I'd now like to call the Arlington City Council to order and it's we're privileged to have tonight Pastor Jim Bergen from Gray Street Fellowship who will lead us in our invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, Mr. Bergen, for coming. Appreciate you. That's a great. Father, I thank you so much for your presence here tonight and for the way you're accessible to us when we call upon you. I thank you especially for the leaders in this room and for the way they serve and care for the people. I pray for wisdom, I pray for peace and for strength for the days ahead. We thank you for this city and for all the people. In your name, we pray, amen. Amen. 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. Honour the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one safe under God. One in indivisible. Next, we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions and I'll call upon Mr. Alex Buskin or City Secretary. Thank you mayor. We have four appointments to boards and commissions. To the community relations commission, Sharon Richard, place 12, to the ethics review commission, Andrew Horn, place 2, and to the team court advisory board, Devon Mays, Place 2, and Madison Williams, Place 10. Mayer, this concludes the appointments to boards and commissions. Okay, I'll entertain a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member for our Mars and a second from Council Member K-PART. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to speaker guidelines in general decorum, Mr. Buskin. 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 Maybe 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. Buskin. Thank you, mayor. We have seven items for approval from executive session. One, Washington Drive erosion improvements project, all cash contract of sale, Brandon phrase, trustee of Intervivo's trust fund for the children of Brandon Fraze, 619 and 621 Washington Drive, two sale of City-owned surplus property located at 704, 706, 708, and 710 West Main Street, 100 South Cooper Street, and 709 West Abram Street. Three 2017 aerial sanitary sewer crossings, Phase 2, Patrick James Garbert, four consent to assignment and second amendment to oil and gas lease ARP Barnett LLC and Sage Natural Resources LLC. Least number 08-033, five consent to assignment and second amendment to oil and gas lease ARP Barnett LLC and Sage Natural Resources LLC. Least number 1-0-057, six consent to assignment and second amendment to oil and gas lease. Atlas Barnett, LLC, and sage natural resources LLC. Lease number 1-0-064. Seven, consent to assignment and third amendment to oil and gas lease. Atlas Barnett, LLC, and sage natural resources LLC. Lease number 08-007. Mayer, this 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. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Womman. Please cast your votes Motion passes Next we move to approval of minutes Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor tonight We have minutes for approval from the afternoon and evening meetings from December 4th and December 11th 2018 Do any council members have any additions or corrections? Okay, seeing none, Mr. Buskiner, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. And I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from councilmember K Part, a second from Councilmember Moe's, police gesture votes. Motion passes. Yes, Mr. Rormars. Mr. Baskin, could you show me as abstaining from December 4th, both afternoon and evening, being out of town for business? Thank you. Thank you. Next we'll move to approval of consent agenda. Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 24 minute orders, one ordinance and three resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one through three annual requirements contracts for grounds maintenance of medians and rights of way, interstate highway 30 from field or road to ballpark way, and for water treatment pump stations and remote sites. Four through ten annual requirements contracts for pump maintenance and repair, water repair parts, and hydro-semonia, flocculent polymer, caust, Liquid Chlorine, and Fire Hydrants. 11 annual software support and maintenance contract for eBuilder Software. 12 three-year lease agreement for personal computers and related equipment. 13 through 15 video production, personal services agreements. 16 engineering services contract for the Hooper Park and Woodside Drive Sanitary Suer Main Relocation. 17, 2018 Americans with Disabilities Act and Safe Route School Sidewalk Improvements. 18 Contract Modification Number 2 to the Engineering Services Contract for the Division Street Sidewalk Enhancement. 19 Reject All Bids for Pavement Demolition at the Old T-Hanger Site. 20 SoulSource Purchase and and upgrade of SkyLogix, automated lighting, gate, and door lock control systems. 21 purchase and upgrade of access control system and devices for the water treatment plants. 22 and 23 purchase of renovation and elevator replacement services for city hall and for ammunition. 24 execute contract renewal for retirement committee consultant. The ordinance seeks to authorize 25 zoning case PD 18-19, formerly SUP 18-7 Mayfield Brode Baptist Church Tower, 1701 East Mayfield Brode. The resolution seeks to authorize 26 authorization to retain the law firms of Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado, Acosta, LLP, and Kelly Hart and Hallman, LLP. 27th authorize the request for proposal procurement method for marketing and sales broker services for the Parks and Recreation Department. 28th, 2020 Census Complete Count Committee. Mayer, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. includes a consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, well, ladies and gentlemen, we've got, let's turn to Councilmember Shepherd here to begin with. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remove items 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, and 8.10 for separate consideration. Okay. Councilmember K. Part. Mayor, I'd like to remove item 8.25 for separate consideration. Okay. Great. Now, Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of the items that appear on the consent agenda outside of the items that appear on the consent agenda. Outside of the ones that have been removed. Yes, sir. We have two speakers in opposition to item 8.26. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. Zach Maxwell. Good evening. Zach Maxwell, 2449, South Graham Drive. Please don't throw a brick through my window. I'm here. I would actually ask everyone in the audience to turn to the fourth page of the agenda on the back side where 8.26 is. I think it's important that we're all on the same page so that we understand what's happening here. The City Council is about to approve contracts for the same lawyers that they used to fight me to now defend against term limits, to defend against a lawsuit that has been brought by a man named Bob Johnson or Robert Johnson it says here. Maybe he goes by Bob. So who's Bob Johnson? Well he's a donor and he's a friend of Mayor Jeff Williams. Bob Johnson is a donor and a friend of Mayor Jeff Williams and he's suing the city to invalidate the term limit selection. Now everybody knows I would hope that the mayor was on the opposition pack. You filmed videos and paid lots of money to make sure that I was seeing. And here's a meller that was sent to me and I'm sure it was sent to lots of other people, signed by none other than Bob Johnson. Bob Johnson was here where I'm standing on August 7th and he convinced you to illegally hijack my petition. Thank God for the judicial system because you were slapped with a restraining order on August 15th. And by the way, that settled in my favor. We spent over $100,000 in legal expenses. Thanks, Bob. You're a really great guy. The way I see it, I would say I see it. I would say that anybody listening to this who might have the capacity to somehow maybe get the State Bar Association involved in this to investigate whether some kind of conspiracy is taking place. Because I can't fathom a world where a donor and a friend to our mayor has been given some kind of permission to sue the citizens to invalidate an election because he felt like he was misled. As beyond me, I hope everyone understands that you're about to pay what Andrew Peele said could potentially be millions of dollars to fight the mayor's friend and donor. Next speaker. Richard Weber. We're at your webber, 2703, Chris Moore Court. In echo to the last speaker, I mean, this is basically a gigantic waste of money to hire a law firm that just several months ago was fighting on the other side of this issue, because this guy, Robert S. Johnson, is suing his friend, the mayor, and a majority of the council's friend on this lawsuit. Any attorney could handle this. Why we have to pay an non-godly amount. I'll never know. I mean, the last lawsuit, according to the last speaker, was over $100,000. I mean, this could be just as much. Is a gigantic waste of money. It's our tax dollars you're wasting. I oppose the spending of this money for this law firm to defend this lawsuit. Thank you. Councilmember Shepard, do you was this from the time before? Yes, Mayor, that was from before. Okay. All right. Same way with Council Member K. Part. You didn't have your button. Bush, do you? Well, I think it'd be very important now to call upon our city attorney. And if you could clarify what we're doing here and also if you could explain who these law firms are. Be happy to, Mr. Mayor. Initially, Mr. Maxwell, who was at the microphone a minute ago. Mr. Maxwell had filed a lawsuit against the city. The city did not hire Mr. Heath or Mr. Arnett or either of these law firms to fight the citizen petition. We were defending the city in the lawsuit that Mr. Maxwell had filed against the city, which were related to charter amendments that the city was working on. Those two gentlemen defended that lawsuit and spent a considerable amount of time to do so. We did settle that lawsuit to try to cut the expense. And so that case was resolved. Subsequently, Mr. Johnson has sued the city. And so we have retained Mr. Heath and Mr. Arnatt, if the council so passes this resolution tonight, they will retain Mr. Heath and Mr. Arnatt to represent them in the Johnson suit. The law suit is challenging the charter amendment. The city has already filed an answer in the lawsuit and actually filed a plea in the jurisdiction to try to get the lawsuit dismissed. So we hired, I think we will hire Mr. Arnet and Mr. He, because they have a vast amount of experience, both litigating matters, particularly election law matters. If we had gone out and hired somebody else to represent in this case, we would have to bring them up to speed on this whole matter. So it is more cost effective to hire them to represent in this matter. Had we been fighting the citizen petition, I agree it might look quite troublesome for us to hire them again. But that is not what the initial lawsuit was about. The initial lawsuit was challenging council procedures and whether the council had followed procedures. It wasn't about trying to fight the citizen petition. This initial lawsuit has been filed by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Heath, Mr. Arnatt, have already filed some documentation. We're hoping that that will be heard by the end of the month, and we hope that we'll have a favorable outcome. And just to add to that we are hiring some of the best here to be able to not the most expensive but some of the best to defend and in fact I would think that Mr. Maxwell would really appreciate the fact that we are good attorneys here to try to defend our action here and uphold the election. And that's what happened here and that. Any other council members anything to add to that? All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Do we have any other speakers? No sir, there are no additional speakers. All right. Then I'll entertain a motion. On the consent agenda as a whole, not the ones that have been withdrawn. We'll go to them now. We have a motion for approval for the consent agenda except for the items that have been removed from Council Member Shepard. And a second from Council Member Waman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Okay, now I'll call upon Council Member Shepard here to talk about the items that he removed from the consent agenda. Thank you, Mayor. We received a memo this afternoon from staff correcting a couple of matters regarding items 86789 and 10. So for purposes tonight, I will make a motion to approve item 868788889 with the addition of an account for water treatment operations account number 620105-608 to those items. So if we can take that one that up first, nope. Miss Salis? I think there's an additional zero in that account number. Okay, I'll read it again just to be sure 620105, 60008. You're right that time. Okay. All right, so it's a motion for approval of those four items with the addition of that account number. And I'm not going to say those points. So we have that motion by councilmember Shepard. Do we have a second? We have a second from councilmember for our Myers Police Guest Revolts. Motion passes. Then mayor for item 8.10, there was apparently there was a typo. And so we need to change the account number from water treatment operations account number 620101-6008 to Water Utilities Inventory Account No. 5000-160000. That's my motion. Okay, we have a motion from Council Member Shepard. A second from Council Member Wolfe. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Councilmember K. Partt. Thank you, Mayor. On consent agenda item 8.25, more commonly known to us as the cell tower request from a team mobile over at Mayfield Road Baptist Church. I've met with Peter Kavanaugh who is in the audience tonight and we still have a little bit more work to do on this. So he is in agreement and even suggested that we keep this tabled until our next Council meeting on January 29th. I guess this the date is it not. January 20th? Miss Solis says yes. So that is my motion mayor. Okay. We have a motion. Do we have a second? We have a second from Councilmember Moe's. Please cast your votes. Okay. That motion passes. Next, we'll move to Public Hearing's Ordinance's first reading. And we have zoning case PD 18-11, quick and clean car wash, 709 West Terrace Road, and I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.1, Zoning Case PD 18-11, is for quick and clean car wash. The subject site is part of a 4.86 acre plant development, which is located in the northwest section of West Harris Road and Matlock Road. It is currently developed with a quick trip gas station and convenience store built in 2009 on approximately 1.91 acres at the corner. A car wash is not a permitted use in this PD with CC as the base zoning district community commercial. This rezoning request proposes to add car wash as an allowed use on that subject property with a development plan for the facility. The applicant proposes to construct an approximately 6,500 square foot self-service car wash building. The building will be constructed of burnished blocks, split-phase blocks, and stuck-o as its exterior finish materials, and complies with minimum required setbacks. For screening the wash and vacuum base from the right of way, the applicant is requesting to allow the required landscaping within the perimeter landscape setback to serve as the living screen in lieu of the required masonry wall. The landscaping is proposed to be installed on top of a three-foot tall berm. The applicant Michael Scarborough is here to present the case tonight. the committee. Thank you. Good night. Scarborough, if you come forward and state your name and address for the record. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of council, my name is Mike Scarborough with 3K1 consulting. 118-11 North Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix, Arizona. Here on behalf of Quick and Clean Car Wash. As staff indicated, we're here today to discuss the rezoning of the project to essentially just allow the express car washes and allowed use in that zoning district. Quick and Clean is an Arizona based company currently operating in five states. You guys are very familiar with Express Car Wash and other markets. I kind of have to walk them through what that is. But for time's sake, the customers enter the site, stay in their vehicle, go through an ATM style payment situation, and then have the opportunity to vacuum the vehicle at the end of the car wash, in some cases before the car wash. So it's an Express model versus the standard full service model that used to be prevalent. This is just an aerial show in the overall site where it would be adjacent to the QT to the south and then the health related services to the north, many storage to the west, and commercial to, and some residential to the east. So we're here for the zone change that we described and then the, in conjunction with that, we're also asking for the screening along Matlock Road. Code requires a Masonry fence, six to eight feet tall to screen that type of use. And as we're budding in major arterial, we requested to work with staff in order to do a living screen landscaping on top of a three foot berm. I think it mitigates some of the concerns of the visibility of the car wash, but also allow some visibility of the car wash. It is a retail use. We are hoping the pool customers off of Matt Locken into the facility. It also enables us to mitigate concerns for customers and our employees from a safety standpoint, being behind a six or eight foot masonry wall, getting those services without any public purview or view from the right away. So that's one of the deviations we're requesting. As you can see we're doing some extensive landscaping. It's above for our use to the north. In addition we've agreed to install an eight-foot tall perimeter fence along the north side, continuous row of hedges and then trees and addition to that. So there's a substantial screen that's going to the north, working with staff, there was some concern over just making sure we were buffering our use appropriately to the north for that health related facility. In addition to the landscaping that we're providing along mat lock is an excess of what code would require. We're not just putting in the minimum, we've actually gone above and beyond along Matlock as well. In addition to the Birmingham, we've added more plants and shrubs and trees in that area. that programmatically the drive that we would be utilizing off a Matlock road exists today and would be unchanged. You would enter in from Matlock. You would come down along the South property line into the Pay Station, Kiosk area from there. You would transition into the tunnel. And once you exit the tunnel, you'd have that opportunity to vacuum as we mentioned earlier. Also an item to note is we've got the trash enclosure and vacuum enclosures located east as far away from any residents, I'm sorry, west, as far away from any residential uses as we could make it in order to also further mitigate any concerns over the use and in the noise. any concerns over the use in the noise. The masonry elevations here are shown are very similar to the elevations of the QT adjacent to it. So it'll look fairly harmonious as you go up and down mat lock. The use to the north of us is also a tan light tan desert tone type palette. We did make some modifications to these elevations in order to meet some of the design requirements. One of those being the glass on the, what is labeled here is the right elevation, which would be the east elevation. That meets your clear glass requirement. And then we also put some canopies along the, what would be the south elevation on the north side there. Here's a perspective of the site coming up and down Matlock Road in addition to Rendering 3, which is basically right across, standing in the street right across from it. You can see the Birmingham, the bushes, the trees, and all those graphically are an exactly the way it would be installed. I think you can see what the intent is there in terms of trying to do a live screen there to limit some of the visibility of that tunnel as you're coming down my... With that, we're happy to have worked with staff. It's been a very good process, and we're here to request your approval. Any questions? Miss Cape Art. Thank you, Mayor. I just had it pulled up and now I've lost it. But anyway, so staff had made several recommendations, particularly with regard to the articulation on the building and maybe varying the heights from the, I guess it was from the north to the south end of the cyber call. And then having some canopies over some shade structures over the vacuum areas. Are you okay with the recommendations from staff? When you're looking at the Council member, Keith, when you're looking at the elevations, I believe the majority of the conversation was in reference to this South elevation. Which is here, which is labeled as the front elevation, the very top one. We did add canopies over some of those doors. But what you'll notice when you go to the perspective, which is the rendering too, you don't really get to see any of the things that we added to the front of that building because you're going to have the vacuum canopies that are there in terms of what you'd be seeing. So if you're standing on site looking towards the building or even here at the intersection, you're going to see landscaping, a row of vacuums, a dry-biled, a row of vacuums, and then the building. The building architecture is going to be behind the vacuum canopies that would be up against the building here on the site plan. And what about the shade structures over the vacuums? The shade structures are we have added shade structures. You have already done that? Yes, ma'am. All right, that's what I wanted to make sure. Yes, ma'am. And then the other consideration that staff has pointed out is to add glazing to the southern elevation. Correct, council member K Part that's the elevation we were discussing just a little bit ago, where most of that would be blocked and hidden from the vacuum stations and canopies that would be just sitting in just in front of them. And so in talking with staff, our position was we can add it, but I think it's really gonna be lost in the grander scheme of that building. And in fact, if you look at what we did to the North elevation, all of that, all the glass there on the second elevation, down rear elevation, all of that glass is going to be hidden because you've got bushes, trees, and then an eight foot fence, you're never gonna see it. We like the glass there because you get natural light into the tunnel. The tunnel's on that side of the building. When you go to the front elevation, that's the equipment room. So you'd have glazing and glass looking into what it would be essentially an equipment room. There's really no functional benefit for it. And you probably won't see it. I agree. Genzy, I do have a question for you. So as you pull out onto Matlock, is there a curb cut? So if you're coming out of Matlock, because it's on the west side of Matlock, right? And so when you come out, is there a curb cut there? I mean, can they go if they want to go northbound? Can they go all the way across? Or do they have to travel down to Harris and make a U-turn to be able to go northbound? There is no curb cut. I'm sorry? There is no curb cut. So they're going to have to come out and the only way they can turn is back to the south. Correct. How many cars do you think you're going to get through your car wash on a, generally on a reasonable day? On a reasonable day, Council Member K Part, we are experiencing some of which are between 250 and 300 cars. Bear in mind we also have cross-access through the QT parcel. Oh, do you? Yes, ma'am. Okay. but that still doesn't provide you a way to get Northbound off cross-Mathlock or does it? Oh you're correct because that is median bound on Harris as well. Okay. Do you have access to Harris? Do you have an easement? I'm sorry yes ma'am through QT. Okay. Yes through QT. No, to Harris. Oh yeah, Harris. Sorry. I was looking at the retirement center to the north of you. OK, so you can get to Harris from the back of your property. Yes ma'am. OK, well that might answer the problem. OK. All right, well, I have to tell you, I'm not a huge car wash fan. I mean I use them but I think we kind of have enough and it seems like we have way too many of these and way too many storage units and I just kind of adverse to it but I will tell you in this location it makes a lot of sense to me particularly the uses that you have behind you a storage unit plays and then a gas station to the south of you so it does make a lot of sense but I appreciate the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission and the commission Mr. Buschiner, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. There are no additional speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing. I'll entertain comments or motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepard, a second from Councilmember Glaspy, police caster votes. Motion passes. Next, we have zoning case PD-18-21, a loft Arlington, 4,500 South Collins Street. Again, I'll call upon Ms. Topill, our Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.2, zoning case PD 18-21, is for A.L.A.L.A.F.T. Arlington. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately 2.606 acres, addressed at 4,500 South Collins Street, generally located south of East Interstate 20 Highway and west of South Collins Street, in order to add a limited service hotel use. The applicant proposes a four-story, approximately 73,500 square foot limited service hotel, that will be constructed with a wood frame on concrete slab. The proposed hotel is centrally located on the lot and contains 124 guest rooms. The proposed plan meets all the requirements for limited service hotel except for the minimum area for conference space. Since the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on December 12th, the applicant has taken the following actions. They've added 4,347 square feet of outdoor seating space, adjacent to the conference room. They've excluded certain uses from the itemized use list and the applicant has committed to expanding their best efforts to develop the adjacent lots, lots number six, seven and eight as restaurants only for the next 24 months. Joe Bauer followed by Rodney DeBawn and then followed by the hotel developer, Herende Sy, will be presenting the case this evening. Mr. Bauer's, if you can state your name and address the record, thank you. I'm Joe Bauer's, I live at 35.05 Lake Powell, Arlington. It's a pleasure for me to be here this afternoon. Mr. Mayor, City Council, members, and city staff. And if I can just understand how to do this thing, we'll all be wonderful. If we could go to, there we go, the slides. This is our area. As you can see, I believe that the biggest concern about hotels in Orange and one of the biggest concerns is absorption. And this slide was developed so that we could talk about absorption because neither I would take the rest of my life to understand about hotel absorption. It's very difficult, I believe, for the council to understand absorption. But I think this is a real simple approach to absorption because you have the Hilton, which is on the north side, north-west corner. You have a new Maryach, which has a wonderful name called the Maryach Spring Hill Suites Town Place Suites. They're up there on the corner of, I've got it in Bacadero, it's not really, it's Arbrook in Collins, a new Marriott. We have a new Marriott down here in the southeast corner of the Fairfield, which will be opened in about two or three months or weeks, and then we have two Hilton's. So it's kind of simple to me. The hiltons got three, the maryons got two and it like another one. These people know about absorption, these people know about what's going on in the hotel business and these gentlemen that will speak in a few minutes that desire brothers who are going to build these, they've built a stonewood hotels which I believe I've delivered to everybody copies of their excellent products they've finished the last 24 months over in Fort Worth. It's a 15-minute-hour project so I think between the Mary out to Hilton and the desire your brothers I think they've solved the problem with absorption they're going to build it they're going to fill it up and I think we we'll have a great project in Arlington. The Smith Travel Research Hotel Classification. Better known as the STR. Classifies an A-Lawth Hotel as an upscale on the chain scale. I learned that all in the last 24 hours if you have any questions about that kind of nomenclature or public can't answer it. But anyway, the STR, the Smith people put out a publication and they have qualified and rated the A-LOP as they have all the hotels and they have rated the rated the aloft as they have all hotels and they have rated the aloft as an upscale chain. We have 124 rooms and we have 126 parking spaces. We have a room rate of $135 to $150 asking room rate, 105. We have another education from Mr. Bowers here. It's something called a revenue par index. And your revenue par index is basically the rate. If you have a hotel and you have 100 rooms and you got to charge $150, how much money do you really expect per room? Well, these gentlemen tell me that they have a probability of having an opportunity rate of 70% for the first year. And so the revenue per index, if anybody is interested, did $95. Okay. The square footage dedicated to common use is 750 square feet for a conference room, 1,000 feet for a lobby, 3,000 feet. These are for a lounge waiting areas, about 4,700 feet of common space inside this facility. And I think we all have a problem with thinking about square footage. I mean, even though I'm a commercial rilter, somebody says I need 15,000 feet. It's hard to visualize. 4,000 feet or over 4,000 feet, though it's not hard when you think about it. We all have two gargourages, and any two gargourages, 20 to 20. That's 400 square feet. 4,000 feet, 10 times. So 4,000 square feet dedicated to public use. Pretty good area, about 4,000 feet, more than that. So let me go through this one of, oh, thank you, Densey. This is also the 19 acres that Mr. DeBond has purchased. And I suggested that, let's see, how do we write with this thing? Oh, it's not yet. Can we go back to the other one? OK. So we have lots, 6, 7, and 8. And Ronnie DeBond is a very smart developer. And I believe he has also visited many, many hours with Mrs. Thalman, who is, this is her district. And Mrs. Thalman has expressed her running. I just don't want to, I just don't want a bunch of fast food. So Ronnie has said, we're going to let you, we're going to reserve. We offered a deed restriction on like 678. And they said, no, you can't do a deed restriction. So Rodney said he'll use his best efforts to make sure on 678 for like 24 months, we will have sit down restaurants or do our best to find sit down restaurants. Do I have any more time or any of that? Sit down. Let me run through a brief list of amenities, very, very short. There is, like I said, 4,000 feet of reception, public area. There is a bar with an alcoholic license. So it's not just, we'll give you free drinks. There's a full service kitchen, so they'll be able to serve food as their clients dictate to them. And we have some pool and outdoor grill facilities and fitness room. Any questions? Any questions from Mr. Bowers? This is Kate Bart. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Bowers, are you aware that currently the municipal policy committee is reviewing hotel design standards? Yes, ma'am, and I'm also aware that right now, for example, I understand that they're reviewing it. I also understand that right now, the building specifications for a four to five story hotel in the city of Arganton can be made of wood and does not have to have a steel component. So we're now complying with that building specification if that's where you're going. Yeah, that is where I'm going. And while that is true now, that's probably not gonna be true in the future. And since you're building for the future, I would think, would you consider concrete and still construction? They tell me that, well, first of all, they tell me that that's a 40% increase in construction cost. We would just have to get 40% more on our rate to make it economic feasible. Also in this area, we're in an area where we can't go seven, see if somebody said you got to do steel. Okay, I got to have more money. Okay, then we're going to get more money to go up. We're in an airport overlay. We can't go more than five stories. So we think in this situation, there's going to be hotels in this area. They're going to have to be four to five stories, and they're not going to be able to be higher so we can afford steel construction. Okay, so I'm going to take that as a note. Yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you. Any other questions from Mr. Mousers? All right, thank you. Thank you, sir. Our next presenter, Mr. DeBond. Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council. My name is Rodney DeBond. Our office is at 2935 South Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie. I appreciate the opportunity to visit with you tonight. Handing out now on our 19 acre, it's actually a 20 acre site, that we first submitted plans to the staff February of last year. So next month, we've been trying to get this project approved for 12 months. We've got our RV stories approved. Now is what we're trying to do is get our final plant filed which would include putting in the interior road, all the utilities. And what ComCade did issue a little bit was the city had a small portion of right away about 14,000 square feet at Barden and on our property there at Barden and Collins. We had to work out a trade with the people who own the Valero station to redesign and trade 14,000 square feet off the RV site to accumulate that right away site when the city abandons that right away. We have that all worked out and with the approval of the hotel we hope to get our final plant filed. This picture you just handed out was on the first two northern lots up there. We plan on building two retail centers that will look like that and we'll keep an own those retail centers and they'll have a front and back entrance and we are willing to do our best efforts to for the other three We'll keep an on those retail centers and they'll have a front and back entrance. And we are willing to do our best efforts to for the other three lots. Six, seven and eight to keep those dedicated for sit down restaurants. Nothing with a drive through. And our purpose is with the approval of the hotels, then we'll create an environment up there where patrons would walk from the retail the restaurants to the hotels and back and forth. We're ready to pull permits and start building as soon as we can get our final plat file. However, we're not gonna get that retail, we're not gonna get those sit-down restaurants without the hotels. You need that to provide the other. And will it answer any questions that you may have? Any questions from Mr. DeBond? I would like to add one more thing. I spoke with a councilman found this afternoon, and she voiced her approval for the hotel and the project. Yes, councilman met Thalman, it became ill. Yes, there's why she's not here for the record. So people will know. Any other comments, questions? Councilman Marie Moise? Any other comments, questions? Councilmember Moeys. I have a quick question and it may be for the presenter, but can you skip over to the development plan on the site, Gen.C. It's the last page on the documents that are supporting. It's the picture of the, it's proposed, a share of the hotel parking. And about the fifth page, it says 36 rooms per floor. lower. Because I need a little help understanding the room layouts. That would probably be from these gentlemen. The hotel developer will be answering those questions. Will he? Okay. Well then, well, are you going to speak anyway? Yes. Okay. the hotel developer will be answering those questions. Will he? Okay, well then, well, are you going to speak anyway? Yes. Okay. Then we'll wait. Okay. All right, so you know there's thank you, Mr. Cabbon. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, if you want to come on out. If you could state your name and address for the record. Good evening, Mayor Williams. Good evening, Mayor Williams. Good evening, Councilmember. My name is Heron Desai. I'm with Stonewood Hotels. My address is 6-8-2 Flexstone, Irving, Texas, 75039. I'm more than happy to answer your question if you, while I go down to the slides, I don't know if I have that slide in this presentation or not. Just a little bit of introduction about the brand. I know the city of Arlington is looking to, you know, up their standards on upscale hotels and don't want the economy and motels in the city. And so therefore in South Arlington, there's other brands that are limited service and when doing our research, we realize that there's nothing to this magnitude in the city of Arlington on the south side. So we proposed to ALOF, which is the upscale brand in the Marriott chain. It's more of a lifestyle brand. So therefore, the public spaces are a lot larger for interaction, but the rooms and conference spaces are limited because it's for interaction, but the rooms and conference spaces are limited because it's for travelers, modern day travelers who are just looking for you know finger foods, bar, all those amenities, but not really a full service hotel where there's a big conference space and all the noise. So in a few slides I'll go over of what the hotel actually looks like from a perspective. So these are the guest room layouts. Very simple, you know, things you need. Nothing too crazy about its modern upscale. It definition and interior are all high end so it's not cookie cutter building. The public's place, the reception. It's more of open concept. As you can see, the whole entire lobby is open. It's about 3,000 to 4,000 square feet of open space where the reception, the bar, the seating, the pool table, all the entertainment is all in one open space with live music. The lobby area is also open to public, so it's not limited to just hotel guests only. And then there's like a refuel station which is basically like like a snack bar where you can go pick up some snacks, you know, like a little gift shop, uh, I would say the 7-11 within the hotel. on-set where it's open seating where everything is see through. The bar is integrated as well. There's pool table games that where the guests can interact with each other. Get to meet a stranger. The XYZ bar, it's a full license bar. Very open. And then the backyard, originally the brand prototype is about a, oops. The brand is requirements about, roughly about 1500 square feet of outdoor space. Going through the PNZ Council, we realized that Councilmember, I mean a commissioner made a comment about enlarging our outdoor function space. So we went ahead and increased that space to over 4,300 square feet of outdoor multifunction space in lieu of meeting space. I can answer your question. We're going to lay out. Sure. Are we able to pull up the layout? When you look at your floor plans and I was hoping you might have some photographs of your bathrooms, including the bathroom layout, do you have something that shows us how your bathrooms are laid out? Yes. Because when you look at the floor plan, it looks like the shower opens right into the bedroom. No, it's actually a furniture piece. If I can get to the picture, I can show you. Yeah. Anyway, I just want to clarify. That would be pretty bad. Let's see further back. So there is the bottom right image. We'll show you how the bathroom is laid out. So you have your bedroom space, and there's the vanity is kind of like open to the room. And then there is a furniture, I mean, a mill work wall that encloses the shower, and there's a door within the inside that leads you into the shower. So the shower is not actually open to the room. So that's kind of where is the water closet? I'm just. The water closet is behind here. So on the left side behind there's a water closet. The shower is right here. Okay, so it's fairly open. I got you. I just look really strange on the planes. The draw construction drawings. I can certainly send you a virtual link. So what you're saying is it looks unfinished because that's actually a furniture piece that slips in on front of what we see here. Yeah, that's correct. I got you. Okay. So if you see this, we're not seeing all of it. Yeah, so where you see the the picture that's hang on the wall that wall will get built out of mill work To it's not shown on a construction plan because it's not a fixed wall. I was gonna say that's kind of open for me I wouldn't stay there Okay, I understand now it's just different Do we have any other questions? Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. One quick question. Well, I've got you. So, would you say that this hotel that you're building, there are a lot of schematics here and a lot of art type pieces of furniture. Is this exactly what you're putting in or is this just a rendering of what you might put in? No, it'll be something similar to this. It might not be the exact image, but everything you see are the half to be in the hotel rooms and there is. Right. So I'm looking more at your lobbies and because those are pretty, pretty exciting. Looking, I just want to be sure that's what you really finally are going to do. Yes. Okay. All right. I'm done. All right. Thank you. This floor Mars. Thank you, Mayor. I'm not sure who this question should go to. All right, thank you. This for our Mars. Thank you, Mayor. I'm not sure who this question should go to. Maybe it's the last speaker. My apologies for making you sit down. Quick question. It was mentioned earlier by the first speaker that you're an upscale brand. I just want to be clarified here. At this point, we have a letter of interest from. The A-loft. Is that correct? And then you will later on work out the franchise agreement before you start the actual building. Is that correct? That's correct. And so therefore, what we're seeing to follow up on Ms. Moise's question, what we're seeing here, the renderings we're seeing here, must be along the same lines because you are in that brand scale. Is that correct? That's correct. Thank you very much, sir. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Mr. Buskin, are there any more speakers on the side? No, sir, there are no additional speakers. We do have two non-speakers in support. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Danny Griffin, Barbara Sossier. Okay. Then with that, I'll close the public hearing and ask for any comments or a motion. Okay, we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepard and a second from Councilmember Wolff, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move into tax increment reinvestment zone number one, amended and restated project plan and financing plan and I'll call upon Mr. Matthew Harp, economic development specialist. Good evening. Tonight for your consideration is the first reading of an ordinance approving the amended and restated project plan and financing plan for tax increment read investment zone number one, downtown Arlington. I'm here, should you have any questions? Any questions from Mr. Hart? Don't see any way. We know this one pretty well and appreciate the briefings that we've had thus far. Okay, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition. Richard Weber. Mr. Weber. Richard Weber, 2703, Cressmore Court. Merry Christmas Court. This item should be returned down and refused. We have been siphoning dollars from our General Fund to fund this TURGE ONE for 20 years. 20 years is long enough. You build up a fund and people like Robert Johnson benefit from it, owner of several downtown pieces of land, and he turns around to use the city. We don't need a pot fund to give to special features of downtown. Downtown has already benefited this from this for 20 years. Let's put the money back in the general fund. Let's stop siphoning from the general fund. That's where our police and fire are paid from, the general fund. And stop this siphoning from it. Thank you. Mr. Weber, I appreciate you coming down, but I really would like to turn out to our city manager to talk about how this investment that we're making has actually contributed to our general fund and the investment that we have made and in fact downtown Arlington has really made tremendous headway. Mr. Yeoverton. Sure, Mayor. Citizens, thanks for being here. This evening, the tax commit reinvestment zone basically establishes a base year value of tax value and then as things grow and value in the zone, you take the top amount and you reinvest it back in the zone to continue the momentum of tax based growth. During the first 20 years that Mr. Weber was referring to when we established this tip back in 1999, we established low, moderate, and high, high goals in the investments that you've seen in the downtown area around the Arlington Music Hall, around Levit Pavilion, around East Abram, around Urban Union, and some of those areas that you're seeing come back to life in downtown have led to the assessed valuations in downtown Arlington growing at the high level. And what this effort is doing is to continue the public investment in this area to continue the growth in our downtown zone. It's very important as it relates to the downtown university district as we have a town and gown relationship and as we kind of make downtown and that correlation with UTA really strong, the increment going back in, not only is investment that still comes to our community, it's just in a targeted way, but it also generates a lot of ad valorum tax growth that I think Mr. Weber's referring to, that the overall general fund does benefit from a TIFF. It just takes a certain amount of it and isolates it to a certain geography in the zone or in the city. So all of it 100% comes back to the city, part of it to the downtown area, the rest to the rest of the city. So it's a very good effective tool to grow the economy in Arlington and we've had several of them across the city that perform very, very well. And we believe this area will continue to thrive as we've seen over the last 10 to 15 years, particularly. We need to thrive as we've seen over the last 10 to 15 years, particularly. Busking. Any other speakers? No sir. Okay. Then I'll close the public hearing and I'll call for comments or a motion. Do we have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Walmond, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to resolutions and we have 12.1 D.R. Horton Incorporated amended and restated chapter 380 program agreement for economic development incentives. I'll call upon Mr. Jim Paragion, deputy city manager. All upon Mr. Jim Paragion, Deputy City Manager. Good evening, Mayor Council, citizens. Before you tonight is a resolution that is authorizing the execution of an amendment to an agreement that we have. The city has with DR Horton, Inc., as well as adding DR Horton materials Inc to the agreement in support of a relocation and expansion of the DR Horton headquarters to add a purchasing office and purchasing division to the location in the City of Arlington. This project, DR Horton, is the largest home builder in the world and they relocated their corporate headquarters to the city of Arlington a couple years ago. They employ over 400 employees in the city right now and they are occupied in roughly 200,000 square feet of space in a corporate headquarters location in North Arlington. That headquarters have been so successful that DR Horton approached the city with an opportunity to relocate eight of their purchasing offices that are throughout Texas into one location in the City of Arlington, which represents a significant investment that the company would make in its further expansion in the city of Arlington. So as part of that, a amendment that before you tonight, a DR Horton Materials Inc., which is the purchasing company related to D.R. Horton, would move all eight facilities to the City of Arlington into one centralized location into the headquarters building. And we would, the city as well as D.R. Horton Materials Inc., would share in the sales tax revenue that is generated by DR Horton materials. We estimate that on an annual basis that sales tax revenue that would come directly to the city, just the city's portion, would be somewhere between two and $3 million per year. So I'd be happy to answer any questions. I also know that we have a representative of DR Horton here with us tonight that I know will want to address the council. Any questions for Mr. Parasjohn? Okay, seeing none, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. There's one speaker in support and one in opposition. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium. K. D. Anderson. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Council members. My name is K. Anderson. I resided 30104, Moorwood Court here in Arlington. And I'm also the Vice President of Tax with DR Horton. And speaking on behalf of DR Horton and its employees, we are proud to call Arlington our home and have enjoyed being part of the Arlington Business Community over the past 18 months. Both as an individual resident of Arlington and also a representative of DR Horton, I am supportive of this mutually beneficial resolution to expand DR Horton's business operations in Arlington. We hope the council will vote favorably on this resolution and we look forward to a long and successful relationship with the city. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Busking. Richard Weber. Richard Weber, 2703, Crestmore Court. The original plan was signed, sealed, and delivered. I'm not really sure why we need to modify it. I suspect your work is seeing a chance to improve its operations. It's probably on a line by consolidating these other offices here. the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to change the other. I'm not going to be able to And this all new revenue coming in from this purchasing for the city itself. And could you explain that? Chair Mayor, Council members of the public, this expansion of DR Hortons headquarters does bring 100% new revenue to the city VS sales tax. The headquarters that was built a few years ago helped us bring jobs and ad valorum tax. But the relocation of their eight units across the state to the city unifies all that activity in the city. And it brings as Mr. Parijand said, what we believe is $2 to $3 million of incremental sales tax value on annualized basis to the city, which will help us take care of general fund expenses, street maintenance expenses, as well as venue expenses. Great. Appreciate that clarification. And are there any comments or any questions from Council? Or a motion? We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Pard, a second from Councilmember Shepard. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Mr. Anderson, if you could please send back to your firm there with the appreciation we have for moving the purchasing here because for zero expense to our citizens we're suddenly getting two to three million dollars more a year to put into our operating in general fund. And we really appreciate that and then also we appreciate your continued growth because I see you keep moving up the ladder of the Fortune 500 wrong there too and really appreciate that a lot and we look forward to working together as you stated here in the future there to continue finding more successes together. Thank you very much. Okay next we'll move to citizen participation and Mr. Buskin if you could go over the speaker guidelines into court. Citizen participation gives a public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time, as these items are not included on the posted council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay, the first speaker is Mr. Duane Gilkrieg, Jr. I'm going to ask for your name and address for the right. No problem. My name is K. Duane Gilchries Jr. I would like to thank Mr. Williams, Mayor and City Council for having me tonight. My reason for coming tonight is I'm actually a very new citizen to the great city of Arlington. I've only been here for a year and a half. I've been for the past 10 months managing the new dirt cheap over your own East Abrams. And I love this place. It's awesome. I love the weather. You can never tell. So it kind of pains me to come here today and stand before you all because the issue that I have is traffic. The traffic during game day is atrocious. I live in Miss Helen, I'm sorry, I pronounced it incorrectly earlier, Moise, right? Miss Moise is a district. I live just above Lamar and Collins by the neighborhood Wal-Mart. And it takes me about 11 minutes on an average day to get back and forth to work. Game day on the other hand, it takes me hour 45 minutes at the very least. At the very least, now we're 45 minutes. I do not drive because of personal reasons. So I take Uber and left. It's about $7, $10. It's an acceptable rate. But on game days I usually wound up paying anywhere between 20 and $27. Just to get home. Oddly enough the hour 45 minutes is what it would take me if I walked it. So and I understand that the city has started the the via the via and I've taken it a few times. It's really convenient. It doesn't stop at my house. I have to walk down a Walmart, which is fine, just a little exercise. But the issue is they don't run after nine. They don't run before six and they don't run on Sundays. So if I got to work a Sunday game day, I have to take it over home. Or I would have to petition someone to give me a ride, which is no big deal, but it becomes a bit pricey after a while. It becomes a bit pricey. I understand that the city of Arlington doesn't have bus service. I've heard both sides of that argument. And I can kind of see where you guys are coming from with it. It's really, it's a very well populated city. It's just not really dense. So a bus route may not be the best option. All, you know, that, taking that into consideration, the way that they reroute the traffic on game days, it really, it really doesn't help. The people that live here may help. The people that's coming to see the game, but most of the people that live in your district, we stay home. If we don't have to leave, we stay home because we don't want to get stuck and not be able to get back to the house. So that was my piece. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you, Mr. McGill, Cree. Some life staff get with you to see if we can find some routing for you that may help. Uh, I've tried just about every route, but uh, I appreciate, I appreciate you guys having me and listening to me tonight. It means it means a lot. It means a lot. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Next we have Dave Schwarty. We have Dave Schwarty. Good evening mayor and council members. My name is Dave Schwarty. I live at 2700 Laurel Valley Lane. Here in Arlington and I have lived in Arlington for over 34 years now. I wanna address the issue of short term rentals. You've heard from me before on this issue. In the last five days, with former Councilman Joe Bruner and Charlie Parker presiding, we've had two citizen meetings of concerned citizens about the spread of STRs here in Arlington. We were able to get a couple of hundred people together in two meetings in just under five days because the issue is such a hot topic. And what I simply want to communicate to you is this, that the residents of Arlington want this problem fixed. And by that I mean they want to get the short-term rentals out of residential neighborhoods. Now having said that, I have a couple of things I would also like to say to the mayor. I want to thank him for his statements earlier this last week actually, that you are focused on getting rid quickly of the problem STRs. We've identified some of those for you. They are just awful. Two of the primary victims of one of them is sitting to my right. And we urge you to do that quickly because it's a good first start. Also was heartened in a conversation with the mayor to learn that the mayor will no longer support the SUP process. I communicated that to concerned citizens at two meetings one last Thursday and one last night. Hopefully that plan will be shelved. Your intentions were good, but from our perspective, especially for those who sat across the table with the SETR advocates, they were totally unworkable and they were going to result in waves of litigation, very costly litigation. The question, of course, is where do we go from here? I can tell you that the vast majority of Arlington residents want STR's band from residential neighborhoods. We think they are absolutely inappropriate. And again, you've heard from the suffering from some of the people who have appeared at these meetings. I'm not going to belabor it. I want to tell you though that the problem gets worse every day that you don't take action. When I first got seized of this issue and started coming to see you back in May, which by the way was the first time I ever appeared in front of the council, there were two SDRs in Oaks, North, while I live. Now there are six. And I heard from one of my neighbors last night at the event at J. Gilligan's that they were busing 16 beds into one of these places. And I have to tell you, I get calls every week asking to buy my house for cash and I don't have a for sale sign up in my yard. So I know who these fake people are. I'm not going to sell to them, but it just tells you the relentless pressure that we're under. So we urge it, axon. And I think you'll see that the majority of citizens will support you if you come up with a reasonable solution to get STF as a natural neighborhoods, isolating them in some districts where they may in fact help and where they may in fact be wanted. Next a lot of sense, but we're urging you to take firm action to get rid of them in the majority of the districts which simply do not want them. Thank you. Next we have Bobby White. Mayor Williams and members of the City Council, my name is Bobby White and I reside at 1810 Rhine Valley Drive in Arlington. When we purchased our home that we're currently living in in Arlington in 1977, we saw that as our family residents that we would occupy for many, many years to come with our family to come. Since 1977 though, as you know, Arlington has become a destination city for tourists. And that is thanks to the support and generosity of the Arlington taxpayers. As a result of the influx of tourists for games and special events. We have found that we have to give up many of our shopping places in North Arlington due to the traffic gridlock as we just heard about. We've also had to give up many of our favorite restaurants in resort to cooking at home due to the crowds in restaurants caused by the tourist. But we've done all of this. We've made the sacrifices for the good of Arlington. Now you're telling us that we must sacrifice our single family residences so that short-term rentals can disrupt our neighborhoods in order to provide cheap housing for the tourists. And to that, we have to say we have sacrificed enough. And we draw the line at getting up our neighborhoods and the sanctity and safety of our homes. We are asking you to enforce the laws that are on the books that protect our homes. When a house comes up for sale in our neighborhood now, we're horrified that it will be sold to someone who wants to make it into a short-term rental so that they can provide cheap housing for tourists and make a benefit to their financial income. The result of such an invasion by the short-term rentals will ruin the quality of life in our neighborhoods and it's also ultimately going to decrease the value of our property. Not one time have I heard any of you say that you would like to have a short-term rental in your neighborhood. Therefore, you should be willing to ban SDRs in Arlington in order to protect your neighborhoods and mine. We know that it takes a lot of courage to ban the SDRs, but other cities around this party are already taken that step. And we would encourage you to have the courage to step up, listen to your Arlington residents and ban SDRs in Arlington. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Hal Hickerson. I live at 901 Rocky Canyon Road. I've been a resident of Arlington since August 3, 1974. I've seen a lot of y'all come and go. I've been a resident of Arlington since August 3rd, 1974. I've seen a lot of y'all come and go. I've seen a lot of changes. And I've seen what I consider the city council destroyed down to Arlington because at one time we did have a downtown Arlington and it was all wiped away. I mean, we could have had something to start with but because of the City Council and warning up and new they wiped away. I don't want to get into that. I'm here for short term rental. Okay and thanks for listening to me. I'm not a speaker by any means but we don't need short term rental in residential areas. Short-term rental is commercial property. It is a commercial venture. If you allow short-term rentals, I should be able to have a gun shop in my house. I should be able to have any other business in my house because that's what you're allowing these people to do is have a business at that location. It is a business. Okay, I went to one of the workshops of Wig or so ago, where y'all were discussing different alternatives or other things to do with short-term rentals. I don't wanna compromise. There should not be a short-term rental in a residential area. I think that there's more people you do not vote against short-term rental, I feel like that you're committing political suicide. Just remember that one of your predecessors was really for red light cameras. And now then Mr. Williams is sitting there, this is a hot potato and it touches every citizen in Arlington. It's not just a group. It's all of us. Because at any time you can have a short-term rental next to you. Now, if you're lucky enough to live in an area that they probably won't buy into you, that's great. But most of us don't have that luxury. I live in an area that's probably, there's two short-term rentals within three blocks of my house. And there within three or four blocks of Butler Elementary School. We do not need short-term rentals in residential areas. No compromise, no nothing. Do away with it. If they want to sue you or sue the city, take it to court. Let's go to court. Thank you, Mr. Trickerson. Oh, one other thing. Excuse me for this. I'm not a Philadelphia lawyer, so I couldn't tell what you all were talking about earlier. Is the City Council trying to uphold the election? Are they trying to throw out the election for term limits? The city has been sued by a party wanting to throw out. The results of the results. Okay. And the city is defending the election. Yes. Okay, let me say, not knowing that, I couldn't tell which side you're on. Thank you very much and I appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Next we have Gary Daly. Daly must have left. Any other cards turned in Mr. Baskin? I'm going to go to the next floor. Bailey must have left. Any other cards turned in Mr. Buskin? No other cards. Okay, then we'll move to announcements. And in the absence of Miss Thalman, I do want to get the announcement of her town hall meeting that she's having in her district at the Arlington Municipal Airport on January the 14th and the time on that. You all have that time? I don't know what that is. I'm pretty sure it's 6.30 at Arlington Municipal Airport. She's going to be discussing 6 o'clock, 6 p.m. She's going to be discussing the proposed improvements there in southeast Arlington and the projects that affect them in the new bond program that will be coming the way of southeast Arlington. And then I'll call upon Ms. Farah Myers. Thank you, Mayor. I also want to announce I'll be having a rolling town hall meeting on this Saturday from two to four. Is at the Arlington, formally referred to as the Arlington Adventure Center now is the Arlington E-Sports Stadium. Those of you familiar, the North Entry is near Sheraton. If you come there, I'm inviting people to come out and test out our drive AI, which is our autonomous vehicle Shuttle that we have here in in Arlington. So again this Saturday January 12, 2 to 4 come to the Sheraton side of the eSports Center come out and Take a ride see what autonomous vehicles are really like and also I'll be happy to answer any questions or concerns about what's going on in the city So I hope to see you all. Thank you Okay, the other announcements from council members answer any questions or concerns about what's going on in the city. So I hope to see you all. Thank you. Okay. Any other announcements from council members? Seeing none, I'll turn to Mr. Baskin. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m., 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. Seeing no further business, this meeting still stands adjourned and thank you for coming tonight. Coming tonight. Coming tonight.