I can't find my kids this somewhere over there. So it's nice, it's really nice. So it's amazing, like, it's a kids' room. I worked up 7 a.m. 8th grade, 5th grade, 5th grade, 5th grade, and then broke my teeth and went to the library. It's great. They have toys, books, and everything. I think this really facilitates them being able to imagine, be able to play. There are so many really neat play spaces for every single age and places for you to congregate in community with other moms and other parents. This building is going to be a tremendous tool to help so many generations of all-entant citizens achieve their American dream. Hey everybody, it's Jay Warren with another Bond Tracker episode, a show dedicated to keeping you informed about all of the Bond projects happening throughout the American Dream City. And today, well, clearly we are in an active construction site as work is underway to renovate the Woodland West Library. Pyrlington voters approve this $378,000 project back in the 2014 bond election. The upgrades will modernize the storefront, the periodical and administrative areas, remodeled the restrooms to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and replace three of the four rooftop HVAC units. Now, due to the unique location within a shopping center, City staff and the architect work together to create innovative solutions to meet the project's requirements. After conducting a review of the initial plan, City staff determined that redesigning a portion of the interior would achieve a more efficient floor plan, allow for upgrades to the entrance and cost substantially less. To complete the renovations as quickly as possible the library was temporarily closed last month and is scheduled to reopen in early 2019. And don't forget you can learn about all of the bond projects happening in Arlington by going to our BondTracker website, ArlingtonTX.gov, backslash BondTracker, and there you'll find videos, filtered maps, and updated content on all of those projects. Hey everybody, it's Jay Warren with the City of Arlington with another street tracker episode. It's a show on my Arlington TV that is dedicated to highlighting both proposed and current road construction projects here in the City of Arlington. And we're on Abram Street, a big rebuild project happening here in Abram Street in downtown $26 million to be exact. A part of that will bring much needed roadway and utility improvements to Abram between Cooper and Collins streets. It will also add on-street parking, enhanced landscaping, public art, and pedestrian amenities to create a more vibrant, welcoming atmosphere for downtown shoppers, diners, and visitors. And joining me now is Andrea Rualezas who is a civic engineer with Public Works and Transportation Andrea thanks for joining us today. We are out here in Abram Street tell us about this project. Well this is the very last phase of the entire Abram redevelopment project as many of you are aware this was broken down in four faces and the other three faces are complete and this is the very last face which is from Cooper to Collins. This is right through the heart of downtown. So talk to us about how you think this will transform our downtown area. Yes. So several of the design features of this project includes the widening of our sidewalks throughout the entire corridor and this of course is like incentivating people to come to downtown like to create a destination for our Arlington residents and our the entire community in general and we will have a wider sidewalks, we will also build patio areas through several of the businesses. So it's gonna invite people to these gathering places to just do for a welcoming atmosphere for the entire downtown. And speaking of those widened sidewalks, we're kind of standing on one right now. This is right in front of the Levant Pavilion. This is the first portion of this phase of the Abrams Tree Rebellb that you've gotten finished and you got done just in time for the Fall Concert Series with Levit, correct? Correct. So when we draft the contract, one of the main goals of this project overall was for the contractor to finish this area that we call it early construction termination. So that is the frontage of the entire Levit pavilion from center street to Pican street. So that means that we needed to install all the sidewalks several of the street, scaping feature, hard-scaping features to have all this area ready for the full concerts at the Levit pavilion. the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole area is the whole area. The whole look fantastic out here folks. You're going to see a big difference when you come out to the Fall Concert Series. And remember residents can visit Arlington Street Tracker webpage at ArlingtonTX.gov slash Street Tracker. The city's focused on improving our streets and transportation connections within and beyond our borders. And we appreciate your patience as we work to enhance regional mobility here in the American Dream City. Everybody is Jay Want with another on the clock. You know we all take out our garbage recycling every week. But Jim wonder where it all goes. This City Manager is very innovative but looking inside the landfill. Thanks Jay. Today I'm at the Arlington landfill with Bob Weber our environmental administrator. So Bob, tell me a little bit about what we're looking at behind us here. Well behind us we have the work face of the landfill where all the trash comes. I hate to curve when the residents put things out. Those are compactor machines. And with the steel wheels and the teeth, it's designed to tear up the tracks, and those machines weigh 120,000 pounds of piece. And it compacts that track down so that it takes up a little space and possible. How long have we been using this landfill? This landfill, Arlington, opened did in the mid 1960s. We're still going strong and we have a life yet estimated through 2065. The other thing I noticed kind of in the background is some things that to me look like gas wells, buried waste generates methane gas. And that methane gas builds up underground. So we put wells in and then we pull it out by vacuum. This gas is processed and part of it is shipped to the to a four-worth village water treatment plant where it runs their turbine generators. What other types of things that we do out here to help odor migration? About everything we do daily is an odor helper. Of the 790 acres here, that's the only open area that we have with trash. It's covered at the end of each day. All the water, the liquids that's generated by the decomposing trash is collected and disposed of. So Bob, show me a little bit about the perimeter that you have here. When the wind comes up like it is today, paper blowing or anything, this is designed to catch the paper before leaving the problem. It's very top. We have a perimeter odor system that helps keep odors inside the landfill. We have a chemist that comes in, takes samples of the air. He can mix his chemicals that go through the odor system, so it meets what odors we have. Different odors require different chemicals. This system attaches to the odor molecules and completely destroys them. So talking a little bit about some of the onsite recycling programs. We have two major ones here. Big city truck concrete takes the construction concrete and processes it into a usable product. Living Earth is the same way they take tree branches, yard waste and things like that, they mulch it up. Heaps about 230,000 tons a year out of the landfill. So Bob, we're over on the eastern edge of the landfill and we're looking at kind of a nice smoothly groomed area. What are we looking at here? We're looking at a final cap here. Our elevations is reached according to the permit. The proper height is going to have not only vegetation, but shrubs, brush. It's going to have an irrigation system in it. No more trash placed on it, no more work. It's just maintenance, mowing. We have to maintain it for 30 years after the facility closes. So now I'm here with Dave Hilder at the Division Manager for Republic Services. A long time public private partner with the City of Arlington and the Lansville operations. We appreciate you letting this kind of drive around and take a look today at what's going on. Well, of course this is a busy landfill. So we do close to 4,000 tons a day. There might be 7,800 trucks here during a day. So traffic is a big concern to us. And getting people in and out safely, we spend a lot of our time in preparation for weather changes. And do we have all of our other control devices in place properly for wind direction changes? Things that help us to operate correctly in an urban environment like this. Most landfills used to be out in the country. So Bob, you Dave, I just want on behalf of our residents here on it, and thank you for all your hard work to run a good clean operation out here and take care of our residents. I appreciate everything you guys are doing. Thank you very much. Thanks, Craig. Thanks, Craig. And thanks to you guys are doing. Thanks very much. Thanks Trey and thanks to you at home for watching another episode of On the Clock. We'll see you next time. Hey everybody, welcome to One of the Bond Trackers. It's a show dedicated to keeping you informed about the Bond projects happening here in the city of Arlington. And today we are at Deaver Park where the renovations are about to begin. The Arlington City Council approved a $411,000 contract back in June for the park's extensive makeover, which will include a longer walking trail and new shaded playground equipment. Phase two of the project will include the installation of an overlook that will provide views of the restored natural area. Arlington voters approved the park improvements in the 2014 bond election. Various sections of the 15.2 acre neighborhood park located at Kelly Elliott Road will be closed during construction and the project is expected to be complete by early next year. The project aligns with the City Council's priority to champion great neighborhoods and you can find the full list of renovations for Geaver Park on myarlingtonTX.com. And don't forget our bond tracker website where you can find all the information you need on our bond program including filtered maps and additional news stories. That's included at Arlington, I'm Jay Warren. We're here to get your questions answered and the topic today is Parks and Recreation. The director of that department joins us now, Lemiel Randolph. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you so much for having me, Jay. We got some great questions for our residents, but first I wanted to give you a chance to talk about a lot of the things, the cool things happening in Parks and Rec right now. I tell you it is a very exciting time to be in Arlington and to be the Parks director of this great city. The city has positioned us well for parks into the future. Over $100 million is going to be invested in our park system over the next several years. There's so many highlights I can't list them all, but certainly we're very proud of the capital campaign of 2014 that bond initiative that really funded substantial park developments within our system. For example, the Southeast Recreation Center will be the first center in that sector of our city, serving over 100,000 of our residents. That was funded through the 2014 bond, where in the final stages of design of that facility, with construction, we're expecting to begin in spring of 2019. In addition the Hugh Smith facility on New York Avenue in East Arlington is getting renovated. We're actually building a brand new facility on the same park site and that's going to include also a library and so this will be the first joint venture of a library and recreation center in Arlington. It will have an indoor pool, as well as complete fitness facilities, senior related facilities. And so that's, again, under design. And we're expecting it will go to construction, probably, spring of 2019 as well. Typically about a 16 month construction period. And so within that period of time, we're gonna deliver two brand new facilities to our residents. And you got Richard Simpson about to open as well, right? Absolutely, Richard Simpson are, you know, one of our two lakefront parks, our largest park along the lake. And so for many years, many people are aware aware the old lake house sits on it was old it was and it's old yeah I mean it's actually in floodway and so the new facility is almost done we're anticipating opening that November December timeframe of this year it's an awesome facility which will host a number of formal and informal events. We're really excited about delivering that project. It's very cool. Let's get to some of our resident questions. Sure. We got some really good ones. Our first one too, comes to us from Ryan Hula and he made this question on Instagram. Any projects to extend the mountain biking hiking trails at River Legacy? This is a common question we get. People love those trails. They love the trails and they love that part. you I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next out when we're going to come back. So I'm not going to go any further. Now I'll just have a little bit of time to talk about what I'm going to do. So here we go. . I have a question. I now let's call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and our first item is our invocation and pledge of allegiance to the U.S. and Texas flags and we're honored to have Steve Langford from the first United Methodist Church of Arlington to lead us in our invocation. Good evening, I bring you greetings from the First United Methodist Church and Webb Edelton Elementary. First Methodist and Webb have entered into a partnership and I've just come from what the staff at Web has telling us to be the first Trunk or treat Halloween celebration in their memory and with your indulgence I will share a few. Minister Langford, we share our grateful treats and not tricks. You know. Thank you. Here's an element. That's great. That one. Okay. And I'm so sorry. The thought was there, right? And I apologize for my sweat so, so, so, so, sure, my costume got a little warm. She'll pray. I, a costume, got a little warm. Shall we pray? And so we pause, merciful God, to steal our hearts and our minds that we might bring our best self to this time together. We begin by saying thank you. Thank you for this great city and those who lead it. Thank you for the goodness, the blessings, the richness of life we enjoy here. And so as we gather to be about the business of this city, we pray for an awareness of your presence in our midst. We pray for your wisdom to guide us as we decide for the common good. And so we just simply say thank you. And the name of Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Amen. the name of Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Amen. Congratulations to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. A pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one and indivisible. Well I'll call upon, Miss Farore Myers to come down with me and we've got a special If I could ask Mr. Calum and Mrs. Calum to please come up and join me. Bridget, you're welcome to Miss Lewis. I figure you're taking pictures, so you're welcome to join us as well. It's my honor to deliver this proclamation on behalf of the mayor and city council. It means a little bit more. Thank you, Council. I thank you, Mayor, for asking. My son has a privilege of going to this wonderful school and I know Ms. Wolfe's children and grandchildren are also part of that. So it means a lot to us to have this educational institution be recognized. Whereas the Oak Ridge School was founded in 1979 by concerned parents and educators with enrollment numbers that began with 85 students in pre-cinder garden through eighth grade to nearly 800 students from 15 countries and 36 cities in preschool through 12th grade. And whereas for 40 years, the Oak Ridge School has inspired students to seek their full potential in academics, the arts, the athletics, in a challenging and nurturing environment that cultivates social responsibility, mutual respect, and personal integrity. And whereas 100% of Oak Ridge graduates attend college, produces a remarkable percentage of national merit scholars. The Fine Arts program provides opportunities for students to sing at Carnegie Hall and prefers scholar athletes. And whereas faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni continue to build strong relationships within Arlington and the surrounding communities by contributing countless hours of volunteer service yearly. And whereas the Oak Ridge School continues to attract national recognition as a college preparatory school and provides educational excellence grounded in responsible character development and ethical leadership. I know therefore I, Jeff Williams, mayor of the city of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim October 30, 2018, the much for inviting us to be here tonight. Thank you to Mayor Williams and to the City Council. We're honored and humbled to be a partner in this community with so many of the businesses and families of Arlington and work on many projects with many of you. From our humble beginnings in 1979, we had 85 students in a rented facility, and really just a dream of creating a school that would serve so many families. And today, as we celebrate our 40th anniversary this year, we serve 800 students from Arlington and other surrounding cities and towns, and really students from all over the world on a hundred acres that we own in Arlington. And we have nearly 2,000 citizens who have an appreciation for the arts and an understanding of the great benefit of community service, giving back to the community. And many of them now live in our great city of Arlington. Many of our graduates have their own children now who attend Oak Ridge. And we are just humbled again to be here and so proud to be a member of this community in the city of Arlington and helping to do our part to make Arlington the American Dream City. Thank you so much. Well, Oak Ridge is a special place and so many great families have gone through Oak Ridge is a special place and so many great families have gone through Oak Ridge and it is a quiet community within a community and it's always special to go there but I just had a new thing happen. I actually we hosted some Italian students through an exchange program with Martin High School and Oak Ridge who were working together on that program. And isn't that awesome that one of our premier private schools and premier public schools were working together? But here's where it got better. The Italian teacher came to me and said that she's never had any better host and that this is the only partnership that has lasted 10 years, that they have had literally about a dozen different other schools that they've worked with. And this one now has lasted 10 years. Just another example of great things happening at Oak Ridge and thank you so much for what you all are doing. And then Susan will probably get a picture here, huh? the Thank you. Our next item of business, appointments to boards and commissions. I'll call upon our city secretary, Mr. Alex Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. We have no appointments to boards and commissions this evening. Mr. Buskin, can you go over speaker guidelines in general decorum? Thank you, Mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting. Any person making personal, profane, slanderous or threatening remarks 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. Excuse me, 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. Next we'll move to approval of items from executive session Mr. Buskin. Thank you mayor we have one item for approval from executive session. One authorizing a settlement for a sanitary sewer easement in over under across and through 4,347 square feet of land, otherwise known as 1840 East Division Street for the public use of constructing, reconstructing, maintaining and using a sanitary sewer in all necessary appartances for the circle drive and exchange drive sanitary sewer renewal project. Mayor, that concludes the items for approval from executive session. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir, there are no speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member K. Pardt and a second from Council Member Walman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of minutes, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor Minutes. For approval tonight are the special meeting on October 2, 2018, and the afternoon and evening meetings from October 16, 2018. Do any council members have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on these items? No, sir. There are no speakers on these items. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Thalman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we move to approval of Consent Agenda, Mr. Baskin. Thank you, Mayor. The Consent Agenda this evening contains seven minute orders, three ordinances, and seven resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one professional services related to health and physical assessments for public safety. Two and three professional services contract to update the financing plan and project plan for tax increment reinvestment zone number five city of Arlington, Texas entertainment district and for benefit consulting services. Four calendar road, Eden Road to Harris Road, Goodridge, Shector and Associates LLC. Five and six construction contract for California Lane Park improvements and State Highway 360 12-inch water main Arbord, Tamefield, 7 repair services for the Pierce Birch Water Treatment Plant Pump Engine Drive. The ordinances seek to authorize 8 zoning case, ZA 17-102328 East Park Road Drive, 9 development plan DP 18-1, 22-1 East Arbord Boulevard, 10 speed limit revision on FM 157 South Cooper Street in State Highway 360. The resolutions seek to authorize 11 and 12 Arlington Independent School District Agreement, hometown recruiting and school resource officers, 13 interlocal agreement for runway pavement evaluation with the University of Texas at Arlington. 14, 2018 Homeland Security grants. 15 permit fees for commercial recycling collectors. 16 and 17, resolution of no objection for Spanish park apartments, preservation, LP, and for Patriots Point apartments. May I, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in supporter opposition? Yes, sir. We have two speakers on item 8.16. When I call your name, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and address for the record. Charlie Price. Charlie Price. Mayor Council, Charlie Price, Development Corporation of Terry County, 1509V, South University, Suite 208, for work Texas 7.6107. Here to talk about Spanish park apartments. I've said I think everybody in email today and gave you a little synopsis of what I'm talking about. It is an older apartment complex built in the 60s. And right now you've got a letter of no objection to come up, but it's a bigger issue than that. It's one of those where the Arlington House of Finance Corporation will actually purchase the property. Then they will lease it back to a developer and in fact take it in off the tax rolls. That's one of my biggest concerns is it taking any property off the tax rolls. That's one of my biggest concerns. Is it taking any property off the tax rolls? Secondly, as the purchase process properties at $23.5 million, it's currently on the tax rolls at $12.3 million. Someone's making a boo-coo money on this one, and the only way they can actually afford to do it is basically take it off the tax rolls. It's simple, it's math. And that nearly $500,000 a year that you'll be given up, and that means school district two, that means county, the hospital district, you'll be given that money up. Now they say they're gonna sign up payment in lieu of taxes agreement. City of Ardons has done a couple of those in the past, and still have not collected any money on those that I know of. So, and you'll be the last one on the waterfall. And the waterfall is basically how the investment groups look at how they pay all the monies out from developer fees, deferred, and basically payment a little taxed agreement. You'll be on the bottom because the investors will probably require that because they don't know what kind of cash law this property is going to produce. Appraisal value probably will not go up. The reason is the rents aren't going up. They're actually controlled by the state of Texas through the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. So you're not going to really have an appraisal issue if you didn't do it. So there's an issue here that someone's paying way too much for this piece of property. It's not worth it. It's not a reconstruct. All you're doing is putting lipstick on it. I don't care what anybody says, a class C property. You paint it, you go and put new appliances, new electrical, whatever you want inside the unit, it's still going to be a class C property. It's not going to change. I have one, I know this. I'm involved with 3%, 4% tax credit deals this year. And I will tell you that every one of them are paying their property taxes. So there's something wrong here, just wanted to point it out. I'm here to ask, answer any questions if you want me to. Thank you. Any questions from Mr. Press? Thank you. Any questions from Mr. Price? Okay, thank you Mr. Price. Next speaker. Yoni Grueskin. Good evening. I'm Yoni Grueskin. I'm with Lincoln Avenue Capital. I'm the acquire and developer of Spanish park apartments. Just want to make one clarification. We actually intend to purchase a property with or without the tax exemption. The tax exemption actually allows us to go ahead and do the redevelopment or rather the renovations. So we're actually planning on putting in $14 million into the property, not putting lipstick on a pig. Very substantial renovation includes new interiors, so new vinyl flooring for the tenants, new cabinets, new countertops, new bathroom appliances. Also the property does need a lot of material upgrades to the exterior, so we'll be putting on new roofs, we'll be putting on new siding, new paint, all new accessibility, and then also we'll be doing some real investment in security so it becomes a better neighbor as part of the overall community. Finally, I just want to say that we're very excited to move forward with this. The pilot that was mentioned actually is not at the bottom of the waterfalls, actually, at the top. So the city gets their money before we ever get any of ours as part of the proposed structure. Any questions? Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to call up Mindy Cochran, who is Executive Director of our Housing Corporation. Ms. Cochran, if you could go over and explain what we're doing there at the Spanish part. Sure. The resolution that's before Council today is simply the resolution of no objection to allow the developer to apply for housing tax credits to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. Any action related to the property coming off the tax rolls or the HFC's involvement would come later at an HFC meeting. Any questions for Miss Cochran? Miss Thalman. I think it was a bit of a process that went into this and we chose the developer based on bids or what they wanted to do with this project. We didn't select the developer. This developer in particular put an offer in to purchase this property back in July. There were actually six different properties in Dallas Irving, I believe Grand Prairie and this one here in Arlington that were part of a package sale. They were successful in pulling this one off of that package because it was the only affordable housing development. And they put in their bid to this seller of the property prior to our involvement. So whether or not City of Arlington or the HFC was involved in this, this developer intended to purchase this property to maintain the affordability for low income housing residents. Okay, thank you. Ms. Walman. Ms. Conner, I believe I heard that it was overpriced or something. Was there an appraisal? I know what the tax role said, but was there an appraisal done on this property? There was. At the property appraisal, we're greater than the purchase price. Okay, thank you. You bet. Any other questions from Miss Conquern? Thank you, Miss Conquern. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers? No, sir, we have no other speakers on the consent agenda. Okay, then I'll call for an emotion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Thalman and a second from Council Member Walman. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Mayor, Mr. City Manager, the City Secretary, would you register me as a no vote on item 8.8. Yes, Mr. Shepherd. If you could show me as abstaining on item 8.6, please. Thank you. Okay, next we'll move to public hearings. Ordnanceances first reading. And it's zoning case PD18-4, momentum park phase 2, 217-0, islamar boulevard, and I'll call upon this though. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.1, zoning case PD18-4, for momentum park phase 2, is a continued case from October 16, 2018 meeting. After being continued on August 21, the applicant revised the proposal to include a limited service hotel instead of a originally proposed residence hotel. The site is located on East Lemarble of Art, East Ballparkway, and lies within the entertainment district overlay. The rezoning request is from community commercial CC zoning to a PD for community commercial uses, limited to office, business, or professional, plus a limited service hotel with a development plan. The proposal is for a unified development containing a five-story class A office building and 110 to 120 unit limited service hotel. The single law will be ultimately subdivided separating the office building from the hotel. However, the two developments will be tied together via an open space between the two structures, complementary architectural features, and a compatible list of exterior finish materials. The applicants Troy Alley and Gerald Alley are here to present the case this evening. If you can state your name and address for the record. Gerald Alley, six or six, luxury court, allotment, Texas. Nicole Onyudor, 13944, Tristan Lane, Ulyst, Texas. I'm going to go to the meeting. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The meeting is on the floor. The are very proud of it. We work long and hard to make sure it becomes complimentary to the City of Allerton. It will make impact not only all of them, but also through, I would say, Texas and the world. I'll let Nicole, a recent in the graduate program of UTA, run the keyboard here and I'll stand back and let her do it and Troy will moderate the things. so we stand available for questions. Well thanks again for having this opportunity. First I want to thank you for the chance to meet with many of the council people to reconcile some of the issues that you might have had before. And I think it's come out to be a fruitful situation. And hopefully, when we come back today, we'll please you and make this a project that you'll be very glad to have in the city of Arlington. The project itself is dulled as a mixed use. But what we intend to do here is to be able to bring a number one class A office building along with a hotel and this hotel is one that you will see it has minute attributes. First of all let's look at the location of it. A location ideal is situated in the entertainment district close proximity to your key elements of your entertainment district. And that's why we really put it here because we feel as though it's an element that can really complement the entertainment district. Before you probably have seen this kind of layout, but we're gonna focus today more so on the hotel element. The office building class say has already been discussed in the last time, and I hope that that was sufficient to know that this is something that will be an attribute to the city of Barleta. So let's focus on AC Hotel. What is AC Hotel? One of the things we found out through a discussion with many council people is that you wanted an upscale type of HOTEL and that's what we went out to doing to try to find to make certain that we were able to satisfy any problems that you might have without first the middle. A HOTEL operates more than 80 types of units throughout the United States than also in Europe. The concept is a history in the sense that the AC Hotel was really started in Madrid, Spain, by a spaniard that decided to really bring in a high-class type of lodging to European countries that spread into South America and other parts of the world. These are just some of the world. These are just some of the places where the AC hotel exists. And as you can see, they're throughout many key points within the world. Let's go to the United States of which I know what you interested in, is not everything across the ocean. So what we are right now as hotels in the United States would be the AC hotels. First of all, what we looked at is we looked at what were the criteria that were used for the AC hotel. The thing that they were looking at is what they call entertainment, business, and leisure. This is a lifestyle type of hotel that looks for a certain type of user to be able to be able to accommodate. And as you see, as we go through these different sides, you'll see, first of all, these locations are really unique. And they have a parallel and similarity to our own city of Arlington. Let's go to Miami, first. South Beach is close to this, and this is what one of the first AC hotels will build. And as you notice, you look at the types of entertainment and recreational facilities that surround this hotel. What we also find is that not only the entertainment and the surrounding, but a very contemporary type hotel. The interiors are very unique. It's very casual, but also upscale and contemporary. Next, I know many of you all might have gone to Nashville if you haven't. This is a place to go, country music. We're across the street from the country hall of fame. And many other key elements in terms of the entertainment in Nashville. All of these are probably within walka densities of very short distance. Here again, the AC Hotel is right in the middle of this mix. The interior shows upscale, lodging, and it is really one of the unique hotels. Next is the National Harvard in Washington, D.C. Near the FedEx football center and also near some other key elements. There's also near Harris, Casino. But all of this is within an area in which the entertainment is the key point. And here again, we got the AC Hotel. These are some of the interior shots. And you can see it's very upscale, very contemporary and very conducive to the lifestyle that many people that look for this type of hotel to be able to cater. One of the first hotels for AC was in Bourbon Street in the French Quarter and you know that here's an entertainment district and these are some of the things that is close to the Super Bowl and also the Convention Center these are some of the things that is close to the Super Bowl and also the Convention Center and also some of the other key elements around the of course, Bourbon Street. But contemporary inside design, these are types of design that came from Europe. But also they fit into the American type of leisure type of facility. And last but not least is New York Times Square. Right in the center of Times Square is a AC hotel. And that's truly one of the entertainment sections. And it's all close to the convention center and also some other key elements within the city of New York. So we see that this is a very close similarity to what we are here in Arlington. And it's upscale, the interiors of upscale, and everything about it is very upscale and leisurely for those types of users. We know we can go across the whole United States, but we got to come back close to home. And as close as we can come to home is Dallas. And at this point, we had looked at an AC hotel that was recently built in Dallas. And at this point, we had looked at an AC hotel that was recently built in Dallas. And this AC hotel, as you can see, open, very light is close to the Galleria. It has some of the same amenities as some of these other hotels have throughout the United States. And it shares a common in terms of the courtyard and some of the other attributes. So after I've said all of that, let's come to what we want to say. What is an AC hotel? It's unique in the sense. And this is what Marriott says that the strategy for the brand is to position the brand in a high-end upscale area. And that's what we believe that we will be doing, matching that high end up scale plus the entertainment industry. So Mariat is definitely on board with this type of facility and located at here in Arlington. These are the amenities, are the things that you look for when they start looking for AC hotel. And this is when they look throughout the whole United States. They have looked at these key elements. First of all, a high energy location. You can't count high energy ideals here within the Dalai, within Arlington, and knowing the types of things that we have available. It's so here, we have a unique sense in that we have blended a complimentary class, a office building, right next to it. So that also adds to some of the unique things of this particular product. Access to multiple sources of entertainment. And really it's a cutting edge type of facility. This is our concept of the AC Hotel in Arlington. No music? Okay, my music got lost on that. But anyway, you can see it's a very contemporary hotel. We have changed it from the original model and made it really parallel and similar to the other hotels throughout the United States. And as you see, it has great visibility. It's an openness to it. And we believe that this fits all of the criteria that we're looking for in a similarity to AC hotels that are located other places. The interior, very upscale, very unique. We have designed rooms that are going to be complementary to the different types of users. And as you can see, hardwood floors and also showers that are very attractive. And most of all, a lounge area is things that we know that are upscale people really like to see. So after all of this, what does this hotel stand in reference to other hotels? If we look at the average daily rate of our projected hotel, we in fact exceed what the two other major hotels are in that category. We're at 184 where they are about 170. So what we anticipate is that our hotel is going to be lifting up the whole market because we got a unique hotel that is bringing in specific users that are looking for that class type of hotel. This is a letter that unfortunately runs to it who is the reason Vice President of Marriott, when able to attend and you could get it, quote, unquote, out of the horse's mouth in a sense of what he thinks about Arlington and have an opportunity to put the AC hotel here. And he said it's very strongly. I feel strongly about the success of the hotel in Arlington. And he really feels that way. And after looking at the location and looking at the product, he's saying that Mara is 100% behind located the AC hotel here. And that is what we would like to be able to achieve. So at the end of it, that's the questions that we have hoping that we have answered most of the questions through our presentation. Any questions from Mr. Alley? Okay, Ms. Moeys. Just a couple of refreshers. Is this set up on one track or two tracks? The office and the hotel are they combined on one track? No, we got two separate tracks, two different parcels. Okay, do you have different investors in each track? Or are you, so you could eventually, I mean, what is, I guess long term, when I wanna make sure of is that the connections we talked about in previous meetings are still going to be there in terms of some of the sharing of some of the space. The sharing of space would be basically a relationship based upon any type of lease arrangement, but the, but the acts of parcels themselves are two separate parcels. So you would be able to define parcel one and parcel two as two separate parcels. Okay, so what's our guarantee that you know since since we're giving up some of the common areas and Services in this hotel because they're gonna be shared with the office building What's our guarantee that that relationship will continue if the office building is sold and we have a new owner of or with the hotel is sold? Ms. Wallace, one of the things that we try to share here, we are on both sides so those are the question both to hotel and office building so the common ownership we will have, we have some investors in the hotel and some investors in office building, but we are the common investors in both of them. So the consistency that you have, our efforts of being involved in both aspect, how each one of them run are gonna be independently, but it's gonna be complimentary. We looked at the first trying to blend them both, and now we come back after you all's input to say how do both of them work stand alone in each one of their models they'd be. So the only consistency is that our involvement will be in both of them. So are you majority owner and one or both have them? Uh, one of both of them will be majority owners. One or both, which one? Uh, the office building we're majority owners. One or both which one? The office building will be majority owners. So what is it, first be two on what the square footage is of the office building? It's going to range anywhere around 50 to 60,000 square feet. You are going to start the office building first. Is that what's the earlier commitment? That was the earlier commitment. Right now we're looking at it sort of like we probably will probably do that. One of the things we found out with AC Hotel, it's a longer run to get AC to approve it. Even though we have conceptual designs, they go to great lengths to make sure that they both are meeting the criteria of AC. So we're both exploring both on the together and pursuing both together which one follows out first. We're going to pursue them both readily. And on that note, one of the things I want to share everybody in this, this is our second hotel in Orlando. Our first one is beside this one and it's not the starting point point but once we start once they show hit the ground it would be consistent complete delivered in one time so we'll spend a lot of time in the plan and to make sure we get it right but once we will not start until everything is ready to go and it won't be in stock when we start so if we approve this tonight we know it will be an AC hotel and not a different hotel. Our goal is that's the one we're submitting for that and that's the one that we're tied to an agreement to. So this is the first step going down that we have a preliminary agreement that they have approved the site. Then we put our operator in place who's actually run a ACO tail. We go through the design development process. So our commitment is that's where we're presented to you, the hotel of our choice, presenting this, of the standards. So can I, let me ask this question. If the AC and SP have to go to staff, the AC hotel would fall through. Would you have to come back to us for a different hotel brand? How does that work? The ordinance does not have AC hotel written into it. It just says a limited service hotel with four stories, the number of rooms, everything related to that hotel services, but not the name of the hotel. But if that is something that council wishes to add onto it, that is something adding. Are you confident, Mr. Alley, in this? Well, you know, the time clock runs, but I will assure you the criteria they AC, that's how target and market and that's what we've already moved the bar to and whatever the standards of AC are and whatever the criteria is set for about AC. Our goal is to stay with AC. If there is a minute chance of it changing, we expect the same standards that we're applying to the AC understanders, but our goal is to continue with AC. Okay, and that's what I would hope to you to because I think that's the quality of hotel. We understand the quality of the expectation that the council put to us who hardly and it's sunk in real well and we are not going to back from the quality of it. We are right now beginning to go, Shachem, what they see in this second room. So we understand what the bar that Council is looking for. Right. Ms. Topel. Yes. There was another idea that was thrown out the Council Committee meetings about the chain scale. This is an upscale chain scale hotel. So if Council desires to add that as in the ordinance that it has to be an upscale chain scale hotel. So if council desires to add that as in the ordinance that it has to be an upscale chain scale, you could do that. Because we are. This is a zoning change, right? Yes. Yes. And we're comfortable with the chain scale. We're comfortable with chain scale. Well, let's just add that so we're comfortable that we'll, and then if this doesn't work out, it at least gives you a long list of hotels to go. Well, it's not a long list, but it'd be a list, but we understand the expectation and we're committed to invest the right quality of the hotel to change. Well, and I think it's, I think it's about 15, isn't it? Choices? I think you have about 15 choices in then. Yes, but also let me add is that we have to be cognizant of the fact that some of the brands have already committed to other places or we might not be beginning brand. But as you say if it's a scale deal, we're committed to that upscale hotel. Okay, I'm good with that then. Okay, I'll remember, glass me. Thank you, Mayor. I'm good with that then. Councilmember Glaspie. Thank you, America. The style is just a, you indicated it with the 80 AC hotels. I assume that was in the world. Yes, that's in the world. Right. About I'm in the US now. That's good. I think it's about 15. And what they have done, they have been very selective in the cities and the site they choose. I'm not. I was the next question I was going to ask. What kind of strategy in terms of? The strategy is looking for the marketplace to the upper end, the compliments, class A and compliments, upper scale entertainment. And as you notice in Dallas they have downtown, they have Galleria and without saying anything bad about four, they're seeking one. They've looked at both sites that prefer our sites. So we're sort of under the gun to try to move forward and pursue this so we beat the gas on them for. Let me add to the fact that when the strategy was as we outlined is that AC hotels and the way that they look at the market, they're looking at that type of utilization of upscale, but also within entertainment related districts. And that's why we feel so strongly, and that's why they feel so strongly about Arlington. So there are a limited number of places on the top end of that criteria that really fits. And we believe that this is one of the ones that really is one that fits their criteria in strategy. Councilmember K. Part. Oh, Jeff, another one, Michael? Yeah, another follow-up. Yeah, I was fortunate enough to visit with a Miss Troy All Ali at one open Dallas. And one of the things you mentioned was, at least one of the things you mentioned, the young lady showed it to us was how it was attractive to millennials. Would you elaborate on that? Well, I think maybe the fact of the the the milleniums and the way that the hotels themselves are laid out is what leisure lifestyle and the openness of the hotel has been a transition from older hotels that have been laid out not with that same type of openness and that's kind of what she was saying that where a lot of people that fall in that class find that these types of what she was saying that where a lot of people that fall in that class find that these types of hotels are really the ones that they feel more comfortable in. Councilmember K. Pant. Thank you Mayor and thank you. So I know we're really kind of focusing on the hotel tonight but update me. Refresh my memory if you will on the office space so that's not zone jet is that correct the office space is already capable on the present zone to be able to build up so we can all that can already be built and have come back just for that okay that's what I couldn't remember and so and I realize you're probably gonna go with the hotel first because it's a longer lead time if I understood correctly All right, Mr Well, I guess the question is we're gonna we're gonna try to bring them up simultaneously We we have a couple of issues on both sides one the hotel run because it has a Branding issue into it that has to go through the approval process But I believe that, you know, that we're not quite sure which schedule we're working pursuing both from right now. Okay. So we're committed to do both. Got it. Thank you. And then the other question I have, and maybe this is for Ms. Thalpole, what is the definition of Class A office space? There is no definition in the unified development code. So there is no definition. There is no definition for class A office space. So, Mr. Alley, Mr. Alley, can somebody tell me when you say class A office space, what are we getting? Per Webster. You say class A office space, what are we getting? Per Webster. But the class A office space where they typically say things that are a part of the office space itself. And sometimes they have access to grants, parking. They have access to other amenities that normal just office space would have. And it might be a list of categories of things that you can say. I could unequiply say if you looked at the buildings that are class A office space that they're calling class A office space as in downtown Dallas or other places, is that class of office building that has the most attractors and the most types of uses that are available but still are at a price range that is suitable for occupancy. I know that's kind of, I guess the best way to describe it is that you have an office building that has both, You have an office building that has both, you would have both support services like garage services and other services like that that will typically be a part of what that office space offers whereas maybe you don't have that in another type of office space. Okay. Missed up, if you could help us in the future. Maybe we need to work through some kind of general guidelines of what class A office space is and how it relates to Arlington because I'm not sure. And so if you could help us with that. Anyway, thank you for your presentation and I did get an opportunity to go over to the one in Dallas. I was very impressed in your ride. It's very different. It's certainly something that appeals to the young professionals. It was clear by looking at the people in the lobby that day. But it was really very quite unique and it's not your traditional, what some of us think of as a hotel and the kind of amenities that we're kind of accustomed to seeing, but clearly it's very popular. So I appreciate you coming back with something a little different. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Shepherd. Thank you, Mayor. I'd to appreciate you working with Council on the coming back. There's a couple of questions probably from Miss Topal, but I don't know who's controlling the slides. But can you go back to the elevations that you showed us? If it's if you can get back on the screen. The elevation of the of the hotel. of the hotel. Oh, go back to an AC concept. Well, yes. So Miss Topel, the development plan that we have on our packet doesn't look anything like that. And so I was excited when I heard about the change of plans and then I reviewed the packet and I went, wait a minute, so the staff report still objects to the use of materials not being consistent with our design standards. The picture that we have doesn't look anything as best I can tell like that. How do we synthesize that and solve that problem? So the development plan is not to the extent that we see in normal development plans, where it's all detailed out. They were going for the brand, and that's what they tried to bring in the brand, but the plans have not been completely detailed out and that's why they don't have the full elevations of what they would propose. It is going to be similar to what they presented previously, more of a contemporary style. And it will match the office building materials compatible with that. So it's a little bit conceptual in nature with the development part. So if we were to approve the development plan tonight where the ordinance reads, they'll do all this per the attached development plan. And the development plan doesn't look anything, put it this way, the development plan doesn't comply with our current design standards. How does that get fixed? The current standards requires for 85% to maize-nery. So we have a pretty good standard for hotel design standards. So they have to meet all of those standards. They're not really seeking too many deviations from that. The deviations that they are really requesting is for something with a small amount of street trees and the conference space which they are providing in the other office building. I guess I- I will be meeting the other standards. I guess my concern is twofold. Number one, to be sure that it's a unified development, that whatever the hotel looks like, the office building, is at least complimentary. And then number two, while I wasn't able to go in person to the gallery, I did see the pictures and I saw the pictures of the other things and the materials that I saw in those pictures are much different than brick and stucco. And so I'm trying to make sure I understand what you're proposing to do in terms of finishes. I heard upscale, I saw marble, and I saw a bunch of other masonry materials, but I didn't see much brick and I didn't see much stucco. Can you help me understand, because I think both brick and stucco satisfy our masonry requirements for design standards, but they certainly, I just weren't in the pictures. I saw. And you're correct, Mr. Shepherd. At this point, I'm, whatever the standards are to design standards, we're going to meet and exceed that. I biggest challenge is going to be the bar that's set by AC. They have an unbelievable bar. The, the combination of the reflection of one office to the other building, they're gonna make sure that hotel. If anything pushes the bar, it will be the AC standard. They just do not allow for us to build a minimum hotel. So as far as your standards, to city standards, I can assure you, material, the makeup, the required interior, we will exceed that. Now we don't have the actual design. We use that as what we fit on the site right now. So Mr. Topel, if we were to include something concerning an uppercaseal, and I'm not on that committee that discussed that, so I'm not really sure what all that means. But do we feel confident that that designation also implies a certain level of materials and that sort of thing? Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions from Mr. Alley or Mr. Alley? Thank you. Again, thank you, Mayor and the Council for you support this and your leadership and guiding us to where we need to be. Thank you. Thanks a whole lot. Mr. Buskin, are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. We have no additional speakers on this item. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and any discussion. Okay, seeing no discussion. I'd like to call for a motion then. We have a motion for approval from Council member Moe's. member Moe's. Yes, Ms. Moe's, we do need the clarification now that you had previously referenced about the upscale chain scale. Here, would you like to put that in words here that you'd like to amend that to include the upscale chain scale. I moved to approve case PD-184, the momentum park phase two, with the understanding that should this hotel brand not be applicable, that it would be replaced with a brand in the same class. Is that the quick way of saying it? But I think we would want that language of upscale change scale. Upscale change scale. Upscale change scale. It's an industry standard. Okay. Okay. And then Miss Walmann or you are right with that. So we have a motion with that amendment from Councilmember Moe's for approval. And then a second from Councilmember Walman, any other discussion? Okay. And cast your votes. Okay. Motion passes. Mr. Alley, Mr. Alley, we appreciate your investment here in our community and we are looking forward to a hotel that is better than the one in Dallas. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I'll turn it over to Mr. Glassby. We're now at the agenda item 11, two zone in case DP 18 to all in the comments phase 1, C, 505 East Lamar Boulevard. Mr. Portia, sir, I think. I can say a few words. It's Jenny. We will now turn it over to words. All right. It's Jenny. Sorry. We will now turn it over to Ms. Topel. Thank you. Item 11.2, Zoning K's DP18-2, for Arlington Commons Phase 1C, is a request for approval of a development plan for Phase 1C of the Arlington Commons development on approximately 6.22 acres generally located north of East Lamar Boulevard and east of Wendt-Burin Drive. For the record, I wanted to correct a typo in the case information related to the PNZ recommendation. The motion was to approve the case by a vote of 7000. Additionally, the last page of the development plan attached in the packet has to be removed. The revised version was already included in another sheet of the development plan. Now going back to the proposal, the subject site is one of the four phases of the entire 22.18 acre site that was re-zoned to a planned development for multi-family uses with the maximum density of 60 units per acre in the Lemar Collins mixed use overlay. The entire site was previously developed with three multi-family apartment complexes built in the 1970s, which were demolished in July of 2015. The entire Arlington Commons development will be developed with approximately 1,328 total units in four phases. However, the proposed phase 1C that you have in front of few consists of 358 units resulting in 58 dwelling units per acre. The applicant, Robin Wann, work over is here to present the cases evening followed by Howard Pertias. Good evening, sir. Good evening, Mr. Relas, Pimipur, 10 council members. So thank you for having us here tonight to present to you Arlington Commons, phase 1C, or as we call it phase 2. And I'll try to give you brief history of what we've done and get into the details of phase 1C here quickly. So, oops, I guess I pressed wrong button. There we go. A little bit of background. So in 2015, we took down the old apartments and the idea was to reinvent the North Arlington and bring back a lost demographic from back in the 70s when these apartments that were there were high rent apartments and stimulate the economic development, introduce a new architecture, and create a pedestrian introduce a new architecture and create a pedestrian experience, restore property values. So you see a picture there of the apartments that were there before and on top to the right is the site of the communities that we had bought at the time. So as Ms. Topus had planned in four phases, total of 1300 plus units, overall investment of over $215 million, over 10 to 12 years. And one of the core values that we have, one of the things that we as the near-mine company want to do and we do in each phases, give back to the community by providing a unit for mission Arlington staff to house their staff and summer missionaries. Phase one C was completed in June and occupancy has been phenomenal. You know renting the lease up is being doing great and the number right there 75% rate and the number right there 75% let's see yeah so 75% one bedroom 25% 2's high end finishes 12 10 and 12 food ceilings greater amenities our residents are loving it there. Currently we are over 75% occupied I think we're today we're close to 80. The demographic is exactly what we're hoping for. Average age in the 30s, average income around 70,000. A lot of young professionals moving in from, you can see the employers there that we have picked up, Lockheed Martin, GM, L3, et cetera. We also have a good number of empty nesters, 55 plus, that are selling their homes in North Arlington or in the area and moving in. And those two demographics seem to get along very well. So the AV tax growth since we acquired the properties and Demoed what was there has grown About 465% so up from about nine million dollars to currently over 39 million dollars and Jerry the neighborhood values are over 30% and we're really happy with What we've done there so now going on to phase one C. Here's the phase. One C shown, 358 units on 6.22 acres. That's a side plan. Again, high end finishes very similar to what we're doing in Phase 1. We have learned some things in the course of development phase 1 and are trying to implement these new things that we've learned in this next phase. We're keeping those 10 and 12-foot ceilings. Large balconies which seem to be very popular. We like those. I just wanted to draw your attention to that middle picture there. One of the things that we've decided to do with some spare spaces that we found during the design process was to add a V-A lounge to support the city's for the Redshire program and neighborhood coffee shop. Here you can see some renderings. This would be the leasing office. And right there to the left is the median park that we're also working on. This is the corner of Van Buren and Lamar looking at. Yeah, so that space right behind those trees, there is outdoor courtyard for use by residents and a lounge space covered. There's going to be barbecue pits and, you know, just, yeah, just a space for events and so on. you know, just, yeah, just a space for events and so on. This is our interior courtyard with a pool looking towards the east. Our fitness center is on the left side over by those umbrellas. This is the neighborhood coffee shop over on the right. And so the coffee shop, the Neomaya coffee, locally owned and operated, and we've been in talks with several local small businesses to help us and provide a paste for us and other goods to be selling in here, ice cream, et cetera. So we're excited about that. And you can see some of the ideas about finishes that we have for this coffee shop. The Lamar Collins Park. So we will be doing, we back up here. So the center and the right side, with this face, all the way, take it all the way to Lincoln. And that's another blow up of the one park phase right in front of the phase one C of the comments. So we're thankful for the opportunity to present this to you. And yeah, if you have any questions. Thank you. Is anyone have any questions? Dr. Mard. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I brought them. Just one quick question. Are the trees that you're finishing out? Are you also finishing them out to the end to Cooper as well? You're talking about the median park. The median park. We are extending. Yes. We are extending the, it's not the median part, but it would be the right of way, we'll take it all the way to Cooper, yes. And that's not shown on this, on this, on this picture. So Cooper all the way through. All the way to Lincoln, yes. Thank you for that clarification, sir. Yeah. Any other questions? Any other questions? Is the vascular are there any? Speakers Howard Portius. But see only other speaker we had. Further questions no further speaker we will now close the public meeting of public hearing. Thank you. With that, our motion. Second. Okay. It's been moved by Council. Miss Ferrer-Miers. And seconded by Miss K. Part. Let's vote Okay, we have eight yeses and an abstention from our mayor Thank you very much for your investment. I'll say. I will now turn back on to the mayor. We'd now like to move to citizen participation and I'd like to call upon Mr. Buskin to go over the speaker guidelines and to call. Thank you, mayor. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns which are not posted on the evening's agenda. However, please understand that the Mayor and Council are not permitted by law to respond or address your concerns at this time, as these items are not included on the posted Council agenda for this evening. The Mayor and Council may only ask clarifying questions and or direct staff to take appropriate action. Speakers will be given three minutes to make their comments. Okay, the first speaker is Mr. Carl Ailer. Mr. Ailer, if you could state your name and address for the record. My name is Carl Ailer, a 24-08 westwood. 2408 Westwood. I want to discuss to some degree about this term limits. I haven't made up my mind on that but I have been before y'all three or four times and asked for help during those times and nothing nothing, nothing, nothing ever got done. So I don't know. So this young man, I thought, was tremendously ridiculed, comes up with the idea that, look, if they're not going to do anything, you might as well get them off of there as quickly as possible. So I don't know which way to go, but I'll tell you a little story here is that well one of the things you could do is plead to people that yes we may have so what I like to use is fall asleep but we're going to do better going forward okay. I don't know how you handle it but somehow you need to get this young man's attention and work with him. You know, he's not a mean guy. I don't even know the guy, okay. But what he did was just democracy in action. And you look like that you don't like democracy. I don't know. But anyway, I'm going to go last to first. I recently had a tree over a street in Arlington, is Mitchell Street. Anyway, the lady sent me a notice, and also I got a citation which cost $90. I looked at $95. Anyway, I looked at her pictures and I said, OK, it looks pretty bad, so I'll go ahead and do it. Well, I said, didn't I got to look at a little closer on the pictures? And I said, no, there's something wrong there. Anyway, I said, let's meet out there and I'll see what equipment you got. So we met out there and the limit is 14 feet on the bottom of a tree. Well her measuring device was 16 feet. It stuck at least 16, maybe 17. She wouldn't let me measure it. Anyway, we got out in a pretty serious discussion out in the street. But when I'm telling you, and that's how I named the blue document, a fraud. That's a fraud. When somebody comes and measured it with a stick that's not to the law, you know, and the listing of what I'm presenting here is all frauds that the city had done, and I pleaded with you. Anyway, second one was the house photos of the house that was torn down, which I had to pay for. There were photos there which I brought up in court of unrecognizable pictures, at least one picture. And I presented to the judge, why are you, this is not, what is this picture you know and he has the legal department which is long here some right there no there can you make your final okay and I've got at least four or five more frauds and it turns out the the person sitting at the desk which is sometimes called a municipal judge, although I hate using that term for this guy. Anyway, he's he ignored it and so a serious degradation is done to me and city of Arlington. So with all these frauds, how can you sit up there and not do something? That's thank you very much. Mr. Ailer, staff has been working with you. We'll continue to work with you. Yeah, they'll work with me and do nothing. Is that what you call working? Mr. Shepard, to ask a question, you mentioned something about a judge, Mr. Ailer. Have you been to court on these issues? I have. So you've, I'm sorry, what is it that you would like City Council to do if a judge is already determined? I'm glad you asked that. I got it written right here. I would like for you to get rid of the manager of Code Compliance 1, 2, move Code Compliance out of the police department. You know, you guys have heard every story in the America about what's happening in the police department versus society. And what do you do? You move code mobilized in with the police department. That is terrible idea. Send all workers in code compliance to an ethics course. These guys have no ethics whatsoever, and girls. And tell how they're supposed to be work with the citizenry. I had a gal come out to my house when I had a stent put in my heart just a few days earlier and she says I want your backyard. I told them no not getting them by backyard and she says okay I came here pretty nicely to talk to you but I'm not going to be nice when I go to he didn't she didn't say, but when I go to court and get a citation, it turns out the city cut the logs in the back of my property and some guy from one of the home places down the road came over and walked on my property and told code enforcement. The whole thing is just crazy. You know, what's happening here? So thank you. Thank you. Next we have Brandy Miroshan at close. Okay. Okay. Hello. So mine's a little bit similar in nature. I'll just here to express my concerns about. Miss M. Schaffing, State, your 9-Minute Address Record. Yes, you're right. Thank you. Yes, Brandi Markori, and then the address is 4604. Oak Creek Drive, Arlington, Texas, 76017. Yes. Go ready. So yes, it was a similar in nature as the last person who just spoke. I had father to the report in regards to an incident that occurred at the AT&T stadium. I was assaulted and harassed, and I tried to get it and thoroughly investigated, and I didn't get the answers that I needed. I was a little bit traumatized as to what had happened to me and the investigator didn't seem like he took enough time to investigate it. Just also going over my police report that I had, I do see a inconsistency with the age that they had documented so I feel like they kind of rushed, my report and I didn't get any answers at all. So. So we'll have the police get in touch with you. Okay, okay, thank you. Thank you. Faith Bussey. I'm a little nervous because this is in a subject I typically discuss at City Hall, but I feel so strongly about it that I couldn't stay silent. Citizens for better Arlington attended the Arlington and WACP's update on the officer involved shooting of Arlington resident O'Shea Terry a couple weeks ago. And after careful consideration of the facts and the blatant lack of facts presented by the Arlington Police Department at this event, we would like to call upon the Arlington Police Department's Chief Will Johnson to first fire the officer and remove him completely from the taxpayer role. Second to remove any inflammatory Facebook posts that could potentially taint or jury in this case, and finally to review the department's public dissemination processes, so that these types of Facebook posts, along with several untrue statements that made their way into the media, don't happen again. It is unconscionable that taxpayers are continuing to pay the salary of someone that is on video shooting an Arlington citizen, while APD is dragging their feet on an investigation that should not take this long. But even if Officer Train is found to be not guilty, this is not the type of officer we want protecting our residents and our streets. Even before he shot O'Shaeton, his demeanor and speech was unprofessional, and apparently this is not officer trans first example of aggression towards citizens. No one is entitled to a job, especially if they don't know how to do that job well. Officer Tram must be fired. Also, when the victim's name and contents of vehicle are released to the public in less than 24 hours including via APD social media account, but the officer's name is kept from the public from less than 24 hours, including via APD social media account, but the officer's name is kept from the public from over 40 days. The lack of transparency and equality render a lack of faith in policing policies and procedures for our community. The shooter's name was supposedly not released in order to protect him from credible threats, but Oshay Terry's family was never given the same courtesy, while his name was being dragged through the mud in the court of public opinion. And when APD posts of this content on Facebook, they allowed comments celebrating the death of O'Shae Terry. Comments on the lines of, wait a keep scumbags like that off the street, I approve. This treatment is both appalling and unacceptable, and these Facebook posts must be removed. And again, to ensure that APD does not make many more inaccurate, embarrassing, or hurtful posts and statements, they must review their public communications policies. It is my opinion that this case is tragic and a loss for our community, not just because of what happened, which is tragic enough, but because of how poorly it has been handled by the Arlington Police Department. So please consider our recommendations as a minimal start to healing the damage done to our community. Thank you. Jeremy Fence Roy. Good evening. I'm Jeremy Fensroy. I live at 271-4, winding Halloween in Arlington. And I support the Arlington short-term mental alliance, and I also support the support reasonable regulation that controls violations of noise, trash, and parking policies. And allowing STRs to operate with reasonable regulation is actually the majority position in Arlington. In spite of what you've heard from the opponents who want to ban them, there was a poll done by DFW News 3 in April of this year, where one of your formal council members was interviewed by them, where they asked respondents, with the growing popularity of vacation rental homes, should the city be able to ban people from running their homes? 26% responded yes, 74% responded no. And you saw last or or two weeks ago, at the meeting that the ban STR position is not the majority position. Even though we were split on both sides of the aisle, there were dozens of people in blue shirts sitting out in the lobby who couldn't even fit in this room. And all of those people were rallied in the three days following the publishing of the ban ordinance on that Friday. Whereas the opponents who want to ban them have been organizing for months on this issue. Those people that came here, of them, we had several speakers, and in the red dots there, you'll see the people who wanted to ban short terminals and the blue dots, you'll see the people who spoke in favor of them. There were 13 speakers to ban. Of them, 11 were from Arlington, represented in red, seven were from north of I-30. Of them, two actually spoke of personal experiences, personal negative experiences with short-term metals. The others talked about banning them on principle, banning them because of UDC. So as they're not allowed, even though city policy, which collects hotel and occupancy taxes contradicts that, or banning them because they were afraid that the worst horror stories they had heard were going to take place next to them. And a lot of that was doing a lot of fear-mongering that has been spread through the neighborhood forms. And I know because I've been reading those forms, they're in my neighborhood. The others, there were 38 speakers, three times as many who spoke in favor of short-term metals, 35 of them from Arlington, and they represented short-term mental owners, guests, neighbors, and people who work for short-term menals. Again, they are the tip of the iceberg. If you're looking for where the majority position is, it's with short-term menals. Now for those who say that you cannot regulate short-term menals, I beg to differ down the street from my house. One block from me. There's a house with band short-term mental signs in every yard adjacent to them and across the street from him. I have no such sign in front of my neighbor's homes or across the street from me. And I've been running my short-term mental for over a year now. And the other four short-term mental in our neighborhood also have very few of those signs anywhere near them. The reason that you have this one house doing it is because there are no repercussions. The repercussions are easy to implement and you do it by permitting, registering. You have a city administrator with a complaint hotline and there are complaints you find them and if they continuously fail to address the violations then you ban them by revoking their permit. It's that simple. We don't need to go through this, how many cars can you have, or how many people you can have, or how many caps we should have. You simply permit, track, and enforce. That's all we ask. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Finchley. D.N. Hirsch. Hi, good evening. I'm going to start with the first. Hi, good evening. My name is Dianne Hirsch. I live at 2218 Franklin Drive in Arlington, Texas, 7601. I'm one of the ones that live north of 30. I am speaking today about the consideration of the SUP for short term rentals. And specifically, I want to start everyone in this room is had a day at the office or at their workplace that's just been awful. And the only thing you really want to do is go home to the quiet enjoyment of your home. Unfortunately for someone like me who has a short term rental directly across the street from me, one immediately behind me and I live on a corner so they're they're my Mr. Jason neighbor. And yet another one within the same block, I just frankly don't know what I'm going to get when I get home. Some cases, I have had the pleasure of having just a lovely family who's here for a weekend. Other cases I've had a keg party and a frat party. And on two occasions now we've had a porn film. How fun is that? Outside of the general dismay that that causes a homeowner, there are three things that I think are really critical that you should take into consideration as you think about your SUP, the first one is that our neighborhoods were neither designed nor zoned for commercial enterprise. That was by design. For the primary purpose that most people don't wanna live next door to a hotel. If they did, they would buy property adjacent to one. There's a reason that most people do not. If they wanna live in a mixed-use development, they will go to one. There's a reason that most people do not. If they want to use, if they want to live in a mixed-use development, they will go to one. They don't typically buy their home next to one. The second is there's currently no recourse whatsoever for residents that experience difficulties. Under the current regulation with UDC, if you call and complain, Arlington Police Department has verbally told us and has also committed to us in writing that they will not do anything. So if you're depending upon the UDC to police these things, it's not going to happen at least under the current circumstances that we've experienced. Last but not least, please don't be confused by the concept that you are going to make enough money off of permitting and fines because we're going to make enough money off of permitting and fines, because we're going to make this money out, that much money off fines, there's a bigger issue. And policing these things. If the issue is trying to address the need for short-term rentals, planning and development should be working to find an effective way for appropriate hotels to come into appropriately zoned areas. But we're not going to make up enough revenue from these things to justify, in my personal opinion, reducing the quality of life of our citizenry who, quite frankly, shops, buys and spends the preponderance of their time and money in the city in favor of people who do not. Thank you. Joe Hernandez. Hi, I'm Joe Hernandez, 1906 Nolan Court, Arlington, Texas, 76012. I just wanted to address the SDR topic as well. I sat here through the meeting last couple weeks ago or whatnot, listening to everybody going back and forth on it. And basically, I just couldn't get past the fact that we don't seem to be addressing the problem. The problem is not STRs. And I know that you guys have been dealing with this for quite a while now, but I just don't see why other people have their property rights that are being infringed upon. We're going to sit here and put, you know, bands on our property rights. History has proved in the long run that when you start to infringe upon property rights or people's rights or whatnot, I feel that in the long run, you're gonna have to deal with it and you're gonna have to confront us. And so as you saw, the huge diversity between the blue, whether it was age, whether it was race, whether it was, you know, I mean, it was so many people over there versus just a bunch of old white people. And I feel like there's nothing wrong with that, but that is represented. And there's a lot that is represented amongst this group. It is not just one solid group or one man that is leading a charge with his friends. And so, I mean, what are the sides representing over here? The first side has everything to lose. The second side has nothing to lose. So all I want you guys to do is just take into consideration having us at the table to be able to have something that's sensible because nobody wants the party house. Okay? It was asked, do you want to live next to that house, next to one my parents just bought a house and they bought another house. And one of the houses I manage in the same neighborhood. All right, my screening process is very rigorous because I don't want a party. I don't want a party in that house. Okay? I make sure I turned down a lot of requests, making sure that there is not any issues. And when a neighbor comes to me, I give them my number. And I tell them, I am here. I will make sure that there is no issues. So all I'm saying is we really need to take into account the passion, not just from a bunch of people who don't have real interactions with it versus somebody who's been dealing with this for a couple of years now. So that's all I have to say and I hope that you will take that into consideration and understand that there is a lot of passion on our side And as you saw we are coming together. We are there is now at least 30 people or 40 people that have met out of that group So I'm hoping that we can just come to some sensible solution that the permit process will be something that can be fair Okay, because I want to make sure that everybody's concerned is that can be fair, okay? Because I want to make sure that everybody's concerned is addressed on that side too. Nobody wants to live in a party neighborhood. But the reason why people go to these neighborhoods is because they want to be in that family atmosphere, you know? So let's also, you know, I've met so many families that way as well. Thank you. Ms. Moury McGee. Hi, I'm Marty McGee. I live at 2101 Warnford Place in Arlington. When I addressed the council on the 16th regarding the short term rentals, I was excoriated and accused of misquoting Mr. Shepard. I went back and checked the tape as I hope y'all did. What you said after saying that you flipped flopped and that you were tired of talking about this. And I'm quoting not from my contemporaneous notes from that night, but from the video of the meeting was, and I'm quoting, we're acting tonight for the red folks. I understand that each of y'all received numerous form letters from a number of the ban's proponents, threatening to vote for term limits if you didn't ban short term rentals without exception. And I can understand Mr. Shepard, why you're tired of talking about this. When you've got people who, as you said, have no direct knowledge about the situation, but get hysterical to the point that they're threatening elected officials to get their way, I can imagine that would get very, very tiring. No, that doesn't get tiring to get threatened like that. Okay. Well, I would genuinely like to understand what caused each of you to so radically change your view on this important issue that you brought it to a vote without circulating the draft petition at time that we could any of us could have a chance to have a discussion about this. I don't know if it was a threat from the red folks or something else, but I would like to have a conversation about what's going on with that. The problem is that by acting for the red folks, instead of acting for the entire community, you're allowing the ugliest voices to dictate the direction of our city. You're also right when you said that many of the red folks were recently in favor of regulations. What caused them to change moved to the extreme. Is it simply because that's what's being rewarded? I know that that's what's happening in the nation at large now. But is it really necessary to have this level of discord in our community? I was not able to attend this afternoon's session, but I did notice that your clarification on the owner's terms of the ban and the SUP process were spelled out. But back to back with that was discussing the hotel development guidelines. Only 13% of our hotel stock is considered economy. One of the policy objectives related to hotel development is to quote, offer varying price points to attract a wider range of tourists. If Arlington genuinely wants to attract a wider range of tourists, I would implore you to return to the more reasonable approach that was under discussion with mainstream stakeholders for months for regulation of short-term rentals rather than to continue to pursue the striconian move that seeks to strip away the temporary housing of choice for so many of our visitors. Thank you. Thank you. All right seeing no other citizen participation will move to announcements. Thank you Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. And on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlington tx dot gov. Hey, we have one more speaker. Okay. Okay. Is there any other announcements here in the meantime? Okay. We'll take this. Go back and catch one more speaker here. Mr. Chuck Hirsch. Chuck Hirsch. Thank you, Mayor. Chuck Hirsch, 22-18 Franklin Drive, I think 10 Texas, 7-6-0-1-1. Really what I wanted to just address, I don't know what a blue shirt is. I don't know what a red shirt is. I know that I'm a resident of Arlington. And I really don't enjoy having short-term rentals around my house. I come home. I've got cars parked everywhere. Don't know what we're gonna get. My wife is absolutely right of what we've had recently in the last couple of times. Now we've had one across the street for two years. The only issue we really had was an NFL draft party that kind of got out of hand. But the one now that we're surrounded on the north side and the south side, it's a little much. My question to the council would be simply this, would you want to come home to that? Do you want to come to see that many cars, strangers? We had a car parked outside of our street or house the other night. Had a knife in it. It was late at night. I don't know who that person is. I don't know why they're there. I have a small child. It concerns us. Again, I don't know what a blue shirt is. I don't know what a red shirt is. I don't really care. All I ask that you manage this somehow. I prefer a band, obviously. But it is frustrating, especially, and I know some of you all have on property here, I'm sorry, I'm supposed to address you. On property, we'll rent the space out and that's fine and you may be a great person who manages that and has a, cause the one across the street from a straight across has a management company, they come in and they clean it out and do all the things that they're supposed to and that's great. But it management company. They come in and they clean it out and do all the things that they're supposed to. And that's great. But it's the ones that come in that live behind us that he's from one of them's from San, sorry, one is from Austin and the other owner is from Seattle. They're never here. We never talked to him. They bought the house and the Frost's Pre-Test asked them what they were going to, we were told they're originally going to be a family moving there and that was great. It comes to find out is it's going to be this short-term rental. So they misrepresented what we were getting. And that's just, it's a challenge as a property owner. It's a challenge as someone who lives here in Arlington. And again, I know it's late and it was the last one in here, but I sat here and listened and I just had the chime in because I really, again, I don't know what a blue shirt is. I don't know what a red shirt is. I don't care. Please just do what's right for the people who live in Arlington and have to deal with this, especially on the north side since we have cowboy state or sorry, Jerry's world and six flags and all that kind of stuff. It's a destination to bought. It just needs to be managed a lot better. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other speakers, Mr. Baskin? No sir. Okay. And we've had our announcements. So seeing no further business, this meeting stands adjourned.