I'd now like to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and I'd like to recognize Dr. Dennis Wiles from First Vagmas Church of Arlington to give her invocation and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Dr. Wiles, welcome back from Sierra Leone, Africa and Rome, Italy. Thank you, Mayor. If I could just say a word of thanks to all of you guys for the work you do for us. While I was in Rome, Rome has a new mayor. I don't know if y'all read about her, but she's been a little controversial. She has the hard challenge of trying to preserve the heritage of the most famous city in the western world and also help modernize it to where it can stay up to date. And so while I was there, I read several interviews with her. It just reminded me of how difficult it is to do what y'all do in any city in the world. And so I just want to tell you thank you for your hard work. We really appreciate it. We pray for you. We're proud of you. And we're just glad that you've done the really good job you've done. And we pray for a bright future. So with that said, let me pray for us. Father, we're grateful for many things tonight and we're certainly grateful for our city and its leaders. We don't want to take our freedom for granted and we know that it is coming at a great cost. And so we're mindful of that every time we come to a meeting like this, where our citizens can come and freely discuss the things that concern them and share them with the people who have been duly elected to lead us and to provide competent governance for us. And we continue to just be mindful of how blessed we are. So we thank you for it tonight. Thank you for our nation. We continue to pray, Lord, your blessings on us, that we would stew at our freedom well and that we would be as responsible as we should be with all that you've entrusted to us. For your blessings on the proceedings tonight, ask for your guidance for our city, for our citizens, for our schools and all of our leaders. We continue to ask you to give our mayor and this council wisdom to guide us as a community. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it and I'm grateful for how it's enriched my life and my family's life and I'm grateful for the love that we have for this community. So we are grateful tonight. Pray your blessings on this new year before us that will honor you in every respect. And as a follower of Jesus, I'll pray in his name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, Dr. Wallace. Well, we have some special guests with us tonight, and I'm going to call upon Mayor Pro Tem, Glassby, to recognize our guest. Thank you, Mayor. We are blessed to have with us members of the Capitol Instructional League, young men who are a part of it, would you stand just a moment? I'd also like to members of the Capitol for the side fraternity to stand for a moment. to stand for a moment. These men have this special program for young men to help them understand more who they are, who they can become positive role models and we're so thankful that they are with us this evening. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions. Mr. Buskin, our city secretary. Thank you, Mayor. We have one appointment to boards and commissions. To the community relations commission, ES Mary D. Scott, place two. Mayor that concludes the appointments to boards and commissions. Okay. Do we have a motion for approval? We have a motion for approval from Council Member Shepard, a second from Councilmember for our Myers, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to speaker guidelines in general decorum, Mr. Buskin. 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, we'll move to approval of items from executive session. Mr. Baskin. Thank you, mayor. We have one item for approval from executive session. A resolution determining the necessity of acquiring a 4,215 square foot drainage and sanitary sewer easement and a 1,215 square foot temporary construction easement in under over through across and along a portion of Lot 8 block 4 Shady Valley acres, second filing, in addition to the City of Arlington, Tarrant County Texas, as shown on the plat recorded in volume 388-38, page 52, plat records, Tarrant County, Texas. Otherwise known as 3806 Country Club Road, 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. Mayor, that concludes the items for approval from executive session. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Glassby, a second from Council Member Thalman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of consent agenda, Mr. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of Consent Agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor. The Consent Agenda this evening contains six minute orders, two ordinances and three resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one and two annual requirements contract for maintenance repair and operational supplies and fire station uniforms. Three annual software maintenance contract for the Integral Public Safety Computer Aided Dispatch System, four professional services contract for the Southeast Arlington Recreation Center, five construction contract for 2017 miscellaneous maintenance projects, phase A at Running Brook Apartments, six lease agreement with GKY Realty Limited, DBA, Harris and Aviation. The ordinances seek to authorize 7 zoning case PD 18-18-401 East Main Street, Banquet Hall. 8. Ordnance ordering in May 4th, 2019 General Election. The resolutions seek to authorize 9 compensation adjustments for council appointees, 10. Airport perimeter offense replacement grant, 11. Ad 11 adopting a revised procurement policy and approval for electronic bidding. Mayer, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in support of oppositions of the items that appear on the consent agenda? Mayer, we have no speakers. We do have one non-speaker in support of item 7.7. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Don Gatsky. Okay. All right. Then with that, if either we'll have discussion or I'll call for a motion for approval. We have a motion for approval of the consent agenda from Council Member Wolfe, second from Council Member Moe's, police gesture votes. Motion passes. Mayor, if I may, Mr. Busken show me a substaining on item 7.5. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Shepherd. Next we'll move to public hearings, ordinances, first reading. We have zoning case PD 18-10, 800 East Park Road duplex and I'll call upon Mr. Jinssy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.1, zoning case PD 18-10, is for 800 East Park Road duplex. This item was continued from the last council meeting. At this time, the applicant has requested to withdraw the request. Okay. Well with that, we'll allow that to be withdrawn and next we'll move to the next item 102 zoning case PD 18-20 urban street 205-13-15301 and 500 East Front Street and 115-201 and 203 North Mesite Street, and I'll call upon Ms. Topal again. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.2, Zoning Case PD 18-20, is for Urban Union. This item was continued by City Council from the last meeting to allow the developer additional time to meet with Council members. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately 8.539 acres and encompassing several lots, generally located south of East Division Street and east of North Mesquite Street. In the recent years the developer has worked with staff to create a unique environment within downtown. During this time, the alternative equivalent compliance, AEC application has been the mechanism to adjust UDC requirements for exterior finish materials, sign standards, parking lot location and layout, and fencing and buffering requirements. This proposal looks to create dedicated standards for this development that take into consideration these items. Additionally, the plan development is proposing a base zoning district of downtown business DB with some uses excluded and few uses permitted by right or through SUP, specific use permit approval process. I want to point out that in the council packet, the last seven pages of the development plan was missing, staff was made aware of it and has hard copies on your table for you. The property owner or developer, Mr. Ryan Dodson, is here to present the case tonight. Ken Luz with WLK Architects is also available to speak on architectural questions if needed. And Joy Stanton with Dishulotary Stanton and Associates Inc. is available to answer any engineering questions. Okay, Mr. Dodson. If you could state your name and address for the record Mr. Dodson as you begin the presentation. Ryan Dodson 500 East Front Street downtown Arlington, Urban Union. Thank you guys for your time this week, last week, and tonight is my first presentation in the new council chamber. So I'm excited to be here. We're super excited about Urban Union and continuing the momentum, I think, is our overall theme for the project. It started with the Luc Honda acquisition in 2013. We've been able to take approximately 50,000 square feet of automotive related use and repurpose it into mixed use of office space, a brewery, a bakery, some restaurants, some bars, that sort of thing. So what we're doing tonight is, let's see here, what we're doing tonight is just kind of trying to expand upon that. And hopefully with all support, we can continue what we've done, which is redeveloping kind of a blighted area of town, connecting Front Street, connecting Urban Union on the east of Vandergrift Town Center on the west. So those are our big goals. You can see the strategic location of the property. It's pretty much midway between the entertainment district and UT Arlington, kind of the northeast corner of downtown. It is made up of a bunch of old industrial buildings. And so we've tried to do with our design, is embrace the industrial aspect of it, make it unique, make it feel like it fits, make it feel like when you get there, you know you're in downtown Arlington. I talk to a lot of people every day who still ask me, where is downtown Arlington? Why should we go there? And so the cool thing about Urban Union, the cool thing about what the city's been able to do with 101 Center and the library project is it's really creating its own identity. And so we're happy to be a part of that. You can see this photo is from legal draft. I mean, you might not recognize it. That's the before, this is the after. This is 500 East Front, where my current office is. This is what it looks like today. We've taken a ton of attention to public improvements, such as sidewalks, street lighting, landscaping, nice walkways. This is 506 East Division. This was a body shop and we've repurposed it into a really cool mixed use building. It's been very well received by local business owners, which is one of our main points of pride. The people that have come to Urban Union, that have been attracted to Urban Union, are the types of folks who live here, they grew up here, they want to invest here, they want to open a business here. We're very proud of that. Sugarbee Suites before and after. This is an old house, we wanted to bring something new to the neighborhood that had the modern amenities of a restaurant. We wanted the old house feel. And so we worked through staff, which has been wonderful with AEC to be able to get the look that we need. It has been very popular. So creating the district, some of the big themes that we try to focus on is how to make it creative and unique, how to keep green spaces and public spaces as a major amenity, how to increase the density and the interest when you stumble around a corner that you may not have been around and there's a little teaky bar. That's a point of interest for us. A big theme is connectivity, connecting right now what we're trying to do is connect kind of the core at MISKET and center down further east on Front Street, which will ultimately we hope connect to the entertainment district. So walkability and then again, you have to be in downtown like I can't believe I'm in Arlington. This is cool. This is a certain vibe that we're going for. Some current statistics. We have over 75,000 square feet of former industrial and automotive space that's been redeveloped. We have about six acres currently, 13 buildings, eight have been completely renovated. 13 new local businesses have opened since 2016. More than 11 million in total capitalization has been invested and over 100 public parking spaces have been added. I don't know how many linear feet of walk and street lights, but quite a bit. So our goals from the zoning case, what we hope that we have your support to do is continue the momentum, connect urban union with more closer to the core of downtown, continue to add to the character and the uniqueness of the project, have flexible design standards and use standards so that we can allow it to grow organically. Add residential, increase the density, enhance it as a small business destination, additional walkability and public parking. And I will throw this in, this is almost verbatim the goals of the newly adopted downtown master plan. I believe they used urban union as an example of a good development, the type thing you want to see. So I know there will be questions and we're certainly can open that up. This is the master plan, the total package, what we hope to see happened pretty quick. The blue buildings are new buildings, the gray buildings are buildings that are existing. So with that, I will kind of just leave it on this image and my time to expire, so I'll be available for questions. Thank you all for your consideration. Thank you, appreciate. Dodson. With that, Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two speakers on this item. When I call your name, please come to the podium and state your name and address for the record. Ken Luce. Mayor Council and staff. My name is Ken Luce. I'm going to go to the mayor council and staff. My name is Ken loose. I'm not going to take with the okay. My address is one two one two Barker Street. Arlington, Texas. I'm really just here to act as a resource and answer any questions that you might have. Thank you. Thank you might have. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Deluce. Lisa Perkins. Lomas Perkins. If you can state your name and address for the record. Good evening Mr. Mayor. Thank you Council. Appreciate the time to speak. Thank you very much for what you guys do. I kind of have mixed feelings about this development. I'm thrilled to death. Thank you, Mr. Dodson, for all that you have done. We love it. Like I said, really for seeing the city and the downtown area improving. The things that I have picked up from reading about the project that I find a little harder to accept is the addition of multi-family units in this particular area. I love Arlington being the American Dream City. I do not want Arlington to become the apartment capital of Texas. It seems that we just have lots and lots of apartments and multifamily units that are coming into the downtown area. And a lot of them aren't completely rented out yet. The other thing is it noticed also that it still allows for car sales and automotive industry to be maintained in those businesses or in that area. And I know that they've been taking those cuts of industries and converting them. But I think back to the Discover Division plan and thinking that there was possibly a moratorium on those types of businesses that they were supposed to be phasing out at some point. So I'm just kind of like to voice my concerns on that as well. I did notice that there was some statements to about not allowing financial institutions to become part of that plan, so I'm wondering if there's any way that the housing, car dealerships can be excluded as well. Thank you very much. Oh, I don't know if I gave you my address. It's Lisa Perkins, 211 East North Street here in Arlington, 7601. Thank you, Mr. Perkins. Thank you. 7601. Thank you, Mr. Perkins. Thank you. With that, Mr. Dotson, do you have an opportunity for a rebuttal there on that? I think a lot of that's going to probably come up in the Q&A and we can hold that. I will say this that a total build out the project is going to be around 150,000 feet and we're going to have 24 apartment units We developed 404 border Which was one of the first market rates in downtown and it was extremely popular when we sold it It was like 98% least so but these are going to be kind of more lofty style apartments that are very Specifically a lifestyle choice if you if you want to move next to a train track across the street from a bar and grill In this part. It's it's a lifestyle decision and there we think there's people that that want to be there so and I think we'll probably address some of the uses here in a moment, but That's all I have I hear in a moment but that's all I have. The bus ain't on the street for so long. No sir. Okay. Then I'll close the public hearing and we'll open it up to council. Call upon council member K Part. Thank you Mayor. Mr. Dodson, and I appreciate the time that you've given me personally and when we visited yesterday on your project. First of all, it's a great project. Thank you. And in my opinion you've done some remarkable things for the downtown area. I didn't know for instance, 404 border was no longer yours, but you know, okay, I guess those things move along, right? But anyway, you've done a lot in some audit creative things, but as I spoke with you yesterday, I outlined for you the two issues that I have. One of them is the hotel and we have a process in place and the others the car dealership or a lot or whatever it would auto use it might be which we also have a process in place and so with those two exceptions I'm very excited about your project but I continue to be very bothered on those two. I think I can address partially addressed sad. I can address everything, but I think you'll be 100% satisfied. For Ms. K. Partnay discussed the SUP process on hotels and how we had asked for it as a just by right zoning. We are fine requiring an SUP for a hotel. I don't have a hotel site without acquiring more land, which would require us to bring it into a different zoning category anyways. So if we wanted to put hotels as an approved use with an SUP, I think we would be agreeable to that if that would satisfy Ms. K. Part. Yes, that would satisfy me. Okay, and then regarding car lots, it's an odd thing I know that I would be standing in front of you asking for a car lot as a use. I don't think anybody in downtown has converted more automotive out of automotive and into something else. From the good your tire store to sammies use cars to, I mean, you just go down the list. There's probably 50 or 60,000 square feet that we've repurposed. The reason that we put that in there, A, it's already allowed under our current zoning. And we really didn't want to impose restrictions on ourselves with by putting it into the PD the PD was to continue to allow flexibility With the project but the other bigger thing is I have an existing car lot on site that we haven't found a higher and better use for at the moment We're certainly looking for that We hope that at some point we can have a drive-through Starbucks or something that's a higher and better use that cleans up the corners, that the northwest corner of East and Division on the map, it is, I don't know the ways it doesn't work, but it's F1, I think, is what it's noted as on the master plan. So that's a car lot. We actually put some antique brick on the on the master plan. So that's a car lot. We actually put some antique brick on the building. We dalded up a little bit as much as you can. And so, okay, this is right here. That's kind of where it is. We, you know, as we continue to move that way, I don't own anything on either side of it, so I can't expand it. We'd like to keep that flexibility because frankly, we're using the income from the car lot to fund part of the development things that we're getting rid of, those type automotive uses with the rest of the project. So at PNZ what we discussed was maybe limiting any automotive sales to the division street frontage, but I've been thinking about it since our meeting because several of the council members have brought up the same thing. I think that there's in my mind a difference between kind of the tot the note lots that we see up in down division street. And like a guy who wants to come sell high end convertible corvettes in a nice interior showroom or a Tesla dealership. So my suggestion would be that if it would be acceptable to the council, maybe on the building F1, I could keep that in and sunset it at some point down the road. On B16, which is really the only other opportunity, and maybe B7 if legal draft were ever to leave, there would be a little frontage. Maybe if automotive sales would be allowed, as long as there was no outside sales cars, because anybody who has a nice car lot of Tesla dealership or a Corvette, antique Corvette, they're not gonna set them outside with price tag, they're gonna be an interior gallery type situation, of course we've remodeled those buildings anyways. That was one thought I had. I'm open to figuring something out. We're just trying to maintain the flexibility until we get this project to stabilization because we need the revenue that we're getting off of that right now. So to your suggestion, Mr. Dotson, because you currently are using it as a car lot. And if we, if the council were to rezone this under the PD requirements that you're asking for, and then if we said, like with the hotel use, that you, we're not excluding the right to have a car lot, we are saying if you're going to have a car lot, you have to come back for an SUV. But you're saying that would hinder you in some way as well? We're trying to save consultants and staff and all of our time. The SUV process is not super quick, as you guys know. And it takes a couple different public hearings and different things. But yeah, I think that there's theoretically a scenario where we could miss out on a deal because of the time it could take to do an SUP for a building that's already been remodeled and already has the site work and the parking and already has kind of gone through the process. Well, I guess I'm struggling with that a bit. Ms. Thalple, my question of you is since currently it's being used as a car law and if we didn't take away the use but said the use can only exist with an SUV. Could he not come back for the SUV as it stands now to get that use and then if it turns into a different car lot but it's still a car lot would he have to come back again. Yes so currently also that property requires a S U P for used car sales. However it was grandfathered prior to the SUP requirement place. So it is a grandfathered so legally nonconforming use, that's what it is today. So it's continues as long as it stays, a used car sales, it can continue. So even today they don't have a SUP for that lot. So if the PD still wants to continue that SUV requirement for used car sales, it will continue just the way it is for that specific lot. For any other lot, though, if you want to bring in a new used car sales, then that has to go through a SUV process. I'm not sure I understand even now. So welcome to my world. So OK. So he's grandfathered my right right now because we didn't have the SUP process in place. He has a used card dealership there now. He's asking for a PD with my right to have a used car dealership there. I have a bit of a problem with that without going through the SUP process, but my question is, can he, if we say the only way you can have that used car dealership there is with an SUP process, does that mean he has to shut it down right now? No. No. It doesn't need to be shut down because it is operating today as a legally nonconforming use and as long as it stays as a used car sales, it can continue to do so. Once they abandon that use for more than six months is when that legally nonconforming goes away after. And so if we would require there to be an SUP for car sales, that really doesn't mean he has to shut down what he currently has. That is correct. So does it mean just to clarify, if that particular operator shut down, we would have to get an SUP or we would have six months to refill the space. Yes, if there's a change of ownership, that's totally okay within that six months. Okay, of the business, okay. All right. Councilmember Shepard, may I have some? Thank you so much. I don't know about that. But what I was thinking is given the discussion on that car dealership, if we were just to approve the PD as it's presented, that car dealership could continue even with a change of ownership because it's grandfathered in. And then rather than continuing or rather than approving other new or used motor vehicle sales in B17 and B7, we could limit those to inside display only as Mr. Dopson has suggested, because I think B16 is the only one we're outside. We would we wouldn't even allow like as a landlord, I wouldn't allow it on outside at any of those. Well, my point is you're doing it outside right now, aren't you on B 16 only on B 15? Only on this one right here. F one, it has two. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, the legend's covering up that building online. I'm sorry. So that's the only one where we have outside car sales. B16 right here is currently under construction. Okay. And it would not be suited for anything with outside sales. That's not to say that if Tesla came to me and said, we want to put a Tesla dealership here, obviously we would be thrilled with that. We want to have that option. I guess what I'm confused in is I've got the site plan on looking at it's got a B17 between B16 and B7 and the one you're showing us there does not. So B7 is right here. It's misnumbered? Is it misnumbered on the printout? Oh, so on the screen. can you see the screens up there? Yeah, the screens are correct. Okay. The screens are correct. Okay. So that would be a good idea to get on. And tonight that was supposed to be included in the packet was wrong. Okay. All right. My point is this, if he's grandfathered on the one that he's currently using, and we allow by right only indoor automotive sales or B16 and B7. Would that be a midway for you, Miss K-PART? What are we doing with F1 or B15? We're just leaving it alone because it's grandfathered anyway. If he ever changes the use of that, he's going to have to bring it into compliance. But whether he does the zoning now or not, it can continue to be a used car lot for infinity. Correct zoning or no zoning. Right. As long as it continues that use, it doesn't expand it by 20% or whatever the rules are on that. But just to clarify, that's not our intention. I know, I know. So, yeah. I'm just trying to say if we if we input, quote unquote, impose the SUP process for that, we're really not changing that which already exists. Exactly. Which is what we just said about. And that what you're saying is to be. Yes, but suppose if that car dealership moves out and six months, there's no car dealership there, and that use is now gone off that. It's not allowed by right. So if the SUP process was not there at that time, then and it was permitted by right that any other dealership could come in at that time. And that I wouldn't be able to. Well, if we don't do anything, if we just, if we don't approve it by right. Uh-huh. We just say you can, okay, if all we'd have to do is take it out of the approved uses by right. Right, right. And then the whole kind of how it is, which is the, it would stay how it is, right? But then we would maybe put back in that we would allow inside sales in a couple locations. That's why I'm trying to sure how to structure such a motion though. So you do? Well, maybe we'll, so just want to explain what a motion like that would sound like, Mr. Schell. We don't have any other council members have questions here of Mr. Donson. I'm going to recommend though that you use what was part of the packet rather than what's being displayed so that we are clear on the numbers. Okay, can I get a copy of the packet just so I'm clear? So Mr. Dotson, if you'll follow along with me, I'm looking at that's sheet a 1-0 or 0.02. Okay, I'm there. All right, so on our drawing B16, that's the existing lot, Galaxy Auto. Right. B17 is the one that's under construction. Correct. That if permitted, you would like to be able to do new or used car sales inside only. Yes. And then B7, you mentioned that you would like the ability to do used new or used car sales inside only there as well. That would be a possibility yes. I mean, it's got a big huge, high volume area with enough glass and it could potentially be a really cool, you know, vintage car showroom. If that ever came back. Right now it's legal draft and we hope it stays legal draft. But that would certainly, again, not to complicate, but it's just about providing the flexibility to let the project continue to grow organically. But B-16, you would be amenable to the idea of not permitting that by right, which would impose the existing zoning rules, meaning if that were to go away for six months, in order to do that, use car sales you'd have to come back and get an SUP. I think that's a fair compromise. Okay. All right, Miss K. Part, if you don't mind, I'll try to make a motion out of all that mess. So I'll move for approval of whatever this case is. PD 18-20 urban union with the following exceptions. The building labeled as B16 on our packet handout would not allow automobile new will not allow automobile uses All right I'll use table Which would include Motor vehicle sales new motor vehicle sales used motor vehicle rental Yep, that's it and then the building label Label b17 Would allow motor vehicle sales new and motor vehicle sales used by right But only with indoor display. We know outside display of vehicles. And then building B7. God forbid that legal draft should ever leave. But also permit motor vehicle sales new and motor vehicle sales used by right, but only with indoor display, no outdoor display would be permitted. How'd I do? What about the hotel? And the hotel would not be permitted by right. Either hotel boutique or hotel limited service or residence hotel. All three of those would not be permitted by right, meaning they'd have to follow our existing process. That's my motion. Okay, we have a motion here by Councilmember Shepherd and we have a second from Councilmember K. Parts. Please cast your votes. I'm looking. Oh, there it is. Okay, I just didn't come on our screen. I'm looking. Oh, there it is. Okay, just didn't come on our screen. Hey, motion passes. I want to make a few comments. One is Mr. Dotson. Thank you for what you're doing here. And even your latest restaurants, I love the fact you're attracting all ages there and you're attracting people from the region and really establishing a name for downtown Arlington. And then you're also taking some of our Patriarch's buildings like Luke, J. Luke, and converting them into great uses. Then conversely, Ms. Perkins, points well taken. I think you see here, we are concerned about no more car lots there. And then we are going to be very particular there about the apartments that come there. We do want to afford opportunities for people to be able to live in downtown to be able to enjoy the University of Texas at Arlington and the culture events that are there, the athletic events, and then also the, what are we at? Over 30 restaurants now in downtown, they're with it and they're thriving there too. And I love the fact that they're building variety there because there's a great variety and most of them are all doing well. And that's a great thing too and I appreciate you continuing to find uniqueness and you know Cartel Tacos and Tipsy Oak that you just added are very unique there with it and I think they really complement and then also I think you can see that Division Street is transforming there and you look all the way down it and then let's go on further to the east. Candle light in has been restored, redone and created live music there with it. And then also we have the school district building a state of the art, fine arts facility and Anatatorium on Division Street. Incredible history on Division Street and Bankhead Highway and I love the fact that it's coming back. And thank you for the investment there and then to Ms. Perkins thank you for the spirit of your comments and coming down and that's what we need. Thank you for working it out. We got a win-win I thank Mr. Dodson. Thank you a lot. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. Not so thank you a lot. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. Okay. Next we'll move to citizen participation. And Mr. Buskin, could you go over the speaker guidelines and decorum? Yes, sir. Citizen participation gives a public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns that are not posted on the evenings agenda. However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time as these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay, the first speaker is Mr. Patrick Kelly. Good evening everyone. My name is Pat Kelly. I'll back up to the random apart nation preserve. And I'm in the process of painting my home on the outside. The paint that we've used on the house since the very beginning takes a long time to dry. You all know the difference. And the bugs get in before it dries. Now, I'm old, mind a lot, and I even lowered the mower deck down, you know, so because, you know, bugs can live in that debris, but if you cut a little lower, they tend to find themselves in another place. So I'm old, my yard. I'm old, the yard next door, it's been vacant for four years. And by the way, because I take care of it, code enforcement doesn't have to come out and spend any money. And there's nothing you can't take away from 17, 28 Ridgeview because all the outsides been taking care of for the last four years. Because of me and Republic services, they work very well with my simple request, but I'll make it easy for them to come out and pick things up. Anyway, so I'm on my yard, the one next door. Part of Mrs. Edwards Yard, part of Kate Ross's yard, part of Mrs. Huckleberry's yard, because it's on the west side of the creek, and typically they don't get there people on that side of the creek. So I've done my part in taking care of as much as I can where the bugs might hang out. But the park needs to be mode and y'all know enough about the park that's about eight acres back there and then there's the perimeter that's the south end of it, the west end of it where the mores will go up to it, but they'll stop there. And then eventually that privet gets so big around that a big out front can't cut it. You have to take a forestry more and cut that south and west edge. And that needs to be done because the privet's getting so big around that it's gonna kill more 175 plus year old post oak trees. You all already know how I feel about the trees. I took care of them for 50 years. They're like my kids and grandkids, you know. Makes sense. But now I just can't get a section of the house painted without bugs getting all into the paint. It's 50 bucks of gallon. It's going to look beautiful when I'm done and I've gone up to Home Depot and I've sprayed the yard with the stuff to kill the bugs for the time-brain. But I need y'all's help. I need it, please, it needs to be mowed. Now, ever now and then by chance I would see Pete Jamison, the former park director, up at Whole Foods after church. And I'll let him know one time I said Pete, y'all's practices out in the park are killing post-op trees. And we're out in the park a lot so we could talk like we wanted to talk and Pete through his arms up and says, we don't care. Now on a scale of one to a hundred in concern about parks and trees, that ranks about a zero, doesn't it? I think we can do a little bit better than a zero. I'm not asking for a great deal. We go, Parks Moes, ever, ever, every week, but with me trying to take care of this project, I should appreciate if you guys have a man. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Thank you. Randy Burt. Randy Burt, 26, 23 Rivercrest. I've been here before talking about S.U.P. or the short-term rentals. And so you know my story. I just want to add one more. The elderly lady that lives across the street had a conversation with her shortly ago. When there's people in that residence, she's afraid to even go to her mailbox. And she's also afraid of her property values. So, urging you once again, let's do something. I've looked at option two, I support option two, so I'd like to see some movement. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Byrd. Don Warner. Don Warner, the 503 Bedford Court in Arlington, 76017. I watched the workshop this morning, I streamed it, I would have been here but she don't allow any interaction there in the workshop so there's no sense of being here. But I would commend you on the EDC and on the water district, the water departments, the social proposals and what you're doing with EDC and what you're doing with the city and making it grow. I appreciate that. I did watch intently at the oil and gas issues again and I saw that you proposed to have another workshop. One of many that you've had, I've only been a resident for two and a half years but I think I've attended three. Same subject, same locations in the south and usually at the workshops you get a pretty good attendance. I haven't seen too many people here lately talking about oil and gas but you're doing it. There's two things on your revision to the ordinance that's probably way over due that you're addressing. One is the electric drilling rigs. Your your proposal is to have those on the wavered setback from 600 to 300 feet. And I would suggest that you impose those because they are available on the 600 foot and accept by exception. And the second part of what I'm a crest with me that you look at and this is what the people, when you go to those escape parts, then it's gracious enough to come out there and listen to everybody's screen matter. But I don't know if that message is getting back to the rest of you because you all vote on this stuff and you all vote yes on every one of these things. But you have a setback to 300 feet that you're allowing. I don't think any one of you, I don't live near these things, okay? But I know a football feels length away from a drilling rig is not a good idea and you've got people that are complaining about it and I don't see the action over the two and a half years that I've been here where you've really done anything about that. You don't have to have a 300-foot setback, you don't have to lot by. And why don't you just drop that and then all that discussion on waivers in the process you're trying to have in another workshop is great, but she's going to hear the same things she's heard of the last two or three. Everybody's just going to get upset. There's nobody of those workshop that is for it. They'd like to see you get rid of the 600 footfoot setback and make a thousand feet, which would probably be reasonable if you were starting over again. But when you got into this in the beginning, you didn't know what you're getting into and neither do the people that took the money from the wall companies. And I don't have anything against wall companies. I support wall companies. But somebody has to stand up to the old companies at some point in time and listen to the residents that have these concerns and that's you people need to do that. So get rid of the 300 foot setback. Don't allow the waivers. Let them drill at the 600 foot and let them drill with electric drilling rigs unless they can come in and prove that they can't get those rigs. They're making money, they're making a lot of money. And the residents are tired of that. They really are. They really want you to listen to them on that subject and take action. And I implore you to do that. You can do it. No one's going to hurt you. No one is saying, you know, you stand up for that part. You're doing a real good job on these big business things. And you're listening to them and you're growing the city. You're doing a great job downtown. I just support y'all and all that. But listen to the residents. They're telling you something. Please. Thank you for your time. This one is for an eclarification. We'll have staff get with you. But the city of Arlington has already been with lawsuit taken on the oil and gas industry. And I was sure want you to know about that. And we are pushing hard as a point of eclarification. Thank you. I've talked to you staff and I appreciate it though. Thank you. Thanks. Next to be Nicole Barronick. Good evening Mayor Williams and Council members. Thank you for your time this evening. My name is Nicole Barronick. I live at 1000 Arlene Drive District 1. I'm a stay at home mom to three daughters and one son all under the age 12. I've come this evening to implore you to adopt option number two from last week's City Council meeting to allow STRs in specific zones and zoning district and to do so quickly. I've been a resident of Arlington for 28 years. I'm an AHS graduate. I returned home after college. Sorry. My husband are raising our four young kids here. We bought our we think our forever home on an ideal an ideal street across from a city park, an elementary school, we're close to high school. Our neighborhood, what I think makes Arlington, what makes Arlington the dream city. We know most of our neighbors by first name basis. We know most of our neighbors by first name basis. We borrow eggs, bar sugar, I mean we literally do that. I watch my kids walk to street or I watch my kids walk to school. Every morning I talked to our neighbors that walk past us. In the last two years our street, our neighborhood, our surrounding area has become inundated with STRs. It brings strangers into our, onto our street. There are four houses down from us. We get a new batch of strangers most every weekend. It's not always always but it has Given me concerned I no longer let my kids ride their bikes down on that into the street anymore brings in a lot of younger College crowd if you will young drivers. I don't feel they pay attention to To our street to our needs. I don't I don't know if they're watching out for our kids necessarily I to our streets, to our needs. I don't know if they're watching out for our kids necessarily. I know there are many families that have a similar story to ours, and I'm asking you to help us protect the sanctity, the integrity, and the safety of our neighborhoods that I think make Arlington such a great city and town to live in. So that's all. Thank you. Thank you. Jessica Blade. Hello, Marin Council. Thank you for your time. My name is Jessica Black, and I am also here in support of SDR permitting option two. I live at 2119 River Forest Drive. I'm a stay-at-home parent and mother of two young daughters. We purchased our home in 2014 in reliance on the current zoning ordinances and how they work in coordination with other public safety regulations in order to provide a safe residential neighborhood in which to provide a safe residential neighborhood in which to raise my family. Several months ago I discovered that there is an STR around the corner on Clay Court in my Wimbleton, Wimbleton, North Subdivision. Now that I'm aware of its presence, I'm nervous to let my daughter ride her bike around the corner to her friend's house because I have no way of knowing if there might be a sex offender staying in that STR. Bylaw, I know that registered sex offenders can stay in hotels as transient guests without having to notify law enforcement or surrounding neighbors of their presence, but our current laws to notify and protect the public from sexual predators were not designed for situations where many hotels exist in the middle of residential neighborhoods. Section 1.12 of Arlington's ordinances governing miscellaneous offenses state that a sex offender cannot stay within a thousand feet of a school, public or private, a park or a daycare for more than four days in a one month period. The Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Chapter 62, states that sex offender's residing in communities are required by law to register and notify law enforcement and the public of their presence in the community. However, section 62.059 states registered sex offenders only have to register at a secondary location if they visit the same area three times in a month for a period of 48 hours or longer per visit. Historically hotels and other forms of transient lodging have not been permitted in residential areas. However, if you allow transient commercial lodging, an area's zone for residential use, loopholes are created that allow sex offenders to circumvent the existing laws that are in place to protect public safety. There appears to be nothing that would prevent an STR owner from running a home located within a thousand feet of a school park or daycare to a registered sex offender for a period of up to four days. Likewise, an STR owner could rent a home outside the thousand foot radius to a sex offender for up to several weeks, provided their stay was transient in nature, and one continuous stay, without law enforcement or surrounding residents having to be notified. Some STR owners claim that the rental platforms, thoroughly vet renters, my research has shown this is not true. Vacation rental by owner, provides no information regarding background checks on their publicly viewable website. Airbnb's website states that if they have correct info, they will search certain databases. They go on to willingly admit that some users may provide false info, yet this does not prohibit them from renting on the Airbnb platform. It all states that they only check the name of the named renter, not every individual that will be staying at the property, and they explicitly state several times that any background checks they perform are not guaranteed and should not be relied upon as proof that a renter does not have a criminal background. There have been reported instances where Airbnb verified a user and permitted him to book a home inside a woman's home where she lived with her children. Once he arrived, the woman discovered that he was listed in the National Sex Offender Registry. There was another incident where a sex offender was living as a host at an Airbnb property in California. Given these failures, we should not be comfortable outsourcing the safety of our residential neighborhoods. To third party for profit, SDR platforms, or SDR owner investors, who also motivated by personal profit rather than the safety and well-being of their neighbors. As the council considers this matter, I implore you to the safety and well-being of Arlington's residents, especially its youngest and most vulnerable ahead of the interests of investors and transient tourists. Thank you, Ms. Bly. Jack Shede. Thank you, Miss Blatt. Jack Shede. Mayor councilmembers, my name is Jack Shede. I live at 911, block Laman Drive in Arlington. I've been on attorney since 1973. And I'm here in support of proposition two on the short term rental issue. As an attorney, I've had a lot of real estate transactions. In every transaction, there is a provision that the seller has to disclose any known problems with the property, whether that be past flooding events, structural defects with the building, or an all-of-my contract now, whether there's a short-term rental in the neighborhood. They affect property values and I think need to be disclosed and the attorney that doesn't do that in light of the publicity this issue has generated not only in Arlington, but in North Texas, I think it's committing malpractice. So we're going to have to see a lot more of that. It's going to impact property values. And that's something that needs to be considered in your deliberations. Another issue which I haven't seen discussed much or talked about with regards to the short term rentals is the fact that we always like to talk about slippery slopes. If you don't enforce laws that are on our books, preventing a commercial enterprise and a residential neighborhood, you undermine your authority and your ability to prevent other commercial enterprises. So if I can have a short-term hotel in my house, what's to prevent my neighbor from opening a repair facility at his garage, or a dance studio in the living room? The argument is such that you're going to undermine your authority to prevent that in the future. That's another aspect that you need to consider, again, in your deliberations. But I would urge you to support this second option. I think it's fair to both sides. It will preserve the neighborhoods of Arlington. We're working very hard here to have a beautiful downtown Arlington. Don't forget the neighborhoods. That's what most of the people moved here for in the first place. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Sheety. Stephanie Morrison. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I am also speaking about short term rentals. I agree with the previous. Miss Morrison, could you state your address? Sorry. Thank you. Stephanie Morrison, 1018, Arlene Drive, 76012. I'm not discounting the fear that has been presented here and the problems because I do believe that happens. But I am just here to say that we bought our house 18 years ago. It was a major investment for our family and it still is. We still put money into it. We just did a big remodel. And I chose that house in the neighborhood. And if I had known that it was going to be a hotel, just hundreds of feet from my house, I would have not have purchased there. And so I'm asking you to not allow it in single family, in area zone single family. We have zoning for a reason, STRs are businesses, they are hotels, and I do feel like it's a slap in the face for those of us who are trying to abide by the laws and to allow that is insulting to me as a homeowner in Arlington. So I do feel sorry for the people in the area where you will allow them if you do, but I do think it's fair to have them in areas that are not zoned single family and have them in the business area, which is option two, I guess, from last week. And that's it. Thank you Ms. Morrison. Next we have Tiffany Morgan. Hi I'm Tiffany Morgan. I am a district one resident at 719 Red Oak Lane in Arlington, Texas. And I have spoken before the council before. I came as a pediatric nurse practitioner. I work at children's downtown and I specialize in pediatric trauma and injury prevention. I spoke about my concerns with STRs regarding that expertise the last time I was here and tonight I would like to speak to you more from the heart as a mother. We moved to Arlington not even a year ago. I told you guys last time that I spoke here and moved next door to my brother so that my three kids could grow up next door to their cousins. We have between the two of families we have have two, three year olds, two, five year olds, and a seven year old. Those kids are all learning how to ride their bikes right now, except for the babies without their training wheels. And it's been a lot of fun watching them up and down the street. We've got three other little boys that live across the street from us, three little girls that live next door to them. So it's mayhem all the time. It's a lot of fun. But before my kids who are not real studying on their bikes yet are allowed to go out, my husband and I walk down the street, a couple of doors to make sure that all the glass has been cleaned up from the Airbnb, the STR that's three doors down from us. It's been very disappointing, honestly. We moved to Arlington, like I said, to be close to family. I grew up in Arlington. In fact, the family that we grew up next door to, over 25 years ago, we're still friends with. A baby sat one of the little boys there who's getting married this summer, and I'm helping them plan their honeymoon. Now, on the other side of us, my brother lives on one side and the next other next door to us. They're selling their home. And I don't know who's going to move in there. Is it going to be another SDR owner like the guy three doors down from us on the other side who lives in Dallas and owns about 30 other properties in DFW who is not responsible to us who has no accountability to our neighborhood. Or is it going to be somebody that could potentially be lifelong friends with my kids? I don't know. But that's what we're concerned about. And I know you guys are tired of talking about STRs. We are all tired about talking about STRs, but we are going to keep showing up until this is solved. So let's make this happen. We like option two. And I don't think there's any reason to wait. I stopped 34 more seconds you guys. So I really appreciate the information that was given about sexual predators. That was something I was also going to speak on, which is where my 20 seconds is left. But that was covered very greatly. And I mean, as anyone, whether you have small children or not, that should be a concern for us. So I don't think these are issues that we can ignore. We have extremely distracted drivers up and down our street already and putting people that are not accountable to us. We have the little person sign, the guy with this bright green with the flag. We set him out just to make sure our kids are somewhat safe out there as they ride their bikes. But the people that are looking for their hotel for the weekend are not paying attention to that stuff. There's a lot of distraction going on. So please take care of this for us. Thank you. Thank you Miss Morgan. Anthony Nagy. Anthony Nagy, 1000 Curtis Court Arlington. I did watch this after news meeting and I'm going to ask that the report to Senator Hancock that is going to be done by Ms. Topel will become public knowledge. I'd like to see what the city says to Senator Hancock. Number two, four and a half million dollars of federal money has been put into the community evidently for the support of neighborhoods. I don't think that any of the buildings have been built to make short-term rentals. They've been for the benefit of families and people. The other thing is a brief thing here is one of the jewels of North Arlington is the River Legacy Park. I happen to drive through this afternoon because some of the neighbors have been complaining about the flooding on the east end. It looks like a swamp. It really looks bad. I don't know where the water's coming from but when summertime comes the mosquitoes are going to be terrible. You should look at it. There's a pump out there but it's not running and the water just standing. Now, like the opening invocation, I too thank you for your duty, for your jobs. It's a difficult one and I pray that you receive guidance to make your decisions. The decision I'm hoping that you will make is for option two on short-term rentals. I was returning home from church Sunday morning. I always look at one house that is a short-term rental. There were four cars on the driveway and there were two or three people out in the street walking their dogs. They're not neighbors. The dogs are leaving their digested food on the street and in the neighbors' yards. I wanted to stop and say something. My wife said, leave it alone. All I can tell you is they're not neighbors. If they were neighbors, I don't think they'd be doing that. But right now, you don't know what's happening. It's the guests. I also tried earlier when the short-term rental people came to town to try and understand their point to see whether or not they were good guys. I have since found out, I don't trust them. I have found out they're lawbreakers in many ways. They break laws not only here, but in other parts of the country. I won't bring that up into the public right now, but if you want to know the facts, I'll give them to you someday. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Nangie. Charles Swoffer. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Charles Swoffer representing 2621 Rivercrest Drive. My background is 12 years Marine Corps officer, a currently airline captain for the major airline here in DFW. And I'm here to support the start organization for short term rentals. I'm in pain and opposing view of what's been going on in my particular neighborhood. About the house in 2012 and lived there with pilots and flight attendants for four years with no problems. And one of my neighbors found out and started complaining, filed complaints with the city code enforcement. So I shut it down. I shut it down and opened up a short terminal. That went fine for a year and a half until the same person found out I was running a short terminal. So all of a sudden she recruited two others and they started harassing me. They started systematically calling the cops every weekend. They started complaining, started yelling at the guests, started posting hate mail on the door before the guests arrived, just to intimidate the guest until this December when they went too far and they intimidated an older lady, 69 years old, and her husband, 76 years old. And they were so scared, they didn't know what to do I put up with it, I even had my next door neighbor get in my face yelling and screaming and cussing in my face and I simply responded with my apologies, sir, we'll do our best to resolve these issues. I'm going to be able to do a little bit of the work that I do. I'm going to be able to do a little bit of the work that I even had my next door neighbor get in my face yelling and screaming and cussing my face and I simply responded with my apology sir will do our best to resolve these issues and continue on. Bottom line is as I came back to the property this weekend only to be met by the same three neighbors who have organized against me to start all this harassment and they pretty much told us that there's no way, you know, we're gonna allow this, we're gonna continue to harass you until you're gone. And I said, well, you may like some of the things we're gonna do. We've done a lot of things to change, to try to make things right. And they said, no, there's no way we're ever gonna be happy. So what I'm trying to tell you is that there are going to be people there are you can't please and in this particular case I've done everything possible. So my hope to you is that when this council is dealing with STRs you'll look at everything objectively and look at it from both perspectives. I've been greatly harassed and I hope you'll be fair in these matters. And I hope you'll look at each scenario for what it really is. And I think I'm just as much of a victim in this as anybody else. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Swofford. David A. Sworty. Good evening mayor and city council members and thank you for the chance to speak to you again on the issue of STRs where I have appeared before you on several occasions. I watched the entire video of your session last Tuesday on the subject of STRs and I came here tonight to thank you for paying attention to the problems at the citizens of Arlington have brought to your attention. And I have to say that this isn't just a few isolated residents of the city of Arlington who are bothered by STRs and have had problems with STRs. We have several hundred citizens in Arlington who have joined us in a movement to find a solution to the STR problem. And I'm here tonight also, and primarily, to urge you to please move quickly to adopt option number two. All of the Arlington City residents with whom I've spoken find this to be an acceptable compromise. Their primary objective is to get out of the residential neighborhoods, short-term renters who have no investment in the community have absolutely no incentive to be good neighbors for people whom they'll never see again. I was part of the neighborhood group that helped formulate the proposal that we put before you as a compromise. Our mission was to find a way to allow STRs to operate in areas where they may be wanted, and maybe in fact can be beneficial, but not in those neighborhoods that have made very clear that they want neighborhoods returned to neighbors where they know the neighbors, and not a revolving door of transients whom they do not know. Now, except putting forth a compromise like we did was not necessarily easy because we all started with a proposition that they are illegal, but we got over that and said how can we find a way to work with council? So the proposal you have before you option to would allow them in designated areas, but has strict limitations on operating them in residential areas. Primarily, if you paid your city your hot tax, you could be allowed to operate for six months. If you didn't, you'd have to shut down immediately. Quite frankly, we have little sympathy for those who flouted both the zoning ordinance and their obligation to pay taxes. Now, I've looked at option one closely, and I have to tell you it is a road to nowhere. Ask yourself when you go through it. What are the limits on the number of STRs in Arlington or in the neighborhoods? They're none. What is the role for citizens to speak up before an STR is operated in their neighborhood? The answer is none. What are the limitations on guests? None. Limitations on parking. None. And the on parking? None. And the complaint process whereby the right to operate an STR could be revoked is one that I found stunning. In order to have it revoked, you have to have two felonies in the course of 12 months or three misdemeanors. Now I ask you, what any of you want to lift next to that place for a year and wait for the next felony. So please move forward with option two and do so quickly. I also saw on the video that Mayors expressed concern and I get this about what might happen in Austin. I can assure you that we have organized a coalition here in Arlington and also Great Vine and in South Lake who are communicating with the appropriate legislators and urging them not to support any bill that would strip from you the power to address this issue at the local level. We're setting up calls and we're setting up meetings as well. So I thank you for your attention. Thank you, Mr. Schwarty. Charlie Parker. Mayor Council, Charlie Parker, 501 Crown, Colony, Arlington, Texas. I live there. I get my mail there and I drive my car out of the driveway there and I enjoy where I live and you have made it a very lovely city to live in. However, over this STR fiasco that we find ourselves in, I've had meetings with the astra people, the individuals who pretty much run that organization. I've talked about Mr. Herbert last time, and so this time I'm going to speak about Mr. Fence Roy. Now Mr. Fence Roy, it wants to get rid of the bad actors, so to speak, that are operating in Arlington. And so, Mr. Fence Roy owns a house at 27, 14, winding Hollow Lane, and he says he lives there. He has a homestead exemption there, and he gets his mail out of a mailbox at the post office, and there's no logins that. His phone, however, is one that is out of Florida. So, did a little digging, and we found out that he owns many, many houses throughout the United States. But the one in Daytona, Florida, is, I talked to a lady there today, her name is Karen Baum, and she is the rental program technician at the city of Daytona, Florida. Now Daytona has short-term rental zoning, okay? You can rent a house for less than six months in Daytona. However, Mr. Fence Roy's house is zoned for six months or more. And that means that he can't have a short-term rental in Daytona Beach. And the last 14 months he has had six violations, and Miss Baum will be contacting him, and if not today, then tomorrow about the remainder of his taxes. So what I'm saying to you is there are individuals that are actually trying to make ordinances here. They represent themselves as good operators. And I'll be honest with you, if you don't pay your taxes like Mr. Herbert, which I would imagine Mr. Yelberton, you would contact line barger and get your back taxes from, or Mr. Fence Roy, who owns back taxes in the city of Daytona Beach. They're the good ones, okay? They're the ones who represent themselves as the good ones. Now I want to endorse option two, and I want to do it with a caveat, and that is theRSA has a process where if a STR goes into the NRSA, it has to be approved by the neighbors in that area. Okay? I think that the EDO and the downtown overlay should be given the same opportunity. So I would like you to have that citizen as a citizen, as a citizen, and they should all have the same opportunity to be listened to. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Parker. Gary Trammell. Good evening. Honorable Mayor, the council. My name is Gary Tramall. I live at 905 Breyer Cliff Drive and I'm sorry, Cork in Ornith and Texas 76012. I've been here before a couple of times. I've spoken against STRs. I've gotten emotional about it and I sometimes let that get away from me. But option 2 is out of the bag. Everybody's already spoken about it. It came out at the works session last Tuesday. I was there to see the presentation and I can tell you that I am here to support option two. I think it's known as the homeowners group option. I see this as a good compromise. I would like to suggest two changes. One is in those three districts, I believe that the any short-term rental should get 70% of the approval of their neighbors, whether it's investor-owned or owner occupied. That just makes sense to me. In second, limit the number of STRs in these districts to a total of 8% of the census track, count in both short investor-owned and owner-occupied. I don't see the exempt in owner-occupied from that number. So I'm here to say I'm ready to compromise. I've been anti-SDR. We've had many meetings in the north, Orrunton, hundreds have shown up for those meetings. We're ready to get something going and we're ready to support action. And we will call and write our people in Austin. And we want to, you know, we've got your back if you can support us on option two. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trammell. That's all of the citizen participation and now we'll move to announcements and all. How do we still have one? If I might fill in the respond just a little bit. I won't take very long, but this has happened before. We've seen a smear campaign, and I'm not up here for smear campaign. This isn't a personal thing. But there, once again, we've had false allegations. Levy against myself. I can't see. I'm sorry. Yes. You did your name in address. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Jeremy Fence, right, I live at 2714 Winding Holloway in Arlington, Texas, 76006, I am District 1. And we're not here to participate in smear campaigns or lying about people who disagree with our point of view. The start movement is here because we are an advocate for responsible neighbor friendly short-term metals in Arlington. That is the whole purpose for our organization and that is what we aim to do and we aim to do so by partnering with the city with short-term mental owners and with the neighbors as well as local businesses to promote not only the industry but promote responsible operation of those and to a lot to help the neighbors who have concerns about short-term mental to see that there is a way that we can actually operate these where they will be virtually indistinguishable from any other house in the neighborhood. We've already reached out to some of the STRs here who have had several complaints lodged against them and to found them actually very willing to work with us and what we're asking right now is for the city to be able to reached out to some of the STRs here who've had several complaints lodged against them, and to found them actually very willing to work with us. And what we're asking right now is for the city to also work with us, to partner with us, and help together come up with good solutions to the actual problems that we have here in Arlington. That's what we're looking to do, and we simply asked that you would consider working with us. And as far as option one versus option two, I would just say that option two is the compromise there, which keeps being pitched as a compromise. It compromises from a complete ban, a 20 effective ban of most short-term rentals in Arlington, regardless of whether they're responsibly operated or not. Which that to us is not a compromise. You're banning people who have responsible businesses and aren't bothering anybody. That's unreasonable in our view. So we would like the opportunity to work with you and we're not going out there with preconceived notions of this is what regulation should look like. We're actually going in it with an open-minded view of we register them. We take a look at the data. We work with planning and development and we correlate the characteristics of these homes With the actual complaints that take place not just you know whether there was a violation there whether it was something illegal We as an organization care about the complaints themselves because that indicates that there's a disruption there to the neighbors And that's something that we will follow up on as a start organization now on the other side of that The start movement is not into enforcement. We'll leave that to the city. That's your job. But we are willing to partner and reach out and work with short-term, mental owners to try to make the situation better, to make them less disruptive to the neighborhoods that they operate in. And that's done on the case by case basis. So with that, I'd just like to say we are reaching out to the city council and to all the stakeholders in City of Arlington to help make this problem better. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Finchroy. Mr. Buskin will now move to announcements. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. 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. All right. Any other announcements? Miss Dalman. Thank you mayor. I'd like to remind everyone about our cleanup effort going on this Saturday at the Fish Creek neighborhood park. This is in Southeast Arlington. It will be along the linear trail that goes from Fish Creek neighborhood park all the way to Craven's Park. So there's a lot of work to do. We're going to have tons of volunteers, but of course we need more. So we're going to meet at 9 a.m. either at Fish Creek neighborhood park or at Craven's Park. at 5 o'clock in the morning a.m. either at fish Creek neighborhood park or at Craven Park and we'll go until about 3 p.m. so if you can come for the whole day or part of the day we'll take you for however much time you have. Thank you. Any other announcements announcements?