 346 apartment units. North Arlington has too many apartments as it is. That planning and zoning meeting on that item, the last 10 to 15 minutes, there was a speaker that was conversing with PNZ about the subject, the too many apartments, they were hitting the tip of the iceberg. I mean, what it boils down to is comments. The comments just has too many apartments as it is, so when we edit in with everything else, it's a disaster. Now they both thought that the commons was a good thing. I disagree with that. But if you all ever thought that North Arlington had too big of a percentage of multi-family and all these apartments This item that's just been approved and walked away which already had that old departments destroyed would have been a perfect thing for land banking where you could have converted it into single-family homes. You're not going to get a developer to do that. The loss is too great. And as a tax fair, I'm not thrilled that the thought of you all buying land and selling it for a loss. But if that's the only way to fix the problem, that's what has to be done. And y'all, I mean, there was no consideration for that as far as I know. But here again, I wanted to say, Southeast Arlington, I'm concerned about it's a more important subject tonight because it's in the future. It hasn't been totally messed up yet, but I see it on the way and I wanted to quake y'all up and get you to act on that. And I got less than 10 seconds. I'd like to admit I was wrong on one thing that Rox Miss Thalman's coming to an end here two years ago and she ran. I evaluated her wrong. She was able to stand up strongly and I was surprised by that. And I think of a Sunday meeting on an August less fall last summer. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Weber. Exful move to Patrick Kelly. Hello, everyone. My name is Patrick Kelly. I'll back up to the Random O'Parte Nature Preserve. Some contractors came out with some moors and moat all month or two ago and I really appreciated it. I've said before that a forestry more needs to needs to make it out there more than once ever four years. The the private that's encroaching in that area that we cleaned up has gotten so large around it at the base that an out front won't cut it. So it's going to have to be cut with a forestry more. And the area that's up there behind, I'll just go ahead and divulge it, Mrs. Heast House, the woman who planted all the private years ago, we've been talking about it for over two decades that either the park department will go out there and clean all that private out of there or you know the kids at UTA and all of us neighbors would clean it up and it's even this last go around it's never been cleaned up and there's a gorgeous majestic tree that's just it's on its way out because of the private there's already designed a whole plan to put different sorts of plants that are really really native of this area to make a semi-circle so that she's got privacy but we don't have privet out there and it's a great plan. There's a big paladjust rotting material up next to these people's house. They've got two young girls and a swimming pool and a dog and you know that's not Arlington, that's East for Earth. It needs to be cleaned up and the entrance that's at the southeast corner of the park where Park Crest dead ends into what used to be an entrance into the park. It's so grown up, you know, there's been news around the country where kids have got lost for several days because they've gotten stuck in thickets and they're just a little bit of kids and they find them, they're at least they've found them so far and we're lucky and animal had eaten them while they were stuck in the thicket. And you know, if we're doing things so prosperously and by the way, I think you guys are the smartest group group councilman that's ever been around and I really appreciate all your work so far everything y'all have done construction wise boys five star stuff But there's some things community wise that you know we need to get done and we've got a bunch of you to get kids that are eager to help and still there's people around the neighborhood now they've gotten used to the the help and still there's people around the neighborhood. Now they've gotten used to the the the private just like the people over there off of Oakwood have gotten used to all the trash is growing up in those trees on the west side of the park but of we need training we need people in the park department to put in a section in the part department website that says hey this is how you're supposed to take care of things. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. That concludes citizen participation on the now moved to announcements. Mr. Baskin. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. And on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesday's at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturday's at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlingtontx.gov. Any other announcements? Okay. Seeing none, our meeting is adjourned.