I'd now like to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and we're honored tonight to have TJ Lewis, the student pastor of Lake Arlington Baptist Church who will give the invocation and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. It's a privilege to get to serve you all this way this evening. Thank you for having me again. Lord Jesus, thank you for tonight. You are so, so good to us around here in so many ways. Our city continues to thrive. It's evidenced by all the wonderful construction going on around here. Lord, the rains are good to our farmers and we praise you for that. And the rangers have a winning record, Father. We're just, we're blessed. Thank you for an incredible Easter weekend that you gave us. Now, Father, I pray for wisdom for this council as they continue to lead our city, Father, help them as they're making decisions, give them wisdom from on high. It is a no small task and we praise them for serving us this way. And maybe even more so, Father, I pray for all our first responders that are out undoubtedly working very very hard right now. I pray there wouldn't be any rex but there are would you bless and protect them. But thank you for letting us live in this city and thank you for the opportunity to give us just as Texans and as Americans. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation and one God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honour the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state of the guy on one individual. This is always one of my favorite parts of the program where we get to present proclamations to extraordinary things that are going on or special occasions. I'm going to call upon Ms. Katherine Wallman, one of our council members here, to read the first proclamation that we have and share with us what we have going on. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to call Cheryl Kinney to come up and let me read this proclamation. We are celebrating. Yes, all of you. Come on up. Oh, gang, we want everybody. You all do a lot of work. Lot of good work. All right, everybody here. We got it. OK. Whereas the week of April 26, 22, through the 26, in 2019 has been designated as National Community Development Week to recognize and celebrate the impact of community development block grant and the Home Investment Partnership Program in communities across the country. Whereas since 1975, CDBG has supported affordable housing, neighborhood improvements, economic opportunities, and public service for low and moderate income Arlington residents, and the home program has created and preserved affordable housing for low income families since 1992. Whereas over the past five years, Arlington has received a total of 14.8 million in CBDG funds and 4.5 million in home funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Whereas the following activities have been funded over the past five years, housing rehabilitation, home buyer assistance, neighborhood infrastructure, parks and public facilities, childcare, senior meals, transportation, housing for homeless families, shelter and services for victims of domestic violence, youth mentoring and tutoring, skills training and literacy, and many other programs and services for Arlington residents. Therefore, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, and on behalf of the Arlington residents. Therefore, Jeff Williams, Mayor of the City of Arlington, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, hereby proclaim April 22nd through the 26th, 2019, is National Community Development Week. Applause Mrs. Cheryl Kennedy who runs these programs, but she has a lot of good helpers. So give us a word. Thank you so much. Well, we want to thank the Mayor and Council for helping us celebrate National Community Development Week. This is the week that cities and counties all over the country take time to recognize the good work that's done with community development block grant and home investment partnership. And I want to recognize all of our staff who works hard all year to make these programs work for our community. And in order of appearance, we have Diane Anderson, Theresa Tate, Tameka Davis, Nancy Fulkes, Natalie Williams, Adina Hayslip, and Darwin Wade. So we want to thank them for their additional support. Quickly, if you'd like more information about some of the programs, our Office of Communications has done a great job in highlighting on video format on Facebook, all the some of the great programs and you'll see every day a different partner in the community that we work with. We work with 20 nonprofits, but if you'd like more information about those, take a look at our Facebook page, and you'll see some of the great partners to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. I'm also going to ask you to sign this. Well, now we're in for a really fun one here coming up and Miss Roxanne Thalman, Councilmember Thalman here is going to introduce the next special guest we have. Okay, so I would like to ask the Arlington Good Times course to come up and join me. And I'm actually going to sing this proclamation program. Just kidding. It's a campaign season for me, so. We're not doing that. Okay. Okay. So I have David with me. So I'm going to start the proclamation now. Whereas the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Cortet Singing in America, Incorporated, known now as the Barbershop Harmony Society was officially organized April 11, 1938 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And whereas what began as a small group has steadily blossomed into an international organization spanning the United States, Canada, and the world, and whereas the Barbershop Harmony Society has actively preserved and presented a distinct style of vocal music that originated in North America and enriched his cultural life through wholesome family entertainment in our communities, and whereas the Barbershop Harmony Society promotes music education in our schools through music scholarships and brings harmony singing to tens of thousands of students each year. And whereas Barbershoppers are engaged in lot of Pacific service, charitable giving, and philanthropy, both locally and nationally. And whereas we applaud and honor the Arlington Good Times course and all its members for continuing distinguished services to the community. Now therefore W. Jeff Williams may have the City of Arlington, Texas and on behalf of the Arlington City Council do hereby proclaim April 11th, 2019 as Barbershop Cortet Day. And they're actually going to sing for us, so special treat for calcimating. All right, well we thought it appropriate to sing our national anthem tonight to celebrate the start of this meeting and then after that we just have a special strong to share that's from the heart of the chorus about enjoying life feeling good about things despite the rain despite maybe some you know some political contention possibly going on tonight. It's just great that we get to be here be part of this great city. The good times course has been singing in all intents since 1962 we're so happy to be a part of the community here and participate in the political process and enjoy life together. So we'll sing the national anthem and then a little feeling good for you. Oh, say can you see why the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail at the twilight's last weeping, Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight, Or the ramparts we watched, Were so gallantly streaming. And the rocket's red, black is red, And the rocket's red, black is red, And the rocket's red, black is red, And the rocket's red, black is red, And the rocket's red, black is red, And the rocket's red, black is red, that our flag was still there. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and of the brave. I will go to the new my Lord at the troll, at the troll, where the lightning line was walking in the line. Cause I did on my knees and denied, and prayed to the Lord in the sign. And now I feel it mighty fine. Well, feeling mighty, feeling mighty, just feeling fine. Heaven, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm Go, I wanna go, yes I wanna go Hell on the mountain, hell on the mountain Light that shed up, shine that shines inside this forest It's not a park, hell on my mind And now I'm feeling my fire I'm feeling my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind. Feel my mind, feel my mind Shack the ocean, still with us all the pillars are apart Hellenic, heaven on my mind And now I'm feeling mighty fine I'm feeling as I'm feeling mighty fine I'm feeling mighty fine I'm feeling by you. Well, let's give one more hand for the good time, of course. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, for our last presentation, I'd like to call up our director of planning and development service, Ms. Jensy Topel. Jensy? Thank you, Mayor. Good evening all. I would like to call upon the Mayor and Council, our City Manager, Mr. Yelverton, the Levit Board members. Come on. It's a prestigious award you're going to get. So big surprise. So Levitt Board members, and Ms. Jennifer Pruitt, our planning manager, to come up here to receive this award. And we are fortunate to have Ms. Christina Sebastian, the Secretary of American Planning Association, Texas chapter this evening, who would like to say a few words about this prestigious award. Welcome, Christina. Thank you, Jensy. I have quite a crowd up here tonight. So as Jensy said, my name is Chris Eunice Sebastian, and I am with the Texas Chapter of the American Planning Association. We represent over 2,500 practicing planners across the state, and over 42,000 planners nationwide. So I am very excited to be here tonight to present this distinguished honor for having love at Pavilion designated as a great public space in Texas. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So this program, the Great Places in Texas program, recognizes our state's great places, be they neighborhood streets or public spaces, and celebrates how planning plays a vital role throughout our cities and our lives. The program promotes and recognizes great places while celebrating the story of exemplary planning that have resulted in stronger and healthier communities. So six places were selected by the Texas chapter this year. The places illustrate most effectively what it means to be a great place, including design, functionality, sustainability, character, quality, and community participation. So Levitt Pavilion was selected as a great public space because, as you all know, it was a key component in spurring the revitalization of downtown Arlington, which we can see all around us today and with even more to come. I'm actually a former resident and staff member here in Arlington, so I got to personally see the great value that Levitt provides to the Arlington citizens and creating a unique gathering space for free concerts and events where you can really see the community come together. So on behalf of the Texas chapter, I'm proud to recognize the city of Arlington, Mayor, City Council, Staff, Levitt Pavilion, Arlington Board, and the entire community for your outstanding efforts in making Levitt Pavilion a great place in Texas. Well, it's a tremendous partnership between the city and the Love at Pavilion, and it's so awesome to see the sense of community that you feel when you go down for the concerts and everybody coming together. And then, Patty, you need to come up here. There, you know, the lady who has pushed all of us here to make such a great place. Tell us a little bit about the levitt, Patty. Oh, gosh. So this will be our 11th season of bringing 50 free concerts to downtown Arlington. Last year more than 103,000 people attended our 50 free concerts. We just expect that to continue to grow with the support of all of you in our wonderful city and all of the expansion that's happening on Abrams Street. So please come out and see us. We open on May the 17th, our summer season runs until July the 21st. We have something for everybody. Come on out and see it. The best part is if you don't like it, you don't have to pay for it. So come see us. We really have great shows coming. We also have John Oates coming. So help us out with our benefit concert and thank you all. And we're very, very proud of this honor. And we're proud that our city is represented in this very distinguished honor. Thank you. I'm going to ask you a question. Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Why do you want to ask? Thank you. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I know. I was excited. Okay, we'll move on with the business of the meeting and the first item is appointments to boards and commissions and I'll turn to Mr. Alex Buskin, the city secretary. Thank you, Mayor. We have no appointments to boards and commissions. Okay, Mr. Buskin, do you go over speaker guidelines in general decorum? Thank you, Mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in 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, 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 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 three items to approval from executive session. One through three resolutions determining the necessity of acquiring a 2,424 square foot drainage and sanitary sewer easement. On property known as 3909 shady valley drive for acquiring a 3,548 square foot drainage and sanitary sewer easement. And a 426 square foot temporary construction easement on property known as 3804 country club road. And for acquiring a 1,438 square foot drainage and sanitary sewer easement on property known as 39 or seven shady valley drive Arlington, Texas for the public use of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining and using drainage and sanitary sewer facilities and all necessary appartances for the country club road, local drainage and channel improvements project. Thank you mayor. This concludes the items for approval from executive session. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No sir, we have no speakers on these items. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember for our mayors. Second from Councilmember K. Part, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of minutes, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. Minutes for approval this evening are the afternoon and evening meetings from April 9th, 2019. Okay, do I have a motion? And in fact, before I do that, though, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. Okay, then I'll a motion? And in fact before I do that though, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe, second from Council Member Moe's, police capture votes. Motion passes. Next we move to approval of Consent Agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. The Consent Agenda this evening contains 17 minute orders, four ordinances, and five resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize. One, annual software maintenance contract for the Fleet Focus Software Management System. Two and three, annual requirements contract for traffic pavement markings and devices for the Public Works and Transportation Department and for waste removal services. 4 through 6 renewal of annual requirements contract for PPG, Acquitab, Calcium, Hypochlorite tablets for invasive plant removal at Johnson Creek Restoration Area and for the rental delivery installation and pickup of traffic control devices. 7 sole source purchase of annual support and maintenance contract for the Amanda software. Eight three year software support and maintenance contract for the in code court case management system. Nine through 11 purchase of annual phone services for the court notification module of resale items for the parks and recreation department. And a four high pressure breathing air cascades systems for the fire department. 12 through 15 engineering services contract for Avenue E Street rebuild state highway 360 to Great Southwest Parkway for Turner, Warren L Road Cooper Street to Matlock Road for CC-2 channel replacement conceptual design study highway 360 to Susan Drive and for stream VCA-1 channel and drainage improvements conceptual design study. 16 harvest hills drainage improvements phase one channel improvements. 17 reject all proposals for the Food and Beverage Services contract at Texas Rangers Golf Club. The ordinances seek to authorize 18 zoning case PD 18-22 Veritas 22 2206, 2208, and 22012 West Abrams Street, and 2121, 2123, 2203, 2205, 2207, and 2209, Pacondale Drive. 19 UDC amendment related to short-term rentals, 20 drought contingency plan and emergency water management plan, 21, 2019 water conservation Plan five year update. The resolution seek to authorize 22, 2019, neighborhood matching grant awards. 23 police reserve officer appointment, 24 interlocal agreement with the city of Pantigo to maintain the store sewer system installed with the country club road, local drainage and channel improvements project. 25 resolution for the formation of the city of Arlington's floodplain program for public information committee 26 Texas live this may or this concludes a consent agenda for this evening Mr. Buskin do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of that items that appear on the consent agenda? No sir. We have no speakers on the consent agenda. No, sir, we have no speakers. On the consent agenda, we do have four non-speakers and supportive items on the consent agenda. When I call your name, please raise your hand. On item 8.18, Charles Clauston. On item 8.19, Patricia Logston. And on item 8.22, Daniel Cawke and Rebecca Campbell. 2, 2, Daniel Cox and Rebecca Campbell. Okay, I'll call upon Council Member Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to request that we remove item 8.19 from the Consonant agenda to consider separately. Okay. All right. We'll remove that from the consent agenda. Any other discussion from council members? Okay, then we'll consider all of the items for approval except for 8.19 and I'm looking for a motion. We have a motion for approval of all of the consent agenda minus 8.19. We have a motion from council member Walman and a second from Councilmember K. Part. Police catcher votes. Motion passes. Miss Thalman. approval on item 8.19. All right. So we have a motion for approval of 8.19. Do we have a second? Second? Second from Councilmember for our Mars. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Okay. Next we move to public hearings, ordinance's first reading. We have zoning case PD 18-15, green oaks preserve, dash 4500 west pine ear parkway and 1611 west green oaks boulevard and I'll call upon Miss Cape Art. Thank you Mayor. This afternoon in the afternoon work session I had talked with our planning director and have some concerns and questions about this zoning case and I'd like the council to consider a continuance. Mayor. Okay, is the council all right with a continuance? Okay. All right, then we'll plan on a continuance, and we also will give an opportunity here with this being a public hearing if anybody wants to speak tonight, otherwise we'll be coming back soon here with- The next Council meeting, I believe, May 7th. May 7th. So does anybody wish to speak tonight? Okay. Then we'll plan on coming back on hopefully May the seventh. All right, next we'll move and then I will leave the public hearing open here and so that is open for the next meeting. Next we move to zoning case PD 18-23 JPI at Washington, 715 and 735 Washington Drive, and I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. The applicant requests to change the zoning on approximately 15.92 acres of land, addressed at 715 and 735 Washington Drive, generally located north of Washington Drive and west of North Collins Street. The subject site was developed with apartments at this location in the 1970s, and the last multi-family development on site was Hampton Hills with 18.3 dwelling units per acre. In 2008, an SUP for a gas well was approved for the site with the understanding that the multi-family development was to be demolished. The gas well was never developed and the SUP expired. However, the apartments were demolished and the site remains vacant since 2009. The proposed development plan is for a 346-unit market rate multi-family development on this 15.92 acreage. It's a gated community which will consist of eight three-story residential structures, which has 278 units and one three-story structure with leasing office, clubhouse and 68 units. The development proposes a density of approximately 21.7 dwelling units per acre, which complies with its current base zoning or of RMF22, as well as the LCMU overlay district of 2040 units per acre. Since the April 3rd Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, the applicant has updated the development plan to note the required garages for the UDC, the addition of a six foot wide sidewalk along Washington Drive, and also called out proposed pedestrian lighting locations. Millen silver from JPI will be presenting the zoning case item this evening. Okay, if I start out. It sure is. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Cliff McCoskey, 519 East Border. I appreciate the opportunity to come before you this evening. I'd like to make a few opening remarks and then if it pleases the council, turn it over to Miller Silver with JPI for his brief presentation. Jefferson North Collins is a proposed high end multi-family development. Our team's been working on this development for over a year and we believe this is a great opportunity for the Lamar Collins overlay and the City of Arlington. The $65 million investment has the potential to be a catalyst for redevelopment and change and change in of Arlington. The $65 million investment has a potential to be a catalyst for redevelopment and change in North Arlington. The Arlington Commons development on Lamar Boulevard is set the standard and Jefferson North College will continue to build on this momentum. With that, I'd like to introduce Miller Silva with JPI. And I thank you again for your time, service to Arlington, and your consideration of PD 1823. Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council members. My name is Miller Sylvan with JPI, 600 East, Los Cleanest Boulevard, Irving, Texas, 75039. Pleasure to be before you this evening. Brief overview of JPI, we're a DFW Headquartered Company been here for over 30 years. All we do is focus on high-end multi-family communities. We've built 330 communities in our history and are currently the largest multi-family developer in DFW with 7,000 units in operation or under construction. Wanted to give a little bit of flavor of the type of product we build. We pride ourselves on quality and typically when we enter a market with the highest rents in that sub market, we do that through several ways. One is we're the highest level of finishes in both the units and in the common areas. We provide more amenity space than our competitors, more amenity offerings and services such as dog walking services, gym classes, a valet trash, a lot of social events to help bring the community together. This is an area that shows kind of where the project is in context to the neighborhood. So just west of Collins, off of Washington. As you can see, you have multi-family to the north, multi-family to the west, multi-family to the south, and commercial and multi-family to the east. Before we did anything on this project, we looked at what are the land use guidelines laid out by the city. So first of all, the comprehensive plan designates this site as a regional activity center which calls for a mix of uses including residential and permitted density up to 90 units per acre. We also studied very closely the Mar Collins overlay which calls for high quality dense multi-family projects that spur transformative redevelopment into attract institutional investment into this area and density up to 40 units to the acre. The current zoning is also 22 units to the acre. So we believe the project we're bringing forth today as indirect response to the guidelines of the comprehensive plan, the Mark Collins overlay and the existing zoning. Zoom it into the site level here to get a better look at the site. It's obviously a very challenging property because of the topography and because of the drainage channels that cut through the property which really dictates a lot of the layouts in the design. We're 346 units. This is 67% one bedrooms, 32% two bedrooms and 1% three bedrooms. We have a variety of different parking options for our residents, private garages, car ports and surface parking. You can see the exterior amenities on here. We have a resort style pool with lounge seating and a swim up bar. We have multiple fire pits on the property, two outdoor kitchens, seating areas, walking trails. We have bike storage and bike repair station and all the ground floor units have private yards that our pet owners really love. We've also at the request of PNZ added street lights along Washington and Madison at every 100 feet, which we really think will enhance the streetscape, enhance the safety in the area and make for a much better pedestrian feel. Focusing on kind of what's inside of our communities, as I mentioned, we're typically much more amenity space than our competitors. We'll have an 8500 square foot clubhouse that'll have a business center with conference room, private work stations, a coffee bar, a wifi lounge, fitness center with yoga and spin bikes. We'll have packaged lockers for Amazon deliveries. We'll have an Uber lounge. Inside the units, all the appliances are stainless steel, minimum 10-foot ceilings, washers and dryers are included in every unit. Double vanity sinks, oversized showers. So this is a step above what you see in the area for sure. And because of this level of amenities and level of finishes, we're confident we'll achieve the highest rates in the market. The typical demographic. I request a couple minutes. Thank you, sir. Due to the quality of the product and the high price points of our communities, the typical renter, our average renter is age 35 household incomes of 100,000 and less than 5% of our units will have kids. So we're not typically attracting families and we're not typically attracting students right out of school. We're attracting young professionals, young married families, and also attracting a lot of empty nesters who kids are off to college and they want to go back to the apartment lifestyle that's locked and leave. This is a view of our clubhouse. First impression is obviously important to us. You have the double volume of glass. We've got the raised parapids at the roof. We have a mixture of smooth stone, stacked stone, brick. We have some wood-tone elements, some architectural metal panel at the entry here. We also invest a lot in architectural lighting. You really help this glow at night. This is a view of the pool area overlooking the overlooking the creek, green space around the pool. You can see the outdoor kitchen there. We think this will be a nice gathering area for our residents. So in summary, we think this is exactly following the land use guidelines laid out in the comprehensive plan, Lamar Collins overlay, and and the existing RMF-22 zoning. This will be a $65 million project that will obviously be vastly different than what's around it today. And most importantly, as Lamar Collins Overlay calls for, we believe that this will be a catalyst project for redevelopment and reinvestment in this area. We appreciate Stat Working with Staff over the last several months. They've been great to work with. We respectfully request your approval this evening and are happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Mr. Silver? Thank you, Mr. Hopper. Okay, Ms. Moise. I'll just go back. Okay. So I've gotten no bill or just a little bit in the last few months because I've been out to see projects. I've spent some time with him talking about the expectations because we've Arlington Commons that's kind of set the standard for everything in the Lamar Collins overlay. And I do want to say thank you for the changes you made to the original plan. Thank you for working with us because I think the product I see here is much more what we expect here in Arlington. And certainly since this is going to be kind of the, the first project in this area, I'm really excited that you're willing to put the time and the effort into making it something that we can use to showcase future development there. I do want to share with you that one of the things that I'm interested in is the long term viability of the project. And one of the things that I think affects a project's long term viability, of course, is the impact of the developer staying involved. So can you kind of give us a little bit of an overview about the construction time, the lease up time, how y'all intend to manage it? How long you'll be partners with us in the city of Arlington if you build this for us? Sure, yes, ma'am. Thank you, Councilwoman Weiss. So we at JPI were fully integrated companies. So we are, we're the developer, we're the general contractor. We have an asset management group that is very hands on with the asset. So we're very're very heavily involved. We do have a third party property management group that has kind of a critique program for our company that with a specialized management program, specialized services. We typically were over managing. We have more people, we have the concierge. And so there's a specialty program along with that. And in terms of kind of timeline, if we were approved tonight we would expect to break ground in October. The construction timeline is about two years and then it'll take an additional year to lease it up to fill it up. So from the time that we start to the time that it's filled up would be about three years. And we have communities that we hold for 10 years, we have communities that we hold for five years, no different than any other asset class. Our communities with the building styles, with the amenity spaces will maintain that look and feel. We're typically these projects are $70, $90 million project. So when they do so way down the line, they are institutional investors that will hold the value. It's not, there's not typically slum lords in that space. Thank you. I just wanted to put on a record it's you we're doing business with and we want to make sure that Whatever happens down the line that that same quality is kept in place. Yes That's it Councilmember Glaspie Thank you, Mary Notice you said that You anticipate about 5% of the families would have children and of course the school district was really concerned about that because our school is a fairly full now. So would you elaborate a little more on why you feel your market would be just that small number. Sure. So we looked at the six communities right now on the ground and the highest, the average of those communities produced 3.6% kids in those communities. And so the reason for that is just one, the price point to the unit mix. We have six, three better units in this community. So it's just not really conducive to families. The amenities, the way it's programmed, there's not play areas. It's really geared toward young professionals, young couples. And so we look at all the data and continue to study it. We say this and then we continue to study what are those percentages right now of our six communities on the ground. It's 3.6, the average, the highest is 5%. And I will say, we at stabilization in this type of project will generate 920,000 a year for the school district in taxes for the amount of kids that we generate, you know, that dollar amount, you know, we feel like we're over supporting for what will actually produce. Do you have another question, Councillor Marlowe? No, no, I'm okay. I—oh, you know what? I will say I talked to Cindy Powell at the Chief Financial Officer for the School District today. And what was interesting is, you know, this letter concerned me a little bit because it's more detailed than their objection letters that they generally send to us. What she and I talked about, one of the things we talked about is they didn't have the unit mix and some other information. I didn't have some information. So I think she understands and I think the school district knows that this project is going to move forward and that it's not going to have a huge impact on the schools based on your data. Mr. Silman, how does this project compare to your other projects in the Metroplex's Forest Quality is concerned? It's consistent and every deal we do we're learning from the last one so we're continuously upping our game in terms of the technology we use, the finishes we use. For instance, the closets, how we upgrade those, the tile and the showers, how that evolves, the electronic lock systems, how those become better. In terms of the amount of amenity space, it's consistent with what we do across the Metroplex, which is way more than our competitors. There's JPI standards such as 10 foot minimum ceilings and washer and dryers in the units and oversized kitchen islands that our JPI standards that we maintain but this will be every deal we do. We learned from the last one and we were able to implement new better technologies, better finishes to make it by end. Right. Councilmember K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you for your presentation. So just for public consumption, if you will. So the property is currently zoned MF. 22. And you want to change it to? 21.7. So you're kind of reducing the density a little bit. And so I think that's kind of critical in that the property already has the ability to be developed without going through this process and what you're bringing in my opinion is much more of an upgrade than the basic zoning that's currently there. So I realize in your mix you've only got how many say six units that were three bedrooms? Six yes, 1%. So that's very small and I agree with you, this probably is not really conducive to many families. But what would be the price point that you think the range of price point for a one bedroom unit at your property? For a one bedroom unit, we would be, you one-bedrooms would start at about, I think, 650 square feet, and those would start at about 1,200. Okay. That would be a starting rate. And the amenities that you're going to build into this property, I think are pretty unique. And when you and I visited, I hadn't heard of a dog walker service at a multi-family apartment complex. I thought, well, there's my retirement job. There you go. So, anyway, so I thought that was really pretty unique. But if you could just kind of go through a couple of the other amenities, I know you've got a really nice pool. And do you have walking trails or trail connections around your apartment complex? Yes, there's trails on either side of the drainage area. So there's internal trails. And we also have connections out onto the sidewalk. Our ground floor units have private yards for our pet owners as well that can be 10 to 15 feet deep. They're grass, they have a gate. And so those folks can sit out in their yard and they can walk out straight out onto Washington and go down the street. So it's a nice urban feel and those yards are very popular. You know, something we do is there's a couple that will give a unit to their call of cares team and they will their sole purpose is to be the first person that meets you when you when you move in, link you up with other people with similar interests. They throw a lot of social events. Once a month there's nonlet breakfast in the clubhouse where we bring in a chef and there's over 100 people at all of those. There's Super Bowl parties. There's wine and cheese parties. There's cookouts. There's a lot of that that really helps our retention. It makes it where you're not just coming in and you're getting involved. You know people where you're not just coming in and you're getting involved. You know people, quality of life. Obviously, if you know your neighbors, you're happier. So we've really invested in that. And then just in terms of the gyms, gyms are 2,000 square feet and have the latest greatest equipment with screens. And we have personal trainers that we bring in three times a week. You know, we pick up everyone's trash, you know, forum. So it is a high level of service that folks like and they expect when they pay this type of rent and this type of community. Thank you. I think it sounds like a very interesting project. Appreciate your experience. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Seeing no other questions from Council. Thank you, Mr. Selma. Thank you. We'll turn here to Mr. Buskin there. Are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two additional speakers on this item. The first one is Chris Butler. Okay. And Mr. Butler, are you in favor or in opposition? Yes, I support this bill. Thank you. The other speaker in support of this item is Graham Johnston. Okay, thank you, Mr. Johnston. Mayor, we also have three non-speakers in support of this item. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Anthony Negi, Exeta Negi, and Jan Berry. Okay. All right, then we will close the public hearing and call for any discussion from council members. Bore emotion. discussion from Council members. For a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval. From Council member Moe's. A second from Council member for our mayors. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. Mr. Silman, what are you look in the eye? We're counting on this development being better than lost cleanest and the things that you do there. And we do appreciate your investment here in our community. And then I also appreciate our residents here meeting with y'all and you meeting with them so that we could really develop a product here and then we all Would love to have something besides multi-family on it, but however, that's what the zoning is and so now you're gonna do us a really Premier development here to compliment all of the other great things in North Arlington. Thank you, miss Schillman Thank you, Mr. Schellman. Okay, next we'll move to zoning case PD 19-3, Avillea like ridge, 82-24, web ferrell road, 1,000-3 Raglan road, and 11-21 Debbie Lane. And I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Topill, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.3, Avila Lakeridge. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately 15.342 acres of land, generally located south of South Collins Street and west of Webferral Road. The subject site was annexed into the city of Arlington in 1985 and has remained undeveloped agricultural land sins. In 2004, it was re-zoned to Community Service CS, which has transitioned to CC for community commercial zoning district after the UDC got adopted. The proposed development plan is for 170 unit multi-family development on an approximately 15.34 acre site. The proposed development is uniquely designed so that the units will have the appearance of single-family detached or duplex homes. It will consist of approximately 148 single-storey residential structures with two one-bedroom units in each structure, a leasing office building, multiple garage and car ports, and approximately 70,200 square feet of common open space. The common open space includes preserved areas that will serve as detention for the development, a dog park, and swimming pool and eminiti area. The development proposes a density of approximately 11.08 dwelling units per acre. Since the April 3rd Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, the applicant has excluded additional uses, added required level 1 and level 2 screens and buffers, added parking to meet the minimum requirements, and added a package locker system included in the leasing area. Mr. Dixon Holman with Holman group will be presenting the zoning case this evening. Okay Mr. Holman. Our little mayor members of the City Council, City Attorney and City Manager, I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I'm Dson Holman, 1241 West Green, Oaksville, of Arts, Suite 151, Arlington, Texas, 76013. And I am here tonight. Now we're going to find out whether I can operate this to, okay. Okay. To give you a brief overview and in answering questions of our project. I am here representing next Metro communities in Avila Homes for a project has just been described in far south, southeast, Arlington. This project is one of several that we now have plans for in North Texas. As you see on this map, the McKinney project and Plano project are already stabilized in least well over 90%. Our experience there has been about six to seven months from the first unit being occupied to the last resident currently in the property. So it's been very successful during that period of time. We have a project currently under construction that's gone vertical off just off 161 in Grand Prairie. We have a project that was approved this past fall on 114 in far north for worth, as well as in the fossil creek area in for worth as well that was approved earlier this year by the city council in for worth. Our project they're all a villa. Each one has a unique name this project in Arneckton is a villa like Ridge. And our concept is a hybrid housing style. It's not one that typically is seen much of anywhere in the country. It is not right now available in Arlington. What we have is a single story detached cottage lifestyle. It's a lifestyle choice. Our residents choose to be our residents. I'm gonna give you some data to show you what I mean by that in a few minutes. We have individuals, we have families, those families typically don't have children under the age of 18, and I'll show you some stats on that and discuss that as well. It's a maintenance-free lifestyle. When I say that, that's down to changing light bulbs. If you need your light bulb changed, you request that. And in that, the on-site maintenance staff will take care of that. All the yards are taken care of, all the paintings taken care of, everything's taken care of. From a maintenance standpoint. We do have the on-site professional management, professional maintenance. We have 24 hour maintenance on call so that if you have a leak in the middle of an hike that gets taken care of so that is available. Each of our homes has private backyards. Even though you heard that we have the one bedrooms and that's just because of the size of a one bedroom are actually two to a building but the one bedrooms are only 26% of our total unit count and each of those even though they're one building has its own individual 250 square foot fence backyard. Our two bedrooms, by the way, have 300 square foot backyards and three bedrooms have 350 square foot backyards each individually. Fenced. Our typical resident is a single professional two-income couples with no children, empty nesters, active seniors, pet owners because we're pet friendly as you've heard. We've got the dog park, we've got fence backyards and we encourage pets. 60% of our residents are over 35 years old, over those 39% are over 45 years old. 63% this is overall in all of the, we have 16 of these projects that have been done in Arizona where the company started this is Dallas office that handles the North Texas projects to in Colorado and then the ones you see here so it's a pretty good sample size. The total we have 63% who have lived in single family homes before so we have people that have made that lifestyle choices, I said. Our average resident household income is $75,000, and then under 10% of our residents have children under the age of 18. In Plano, actually, that number is about 7%. So it is a negligible impact on the school district. School district has some concerns. They were concerned about 22 units per acre. This isn't. It's 11 per acre with a very small portion who are children. Our residents, you can see there that bears out that pie chart in that table will show you the breakdown under 25s or negligible 6.6. Our, that's just talking about again, our residents with children under 18. Our one bedrooms are going to, at least for a little over $1,300 a month. Our two bedrooms, 1,700 a month, and our three bedrooms at almost 2,000. American I have, but just another minute or so. And I will get through this as quickly as possible and so that those are high-end rents we have 10-foot ceilings crown molding under mount sinks granite countertops tile backsplashes no carpet in our units at all We have when it comes to trash you heard on an on an earlier case about valet trash service We have the same you put your garbage out on your front porch on garbage today. It's picked up by the staff and taken to the dumpster. You don't do that yourself. This is a representation of the interior of one of our homes. That's a two bedroom, I believe. This is our site plan. You have seen these numbers. So I won go over in great detail. Our one bedrooms is 26% or 42% or two bedroom and 32%. Our three bedroom we do have a significant number of covered spaces. By right everybody gets a covered car port and we have pitch-trew car ports. We have pitch-trew garages. We have 72 garage spaces as well. And that is above the minimum we do. At the dog park, we have our covered pavilion area with our swimming pool, game area with cornhole type activities, that kind of thing. We have light strung, we encourage a close knit community. Although we do have folks that want to live a single family lifestyle, they believe that this gives them that opportunity with the central management and a lock-in-leave lifestyle on one floor with a fence backyard so that they know their neighbors, but they're not always involved with their neighbors in a good way. So, we do have the open space, the open space we did have to deal with a mitigation of a wetlands situation involving the core of engineers requirements. We did that in a way satisfactory to them. This central portion that you see in this rendering is actually accomplishes both of those things. It's a green space that we have homes that face on. We are going to have walking trails and benches and amenities. There is just a no-touch quote-unquote zone in the center that we cannot improve due to the federal government requirements. But we have integrated it in as an amenity and we feel like it's going to be very popular place to be. I will then move on to a little closer, tighter shot of the front. I've described those amenities that gives you an idea and we are gated and we have our amenities all up at the front so that they encourage the activities to be at the front of the community and then we have the dog park and the green space on into the center of the community so we can have a little different activity type going on there at the same time. Where we are we believe that the comprehensive plan that this actually does provide diverse housing options. We believe it's a transitional land use from the single family residential to the community commercial that will be developed in Glenday Drive, which is located there just to the south. It, we believe our traffic impact will be far less than commercial would be. We're far less intrusive to the neighborhood, the single family neighborhood. In fact, they're a little higher elevation wise, so they won't even see our roofs from their backyards when they look out their back windows. Their view won't change. Minimal impact, the school district from standpoint of requirements to service students, but we will pay a lot of taxes. It's a $35 million project. And with no exemptions, the comprehensive plan was discussed in your staff report. And I'm not going to belabor it. These are direct quotes. None of that is our language. Some of the emphasis is. But we, I do want to point out that the comprehensive plan says provide a mixed quality housing for a diverse population. It curts development of housing choices amid the needs of current and emerging populations, including singles couples, small and large families, empty nesters and seniors. The only one where not is large families. It says future South State Highway 360 expansion, Sublet Road, the city limits, the expansion of South of State Highway 360 to Southern City limits presents an opportunity to provide a broad mix of housing units as well as commercial and mixed use developments along the west side of State Highway 360. That's exactly where we are. High impact community development, it says competitiveness is economic development, competitiveness is no longer defined simply by the ability to provide sight. In an industrial park, but rather the ability to support innovative companies and talented workers. The city will therefore need to take an active role in attracting and retaining the talent needed to support existing future employers, including the need to create more diverse housing options. And then this is this is close. It's just this is straight out of the comprehensive plan that says evaluating development proposals, the future development areas map provide the general direction and includes a range of potentially appropriate land uses and densities and I'll just skip to the end. It does not impose zoning or development restrictions of any on any property. It's a guide nut code. And we believe that if you look at it as a logic problem, actually in your report, it's backwards from all we believe. It says that we accomplish this, we accomplish this, we accomplish this, there may be one thing we don't accomplish therefore it's logical that this property is considered in compliance to this project is considered in compliance with the conference plan. And with that, I will take any questions and if I don't have the answers, Mr. Jason Flory from next Metro is here, Mr. David Grayer from BGE, the engineered project is here as well. Okay. Mr. Blenday, the property owner is also here. I'll call upon Mr. Councilmember Moeys. Okay. Thank you for a great presentation, Mr. Homan. I have been reading about projects such as this and they're becoming more common because they give those who want to give up their homes a chance to live in something close to a single family home, all in single level. But you have the amenities, you don't have to maintain your pool anymore. You have the dog park, you can lock and leave. So a lot of seniors just don't want to live either in a senior over 55 project or do they want to live in a type of, you know, 22, multi-family project. So I appreciate you're bringing a different product type to Arlington. Now my question goes back to the same thing I had for JPI. Yes. I don't know this company as well as I knew JPI because I worked with them when I worked in Los Colinas. So what I want to hear from you is what is their commitment to this project once it's built? And what is their long-term commitment to owning it? Yes, that's a good question. I appreciate it. And I anticipated it. What I heard the question earlier is they have built, at this point, this will be projects that have actually been constructed. I think we're probably 18 to 19, is that correct? And then others that are in different stages. Out of those, they have been building these for about 14 years. Out of those three projects have been sold. Those were the oldest projects. And part of that was a proof of concept. They're large dollars that go behind the development of these projects. Part of that was a proof of concept. They're large dollars that go behind the development of these projects and to show that it could be built, be managed on a longer time, increase the value, enhance the property and then sell the property. Actually out of those three were sold, they actually then contracted back to continue to be under the Avila name and be managed by the same managed central management company that manages the other Avila properties in those were all in Arizona in the Phoenix Tucson area and so they would be intended to keep it for a long period of time. So that was the next question so they do have their own management company probably third party even from their group but they're prepared to and know how to manage these units and maintain them. Okay. They do. Yes, in fact, in the Phoenix Tucson area, they use one company that manages all of the projects because there's a knowledge of those projects and the way they work. And once involved, they do the same in Colorado that's planned. There's one that's been constructed in Colorado one underway and then in North Texas they're using the same company on everyone of these communities that they build. Thank you, Mr. Holman. Thank you. Councilmember Farore Myers. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Holman. I have just a clarifying question for you since this is obviously a unique product that you're bringing and a unique style of product that you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Holman. I have just a clarifying question for you. Since this is obviously a unique product that you're bringing, and a unique style of product that you're bringing, could you talk a little bit about the cottage style and what materials you're using in the building of the cottages? Yes, this design, because of the size of these buildings, and the fact that there are many of them and all we want it to feel light we want it to have that college that college that cottage feel and it is we don't want it to be too heavy and so in this particular case what we've done is a mix of stone and cementitious fiber board so as to allow able to do that. So it's a very, very very, very, very, very, very very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very It's not a cost issue. It's a design issue. I don't know if you've seen sometimes, I said this in the Planning and Zoning Commission, and one thing is, if you've ever seen the Acme brick commercial with Troy Eggman, where he goes in and everything's made of brick, the table's made of brick, everything's made of brick, it's a very heavy feel. And when it's out of scale, if the building is too small, it can have a block house feel and begin to feel a little more closed in. That's why we've made that choice. Yes, go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. And one follow up to that. Just, I noticed the spacing between the rows, is there a sprinkler system for fire protection in the community? Yes, in fact, the buildings that are eight feet apart, and they're only in certain places. That's not every building, most are 13 to 15 feet apart in spacing. But because of the way they're set up in these sets of four throughout, we have to be about 8 feet apart. And so in order to do that, we have sprinkler systems installed in every building. So as to comply with the fire code and be able to place those in that distance apart, which is that isn't compliance with our residential code. And so they're all sprinkled and they all fit. The code requirements from a fire protection standpoint. Thank you. Council member Gillespie. Thank you, Madam. Just back to the question I asked earlier, since my school district seemed to be very concerned about development of this and you indicated you didn't think any more to about 10% of the families would have children would you kind of elaborate on why? Yeah I appreciate the question and that's one reason that because they they indicated the schools adjacent to that are really full so they are and I will tell you that if this is based on our experience over many projects over several years and that is held consistent in fact the 12% number is what we've been quoting to people and they just we've just completed studies back through gone through again and done done profiles in the last couple of three weeks of our mix, and that number has gone down slightly to about 10%. And that is just, that's our market. We do not, we do not market. Next Metro does not market to families. I mean, certainly we can't discriminate based upon any sort of familial status in line with federal laws or state laws for that matter. But the fact is that is not our experience and what the market is for us is what the market is and our experience has been that that is not the case. And so we feel very strongly that that we are going to experience the same mix that we have in the other projects. And so therefore we won't put that burden upon the school district. And so just to recognize, I assume that includes the markets and taxes? Yeah, in fact our Plano community actually came in at 7%. And so they were much lower than than the than the 10% Okay any other questions from mr. Holman? Miss Walmond Thank you mr. Holman, I'm really interested in the project. Did they all have metal roofs? No, they don't have metal roofs. They have what they have is they're going to have shingled roofs with asphalt shingles as a required. Maybe that's the leasing office. The leasing office is the only one. And that's the one at the front that has a little different, it's a little taller. It doesn't have a second floor, but it's got a look that gives it a landmark type status. The back of the roof is kind of new and I'm seeing it coming on. Right, yeah. They last a long time. That's what I was thinking about them. They make some noise, but they last a long time. The way to go. Okay. What is, if I missed it, what is the price point on say, what are your, what are you going to get for a one bedroom? A one bedroom as far as leasing. Yeah, yeah, per month, the one bedroom will be in the 1300 to 1300 and 50 dollars a month range. And the two bedrooms are going to be in the 1700 plus minus now. Remember, these won't be open for another year and a half assuming we hopefully get approval this evening. Then the three bedrooms will be right at about 1975 to $2,000. How big is the one bedroom? The one bedroom is 637 square feet. Good, thank you. Thank you. And councilmember Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Holman, thank you very much for member Thauman. Thank you, Mr. Holman. Thank you very much for bringing this to us. It's been a great learning experience for me and working with Jason as well. I love that this brings the housing diversity that we need in this area. All of the Southeast Arlington is primarily single family. And having this unique community for release is going to be different. So I like that. I'm glad that you have put in the work to gain the neighborhood support around there, and that it has minimal impact to the district. And then of course, it's important to highlight that it's $35 million in tax rolls with no exemptions. So thank you for your investment or looking forward to this. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. And I neglected to say, I walked the entire neighborhood of the portion that abuts the subject property, talked to the neighbors, I've got letters here support. This was the week that Sunday before the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing. We had no negatives at all. We had a couple of them that came to the Planning and Zoning Commission hearing and came talked to us outside and we're very excited about things. The only question was, frankly, and we got more than once was, will it make, if it's going to be so high-end and we think it is and all, is it going to make my value go up so my taxes go up? And we were able to explain that no, this project was just platted on one lot and it's for least one lot not be used as a comparable for their single family values. So with that, so I'm said where else I'm. So we we had a very good good experience in the neighborhood. Any other questions from Mr. Holman? Councilmember Moeys. Just that you just brought up a topic that I think for some who may be watching this you might want to kind of really clarify for everybody because you made the statement that it's on a single lot. Looking at these, you might think that you would develop them and there are developers who do this so that they could eventually be sold as individual units, either as a one small one bedroom house or as a duplex. So I'm understanding that because yours is all on a single plated lot, it can only be sold as a unit, which means that protects it into the future because then it's got to be maintained by one person instead of maintained by a lot of people so that you can retain the character of it. So I just wanted to clarify that because I think if I'm right, you can't sell these as individual units. Absolutely, you know, that is correct. And that's why we're here on multifamily zoning. We consider ourselves far more, to have things far more common with single family than we do multifamily. We have central management. We are for lease, but we feel like beyond that, the structures themselves the profile the buildings we also have nine different elevations so the way our mix looks we don't have a cookie cutter look as you drive through so we feel like that's very analogous to traditional single family in this community but we also do know there are there are folks that that have developed communities with with some similarities to this and other places and have platted separate lots that we feel like it's done maybe as an exit strategy. You know, everybody can do their own project the way they want to, but to where things don't work then you can sell them off one by one. The problem is, Councilmember Moines has just said, then when that happens you have no control anymore of the quality and things can go any direction you want them to. And then you've just got a bunch of small houses on small lots and that's not what we're about. That's not what we do. What we do is we create a top notch community for our residents and we try to continue to build value for our investors and maintain it so that it produces a profit for the company and pays a lot of taxes to the city and the school district and accounting the other taxing jurisdictions. All right, any other questions for Mr. Holman? All right, thank you Mr. Holman. Thank you Mayor. Appreciate your time very much and your service. Now Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, Mayor, we have one additional speaker in support of this item. Jason Flory. Just if there's any questions for you. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Flory? Okay. All right. Then I will close the, so there are no other speakers. No, sir. There are no additional staff. I'll close the public hearing. And I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Thalman. a second from Councilmember Womman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Mr. Flory, there, we have needed this product. I've seen it in Phoenix there, and we have empty nesters and seniors who are really needing this housing. In fact, it's gonna keep some people in our town that'll stay near their grandkids and be able to have that, but also to be near the workforce and cut down on the maintenance there. And then I love the fact that it reduces density in our single family neighborhoods here there also. And so we appreciate the product that you're bringing. And I think it is cutting edge. And we are starting to see this branch out around the country. And in talking with Phoenix Mayor, he really, it's been a great product for him. And so look forward to the addition. Thank you for your investment here in our community. Thank you. Appreciate it, very excited. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to specific use permit, SUP 18-6. Elnager LLC 3028 East Abram Street. I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Tobal. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.4, zoning case, SUP 18-6, Elnagar. The applicant or owner requests approval of a specific use permit for a used car sales center with its own service center on .88 acres zoned as General Commercial. It's addressed at 3,028 East Abram Street and generally located east of State Highway 360 and south of East Abram Street. There is an existing 7,410 square foot structure on the property that was constructed in 1987. Improvements have been made to the building over time, and the applicant does not intend to make any new improvements to the structure at this time. This SUP is proposing a pre-owned auto sales center. The proposed use will occupy the entire site. The applicant intends to purchase vehicles from local auto auctions and repair them if needed in their own auto service center before reselling them. The applicant intends to advertise vehicles for sale on the internet and will set appointments for potential buyers to view the vehicles on the lot. This does not remove the possibility of non-internet customers viewing the vehicles on site. The applicant has agreed to all the stipulations from Planning and Zoning Commission. That includes that the SUP is granted specifically to this applicant and that the SUP shall be non-assignable and non-transferable. The SUP shall be immediately revoked upon the sale, lease, or assignment of the property to any other person or entity other than the applicant. The Auto Service Center shall only remain as an accessory use to the primary use which is motor vehicle sales used. Any increase in the intensity of the use and or addition to the structure will require a SUP revision. There will be no outside storage of products overnight beyond the screening device. The existing poll signs shall be removed prior to the issuance of any building permit, new or revised CO, or any other permit or form of approval required for the development, redevelopment or occupancy of the site. In addition, the applicant has agreed to upgrade the landscaping on site and install an 8-foot tall masonry wall on site. The applicant and owner of the property, Hesham Elnagar, is in attendance and will present the zoning case this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you can state your name and address for the record, thank you. He's shame on the car. 1102, Auburn Drive. Sorry. Auburn Drive, Arlington, Texas, 76012. Thank you, Mayor and City Council members for having this evening. Properly of course that we're going to stress is 3028 East Avermouth Street. Sorry for the nervousness. You're doing fine. We're trying. Okay. This is the bird's eye view of the property. The subject property is highlighted in yellow. The to the north of the property, we have the GM job yard or the UP rail yard, where they ship the vehicles from general motors. To the east of the property is, I believe it's three auto sales and two mechanic shops. To the south of the property, we have the city of Arlington, the water tower. And right across from that, we have another auto mechanic shop. This is basically, it's going to fit in with the surroundings as it is. We will be doing a lot of the upgrades as mentioned. We've been working with the Planning and Zoning Department for several months to try to get everything to meet the city requirements and some of them we've actually exceeded. This is a site plan which will show the landscaping. We've added, we've got a short setback because of the construction of Abram Street. They've taken part of the setback of the property. But we've added a lot of, we've added 49 shrubs and six trees to try to compensate what little landscaping we have, or greener we have, it's mostly a concrete lot going across the whole property. We're trying to keep everything of course native landscaping to the, so for drought seasons and stuff like that to help eliminate with water use during those times of the year. This is the original building, which is Hamilton Auto Repair, which was built in 1987. It was up in business until 2012, one was purchased by its Abram Street management that purchased it, and they rented it out to the US Oxygen. US Oxygen did modify the building slightly, reducing some of the shop space or the auto service space to make a bigger showroom for them inside. They've upgraded a little bit with the change of parking spaces a little bit to upgrade it a little more than how the Hamilton Auto Service Center did. The building is in the exact same state as it shows right now is the 2013 present picture. With it just has a little more screening on the current fence which will be changed according to the planning zoning department. We've agreed that we'd do an eight foot masonry fence to go all the way around the property with a no-pake rot iron Gates that way to block the view to keep the view pleasant to everybody as they drive up down the pavement street These are These are some of the example renderings showing the masonry and brick fence that would be put up around the property with the landscaping in the front Just examples of We agree to seven cars parked in front for display Which would later be on parked in the back after hours and we have adequate customer parking according to the city codes If you'll have any questions, concerns. Have any questions or comments here from Council? Yes, Ms. Wolfe. I don't know if this is staff for you, but I may have confused myself, but our staff report says this is District 5. Which side of 360? On the east side of 360, which one? I think that's a district more. It's the great Southwest district between 360 and a great Southwest partway. Because we looked at the in the mat today and that does not include that district five but I'm sorry did you try to meet with me or anything honestly no man I've been working with Clifford in the zoning department pending zoning okay as far as I know he said everything was okay okay just need to clarification. So you just want to put in a car lot. Yes, ma'am. Councilmember Moeys. Can you clear up the question now? I'll have to check it. I looked at the map and I thought it was an endistric one myself. That's irrelevant. I will tell you that as a personal position, I don't support adding another used car lot anywhere in Arlington ever. So I will not be supporting that case, this case, whether it's in my district or last. So I appreciate what you're trying to do. I appreciate that you're trying to make it nice. And the rest of the council may not agree with me P&Z didn't because they voted 9-0 to support it so but that that is my position so I really don't have a question for you. I just wanted you to know that But I do appreciate that you're trying to work with the city and that you're willing to try to make it nice. I just think it's the use that we don't need right now. Council Member K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, sir, for your presentation. So kind of helped me a bit or understand currently how you're using the property. Right now I'm just using this office. I have a trucking company also at least trucks out. So I'm just using it strictly as office. Speaking to the mic a little bit please sir. I also have a trucking company so I'm currently just using it as the office to office my paperwork for my trucks. And so with the trucking company go away? No I mean it's basically it's just for my laptop and a file filing cabinet. The truck company, at least my trucks out to third parties and they dispatch the trucks they have their own yard and they do other logistics. This has an investment basically. So if this S.U.P. is granted then you're wanting to get, you want to purchase autos from the auto auction saying that are usually damaged in some way, right? No, not damaged vehicles. They'd be, I've currently I've been doing it for 10 years, but I've been exporting to different parts of the Middle East in Central America, Canada. I've done online sales, but I was previously renting a property. I purchased this property kind of that way. I have everything all in one because I had my shop and grand prairie and I was sub leasing a warehouse in Arlington. I just wanted to combine all my everything in one location. So your office is being grand prairie? What before? Now, trying at the purpose of, I purchased a property that way I could combine everything in one location. Okay, so you'll have the trucking company will still be there. Yes. And then you're wanting to be able to have five or seven cars per sale on the property. Yes, ma'am. But you're also wanting on that same property to do automotive repair. For the vehicles that we purchase if it needs, for instance, tire change, brake job, oil change, just to make it presentable and ready to be put up for sale. Bet you're also gonna have it for sale through the internet? It's gonna be all online sales. It's all internet. Internet sales, yes ma'am. So it basically through appointments, they email us, contact us through the website, schedule an appointment, they come view the vehicle, if everything goes well, sign the documentation and they're on their way. So you'll have a trucking company operation at that location, you'll have some minor auto service repair or oil change or whatever at that location and you'll have sales at that location. Yes, ma'am. Well, I'm kind of in Miss Moises camp. That's just, you know, we struggle a lot with regard to some of those uses. And over the years, we seem to have accumulated a lot of them. And I'm not sure that what you're proposing is value added for the community. So I'm not going to be able to support it, but thank you. The problem, thank you. Any other questions from Council? Okay, thank you for your presentation. Yes, sir. And Mr. Baskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, we have no additional speakers on this item. We do have two non-speakers in support of this item. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Sally Elnagar and Sarah Mosin. And that concludes the non-speakers in support. Okay. Then I'll close the public hearing. Ask for any discussion or motion. We have a Council member K-PART. Mayor, I think somebody else has already made a motion. So I don't know who or what that motion is. Okay. I'll move, I'll create a motion to deny. Okay, we have a motion to deny. Do we have a second? We have a motion to deny from Council Member K. Partt and a second from Council Member Moe's and I'll turn to the City Attorney because whenever we have a motion to deny we need to clarify or audience here what's motion to deny. We need to clarify it or our audience here once about to happen. In this scenario, let me remind the council and our audience members that if this motion does not pass, then we will have taken no action and will need to consider voting again, because there will be no action and there needs to be some action in the zoning case. But you are actually a vote yes is a vote against the zoning matter. Is the vote to deny? Okay, so we have a motion to deny from Councilmember K Part, a second from Councilmember Moe's, police catcher votes. The motion passes, so the SUP is denied, but I would encourage you to look for other uses there, and we appreciate the presentation and working just that particular use we are overrun here. But we really do appreciate what you did and hopefully we can continue to work with you to find a use that will work there with it and appreciate you coming up. Appreciate it very much. Okay, next we'll move to the Univide Development Code Amendment Hotel Design Standards and I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topel again. Good evening, Mayor and Council of Jinsy Thopel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Before we get to the proposed standards, I would like to share with the audience on how we got here. On June 12th of last year, Ronnie Price, the President and CEO of our CBB, and our hotel consultant Hans Detlesen presented the findings of their study on existing hotel inventory within the entertainment district overlay. The presentation then ended with recommendations or suggestions that council decided to further discuss in a committee form. The Municipal Policy Committee met several times within the last few months. The committee also asked staff to work with our hoteliers or key stakeholders. Staff had four meetings with them to obtain their input and several phone discussions. So we do have consensus from them on these standards. The Municipal Policy Committee recommendations were then presented at council work session on March 19th and Council directed staff to proceed with those changes. The UDC amendment related to the hotel standards were then discussed at Planning and Zoning Commission work session and then on April 17th, Planning and Zoning Commission recommended unanimous approval on it. So the findings from the study on existing hotel inventory conducted last year indicated that the average age of existing hotel building inventory is 24 years citywide, with the average being 25 years specifically in the entertainment district overlay. Also, the revenue per available room rev-par in the last two years has been between $55 to $80 citywide, and in the entertainment district has been between $70 to $105. Additionally, 30% of the existing hotel inventory citywide were of economy scale and built at least 30 years ago. And 18% in the entertainment district overlaid were economy scale with 40% of those hotels built 30 years ago. So the three goals identified through the study were as follows. Increase average building quality, increase average daily rates, and encourage redevelopment in key areas. So in order to increase the ADR or the average daily rate, the proposal is to remove the existing hotel classifications, which is full service, limited service, boutique, and then replace with Smith Travel Research, STR Inc. Chain Scale Classifications. And these ratings are published every year, every quarter. So what you would see based on those chain scale ratings you would have luxury hotels, upper up scale, up scale hotels, upper mid-scale, mid-scale, and economy based on the ratings. Then there would be two other hotel classifications, the independent hotel which do not have any flagship and do not have any ratings. So that will be one other type of hotel classification. And we also would have a convention hotel. This type of hotel is associated with a convention type facility that will be associated with the city at some level. So along with that chain scale, what would be required during the different processes that we would be looking at? You would require assigned, franchise agreement with the approved hotel brand prior to building permit issuance. Most of the hotels that will go through the process will have a specific use permit or a plan attached with it. At the zoning entitlement process, we generally just receive a letter of intent from the approved brand, but at the time prior to a building permit issuance, you can get the sign franchise agreement. Also, the next step would be at the CO stage that is certificate of occupancy. That must be associated with that same hotel brand. So with all this, we remove the requirements related to number of rooms, room size, meeting space, all the requirements, interior requirements that were previously placed, that would go away. In order to increase the average building quality, the proposal is to require construction of all new hotels to be of concrete, structural steel and light gauge metal frame construction. Additionally an annual comprehensive city inspection is being proposed which includes fire building safety which is already currently being performed as well as the new part which which is a sanitation inspection. And that part of it is not captured in the UDC amendment. It will come before you the next meeting as a different chapter called as hotel premise regulations. Additionally, in order to encourage redevelopment in key areas, the legally non-conforming as well as conforming hotels would now have a path for demo and rebuild option. If the new hotel that they are proposing is of the same chain scale or a higher chain scale. So let me explain that a little bit more. Let me explain that a little bit more. So today, current standards, there is no path for older hotels to be readable, like a demolished end rebuilt, because they are considered as legally non-conforming, and when they come back with a new product, it has to be of the same standards that are current standards. So for example, in the entertainment district where we say limited service hotels are prohibited, if a limited service hotel that is legally nonconforming today is taken out, it cannot be replaced back with a limited service hotel. This demo and rebuild option gives some way for redevelopment of those key areas. So in this, there are two tables that you see. The bottom table is what we have existing, which is full service, limited service, residents and boutique hotels. Full service is today allowed city-wide as well as in the entertainment district permitted by right in certain zoning districts. Limited service hotels are prohibited in the entertainment district overlay and are approved only through a SUP approval elsewhere. Residents hotel again prohibited in the entertainment district overlay and approved through SUP elsewhere. Buti Khotel is only approved through SUP in the downtown business zoning district and in the entertainment district overlay as well. So all that table just goes away and it's been replaced by something like this. The proposed, so again, this has been combined the new construction and demo and rebuild have all been combined into one table here. So let's look at the new construction piece only at this time. So a luxury hotel, which is per the chain scale rating, the luxury hotel will be permitted by right, citywide, including entertainment district. The upper-up scale would be permitted by ride citywide, including entertainment district. The upper-up scale would be permitted by ride citywide, except that in the entertainment district overlay, it would require SUP approval. Upscale and anything lower is prohibited in the entertainment district overlay. But elsewhere outside of the entertainment district overlay. But elsewhere, outside of the entertainment district overlay, upscale is allowed through a specific use permit approval. Upper midscale, midscale, and economy prohibited everywhere. However, there is a chance to have those only if it is a demo and rebuild option. So demo and rebuild option in the entertainment district specifically, luxury is anyways allowed. Upper upscale could, so if a upscale hotel wants to be demolished and redeveloped, it can be an upscale hotel or an upper upscale. Anything higher, same chain scale or higher. And that would require a SUP in the entertainment district overlay for upscales. Everywhere anything less than upscale, even for a demo and rebuild option, is not available in the entertainment district. So in the entertainment district overlay, if you're doing a demo and rebuild, you can have a hotel that is upscale and higher. Elsewhere in the city, you can do the other chain scales as well, upper midscale, midscale and economy if it wasn't the same chain scale or a step or two higher. Other highlights of the CUDC amendment, the changes that we are doing, we are taking out all the interior design requirements such as a minimum number of rooms, room size meeting space, full service restaurant requirement, dining space, recreational facilities, also room, room room guest service requirements such as room service, bell service, consier, business center, etc. The general design standards that remain, you still have all the side design standards, parking requirements, landscaping, all that still remains. Entry feature like on the building part of it, the building articulations, all that is captured in the non-residential design standards. Those all remain, including the overlay standards. So entertainment district overlay may have some few special standards for buildings. All those will still remain. So entertainment district overlay may have some few special standards for buildings. All those will still remain. In the building design, there's an addition of framing construction that's added. In the entertainment district overlay, all the hotels, the new hotels that would come would at least require four timeless key elements and those will be minimum ceiling height for lobby which is 16 feet minimum lobby space inside the hotel being at least 4,000 square feet or 10 square feet per guest room whichever is greater and that area should include exclude the bar and the restaurant that separate items that I have listed again, and the item three and item four. And also, it should exclude the corridors accessing the elevators. A restaurant will be a requirement with a full service kitchen that is open to the public, as well as an adjacent or separate full bar that is open to the public. And that's only for the entertainment district overlay. So the chain scale ratings were really thought off for the newer hotels, new hotels or future hotels that's coming. So we did add a section for status of what happens to the existing hotels and the projects in progress. So an existing hotel that is conforming, already conforming based on if it was a full service or a limited service or boutique hotels. It's a conforming hotel prior to June 1st, 2019. And what this date is, the effective date of the proposed ordinance. That shall continue to be a conforming use, even though it may not fall within the required chain scale rating proposed for that area. Similarly, a hotel project in progress that was approved through a SUP or a PD with the development plan on or after January 1, 2014. And why that date is because a plan development development plan, the plan is only valid for five years and if it doesn't get built, it expires. So anything that was approved on or after January 1, 2014, or that is holding a valid building permit as of June 1, 2019, they shall be all considered a conforming use for purposes of certificate of occupancy or zoning verification. for purposes of certificate of occupancy or zoning verification. Legally conforming, as well as nonconforming hotels, may be demolished and rebuilt only in accordance with the chain scale rating. So the chain scale rating will be utilized for demo and rebuilt option. So as again, as I said, the proposed ordinance is proposed to be effective on June 1, 2019. At your table, there is a revised version of the ordinance with no major substantial changes other than some minor formatting, adding or modifying section headers, clarification of language related to conforming hotels, and adding the word exclusively in the construction requirements that was approved by Planning and Zoning Commission. That word was missing, so we've put it back as was approved by Planning and Zoning Commission. So that's the ordinance that you will be looking at for approval. Any questions at this time? I'll be glad to answer. Council member Moe's. I have one. Yes. We've been waiting for a while for the jury plaza to start construction. That's correct. I still hear from them, they're starting this summer. Is that what you're hearing? Are they working with you all? Yes, they are working with us. They are almost, as a site plan has been approved and they are working on the building permit application set and they will be applying electronically using our electronic plan review. Good for you. So this does not change anything that we've agreed on with them or it does. It doesn't change. That's why those clarifications were needed for existing hotels as well as projects that have been approved. All right, because I know a lot of us in here worked on that, some on planning and zoning and that we have a lot of district one here and people are anticipating the so-toe coming. That's what everybody did know that we were getting what we were promised. That is correct. All right, thank you. Any other questions for Ms. Topel? Okay, all right. Councilmember for Audemars. Really don't have a question for Ms. Topel. I just want to thank Ms. Topel. I also want to thank the CVB as well as the hoteliers and all the stakeholders who took the time to come to our meetings to call developers who called in and helped us think through existing and current as well. So I just want to say thank you. This has truly been a process of where every voice was heard on all sides. I just want to thank the community involved in the hotelier industry as well as those in the development side who really did take the time to really pay attention and I really think we've got a product here we can be proud of. So thank you Mayor. Thank you. Council member Shepard. Thank you Mayor. I was going to extend the same thank yous as Dr. Forr Myers did but also to thank the committee. The council committee that worked on this, I think we started this process about five years ago and like a lot of other things, it seems like it takes a long time to get here. But I do think the product that we finally ended up with is a good product. I think it took some of that time to figure out really what we wanted to be in the hotel industry. And I do appreciate all those that Dr. Farrah Mars mentioned in the process. And, Jim, so you thank you and your team because I know you've been working on it for a long time. It's well, so thank you. Okay, any other questions or missed open? Thank you, Mr. Topel. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have five speakers in support of this item and two speakers in opposition. The first speaker in support is around prices. After Mr. Price has sam silo-mon. after Mr. Price's exam. So, let me go on. Good evening, Mayor and Councilor Ron Price. I need to get my address for which you know for review. We're right. Arlington, Texas. Mayor Councilor here in support of the recommendation of the hotel standards that were presented by Gen.C. I agree the Council Committee and the city staff have done an incredible job taking another feedback from the many stakeholders that were part of this and to come up with what I believe is a great plan. City Council Committee made up of the team that was mentioned earlier took many months to come up with this recommendation so it was not something that was mentioned earlier took many months to come up with this recommendation. So it was not something that was rushed through it all. The recommendation presented to you is a combination of all those many meetings. And as mentioned by Gensie earlier, I was happy to hear that the Planning and Zoning Committee unanimously approve the recommendations as well. So thank you for your consideration of the Hotel Design Standards recommendations and I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys may have. This is process, President, the Convention and Visitors Bureau. Can you share with us in your own words what this is going to mean to us here and with four social tools and development here in our community? Absolutely, you know, this has been well thought out and it really gets back to the long range vision of where we want to go from a destination, especially as we look at the hotel development that will take place in Arlington. As you all know, it's needed. That's been discussed for many, many years. The Council Committee that has worked on this for a long time has really laid out that vision that sees us in a light of better quality hotels in the future. Creating a standard that hopefully will be mentioned by a lot of cities and destinations around the country. The goal here is truly to raise the level and the profile of the offerings we have within the city of Arlington. As you all know, we welcome 14.5 million visitors today and the expectation is that hopefully we double that number the next decade. In order to do that, we need to build a lot of hotels, a lot of hotel rooms, and that's what hotels need to be a quality. And last for a long time. So we look forward to what this means for us and seeing that vision come to line with these standards. Councilmember, glass speak. Thank you, Mayor. The surprise that change scale rating? How accepted is that around the country and other cities? Yeah, that's a great question. So the change scales which are presented by a star and star is a company that focuses on the quality of hotels around the country around the world is a benchmark type of report that allows for every city and every destination to play on a level playing field as to how they qualify the caliber of hotel product. The star chain skills, if you will, really allow for us to look at everything like I said in one particular view, one lens. Without giving our own definition of what a certain hotel product could be. Prior to this, we had full service hotels, limited service hotels. That could be defined in many different ways. And we've seen that through the years. So this allows us to put something in front of us that is no question the right way to qualify this. All right any other questions from Mr. Price? Seeing none, thank you Mr. Price. Okay next, big your Mr. Boskin. Sam Suleiman. After Mr. Suleiman is Stacy Snyder. Hello. Thank you. Stacy Snyder. Hello. Thank you, Senator. I have taken time. Sam Solman with Econox Hospitality. I want to thank you guys for time. I think this has been a real great process. We've worked over the last seven months with the hotel standards group in a real unified way to really come up with a way that really looks at growing the market, increasing the quality of the hotels and doing it in a way that really allows for the best type of growth and development in the city and doesn't allow for a lot of ways, because I think 95% of hotel developers and operators want to do the best for the local market. But unfortunately, like everything, there's a smaller group that try to kind of wiggle in some different ways. And I think this way lets out a very even playing field for that in a way that sets the standards very equally and will help the market grow. Because we have a world class city and very much have a lot of groups that are in the city that have been here long term that really want to raise the quality of the levels of the city and the venues. Because we have some of the best venues in the world. But yet, some of the hotels are not there. And this will really help us get there to get the quality of hotels and get the rates up throughout the city. Instead of allowing it the opposite of having hotels that are lower quality and don't allow for higher quality and getting the rates up. And then that really feeds off each other each way. rates up and then that really feeds off each other each way. One of the key things that the standard has done is it's really been thought through over the last seven months as a whole holistic view. So all the components work together. Some of the standards on the concrete and steel, the chain scale ratings, entertainment district, non entertainment district, the rebuild standards, they all work together to kind of holistically look at the whole city. And we all work together to kind of really create that that works holistically for the city on that. And just to further what Rodden was saying on the STR comes from our Glosspey. That STR really at our industry globally is kind of the standard that we all and any brand that you are get a daily report from SDR and every hotel gives their confidential data into the system. And so it's the one kind of tried and true way that everybody set level sets their bar. So by using the chain scale routes, it allows that somebody that says there, let's say a luxury hotel or a boaty hotel, but really shows you to guarantee that. Instead of somebody saying there are examples that you guys all know of even in the city now, some recent develops that wanted to be said they were a boaty hotel, but in truly they weren't really a boaty hotel. So this really levels that set. Mr. Solomon, there's owner of Crown Plaza. I want to thank you for your investment and could you share with our audience what you have done there with your hotel and the really modeling that you've been doing there? You know, we're investing multi-million dollars there because we've been a long time part of the community and feel very strongly about our LinkedIn on that hotel since 2003. And I think this type of standard really allows for two things. One of new hotels that grow and push the market up and the quality. But also this standard allows for the current existing hotels to invest in their hotels. Because when you have lower quality hotels coming to the market and what they do is they then they don't allow for investment of the current hotels. And so we've been taking a huge investment to the hotel to totally reimagine the hotel with the whole redo of the free way exit right there, because the new exit will now be right at Avenue H and be the gateway towards Lamar. And so we've done a major investment that we're in the last few months of that, that I don't think anybody will recognize anymore with the new Partica Sheer and the whole redo of the building, and really where the trends are, where upscale hotels are going, really with meeting space and small meeting groups and function space that really has a lot of attraction for people to have small and work in public spaces all over the hotel. Well, thank you so much for that investment. It is a game changer there and appreciate that. And then thank you for your investment in time. You own many hotels and thank you for your investment and your experience and knowledge in helping us get this right. And it's been a great process working with the staff and with the agency and council member Myers and the whole group because we really work together and we all had opinions on it. And everybody didn't, we didn't agree 100% of the time but we found a solution that really worked, I think for everybody and we're really help Arlington. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, next speaker. Stacey Snyder. After Ms. Snyder is Ed Nolan. after Ms. Snyder is Ed Nolan. Hi, good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you. My name is Stacy Snyder, and I'm the General Manager for the Crown Plaza. For the past six or seven months, I've also worked with a hotel design group in coming up with the standards. And really believe that if we get these standards passed, we will be able to bring in the right product with the right average rate. And it's exactly what Arlington needs, so definitely we're in sort of it. And Miss Nutter, you worked six or seven months on this project, but you've been manager of that hotel a little longer than half of it. Yes, about six and a half years. Yes. Thank you for your investment of time. Thank you. Thank you. Ed Nolan. After Mr. Nolan is Fernando Andrade? Good evening. My name is Ed Nolan. I'm a resident of Newport Beach, California, but I represent the ownership group of the Sheraton, here in Arlington. I'd like to thank the mayor, the city attorney, city manager, members of the city council, Jinssey, Ron Price, and the whole team that we worked with over the last seven months in a collaborative way to really, I think, accomplish a meaningful set of criteria that I think will help achieve the objectives that were laid out initially at the start of this initiative. Quality, age, and ADR as well as redeveloped certain areas of the city. We think we came or concluded with great ideas, great standards that I think will ultimately achieve those objectives, like I mentioned, but I think it's important to know that they do so in an interactive way, the construction, the design standards, they all are necessary to maintain a certain level of quality that I think will in turn drive the ADR as Sam and Ron had mentioned. I'll also point out that as an institutional investor, I will share with you my thoughts that the standards that have been laid out are those that institutional investors look for. So I think, or I would expect that by setting those standards, you'll see more investment or institutional investment in the hotel sector here in Almington. Thank you very much, Mr. Nolan. Any questions? Thank you very much. Yeah. Fernando and Roddy. Good evening, Mayor Councilmember. Thanks for the opportunities for Nandran for 775 Chapel Hill Road Dallas. I'm here to support the new standards. I work with the hotels group and to be very selfish, I'm going to say I'm an architect in practice in 35 years in the Metroplex and to be very selfish. I think your standard is going gonna make my life easier. The plaintiff. It's a great way to really manage the product and a good way to bring the product up. So full support in there, thank you. Thank you. That concludes the speakers and support of this item. The first speaker in opposition is Robert Snyder. After Mr. Snyder is Carla Vogel-Alond. Good evening, Council. Robert Snyder, 5312, El Campo Avenue for work. And first off, I want to thank youall for everything that you do for the city. Your dedication to making Arlington better is very admirable and very much appreciated. We wouldn't be here where we are today without y'all. I want to make it clear that I am not against the city having control over the hotels and being able to have a say in what comes into our city. I am against the proposed amendment as it is worded currently. And the reason for that is because I believe that it is too restrictive and it doesn't take into account other hotels that have different types of offerings that the city currently doesn't have. Some examples of that might be like an even hotel by IHG which caters to health and wellness minded travelers. You also have trip by Wyndham, Moxie by Marriott, each cater to a different audience. None of those audience are currently satisfied here in Arlington. Sorry, this is my first time up here, so I am a little bit nervous, but none of these hotels fall under the luxury upper upscale or upscale classifications. Actually, let me say that again, even does fall under the upscale classification, but that would obviously be prohibited in the EDO. If you alienate these types of hotels, hotels, and you also alienate their customer buddies, and I think it's important Arlington has always been extremely welcoming and trying to get people to stay here in the city. We have, I can't remember what the number of visitors that we have, that Mr. Price reference, but you can't classify all of those customers, all those visitors into three different segments. And so, while I'm not opposed to making changes to the hotel design standards, I do believe that the proposed changes are a little bit too restrictive. I think that it would be more beneficial for the city to look at controlling the types of hotels that come here through SUPs or other sorts of zoning restrictions to allow these hotels at least to be brought to your attention and for you to take into consideration. I appreciate your time and yeah thank you. Thank you, Mr. Schneider. Carla Vogel, Alond. Good evening. My name is Carla Vogel-Allen and my address is 3,000 South Healin in Fort Worth, Texas. And we own some property. I'm here for WaveHot LLP that owns property in Arlington. And I also have a spouse who's 15 years ago decided to open a small business in Arlington, both of which are in the entertainment district. And what we are seeing is with our property that we have on the market, that the entertainment district overlay is not that we don't want the restrictions that you all have been put in place, but you're restricting the use of our property and how we can sell it. And so before, I think the biggest issues, the luxury hotels, they require a lot of land. And so the other uses for what our property could be used for, could not be used for large hotel like that. And so I think you have to think of the investors and the people who have spent 10, 15 years in Arlington, paying taxes and what you're doing to how to restrict their property. And so my only concern is perhaps when you look at the overlay, the EDO, that you maybe look at other alternatives as to letting other hotels in as well. Or making sure when you do this in the future for the EDO, over the 10 years it has just changed every time we turn around. It seems like our properties change in its use. That maybe you remember that the smaller investor, maybe you're taken away their use of their property as well. So that's, but I thank you for your time and I wish you good luck consideration. Thank you and for your life, could you share with us where your property is? 2000, brokalo, it's land by the quick trip right on the edge of the development district. Okay. So thank you. Yes, Ms. Shepherd. Ma'am. Ma'am, ma'am, if you come back. So I'm a little confused and I want to make sure I understand your point. You have vacant property now. Is that correct? We've had it for 10 years, yes. And so, did you believe that it's developable as some type of hotel property? Yes, in fact, we do have. Even though it's been vacant for 10 years. We've had folks who are interested in developing this hotel property, but it's not going to be a big luxury hotel. It's not big enough. But you realize though that the 10 years preceding today virtually Any type of hotel that fell within the boutique standard and all of that has been permitted Right so I'm confused. Yeah, I mean just it's just But once you put this in place, it's gonna knock out that use Okay, all right, I mean honestly just it's just but once you put this in place, it's going to knock out that use. Okay. All right. I mean, honestly, it's just that's really my biggest concern. You can't put a luxury hotel there. Nope. No. That's sir. You could have a smaller hotel. Ten years prior to now. That's where I'm confused. You've had ten years to market this That's where I'm confused. You've had 10 years to market this as a hotel property, and it hasn't been developed as a hotel property. So I'm kind of missing. I get that you can't put a luxury hotel there tomorrow. It's fantastic. We've had interest from other hotels, but they're not going to fit the luxury that standard that y'all are putting on the EDL. That's by concern. If you had, if you allowed, I understand what you're trying to do. I totally appreciate trying to break up the hotel, the quality and what have you. But that particular, that piece of property is head interest from other hotels, but they're not going to hit luxury because that's such a high standard Okay, all right. I mean, that's my bigger concern. I understand. Thank you. Thank you Buskin may or that concludes our speakers in opposition to this item. Okay Then no other speakers That's it then we'll close the public hearing and Any just council members shepherd? Yeah I will thank those that came down here this evening to speak and what I'll say is the committee's been working on this for seven months. When I said we've been working on it for five years, I wasn't exaggerating. We really have been trying to figure out what the best fit is for Arlington. Many years ago, before I was on council, we struggled with residential hotels. Stay a day, stay a week, stay a month, kind of hotels. We were just literally overrun with them in a matter of a couple of years. Dozens popped up all around the city, which caused us to react and adopt what we're now trying to amend perhaps. We didn't know what to do. We just knew we had enough of those, whatever those are. And we've got plenty of product in the what has been called limited service range. In fact, what we've been told by the hoteliers is we have so much of that product that it drives the price down for the product that should be getting higher rents. I don't know. I don't own a hotel. I've got to rely on our CBB and our hoteliers to explain this to me. What we want to do, regardless of what this piece of paper says, is we want room rates to be higher. When you look at a comparable product here at Atlanta, Atlanta is getting $100 more ador than we are. And that's ridiculous. We've got just as much to offer as Atlanta does, no offense, or aum. So I don't know how we get there. We certainly missed the mark in my opinion 10 years ago or whenever it was. We adopted the current standards. We meant well. We tried. And I'm glad to see that we've got a proposed amendment here that will change with the times. I think what happened with this last time is Mr. as Roddy said we were trying to define what we meant by the kind of hotel we were trying to attract but now that we've got chain scales I think as those chain scales morph over the years as you know, upper up scale becomes something different 10 years from now, I think the post amendment will comply with that. So in any event, I am supporting the amendment tonight. I do appreciate all the work that went into it. I'm sorry that there are those that don't support it that are in the industry. I understand where you're coming from, but I hope that this will be a great addition for us. So thank for R. Myers in a second from Councilmember Wolfe, police catcher votes. Motion passes and I think this is very significant to see some of our existing hoteliers here come forward and spend their time and working through this and then to there we want to work with our landowners that are here and and then yet a lot of pieces are not for hotels but we would do want to find other uses for it but one of the bigger things here is that the opportunity here for our community to be able to advance the entertainment district isn't for the entertainment district. It's for our citizens because basically the investments we make in the entertainment district help us to pay for our services such as police and fire and repairing our roads. And that's why we invest like we do here in the entertainment district because it has made us money and it has for decades and here we have an opportunity here for us to be able to capture more money and help to offset inflation and rising construction cost to repair our roads and then also the rising cost of public safety so it is awesome what is happening right now here in our community. And we want to continue to try to do this in a great form. And we appreciate all of the expertise and the input that was put in on this. And I do want to, we don't often mention our council's committees and not enough, because this one was a lot of hard work that was put in. And then I really appreciate the effort of Ronnie Price and our Convention of Visitor Bureau there who continue to win awards there. And we're going to be hearing more about that. In fact, there and appreciate you leading the effort here in bringing in a great entertainment district that is going to help Arlington to be a better place to give us the funds to strengthen our neighborhoods and to be able to move on. So thank you very much, Mr. Price, and thank you to everyone here who participated in this process. So with that now we'll move to Ordinance's first and final reading. And we have the issuance and sale of the City of Arlington, Texas, permanent improvement and refunding bonds, Series 2019, combination tax and revenue certificates of obligation, Series 2019, Water and Waste Water System Revenue Bonds, Series 2019-A, water and wastewater system revenue bonds, series 2019-A, water and wastewater system revenue refunding bonds, series 2019-B, emincible drainage utility system revenue bonds, series 2019, and I'll call upon Mr. Ethan Claus, Treasurer of the Finance Department. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Ethan Claus, Strasurer of the Finance Department. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Ethan, close city treasure. We have before you tonight, five different parameters ordinances for the sailing of debt for the CIP that you passed back in March 19th. We also have within that two different refundings for savings to the city. Here with us tonight from, is our financial advisor, Dave Gordon from Australia and a host and our bond council, Rob Collins from Braywell. Since that time, you also passed on March 19th notice of intent for the, for the CEO's issuance. Those have been published in the newspaper twice. We met with the rating agencies on April 11th. They have all confirmed our current ratings of AAA, AAA, and AA1 across all three types of series. The refunding savings on the general obligation side will be approximately 450,000 for savings of little over 4%. On the water side, it will be almost 750,000 for about 8% savings. If you have any questions about this, I'm more than happy to address them. Otherwise, I have gotten the okay from our bond council that these cannot be taken in one vote. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Clos? Okay. Seeing none, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this side? No, sir. There are no speakers on this side. Okay, then I'll speakers on this item. Okay then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Schepard a second from Council Member Wom and police gesture votes. Motion passes. Okay. We'll now move to the short-term rental chapter and I'll call upon Ms. Topel. Thank you, Mayor. Ginzee Thopel, Planning and Development Services Director. Before we get to the highlights of the proposed chapter, I wanted to show the audience that there are quite a few pieces of the STR, the short-term rentals, and how it all ties together. So you have two different processes happening at simultaneously. You have a short-term rental chapter, and then you have a UDC amendment related to short-term rentals. The UDC amendment related to short-term rentals is the land use portion or the land use piece of it which got the first reading last meeting and today is the final reading on that that's that just happened already got approved and now the second piece which is this item that's a short-term rental chapter. It had the first reading on October 16th, and it will consist of the regulations related to short-term rental, what's the permitting procedures, and the compliance mechanism. And that's the final reading today. And then there will be a fee resolution scheduled later. So the next meeting is when the fee resolution will be placed on the agenda. So the adoption of the STR chapter as well as the UDC amendment both, as well as the fee resolution all will be effective on August 1st. And why the August 1st effective date is because we want to get the permit application. Everything set up for people to start the permitting process. The plan is to have the permitting process set up as an online application. So it's easy for people to apply. And so that will be ready by August 1st. After the permitting starts, which is August 1st, there will be about two months period that is given for existing SDRs or anybody who's trying to get a permit. And if they are in the eligible locations and have all the application requirements fulfilled and the inspection is passed, then they will get the permit. But if they are denied, they need to discontinue their business on October 1st. That's for all the unpermitted STRs. Council wish to give a grace period to the one to the existing STRs that have been paying hot taxes and they will get a grace period up to so that if they are not permitted by that time, that they will need to be discontinued by January 30th and the next year. We also propose that after a year, staff can report back to council about how the process has been implemented and other things that council would like us to talk about. Before the effective date, there's a lot of work that will be happening in the background. As I said, the permitting process, the permit folder setup, all that is being done. At the same time, we will be sending out letters to hot taxpayers, letting them know about what's coming, what's the effective date, and what are the things that they should be taking doing right now to get to the permit process. Also, we will, with the folder setup, we will have training workshops for the users to how to apply for that permit, as well as the heart registrations. The fee part, again, it is only coming in the next meeting, so we will talk more about it at that time. At this time, we are proposing a $500 fee per application per site address. So the highlights of the chapter that's before you, it really again, establishes permitting procedures and conditions for the operation of STRs. It enables staff to implement whatever we just adopted in the UDC related to STR. So what department application requirements are, you would be providing owner information, operator information, that is your designated local responsible party, and HOA information if any. You would, there are five documents that will be submitted, that is a city registration account number for the hotel occupancy tax remitants. So that has to be done first prior to submitting a permit application. Plot plan identifying parking spaces that will be utilized for STRs. Dimension floor plan identifying the bedrooms emergency evacuation routes, also a proof of insurance of a minimum of $1 million and a proposed host rules that should cover our minimum regulations and then can go above and beyond that. The STR permit is one permit per side, poor address. It is non-transferable. The STR permit is one permit per side per address. It is non-transferable, it's annually renewed. It has to be displayed inside near the entrance. The notice of the rules have to be provided to the STR guests. And the regulations are also captured in this chapter. A maximum occupancy is two per bedroom, plus two, limited to 12. And then parking is limited to the number of available off-street spaces within that site. Physical conversion of from premises, such as garage conversions or any other room conversions to make it as bedrooms are prohibited. Noise restrictions, no amplified sound between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m., similar lean outside congregation restriction between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m., trash placement on curb as placement on curb as everywhere else, 7pm before the schedule pick up day and the premise cannot be used as a banquet hall, which is a commercial business. We are also addressing a concern that our real estate professionals brought up, that it happens that whenever a sale happens of a house and the seller of the home wants to rent out their house, post-closing for just a few days until the other home is ready, does that fall into a short-term rental scenario? terminal scenario. And so Section 3.01B helps in that case to show that it is not violating the short-term rental chapter. The chapter also sets ground rules for revocation of permit. So after two citations in a 12-month period, the permit can be revoked. If you have false-afired information in the application, the permit can be revoked. If you fail to comply with conditions of permit and remain in non-compliance for 10 days after being notified about it, the permit can be revoked. And then the chart just kind of shows you what the process would be after a revocation notices sent to the permit holder. That there is due process that they can follow. So with that again, the effective date will be August 1st. At your table is the revised version of the ordinance that includes that one small change related to trash pickup time so that we can maintain consistency with the other ordinances that we have and that was mentioned in the afternoon session as well. So that's the ordinance that you will be voting on. Any questions at this time for me? Be happy to answer. Any questions? Okay, and of course we had this presentation this afternoon and of course we had council members then asking questions in the afternoon work session and certainly welcome to go back and review that going to our website. You can find that information there on here. Okay, seeing no questions for Ms. Topel, then I will turn to the city secretary. Mr. Buskin, here, as, well, let me just remind the audience, we have a three minute time limit here that we go through. We have heard a lot of testimony here on this. We also would ask that you bring new testimony that we haven't heard. And if someone else makes your point, then if you could either make a different point or decline to speak, as we go through it, one or the other. So with that, we'll now ask for the speakers, Mr. Baskin. We have eight speakers in support of this item. And we also have 47 non-speakers in support. We have six speakers in opposition and 19 non-speakers in opposition. The first speaker in support is Charlie Parker. And after Mr. Parker is Joe Bruner. Charlie Parker, five, zero one crown colony, Arlington, Texas. Thank you mayor and council for entertaining this particular ordinance. I want to thank you for your leadership. And I want to try to cover some things that you might not have gotten before. First of all, it's been a pleasure working with Jensie and Richard over the last several years to try to come up with this particular solution. But for the most part, I want you to know how important it is to have an ordinance in place. It was obvious to me while I was down in Austin that all the cities that had their ordinances in place like their ordinances because they were designed by the cities. And for the last six years, the legislature has been money whipped by Airbnb or VRBO to try to get a law through to go ahead and throw a blanket over the state of Texas. And what you have done is you have demonstrated your leadership and told essentially the Urban Affairs Committee and Austin that we are a home rural city, and thank you very much for that effort. And I think that they took that in to notice, and that particular bill will not be getting out of committee. And I think it's important to know that the chairman of that committee, was the one that introduced the bill. So her own bill did not get out of committee, which is quite a feat that a lot of cities went down there and confronted her with. And I thought it was so interesting that so many different cities have dealt with the STR aspect by zoning. And Galveston, for instance, has a R0 zoning, which means that you can't have STRs in this particular area, none whatsoever. So their zoning is what they have utilized. Fort Worth has utilized zoning. And now we have utilized zoning. And I think it's important to realize that this is a zoning use I live in a house. That house is my home. I don't pay hot tax on that home but the moment that I do pay hot tax on that home becomes a business and then it's then it's regulated by zoning. So I want to thank you for taking that particular tacked on it. I want to thank you for taking that particular tack on it. I want to thank you for showing the leadership that you have and that is solved this problem that has been a thorn in the side of the citizens and in our neighborhoods for many many years. So thank you very much. Any questions? Thank you. Joe Berner. Okay, he's passing. Go ahead. David Shorty. I'll pass. Okay. Ken Cox. Jessica Black. I will pass. Kerry Garcia. I will pass. D Hirsch. Next is Chuck Hirsch. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you very much. My name is Diane Hirsch. I live at 2218 Franklin Drive here in Arlington. I don't want to reiterate all the points that we've had. I think we've done a good job of explaining we have a very unique circumstance that our particular home. We have a short terminal immediately across the street from us, and we're on the corner of a cul-de-sac, and we have immediately behind us, we are sandwiched. So we've really experienced some very unique issues at our home. In addition to what Charlie said, taking leadership with regard to zoning, what I really like to emphasize is I appreciate change in the uniform development code. Many of us depend on the UDC for guidance in terms of how we make our decisions on zoning and when we're going to choose to operate a business in a location or when we're going to choose to purchase a residence in a location and by following that UDC it helps out residents like ourselves to figure out okay, hey, where do we want to go business owners? Where do we want to go? The fact that we have people in our communities and in our state who didn't check the UDC before they decided to go into business should not be our residents problems. That should be their own business problem. And we appreciate you taking that on into consideration and amending the UDC in a way that allows people to continue to move and flow from a residential side and a business side in a proper and efficient fashion, most importantly a responsible fashion. So thank you for doing that. I do appreciate the consideration with regard to zoning and I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you. Chuck Hirsch. Evening Mayor and Council. Chuck Hirsch, 22-18 Franklin Drive. I'm going to repeat what my wife just said, but she said it much more eloquently than I'm going to repeat what my wife just said, but she said it much more eloquently than I'm going to. I do appreciate the fact that you have taken the time. We've talked with Jansi and her staff on multiple occasions and waste our concern. Again, we have a unique situation. We have it on both sides of our house. And it's unfortunate. My appreciation for the short-term rental is how are you gonna deal with those individuals who don't pay their hotel up a competency tax and are flying underneath the radar. That is my biggest concern. I know the property directly across from my house, that gentleman has paid his taxes, he's on the tax rolls, we can verify that, but the gentleman or the investment people that own the property behind my house. That gentleman has paid his taxes. He's on the tax rolls. We can verify that. But the gentleman or the investment people that own the property behind my house, they don't play. They have not paid their hotel tax. They are going to be the ones that are going to fly on any of the radar. They are going to be the ones that are going to try to keep their short-term rental and not have you guys or the city come and levy the penalties and the fines on them. So that's my biggest concern as a living with two short-term rents about around me that yes, we've passed this and this is a wonderful thing, but what's the city going to do to actually get to those individuals that are still going to try to have the short-term rentals in my neighborhood, which is again, I'm just outside the entertainment district. I'm on the north side of Lamar, right there by the Rolling Hills Country Club, that I know that individual is going to continue to do what he's been doing so far. So hopefully they'll put some teeth in you and the city will actually put some enforcement behind him. So again, I appreciate your time. I appreciate what you all have done so far. And I thank you. Thank you. Mayor, that concludes the speakers and support for the non-speakers in support. When I call your name, please raise your hand. We're a Mel Haas, Julia Goodwin. Just raise your hand. David Borough, Jackie Parker, Michael Club, Demetri Ducis, John Riley, Exida Negi, Jan Berry, Barbara Walther, Bill Walther, Brent Boyet, Gary Trammell, Leanne Trammell, Bill James, Katherine Williams, Sarah Butler, Randy Bert, Kathy Fowler, Gary Daley, Helen Downs, George Howell, Marty Howell, Kathy Riley, James Woods, Patsy Woods, Anthony Negi, Walter Leach, Michael Bishop, Barbara McArthur, Douglas McArthur, Vicki Peppeleris, William Ashton, Olga Bosic, Randy Williams, Kenneth Mashka, Linda Mashka, Gail Cobb, Dill Cobb, Edden Dolores Daniels, Kay Ashton, Helen Mockel, Steve and Nan Edmonds, Dick Soich, Julia Ryan and Jay Ryan. The first speaker in opposition is Jeremy Fensroy. After Mr. Fstroy is proud of what you're doing on this ordinance and I just want you to give you a new twist of what's going on. A few years ago, I live on 2004, H.B. Court, Arlington, Texas, kind of behind target of a barbrook. And what started happening was a lot of the businesses around there and the first one I noticed was McDonald's there on Cooper were building their new deal. They were trying to buy the house across the street from us to house all their employees so they could walk to work. They couldn't keep employees so they just could fill it full of employees. So we got together as neighbors and decided to buy the house which we did and we rented it out to people and stuff like that, or did not rent it out. They rented it out for a while to certain people to help build it up and everything. And then a little while later, on May the 14th, we had 11 squad cars. We had police SWAT teams going around the neighborhood, having people turn out their lives. If you don't turn them out, we're going to shoot them out. And they invaded the house at the end of our cul-de-site, which was 2017. A guy has all of his employees worked there. None of them can speak English, and they all work at the Korean barbecue at the mall. And so he came to our house after it was over business, and said sorry for the problem, but here's some free barbecue coupons. And I'm going really. And so then a guy across the street sells the house that I was talking about that was going in a young couple about it, and it has four bedrooms in it. And I said, what are y'all going to do with the house? Well we're going to have a bunch of kids. Instantly eight to ten cars are parked around that house. It is a bed and breakfast. It is there's there's banquet things there buses come there everything comes there and I talk to him and pleaded with him to please stop this, you're ruining our neighborhood. And he said, well, I can do anything I want to do. I know what the law is and I can do it on us. I said, well, please, I'm saying I want you to do the right thing. I'm not asking you to do what you think is right or whatever. Anyway, I pleaded with him over and over. He says he stopped the bed in breakfast, but he still got all the cars. They're from New York, they're from Missouri, they're from Michigan. They've had a burglary at the house, if that house is well, and the police is showing up on that. And so I got concerned about all this, and he's not gonna do anything unless this ordinance is done, but I got concerned about it mainly because I was playing poker one night in Vegas and I asked the guy next to me, what do you do about ordinances for short-term rentals? He said, well, we fixed it pretty quick. What we require them to do is go through the insurance process. And he said, if you notified their insurance company that there are being made or have other people involved in it Do you want me to stop? Just wrap these sentence up Huh? Wrap these sentence up, Dr. Mallick Okay, anyway, I tried to get him to stop. I'm asking you to also explore the short the portion of the ordinance where it requires them to have insurance because they're insurance company knows they're having a bed and breakfast there, they will immediately cancel their policy and put them under a high risk deal. And I also ask you, another thing is happening, now that they've quit across the street with the B&Bs, they went to a church and they're having all these church people come in. They work, they have the prayer room over in Pantigo and another church and they have people coming from all of the United States to live there. That guy is living in that house and getting money from the church for all those people to stay there, plus they're having to banquet and bringing buses over and feeding them there. And we're just sick and tired of it. Thank you, Mr. Malik. Thank you. The first speaker in opposition is Jeremy Fensroy. After Mr. Fensroy is Brad Herbert. I'm on Jeremy Fence-Royle at 2-7-14 Wyning-Hallalane in Arlington and last week we the start movement presented to the City Council in alternative to option 2B zoning ban that we call the neighborhood STTR opt out plan. Option 2B, the ordinance you are voting on tonight, is a ban on hundreds of responsibly operating short-term metals in Arlington for the sake of just 16 short-term metals with 10 or more calls for service or a period of two years. Not citations or violations simply calls for service. Our proposed neighborhood STR opt outout plan, on the other hand, would allow the more than 400 responsibly-run short-term menals in Arlington to continue providing critical income to hardworking middle-class families, but also would give voice to the homeowners who do not want short-term menals by allowing them to opt out. The basis of the opt-out plan are that it would establish short-term rentals as an approved residential use accept in STR exclusion zones, and it would give neighbors a voice by allowing neighborhoods where the vast majority of homeowners do not want STRs to opt out by petitioning to have their neighborhood reason to an STR exclusion zone, just as Galveston has successfully been doing for over four years. If facilitates enforcement by requiring permitting and applying fines or revoking the permits of those who fail to comply with the ordinance, added increases hotel occupancy taxes or HOT revenues by requiring HOT registration and payment to obtain a permit. The mayor Williams you were quoted in the Star Telegram earlier this month saying, quote, if you have neighborhoods that want short-term rentals, we want to hear from them. But we want to keep them out of neighborhoods that don't want them." Well, polling data says that over 9,200 people by DFW Channel 5 showed that over 72% of people in the DFW area do not believe cities should be banning short-term rentals. As far as keeping them out of neighborhoods where the vast majority of owners do not want them, the opt out plan allows those homeowners to petition to have their neighborhood reasoned to an STR exclusion zone while not forcing the minority view on the rest of the city. That is what compromise looks like. The consequences of passing option 2B will be disastrous for responsible short-term or short-term men owners, for those serious about addressing any actual disruptions from short-term menals and for you the City Council. Lively hoods will be taken away and expensive lawsuit will definitely follow that will result in an injunction just like in grapevine and that will prevent you from actually enforcing this ordinance anytime soon. It will lead to uncertainty for SDR owners and concern neighbors for months or years, and the SDR issue will remain on your agenda for years to come. I urge you tonight to exit off of this disastrous path, vote no on the option to be zoning ban, and instead support moving forward on an actual compromise, the neighborhood SDR opt out plan. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're at Herbert. After Mr. Herbert is Ron Jackson. We're at Herbert 414 East Lavender Lane. I'd like to start tonight by setting the record straight for two items that I believe were misrepresented at last council meeting. First Mayor William said, quote, I did not, I did have a big disappointment that we never did here from the leadership for the short-term rentals on what they wanted to see as far as regulations end quote. At that point, I couldn't believe my ears when I think about all the one-on-one in group meetings with the city over the last half year discussing the issue and the reports made by the city's own planning and zoning presentations on February 16th and February 18th to all accounts. And I really cannot understand why this false comment was made by you Mayor Williams. Second, Ms. Moe said that quote, hot taxes are required by state law. We were required to pass something to make that state law effective in Arlington. It was a mandate by the state, not something Arlington did on their own end quote. While it is required to follow the state law and submit 6% for short term rentals which are defined as all are part of a residential property to the state of Texas, it did not require cities to pass their own tax as Arlington did for an additional 9% on the short term rentals. Arlington did want a piece of the pie and willfully decided to pass their own tax and have led many homeowners astray because of that action. So option 2b or not 2b, that is the question before us tonight. If that was the only option available, I can understand being forced to take a path that was less than ideal. However, there have been many options considered, including the latest opt-out proposal that Jeremy spoke of, that would allow neighborhoods that feel so strongly against the SDRs that they could easily rezone to exclude them, yet allow them to exist in other areas of the city where there is no opposition or disturbances. And even more importantly, an area where retirees, some that we just heard from last session, and other families who rely upon the income to support their family, from last session and other families who rely upon the income to support their family. You have the elected power to craft a custom UDC amendment and a custom ordinance in such a manner that can serve all of Arlington, including those that rely heavily upon the income of their home provides, especially those at home share. And I know several of you mentioned that last council session is where as well. You also have the power to pass option two B tonight and it's gonna inflict irreparable consequences that are not easily undone once you kill something, you can't bring it back to life very easily. Why pass something that wouldn't be a win for any interested party when this matter gets held up in a lengthy court case that will tie the hands of the city, which will then affect those who do have legitimate disruptions to not be able to seek relief. As I said, it was six three last time that you guys voted on the UDC amendment. So I think it's clear that, you know, there's some reluctance to move forward and I encourage you to search deep and wrapping up. As I said, the road forks here tonight, please consider a different path and vote no tonight against these items. So history will not have to record a grave mistake made by the City of Arlington. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, Ms. Thalman. I'm going to clarify. So this item 12.2 is the second reading on the action that we took on October 16, I believe. And the one that we voted on earlier was the 2B, correct? All right. So 2B has already been passed 6 to 3 this evening. Next speaker. Ron Jackson. After Mr. Jackson is Teresa Rushing. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. My name is Ron Jackson. I reside at 2826 Twin Ridge in Arlington. I want to talk to you folks about the new 30-mile-an-hour speed limit on Cooper along UTA. I travel the stretch of road nearly every day. And I admit I was caught by surprise about the 30-mile-an-hour speed limit. This must be, I think, so you're wanting to talk about the speed limit. I'm telling this as a part to make my point Okay, all right And at first I was resistant to 30 miles an hour. I think most of us were we're caught off guard Was even angry, but then I realized this is good because the new regulation would actually You know be good for the city It would be safer for students, safer for the staff, university. Speaters would be penalized and there would be revenue generation for the city. In fact, to me, it's worked so well that I would propose that the city take action and go further. I think we should block off Cooper. That's an earth and south end of the university. I think we should build a 30-foot wall along Park Row, a 20-foot barbed wire fence along Davis. In Collins, we can tear it up and replace it with a 20-story parking building. Everybody would be able to move freely and the traffic would just have to go around. We'd keep out the speeders, right? This closure and construction would be great. Forget the disruption, forget the costs. Would be impractical, really. So this ban that you've passed already So this ban that you've passed already has this level of impact to Cality. This is exactly the kinds of things that would happen with this ban. It's going to put good people out of business. It will destroy their livelihoods. It will extinguish the cash flow of many local businesses. It will cause a lot of frustration. It's going to turn it to the city of Arlington. We can't have this option to be. You can't just ban 90% of the people and yet give the same privilege to those remaining STRs in the EOD. I agree. I live in Arlington. I don't want somebody having a party and making noise and all that. I agree. I'm glad about the regulations and stuff. But banning people, banning businesses, banning their livelihoods like this, When they're responsible and they've shown, they don't have any issues with their STRs and their neighbors love them. It's ridiculous to ban. Thank you. BEEP! Applause. Theresa Rushing. I'll pass. Marty McGee. After Mr. McGee is Gus Fatal. Marty McGee, 21-01, warm place, Arlington. I think today we got our first look at the cost that the city is looking at with regard to enforcing option to be the ban. 155,000 is a lot of money. It's going to be spent hunting down folks throughout Arlington who may or may not know that the council has voted to ban them. These aren't the folks who have neighbors who have the neighbors harassing them day and night in their guests day and night. Chances are their neighbors don't know or care that they host guests because they cause no problems. There was talk of cost recovery to recoup the $155,000. The assumption is somehow, after Arlington has announced that it is unwalcoming to STRs, and to the guests who favor them, that there's going to somehow be a huge surge in STRs moving into the tiny STR zone. An option to be discourages growth. So cost recovery as a result from robust growth is unlikely. result from robust growth is unlikely. How much is reasonable for the city to spend on enforcement? In January, the Council implemented the Neighborhood Integrity Action Plan. This study has examined calls for service to short-term rentals for both police and code enforcement over the past two years. So far, there have only been 16 properties identified with 10 or more calls. Those aren't tickets or citations, but just calls. And those include the short-term rental hosts who have called for report problem neighbors. Is there any reason to believe that new short-term rentals will have significantly more issues or calls for service? How much did the city spend to deal with those 16 potential problem properties in the last two years? More than $155,000? How does that compare to what was spent for police and postments on the hotels that were discussed earlier? I agree that we need to have attractive accommodations for our visitors and 2B isn't going to get us there. To make things worse, the cost doesn't stop at the $155,000. When you add a few hundred thousand more for the litigation that will surely flow, you're talking about some real money. Despite the fact that I've heard over and over from different ones that doesn't matter because City gets sued all the time, I hope you all realize that this is an emotional issue and an emotional response to the issue from the emotional appeals. But I'm a citizen of Arlington, I'm a taxpayer, and I hope that you all realize that this is an expense that's going to be borne, not just by the short term rental owners, but it's going to be borne by all the citizens of Arlington. Because all over 16 potential problem properties and an emotional appeal. Thank you. Thank you. Gush Fadle. Hello, guys. I do own a NSTR in Orlington. It's adjacent to my property and I have poured all my money in it purchasing the property and fixing the house and this band is going to affect my livelihood. I've been in Orlington since the 80s and I do care a lot about the community. This is me too and this is me too and by you guys banning STRs completely, I think this is a radical decision and radical decisions usually don't are not the best outcome for anything. This is just like banning the internet when it first came out because somebody used it inappropriately. I mean you guys bring in the entertainment district and Texas live which has 10 20 bars Stadiums. Yeah, you don't want people to come stay in the city. It really doesn't make sense I mean you guys want this, but you're one at the same time It doesn't make sense to me I do hear these folks. I am these folks and I do not want to go through what they're going through. You guys can regulate this instead of panning it completely, but you guys allow only in a certain area, or then my French, this is a joke. This is really a joke. If you guys look at that map, there is really nothing between 360 and Lamar and Abrams and the center except few homes. You guys are putting us really out of business. This is my livelihood. I don't know what I'm going to do. So I'm sure most of you guys are educated and Or have your own businesses and for you guys to come up with such a radical decision I'm really surprised you guys should know better than that. Thank you. Thank you Mayor that concludes the non-speakers and opposite or the speakers in opposition for the non nonspeakers and the speakers in opposition. For the nonspeakers in opposition, please raise your hand when I call your name. Lydia Sanford. Ronda Draper. Kasey Wongso. Rola Fadal. Sammy Liu. Siege Zau. Show card, Joshan, Paul Morris, Jill Orth, Bradwanda Tan, Kevin Karney, Elvira Smith, Joe Hernandez, newly cartag, Calvin Cheach, Mimi Johan, mayor that concludes the non-speakers in opposition. Okay, I'll now call upon Council Member Moeys. I think those of you who are here tonight have watched me take my stand on this and have taken it for over a year including during my campaign, but I seldom speak. I try to listen. This is, I have advocated since I started my campaign in December of 2017, that this is a zoning issue. And that comes from my experience with seven years on the zoning board of adjustment and two years on planning and zoning. We are a city that has always based our culture on our neighborhoods. And what I see here is, I see people who are fighting, and I see people who believe they're trying to offer solutions and yet every single time for the last 11 months that I've sat in the seat when we come anywhere close to reaching any agreement. Mr. Fitzroy and Mr. Harvard get up and threaten to sue the city. And no, and you do. I could play you back every speech. But here's my point. To your point, you have a certain set of criteria that you believe you need in a short term rental. You want 200 feet for every guest and in your 3000 foot house that means you can have 15 people. You don't want to use your driveway to park, you want to use the public street. And so you fought very hard for what you believe in. And I respect that. But it goes back to property rights and all of the people who live in Arlington have the right to quiet enjoyment of their property. And that's where property rights come in. That means you have the right to quietly enjoy your property and you have to respect their right quietly enjoy their property. and you have to respect their right quietly and joy their property. Anyway, I know you have tried and I know this side has tried. And in a way, as I sit here and listen tonight to this opting out, what occurs to me is that this side has already voted in their neighborhoods to opt out. Yes. This side has already voted in their neighborhoods to opt out. So I'm sorry you pushed us to this but we have opted out as a city, as a neighborhood and but back to probably my fourth month in office, I said I see, I don't hear complaints from the entertainment district. I think they're neutral on this because the other thing the UDC says, and this goes back to UDC language, is that if you vary, you need to have something to show it adds value to the neighborhood. And it does in the entertainment district because what we have happening over there, we have many, many people who have lovely cottage homes and they're afraid to spend any money on them because they don't know if the site will become commercial. This gives them an option for something to do with their land. And I think it's a good solution. It also gives City staff that have worked very hard. Everyone from Mike Bass, who I worked with, when I first got here for three months on code enforcement, to GenC now for six months on two different plans. Staff has worked very hard on this. And I think we need to give them a chance to put this plan in place and see how it works for Arlington. I have also said publicly I've not seen a city that found a solution in their first pass. And so let's be open as we move forward. Let's revisit this in a year. If we get tied up in lawsuits, it just takes longer than a year to get through the revisiting point. But that's okay too. I expect the lawsuit because you've promised it for months. So let's go try to live with what we have right now. I've just made a motion to approve this and then let's go home and I'm gonna go home and have a glass of wine. Okay, did you just make a motion, Ms. Mowys? I think I heard that. I think I heard that. community and when we have these kinds of difficult, complicated issues that are before us, we recognize that we have to compromise some way and find a way for us to move ahead. And that's part of living in a city. And as I mentioned before, if we don't compromise compromise then we're just a city we're not a community and we'll have to continue to work forward and work through compromises. There's not anything simple about what's going on here at all it's very complicated. One of the most complicated things that any city is dealing with now in America and many are and there's all kinds of solutions all over. And as we've found out, there's not any perfect solution. Just not. And that is what really makes it hard right here. But then the bottom line is, I think, that what you've seen is is that we have to protect our neighborhoods. That's really the foundation of any city is protecting the neighborhoods. And then hopefully too though, that we have provided a location to do business here with SDRs and it didn't represent a band. It represented an area to be permissible in neighborhoods that had said they wanted SDRs. Let us continue to try to work forward. And then we have so many issues here that we're working to to try to make our community a better place. They're with it in so many challenges that we have. And I'm sure I'm glad that I'm in Arlington, Texas here to address them. And then I hope that we can continue to try to move forward from this and try to grow together, despite the very difficult and divisive issues that have come before us here, and the many hardships that have been experienced on both sides of this issue. With that, we'll move on to citizen participation. Mr. Buskin, can you 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. Okay, I'll call upon Miss... Derika Williams? Is Miss Williams? Do you wanna come up and state your name and address I'm going to go to the committee. I'm going to go to the committee. The Rico Williams. Is Miss Williams. Do you want to come up and state your name and address and share with us? Hi, my name is the Erica Williams. I live at a two-six-zero-four-barg lane lane over the green oats by I'm 604, Bargland Lane, over to Green Oats by Trinity. I was coming up here to explain the reasoning for us. I hear tonight everybody's talking about money, business, and doing all of that, but I don't see the thing of which you wanted to help the next generation as high school students and college students. I'm going to TCC to be a teacher, and I'm transferring the UTA. And I think if we had more people that's involved in education, as far as helping a student, I'd come from my background from St. Louis and a property where St. Louis was really didn't have the resources for students. And I see more people here that's more diverse. I see different races. And by being 18 years old, I didn't have the resources for a business investment credit or anything or a parent coming to one single home. I don't see no type of programs for young kids, for a job placement. Like where I came from in Illinois. If I was 16 years old, my grandmother raised me, and my mother had me when she was 12. So when my grandmother used to say, hey, go get a job, they would work with us in the community and say, hey, go take care of the younger kids, go clean out the school, doing the summertime, and we will have a check. I see no investment in that. There is no high school students doing that. I see more crime rates here. And I want to look more. They have the number one top STD rates in Arlington. That is pitiful. I have never seen that. But we're so worried about bringing in money that we not even helping the next generation. Because after you guys are gone, I'm up next. So what are we doing to create general generation of wealth for these students that come from low-private families, communities and there's not being built up. Let's take a stand on that and invest more in our students that way they can have a better future. And that's all I have to say. Thank you Miss Williams. You know we can't respond to this but we have tons of programs and I'd love for you to meet with our staff. Thank you very much Brigitte. Thank you. Okay next I'll move to Joe Bruner. Senator Reiner. Thank you, Mayor. I'm losing my audience. I've got to go quick. I want to talk about House Bill 3778 down in Austin. A group of citizens got together. I think you know that went down to Austin to talk to the Urban Affairs Committee, headed by Representative Angie Chinbutton. She presented a bill that was going to preempt. Everything we've done tonight, having to do with STRs, taking over preempting everything, you all would have power over for the STRs. We thought it was important. A group went down to lobby the representatives down there and They they went down one week and then the lobby is called back and said we need you to come down and give testimony I think six people went down one week and then seven went down the next week and gave testimony people went down one week and then seven went down the next week and gave testimony. It was more of a savior neighborhood issue and the premise was I felt like don't tread on us. Leave us alone. Let us do what we need to do. And I felt like we were going down to speak softly and carried big stick and our big stick was our voice and our vote. We still have our voice we still have our vote we're not going to lay down our voice we're not going to lay down our vote we're going to keep it but I wanted to say a little something that by the way there are 53 people giving testimony 30 against and about 23 for Seven of the people that went down that were against were from Arlington That was a high percentage of people down there from Arlington speaking against what they were talking about The of the people that went down there one person well, let me let me say something about one person that did not go, but had something to do with this. Carrie Garcia, a kind of named her front page because she got on the news, she did the publicity. She was on NBC twice in the newspaper. Carrie, hold it up your hand. She was very important for us Dave Schwarty Okay, well that's no excuse Well Dave I've never Charlie called him cerebral. I've never seen anybody come up with so many great effective paragraphs slogans, letters that went out to all of these representatives, all of the people in Arlington. He did a great job. He was an attorney. Jessica, the master's. She was in charge of the mothers against STRs. She was the guardian of your kids. She, she, I've got some more, can I go? I'll be, I've got three minutes, Mr. Brewerner. I'll do it quick. Okay, well, Anthony, Mr. Cravitz, William, the printer, Ashton, Mrs. Cravitz, what was Kay Ashton and Charlie, I got to tell you, he never gives up. He is the one, I call him out Charlie anyway. That was the group that went down. Thank you, Jim. Okay, next we'll move to announcements. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. 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. Council's afternoon work sessions are 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, seeing no other business, this meeting is adjourned.