For our afternoon work session, City Council will now go into closed session at 1.12.56 p.m. on November the 27th, 2018, in accordance with the following sections of ETCA Government Code Chapter 551.071 consultation with attorney and 0.087 deliberation regarding economic development negotiations and 0.072 deliberation regarding real property. 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Good afternoon mayor and council so we just wanted to briefly come back to and let you have an update on as you're well aware the election results that occurred. We had four propositions, streets, parks, public safety for both police and fire and then an overall facilities, all four passed overwhelmingly between 55 and up to 68%. We currently have authorization for anything prior to the 2014 election has been issued. The projects have been done. So currently we have things from the elections from 2014, 2017 and 2018, totaling just under half a billion dollars to date. We have issued $142 million worth of debt. We're planning on another $55 million later in FY19 and bringing us up to $327 million. So the current overall sequencing of issuing that remaining $328 million. Looks like this. We anticipate using all of the, or doing all the projects for 2014 and 2017, prior to starting any of the 2018 projects, with the exception of two streets, which have some to do in FY19 and 20 being sublet road, which was discussed when the CIP was discussed back in February 2018 and Debbie Road starting in FY20. Otherwise, all of the 2018 will begin work in 21. The drivers for the sequencing are the overall financial capacity, construction timing, so our workload capacity, that staff resource, your priorities, if there's anything that is urgent, that comes up, that needs to be done, and we can move things about. But overall, that's what we have in the appendix to this presentation is the actual sequencing of the initial sequencing of all the different projects. We anticipate coming to you February 5th for this year's actual CIP. That will be presented to Council. So hopefully between now and then you'll have an idea. You'll look at this sequencing and go, yes, that looks good. Because when we issue, when we come back to you with the capital budget, we have five years where we lock in those five years. The first year is the true law, the four years are the intended issuance. And then in 19, we will come back with the actual passing of the budget to reimbursement resolution. And then we will follow our normal cycle. And April will meet with the rating agencies. And then in May and June will sell bonds. At this point, we're also planning on selling an additional almost $6 million worth of COs. That was brought to you with the latest FY19 budget, which is for heavy fire, truck, some parks and rack, and some facilities. So with that, I will answer any questions that you have. And I'd like to point out that at your place, council members, in addition to the information that Ethan put up on the slide, I think page 10 and 11 in the package, that's your place actually gets into more detail. What you saw here was kind of the financial tranches that are available, 10 and 11 in the package that's at your place. Actually gets into more detail. What you saw here was kind of the financial tranches that are available. But behind that now, it talks about which streets go first, which fire stations go second, those kinds of things. So I want to make sure you see this information as we try to balance the workload and your priorities on those projects. So we don't need to make any final decisions on this today. We can have other conversations between now and February. But I wanted to make sure y'all were looking in the now that now we've got voter approval to invest more. Now let's lay out the scope of the the the cascade of work if you will. And so that's what we want to make sure y'all have input on. Any other questions, comments? Yes, Ms. Capehart. Just a general question, Mr. City Manager, so we have time to digest this information. It's not like if I don't say something now, but I haven't just, I've just now seen the list so to speak. Right. So it's between now and February. I think so. I mean, we think it'd be good at the time that we adopt the capital budget and the kind of the forward-looking years that we have kind of reconciled where we're headed. Okay. But as we've talked over the years, the only thing that's for certain in 19 is that year's plan. Everything else is indicative of where you want to go and so we can always make modifications after it So it's never set into the year that we issue bonds But just for everyone's workload and neighborhood expectations and such for people to know when the streets coming that they thought they were gonna get You know, etc. That's always good to tell that story and set expectations with neighborhoods Okay, thank you. Thank you for the clarification Mr. Gaspie. Thank you, Mayor. On the active adult center. So we were, I know we moved into design in 2019, but we're still projecting like 2021 before we. That's correct. like 2021 before we. That's that's correct. And 2021 is when we have a large amount of capacity. So that was when we're projecting to actually begin the work. Okay, so it's on it's on the first page midway down. It was the question about the timing of the active adult center. And if you go down, you'll see 2017 Parks and Recreation Active Adult Center. And so the preliminary budget for 19 would indicate $4.5 million for design that would be available in February if you kept your plans. It's such a big project. We've actually planned two years worth of design and public input. So then we would be looking at making capital available for the project's construction in the early part of 2021. Other questions, comments? Yes, Mr. Glass-Bee? Just a comment. This is a nice way to lead it out. It's very easy to read. Appreciate that. Thank you. It's not serious to that part. Mr. K. Part. You know, okay. All right. Okay. We'll study this and appreciate this report, Mr. Claus. And exciting to see there how all four of these bonds passed here in the citizen support here for the four of these. Okay, next another important topic, flood response update. I'll call upon Miss Amy Cannon, interim assistant director, stormwater. All right, thank you Mayor and Council. Good afternoon. I'm Amy Cannon. I'm with the Public Works and Transportation Department. I'm here this afternoon to give you an update on our response to the fall flooding that we had. Just as a quick recap, we had a total of 32 inches fall between September and October. It was 16 inches in September and 16 inches in October. We had 203 structures. This includes homes, apartment buildings, and commercial properties that receive water in them. And this map that you see on this slide, it is actually the location of the structures that flooded. Most of these were centered on the Rush Creek and Johnson Creek watersheds on the west side of town. on the Rush Creek and Johnson Creek watersheds on the west side of town. The mitigation strategy just to recap that we are taking is we are approaching things through watershed study projects that were identified, the capital improvement projects that have already been identified. We're taking a look at the new areas that came in, that came to our attention from this fall flooding We're proceeding forward with the voluntary buyout program and then we're also handling the erosion and debris management concerns On a case-by-case basis now all five of these approaches are happening at the same time This is not we need one to proceed forward with the next one This is all five are going on simultaneously. That staff is managing. So for the Watershed Study projects, these are the large scale projects, like the regional detention ponds, the roadway crossings that have been identified in the Watershed Studies as we've gone along. We're talking these areas drain thousands of acres, hundreds to thousands of acres, is not very small scale. And what we do in the course of the Watershed study is we actually identify these locations and then prioritize and rank them during the study. So each watershed has, it's basically hotspots identified for us to do improvements. And then we execute the plan for these, from these watersheds, as opportunities present themselves. So if a roadway is being repaved, reconstructed, if there's water and sewer line improvements, what we do is we try to bundle them all together and approach these projects with multiple departments as a way to save money because they are a large scale. This previous slide, this picture right here is actually a watershed study project. We had the opportunity to go in and reconstruct the channel and at that time we removed the box culverts that were originally under the street that were undersized and they resulted in four or five homes flooding pretty frequently. And so we took the opportunity with this channel project to go in and do the additional improvements and then now no one floods in this neighborhood. So these are the type of projects that we have with that. These are very large scale. We are currently on track to finish all of the watershed studies and identify all of these larger scale projects by 2020. The next mitigation approach is the 2019 Capital Improvement Program. We are proceeding forward with the projects that were identified in the CIP last year, which includes the Matthews Court drainage area, which did receive additional flooding in the past couple of months. They've the neighborhood flooded twice severely. So phase one of that is still moving forward. Phase one of the construction improvements. The Harvest Hills drainage design is still moving forward. Our annual contracts for string-gauge maintenance, engineering support services, those type of things still moving forward. What we do have new on the 29th, well, we're identifying as new projects on the 2019 CIP, our three individual contracts that I'll get into further about the localized drainage issues and then the infrastructure damage and then the California Lane drainage study which is very much on the edge of both the Rush Creek and Johnson Creek basins. They received a significant amount of flooding so we were proceeding forward with doing a drainage study on that and we had a public meeting earlier in late October to receive feedback from the neighborhood on that. So that is, that project is moving forward. So for one of the three contracts, we are looking into evaluating the localized drainage concerns that we have received. This is 60 areas total. And what we're going to do is we're going to take the watershed information, which is the 100 acre basins, those type of things and break them down to the storm drain, to the flume, to the inlets where people reported flooding and take a more in-depth look but still keep it high level so we understand how frequently do these 60 locations flood. And we're going to take that information and then prioritize and rank them. So we understand how frequently do these 60 locations flood. And we're going to take that information and then prioritize and rank them. So we understand where they need to fit in our capital program. That contract is currently being negotiated and finalized right now. And we expect it to be on the December 11th agenda. And then with results by the end of 2019, so we can start programming it into the 2020 CIP. The next contract will be to evaluate bar ditches. And so this is up to 10 locations that have flooded to some degree, and this is all structural flooding. And so we're gonna have a consultant evaluate whether or not we can do simple, you know, barge-itch changes, add new different culverts or do we need to take a different approach like add storm drain systems, add different ways to prevent flooding to these barge-itch systems. And so that contract is also being negotiated right now, and we expect to have that on the January agenda with results also by the end of 2019. And then the third contract will be to evaluate damage infrastructure such as the channel that's pictured here. This is gonna be 10 locations where inlets, storm drains, head walls, erosion has happened on public storm drain and gym infrastructure. We're going to go in and have an engineer take a look at it and design the improvements to make sure that what we put back, what we repaired, isn't break in this nature again. That contract is also currently under negotiation. We expect it to have it on the agenda in January with results also by the end of 2019. For the ditch contract and the damage infrastructure contract as we proceed forward next year and identify some of the solutions that are needed for these projects, these locations, we will match them up as opportunities present themselves, but we are kind of expecting most of these to have their own separate construction contracts. But all of this will be wrapped in and featured on the 2020 CIP. And then our next mitigation approach is the voluntary flood by out program. Just to reiterate the criteria, we are looking at property owners who are willing to sell to us who have flooded repetitively and frequently, predominantly in the flood way, they have been substantially damaged so that's 25 percent. They have sustained damage so that is 25 percent of their market value and they have been identified in a watershed master plan. For the properties that are not in the flood plain, because this is this criteria is largely for flood plain properties, so they live, say, next to a storm drain system. What we're doing is we're actually analyzing what's the feasibility of improvements, because when we are selecting these properties whether they're in the floodplain or they're not, we have to really look at what's the likelihood of recovery. Can we do storm drain improvements? Can we do other infrastructure improvements to reduce their risk of flooding? So as we receive requests that are out of the floodplain along the storm drain system or a roadway or anything like that, we will actually go through and do some basic engineering calculations to understand what's happening and what's the feasibility of being able to construct an improvement. So we are basically waiting everybody out so that there is an equal waiting for people in and out of the flood plain so we know what their flood risk is and what the likelihood is of their recovery. Right now we've got two properties that are moving forward with the buyout. So those are on the agenda tonight. We have completed the substantial damage determinations for all of the properties that have requested a buyout. We do need to receive all of the requests from people by December 7th, so we can include them in the 2019 CIP if they meet their criteria. So if you have folks that come and ask, what does it take to get into the buyout program? Please have them reach out to us because December 7th is our cutoff to be included in the 2019 CIP. And so our next steps is to go ahead and get the abatement contract for the two properties that are on the agenda tonight. Schedule the demolition based on when they're closing as we expect all that to occur by the end of spring of 2019. We're working on completing the appraisals of the four commercial properties and then two residential properties that requested a buyout after these first two properties have come on. And then we're all we're expecting to have every property abated and demolished by the end of 2019 assuming that each of the property owners accepts the offer and they're willing to continue moving forward. And then finally, for erosion and debris management concerns, we are still moving forward with the four pilot program or projects that were selected. All of those projects are currently under design. We did have two locations that sustain more damage that we are currently evaluating to see. One needs to be done to take care of it. We are still increasing our focus on protecting public infrastructure, which is water sewer, storm drain roadways. But we are evaluating as concerns come in, each erosion concern to see what the impact is to public infrastructure and advising the property owners as needed. And then for trash in debris management concerns we are removing debris that is blocking flow around bridges and culverts this is what the public works crews are doing and then if the residents have concerns on private property we are looking into supporting neighborhood efforts to provide neighborhood cleanup opportunities for people to clean up their private property. So with that are there any questions or comments? That's Ms. Walman. Thanks for a good report and probably been involved in over half of them. But anyway, you know, it's Westside got it. On the erosion, because that's something that if we can stop it, we can save some homes. Otherwise, because we're seeing that erosion with the kind of water that's moving now through those tributaries, it's eroding something, it's uncontrollable. Are we using any bioengineering on that and does the city pay for it? I know we had a project in the past where we did that and did that work and is it better? And are we still looking at that? That's avenue we are? Yes. Avenue we are. Okay. Do we pay for it? Does the homeowners share? Do they have to share in any of this the cost of doing this? Currently with the way that the projects are structured, they're dedicating easements and then we are constructing, we're paying for the improvements. Okay. So that is currently how the program is structured. How many do you think, because I think they're not just over on the west side. I know that there's some down in District 2 that we've talked about years ago. And I don't know where, I think there was something in one. But how many, do you have any idea about how many homes are in danger of erosion. Because it's going right back in there. And it's eating, I think we've lost one. I know for sure where erosion just eroded under the house. So we had to demolish it. Yeah, I'll have to look into that and get back with you on the exact information. So each watershed study, we do look at stream erosion. And so we have an idea of where our highly er highly erodable streams are the ones that are most at risk for having severe bank failure so I get calls and it's you know it's a scary thing because they can see it happening and how long do we wait before we get in there and get something done that I guess that's kind of what I'm asking thank you just to add a little bit to that there's two things that we need to consider. And one is the stormwater utility fee. We cannot use that on an individual basis. It has to be used more on a stream bank or a stream section. And then the second thing is, is these erosion situations are becoming more and more visible around the city. And I think we probably need to have a more in-depth discussion on how we take the available store motor fees that we have and either apply them to erosion or flooding and how we balance that need out because we're starting to get overwhelmed with both needs. So we may need to have a more in- depth discussion on that as well. we're starting to get overwhelmed with both needs. So we may need to have a more in-depth discussion on that as well. Okay. Ms. Sheppard. And maybe you clarified with your comments there, but as you know, I've got a couple of folks that have contacted me about the erosion problem behind their house. And just to be sure that I'm not confused, the erosion that y'all are talking about maintaining and fixing is erosion that are threatening public improvements, not erosion that's merely threatening, I'd say merely, but threatening someone's house. Because there's been some confusion about there are several people whose backyards are roting and there's the whole, can you do anything in there or not do anything in their issue. And I've been left with the impression that the only erosion control the city was directly involved in was on property where public infrastructure was at risk. Can you help me with that? Yes, typically our erosion projects are just for protecting public infrastructure. We do have the four pilot projects that were selected in neighborhoods where most of these, there are structures threatened by the erosion. These are, I guess, worst of the worst that were identified in the Rush Creek watershed study as well as one in the northern, one of the northern watersheds. And so these, these particular properties along these reaches, there are some structural threats. And so that's one of the evaluation points in the erosion pilot program was to understand, like what does it take to really correct these issues on a reach by reach basis when structures are threatened, so we can have a better idea. So. OK. I joined Miss Wileman and the idea of bringing that up back up for discussion. One of the things that's occurred to me through this process is we're kind of playing whack-a-mole in a way because each time the stream bank changes, the watershed study is invalidated. Each time we remove something from the flood plane, the watershed study is invalidated. So there's no ad and subtract things. So as the stream gets wider behind someone's house due to erosion, the water either accelerates or whatever it does, but it doesn't do what it did before, I know that. And so it seems like we're chasing an answer that we're not gonna be able to find unless we start getting some concrete, probably expensive steps about how we're going to tackle this problem methodically because at the moment it's we're just running all over the city trying to fix problems that create additional problems that we're running all over the city to try to fix. Ms. Moise? I concur with everything Robert just said we have some situations and I know y'all are aware of them in North Arlington along Mossio and it's part of the Randall Mill Park is the creek that throws to that park. I have been to residents houses in the last few months and seen enough erosion that two and three and four large trees. Now, fall across the creek and its residents, they're responsible for removing the trees, which they're doing, you know, cost of a thousand of 1500 a tree. And they actually could probably find the money to shore up their part of the creek. But in talking with them, we don't see how, and you know, our mayor is an engineer, you probably understand what I'm talking about, they don't see how and you know our mayor is an engineer you probably understand what I'm talking about they don't see how if they short just their section of the creek what's going to stop it from them just eroding behind their their walls so they're kind of in a catch 22 so we need to try to help these residents protect their property and I'm not saying the city should do it, but somehow it seems like we should help coordinate something where they have some options other than just trying to continue to see their lander road. And we've said for a while in that neighborhood, because I do live in that neighborhood, that we can see that the creek is changing course. And so where the neighborhood might not have been as affected as something happens in one area, it forces it to change course into another area and cut deeper into someone else's lot. And you know, they're all kind of stymied. So I think anything we can do, even if it's meat and have further discussion and just see what's possible, I think, is going do, even if it's meat and have further discussion and just see what's possible. I think it's going to be the key. Other questions, comments? Ms. Cape Art. Just as we proceed with the buyouts. So we're going to be owning properties that are kind of hopscotched around the community around the city. So do we have a long term plan of what we're doing with those properties? Or are they just going to stay as open space, green space? I know when we did Summishady Valley, and we've done some out in District 2. So long term, do they get incorporated into the park system? Or do we really have a plan for that? Fixed out? No? Well, we keep them as open space most of the time because they're really, because they have such a high flood hazard. So high flood risk is not safe for people to rebuild there. And so long term, we mo, we mo and keep the property up to code in that sense. And then if parks has the opportunity, they'll incorporate it into their overall system if they, if they. Yeah, I just might add it depends on the size of the lot. And if there's any contiguous lots, if it's like the two that are on your agenda this evening are really separate lots. And so If it's like the two that are on your agenda this evening are really separate lots and so they'll need to be able to flow let drainage flow and Just be mode and let the little water flow so there won't really be any improvement That can be made and then you can't do anything with it because it's single lots So you can't turn it into a park or something like that whereas in shady valley you had a clustering effect and you could or something like that. Whereas in Shady Valley, you had a clustering effect and you could contribute it to make a dog park or other open space. So it really depends on the situation as far as what's created. So do we accommodate that in the budget every year for these additional mowing areas that we're going to have to... Okay, thank you. Ms. Walman. Maybe I'm wrong about this. I mean, I think I have asked this before. But I know in Shady Valley, that was because FEMA insurance bought them out. And so there's in there a stipulation that it can't be used for anything. It has to always just be public land. You can't ever use it. Just open public land. Now I don't know that, but in this this case the city is buying it not FEMA so is there a different rule or is it does the city just follow along with what the FEMA or rules say we just follow we generally so federal grants if we have a federal grant we can't build we have to keep it as open space and perpetuity for these lots that we are purchasing now. It's completely with city funds. And so we do have the opportunity to rebuild, but in most of these cases, it is not possible to rebuild because of the high flood hazard. Other questions, comments? Well, I think you opened up Miss Ms. Cannon, I think, with a very important point that you're going forward on all five fronts here on addressing these at the same time. And I think that's real key for our residents because they fall in one of these five categories, and so they are being studied and worked on. Another important point is that we don't have outside funding coming in. We were not declared a disaster area. Most of these are localized flooding of some kind. There are two of varying degrees. A lot of it because of engineering that was done decades ago without the benefit of the state of the art design for drainage that we have now. And so we're having to go back and try to help the people. Well, we are trying to accelerate that as fast as we can, but it's never fast enough, you know, because our residents that have experiences flooding, it's awful. It's not clean water that comes into their homes. It creates a very tough situation there for whoever it is, and many have had to leave their homes. So, really appreciate our staff is putting in extra time, pushing hard, and then we're also hiring extra help. And you heard that too, that here in the way of adding to our on-staff engineers to help us there to evaluate the situation and to be able to move forward. And then of course, we'll also, and the days ahead, be evaluating there where the money comes from and and then the timing of of what we do and then you can see that we've got two I was very encouraged to see that we have two homes tonight that were voluntary that we're able to move out on that fit the criteria that we had and then also there's projects that were already in the in that were moving ahead on to. And then I don't want us to lose sight of the fact that we had the worst storms that we have ever had since 1957 in Arlington, Texas. And a lot of the other cities have too. So these are very large storms that we have. And I am very thankful of the methodical approach that we have had over the, especially the last decade, because we all know from the floods in the 90s here that we literally would have had seven or eight hundred homes that would have been flooded here in this hundred if we had not taken the steps that we have here to be prepared for it. So we're getting closer and we'll keep working on it here too. And then the other good news is that most of the flooding you're seeing is from our older subdivisions and older projects. Our new ordinances and our new designs are protecting the residents and doing better. But as an engineer I'll tell you that in the 60s and 70s they didn't have the benefit of the knowledge that we have now there to be able to design it in much better. For one we don't design drainage running through houses anymore. There. And they didn't intend to, but that was the consequences there of what happened. So we'll continue to communicate and meet with our residents that are affected and continue to move out on that and appreciate the council members here for the time that they're putting into and continuing to try to give the personal attention to our residents who have experiences flooding. Thank you, Ms. Cannon. I appreciate Ms. Carmichael, Ms. Wolf. And you may know, Mr. Mayor, I was just curious if we as a city are working, are planned to, or in the works, working with our adjacent communities or we share major roadways that they because they experienced everything that we did too. So do we the staff meet with those representatives periodically or as upon request or. Sorry. When we are designing new roadways or like reconstruction of a roadway, we will coordinate if we're if we're cross, you know, crossing or close to the border of Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Canada, whatever be the case. So yes, we do contact them. Some of the storm, the watershed studies that we've been in contact with them with our major creeks and such. So yes, we don't have regular meetings, but it's you're not isolated. Correct. It's quite frequent on projects. I think that's good that we can share with the neighborhood that there there is that opportunity for that along with. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. All right. Next we'll move to our gas oil discussion. And I'll call upon Ms. Jinsy Topel Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Jinsy, the Opal Planning and Development Services Director. We wanted to show you the progress we have made related to the ordinance amendment language since the last gasful discussion on November 13th. So Jessica Youngblood, our gasful coordinator, will go over each item by item that was discussed and then seek approval, your approval, or any suggestions to move forward on those. your approval or any suggestions to move forward on those. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council, Jessica Youngblood, Gaswell Coordinator. This afternoon we're going to continue our discussion about gas wells from our November 11th, 13th meeting, excuse me. So per council's direction to following items will be presented for consideration. So we're going to talk about the concurrent process which involves the specific use permit and the gas board permit. We're going to also talk about the supermajority vote requirement for setback reduction. We're going to talk about truck staging, citizen noticing, dust, noise. We're going to go over the road damage assessment, how we're gonna handle that. What are acceptable ambient noise level? What is an acceptable ambient noise level assessment? And also we're gonna talk about air quality monitoring stations. So currently our gas drilling and production ordinance does not require the specific use permit and gas fuel permit to run concurrently through our process. And the recommendation as directed is to require that the drill zone and the gas fuel permit run concurrently. So please note that this has been normal practice in the past, but we did have an operator bring them separately. So we could amend Section 5.03D with the following wording. After January 1, 2019, all initial gas will permits shall be applied for concurrently with an application for a new specific use permit or an amended specific use permit establishing a drill zone. And sorry, yes, sir. Well, I think maybe we ought to, especially as we go through these, I think we ought to discuss some. You probably were going to do that. It took the word right up and out. Yeah, okay. All right. With that, how do you all feel about this requirement here? It makes a lot of sense. And everybody in agreement to go ahead and implement this. I think it's a much more comprehensive look at what's going on. And we get to look at the whole picture at once. So with that, we'll direct staff to move forward on that. So now let's talk about the super majority vote requirement for setback reduction. So the recommendation is to remove the option for a simple majority vote if 70% waivers are obtained by the gas will operator when they are requesting a setback reduction from the required 600 feet from a protected use. So we could amend this, so section 7.01B could be amended to delete the following language. So this setbacked since may be reduced by city council to not less than 300 feet upon the affirmative vote of not less than a super majority of seven members of City Council. So basically we'll take away the way the need for waivers for the operator and council will just vote. And to get it approved, you would need a supermajority vote. We have any comments, questions on this one. So is everybody good with moving forward on this one? All right, then we'll plan on moving forward on this one. Okay. So next let's address citizen notice noise truck staging and dust. So I wanted counsel to note that all of these will fall under the special requirements applicable to gas fuel permits issued for gas wells located in drill zones within 600 feet of a residential use. So notice the recommendation is to increase the required 600 foot city notification to a quarter mile. So section 7.0 one could be amended to add the following. No more than 30 day noted no more than 30 days prior to the date of the public hearing before city council for a gas will permit under this ordinance. the city shall notify each surface, each surface owner of property as shown by the current tax role within 1,320 feet of the SUP boundary. The notice shall specify the time the date location of the public hearing. Such notice as outline below outlined below, shall be by depositing the same properly addressed in post-stitch paid in the United States, in the United States mail. Notice shall be sent to all registered neighborhood associations within one mile of the proposed drill zone. Oh, sorry, drill site, excuse me. Mr. Shepard Just a question I had about that that if you go back a slide it It's suggest that these four things would only be applicable for Welles located within 600 feet of a residential. Yes, sir. So there are some gas wall sites that have wells that are outside of 600 feet. So they meet the 600 foot setbacks. So you have some, I think we have maybe three or four that are 1,000 feet away. And so to notify residents within 1,320 feet, we kind of thought that it was just not necessarily applicable, applicable to this particular standard. So. But if an applicant had was at 601, let's say, from the nearest protected use, then they would not be required to send out notice of 1320. Yes, sir. That's how the standard reads. Yes, sir. Okay. Any thoughts on this one? So we can definitely take certain aspects back and review them and based off of comments. So we don't have to move forward on every aspect that I move that I talk about today. What do you think, Mr. Well, I'm in it. I don't want to get into necessarily splitting all of these next. But I thought we talked about. Making the notice requirement 1320 period. I don't know that we were thinking about for gas well site X it would be one notice requirement gas well site Y it would be a different notice requirement. But I'm I'm okay with doing that based on Jessica's input that we don't have that many that are you know outside to 600 feet but when we get into the rest of this though I guess is where I start wondering why we would differentiate between one that is 601 and one that is 599. So some of these other standards. So maybe we wait and go back, I don't know. Okay, Ms. K. Poude. Well, to your point, Mr. Shepherd, if you're looking for consistency, if you will, which is basically what I think we're talking about, there are only three gas wells that would fall outside of this. Yes, ma'am. Yes, sir. So, I mean, we could just go ahead and make it standard across the board. It's got to be a quarter mile, whether it's 600 feet or 601 or 1000. And then you've got consistency. And there's not a question in the public, well why is mine different than the one across town? Okay. Really, I think I'd prefer that because there are so few adversely impacted. Otherwise, I think it makes more sense. And then the public knows there's not an exception basically to that. So everybody all right with that? Yeah. And then Miss Thelmont you have come in. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah. So I agree with the viewer comments and just that the point of us revisiting this is to make our ordinance as safe as it can be. And so I think notifying all of those residents helps them to be empowered for their knowledge. And then can we move forward one side? I've got to where we were. So question on the last sentence, notice will be sent to all registered neighborhood associations within one mile of the proposed real site. Is that the radius that we're doing right now? One mile? Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, so I think we'll make this 1,320 for all. Okay. So also associated with notice, the recommendation is to require the operator to send out notification of work over operations to all residents within a court of a mile. So section 5.03g could be amended to add the following. In addition to operators notice to the inspector required under section 5.01E of this chapter, an operator shall give written notice to all residents within 1,320 feet of a drill zone at least five business days before activities begin. before activities begin. Does is written notice defined to some certified male is there some? When you say written notices does that mean they can just first class male Certified male carrier pigeon. I'm gonna I'm gonna defer this to my director, because there is. Just saying we like, we don't just certify mail. Okay. She said the same way that we do, we don't do certified mail. Okay, so it's first class mail to the owner of record on TAD. Okay, all right. Any comment, any further comment? Mr. All right. Any comment any further come Mr. Glassby. Most mark now. Yes, Mr. Sherry. It's the only thing in this this this yeah, this is another can of worms here, but I think the intent is for the person occupying the house to get the resident, I mean, to get the notice, not necessarily the owner of the home. So it probably isn't that common, but it could be that if the landlord were paying the property taxes, the landlord's address would be on TAD. So when I said TAD, I wasn't really thinking about that. So the written notice would go to the property address. Yes, this is going to the property owner. If it has to go to that actual address, then they probably could have a flyer or something that they are taking to every home. And this is not a requirement per state law. So what we have in the previously what we had 600 foot or the 200 feet, all that per state law we are required to send to the TAP property owner. And that's what we have been doing from the city's perspective. But if we wanted to make some change here, what the operator is sending out, that's up to us at this point to decide. I think part of the exercise is to be sure, because I know we've gotten a lot of feedback from people that I assume were tenants. I don't know that, but they claim to not have received any notice at their property address. And I can only imagine that's because the notice went to the owner who is the landlord, not the occupant of that particular thing. And so if our desire is to make the people actually residing in that structure, get the notice, I think we'd want to word this in a way that would require the operator to provide the notice to whoever's at the house, not the owner. Because, notifying somebody in California of work over operations right up the street from is not going to do that resident any good. I don't know how everybody else feels about that, but I just seems like we need to make sure the people in the house get to notice somehow. Ms. K. Park. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Cheved, I agree with you. Usually when we've had these town hall meetings with the neighborhoods or the people that are close to the drill site, oftentimes you'll hear that their neighbor is a renter and they don't really care. And the renters generally don't show up. Now that's not always the case. There's sometimes they are because sometimes it's a rent to purchase kind of thing also. So you've got to mix back there. So but sending it to the property address because we're not in violation of state law, because this is our requirement based upon trying to inform as many of the people that may be impacted by the drill site, all the information we can provide them. So, doing it that way, I don't have any objection to, and I think it kind of goes to the intent of, most of these came out of that Phantom Farm public meeting. Maybe all of them did actually. So I think it speaks to the intent of what they were asking us to do. And I don't think in that case the property owner, particularly if they don't live there or they're out of state, would care anyway. So if we could change that to the address of the property. Yes. So it could just be mailed out to the resident off and then the address. So if we can do that. If the council's an agreement. So everybody an agreement with that. Okay. Great. All right. So next is noise. The recommendation is to require sound walls during workover operations. Section 7.01 could be amended to add the following 16 foot sound walls at minimum shall be erected doing all workover operations. I think it's great now. What do you all think? Okay, all right, so we're in agreement on this one. Now, what do you all think? Okay. Okay. All right, so we're in agreement on this one. Also associated with noise, the recommendation that compressors, excluding electric compressors, being closed in a four-wall encasement to mitigate nuisance noise. 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I would like to ask the more specifically, in my opinion, to those gasful sites that we have permitted before we had the 600 foot setback. So the white drill site, which is the most problematic in the entire city, is 300 foot. So that is really going to help many of those neighborhoods if we can have some additional protection for them. And I don't know, Jessica, I've never actually been on a site and compared it to an electric rig versus electric compressor versus a gas compressor. So is there a significant difference in the amount of noise that is created? Electric compressors are a lot quieter. Yes, ma'am. I mean, considerably a lot. Considerably quieter. Yes, ma'am. Compared to a combustion engine. So my question is on those gas will sides that are within 300 feet because that was our initial setback. Can we can ask that those be converted to electric compressors? We can definitely ask, yes, ma'am. I said I was just trying to mitigate it this way. We can definitely go to a case by case basis and call each individual operator and ask them if they would convert them to electric. Asking we can definitely do that. Will they do it? I don't know. Okay. Maybe this is one we need to hold in a BANCE council and get some more information because I'd like to know how many of those there are. Okay. Other than the white side, you know, I don't really know how many are within 300. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Ms. Seppern. Jessica, my question is what is a wall casement for sound attenuation purposes. It seems like you could put a cardboard box over it arguably and that would be a wall casement for sound attenuation purposes. Is there some additional definition in there that perhaps we describe it if we mean concrete, let's say concrete. Yes, sir. Or if which way to go on that. No, I completely understand your point, yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Schappard, you were getting that's originally what stopped me for a moment is what decibels. I was when the last part, because what do we mean by? At what level does that trigger that last part? I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know which way to go on that. No, I completely understand your point, yes, sir that's originally what stopped me for a moment is what decibels I was when the last part because what do we mean by What level does that trigger that last part of the sentence as well? So when you're looking at that if that could be helped. Okay. Thank you mayor. Thank you Okay, so we're gonna do a little more studying on this one. Okay, here. We'll hold hold back on this particular one. Okay. All righty. So we're going to move on to further address noise. The recommendation is to only allow the use of electric rigs. So your PowerPoint may look a little bit different than this one because there was a duplication of slide information. So this is the correct wording on the screen. So section 7.0, one could be amended to add the following. Electric rigs must be utilized for drilling at all. Well, all wells located within 600 feet of a protected use. The CDMP director may authorize the use of alternative rigs in specific cases if it is determined that the project is in substantial compliance with this chapter. Comments? I'm going to go to the committee. Miss Cape art. Thank you mayor. Jessica, could you give me an example of what substantial compliance would be? Meaning that they meet. There aren't any, any noise complaints for that particular site. I would also attribute that to they meet the current sound regulation, so that's how I would define it, but I'm going to defer to my director to give more definition to this. So this regulation really came about when we were also talking about fan-farm drill site. And it's mainly for the sites that have residential uses within that 300 to 600 feet. And we heard the complaint from the residents about the rigs also that creates a lot of noise. And currently what we have in the standard is they could use electric or diesel electric hybrid brakes. But electric rig is much quieter than the diesel electric hybrid. And that's the reason we chose to go with electric rig for those sites that have noise complaints. So again, this, as Jessica pointed in the four slides before this, where she had the topics and those topics will be applicable to the sites that have protected uses within that 306 hundred feet. This is one of them that only applies to those sites where there is residential next to it. So substantial compliance, if we actually, we could actually take that out completely, if we decide that all the sides that have noise complaints is where this is going to be required. But if you're going to say that this is required for all sides where protected uses are within that 600 feet and in the history of that gas well site that there has never been a noise complaint from anybody there, that is probably a time that we could have that substantial compliance measure where we could allow them for any other rig other than electric. What are the thoughts of council here? I think I agree that part of the rationale, if I remember correctly, is the industry was telling us back when this was written that there was a lack of active drilling locally so I think as it's written would be fun with me just have to requirement for electric rigs. I kind of get what you're saying you know but from a I don't know. It's good the way it is. Ms. Walman. I just think in urban areas, now they may still use those hybrid electric, maybe not in an urban area, but in an urban area, I think it ought to be definitely that you have to use the electric here because it is much quieter. And he's right. I remember when we talked about it and they were saying, well, they didn't have enough and they couldn't do it. But now it's, it's a whole new ball game. So I'm comfortable with that. Okay. So Miss K. Bargit, something else to do? Yeah, I'm an agreement and I think that, that last sentence you probably can remove. Because I don't really think that it's already within protected use. So I don't think there's not a need for that last sentence. Yes, Ms. Fauril-Mars. Thank you, Mayor. Ms. Capehart, I agree with you. I was a little concerned about that last sentence, keeping that in, especially let's keep it consistent and not have discrepancies. So I think I'd feel a little bit more comfortable for it to become out. Okay. So what I'm hearing is that we move forward on this, but remove the last sentence there. All right. Okay. All right. So the gas drilling and production ordinance currently has limitations on pre-ambient noise levels to not be exceeded by five dB during the day and three dB at night. These levels could be further lowered and we kind of discussed it last time. So staff requests more time to have a study completed by a sound engineer for revision recommendations. Okay. Yeah, Ms. Sheppard. I'm certainly okay with that. I didn't want to share. I struggle with with this one. And I can't tell you how far I live from I 20 or the Kennedale raceway or the Alpine shooting range. But where I live, I can hear all three of those during the day at my house when I'm working in the yard. I can hear traffic in the yard. I can hear traffic on I-20. I can hear the dragster is going off at Kennedale Raceway and I hear rifles being shot. So my point in saying that is we're trying to quantify something that's very subjective and just measuring a static preambient level of DBs doesn't necessarily stop the noise. And I don't know how you do that. I just wanted to express my feelings about this. I think we're trying to fix a problem that I don't think we can fix. If you live within proximity of a wellside and you hear noise, you hear the noise. I don't care if it's a half a DB or 10 DB's higher, you still hear it. And so I don't know what the alternative would be. So obviously we have what we have now. I'd be all in favor of lowering that to something that makes sense based on a study. Okay. But I'm still not sure we're going to solve the noise issue by doing that. So Miss Kaye Part. Thank you, Mayor Ms. Shebrid, you're correct. The difference is, as has been described to me by those people who live in such close proximity to the gas real side is the noise at 20 is not the same all day long and it's certainly not that way at night. The noise from Alpine is two or three hours a day. The noise from the racetrack is only in Friday and Saturday night. They're talking about a noise that never goes away. And you just have to live with it all the time. And so that's the difference. And so when we're talking about how to mitigate that, some of the steps we've taken with the other revisions, I think will help. But when staff is getting that study done, keep in mind what we heard from the residents was, it just never goes away. It's like I had I can never get rid of it. So that's the biggest difference. It's not just the decimal level. It's the continuation and no really. So to address managing truck staging, the recommendation is to require an offsite truck staging plan on an approved location. So section 7.01 could be amended to add the following. Operator Shell submit an offsite truck staging plan to coordinate the order of vehicles and machinery arriving and remaining at the well site. Operators shall describe in writing at least five business days prior to the two operations how the vehicles will be staged both on site and off site using pad sites that are not located within 600 feet of a protected use. Failure to file an offsite truck staging plan or have it approved prior to operations may result in violation of this chapter. Feedback, Miss K. Park. So Jessica, what happens if, because in a perfect world they can do this, but what happens if, because in a perfect world they can do this. But what happens if maybe they can't, maybe the rig is not available if they're bringing in a rig or, you know, or, and so they filed a plan and now they're kind of violating the plan. I mean, how do we, how do we give them space to have some grace if, indeed, they can't meet this, even though their best intention was to do that. So we have a very, staff has a very open door policy. So anytime someone is unable to meet their five days, there is some leniency, but they call on my cell phone. They email me directly to let me know and they send it to the gas well. We have a special email that sends out to all the people who are involved in gas wells in the city of Arlington, like fire, police, public works and so on and so forth. So if they aren't able to meet it, they can just send an email, describe what's happening and then we can move forward from there. Okay, so you can basically amend it if need be. Yes, ma'am. Because of circumstances beyond every now and then. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. All right, thank you. Okay, what do y'all think about this one? Okay, looks good. We'll move forward with this one. And then dust. So staff did a little more research on how to handle dust. So we've noticed that dust is captured in the 2011 ordinance section 7., private roads in drill sites. So for private roads at minimum, the road shall be surfaced with chip seal, but asphalt and concrete paving are also acceptable. Road shall not be surfaced with gravel or collegiate. So I wanted to point out in this particular provision, this is from the 2011 ordinance. But if you go back to the 2007 ordinance, a lot of our sites are actually have calichate and gravel because those things were allowed during that time. And so you have a lot of sites that haven't been touched since the last, since 2007 ordinance. So that's where our current dust issue is occurring. And so just to continue for drill sites or pad sites, watering, wetting, or other methods or materials must be used to control dust adjacent to residential, to a residential property. Mr. Shepherd, Jessica, have you had any input from the industry on this? We have actually have a meeting with OTAO on Thursday to kind of talk about some aspects of what's going to go forward. So not necessarily on how to minimize dust on the pad site, no sir. I would and I don't know this but I would suspect that it would be cheaper in the long run for them to chip seal all of their roads then it would be to either water continuously or get a ticket every time the guy drives out there on a dry road. Because the watering, if you're in continuous operations, it makes sense. You can plan for the watering and the wedding and things are coming going. But the odd checking on the well side or the truck coming once every three months or whatever that is, there's no way they're gonna go out and water ahead of time. And the driver's gonna say he didn't know. They're gonna get a citation. So would you check with the industry on this and see, if there's not a way we could go ahead and get those surfaces in and out of the pads? I guess in the pad there's nothing we can do about it, but in and out of the pad, I don't know. I don't know. See if there's a way that we can do away with the watering and get rid of the collegiate and the gravel. So the actual dust that I found from investigations actually comes from the pad side itself. Yes, sir, because we allowed a fleet shape in 2007 ordinance. But we can definitely explore the talk to them and see what options that we have that can actually be applied to the pad side itself. But I think that's a great idea yes sir. This is K part. Jessica is there any way that so when we've had people coming in and wanting to establish the drill zone that we could then use that opportunity to have them come into compliance with this. Yes, man, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. So they do come into compliance, but again, a lot of our roads are paved going into the pad site, but the actual dust itself is being tracked out of the site by the water trucks from the pad site that's been covered with Khaliqa. That's basically the base that's on the inside of the pad site that's been covered with Khaliche. That's basically the base that's on the inside of the pad. So, but the newer well-signed, is the pad side also Khaliche? The, what's the name of the site? The margaritese actually has gravel on the inside of the pad site, which is not a, which is not something that's forbidden on the inside of the pad site, just the roads. Am I, I'm sorry, am I confusing you? Well, I was, maybe. Yes, I'm sorry. It's probably my, my reason to be so. So I guess my question is, so we used to allow Kalichi, right, back in the day, on the actual entry way to the room. In the entry way. Yes, me. So we always allow old or new Kalichi on the pad side. Yes, ma'am. OK, yes, ma'am. So we don't have that standard. No, ma'am. Got it. That's the part I wasn't. I wasn't really coming to terms with. So some way to mitigate what's happening on the pad side. And that makes a lot of sense, particularly on several of them are right next to a house. It's what's happening on the pad side, just causing them problem. OK. Even gravel would, I think, would be better. You're right. I think so. So gravel could be an alternative, but we definitely want to check with the gas flow industry on that one just because it's at the site. And you know, one piece of gravel going into some equipment and what happens. So just want to check on that with the industry. Okay, I guess we need to hold this one on a van. I'll do a little more studying on this one. All right. So as discussed before, staff reviewed the road damage schedule as they were assessed in 2007 in 2011. So as directed staff will conduct a road damage study. Okay. Okay. And then our last topic is air quality. So staff was asked to research how air quality was managed by the TCEQ during our last session. So the City of Arlington is in the TCEQ's region four. And we currently have two air monitoring stations. So currently there is a CAM station. So that's a continuous air monitoring station, which is located at the city of Arlington Airport. So this particular station monitors for NOx, which is nitrogen oxides. And there's also an auto GC, which is an auto gas chromatography station located at UTA. And this one monitors for VOC, so volatile organic compounds. So I would like to point out that the discussed stations, oh yes, that the discussed stations that these two stations are not just specifically monitoring for air quality just in Arlington. So this is a conglomerate. So we're a part of a region monitoring process. So our stations basically help monitor for the entire region. So it basically currently we're in non-attainment, the DFW is. So I just wanted to let you know this is on a bigger scale than just Arlington. Miss Mollies. I have one quick question. Yes ma'am. And this backs up just a hair. Have we looked at the impact of fully enclosing compressors? So if we talk to TOTAL about that, for example. So compressors give off heat. And so we want to be really careful about enclosing big pieces of machinery because they need to breathe. And so you need to make sure that it's properly ventilated. And we can definitely, with the current material that they use now, sound walls, you don't want to fully enclose a compressor and a sound wall. So we would have to find out what the best available technology is to enclose a compressor. So we can talk to the industry. Gases too, don't they? Yes, ma'am. And they could be explosive. Yes, ma'am. Definitely. Yes, ma'am. They definitely are in a mission source. Yes, ma'am. OK, so I just wanted to be sure that we're looking into that. I'm we don't write restrictions that can't or shouldn't be my saying. Miss Schenglund, could you go over again our process here when we have a problem with our perceived problem or real problem with air quality? What do you do? So if we get a complaint from a citizen, we actually go out, we have a piece of equipment called the TVA, a toxic vapor analyzer. So basically, it tests for 140 constituents or 140 compounds. And so once I go out on the site, I take my TVA, I go to what's considered recognized point sources. So I would go over to the well head, I'd go to the thief hatch, which is located on top of the tank battery. I go over to the separator, which has a regulator that sometimes is an emission source, and I will use the TVA. But if I pick up something with the toxic vapor analyzer, I definitely call the Texas Commission on the environmental quality and inform them that this is my particular reading, can we get someone out at today and basically do a sample, assume a sample, send it off to Austin and see if we get anything back on that particular sample. So we do check it out, but yet we rely, we have to rely on TCEQ because that was the first thing you said there, is TCEQ jurisdiction. Yes, sir. Comments here. OK, so moving forward, staff is seeking direction from council. So we could move forward with the listed processes. The current concurrent process, the supermajority vote, truck staging, public notice, concurrent process, the super majority vote, truck staging, public notice, dust and noise. And we also need analysis for road damage fee to determine whether it's acceptable ambient noise assessment. So with Council's approval, staff will move forward with the items that we discussed. Mr. Shepherd, thank you Mayor. I just got, I think we decided we would move dust over to the analysis needed. Yes sir. And then all the rest of the items, I think we're in agreement on this. In case it, okay. Miss Thalman. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead, Matt, to the super majority vote requirement for setback reduction. What we still would upper it is still collect waivers. No, man. They wouldn't at all. So then we would rely on the public meetings and residents coming to. Yes, that concerns me a little bit because of how apathetic residents tend to be in the neighborhoods. We have activist groups that come to council meetings and come to the town halls, but the residents in the specific neighborhoods for the drilling, we usually don't see many of them in the council meetings or the town halls. I don't know how we can. Yes, kind of tough deal because we also had residents saying it was blackmail there that was occurring and that was the reason we were pulling it back there that we actually had a lot of our residents saying we won't rid of this. So I agree with you we've got for sure is we have now noticed our residents much better and much more thorough with the increase of the deal. But that's an interesting thing because the very ones who showed up there and have been so active for the ones who want to get rid of that supermajority. You know, that's an interesting bad timing. So I think maybe we, that deserves some more study. You know, what we do, you know, I'm sure. I'm gonna keep it moving forward, how it is. I just wanted to, you know, just breathe that out in case we want to. Yeah. No, I think it's a great point, Ms. Thalman. It's to Mr. Shepper. And I think we need to continue to look at that. And the one thing with moving forward here, we're not done. We're going to continue. We've got three study items. We're going to continue because we are trying to establish the best parameters that we can here on improving all of these areas from all of the things within our power we're trying to improve. Okay. So did that give you the direction, Micheal Blud to be able to move forward? Yes, sir, I believe Ms. K. Part, would like to. Oh, Ms. K. Part, yes. Okay. So back to Ms. Salman's comments. So the reason we went to the Supermajority vote was for the very reason that we heard from a lot of the neighborhood folks about, well, they paid my neighbor whatever. And that was true. I mean, that's not fiction because I had several of them call me and say, well, they said it was going to pass anyway and they gave me $500. And so, but I don't want it. Well, you put you took the money. So to try to level the playing field because we as the council will get that input, I believe. And particularly now to the mayor's point, now the notification area is bigger. I think you'll have more people weighing in who they actually show up or they contact us by email. So that's why and I find what fine with going for it as he is. But, and one other thing, mayor, if I may take a moment, is, Ms. Youngblood has to be the most knowledgeable and attractive gas will coordinator in the entire state. And we are so appreciative of everything you do. I mean, I can't imagine getting out there on the gas full size like you have to do. And when I've been out there, and it's pretty dusty and urn, not the nicest place to be, but thank you for your hard work. Well, thank you. Thank you. Any other comments, questions on the side of them? Well, we'll continue working on our gas wells, ordinances. So with that we'll move to the next item with short term rental update and I'll turn to Ms. Jensy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Good afternoon mayor and council, Jensy Topel, Planning and Development Services Director. Today I'm reporting out on the progress from all the public input meetings since the last discussion on October 30th and seeking Council direction on specific items. So just a quick recap, short term rental means lodging for less than 30 consecutive days in residential premises. So per council, all short-term rentals, whether it may be home-shared, owner-occupied, investor-owned vacation rentals, all will follow the same approval process, which is the SUP or the specific use permit process. We received some more direction on October 30th, where the first initial SUP will be valid for two years. That SUP will be accompanied with an operational license that allows us to revoke it if that short term rental is not operating per the established standards. We also will create a SUP annual renewal process after the first two years, and that will be an administrative process if the application conditions remain the same, meaning no property owner change or no citations. If there is a change, then it will have to go through the process again. So what are the steps taken to establish those standards for short-term rental since October 30th? We utilize the criteria that were discussed at previous council meetings as base standards for all the following meetings. So we met with Astra, which is our LinkedIn short term rental alliance group. We had meetings with homeowner groups. We had meetings with our LinkedIn board of realtors. We had posted an online survey with 359 responses. We had a public open house that 60 people signed in for that. There were a few more who did not sign in. And then we had a facilitated meeting between the short term rental alliance group and the homeowner group together. So what came out of those meetings. So public input wise, we've categorized it as two different, two categories, basically. Online survey and open house, the respondents maintained strong for and against opinions just as it was demonstrated in many of the public hearings, public council meetings before that. However, in the collaborative discussions where we sat down with the groups separately, representatives did gravitate towards some middle ground on most of the issues and we will talk about those. So, SUP application, we gave a prepared a draft of the application form itself and that application form was shown to all the groups. And these are items that both groups were okay with and we've shown that to council as well. So, the property owner needs to sign the application, no dries it. So that's the application and the fee both needs to come with the application. There will be a requirement of submitting what your proposed host rules are. The host rules will have what kind of instructions they are giving for trash disposal, what kind of noise restrictions are they placing on their site, specify that they are not going to be using this as a banquet space, parking instructions, post-it fire evacuation routes, all those kinds of things will be in their host tools. Questions asked in the application would also have, is this your homestead? If the responses no, then do you reside within 30 minute driving time of that subject property? Do you propose to live on-site while renting a portion of your residential property? So all these questions would also help planning and zoning commission and city council understand the proposal from the applicant. The application would also require to come with a site layout, the site layout would show the building footprint and all the hard-scaped areas, all weather surface areas where they plan to have a proposed, the proposed parking. It will also include a floor plan showing where the bedrooms are and how many those are. It will also, per October 30th direction, we've also added requirement of operational license form to go with it with all the supporting documentation and certification. So in the operational license form, would be a requirement of a proof showing that the property owner has registered with the city of Arlington as a short term rental and will be paying hot tax if starting as a new business. If it is an existing short term rental and has not paid taxes, they will need to pay back to do all the back payments before the license can be issued. There will be, they will provide a 24 hour emergency hotline phone number that will be posted on the door. There will be a life safety, self-certification verification form. That's mainly with all their fire safety where they have the fire exits whether the windows are operable whether they have the smoke alarms fire alarms all those kinds of there's a list of items that they will check and certify that they have those in place. We one other item that we will add, which is not there in the draft application, is the property owner to give consent to a random city inspection if needed. So that will be something that we will add there. And then the applicant will also require to submit a proof of insurance of at least $1 million as general liability or short-term rental insurance. Now the operational license, there's no separate fee for the operational license itself because it is coming with the SUP. It's applied with the SUP. The operational license is non-transferable. If the license is revoked, that property owner cannot operate the STR, even though the SUP may be valid for that two years. So now standards at both parties, meaning the short-term rental alliance group, as well as the homeowner groups, have agreed to. Yeah, the question. And I asked question before we move on to the next part. Sure. On the S U P process, the fee itself, and I was the one that popped off and said, I didn't want there to be any difference between the types of STRs and I'm going to take that back. I've had a lot of input as I'm sure we all have concerning the distinction between the owner occupied and the non-owner occupied short-term rental. And since our application sort of already Asked about the homestead. I'd like us to consider and I don't miss I don't have anything in mind just yet, but I'd like us to consider While the process would be the same that the fee would be different for owner occupied versus non-owner occupied. The idea, at least as it's been presented to me, is the owner occupied is not as frequent perhaps, it's not as, it's, they're there. So it's one other person, maybe two other people rather than 12, or whatever it is. And so at least the argument to me is it's, it's, anyway. So that's, that's, I'd like us to consider that move before it. I don't have a dollar amount in mind, but it would require us to define or readifying the two different types, the STR1 and STR2 or whatever it would be. And then the only deviation would then be the filing fee itself for the SUP process. I know it costs the same for staffed process, one is it does the other, but several have indicated there should be some difference between the two. The concern we have heard from the short-term rental alliance group is for the home shared STRs where the property owner is living on site and is not renting out or renting out a room or two rooms in your house while they are living on site for less than 30 days a year. And for that, just less than 30 days a year, they do not make that much income to be providing $1,000 fee. That's what I'm just going to have. Ms. Moeys. So I hear what you're saying, Mr. Shepherd. And I'm hearing what you're saying. So what you're saying is if someone is going to rent out one or two bedrooms in their home while they occupy, the fee might be somewhat less. In fact, all of the terms might be somewhat less. I mean, I'm not sure you need a million dollar liability policy. But then if you are, you might limit them to the number of days a year they could lease. It couldn't, because what you don't want to do is create a situation where people can claim they're doing one thing and then move out and do something else. So maybe limit them to 60 days a year total rentals. They still have to pay the hot tax, but they pay a lower fee. I think that's something that we have to go back and visit because I'll have to think about what the various impacts might be. But I kind of can see the difference. Okay, Ms. Wolfe. In the very same topic, see I was confused because it says, do you propose to live on site while renting a portion of your home? You can still live there, but you can be in a whole nother city on vacation. Yeah, I'm saying. So I thought, well, maybe we want them to reside there. You just use the word occupy. Are you going to occupy? And that may be a better word than live on. I think probably better than I was gonna say, are you gonna reside there? So I like your word occupy. Yes, and yes, yes. You must be your home occupy. Yes. Yes. Yes. You must be your house. Yes. Point. So do we want to be thinking about the fee separation for those two categories? People in favor of that. Yes. Okay. Ms. Rohr Mars. Just a clarification, Mayor. Are we saying not just the differentiation, but it sounds like we're going back to having two categories now. An ST1 and an ST2. Or we seem to need to define those two. Our owner occupied or it seems like there needs to be if we're going to make that distinction in for the fee purposes we're going to have to make a distinction of type of that. Yeah, I'm just saying I'm just asking us to consider that. Well, I'm what I'm suggesting is I agree with that. Still have to define it, but I would like us to do that. Yes, sure. If we're going to go there, I'd like us to do that. Well, and and yes, Mr. Lewis, I agree with what Victoria is saying because if it does seem that you have to go back and revisit that as an entire separate category, because it does become one. In fact, when we first started this process, I in my mind questioned whether we even wanted to regulate someone who just wants to rent a room in their house. I think it should be limited to one or two rooms, not five or six, because you don't want to create a situation where someone's running a bed and breakfast out of a larger home. But I do think there should be some kind of change in my mind on that. I think I like where we're going with it, but if we have to revisit it, I think it has to be almost a separate permitting process so that they start to deviate. And I think you limit the number of days you can lease it and if they begin to deviate from that they're licenses pulled. Now just they begin to move out and lease it all the time then it falls under category one which is a full time full house rental. Okay, Mr. Glass-Ming. Thank you, Mayor. You would ask about the homestead, and then yes, do you live within a 30-minute driving distance? Are we implying that you have to live a certain distance or is that- It's not a requirement, but you are getting that information for your packet to make any decisions. Ms. Vorow-Mars. Thank you, Mayor. On that question to follow up on the 30 minute driving, is that for the person that's actually getting or could they have a designated person within 30 minutes? It could be a designated person, so we could. So it could be broadly defined as both. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Any other questions, comments on that one? All right. Okay, let's go. All right. So some of the standards that have been agreed to is. Oh, you did have it. I'm sorry, Ms. Farramire's. I'm sorry, you're Fauromire's. I'm sorry. You're sorry. Sorry. Okay. I was holding all my questions. So there are them. Yeah, it's great. It's great. Is that both thank you very much. sorry, we had put in our current operating budget, is that what we're thinking for implementation purposes? No, this is the phone number that the STR operator or owner is providing that any kind of problems happen and neighbors want to call or city wants to call, we have that number. We have that in our application also, so that's available. And the second question on this, if I may, Mayor. The general liability or short term rental insurance at $1 million. It was my understanding and correct me, please, if I'm wrong, that you can get short term riders on your homeowners insurance. If you're, I guess this depends on what kind of SDR we're talking about. But is that just a standard number that is necessary or why that? This is the minimum that when we, this was a number that came from the criteria that came about when council was discussing all these items. So we took that base criterion and approached all the groups that we met with and they all felt comfortable with that number. All right. Thank you. So with the trash standard, that is a big complaint that we had heard and after talking to everybody involved in this process, they are willing to follow the rules of the neighborhood. So the host posts instructions to their guests on how to store the trash bins inside fenced areas until the trash pick up day. And the property owner takes that responsibility to move the trash bins to the curb just like any other resident on the day off or the night before. So that's how they would follow and if they do not follow that standard and trash is out there during the daytime and it should not be there, that becomes a violation. time and it should not be there, that becomes a violation. Noise would follow just like anybody else in the city, follow the Texas Penal Code, Section C2, and that is, so if a neighbor complains about noise, it goes as a 9-1-1 call. Police departments, one of the officers will go there. They will check, they will just hear if the noise is loud. They will even go to the end of the blocks to hear if that noise is still persistent, to figure out if that is a reasonable noise level increase. And so they go and first knock at the door of the home that is producing this noise and let them know that that's not acceptable and they need to shut it down right away. So that can become the notice of violation that can be given to that owner or the operator. And then after that if the noise still persists for a longer period of time they can give a citation. The next item was a special event is what we kept calling it as. Ms. Rohramar's. Thank you. Full of questions today my apologies. On the noise in particular this is more goes to a theme that I'm kind of concerned about in terms of implementation. So, and I know I've hit this before with Council, so please, I beg you forgiveness the fact that I'm hung up on writing this, we want to make sure we can implement this correctly. The noise ordinance, for example, we heard a lot of discussion in the town hall meetings and from, I wish chief was here to ask it. Chief had indicated a lot of times those calls, those noise calls fall in priority. And so there's not, I guess the question would be if a call comes in and say an officer is not able to respond or respond after the time. How many times, in other words, is there gonna be a database of some sort where we would, if a call comes in, let me take a step back. We have database, we have the address. A call comes in, and every time a call comes in for that particular address, it would be noted, or it only be noted if a officer actually respond it. And the reason I'm asking is because we heard from police that the oftentimes aren't able to respond because the call level falls lower. So I'm just concerned a little bit about implementation of that and overload. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. It's a good point. Chief Ayala can maybe shed some light. Chief Ayala, you're out of the room. Dr. Farramire has had questions about noise complaints and how we process them and or track them in our CAD system, et cetera, to build enough evidence to properly respond to complaints from the beginning as well as repeat violators and those kinds of things. Okay, good afternoon, Mayor Counsel. Hi, Mayor Allen with the police department. So our allowed music complaint or allowed noise complain is a lower priority call. If we have a repeat location usually the officers get there and address it initially without any enforcement but if we have a continued repeat location then we have the ability to do enforcement. In a residential area is a little bit different than in a business environment where we've actually taken our decibel readers and read from different positions around the business to see what the decimal levels are to see if we have the ability to take enforcement action. But usually when we respond we get compliance and very rarely do we have repeat locations although they do occur. We're able to pull the data out of CAD for a location based on a physical address. And if we continue to have calls for service, whether it's investigations or just service loud noise or whatever the call type is, we're able to track that by the physical address and see if we have an issue or concern with a particular location. Is that what you're looking for? I believe so. So in other words, if I heard you correctly, you would track it whether you are able to respond to it or not so that we would know the number of times a calls were made for noise complaints at a particular address. We do respond. We don't have a call where we don't address the call. Yes. There are times when perhaps we're too busy and we don't get to that call within a reasonable amount of time and now it's not a problem anymore. And it's clear it is a no contact but we still have the call for service in our CAD data where we can track the number of calls in a particular time frame to see how many times we refer to respond to this address over the last six months or last year, et cetera. That's absolutely perfect because in that way it can be tracked back to the permit and that allows for compliance. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay. So with that data, the- Miss Wolf hasn't questioned. Yes. Okay. So, a neighbor is tired of listening to the noise. Are they going to call the person that's within the 30 minutes? Or are they going to call the cops? I'm not sure what 30 minutes you're talking about. 30 minutes is the local person who's there to assist the renters. Y'all need something I'll help you. So they can call that person too, because the owner or the operator can write then call the renters and tell them about it. So that can be an instant thing that the neighbor calls the owner operator. They call the guests or they come there within 30 minutes and take care of the matter. But they can also call 911. Do they legally have to have a decimal reader? Or can it just say, listen, I heard you when I was still at the curb and you've got to turn it down? Yeah, ideally you'd want a decimal reader, if you're going to take the enforcement action, but officers don't all carry decimal. That was my next question. And so it's really going out there and using their discretion to determine, is it a nuisance? How loud is it really? Can you hear it from five houses down the street, et cetera, as to whether they need to take enforcement action or not? Usually if they don't get compliance, then they have the ability to take that enforcement action and they would just have to be able to articulate what they heard, the noise, and any other witnesses that would help substantiate the citation if you would, if it went to court. Because my point is if it's really bothersome to the neighborhood, you'd probably get quicker response from the owner that's within 30 minutes, then you would low, low priority on a busy Saturday night somewhere. That's correct. Just make note. All right, Mr. Open. I did have a question. So the data that police would have that captures the repeat calls, what do we want to do with it? So is it after the, say, three such calls is where then now is it going to become a notice of violation? Or how does a citation come into place is where? or how does a citation come into place? I know that's an implementation question. We can probably work through that behind the scene and see what we can do. Mr. Rohmars. Mayor, you're actually driving where I was driving to Gen.C. but I had to ask the first question first to get there. I don't really have a number in mind. I think I'd rather have some input from you all. I'm sure for other compliance issues, there's probably some corollary that might lead some thoughts to in terms of what that might be the trigger. But I do think that we do need to be clear. Because if we have, I know the neighborhoods have been very upset about the noise. And so if it's 10, 2015, I think that might be a problem. I think if it's three and then triggers, it may be correlated to the next slides that you have coming up. Yeah, where you have that. OK. OK. I think the couple of slides coming up. Could you have a corollary in terms of the number of violations? Yes. Mr. Shepherd. Gensy and I should have asked you this question. We we met offline that it just occurred to me. So the we'd been talking about a no. Guess no activity, no outdoor activity, no amplified sound, no something between the hours at 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. or something like that. Is this noise now taking the place of that concept or is it in addition to the amplified noise? So there is a combination going on. So the questions that were asked at these group meetings that we had, the noise is coming from what? It was more so with some kind of event happening. So the next part addresses that piece that they cannot have those kinds of events. So the space cannot be used as a banquet space or a banquet hall where guests are just invited to host an event. And so if that is taken care that they cannot have those kinds of events, then going back to the noise standard, what is the noise standard for all other residential That's how that came about. Okay. All right. Okay. So going to the third point again cannot be used as a banquet hall and we have a definition for banquet hall in the UDC. So we're guests who are not staying or not the actual guests for that short-term rental, they are also invited for that private function. That kind of events cannot happen at that space. So, that both parties have agreed on that. There was another item that both parties agreed on and they felt very strongly about that there should be given some kind of preference or priority for the STR owners who have been paying hotel occupancy taxes to come in the front of the line for the SUP application process. So one suggestion is that when the ordinance is effective, we open up the SUP applications for the first two weeks only to those people who have paid the hot taxes and after this two weeks is when it opens up to everyone. Okay. Ms. Voromars. Thanks, Mayor. Would that be as of the passage of the second reading of this or is it as of the hot taxes being paid as of the first reading passage? So we have added the first reading because by that time whoever had paid it, that's what we would be looking at if that's okay with the all. The reason I ask because if you recall when we first start looking at this in January there was like 30 some odd and now it's like 56 or 59 so it just keeps increasing so that's the only reason why I thought it would be helpful to have a point in time. So. Mr. Shepherd. No, I don't know if this is the right place to bring it up or not, but I'd also like to offer that we have some sort of method by which, if they file their application within three months or whatever it is from the time the ordinance passes that they can continue to operate until a decision's been made on the SUP. Oh, yeah. But I want to keep that window relatively narrow. It may back up. We may have, you know know 200 applications sitting in the queue but I want I want to give preference to people who are going to respond so that we can begin enforcement on those that don't so we can begin shutting down the bad ones as we we've called them so I don't know three months is a good window or four months, but I think there ought to be some period of time. They do look into that knowing. Yeah, if you file your application between now and date X, then you can continue to operate until the decisions have been made. If you don't file, then you're operating illegally and subject to the enforcement of the ordinance. So anyway, I don't know how we'd word that and I don't know where it would go. Yeah. Yeah. So it's three months of good time to use for that. I'd like for y'all to look at it and see, yeah, there, but I think we need to establish that. I mean, it could be six. I don't think there's any magic. I just want there to be some time period. Yeah. That is kind of a. Because the point being that we can't have them just operating in perpetuity while the others are applying and doing the right thing and the others are not. And then conversely too, it also shows the path of how you can be a approved SDR, which is the point of this also. And it stops us from making everybody operate illegally, quote unquote, right off the bat. We sort of there's a moratorium on enforcement for them to file and get in the door, so to speak. Miss Thal? I don't know what I'd look to staff that, you know, I know there's going to be, there's going to be some time to work through these applications anyway. So I'd look to y'all to figure out if you'd rather have all the applications in the queue at one time and then let them sort out or if you'd like to let it breathe a little more organically. So what the three months is really doing is allowing those STRs to operate during that time. So if suppose that STR does not apply during those three months, they just need to shut down their STR. And then whenever they apply for the SUP and get that SUP granted is when they can start back. – Ms. Dalman, do you have something? – Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, so to clarify, I think, Jensi just shed a little more light on this for me. So we're talking about having them apply within a specific window. And if they've applied, then they can continue operating until they're either approved or denied, right? But everyone who has not applied within that window needs to shut down. I'm in favor of making that a very narrow window because like the mayor said, we don't want to have people just operating. I think even three months would be too long to say you know you can continue operating for three months because somewhere that's a neighbor who's dealing with noise and trash and parking you know for three months which is a long time if it's daily. So previously we had another number of 45 days that was talked about. We could stick with that 45 days. Yeah, at this point, I think that's a good number. Mr. Payer. Yes, Mr. Molyse. So we must assume that some, and maybe even a lot of these could be denied. So they've paid $1,000, they've gone through all the steps and for whatever reason because of neighborhood objections, they might find themselves denied. I think somewhere in here, if they are denied the permit, we also need to state how long they have to close down once they're denied. Is it immediate? Is it 45 days to close down? That's something I think we haven't talked about yet. So we have heard from the short-term rental group is they generally do advance bookings for three to six months in advance is what, so I'm not hurting anything more than six months. But three to six months is the timeframe that they might have done a reservation for some guests. That I would suggest that if we turn them down because you can see on the site when they're booked that they cannot have any further bookings. That's correct. And even the reservations that are made, I think on the website it also says that at any time the host can decide to not have the rental and just need to inform and pay back. the rental and just need to inform and pay back. The host choice correct. Oh, Miss Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. So to clarify then, if someone is denied, but they already have a booking that's three or six months, however long into the future, they would need to cancel that reservation. I don't think I went that far. I think what I said, if they just can't book any part, that if they have bookings and they're denied, and they're already operating, I think that something still to be discussed, whether you wanna say, you can operate for only those bookings that are on the books right now, for three months, for six months, whatever council decides. Just one thing with that, the process of going through the STR and then getting a decision of council is gonna take a little bit of time. So that's probably the window at which there's room there for the operator to, if they are denied to back away from their booking process. But I would caution the council that if it, the STR is denied, it's probably denied for some very significant reasons. And you're probably not going to want to continue to have that operate at any stage, because they'll probably have about 45 to 60 days in which to do that effort. And then once it's denied, you, there's probably a good read. I would assume that there'll be a really good reason for a denial. And those are probably the ones you do not want to continue with. Just a caution there. Mr. Supper, I would say that, and I don't know if immediately is the right way to do it, but if we're going to allow them to operate in the interim, then for whatever reason, they don't get their SEP, then they're, I would say they need to shut down immediately. And if that means canceling bookings or whatever, that's what it means. But I don't, otherwise we'd be treating them differently than we would be those that didn't even apply at all. You know, not only did they get to operate for another 60 days or 90 days, but now we're going to give them another 30 days or 60 days or whatever. So I don't know how immediate immediate is in city speak, but if that S.U.P.'s denied I think they need to shut down that it would be my proposal. I love that actually. We can add that in. So some standards that both parties, like 90% agreed on is what I would say. So the occupancy, the maximum occupancy, 2 per bedroom plus 2. And both parties agree on that. There is even with that there will be a maximum of 12 per unit. And that is the part that short term rental alliance group is not completely okay with. They feel that for a large lot with a large house, there could be an exception to that maximum 12. So the question to council is do we want to allow any kind of large lot exceptions? Mr. Glass-P. Thank you, Mayor. The question I had was on the homeowner's position, how did you find the fit into the neighborhood? So the homeowner group was very strong on the maximum 12 per unit. They felt anything more than 12 does not really fit into a residential character at all. So they were very strong on that. Ms. Moeys. I would agree with the homeowners position on that one because that's a five bedroom house. We don't have that many houses. I mean, just because you have a five bedroom house on an acre doesn't change the fact that it's a five bedroom house. And it's supposed to be a residence. So I kind of am in agreement that the limit of 12 seems very reasonable. Mr. Chairman, yeah, I was along that line. I was going to ask what the I'm confused about what a large lot has to do with a number. But it could be an acre, two acres. But I guess to miss when we use this point, it still only has five bedrooms. I don't care if it's on 10 acres of land. What what difference does the acreage have to do with the occupants? Yeah, so I think the large lot came about because if they have a large lot, the house is set back further from the street, houses set back further from the other neighbors. And so any kind of having more number of people in there may not create more nuisance to the neighbors is what the concern your point to us from Astra. Is there a way to can't believe I'm even going to say this but is there a way to have the I can't believe I'm even going to say this, but is there a way to have the, that is the standard and then through the SUP process, bury that on a case by case basis? Because what you just described, I can only imagine in about a handful of places, none of which I can imagine being short-term rentals. But if that's the case, it would be a limited situation. And I would think it's something we could handle on a PNZ and us could handle on a case-by-case basis rather than take the lid off the coffee can for everybody. So we will need to add some exception language in the ordinance to help with that case by case basis based on a career based on at least some criteria that we can come up with. Ms. Walman. Because we talked about this when I was talking to Gen. C about the difference in this size house and you we've all got them in our districts that some of them may be on two to five acres and I know some then there may be some that are on a 150 foot lot and I think there is a big difference if you're saying 12 there's a big difference in 12 being on a small lot and 12 being on two acres. So if you don't, so you're saying just do it at the SUP stage, but put it on there that you can't have more than 12 people in any house. But what I, yeah, what I was just suggesting is that the standard would be 12. If the person applying for the SUP wants to come in and show us the site plan that shows that there's a thousand feet on either side of them To the nearest resident and as a result they want to be able to be permitted to have 14 or 16 maximum but to say that you I don't know we we start defining a large lot. What is that? It's really more about setback. You can have a 10 acre log and be 100 from your neighbor. I mean, there's all kinds of scenarios. Twelve people as the max. I think that's what I'm hearing. There's going to be 12 people max. Well, how do you say, it's going to be 12 people max. Well, how do you say it's going to be 12 people max and not have a lot size because if you put it, it's it's based on bedrooms. Well, but I've got five bedrooms, but I'm on a small lot. You still have 12 people. Well, you know what that's going to create party. And so I don't know, but this one's I'm concerned about. Let's put this in to think about it more. different in the size and what's those on and if you just say 12 you can go back to a small lot with five I've got houses in my own neighborhood have five bedrooms and there are pretty small lots and to try to put 12 people in there and thinking about parking and cars and I would just like a little more time on this. Mr. Glaspie. Whatever. Thank you, Mayor. With, for example, the Banquet House, not allowing Banquet House, we also have some guidelines for parking. Doesn't some of that sort of mitigate problems that we are discussing now? It could. So we can get to the parking too. So the maximum 12 was also the same standard that was talked about previously when we were looking prior to, like in the last one year, maximum 12 was the number that had come about at that time too. So what we are looking at is there need to add any exception to that if it's larger, larger house. Ms. Bowies. The other thing I want to point out in this is when we talk about 12 people, we're talking about a 5-bedroom house. Somewhere in here we need to mention that that house cannot be altered from its original state to create two additional bedrooms because that's part of what some of that is happening. Some of it has happened and it's creating issues where you have a small lot, a small house, and suddenly you have five to six bedrooms as a conversion, probably without any permitting to add two bedrooms by splitting up rooms with walls down the middle of them. So with the SUP application, they will be required to submit a floor plan that will show the better. It shows existing today. Existing today. And that is why they will be. I think we need to talk about matching it up to the number of bedrooms on the tax roll from original construction. I don't know how we would match it up to the tax state but they have not altered the house. We could add that language in there. Miss Cape Art. Thank you Mayor. With regard to this maximum of 12, I think we need to focus on it. It's a maximum of 12. So when they come through, just because you've got five bedrooms, doesn't necessarily mean we're going to let you have 12 people. If it's on a small lot, like Catherine's saying, then probably not. I mean, I think that's why you have the SUP process to be able to tailor it based on the neighborhood, the location, and on an acre of land that's not close to another residence and you can get all the cars off the street and you can have, I don't know, 12 or 14 in there and it's not going to be a problem. That's very different than being in a neighborhood where you've got 12 and there's not in any way you can really park all the cars that are probably going to be there three to four. So, you know, I think the emphasis really is on a maximum of 12, but we can tailor it down or tailor it up depending upon the location of that property and basically on the neighborhood integrity because some neighborhoods it would matter as much as it would not. Which is what I think we're having an SUP process for in the beginning, right? I think it's probably. Miss Dalman. You good? Okay. All right. So what I'm hearing is the proposed standard could be, it's just on a case by case is, I'd best see a approval stage. Oh, and. I'm good. That's well. That's well. But yeah, just because I can't comment. I 12 does a national union. Yeah. Right. That's mean that you're over 12. Even. No. No. You might go over 12 if you don't. Excuse me. It might go over 12. On the case by case,. Just like you might. Thank you. It would be an exception. Yeah. So, so we want to put the number in there. Just say case by case. You have to have you have to have a starting point. I think I think a standard. I have to have a standard. And then you certainly can deviate from the standard on a case by case basis, but I think generally speaking the council's going to try to limit it to 12. Yeah, I think it's going to be a very unusual circumstance when you have 12. Mr. Shepherd mentioned it, we're not going to have a lot of lots that would be able to accommodate more than that or the house for that matter. You know, you got to have a combination of both both so we will not have a lot of those. This will just take a second. Thank you. The thing that occurs to me as we talk about this is that perhaps as part of the permitting process when we issue the permit we actually state on the permit. You know, you have a permit number. How many bedrooms is approved for? What the occupancy is it's approved for? Yes. And what the parking number of parking spaces is approved for? So the SUV itself is approved for that? That's made public to everybody. And if they start to violate that, then the neighbors would know. Yes, the SUV ordinance and the exhibit to be of the SUV ordinance itself, all those will be written, as well as the operational license that they have that would be written. So we are saying that we are going to per bedroom plus two, however the maximum limit can be decided based on a case by case basis based on location, lot size buffer from the neighbors, et cetera. And we need to write it that it's an exception, rather than the rule. Okay. Yes, Ms. Kable. So, Jensi, I think what we're saying is, go ahead and keep that maximum from 12 in, but on a case by case, prices can be rolled up. Okay, okay. But they can be bothered. OK. OK. If they have special circumstances. OK. OK. Got it. Which sum will? So the next one is parking. So both groups agreed that any number of cars parked inside private property on all weather surface is okay. So that's okay with both sides. The homeowners position on the on street parking, they are okay with maximum of two on street as long as that joins to their lot lines on the street. Now why that came about was because there was a scenario presented to them that the home did not have a front drive-e at all, only had a back alley does not have a drive-e there either. So in that case, they were okay with having two cars along the street adjoining their lot lines. However the short-term rental group's position was if that lot was wider and can accommodate four or five cars adjoining their lot lines on the street then they should be allowed to do that as well. Miss Moise. I think again, this goes to being a very seldom applied exception. I know some of the houses you're talking about there on Elm Street and they do not have any driveways or any rear entry parking. I think we stick to this rule when you have parking on your private property. First of all, you should be required to use your garage and not convert the garage. I think that's code anyway. And then you should have up to, you know, you just can't, you can't create on-street parking unless you have no other parking and that would be deemed an exception to the rule. To accommodate those few houses that may not have any off-street parking at all. So which is what number one would be should on-street parking be considered only as an exception on a case by case basis, then the applicant demonstrates that there's no parking space available on-site to accommodate guests. Okay. Miss Shepherd. Yeah, I agree with you, Helen. I was a little surprised to see that the homeowner group actually indicated some acceptance of a maximum of two on the street. I thought we had talked all along about parking confined to off street parking on all weather surface that's there, not go build a parking lot on your front yard. And so I like what you just said, the off street parking is just be permitted on a case by case basis. So those that don't have parking can say, hey, here's my lot. And I can park four cars out in front of it, because it's big enough. OK. Primarily, because that's one of the biggest complaints we got was on street parking that was that was the impetus of all of this for yeah park on both sides you can't get up and down the street so well and I have a new one on parking on the street I got an email today and we have some neighborhoods with several that are in close adjacent sea. They were rented as a group over the Thanksgiving weekend and they were transported by a bus the size of Dan Divert's buses and that bus would park on the street. So what do we have as rules within the city about vehicles that size even being on city streets? And should we prohibit that kind of people messing on a residential street? I have a photograph of it, parked on a residential street during Thanksgiving and being used to because the people all came in on the bus, the bus parked on the street, and then it was used to get back and forth to stadiums to restaurants and that seems to me like something that shouldn't even be allowed. I mean, do we have any? I don't know. just in the general street chapters, there's not, there are some high capacity areas for like hazardous waste, some that have some weight limits. But you'll see large vehicles from school buses to coaches occasionally coming through delivery trucks that have to get moving bands and all that in, but there's nothing right now in the books that would really prohibit a bus like you're describing being on a city street. Could we prohibit that though and what we're writing here? That being used as the primary vehicle for the group. We're still men do you want to add something to that? Thank you, Mayor. With Jensen, I discussed this yesterday Parking is one of the number one issues that I get contacted from residents and not short-term rental related just parking in general. And I feel like if we're gonna regulate parking as it relates to short-term rentals, then we can make an effort to do that for everybody to benefit the entire city, not just neighbors who live next to short-term rental. So I feel like that could be and should be a separate, separate discussion. It may be stay on topic with what we're trying to accomplish here, but I think that that would be absolutely worthwhile discussing. So one other thing in the parking that they agree to that they there wouldn't be any recreational vehicles or living in the vehicles or sleeping in the vehicles allowed. Mr. Glasspitz, you want to add something to that? As we said, no recreational vehicles. Why couldn't we indicate that no buses? Mr. Shepherd, after hearing Ms.alman, that's a good point. I think I'm backtracking a little bit on my note, no parking on the street thing because you're right. If we, I'd love for some of my neighbors not to park on the street too. So I don't know. Maybe, maybe, maybe the proposed standard of on street plus two max is the way to go unless you can demonstrate you've got a larger lot and you can park more cars. Are you saying no to that? That's what I mean, that's what the homeowners in the deal agree. It's what they agreed to. I don't know if they didn't want any of that. I'm not entirely sure they knew what they were agreeing to. I think what they were talking about was, because I've talked to a couple of them, and they're talking about houses that have no parking. They agree that if you have no parking, you have no parking, then you've got to park yourself on the street. And you're really just parking two visitor cars on the street instead of your own vehicles on the street. So it doesn't alter the parking on the street. But I do feel, strong about the position that allowing buses as transportation for people staying in short-term rentals, I think pushes the envelope. And that's been one of the things I've said all along is that we have to be careful that we don't open gates that, I mean, we need to be sure that we're addressing in the concerns of our citizens and parking is a major one. And if you know whether it's a, we don't allow people to park. And this is not to be parking to deliver furniture. This bus is parked there for the weekend unless it's running people to places. That's a different situation to me than someone delivering furniture because it's that size truck. So anyway, I just wanted to revisit that for another minute because I think that's really important. So where we have no RVs, the way this is written is no RVs. That means none of the guests can bring in RVs and keep the RV parked there. So similarly, if the question or the concern is bus parked there, you could add that. If the question was just people bring brought by bus and then bus leaves, that's a different concern than the bus being parked there for the guests. concerned than the bus being parked there for the guests. We could introduce buses also in that statement with no RVs and no buses allowed to be parked overnight with that. Miss Cape Art. On the issue of the bus parking and on Jensy just hit a plane a little bit. We already have regulations and it's a police regulation and wasn't in municipal policy about four years ago that we spent how many months talking about on street parking months months and it's very complicated and Jaime came and gave us a presentation and it was it's very complicated and Jaime came and gave us a presentation and it was, it's very convoluted. So but I do know that we don't allow RVs to be parked on the street and in certain cases not even on the driveway if there's a certain length and a certain height. I don't know why that doesn't apply to basically tour buses. I mean I just, I would think that it does. But. We can spill it out. Yeah, I think we can. And Mr. Isle, I have more comment about it. I think Mr. Yovartin's exactly right about maneuverability and moving and driving through, but I have to go back and review it, but I'm pretty sure that depending on the size of the bus and the width of the street You can't just park it in a neighborhood moving through or dropping off You know we talked about furniture and committee when you're going through the parking regulations and all Is one thing but there's some restriction depending on the size of the vehicle in on a city street Well, I think miss Moellies was talking about it was parked there all weekend on the street. It wasn't just dropping them off and picking them up. Right and it was stayed there. And if it's a motor code so we just need to go back and look at the ordinance but I'm pretty sure it addresses that where it's not allowed. Okay so we we probably ought to incorporate that just for clarity in the SGR. True. The next one was the operational license revocation criteria. So when we talked about the operational license that it can be revoked with the citation, so we were going with one notice of violation and the citation. Homeowners asked us the question about, is there any other permits that you all revoke based on number of citations? And things that came up was a gasful permit, need goes through two citations before they have to come back to council for their gasile permits. I think one of the council members asked about donation bins, donation boxes had two notice of violation and then they are out. So those were things that two per year is something that kept coming and so they were okay with maintaining that consistency with two citations whereas the short-term rental group thought it should be three instead of two Any questions So, Jensen and I talked about this. I was a little confused and wanted to be sure it's the humongous position is two notices of violation plus two citations. That is correct. So that's four shots. So I'm okay with that. If you've gotten notices of violation and citations, that probably means that you've been visited more than four times. So I'm okay with that one. Dr. Mars. I have a just with this also revisit back to our noise US the number of citations. Yes. And I said maybe we'll address it and this is what I was referring to. Yeah. So if we standardize if whatever we decide here can we also standardize that to the noise as well. So that okay I just wanted to make sure that the council was feeling comfortable with that. So if they have two calls made about noise then that would constitute for one citation is that how I don't know how. The citation has to be actually written out as a citation. Well, do we have a is there a corollary here? I think where staffs may be a little confused, a call for service is not a violation nor is it a citation. So multiple calls for service are an indication of perhaps a higher level of evaluation, but they would not fall within the guys of what a violation or a citation is. For those to be a violation or citation, there would be an action on the part of the staff to identify you are not doing what the law requires you to do. The notice of violation is we're putting you on notice that you've made this mistake and you need not to do it again. Evolation is, we've told you to not do that, you've done it, and now you get a true violation. So, they're a little different. I think what you could do on the calls for service, I think that, you know, that is something that that data of information would be helpful for what I'll call random enforcement activities. And that's probably the way that you would want to treat a call for service as opposed to something like this. Because they are very different. And that's the hard part about a lot of the conversation you're having. There's a lot of one-off situations that you want to be careful. You're trying to write an ordinance, which has to apply uniformly to the extended can. So that's how I might approach the the call service item. That was very helpful. Thank you very much. This will. I just think oftentimes we're thinking notice of violations. The cause for certain that's complaints and you may get that one person that's going to complain, complain, complain, complain, complain. People come out and you go, there is no violation. You're just driving us nuts with your position, you know, I'm saying it. So, so calls for service is the same in my mind as a complaint. But that is not addressed in this way, because notice a violation means someone showed up and said turn it down, move your car, move your bus, whatever. And then you fail to do so and you continue. And then next time, then you're going to get a citation. So it's not complaints. It's not complaints. And then the distinction. Any other comments? Questions? I'm sorry. And for me, I don't want it to be complaint driven. Otherwise, like you said, so the notice of violation has a specific legal meaning. You get an actual letter. Yes. Meaning you get an actual letter. Yes. You got a naughty letter and if you don't do it again, you can get a citation. So I think that's a more formal process. Dr. Mars. And yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get to is how many complaints are necessary before we get to a violation stage. Is really what I wanted to try to make sure we have clarified. Because obviously we're clarifying it here. I also want to clarify it in the noise area so that we know the trigger point at which. And I liked what you said, Jim, excuse me, Mr. Parijon, when you said it, it would trigger a random enforcement act. So maybe there, we could write it in a way that there's X number of noise complaints that that would automatically trigger a random enforcement of some sort. Yeah, great example is with our gas wells. We may get a series of complaints. So we'll go out and check each one of those. They may not rise to the level of violation or a citation but we know that that's probably an area where we need to watch closer so we would then enact probably a higher level of what I'll call random inspections during the day and at night so that would be a good way of how you might want to look at this. But I also might clarify to your question or to your earlier point. I can remember that one complaint can issue a notice of violation, resulting in based on what is observed at the site. So it could be as simple as one or it could be numerous based on what's seen on site. numerous based on what's seen on site. Quite the question you yes when we were discussing it. It doesn't necessarily you don't necessarily have to have a violation for a citation or something could be so. If it's severe enough, yes, they could put a citation. Yes. Yes, they could put a citation. Yes. The next item is the one where we did not get a consensus on was maximum density or a cap on the number of STRs, either on a block phase or neighborhood. So the proposed standard was it's to be determined case-by-case basis through an SUUP approval process. A short-term rental alliance group felt very strongly that there should be a number and the number that they are most comfortable with is the San Antonio ordinance that was recently passed and I will go through that at the end of the end of the presentation. So that is 12.5% of the block face and homeowner group completely does agree with that 12.5%. They needed to see what a visual representation of what that means. At that time we did not have that map done but we do have a map now. We did not have that map done, but we do have a map now. So the map on the left hand side is what it could be for a 12.5% of block phase. This is a neighborhood in Arlington with about 520 homes. And we have looked at it each block phase and added 12.5%. Now the way it is done we have not really thought of clustering or scattering that it's just randomly placed but based on the 12.5% of the block phase and that's what you would look and that's about 64 or something, 64 homes in that neighborhood that could be STRs. Now this is a max out proposal there and that's how San Antonio ordinance is written. The one on the right hand side is not exactly what Austin has but Austin has a maximum of a cap of 3% for each census tract. We just wanted to utilize the same example or boundary to show the difference. And so this is 3% of that neighborhood, that same neighborhood, and that's what it would look like. I think it's about 15 or so. So that is one way a cap can be put in place. However, there's all, again, here we don't know if these 15 homes are conglomerated together in, you know, it won't be 15. If we go with block phase, maybe three homes can be clustered together in a block of 24 homes. So those kinds, you could do something like that, but this has no spacing requirement. This is a cap on the number. So the question again comes to do we need to have a maximum power block phase? Should there be a minimum spacing or a distance? to do we need to have a maximum power block face? Should there be a minimum spacing or a distance? Yes. That's a fact. Yeah, of course. I see where you're going with this. Could we, of course, I swing to the Austin version, where we've had the greatest number of issues in North Arlington is where we have a cluster of homes say two three or four that have been perhaps purchased in a 10 home cul-de-sac. And then the homeowner are the SDR owner or several owners will advertise that they hold 25 to 30 people. But then when you go to their house, they tell you to go ahead and rent three houses. But they're all, it makes a neighborhood very uncomfortable to have three to four SDRs among 10 houses. So could you write this such that you have to have a distance of say 800 a thousand feet between each house so you don't have clusters and no more than 3% of a block face as a Mr. Shepherd. I can see that in the neighborhood that you're talking about, but in the neighborhood around the stadium that might be. Well, and so to me that's part of what the S.U.P. process is about. I'm going to bet that whoever's sitting at the dius at that time is not going to approve for S.U.P. permits all clustered together in a cul-de-sac. I can't promise that. But to me that's what the S.U.P. process is about because the neighbors can come down and say, hey, there's one here, don's what the S.U.P. process is about, because the neighbors can come down and say, hey, there's one here, don't put one there. But instead of making it the no rule, and we're talking about making exceptions to that rule, why don't we make it the rule, and then give them the chance to sell us on why we should make an exception to the every 800 feet or 3% rule, for 1000 feet. So what do we do then in the case where they're already operational? They have to close down. They don't get approved. The neighborhood could approve them, but if they have a long history of putting 25 to 35 people every weekend in three houses in one cul-de-sac that are all connected to each other. So they're going back and forth and it's one big party. I don't think they never have to support them being there. If they have, you know, if someone's doing it for their own convenience and they're living in one house and only renting individual groups, I don't think, and I'm going to say something else too, we don't have that many of those situations right now. And I would like to limit them so we don't have a lot more. Because I can think of three specific ones, where we have multiple houses, either on a straight block where you've got three houses clustered together that advertise for 30, because when you think about it, you can actually amass 10 to 12 to 14 bedrooms and three to four houses, which is a mini hotel, and you can handle some pretty large groups. Great point. Any other questions? Ms. Thalma. Thank you. So the question is, Gen C, should a maximum per block face be set as a standard if we didn't use per block face. What other options could we use? We could go through the neighborhood like a maximum cap on a neighborhood. So neighborhood will be defined more as one subdivision. Okay. I like that idea. Yeah. that idea. Yeah, I like that idea better. So because we do have a few exceptions around town and it like you said, it's probably just a few Tracy Himmungers is the one that comes to my mind where her neighbors have come down and said she's a great operator. We love this and she has several on one block face. I forgot how many she has four or five, something like that. Bye. So this would still allow that and they would still be individually approved through the SUP process, which is what we want and the neighborhood would still have that input. But it would still alleviate that overall toll on the neighborhood where if you have a different neighborhood with maybe not so great operators You could have you know 3% or whatever percentage in the neighborhood Well, and you know, I appreciate what you're saying because I've said all along that there might be reason to look at the entertainment district as a Some an area that might be more prone to exceptions. Just because of the way it's constructed and the age of the houses, and as I've said before, in that particular neighborhood, sometimes we improve the neighborhood because they update the houses, they take these tiny little houses that have, you know, people who live in the entertainment district who are waiting perhaps for these houses to become commercial sites over time, they're not going to spend a lot of money on their houses unless they have an opportunity to recover the investment. And their houses will eventually be sold probably for land value. So if you can somehow even peel out the entertainment district as a place that you will look at exceptions to a distance rule, I think that would be totally agreeable to me. Yes, Salmon. Thank you, Mayor. So what you're saying is that we would keep the percentage per block face across the city but have a neighborhood or not neighborhood exception, but exception just in the entertainment district. Okay. I can lower that. I think you were trying to say the 3% of the subdivision or neighborhood cap, plus the spacing, 800 feet spacing. That is the rule for the city, but there could be an exception to the spacing in the entertainment district. Well, I actually think I worded it the opposite, that we would have agreed upon spacing between SDRs, either 800 to 1000 feet, with a maximum of 3% of a neighborhood. So if you have a neighborhood cluster and most subdivisions have some defined boundaries, and you know, you can help us with that. Then it helps you kind of know where you hit you limit for that neighborhood. And the neighbors can also then know what to expect. You know, I think this, the distance deal, I think is a, I'd love to see how many that is going to affect. I think that, because I think in some neighborhoods, I'd prefer to have them all together than I had to have them spaced out. I don't know which is a better alternative. I think that's one I'd sure like to see where we're really affecting and then how it really does. I think that one warrants the distance. I think really warrants some study there on the end. Miss Wolfe. I think we're losing the point, that's the whole point of the SEP. Is the neighborhood can speak to that? If we start coming up with different rules and different zones, and if you're on this street, that's the whole purpose of the SEP. Let that neighborhood, exactly like Roxanne said, you know, listen, these are well maintained. They're better than a lot of other houses, you know. I think when you just start piling on rules and rigs and rules and rigs and zones and issues, that's what the S P gives everybody a voice. And you got two different opportunities to make your case. Well, and Z in this council. I don't completely disagree with you, but I do on one point and that is when we're talking about neighborhoods and I think a neighborhood wants to know, if I have one of these, can I have 40? If I have one, can I have only six more? And I think setting a 3% in a neighborhood, because we haven't exceeded that yet. That kind of contains it to where we are now. And then as if we're over that in a neighborhood now, we want to go ahead and prove over that percentage, then we can do that through the SQP process. And then as they fall off, we maybe don't approve something else for that neighborhood. Because these things will fall off over time. Mr. Shepherd. I agree with you. I do. Jensi, we have a good handle on where they are. The STRs are. I'd seem like I saw a hot nap or something at one point. I would like to see if possible a 3% representation to see what that would look like with the existing STRs that we know about. So the existing STRs that we have got database, about 69%, we can map it out. The rest of them do not have address physical addresses associated with it. So we are not able to map out those. Well, it's better than nothing. Yes. It's a little bit about that. Because I hear what you're saying, Ms. Mouisse, and I'm not all together opposed to it, but the, I'm visualizing a 50-home neighborhood, 3% of that neighborhood is 15? No. 1.5. So, and there are situations where I could, as the mayor pointed out, I could see four or five homes on a block it being appropriate. So I'm struggling with just a big stamp of three one size fits all kind of thing, but I'm willing to talk about it more. I'm thinking I should just give the neighborhood something to hang their hat on and kind of know when it feels right. And... Mr. Glassby. to hang their hat on and kind of know when it feels right. And Mr. Glassby. Somebody mentioned a little earlier, but it seems to me that the combination of the input from the neighborhood couple with going to PNZ and the council will put us in a position where we can identify those that make sense and any particular areas that we might be might you begin to come close to the man. Ms. K. Bourd. Thank you Mayor. I get a little concerned when we talk about neighborhoods, particularly down in District 2. I mean there are maybe a district one where neighborhoods are more defined but there's certainly not in district two. And so I don't know maybe it's a census track, maybe it's on a neighborhood. The neighborhood thing is kind of iffy and I think it's kind of a moving target in ill-defined. So kind of look at the census tracks also and do the overlay of those STRs that you can track. And I realize it's not all of them, but it's many to kind of give us a visual. I think that 3% is probably closer to where I would land than the 12. And particularly when you look at the maps, I mean, suddenly it's not a neighborhood. It's just, it's not a neighborhood. When you have that many people, it's just a profit's not an neighborhood. When you have that many people, they're just, it's just a profit center of some sort. So that bothers me a great deal. But I don't know that 3% is the right number, but I certainly, personally, 12% is way too much. But if you can get us a census track, as again, I'm thinking I don't know how you would define a neighborhood in so many of the errors that would be. We can do that with the addresses that we have. Okay, that would be great. Thank you. Okay, good. Notification area. So this is what is required by law, state law, that a media notice is sent to the Star Telegram. We post a physical sign at the subject site and mail out notification to property owners within 200 feet. Additionally, City of Ireland and also since courtesy email notification to all registered H OAs within one mile. So that's the 200 foot radius, which would encompass about 23 properties for that site. We have also shown options of if the mail, courtesy mail notification area needs to expand. That's the 600 foot radius on the left hand side, which shows about 133 properties. And on the right hand side is the 600 foot radius on the left hand side, but shows about 133 properties. And on the right hand side is the quarter mile radius, which has 527 properties. This is K-PAR. Thank you Mayor. You know, I was probably the one that thought we needed to do a quarter of a mile, but I don't think so. Because I was kind of basing another gas well thing, but you don't have that many gas wells based on in that quarter of a mile, you could have multiple SDRs. So people are going to be getting something in the mail a lot. So I just don't really think that's necessary. The 600 I'm okay with. But the quarter of a mile I think is way too much. I think we're seeing a lot ahead nodding there, Ms. K. Park. Yeah. Yes, Ms. Glassman. Long would Ms. K. Park saying that those that would be impacted and the further out you go, the less impacted would have. 600 is probably a pretty reasonable for. I'm sure enough, but I think they're gonna get noticed anyway because I think in that circle, you're gonna have multiple SDR. So I think they're gonna find out anymore. So other options for neighborhood notification or that we can add along with the 600 foot, could also be, we can create a real time map that shows all the STR applications in process that have been approved with their expiration dates and the ones that have been denied. We will create a new web page that shows all these STR applications and when we send out the property owner notification that same day we could update the web page with the PNZ and City Council date for that application as well. And the saturation or the heat map will also be presented with the case packet at planning and zoning commission meeting and City Council. So another question that was asked, are there any zones or specific areas where short-term rentals could be allowed, should be allowed or prohibited? And that's the one that we did not get any consensus on that matter with any of the groups, neither with the online survey or the open house, either they were totally prohibited or allowed everywhere. And when you look at the map, also it's kind of scattered everywhere. So we didn't have a consensus on that aspect. So decision wise, what do you have in the UDC for criteria to make the decision? And I know this was already presented on October 16th that it complies with the general criteria of section 10.3.8, meaning it complies with all the cities's adopted plans, compliments or is compatible with the surrounding users and community facilities, and contributes to enhances or promotes the welfare of the area and adjacent properties. Those are the main criteria that you are going with to make a decision on the SUP. Now with the SUP you can impose development standards and safeguards over and above those contained in the regulations. So you can add more conditions to it. You can also establish reasonable conditions on the operation, location, arrangement, type, and manner of the operation that's going to be for that to use. You could, you consideration should be given to the existing conditions and the location with regard to welfare and protection of edges and properties from all the different things. So those are the things that you will be looking at with the SUP decision. So since the short term rental alliance group expressed concerns about the specific use permit process and had they thought the San Antonio ordinance was something that they really liked those regulations, I have one slide on that. I also on your tables is a fact sheet that I have placed. It kind of goes through what is allowed through that ordinance. So the way this is recently adopted, so November 1st was when it was effective. And they have a permit process. It's an administrative permit process. It's not a zoning or a SUP process, so permit process. They have regulations where they are first defining two different types of STRs. STR type one, which is an owner and operator occupied. There could be a home shared, so somebody is living on site, so that's type one and type two is all others where the whole unit is rented out. The first permit that comes in will be valid for three years and after that when they renew it's again another three years. But the permit is revocable, each time they apply for the permit, $100 is the fee for it. Location wise, it's allowed in all residential districts and commercial districts except for the heavy commercial and industrial area. Occupancy, maximum, the way they have placed it is, if you have, so one occupant for 70 square feet of a bedroom size. Now, if your bedroom size is 100 square feet, you could accommodate 2. So, 2 is what you would require per 2 plus for 50 square feet. Meaning, 100 square feet, you could have 2. And then, living areas, if for 120 square feet of 100 square feet you could have two. And then living areas if for 120 square feet of living area meaning the areas that they could put other types of sofa come bed or something like that, 5 or 120 square feet. So that's the maximum occupancy that they have established. Density wise for the type 1, which is home shared, they have no density cap. And the 12.5% that I was referring to previously, that's for the type 2. So home shared had no density cap, and all others was the one that had the 12.5% block phase. Now, I've also added with exceptions there because they are also grandfathering or giving a non-conformity to the ones that are type 2 and have paid hot taxes. So they don't do not have that density requirement either. They get grandfathered. And then parking is their following what a residential home minimum required parking spaces. So this is not the maximum that we are trying to establish with the regulations. They were just saying they have to have at least a minimum of one parking space on site. So that's what San Antonio regulations are. They do have, if you want to change the maximum occupancy and ask for an increase in occupancy, you could go to zoning board of adjustment for a special exception. So that's the other provision they have. Ms. Moeys. I predict that San Antonio like Austin over time will walk way back from this. This is extremely liberal in favor of the short-term rental owners. Austin's been here and they've now backed down to 3%. So I don't like just showing one city's plan because the STR group wants us to show this particular plan because I think it is far too liberal in its approach to everything. I much prefer where we're going and let's see how it works. And I would not even begin to approach this as something reasonable. And I don't like just showing one city. There are a lot of cities with playing in. Correct. And why this is shown is only during the time from October 30 to now when we had the public input process This is the one that had got recently approved during that time and that's the one that they brought up So that's why it's shown here and let me explain to and and that is Perfectly right, but however this is the latest and it also is the one that has had all the discussion latest and it also is the one that has had all the discussion. So I think presenting it and then expressing opinion is certainly appropriate here with it. So anyway and be noted Miss Moeis that the like it's too liberal and too slanted towards STRs and not a fair is that that what you said. I think Arlington would not accept this plan. Any other questions comments? We'll continue working through this. We're continuing to seek input. The very first slide that went up there talked about the main meetings that have taken place. And of course, here is a continual exchange of information. And we are trying to work to progress, to try to get us to bring us to conclusion. Yes, Mr. Shepard. Thank you, Mayor. Did we have consensus on the STR1 and STR2 and have staff begin to define those? Yeah, okay. And then do we have any consensus that the fee should be different? Okay. Okay. I just wanted to be sure. It's a definition for the home shed versus a non-interoccupied to allow for some fee differences. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Can we talk about that? Just feel like you're not paid out. Mm-hmm. First of all, thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. Next we move to discussion of informal staff reports. We have the via on-demand, rideshare contractor Noel, Ms. Lindsey Mitchell. Good afternoon, Lindsey Mitchell, strategic planning manager with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. I just have a few slides to go through with you in support of this item. We've been bringing you updates throughout the past year and the performance of the VIA service and we're now at the end of our first year. To date, VIA has provided over 85,000 rides to more than 9,500 account holders. And the service is consistently providing more than 600 rides on weekdays and over 400 rides on Saturdays. It's been a successful first year of service and over the past few months we've been working with BIA to structure a contract renewal for our second year which would begin on December 11th. What has been a little surprising recently has been the exponential growth in demand since we have expanded our service area on September 20th. You can see the definite spike that has occurred since that time. Via didn't quite anticipate this level of demand either and while they've been providing good coverage to the entire service area, they do recognize that there's still latent demand that could be served with more drivers and more vehicles. The increase in demand is likely due to the high concentration of employment and retail destinations, as well as higher residential densities in the current service area, which covers about 30% of the city's total land area and serves 160,000 residents and 90,000 jobs. Indeed, there's been a steady increase in new account holders throughout the past year without any leveling off effect to date. And you've seen these images before, but they really are the most powerful way to visually show the density of ridership for the service and how that's changed over time. So this image here shows drop-off points before we expanded our service area in September. And this image shows the density shows drop-off points before we expanded our service area in September. And this image shows the density of drop-off requests after the service area expansion. You start to see the density of ridership that's turning areas of this image solid orange due to the number of total rides. So we turn to our proposed renewal for the second year of service. The total proposed estimated cost for year two is a little over $2 million. Funding for the contract comes from several sources including 995,000 in city funding that was approved in the fiscal 19 budget. A little over 800,000 from the Federal Transit Administration, which is an increase of $200,000 over last year's funding levels, and an estimated nearly $300,000 in fair revenue, which will be returned to the service to help fund it. Because VIA is a flexible and scalable service, we wanted to anticipate the possibility of locating additional funding from other grant or private sources over the next year. If we do find additional funding, we're proposing that it can be added to the service to help expand it up to a total contract amount of 2.6 million. The funding in year two provides a minimum of two additional Mercedes METRUS fans bringing the permanent fleet to 15 while maintaining via's ability to scale up the service in peak times of demand through the use of the independent contractor drivers personal vehicles that are branded with the Via logo. The funding also provides for a slightly expanded service boundary east of 360, which I will show on a map in just a moment. And it also provides approximately 40,000 more driver hours than a year one so that via can fully satisfy demand in the service area. And to help provide some comparative context for via cost structure, we looked at some national data on average hourly costs for providing traditional demand response service. In 2017, the national average cost for an hour of service was a little over $63. And in contrast, VIA's proposed cost per hour of service is half of that at a little over $31 per hour. And as a reminder, here's the current service area and a number of the popular destinations within that area that are accessible using VA, including Centerport Station, downtown, the entertainment district, UTA, three high schools, and the two major hospital districts as well as regional shopping destinations on I-20. This map shows the proposed service area expansion for year two, which includes a small area east of 360 here boarded by Abram the eastern city limits in Arkansas Lane. This expansion would serve an additional 11,000 residents and 2,000 jobs. As funding allows for growth and we continue to think about the future of VIA, there are a few considerations to keep in mind. Over this past year we've learned the importance of maintaining orderly growth in small bites, if you will, so that the service can systematically absorb demand and we can learn about the demand dynamics of a given area without stressing the overall system. Since no service has ever been provided like this in the area, we don't have a great sense of true demand until VIA just dives in and starts providing service. When they do expand it's important to have a stabilization period to assess the supply and demand over the entire new area. New trip configurations are generated by having newly accessible destinations and it takes some time to determine patterns that evolve and then apply the routing algorithms in the most efficient way. And lastly, it's possible to manage demand in the future through fair pricing if we want to slow growth or control costs or expand geographically in a faster way. But of course course there are trade offs without approach related to access and equity. And with that I'm happy to take any questions. Ms. Walman. Well it's always good to get a report because it's always been positive and I'm glad to see that. I noticed that when you said the new service area is going to be that little sliver over on the east side. Okay, I just, and I know you've got data and that's how you do this methodically to move those boundaries out to cover the city eventually. However, do you think about going like, if this is on the east and the next one would be on the south, then the west, and then the north, and not just coming around like this, but doing it in sections like that. Is that a consideration at all? It is. We've been working with VIA and we'll continue over the next couple of months to do more detailed work on phasing planning for expansion and different options that could be available using the system. There's a couple different ways you could go. I mean, generally speaking, the service area does have to be contiguous. So however they expand, it does have to be adjacent to areas. They're already serving. But they could go clockwise, little sliver down here, and a little sliver up here, and eventually, you'll get the whole thing. But that's what I saw as a very small little portion over on the east side. And I'm thinking, okay, rather than just going like this, could we go here, here, here, here? Because everybody all over town, there, I know everybody else getting calls too, because everybody wants to use it. So anyway, but thank you, you're doing a great job. We're very pleased with you. Thanks. Mr. Mitchell, could you go back to the slide that showed the current service area with the major areas that we serve, the major landmarks that we serve? Yes. See if we can find that there. Because I think that's really important here, especially for our TV audience here, to be able to see that again. Yeah. okay. What we are reaching now are, you know, we're reaching hospitals, schools, our major shopping area, of course, the entertainment area, and then also being able to provide access to regional rail and ability to get into DFW Airport to there at the centerport station. Territ county community college is an absence there that is a high demand to be able to get to there, especially because one of the big goals that we have is to be able to help our impoverished, to help themselves, to be able to get them job training and to get to jobs. And so that is one, I think, destination, but then Ms. Walman hit on it there, the other is that our neighborhoods want the ability to, and so we're reaching 160,000 of our 400,000 residents here. And one of the 400,000 residents here. And one of the criticisms in the past here of the bus services, there was that it wasn't being used enough. Well, right here, this is being used tremendously. So much so that it is reaching national levels and other cities are following suit with what we're doing here. But this is really a service too that not only is helping people to get to work and to get to school and get to the hospitals. It's also the ability, of course, also to take cars off the roads. Here's we move forward. So it's going to be interesting. Here's we're able to move forward, but we move forward. So it's going to be interesting. Here's we're able to move forward, but we have hit on something that is tremendously successful that is getting the ridership that we've all been hoping for at a fraction of the cost here of conventional transportation like buses or light rail. Mr. Glassby. Thank you, Madam. Just a question. As we conclude that we should expand based on requesting the manner, how do we communicate to those potential new riders that this man has? So when we do a service area expansion, how do people know that that's available? Users who already have an account with the app will notice that the service area now allows them to go to more destinations. It's actually pretty clear when you're in the app where you can select to go. In addition, they'll send out emails to everyone who has ever signed up for an account to let them know of a service area expansion. And then on our side to help capture new ridership for people who don't have accounts. We push information out through our social media and through our website and other avenues that way. Okay. Any other questions from Ms. Mitchell? All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. All right, thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, next we move to what work city update for Miss Wickman. Thank you, Mayor Jennifer Wickman, Assistant City Manager. We have on this informal staff report an update that Mr. Glassbe had requested at the last meeting regarding our efforts from the What Work Cities program. That's been two phased. Our initial phase started at the end of 2016. And it in the beginning of 2018. Excuse me. And the current program has gone. The phase two has begun during this year. So we're again working on data certification at a silver level, which is a standard developed by what works cities. Sorry about that. And then we're also working with Gub X, which is a group from Johns Hopkins University, and they will again guide us. We work with them in the first phase. Thank you. We work them in the first phase. We're also going to work with them in the second phase in order to not only work on our individual and individual area and department who can use data better but also on our overall data practices. And they also, and interesting with phase two, one of the things that they're emphasizing is working to get these new data practices throughout the whole organization, helping us really with change management, which is so important that everyone, all of our employees and even citizens, be on board with this use of data because that really helps the whole program. So I'm happy to answer any additional questions and there's some additional detail within the informal staff report. Any questions from Ms. Whitman? Ms. K. Bart. Not a question, but a comment. Thank you for this hard work. I don't know how many years ago we started talking about all the data that we have and what are we doing with it. And so this is kind of paying off. And particularly as we approach the next census time, were you going to even more data and what do you do with that data? So hopefully we'll get to silver level. Probably we will, right? So we've committed to it by 2020 So we're waiting that decision. I take it so anyway, but thank you and thanks to city manager for taking the lead on this and Making it happen because we've got all this data sitting around and every time I'd go to NLC They and I take many what do you people doing with your data? Try pick that up and you guys are doing great jobs. So thank you. Thank you. Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you very much for the report. Out as I've said, I tend to the session was just really fascinated with what's being done and our involvement. And I just had a question from Mr. City Manager. What, how do you feel in terms of your ability to use data now versus in the past and kind of where you're going? It's okay. I mean, seriously, it's okay. We've got a lot of work to still get it to where it really needs to be predictive. Right now you can use it and you can, in certain areas particularly geography or call work volumes, you can look at stuff, but there's a whole world out there of really layering together this data over time. And then taking it to not only help you do things cheaper, better, faster, but actually predicting where you need to be doing things cheaper, better, faster. So we've got a long way to be doing things cheaper, better, faster. So we've got a long way to go. We've come a long way. And I'm appreciative of all the work that the staff's done and the investments that you guys have made in order to enable to do it because this stuff doesn't just happen. We have to have the support to do it. And along those lines, I want to share just a little bit of bad news there too. I don't think everybody knows, but our data leader, who you all have seen in here a few times, Elaine Deney, has got a great opportunity and we'll believe in the city. So we'll be looking for a new leader, but she's going to go work for Ford Motor Company in their Smart Cities division. So I just told her she knows where Ford can find us to do projects and such, and that we'll expect her to communicate that with us but but we'll be looking for a new a new person to help lead us and we'll continue to be smart with our investments and when you when you you tie this together with the previous conversation with VIA combined with the information that came out yesterday with the Zora Motors announcement as well as the fact that Lane's going to another competitor to work in the sphere. It just shows you how all the stuff is converging and how the future of transportation and investments and public infrastructure is just very different what it was even just a couple of years ago. So the future is happening kind of with us or without us. And so if we're going to be part of that future we've kind of got to stack our apple cart the right way and that's what we're trying to do with y'all supporting that of the team that's putting together the data. Thank you. Okay next we'll move to six month forecast of anticipated bid and proposed projects and report on fourth quarter form of bid award is Mr. Reginald Cleveland Got to know mayor city council Reginald Cleveland M to B coordinator the information in front of you is our six months forecast Of both bid and proposal projects along with the report of not only our former awards But also our local M to B spin and so with that I'm available for any questions Any questions for Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Glass-B. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Cleveland, are we beginning to stabilize in terms of getting MWBs and the local businesses involved in taking advantage? Or do you think there's still a lot of bandwidth that we need to incorporate? We are getting more firms actively pursuing projects. Just recently we've had two public work projects where we have as low bidders, MWBE firms. We have two construction management, MWBE firms. We have two construction management, our construction manager at risk had pre-bit meaning send the last one that was for the EURL project we had over 100 companies that attended. So they're definitely gonna be some projects that's coming up where we're gonna get some good participation from a subcontracting standpoint and then there's some projects that we're awarding that's going to I believe help our numbers now Generally as you can imagine our vertical construction really kind of increases that participation and so With one of our CMRs being an MBE certified M2BE We're gonna see those numbers increase again, but again, you have to remember we still have a race neutral Initiative and so it is driven by our crimes, you know, taking initiative on their own versus the city to get that immunotherapy participation. Any other questions, Mr. Cleveland? Mr. Cleveland, appreciate your hard work. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next we'll move to 2019 City Council priority champion great neighborhoods. Mr. Gilbert Parallel, Deputy City Manager. We should have this online. That's a hint. I'm the only one who has a paper copy, so I just want to let you know that. No, I think we last time we let you know that it's all going to be online now. So it should be on your iPads or computers there. But I wanted to talk a little bit about some of the items that we have listed here, some of the projects and programs that have been recognized. National Night Out obviously is a big undertaking for all of us. You received a notice this morning that the, let me get this right, National Association of Town Watch has ranked the City of Arlington in cities, 300,000 and above as the number one city on National Night Out campaigns. So if you remember the last two years, we have been second, but we find the overcame Minnesota I think is number two. So, you know, kudos to all of you, kudos to the citizens that get involved, and kudos to the police department and all the efforts that they put into that special night. Another article that I want to point to is, we've been ranked number 10 by smart asset which is a financial financial technology company basically what they do is they provide advice to clients on retirement on financial investments and they have selected the city as one of the top 10 cities to retire in. So congratulations again to all the fine work that you do. On the inside, we have highlighted a couple of neighborhoods. And one of the neighborhoods is Parkway North neighborhood. And they're highlighted because they took advantage of the neighborhood matching grant, did some landscape work and got all their folks together to put together that project and the result is that it's a stronger neighborhood and it achieves some of the things that we're trying to do across the city. The other neighborhood is a surewood a state neighborhood and they're identified because of the National Night Out program, one of the largest groups, they came out this past year, and they do a fantastic job. Another update on the insight is the Texas Municipal League identified, one of the programs of police department gets involved in, and this one is called the Bridge Kids program. I think it's at the Lynn Hale Elementary School. They were having problems. Some of the kids were bullying some of the younger kids and as they're crossing a bridge out there. So one of the things that we did is working together with school district and with the neighborhood. We identified an opportunity to be able to get the kids home and to school in a safer method. The other one and I know, Lemme was here earlier, and I know he doesn't get tired of hearing it, and I don't get tired of saying it. Congratulations to the Parks Department on being named the National Gold Medal Award winner this year, after trying so hard for the last three or four years. They finally achieved what they were seeking. And then in the back, we provide you with the information on some of the activity in police, fire and code compliance, just to let you have the information really available to any of our citizens' asks for that type of information. And with that, you know, I do wanna say that the neighborhood group does a tremendous amount of work. They are always out there on a daily basis. And unfortunately, these are small opportunities to be able to show you some of the things that they do, but they do great work on a daily basis. And with that, I'll take any questions or comments if they're nice. Any questions or comments for? Yes. Just one comment. It's phenomenal that Arlington won two national awards, one for national night out and one for the park system. So kudos to staff. You guys do a great job. Thank you, Matt. Good luck to talk to you and right. Don't forget about what? Talk to you and right. Oh, well, yeah. I'll be just talking about the two gold medal awards. That's great. Thank you. Well, thank you very much, Gilbert. Okay, next we'll move into committee meetings municipal policy. Ms. Farah Mars. Thank you, Mayor. The committee met this morning and all members were present. We continued our discussion on the review of hotel development guidelines. We'd started looking at particularly the entertainment district in our last meeting. This time there had been a stakeholder meeting that happened at the Convention on Visitors Bureau of all our major hoteliers in the entertainment district. In that discussion, some recommendations came forward which we discussed in our committee today, including that all hotels in Arlington should be constructed with concrete and steel framing for the construction. That all hotels should have annual fire and life and safety inspection, which by the way we already currently do have. But that was a point brought up in the meeting. In terms of the entertainment district, there's quite a strong agreement about going to and forgive the acronym, STR chain scales. These are different. These are not what we were talking about earlier. These are chain scale that's provided by a national organization each annually that goes for luxury, upper upper scale, upscale, upper midscale, midscale, and economy. There was quite a agreement that for new construction only luxury or upper upper scale chain scale hotels should be allowed in the entertainment district. The hotels of less than upper upper scale chain scale rating may be allowed only in case of an existing age hotel that is to be demolished and rebuilt. So again, trying to encourage, you know, the average age is 26 years old. So trying to encourage some of this older to at least move out the chain scale for that city wide in this, in this stakeholder meeting, there was a discussion about again outside the entertainment district looking at for new construction, looking at upper scale and high chain scale rated hotels. And then there was some discussion about a minimum room size of 350 square feet. The committee today had to discuss those as well as where was attention was brought to us that within the chain scales that sometimes luxury in one city doesn't look like luxury in another city. It depends on what they average cost per key or average cost per room. So one of the things that the committee and instructed and asked that be brought back by staff and Ronnie Price from the CVB, Ingenie C. Thopel, and along with the consultant are gonna look at creating a package of amenities, perhaps looking at it like a cafeteria style of amenities to try to understand it didn't make sure that when we say we mean we want luxury and upper upper scale we are actually getting what it is that we are that are comparable to what that is and then also asked to bring back that information for not only the entertainment center but also for the remainder of the city. And so we'll have that probably come back to us. Probably early next steps would be that information. They said probably we'll take to the early beginning of next year and then with the idea of going through committee and then bringing it to full council for review. Since obviously this will be a change in our current UDC destruction. and I'm sure that's a good thing. Since obviously this will be a change in our current UDC destructure. And if I missed anything, please help me out. Okay. Any questions here from us for our Mars. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Next we'll move to community and neighborhood development as well. Thank you Mayor. We met with everyone in attendance today and we had a one item agenda and it was to address Arlington Home Byer Assistance Program. You know that is a 100% federal HUD home program and we will be working with staff and we'll probably have a couple of more council meetings. I mean, a couple of more committee meetings to address the rising cost of new homes and the lack of affordable homes is a real issue. We have not updated our policies or standards for since 2006 and remind everybody now the average home purchased in Arlington is $197,800. So we're going to try to work with see if we can get that number up so that for these eligible first time home buyers, you know, they go through a great program of budgeting and what they can do. And so we're going to it's time to revise those standards and policies. And when we're finished playing with it, we're going to bring it back to City Council. And staff will present that at the January 8th Council. So you'll see everything it's updated because we're looking to see what other cities are doing with their home dollars. And then we will put that into effect in January of 2019 and hope we can get some good projects going and some great families and some good homes. Awesome. Any questions from Ms. Wall? Okay, thank you, Ms. Wolfe. We'll move to transportation and municipal infrastructure Ms. Walman. Thank you, Mayor. Well, we had a meeting today all in attendance and the TMI committee met today to receive an update. There was it was an informational meeting. No, the action was necessary. On the status of 5G and broadband deployment in Arlington, which is moving very quickly, the city is engaged on several fronts to ensure that we're ready for current and future technology needs of our residents and business. We all know about it, but we're still learning, we're putting it into the infrastructure in our city. We've also joined the staff toes, we've joined the next century cities, and we're benefiting from the information that organization shares on a variety of issues, such as recent federal small cell deployments from the FCC. We know we've talked about those deployments before, and they showed pictures of where they're coming of where they're coming, where they're placing them in our city. The staff is meeting frequently with broadband providers as they deploy these small cell technology in Arlington and this is a precursor for 5G which is the future and how fast it's going to be moving. It's the technology that's going to change everything when it comes to broadband communications. It will not only provide for our phones, TVs, computers, but for the capacity to serve the growing internet of things including autonomous vehicles in our city manager talked again about the announcement yesterday of our own general motors and where they're going. But we will be ready when those autonomous vehicles hit our city with the infrastructure that we're putting in now. We'll see 5G and 1GIG serving service rolled out in Arlington in the DFW area this next year in 2019. There are also researching programs that will allow residents and small businesses to learn more about this advancing technology so that they too can be ready for the arrival. It's really, they're excited. The staff was telling us the excitement of a small business, downtown business. We're working with the downtown management corporation to get this technology on the ground, underground, over the top of the ground, so that we're ready for it when it comes. It's exciting. There was, as I say, there's no action that the committee took. We just had information. And if there are any questions, where's the IT director? Because- Oh, there he is. Okay, I was looking for him because I thought, this is all technology and it's all way advanced But I do we were we were pleased to know that that we are preparing for the future and that all our citizens can be aware that it will soon be all over our city Mr. Glaspie Thank you. Thank you Mary. We we had a conversation not too long ago about our position also so that we would have the capacity to any business that may want it to come in. So I guess the question is back to you, Mr. City Manager, when you take on the consideration the pace at which technologist changing, you feel we're pretty well positioned right now and moving in the right direction. We need to have the infrastructure in place for the future. I'm gonna answer that the way I did earlier, as we're okay, but we're certainly not the gold standard as it relates to that. So there's a lot of continued ongoing investment that we're gonna need to make. And the infrastructure, the networking, moving things to the cloud, keeping up with software updates. All of those things are significant workloads, significant cost, and I feel okay, and that we're on solid footing, but there's a lot of room for improvement and we're not gonna continue to do that. Any other questions from Ms. Walnut or comments? Okay, we'll move to finance and audit, Ms. Capehart. Thank you Mayor, I'll be brief. Today we had our first overview of the enterprise resource planning, the ERP is staff refers to it. Basically, for many of us who sit around this horseshoe, we've had Lawson is our kind of our interface. That's going to be unsupportable in about four years. So because you cannot renew that, if you're going to go to the Lawson product, it'll be a whole new system. So we're going to create a consultant consortium, so to speak, and we're going to go out for an RFP and see if Lawson's still the way we should go. The current system is a shared system with Grand Prairie and Carrollton, and it was hosted by COG. I don't know that we'll be partnering, it'll just append. But anyway, it's a yeoman's work on behalf of staff, I mean, because it touches every department. And when you roll it out, it's a culture shock, and Mr. Finley is poised for the task. He's looking forward to it. He smiles about it when he talks. So he's told me one of the things he hope never happened on his watch was this and it's happening. So anyway, because you're the man for the job, but we have nothing, no action item or part of the council we're still in the learning stage for the committee and for staff as well. Any questions from Ms. K. Barnett? Okay, then next we'll move to economic development, Mr. Shepherd. Thank you, Mayor. Economic development met today. All members were present. All matters were discussed in executive session. Okay. Pointments to boards and commissions, Mr. Baskin. Thank you, Mayor. We have two appointments to boards and commissions. Okay. Evening Agenda items. How do you have anything? Okay. Issues relative to city and text.projects. Okay, future agenda items. Okay, we did not finish an executive session, so it is now 5.42pm.m. on November the 27th 2018 and we'll go into closed session. In accordance with following sections of VTCA government code chapter 551 which will be 0.087 deliberation regarding economic development. Showing them that kindness is valuable, that it matters and that it pays. When we look back, we see as Arlington being a family for us, the one that's taking care of our children and one that we can be able to give back and take care of others. One of the reasons I ran for the school board is that I was always active within a kid's school. Through that was able to really have a greater understanding of what our community is all about. I think what's interesting about Camp Thurman is that it's kind of a hidden secret in town but we do serve 8,000 kids in 11 weeks of summer camp but that's not all that we do. We then bring in corporate groups, school groups, numerous organizations that will come in for a team building day, and so they're on the zip line playing and learning and exploring in a way that they they couldn't otherwise do. The jiggle butt run began when I was out with some girlfriends out for a run and literally that was kind of our time to get away. So fast forward 12 12 years, we are looking at a committee of 16 women we bring in about 2,000 runners and we start and stop right in the heart of downtown Arlington because we believe in showcasing what we have. We see Arlington as a place that is a big city but has that small town feel. Or if we ride off in the sunset someday, we can say this was a life well lived. I'm Mary Hibbs. I'm John Hibbs, and I'm alive with American Dream. And I'm alive with American Dream. Are you ready for some new shoes? Let's see what's out here. Today we have a very special event for our students. Samaritan's feet has partnered with two of our community partners, Waterburger and Movement Mortgage, to bring in over 500 pairs of shoes for all of our students here at More Elementary. So let's put your foot up here for you. This event helps us to be able to serve our community by meeting basic needs of our students. And so for us, it's not really about just educating the child on the academic level. It's also about building self-awareness, self-esteem, and teaching them how to meet a servant leader. So we're just here to love on them, encourage them, and serve them, and have them come back out of this room kind of feeling a little more hopeful and with a cool pair of shoes to wear. I like my new shoes a lot because green, black. I'm a big color shoe. This is the biggest act of kindness that you will ever see. Because you have people coming in that didn't know what's before. They knew a little bit about us, but they generously came in, offered free shoes and socks, offered a service to our kids. That's going to be just a memorable part of their lives. And so that act of kindness means that we get to flip that again for our kids. I want to say, say thank you very much. I appreciate you. Sure. I appreciate what you did. There you go. Have a good day. Today we saw the V280 flying its demo and had a game that's kind of orbrat and clearing the envelope for their craft so what we really wanted to show off is the tilt rotor and the tilt rotor always has amazing speed you know it really becomes a triple prop airplane but then we wanted to just to demonstrate when it comes in helicopter mode and the agility of it that's what's been different that we really put into this vehicle is how well and how Igell it is loaded the ground And maneuverable and so you saw it use a high speed turns you saw it do some pair of wedding So really showing off that agility of the aircraft We wanted to really upgrade this to wherever a technology company and showed the newness of what we're doing So we did refurbish this that was the unveiling of it. And see the innovation that's going on in this new complex as well as seeing the flag of our newest hill runner. And like the city of Arlington, Bell isn't waiting for the technology to come to them. They are pursuing victories, big ideas, and getting things done. Bell is in Arlington's DNA, and we're excited to continue this innovative journey together. You look at what the city's been doing. It is a perfect partnership and we are going to press forward and do a lot of innovation out of the center and it's great having someone and a community like that supporting you. . . . . Welcome to Ask Arlington, I'm Jay Warren and we are here to get your questions answered. The topic today is the I-3360 Interchange Project. A lot of you have probably experienced some traffic there. We want to talk with Val Lopez, who is the Public Information Officer for TechS.dot about this project. We got some really good questions, Val. Thank you for coming in. You're very welcome. thank you for having me. We appreciate you taking some time to talk with us. And before we get to the questions, I thought it might be helpful for people to understand what this project is and why we're doing it. It's long overdue, right? Yes, and it's a very exciting project. Basically, it's a $233 million project. We We are modernizing what we think is across over the metriplex here. Absolutely. It is what we're taking is an old turnpike configuration from the late 50s and make it into a direct connect interchange is what it is. There are two major highways. There are two major highways in the 1930s. Yes, and basically except for the removal of some toll booths, it's remained largely the same since the late 50s. And so the region decided it was time to modernize it and it'll be one of these very advanced, high-connect, high-cognitivity interchanges that you see. Well, no doubt we needed it. And I think a lot of people are excited that it's happening. Part of its construction, though, and I know you've got some detours and or closures that are coming up. So you want to talk about that? Yes. Starting on November 9th, we have our first large scale high impact closure on I-30. The reason we're closing I-30 in the Armasson area is that we're demolishing the old Southbound frontage road for 360 frontage road. And you simply can't do that with traffic underneath. So it's really a safety issue. And so the detour is quite significant. It's going to go through, say, how a 161 division street and Collins street. It's a high impact detour and the question is, come up, why don't you just detour to the frontage roads? Well, we're updating an old turn-pack configuration. There's no continuous frontage roads through there. We're building them on this project. Unfortunately, they're not there now. They're not available, so we're going to have to put this detour in. And for how long? It'll be the weekend of the ninth. Okay, so just two days. We have scheduled through early before rush hour Monday morning. Okay, hopefully you won't take up all that time, but that's what we've got a lot of for this. And you guys are great partners working with what we have here in Arlington, the city, Grand Prairie, but also what we have in the entertainment district and you've kind of planned this around all that, right? To be the less impact as possible. Well, when you're talking about projects at this scale, you just can't do it on your own. You're right. We've partnered with both Grand Perry and Arlington, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, local PD. We've come up with all these people to make sure the detour goes well. But we've also, because we know this is the entertainment district and a lot of people come here, we've tried to coordinate with the ballpark, with six flags, the Cowboys stadium, and we've got a weekend where on the ninth there's nothing really going on at any of those facilities. So we want to take advantage of that. We work very hard to minimize impact not only to motorists, but the facilities along given construction zone. And so we're going to go for it. Yeah, so that's easy to find a quiet weekend in our own time. Not in our own time. No. Well, we got some great questions, as I mentioned. So let's get to some of these and our first one comes to us from Jose and he asks when is a section southbound from brown to Lamar going to be finished? That's a good question southbound. We are doing in that area. We're doing a pretty significant frontage road improvements. We're hoping that next year will be complete in that area. Jose we're actually working with the city of Arlington to improve signal timing through that intersection. Okay, so there should be some short-term improvement here very soon. Very good. Well Jim has another question for us. This one is Copeland Road. It seems to have lost its bridge as it passes by the six flags Shockwave Eastbound. Is the bridge going to be restored or will Copeland now dead end? Currently right now we are rebuilding that bridge. That will be of one way frontage road when we're complete So it's absolutely part of this project We're working on it right now and that'll be that'll be what it essentially is going to be Spound furniture you're getting a sense from all this that this is a very comprehensive project is not It's not No, yeah, you've got a lot going on here and it's all for the betterment of our link Absolutely our last question comes to us from Moe he asks When is the completion date for the I-3360 interchange project? Originally we had estimated completion date in 2020. We've had some significant utility delays that were complicated by the hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey, all those utility staff were shifted to those areas impacted by hurricanes, not only in Houston but also Puerto Rico. It seems that we've got most of those issues resolved. We're on track to pursue the project here at a pretty quick pace. We're estimating a completion date of 2021 at this point. All right, very good. Well, Val, thank you so much for coming and talking with us. And a big thank you to TechStop for the investment they're making here in Arlington. So we said this was a long overdue project and we're really excited that it's happening. We are too. Thank you for having us. And thank you at home for sending in those questions that will do it for this episode to the next time when we'll answer more of your questions. Hello everybody, this is Chuck Morgan and welcome to another edition of At The Park with Chuck and I'm at the new Glowblife field construction site. And I'm here with a guy named Jason Moore and Jason not only is getting to work on the new Glowbly field, but Jason also works on Glowbly Park. Jason, we were talking about how you don't look very old. So, how old were you when you started working on Glowbly Park? In 19 years old, I was on Plumber's Helper and I just probably had a year and a half, two years with TD industries and so I was helping to do and just plumbing on that. Are you excited about working on this project? Yeah, I am. It's not to be able to work on both of them, but it's kind of come full circle for me. Jason, you work with TD industries now. What is your role in the construction of a global high field? I work in the BDC end up, which is a virtual design construction. We draw everything that's going to be installed 3D on the computer first to make sure everything's coordinated. And when installation in the field goes on, that it goes smoothly without any hiccups. That's Jason Moore. And Jason worked on Glowby Park. Now he's working on the new Glowby field. This has been another edition of At The Park for Chuck. And don't forget, it is always baseball time in Arlington, Texas. It's important to me because all the money from the tickets go towards the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Tarrot County. Boys and Girls Club is a place to go to get your confidence going and being your self-licking friends. And expressing yourself through music, games, basketball, arts, anything really. Just this week I went to the National Youth of the Year to get all the youth of the year winners from regionals across America and they choose a winner. 2019 National Youth of the Year is Malachi. Malachi made an impact by helping other kids. That's pretty much boys and girls' skills about helping other kids. July 30th, 2017, basically I went to an Adina Menzel concert and I sang on stage. It gets viral pretty much over a week. People started singing that and they started calling me up for gigs. You, you made me, you made me disappear. I wrote the song, King, about my experience with bullying and how I feel about it, just to get my emotions out, because writing is about getting your emotions out in my opinion. You pushed me straight to the ground. My next album is going to talk about issues in the world and just overcoming those issues. I want my music to inspire and I want it to bring life. My name is Luke Chaco and I'm from Arlington, Texas. I've been very, very proud of Tucker Thompson. He is our lockdown corner, one of our top football players, but he's also a great kid. He's been a tremendous leader for our program, and then he's a great student in the classroom. So we're very proud to have Tucker Thompson in a football program. I'm the youngest of four, so I think that's probably the biggest one. My older brothers always, I'm always trying to beat them, always trying to do better than them. Whenever we play, whatever sport or whatever game. It just comes naturally to me whenever the young gets it for to be that competitive. He shows up every day and gives everything that he has of himself. And as a result of that, he's one of the top players in the area at his position. I'm one of the top football teams around. I like winning a lot. I don't really like losing. That's definitely the biggest thing to be winning. I like winning, so if we're playing good, that's the best thing. Be at a high level and start on a football team. He's going to be our starting point guard on a basketball team, but also to be able to keep his grades too. He is a 3.9 GPA. And so to be able to do it all and not to make excuses for yourself I don't have time but he's a great example that you can do everything you want to accomplish at all length in high school. I think I can do whatever I said in my mind too. Welcome to another episode of Street Track or a regular show of My Arlington TV that provides up-to-date information on both current and proposed street projects throughout all of Arlington. And today we're doing something a little different. We want to highlight how the city is putting technology to work to offer residents a more mobile, friendly street tracker webpage. While ArlingtonTX.gov-streettracker has been live on the city's website since 2015, our staff has made significant improvements to make the site easier to use and navigate using your smartphone devices. Residents can learn more about water, drainage, and roadway projects currently under construction throughout Arlington using the city's interactive street tracker map. Now this tool, which is optimized for mobile devices, integrates live data so that up to date project information is available at all times. You can also see contact information for the projects and the current status of the work being done throughout the American Dream City. The city is focused on improving our streets and transportation connections within and beyond our borders. So please visit ArlingtonTX.gov Maxlas Street Tracker today on your Android and Apple devices. Today, you can expect mostly sunny weather. Oh, he does. He's sitting talk to about Alexa. Alexa, set my alarm for 7am. Alexa, add eggs to my shopping list. How about this one, pal? Alexa, the garbage in here is starting to smell. When is my pickup day? Do you smell that? How can I not smell that? Although it could be that yoga workout yikes. Alexa, ask City of Arlington. When is my garbage pickup? Your garbage pickup is on Tuesday and Friday. Wow, he finally figured it out. Ask City of Arlington is now a skill for all Alexa-enabled devices. You can ask basic questions about voting locations, garbage and recycling pickup days, and a lot more. Simply enable the City of Arlington Texas skill on your Amazon Alexa mobile app. How about Alexa and dog treats to my shopping list? Don't push it. Uh-oh. The Ask City of Arlington Alexa skill is making him smarter already. Hi, my name's Eddie White. Well, I'm a physician. Fuzzies is about to have our 10th year anniversary here in downtown Allenten. We're very excited and we're very pleased to be a part of the growth and change that's going on in downtown Olanjian. My business partner now, Greg, is away from the UTA. And we had the opportunity to actually open the very first Buzzies franchise and we couldn't have done that anywhere in DFW. We knew what was happening in Olanjian, that we had the affinity and affiliation with the city, with the university. And we said we want to be part of the growth and change is happening in our lives. We think our customers and our friends that have been part of our business here and we look forward to seeing you years to come as downtown emerges. Pleasant's has opened in downtown Allenten and we love for you to come see us. you Welcome back. I'm Andrew Tnullian with My Arlington TV and this episode of Arlington Eats brings us to TCC Southeast for an exciting adventure in culinary diplomacy. The idea of gastro diplomacy is that we can learn a lot about other cultures by experiencing their food. That's John Malachemati, an associate professor of sociology who's going to get you excited about this TCC-made exhibit that'll teach you Texas history and the diversity of people who wrote it. All through food. Here in Texas, we know our demographics are changing. And when you take a look at this traveling exhibit that'll also be going to area high schools, you'll learn it's been that way for a while. It traces many culinary cultures you can find here in Arlington, the American Dream City, including Spanish, French, and many more. Like Vietnamese, which Malachamadi says is the third most spoken language in Texas. Well, places now around, and what we've done here is trying to show kind of a history of the state of Texas, showing how certain racial and ethnic groups have made their way into the state, brought food with them, and then melded it to a specific Texas style. So we like our stuff spicy here, for example. So a lot of places with spicy food goes over pretty well. On the day the exhibit debuted, students were able to sample a lot of it, which of course is the point. For a lot of people, it can be daunting to learn about another culture. And so if I can eat some food and then understand the history of that food, I can better understand why those people may have some of the ideologies they have and celebrate certain holidays, traditions, behaviors, practices, all those things that make us think, well, these people might be way different than me. Turns out we're a lot more similar to one another when we think we are and food can help bring us together. Welcome everyone to another edition of Ask Arlington. Ask Arlington is a show that is dedicated to answering the question you have about what's happening here in our city. And the holiday season is right around the corner that also means we need to start thinking about the fats and oils and greases that sometimes go down the pipes that can cause a big problem. And here to talk about that with us is Joe Gildersley with the Water Utilities Department. Joe, thanks for being here with us. I know this can be something of an unpleasant topic to talk about, but it's an important one. And I thought we might start out with you kind of describing some of the problems that we see when people do put those fats and oils and greases from the holidays, turkeys and all those things down the drain. Sure, Jay. Yeah, a lot of times people, especially around the holidays, we've got Thanksgiving and Christmas and other things that come up. And there's a lot of cooking that occurs. Well, there's two things that happen when that. You got not only the cooking during those times, but we have colder weather. So grease from cooking tends to get harder and can get into your pipes and actually cause problems when you get a blockage and then you potentially could even get raw sewers back into your house which we don't want and you're going to call a plumber out for a mercury pair and that kind of thing. No one's that. Exactly. Well, we got some questions that our staff put together that you guys get on a regular basis. And we also had some questions from some of our residents. So let's get to those. This first one, what about the garbage disposal? Is it OK to put food down the drain if you run it through the garbage disposal? Well, it's funny to bring that up. My wife used to like to feed the garbage disposal, too. And I'd always discourage it. We have them, obviously, and we have the ability to put things down. But that's not always the right thing to do. When you have the particulate matter and stuff that goes down with the garbage disposal, you can actually get that adhere to the grease. It's kind of like glue. The grease is itself and it just causes restriction in your pipe to eventually where you don't have any more flow going out. And you know, we typically expect when we flush the toilet or we turn on the sink to have that water flow away from us and not be a problem. But if you're not watching out what you're putting down sewer, it can become a problem for you and the customers downstream from you. So it can just make it bigger, essentially. Exactly. All right, good advice there. Our next one, don't you clean the sanitary sewer mains? So how much of a problem is this really? Well, it causes overflows in our sewer mains. And one of the things that's bad about that, obviously, is that you can affect the aquatic life in the receiving strains if it gets out of the sewer collection system. And we want to prevent that from occurring. But also, we can do the same thing I was talking about where you can have that obstruction occur downstream from where you are. And everybody else that's putting things that shouldn't be in the sewer can all adhere in a certain location, block that flow up, and then it's gonna go to the lowest flow or lowest area, and it could go into somebody's house and cause an obstruction, you got raw sewage in their house. So it can be a problem for sure, and we do clean the sewers with our, where these vactrutrucks, and we can't obviously clean everyone's sewer main out front, but we do have a practice of going around, trying to do that. So think of yourself but also think of your neighbors and stuff like that. Exactly. Alright very good. Our next question comes to us from next door. Steve wrote in, not only during the holidays do I need somewhere to take our use cooking oil and fats from meals. I never dump any fat or grease down the drain. It causes nightmares. Instead I save it all in a plastic big plastic jug. Where can I take that to dispose of it properly when it gets full, so non-holiday times? Well, I want to point this out too. We do have a collection event that occurs annually for our Greece for Greens. We can talk about that more, but there's also the Environmental Collection Center that we have, and we'll put that information up for the customers to see, but you could take it to that Environmental Collection Center to drop off, and then they'll recycle it. Well, before we get that out of here, since you mentioned Greece for Greens, describe that program for us. So we started that. I think it was in 2013, and basically what we do is we have a one-day event where folks are allowed to bring their Greece in, or oil cooking oil, primarily, for recycling, and they'd turn it into a bio diesel for our parks and so at the Tiera Verde golf courses where the solar curves and so it's a great opportunity to take a way stream out and then convert it into something we can utilize and it's a very good clean fuel that our parks are able to use in their equipment so it prolongs equipment life and then also we get the benefit of not having to pay for extra fuel. That is also that's a win win-win. It is. Well, Joe, thanks so much for coming in. And thanks for all that you do, especially during this time of year to keep our pipes clean here in Arlington. We appreciate it. Appreciate it. And thank you at home for watching. Now, I'll do it for this episode of Ask Arlington. Tune in next time. We'll wear answer more of your This day means so much because I've been working on my game since I was six and so to sign my letter of intent surrounded by my friends and family has really just made a statement saying that all my hard work is paying off and I'm so thankful for all the opportunities that I've had through golf and for all the people who are here to cheer me on. I'm very grateful for all of my Martin Golf years. I have been able to grow so much as a teammate through my experiences with the other girls and communicating with my coach and so Martin Golf has really prepared me to go play Kolei Dolly. you Yes, meet the Hernandez family. Trey, Amanda, Baby Victor, and Jake the dog. Say hello to the friendly will. Today they're helping us explain the value of services provided by the City of Arlington. For here. Every year the Hernandez family, just like every Arlington homeowner, gets a property tax bill. Those taxes pay for all the stuff that you need when you live in a city. Like, well maintained roads, parts to play in. Okay, you want to get them off? Go get them off. Even special places for dogs like Jake to play and water to cool off when you're finished. Modern and helpful libraries, help from and protection of police officers and quick response and service from firefighters. It's a fantastic value to live in Arlington. One of the things that we found really unique was the fact that we have a community fire station. So we could go there when we had Victor as a baby as a newborn and make sure that the baby seats were installed correctly. One, two, pull it tight. Now train mentioned the value you get in Arlington, which brings us to your tax bill. That bill for the Hernandez family, just like all households, is based on their property value. It's good. And in Arlington, the average amount each homeowner pays is just $74 a month for all of those services. The pay property taxes and have a value like that is very affordable. You can spend a lunch or dinner easily for a family. Good job. You may be thinking, wait, my property tax bill is much more than that. Well that's because property taxes for the other taxing entities are all included in that annual bill. We're looking only at the city portion, roughly a quarter of every dollar. The formula Texas City's use to determine property taxes works like this. The value of the home is divided by 100, then multiplied by a rate determined by each city. In Arlington, that rate is 0.6348. So how does Arlington compare to other Texas cities? Well it turns out it is a good deal to live here in the American Dream City. And get this, it's been 14 years since the property tax rate increased in Arlington, and this year, the city is lowering that rate for the third year in a row. Arlington is also generous with exemptions, offering more than many nearby cities, including exemptions for residents over 65 veterans and disabled residents. Now property taxes and other sources of revenue like sales taxes become part of the General Fund, which is about half of the proposed 2019 budget, totaling almost $500 million. That General Fund is built around the City Council priorities and this year one of those has been expanded. Support quality education is now support youth and families. Some being. Those kinds of priorities and really all of the city services in Arlington are important to the Hernandez family's baby Victor grows up. Yeah, that's good. Here's a look at some of the services the property taxes support and how they compare with other common household expenses. Ready? Good fight. Yes. Arlington has more than 3,000 miles of streets and 21,000 streetlights. If you break that down, each household pays around $14 a month for all of that as well as traffic lights, signs, and other public works services. That's quite a bit less than the cost of filling up your gas tape just once. Look at this one. If I grew up an avid reader, so I'm excited to see Victor do the same thing. Another example, the city's seven libraries including the brand new downtown library. The value of the library is awesome. They have, of course, the books, the story times, the movies. We'll get this. Each household contributes just under $3 a month to libraries. Compare that to other entertainment services like Amazon Prime, which costs about $9 a month and up. Just walking in the front door, you can see all the different things they offer classes for adults and kids. Yeah, it's tremendous value. And think about this. Many people pay $35 a month for home security systems. Well for just $6 more you get assistance from the Arlington Police Department at home and all across the city. Also improvements made by your city have helped lower some people's bills. Here's an example. Arlington recently achieved an ISO Class 1 rating for exemplary fire protection, which can result in savings on insurance for commercial properties. And recent improvements in the watershed and stormwater management mean some property owners may see as savings on their flood insurance bill between $83 and $217 annually depending upon their location. Both of these are examples of the management decisions being made here in Arlington that are leading to state and national recognition for our city, with headlines about the American Dream City being a great place to live and buy a home. This year's budget includes increases in salaries for the final year of a three-year plan to bring city wages in line with the market. It also includes money to expand the Via rideshare program and additional funding for the AV pilot program in the entertainment district. More than $1.9 million will be invested to further enhance our neighborhoods, including money for the neighborhood matching grant program. A new position to manage short-term rentals and a new stormwater engineer. Funding for mowing on the interstates and new green screens to help beautify Arlington neighborhoods, new positions in fire, and more than $1 million as part of a COPS grant that provided 15 officers. To continue the momentum in economic development, plans are proposed to update the city's tax increment reinvestment zones and work to create Arlington's Opportunity Zone strategy. And there's also more than $1.9 million proposed to continue putting technology to work, like enhancing the city's cybersecurity program, investments in public safety technology, including the police department's digital video system, and funding to update some core software programs. Finally, more than $600,000 is proposed for the council's new priority, support youth and families. This includes new school resource officers and enhancements to multiple city parks. All things, Trey, Amanda and Victor Hernandez find great about living in the American Dream City and looks like Jake does too. I think it's a great place for him to grow up. That's so sweet. It comes back to affordable living, what you want to raise your kids and provide for your family, and Arlington truly does offer you the best of all worlds. We want to, we want to, we want to, good job. Our vision in Arlington Independence School District is to be exceptional, a leader in education, but most importantly provide exceptional opportunities and experiences for our students. The Fine Arts Center and the Athletics Complex, two projects as part of our 2014 bond, will do just that. We're celebrating the groundbreaking of our Fine Arts Center and the Athletics Complex. And so these two projects are really exceptional capsule projects for our students. I'm really excited for this building and it'll be a really big opportunity for everyone. Just all of these people coming together to celebrate this occasion is really fun. It's gonna be good for the school district. The Fine Arts Center will have a performing arts center, a theater space, a fetish complex will have a bowl kind of area for competition, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, and also an auditorium. The city partners with the school district and we work together to make sure that the community of Arlington, beginning with our students, is served and served exceptionally well. Not only through great facilities like the ones we're going to build here, but also through programming and what happens in those facilities. When you have a vision and you're patient enough and you have planning, strategic planning and you create great partnerships and anything's possible. Hey everyone, it's Jay Warren with the City of Arlington and we're recruiting a dream team to help us share the amazing things happening here in the American Dream City. And Mayor, we want to know where all of our super fans are. Which I know I am, but who else we got? Hey Mary, you got me and plenty more of us in downtown Arlington. Cheers, Arlington! Looking for me? We're here. Mission Arlington is all in. Me too. I love my hometown. We're entering the call. Count us in! You know the Levitt thing. The dream team can't miss. Not just the wings, the Lady Mazer and two. We're ready, Harley-Teen. I'm on board. We are two. I'm working hard, and I'm all in for the dream team. You know me. I'm thrilled to be part of the team. It is dream team time and Arlington. And I know all about being part of the dream team. Arlington, let's take this thing all the way. And Charlotte, we are ready. We just need more of you to join us. All you have to do is enter your email at ArlingtonTX.gov slash Dream Team. We'll send the content and email, and all you have to do is share it on social media. So come along with us, and let's dream big.