I've now got to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and we're honored to have Jonathan Schnafernd from the Grace Community Church who will give the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. You would stand and bow your heads. God you said in Hebrews 131 that, that all authority comes from you. And you also say, you place every single person who's in authority where they sit. And so we just need to ask for your help tonight because there are men and women who are sitting here in this council leading our city. And you've called them your servants. And so we're asking for your wisdom to reign tonight because they are going to make decisions. They're going to affect lots of people and we need your help. We need you to guide this meeting that this would be a city that you would bless. So we asked for your blessing on the city of Arlington. The city I've been in almost my entire life. We asked that you would continue to bring us together and make even the city council and the people more and more unified every day. I pray this in Jesus' name, amen. We just to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty justice But allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible. We have a special proclamation to read and I would like to call upon Miss Donna Mack, Chairman of the Mayor's Special Disabilities Committee. You would come on up, Donna. Thank you very much, Donna. And here we go. Whereas the Department of Labor has declared the month of October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month with the theme America's Workforce Empowering All, celebrate the contributions of workers with disabilities and the value of a diverse workforce Inclusive of their skills and talents and whereas national disability employment awareness month is intended to urge employers As they seek to fill positions to embrace the richness of America's diversity By considering the capabilities of all workers including workers with with disabilities, as employment is vital to independence, empowerment, and quality of life. And whereas workplaces welcome all of the talents of people, including people with disabilities, they are a critical part of our efforts to build an inclusive community and strong economy. In this spirit, the City of Arlington is recognizing national disability employment awareness month to raise awareness about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of people with disabilities. And whereas by working together to open doors of opportunity for citizens with disabilities we can fulfill the promise of the American Dream City. Now therefore I, Jeff Williams, mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do here by acclaim October 2018 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Donna? Come on up here. And do you have a few words you would like to say? Do I ever miss an opportunity? Absolutely not. Thank you, Mayor Williams. Just want to ask all of you who are in the audience. Please look to your left. Now look at the person to your right. Right now one in five Americans currently has a disability by 2031 in three of us. We'll be a person with a disability. So the time is now to be proactive in your employment and retention and promotion practices for people with disabilities and to make living in the dream city a reality for everybody. We have a every year the Arlington Marrow's Committee on people with disabilities. We frame a copy of a poster that is put out by the Texas Governor's Committee on people with disabilities. And this year's poster features some art that is a colored pencil rendering by an artist with young lady with autism from the Beaumont area. And it's a really neat concept. It's for those of you who aren't able to see it, it's gonna be hanging in City Hall, but it's a rendering of the outline of the US and the top third of it depicts buildings, maybe skyscrapers and businesses. The middle third is made up of some people with disabilities. I think a gentleman in a wheelchair, maybe someone else with a service dog and some other workers. And the bottom third is a depiction of maybe a park or kind of a more scenic looking area with benches and ducks and grass and all kinds of neat things. And it's just interesting that at the heart of that in the middle are the workers that make up the community. And I just, I want to remind you that we are the largest most underrepresented minority in the country. And we're a group to which you will all eventually belong if you don't die first. So think about that. You're going to be one of us eventually. So, ensure your own future by investing in workers with disabilities. Thanks. Thank you, Donna. If you want to stay up there. Thank you, Donna. If you want to stay up there. Thank you, Donna. If you want to stay up there. Thank you, Donna. Thank you, Dr. I'm sorry. I should have a question. It's my seat. Yes. Well, I need to have the council come down here in front of the, front of the dius. We have a very special presentation. Also would like to have several representatives from our Citizens Transportation Committee. There I see Brian Jordan, Tim Berry, Amy Cornell. There. Would y'all come on up? And then members of our representing our staff, they are Lindsey Mitchell and Ann Foss, and then we're privileged to have Doug Mcnonon from the American Planning Association with a special presentation. And there's Greg Vicarra, also from our Citizens Transportation Committee. We all stand back here and Doug, the microphones all yours. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Council. Congratulations. I'm Doug McDonald. I'm the President of the American Planning Association Texas Chapter. And I have the great privilege and honor of being here to present this award to you, City Council Mayor, citizens of Arlington and planning staff for your Transportation Advisory Committee report. The APA Planning Awards Program recognizes individuals, organizations and communities for outstanding contributions to planning in Texas. On behalf of the American Planning Association, I would like to present the City of Arlington with the current Planning Award for your Transportation Advisory Committee Report. I'd also like to recognize that 31 member of Transportation Advisory Committee who spent several months on this report and getting it to speed to the city for adoption. What really set this report apart from other plans is its implementation. It's one thing to adopt a plan or adopt a vision, but it's another to have the commitment and initiative from the city and from the city council to implement that vision. Arlington is well-known as one of the early pioneers for new innovative transportation technology with a launch of the Via Ride Share service, the Milo Autonomous Shuttle Drive AI. And as a north Texan, it's great to see this city become the state leader in addressing mobility challenges in this region. Every city across Texas and every planner across Texas will now be looking to you to see what new transportation innovations come out of Arlington next. So I'd like to congratulate you, the city of Arlington and citizens of Arlington for your commitment and innovation to transportation planning and implementation. Well, I'm very proud of the work that our citizens put forward here in the many hours of work there, but then also our staff in doing all of the research that they did and also coming up with great innovative ideas there for our citizens to be working with. And then also thank you to a city council that was bold there in moving forward because now we are able to provide some incredible transportation opportunities for our citizens and the future looks bright because we are at the beginning of a transportation technology revolution and Arlington and then Doug did I hear that right that you said that uh... Arlington is the most innovative in the state and Doug I want to we also heard that at the Texas Mobility Summit that Arlington hosted uh... there that we heard that from the Texas Department of Transportation and many other experts there with it. So stay tuned, we have a lot of other things ahead here for our citizens. And then thank you so much for the leadership of our city manager here who has been a real proponent of innovation and technology, but then also I want to also think that Lindsey Mitchell and Anne Fossum of the leading experts in transportation technology in the world. And it is amazing all of the people that contact them to find out about what we're doing here in Orlington, Texas. So thank you all very much. I'm going to ask you to come in and ask for a seat. Okay. Next, we'll move to appointments to boards and commissions and I'll turn to Mr. Alex Buskin, city secretary. Thank you, Mayor. We have no appointments to boards and commissions this evening. Okay, Mr. Buskin. Can you go over speaker guidelines in general decorl? Thank you mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal profane, slanderous or threatening remarks are who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council, or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers in supporter opposition of an item will be given three minutes to make their statements. To the extent possible, please refrain from repeating testimony which has already been given. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please wrap up your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Okay, next we'll move to approval of items from executive session, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, mayor. We have two items for approval from Executive Session. One, approving a settlement of a condemnation suit styled city of Arlington versus Abram Collins limited. An independent bank caused number 2017-00567-1 to acquire a street right-of-way easement of 1,951 square feet relative to the Abram Street, Cooper Street, Collins Street Project. To authorizing the city manager, his does need to execute a third amendment to oil and gas lease between Saddle Barnett resources LLC. In the city of Arlington, relative to the exploration and production of natural gas under approximately 0.853 acre of land. Being a portion of Bowman Branch linear park located at 7801 Corona Court, City of Arlington, Terrent County, Texas for a resulting total lease of approximately 56.2, 033 gross acres. Thank you Mayor, this concludes the items for approval from executive session. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on the side? No sir, we have no speakers on the side. Okay then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Power to second from Councilmember Walman, police catcher votes. Motion passes. Next we move to approval of minutes, Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor minutes for approval this evening are the afternoon and evening meetings from October 30th 2018. Do any council members have any additions or corrections? Okay, seeing none Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this side? No, sir. there are no speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member for our mires and a second from Council Member Wolf. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of consent agenda, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 14 minute orders, two ordinances and eight resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one professional service contract for actuarial services, two renewal of annual requirements contract for irrigation relocation, tree removal and grass replacement, three through five annual requirements contract for irrigation relocation, tree removal and grass replacement, three through five annual requirements contract for fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides, for breakaway signposts, and for the supply of plastic meter boxes and iron cover lids. Six and seven engineering services contract for Sublet Road, West City limits to Joplin Road, and for Sublet temporary sidewalk, eight construction contract for Pierce Birch Water Treatment Plant Hydrogen Paroxide System, nine authorization for Encore contracts for John F. Kubala, Backup Power, and electrical improvements, ten design contract for Cravens Park Trail improvements, eleven purchase and installation of audio visual equipment, twelve purchase of ten buses for handy train. 13 authorizing an amendment to minute orders number 9182018-016 for the construction contract for upper Johnson Creek pond dredging and grade control structures. 14 change order numbers, numbers two and three to design build for improvements to the Arlington Convention Center. Numbers two and three to design build for improvements to the Arlington Convention Center. The ordinances seek to authorize 15 zoning case PD 18-4 momentum park phase two, 2170 East Lamar Boulevard. 16 zoning case DP 18-2 Arlington Commons phase one C 505 East Lamar Boulevard. The resolutions seek to authorize 17 authority to transfer legal files relative to the Monague, ETAL, the City of Arlington, Texas, ETAL lawsuit, to Lynn Law, PLLC, 18 authorization to retain law offices of Jim Jeffrey, 19, 2018 emergency performance grant, 20 interlocal agreement for Sublet Road, West City Limits, Joplin road, 21 update to city of Arlington policy statement for chapter 380 economic development program policy, 22 resolution approving fiscal year 2019 tax roll, 23 consent to assignment and modification of tax abatement agreement phase 1a Arlington Commons development, 24 esports stadium Arlington Commons Development, 24 eSports Stadium, Arlington, First Amendment to lease agreement. Mayer, this concludes the consent agenda for the seat. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers and supporter oppositions to the items that appear on the consent agenda? Mayer, we have no speakers. We do have two non-speakers in supportive items. When I call your name, please raise your hand on items 8.16 and 8.23, Bob Kimball. Also on items 8.16 and 8.23, Robin Van Warcoven. No others? No, it's okay. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Shepherd and a second from Councilmember Thalman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes and Mr. Buskin, if you can show me abstaining from 816 and 823. Next, we move to public hearings, ordinances, first reading. And zoning case PD 16-18R1, Devon on Woodside 2501 Woodside Drive. And I'll call upon Ms. Jensy Topel, Director of Planning and Development Services. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.1 zoning case PD 16-18R1 for Devon on Woodside. The applicant is requesting an amendment to previously approved planned development with the revised development plan. The subject site is generally located south of West Arkansas Lane and east of Woodside Drive at 2501 Woodside Drive. The previously approved plan in 2016 for a 33 unit townhome subdivision was never realized and the subject site remained undeveloped. The request is for a 29-unit townhome product. On October 4, 2018, the applicant and their design team met with the residents of the community, surrounding the site to discuss the proposed development. Since that meeting, the applicant has added a small dog park to the site in one of the large open spaces. Jim Maybach from Peko's Southwest Realty is here to present the case this evening. Good evening Mayor of City Council. Good evening and happy Veterans Day belated. Mr. Maybach, if you state your name and address for the record. Thank you. James Maybach. Okay. Peko Southwest Realty, 1703 North Peko Drive for 46 years. Our business has been there and also resident at 65-01 Ballden-Aker's Court, Arlington. I'm here this evening at the request of Joe and Linda Similero, who is our local Arlington folks that have purchased this property. They have taken a configuration that's hard to develop. It has some drainage and site issues that we have overcome in the development with the hiring of a very talented civil engineer and the name of Joyce Stanton here locally and she helped the similarities lay the side out. It's an existing PD that was approved about a year and a half ago. We're actually taking this PD and because we had not so much significant changes but enough changes that warranted a new PD. We refiled and we are improving the previous PD to even a better PD because of the product that they know that they can build and lease at this location. This is an over 55 retirement facility. It will have no short term rentals. It's all quality construction. It meets all the UDC codes. We've enhanced the entrances in the front with Rod Iron and brick columns. We have a perimeter fence. We did meet with the neighbors. Larry Wallace is here this evening. He handled the meeting with the neighbors at the request of staff. We have complete support from the neighborhood. We've lowered the density from 33 units down to 29 units. We've added walking paths within the development. We've added additional trees. Each resident has a garage that will be located there, this 400 square feet, two car garage, 1,250 square foot units. This area town has across the street and right next door has some retirement facilities that have assisted living and benefits that are not similar to this one. So this was the last piece of the three pieces that were over there. And because it had more development issues with it, it was the last one to go, which is typical. But if you see the development here, they have a list of amenities and I'm just going with those real quick and I'll wrap up the case. But again, lowering the density will have an HOA, will have an on-site maintenance person that will office in the community building and the corner of the development that will be available to the residents if there's any issues. They will maintain all the yards by the mowing of all the property. So the residents being over 55, they don't have to worry about mowers and weed eaters and so forth. The living areas are all 1,250 square feet. The exterior is we do, we have various combinations of brick stone and hardy, hardy plank. The only place that hardy plank will be is just in the ease and the soft fits with the weight restrictions are. Again, the universal design, we have a very nice colored, we have tile in there. One of the amenities that Joe mentioned, and he's over 55, said we want to make sure there's no stepovers that they don't have issues with their hips or their knees or their shoulders or whatever so that they can get around on a single story. So when we went single story, that's another thing. We got rid of the second story so there's no view. Anybody else's backyard. It's all a single story. And so the neighborhood was very happy with that. We have state of the art, electronic appliances, tile floors, tankless water heaters, washer dryer hookups, clubhouses available seven days a week. We'll have a kitchenette area, refrigerators sink, microwave disposal, dishwasher, range in and oven. We'll be vital with sofa chairs, ping pong tables, poker tables, card tables, buffet table, barbecue grill, free Wi-Fi, flat screen TVs. With that, I talked about the fence and the creation of the dog park, the walking trails. We'll have very good lighting, which we're trying to encourage when you're over 55 come outside, walk your dog, meet your neighbor. That's what we would like to see in Arlington, Texas. With that, I'll conclude my presentation and happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Mr. Maybach? Miss Walman? Well, thank you, Mr. Maybach. I do remember when the other came. And the two story was an issue. So that was a good change that I noticed on your development. And the fact that it's all one story, one level, because a lot of people I know that are beginning to age, are coming up with hip problems and having to have surgery. And that kind of thing. So I'm glad that you mentioned that. And that that's all taken care of because that does mean something to someone. Anyway, I do think this is a good good development for this piece of property and it wasn't easy because it is. It wasn't easy. I know that because we looked at it before so I do thank you for doing all the things that your developer did and that you're doing and so I will be in favor of this. Thank you. Mr. Glass-P. Thank you, Mayor. Bedroom configuration. Excuse me? Or the bedroom configuration? Can we put that up, Jensie? So, these are configurations. Some of them are slightly different than the others, but they have similar but different in the design. Yeah, two. Because a lot of times ones are study. Any other questions from Mr. Moby? Okay, thank you, Mr. Maybach. Thank you. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in support of this item and four non-speakers in support. Larry Wallace. Mayor, council members. I just wanted to address the Larry Wallace 2808 Lakeshore Drive for 49 years. I just wanted to address the neighborhood meeting that I attended and there was five neighbors that showed up which was a whole lot fewer than the number of neighbors that showed up at the previous zone case. We had general support. We were asked by the staff to have a neighborhood meeting and we addressed any questions that they had, but the similarities I think you'll find are and be very good developers and it's gonna be a super project for our LinkedIn. Any questions? Any questions from Mr. Wallace? Thank you. For the non-speakers, when I call your name, please raise your hand. Joyce Stanton, Kevin Bennett, Joe Similero, Linda Similero. That concludes the non-speakers. Okay, then I will close the public hearing and call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Walman and a second from Council Member K Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we have zoning case ZA18-8. The preserve on Kelly Elliott 5401 Kelly Elliott Road. Ms. Topel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.2 is owning KZA 18-8. The preserve on Kelly Elliott is a general use rezoning request from residential estate RE to residential single family 7.2 RS 7.2. The applicant request to change the zoning on approximately 2.769 acres of land addressed at 5401 Kelly Elliott Road. The site is located north of southwest Green Oaks Boulevard and east of Kelly Elliott Road. Douglas Cooper with MMA is East border street, here representing the developer Gary Nott with double legal real estate holdings who is also present here this evening. Appreciate the opportunity come before you. I'd like to walk you through a brief presentation and then be available for any questions you may have. Here's a location of the subject property as well as a zoning map, which is outlined and read here in the center of the screen. Again, the subject property is currently zone residential estate. As you can see, it's surrounded by predominantly RS-72 zoning as well as some additional commercial and institutional uses. Here's a bird's eye view of the subject property, which is outlined in green. The purpose of the request is to change the zoning from RE to RS-7-2 to correspond with the two adjacent properties, which already has the RS-7-2 zoning in place. We anticipate building a 26-lot infill sub-vision here on this northeast corner. The applicant has a history of developing quality neighborhoods here in the City of Arlington. Here's an aerial photo of knots landing on Little Road. This is a gated subdivision with 5,000 square foot lots. Here is a picture of the recently completed knots landing on Rush Creek. This is located about two miles south of the subject property. It's a 23 lot subdivision, which is also gated and currently homes are under construction. We have received approximately four letters of support, which are the properties here shown in green. We have received approximately four letters of support, which are the properties here shown in green. We've reached out to our immediate neighborhood and the project has been received fairly well. In closing, we'd like to state thanks staff for their support on this project. The developers excited about bringing another quality neighborhood to the city of Arlington. Again, thank you for your time and consideration of ZA18-8. Any questions from Mr. Cooper? Ms. K. Bart? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Cooper. And so this particular development would not be gated, is that correct? Correct. We're proposing not to get this particular. So can you just kind of tell me why the other two developments you referenced were gated? Why is it not g get this particular. So can you just kind of just tell me why the other two developments you referenced were gated. Why is it not gating this one? Sure. The first property I discussed, not slanting on Little Road. This was a zoning change where we had requested 5,000 square foot lots. That particular yield somewhat justified the gating of the community on the not standing on Rush Creek. This is located at the end of Park Springs where Park Springs dead ends and Mr. Not just felt kind of with the seclusion of the neighborhood as well as kind of the adjacency with the Creek it backed up to a gated community of this was was preferable on the case before this evening. We feel like we've got a lot more visibility along Kelleilly and Green Oaks and then the particular Lot-Yula 26 slots we just would prefer to keep it public streets not gated. And so you're only really requesting zoning on, I don't have it in front of me at the moment, on the green portion, but basically the development is going to be on all of that, correct? Correct. So the zoning request for this evening is just for the 2.8 acres, which currently is residential state, but the entire 26 lot development will consume the approximately six acres. And we had a little bit of discussion today about maybe having some open space dedicated. Were you able to pull that off or not? I think we currently have a preliminary plat that's run somewhat concurrent with the zoning request. So I think we can take a look and see what we can do if we can accommodate any open space there. Okay. That would be good if you could do that. All right, thank you. Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, Madam. Just a comment you made. You said you'd visit neighborhoods and you had got a relatively good response, which implied that there might have been some that didn't respond to what was over our reactions. No, we've secured the four letters to support. No one's reached out to us in a pose the case. There was a citizen who had just kind of inquired about it. Mr. Nott reached out directly to her and just walked her through kind of the history he's had here in the city. We've directed her to the two recent subdivisions. So I may have misspoke in terms of relative support, but we feel we've got the overall support of our, I appreciate the clarification. Okay, any other questions from Mr. Cooper? Seeing none, thank you, Mr. Cooper. Mr. Busky, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, we have no additional speakers on this item. We do have four non-speakers in support of the item. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Cliff McCoskey, Jim Maybach, David Keiel, and Gary Not. And Mayor, that concludes the non-speakers of the support of this item. Okay, Council Member K. Part, well let me close the public hearing and then go to Council Member K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. There's a motion on the floor for approval and I'll be seconding that motion. And I realize this is not a PD, but there is an understanding that you'll make an effort to find some open space in this development. I realize what's not required but just don't go on the record that you're going to try to do that. I appreciate it. Thank you Mayor. Okay. Well, I don't want to let the opportunity go by to not thank you for this development. Let the opportunity go by to not thank you for this development. It has been so successful, your other knots landing and providing housing for empty nesters and for young people coming on the scene. And then we have needed a lot of this type of product because of families that are aged and need to downsize and that frees up their homes for other families to buy them. And really appreciate finding the sites here because we're not out of land here in Arlington. And there are opportunities here for this to happen. And really appreciate it. And I am definitely very much in support, even though you're taking away one of my favorite spots to play softball that nobody knew about. We practice there for many years there with my team and they let us practice. You know I'm very excited about this development and let's go ahead of the motions are here and we have a motion for approval from council member for our Myers and a second from Councilmember K. Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you for your investment. Mr. Not. Thank you. Next, we'll move to specific use permit, SUP 18-5. Wendy's number 2216. I'm 1197 North Watson Road and I'll turn to Ms. Topill again. Thank you Mayor. Item 11.3 specific use permit SUP 18-5, Wendy's number 2216. This is a specific use permit for a restaurant with drive through on on .581 acres, zoned entertainment district overlay, EDO, General Commercial, G.C. Addressed at 1197 North Watson Road and generally located south of Avenue J Street and west of State Highway 360. A restaurant with drive-through is typically permitted within the GC zoning designation. However, in the entertainment district overlay, this use requires a SUP approval. There is an existing Wendy's restaurant at this site. Wendy's would like to update the structure with a new one, and hence is required to obtain a SUP approval for its drive-through. The proposed Wendy's restaurant with drive-through will have a building area of approximately 2200 square feet, which will replace the existing 4400 square foot Wendy's restaurant. John Crowler is here to present the case this evening. Marin Council, my name is John Crailer with Shield Engineering Group. I live at 4704 Waterford Drive. Fort Worth, Texas, 716179. I'm here representing the applicant on this Arlington Wendy's project. We've got an existing Wendy's at this location in the address for the record is 1197 North Watson Road. It's been here for a while. It's a fairly large facility, much larger than we use in a typical Wendy's today. It's in need of help as our picture shows a very different look that we would like to update. In order to update this, we're going to need a new proposed building and an SUV to do it. Our new building is considerably more modern, considerably smaller with better parking ratios, better landscaping, and an overall better product. As part of this SUP request, we did a parking count to show that the 21 proposed parking will more than cover the typical day maximum 11 parking space demand. We've also includes some pictures of the new Wendy's these are renderings so just quickly I'll compare the new picture of what we're proposing to the existing Wendy's. That concludes my presentation. I'll be glad to field any questions And any questions for mr. Crowler Private your pictures were very affected Mr. Buskiner there any speakers on this item mayor We have one additional speaker in support of this item. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium. Lawrence Lupin. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Lawrence Lupin representing the owner operator of the Wendy's Southeast restaurant group, Wendy's division. We are very proud and excited to update this Wendy's. We recently took ownership of this. We purchased our company purchased five Wendy's in the area and we're looking forward to operating this and providing our employees and all of our customers and more modern and efficient restaurants and looking forward to spending some time in Arlington as we do so. Thank you very much. Any questions? More than happy to answer. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Woodford. Thank you very much. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. There are no additional speakers on this item. All right. Then I'll close the public hearing. Any comments? I do wanna, I think it's very important. This will be a catalyst. There is vacant land around that, and they've been looking for this kind of investment here, and I appreciate the investment because it will be a catalyst for other development there, and of course needless to say, it's to be a good business decision there for yourself so I think this is really quite a great change there and appreciate it very much. So with that we have a motion for approval from Council Member Thalman and a second from Council Member Walman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. I'll turn it over to Mr. Glasping. Next on the agenda we have Zoning Case PD 188 Cooper Street apartments. Ms. Lable. Thank you. Item 11.4 Zoning Case PD 18-8 for Cooper Street apartments. It's a continued case from October 30th meeting. The proposed development plan, as included in the packet, is for a 183 unit market rate multi-family development on a 6.245 acre site. The development will consist of one three story residential structure with 169 units and two smaller townhouse style apartment apartment units containing 14 two-story units with garages and 22,000 square feet of common open space. The development proposes a density of approximately 29 dwelling units per acre. For the record staff received a letter of support yesterday from Robbie Burns with legend asset management that was placed at your desk. Earlier this afternoon staff also received an email from Randall Hendrix surrounding neighborhood representative that the applicant has agreed to reduce the density to 22 units per acre and hence has removed his opposition to the case. Jim Maybach from Pecos, Southwest Realty is here to present the case this evening. Good evening Mr. Maybach. Good evening Mayor Perthown. And council members, James Maybach, 1703 North Peaco Drive, Arlington, Texas, and 6501 Baldwin Acres Court, Arlington, Texas. This has been a long drawn out case and it has been because we've continued to work with the neighborhood and the neighborhood's concerns in the area, which is the Westador neighborhood. Mr. Randy Hendrix is very active in that area. He's a knowledgeable developer and has passed before he retired. And had several things of input that he asked us to look into. And so as each item came up and we discussed it, we kept staff appraised of the situation. We also worked very closely with Randy and his representatives in the West Adore area. They're a very active community. It's a beautiful area that he lives in with all the heavy trees and so forth. So if I could just go through the slides very quickly. If you put the site up the location map, just hit some of the highlights. Okay, I think we can see that. As you'll notice, this is a leftover piece of property. It's been vacant for approximately 20, I think 20 years, maybe longer. It was a location of the concrete batch plant that was in southern Arlington at the time. The then mayor and council phoned us and said, we're going to move it down next to Payco Industrial Park and said, we want you to not oppose that, because it's an industrial use. And so they located next to us and we made them sprinkle their driveway and put some buffering trees up and some fencing when they moved down there about 25 years ago. And they have been a decent neighbor of the batch plant believe it or not. So with that this land along Cooper Street could develop rooms to go in and there they have the China buffet. You've got the building on the corner that's light and dust really have automotive service repaired to the north. So with some light and dust really uses, adjoining the property along with the CC uses, that was left over CC and light and dust. And so the value of that property being commercial property was up there. So it remained undeveloped and nobody's developing it. It's not a good place for light industrial because you don't want truck traffic in and out of the neighborhoods that are to the west. So our developer found this piece of property has been able to fit in a townhome development in the gray area, the light industrial and a very nice apartment complex that started off at four stories. We reduced it to three. Some of it's now reduced to two and three because we've then reduced the multi-family from 24.8 or 9 per acre down to the 22 that the joint that Mr. Randy Hendricks was requesting. Here's a picture of the rendition of the apartment complex. This has been drawn by Ken Schomburg. He's also the architect for the Veridian townhomes. And an architect that does a lot of infill development. And this is what it is. We've got infill development happening in Arlington, Texas. This will be the one of the first new apartments built in that part of Southwest Arlington in 20 years. You have some stuff down there on 287, but that's really across I-20 and in different neighborhood. You'll see the renderings of the property. We have added elevators in this property, which is a big step up. Anything around us is either two story or three story apartments. And there are some town homes and then there's even some mobile homes in that area off of our brook. So you'll see the town homes have rare entry garages. You'll see the interior garages. We've added as a buffer. The walls will be the buffers to the adjoining apartment developments to the west. If we go ahead and flip. We have a inside the within the confines of the apartment unit. We're going to have a manoring pool, loungers, outdoor seating. We'll have grills, we'll have covered patio seating, we'll have cabanas. And that'll be a nice place for the residents to enjoy their weekends when it's finally sunny and not raining and on like Texas. We do have some slight variations on the sizes. Their experience developer that have done many jobs in downtown Dallas and uptown Dallas, they've done projects in Fort Worth as well, smaller is better for the millennials. They don't want the excess. They want to be able to just on the weekends pick up and go do whatever they want and come back and things really are waiting for them and don't have all the maintenance of a house. So we're targeting one two bedroom units here. And again we've worked very hard with the neighborhood. That's a quality development. It's a combination of town homes. We've reduced the density considerably. We meet and exceed almost everything in the landscape ordinance. And again, we have restrictions because of the site configurations that we're left with that we're getting this development put in there. We added a guard check for crime that a guard will be posted from 12 to 6 and again, so PD and that's in our PD and that can be enforced. So it's in there and it'll be taken care of. Crime was an issue, that's what we can do. Drainage was an issue, three-fourths of the site drains to the south, does not drain north into Westador. It does not, we will have everything underneath in culverts. We have engineering work done by Josh of Graham and Associates. And we met with Randy with the staff and explain that to him and he was able to analyze that and was okay with it. And then the last issue was the traffic. We had a traffic study done. Our development is considerably less traffic on the roads as if it were to develop with its current zoning. So CC because heavy retail uses, so that could put a lot more vehicles on there if it developed just the way it was. So this is an improvement and it will be less traffic put on the materials in that area. And it will be again residential people driving around, not big tractor trailers and heavier trucks and delivery trucks if it was commercial or light industrial. So that concludes my presentation. I think I've hit on everything. I've just run over time by a few seconds. And thank you for your cooperation. I haven't had the answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Maybach. Anybody have any questions? This is Kaybock. Well, I don't know if there's necessarily a lump sorry. Yeah, that's okay. Oh, if there are any questions particularly for you, but this has been a long road. We've worked on this a good bit and I do appreciate all that you and the owner have compromised on and come to work with the neighborhood. As I say, it's taken a while. But from all that we've seen now, I think it's going to be a fine development. I mean, we've started out, I don't know how many months ago working on this. Six. You knew exactly. I should because I've been involved in it too. But I do appreciate what you've done. I do think that this is going to be a quality development. And I think it will be something that the whole city can be proud of. And I think it will do fine. We addressed many issues and as you touched on all of them, the drainage, the traffic, the crime, the density and we did work with this. This is the way we like to see developers and neighborhoods work together and we're looking forward to more of these kind of things working out to the betterment of our city. So I do appreciate it and obviously I will be in support. Thank you and I believe that this will bring up the area. There's two and three story apartments around this area in some town homes. Alan Rose is one of my employees. I grew up here in Arlington. His girlfriend was trying to find a place and she's diagonally across the street in a town home that has a enclosed garage like we're building. And she said it was one of the very few that she could find south of downtown. And her deployment is down that way as well. So I think this will give us a chance to see the area improve many of those other apartment complexes while they're maintaining them. They don't have the garages, the enclosed garages, they don't have car ports, they don't have the landscaping, they don't have elevators. I mean, this is gonna be nice. Yeah, I know we talked about, when you talked about the guard house and you and I talked about that about, you know, where would the guard be? And as you said, there is a guard house and he will be on duty. But he will also be around in the parking lot. I think, especially for young people, as being a grandmother, we all look at our kids and say we want them in safe, secure places. And I think this is going to be one So that's another thing that I'd really do appreciate. Thank you. Thank you You know the question for mr. Maywe Miss K. Boyr Mr. Maywek I Echo miss Falman's comments. I know it's been a long journey and it's a difficult piece of property to develop on top of that but comments I know it's been a long journey and it's a difficult piece of property to develop on top of that but everybody came together really well so we appreciate that. But I do have a question I don't know if it's for you or for staff but we have recently required recycling in newly built apartments so in your site plan have you made provision of that I didn't look for that particular element. Yes that came up in discussions with staff and we have committed to do the recycling, have a separate dumpster for the recycling. Okay, so you've planted ahead of time, so you know how to do that, right? Absolutely, yep. Okay, great. Thank you, Mr. Maybach. Thank you. Any other questions? Let's make it just for the record. What was the final number for the number number. No, it's enough. The what's 22 in his per acre have to do the math. We agreed to lower it. So we were at 156 at 24.8. So whatever it was to get to the 22 22 we got to develop a degree to that. He had to check, he has financing, he has commitments to his investors and has to make the numbers work or they won't give them the money to develop it so he had to go back and check on that and he did again and he said Jim it's getting real slim but we're going to do it because we want to build there. And he made the commitment to buy the land after some preliminary work, but he's realizing, you know, Arlington, Texas is a city that's going to require quality and it's going to require working with the neighborhoods and having to win, win at the end of the day. And that's why I like this process because sometimes it's long and hard, but at the end of the day. And that's why I like this process because sometimes it's long and hard, but at the end of the day, hopefully we have a quality project that we all can be proud of. Thank you again. Any other questions? Mr. Busskin, do we have any speakers on this item? Mayor Perchheim, we have four nonspeakers in support and one speaker in opposition for the non-speakers in support. When I call your name, please raise your hand. Douglas Cooper, Larry Wallace, David Keel, and Gary Not. And the speaker in opposition, Richard Weber. He missed the Weber. Hello, Richard Weber, 2703, cross more court. My main opposition was the density. And if it's been reduced to 22, I don't have a problem. So thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. If there are no other speakers, we will not. Mr. Maybach, would you like to respond at all to that or? No, sir. Okay. All right. Thank you. With that, we'll now close the public hearing. Hearing and we are now ready for a motion and a second Get a motion second on it. We have a motion by Mrs. Wildman and one abstention, but emotion carries. Seven. There are seven in favor. And one abstent. Next we move to downtown master plan and I'll call upon Ms. Lindsey Mitchell, our strategic planning manager, office of strategic initiatives. Ms. Mitchell. The strategic planning manager, Office of Strategic Initiatives. Ms. Mitchell. Thank you, good evening. I'm Lindsay Mitchell, the strategic planning manager with the Office of Strategic Initiatives. And we're excited to bring forth the final downtown master plan tonight after a robust 10 month development effort. This plan builds on the current positive momentum that we're seeing downtown and is the result of collaboration with our advisory committee and the fantastic and diverse public input that we've received. This plan is strategic and action-oriented with a strong vision. It sets the stage for a downtown where our residents, visitors and business community can start, build and cultivate their own American dreams. It's clear that people are excited about the evolution of our downtown as the next phases of development are on the horizon. Citizen input for this plan was extensive with hundreds attending our open houses and over 1,000 survey responses. Because the downtown master plan touches on so many different topics, we have organized it with a vision, nine overarching goals to support that vision and 13 strategies that connect to the goals, and then over 100 individual actions and recommendations to implement those strategies. Beginning with the vision, downtown is a place where people can start, build, and cultivate their own American dreams. It's a walkable, vibrant, and economically strong urban center that is welcoming, comfortable, and safe, and it is active and diverse with a family-friendly culture and has a unique history and identity that is balanced with newer, more contemporary design. The goals to support that vision are attracting more people downtown to live, work, and socialize, establishing downtown as a local and regional destination with a distinct identity, building a robust, resilient economy in downtown in the surrounding areas, namely the entertainment district and UTA, encouraging a range of housing types, developing a critical mass of activity to help achieve the 18-hour atmosphere that is typical of a healthy downtown, activating our streets and public gathering spaces, strengthening the arts, culture, and music scene, supporting civic programs such as a Signature Public Art Program and continuing to create a diverse community. To support those goals, there are 13 related strategies. One of the most significant is fostering a series of distinct and connected focus areas within downtown. We should also position downtown as a center for innovation, grow and diversify our employment base, and identify and mitigate barriers to investing in downtown. Also, we should support diverse housing types, reconnect our grid and support a walkable environment, better connect downtown to adjacent areas, partner with landowners and developers to catalyze new development. Improve our network of public green spaces. Make sure new development is contributing to an active and attractive public realm. Consolidate and locate structured or shared parking to serve multiple locations. Use art and gateway treatments to build downtown's identity. And make sure we continue to use the full complement of tools available to us to support redevelopment. In the plan document, there are over 100 individual implementation actions identified that relate to the 13 strategies in the focus areas. The implementation plan identifies action steps, lead organizations, partners, resources, and a time frame for completion. It also references funding and financing strategies and discusses how our various downtown partners could contribute to the implementation of our plan. And with that, I'm happy to take questions. Any questions from Ms. Mitchell? Ms. Wolfe Thank you, Mr Mayor. I have no questions. I just want to thank you, Miss Mitchell for leading the team forward and the group of the downtown stakeholders and business owners and I look forward to enthusiastically Moving to approve this new plan. So thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? Okay, thank you, Ms. Mitchell. Thank you. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, sir, we have one speaker in support of this item and three non-speakers in support of the item. TJ Moore. Mayor Council, TJ Moore, 1,000 five Prairie Ridge Lane. Like Lindsay and her team did an amazing job on this master plan, I'm a land developer and I have read basically every downtown master plan there is in DFW and this is probably the most comprehensive one I've seen to date. So you guys really did a great job of that. With that being said, one of the things that was highlighted throughout this plan over and over again is getting rid of the hurdles or the speed bumps for developers in order to make development easy in this. And I do want to definitely harp on that. There are no design guidelines to date in the city of Arlington. City of Arlington is built for single family residential and traditional, commercial, traditional apartment living. This is going to be a different type of lifestyle than Arlington is used to. And I actually specialize in high density single family housing. And so I really think if Arlington could adopt, formulate and adopt some engineering standards, landscape standards, fire standards, the development process playbook to get this through. I think you're going to see a lot of action from a lot of developers sooner than later. But it's key to get this tool in the toolbox for developers. So there's that. Mr. Moira, thank you so much for your input and also thank you for your interest here in Arlington. And I would sure love if you could meet with Ms. Topel and share your ideas and expertise there. That would be most appreciated. I would be glad to. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, Mr. Buskin. For the non-speakers, please raise your hand when I call your name. Terry Bertrand, Aldo Fritz, and Amy Cernall. That concludes the non-speakers and support. That concludes the non-speakers and support. Okay. Then I will close the public hearing and any comments? I'll go ahead and I just want to, this is a major milestone. We have seen so much improvement in downtown. It's pretty phenomenal what we have seen take place in just a few years. We've gone from three restaurants to 25 over 25 restaurants, people living in downtown and the emergence of the University of Texas at Arlington is one of the top 100 research universities. And we could go on and on, but what we see is opportunity. And opportunity to really grow a downtown that's representative here too, of the 50th largest city in America, which Arlington is. And with that, I think this is going to be a real road map for us as we move forward, but also they are really Love the fact that people came together and you saw all the different organizations listed They're a Miss Mitchell's presentation that came together to make a difference here in in our downtown And I especially want to thank Miss Wolfe for her many years of working in downtown. And then we also have a past president of downtown Arlington, Mr. Shepard, here in the bunch here. And it's great to see these dreams coming true here. And then also, I love the comments that we're made here about us taking the next step because we all know from the late Mr. Jerry Jordan and of course Mr. Tom Cravens that a plan is nothing unless you implement it. And so now in talking about implementation and we heard that immediately of next steps to start implementing a lot of the things that's going on here. So all of that is very exciting now as we continue to move forward with great, great development here in our downtown. So we have a motion for approval from Councilmember Wolfe, a second from Councilmember Glaspy. Police cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move in to tax increment re-adessment zone number one term extension. And I'll call upon Mr. Matthew Harp, our economic development specialist. Good evening. Marin Council, before you this evening, is the first reading of an ordinance extending the term of tax increment reinvestment zone number one and amending the composite composition of its board of directors. I stand before you to answer any questions you may have. Any questions from Mr. Hart? Okay, thank you, Mr. Hart. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? Mayor, we have one non-speaker in support of this item and one speaker in opposition of the item. The non-speaker in support, Terry Bertrand, and the speaker in opposition, Richard Weber. Richard Weber, 2703, Cressmore Court. 20 years of siphoning our general fund money is long enough. It's too long. We don't need an extension. Now as property values goes up, they're locked in at $19.99 prices. They're paying into the general fund at $19.99 prices, the downtown area. And that money has to be made up by someone, us, the taxpayers. And we've been subsidizing this for 20 years. We don't need an extension. Thank you. No other speakers. No other speakers. No, no additional speakers on this item. All right. Then I'll close the public hearing. Any discussion or motion? We have a motion for approval from councilmember Wolfe and a second from councilmember Thalman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to resolutions in our local agreement with Terrent County relative to payment of professional planning service for the establishment of a tax increment reinvestment zone. Again, I'll call upon Mr. Matthew Harp, economic development specialist. Mayor and Council, before you this evening is a resolution authorizing the execution of an interlocal agreement with Taren County relative to payment for professional services relating to the establishment of a tax increment reinvestment zone in the vicinity of East Pioneer Parkway. I stand before you, should you have any questions? Any questions from Mr. Harp? Thank you, Mr. Harp. Mr. Baskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. All right, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Part, a second from Councilmember Waman, police catcher votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to professional services contract relating to the creation of a tax increment reinvestment zone. I'll call upon Mr. Matthew Harb. Hello again. Before you this evening is a resolution authorizing the execution of a professional services contract with Haws Hill and Associates, LLP, for consulting services relative to the formation of a tax increment reinvestment zone in the vicinity of East Pioneer Parkway in an amount not to exceed $49,500. As this is related to the prior resolution, 50% of the total cost will be reimbursed by Tarant County. Please let me know if you have any questions. Any questions for Mr. Hart? I'm seeing Mr. Buskin. Are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. We have no speakers. We do have one non-speaker in opposition. Richard Weber. Okay. All right, then I will call for a motion. I have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe, a second from Council Member K. Part. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to amendment to the bylaws of Orange and Tomorrow Foundation. I'll call upon Mr. Jennifer Whitman, Assistant City Manager. Good evening, Mayor. Before you this evening, you have an amendment to Section 5.3 of the bylaws of the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation. This is in relation to requests that the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation made at their meeting in October that the board would appoint the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Advisory Committee instead of that committee electing its own. This will make the set up similar to how the majority of your other boards and commissions are set up at the council appoints. I do want to point out that this amendment to the by-laws does require a supermajority so that will be seven votes that would need to be voted in the affirmative in order for this to pass. I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions from Miss Whitman? Okay. Seeing none, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers. We do have one non-speaker in opposition of this item. Richard Weber. All right, any discussion? Or a call for a motion? Have a motion for approval from Council Member Shepard, a second from Council Member Wallman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to citizen participation. And I'll call upon Mr. Buskin to go over speaker guidelines and decorum Thank you mayor citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns Which are not posted on the evenings agenda? However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time as these items are not included on the Post-it Council agenda for this evening. The mayor and council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. I have just a couple of questions. I know the holidays are coming up and you guys all probably have lots of parties. You're all probably entertaining. It's going to be a good time. So I'm just curious how much you guys charge people to park when they come to your holiday parties. And if you have a different, because I don't really know me and my grandma that I was discussing, we're not really sure exactly what we should be charging. And maybe we should charge more like on Thanksgiving as a bigger holiday. So perhaps we should charge more for that holiday. As opposed to just a regular Friday, if we have a party that we want people to come to or a Saturday night or a Saturday, a baby shower or something like that, that you might want people to come to. And if you have more people that could park in your driveway, they're gonna have to pay for parking. They're gonna have to pay for parking somewhere off from where you live and walk to where you live. For Thanksgiving, for example, because this is the notice that we all received, if they will live in this, I don't know if any of you live in this neighborhood, probably not. But so like 915 and 916 are days that are a special event parking ordinance for the Dallas Cowboys, although of course on the 15th was not the Dallas Cowboys, it was a college football game, which of course is important for the entertainment district of Arlington. But the ordinance says on this little piece of paper, which is all I know about the ordinance. You can't park there 24 hours, this signs will be actually a 24 hours prior to the beginning of enforcement, and no vehicles are allowed to be parked in the streets. So on the 15th there was a game, there was a college football game, but around noon. So that means on the 14th, from noon on the 14th. Till of course there's a game on the 16th, right? Till the, whenever the Cowboys games finished on the 16th, so you got Friday, all day Friday, all day Saturday, most of Sunday. Of course most people don't wanna come in this area at all. I'm sure you guys all avoid it. We have to know what the schedule is because if you don't avoid it, when you come home for work, it could be an extra two hours to get to my house. When I return from American Airlines, if I'm not paying attention to when maybe the Cowboys are, or maybe Taylor Swift as a concert at Beyonce, I mean, these are all wonderful entertainment things that are bringing to Arlington, but these are the people we live there. We have to fight all the traffic and everything else that comes to the stadium. And now that you guys have approved, we need to pay for parking. Because right here, I think when is Thanksgiving, Mr. Mayor? I don't know. You don't know. It's coming up next week and a half. It's coming up right today. Is it the 22nd? Does anybody know? Because that's a day here. So the 22nd, we can't be parked there, right? And I don't know what time the cowboy game is, but 24 hours prior to that. So that means also the 21st. So from my 93 year old grandmother, she wants to have anybody come over to her house, which of course she's got a pretty large family. She's been in that house since it was built in the 60s right she was a public school teacher here and in love the Lamar High School Jerry Trosel is her name So she wants to have people and they cannot fit in her her driveway They're gonna have to pay for parking and a walk Thanks guys school great city will we'll have staff get with mr. Grail of mr. Pettit will have someone get with you cuz that that's exactly Understand yes, sir. It's not that's not how it works and we'll explain it to you And by the way when if you drive into our neighborhood by the way during this time It's not just that you have to pay for parking if you drive in it like if you come from out of town If you have friends or family coming around town, they don't know the deal, right? When they come to our street, there are barricades and police officers that tell you you cannot come here. I had a friend that had to stay with me for a few weeks. See, the difficult situation, right? A doctor. He came to my house, he was like, man, I don't know what to do. Taylor Swift conserves him. He said, man, the police told me. I can't stay here. He said, I'm saying we're the friendly. They tell you not to stay because the traffic and everything, right? They're telling people, so this guy drove around for several more hours. A friend of mine. There are police, so I can't imagine what you guys would think. I mean, most of the people that I know would be kind of scared of the king of my house and there are barricades the first thing they see before they even get to the house. Arlington. Dream. Mr. Yeoverton will have staff get with him because that is not, this was actually done for the neighbors and I know I can't say anymore because of the regulations that we have. Okay, next we'll move to Mr. Jeremy Fence Roy. Mr. Mayor, Council members, I'm Jeremy Fence Roy from 2714, Winding Hollow Lane. And first I'd like to say that I do appreciate the council looking into options for regulating short-term rentals without outright banning them. But that said, I am still very concerned about the regulations being reasonable. And to that extent, I believe as a minimum, there should be no restrictions in this regulation that would essentially serve as a de facto ban or put out of business, any significant number of current operators who are operating in a reasonable way. Furthermore, we need to further protect those operators by having some kind of grandfather clause in there such that those who are currently operating reasonably and who are paying hotel and occupancy taxes will be able to continue operating once the ordinance is in place. And finally, the permitting process should not be excessively difficult to obtain, for example, by requiring a super majority of the council to approve that permitting process. There simply is no reason why the permitting process should be difficult. And a lot of those who are calling for an outright ban or excessive permitting on this are doing so because of seriously misinformation and frankly hateful rhetoric that they've been seeing on the neighborhood forums. And just as an example of this, this week on the forums, there was somebody who, a woman who came out and described short-term mental, guess, as a bunch of low lives that only care about drunk in parties, barbecues on the front lawn and underage orgies. And quote, when you can paint an entire population of people that you've never even met as low lives and dehumanize them by suggesting that they regularly commit lood felony acts in public, that's the type of rhetoric that has spawned this desire to ban short-term metals. And honestly, it shouldn't be any part of the discourse that we're having and that absolutely should not be driving the agenda for how we're actually going to regulate short-term metals. If we do establish a reasonable and fairly easy process, what you will get is an increase in registration and compliance, you'll get tools to help deal with compliance, you'll increase hotel and occupancy taxes from business owners willing to comply and register. And there are also the additional revenues that you'll get. I've brought this up before the US Department of Labor and Statistics had a study from May of 2018 that noted that they were out of the 50 largest cities in the United States, 42 to 63% of the lodging stays would not have occurred had not been for Airbnb. And think about what that's doing as far as driving revenue to a city like Arlington. Now I know a lot of you are probably familiar with the San Antonio regulation that just came out. And there are a lot of good things in there that I think could serve as a good framework for Arlington as well. And just really briefly, as I'm running out of time, first of all, it avoids a one size fits all restrictions. It syncs up the UDC with the STTR ordnance acknowledging what the Supreme Court of Texas affirmed, which is that short-term rentals are a residential and not a commercial use. It makes a critical distinction between a home share and a short-term rental that is not owner or operator occupied. And it gives the administrator discretion to apply rules, penalties, and fines fairly across diverse operations. Now, I hope that we can establish a process that allows reasonable operations, revokes the right to operate from those who persistently failed to act in a responsible manner, and that encourages compliance by not instituting an overly burdensome process. With that, I think we can be successful in this and actually solve the real problems and allow the responsible operators to continue. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Fitzroy. Andy Pryor. Good evening there, Council. My name is Andy Pryor. I live at 720 McAve Street district five. I come tonight because I didn't get the opportunity of scudders been really crazy this past fall to come to y'all in a more timely fashion. There was a recent hearing not here in Tarrant County but it impacts us here in Tarrant County, but it impacts us here in Arlington by the TCEQ, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Because they are currently tasked with reviewing the Texas Central High Speed Rail between Dallas and Houston, and it's impact on the environmental quality of all of the rivers and waterways, including several sources of Arlington's water. There are going to be along that line and how the how that was going to impact the reservoirs that feed water for Arlington, but I thought I'd bring that to you all's attention. The comment period is long over for TCEQ, but I'm sure a fellow governmental body will be able to get around that and provide some feedback if there was any concerns, but it did want to bring that up to you all's attention. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Prahr. Carl Ailer. My name is Carl Ailer, 24 away Westwood. I noticed that each of y'all had to take a oath. And in that oath, you had to know that you would support the US Constitution. That's in your statement too. And I don't know who, if there's a judge involved or whatever. But anyway, most federal people have to take that oath as well at high levels. Anyway, but what happens here is that if there is a constitutional problem, you haven't set up any committees or like the plumbing board of adjustment or anything like that to go to. What do we do if we have a problem with a constitutional issue that the people who work for you or even you're, although that's unlikely because you're well educated on the Constitution. But nevertheless, you don't have anything. You're making a pledge that you're going to make sure there is no violation of the Constitution, but hey, we're not going to do anything about it. What difference to make? And think about that. I'm going to backtrack here and tell you that. Think about that a little bit with respect to term limits. But anyway, with that said, there's another issue that with my case at 305 East Mitchell, which was anyway, there's another case with that that you all may have wondered, you know, why did this guy tire this place down? Why did he say you're working too slow after having four or five or more progress reports. Well, if you thought that or wondered about that, and I hope you did, but anyway, I'm going to read you the document to the System City Attorney. And I'm not going to give a name because I just don't want that going out on television, but nevertheless, here's the letter. And this is what caused it all. We are at a critical, this is for me to her. We're at a critical point for 305 East Mitchell. I have not received the letter of a hearing on progress. I will not be available for meeting and so on, also not this and so on. That's not important. But and I know nothing of it. Now I'm not, anyway, I think I have a better idea for the city. Create a document that says that the city action has been stopped because one, the owner has complied enough to indicate that he will finish the project at this includes, this includes money and time spent. I just got a little bit more. Anyway, the house is not rented and will not be rented until the work is complete. So no damage to anyone. The matter that the owner has treated during the process is not up to the standard of the city of Arlington. I looked under the U.S. Constitution on Bill O'Rite, and Article 5 says, North Shell property for public use without just compensation, this city action is clearly taking to force me to sell at the low price to comply with the new construction in the area. This can be seen as how it was initiated and processed by the city. And then the amendment seven says exceeds $20. I'm cutting out part of it. Anyway, they exceed $20. The right of trial by Jerry's shall be preserved. I asked the judge whether I could have a jury trial. He says no. That was a direct violation of US Constitution, but telling me that. And this is a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. I call a municipal court reducing the value of the property to one third its value, cruel and unusual. These municipal court judges, they deal with $200 speeding tickets and things like that. This guy, the way y'all got it set up, is a violation of constitution Constitution in my opinion. Not as bad as this one with the jury child. But anyway, with that said, they're dealing in $50,000 and $60,000 worth of property. That was not their intent in this city. The state law, granted, may have altered somebody's opinion, but that is a direct violation of the Constitution. It is a cruel and unusual policy to tear down a piece of property by a municipal court judge who all day long does $200 and so forth. Thank you, Mr. Euler. Seeing no other cards will move to announcements. Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents, Arlington City Council evening meetings or re-broadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions or re-broadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are re-broadcast. On Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlingtonTX.gov. Any other announcements? Okay, Ms. Thalman. Thank you, Mayor. I'll be hosting a town hall meeting on the topic of safety during the holidays. Next Tuesday, the 20th at the South Police Station at 6 p.m. All are welcome. Thank you. Any other announcements? Okay. Seeing none, this meeting stands adjourned. It stands adjourned. It stands adjourned.