I'd like to call the meeting of the Arlington City Council to order and I'd like to call upon Pastor Richard Martinez from the Iglesia Cafe. He will give the invocation and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Pastor, thank you for coming. Thank you very much. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this amazing opportunity you have given us today for the God to be here today. We ask in name of Jesus Christ that your presence will be among us today for the God. And with those that are making decisions in our city, that you will lead them for the God, that everything that they do, every decision that is made in the city, will be in your divine purpose for the city for the God. We honor you for the God. We thank you for our mayor. We thank you for every single councilman here today. We ask you for your wisdom, for their lives. Father, we ask you for the God to cover our children, our city, our teachers, the police department, the fire department, the hospitals, and everybody that works to make the city great. And I ask in name of Jesus that our city will be a light in the midst of darkness in our country for the God. That the City of Varlinton will be as light for the God for other citizens to see that when we honor you, we praise you, we love you, and we follow you. Great things happen. We thank you for the God. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. I would like to lead you to the sessions on Wednesday on your online video. Well, it's always an honor to be able to come up and recognize some of our distinguished partners and citizens that we have here and tonight. We have the United Way here. TD Smires, come on up TD. We have Leah King, Cynthia Jensen, Kintisha Williams, and did Barclay make it? Barclay didn't make it, so we got the rest of y'all here. We appreciate y'all coming down and we have a special presentation, which it's always nice to be able to present some money. Exactly. You know, a lot of our staff has been working hard here to raise money for the United Way and what a great cause because you guys use this money so well in so many different ways. And it's awesome for the City of Arlington to be able to partner with the United Way. And TD, welcome to the organization. It's we're glad to see your leadership. And of course, it's got a great history of great leadership. And we're excited for you to come in and love to have you say a few words. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say thank you, Mayor. I want to say thank you for your leadership. City of Magic Trail, Overton's leadership, and setting this thing in motion, and coming back, you all have a friend here in United Way, and the American Dream City as a partner in the United Way of Turner County and on behalf of all of our team I want to say thank you Leah Jackson for an incredible campaign manager she is and the team that she put together this is team ball social and economic change in our communities is team ball and I'm really proud and excited to have Arlington the City Arnison on board with us and we're on board with you. Thank you sir. Looking forward to the first future here TD. Yes sir. May awesome. Thank you very much. Oh by the way, crushed the goal. Crushed the goal by 50 percent. So how do you say that? Thank you Leah and the rest of the employees is awesome. Thank you Leah. We're going to go to've got one other one that we'll hold to a little bit later to we get word when he gets here. Pretty special guest is worth waiting on. So we'll come back here in a minute. I'm so thankful. Okay next we'll go ahead and enter into the business of the night and we have appointments to boards and commissions, Miss Pino, our city secretary. Thank you mayor. Tonight we have 13 appointments to boards and commission to the animal service center advisory board Gina Heightland place three to the ethics review commission Gregory little place three to the mechanical and Zoning Commission, Helen Moise, Chair, Jeff McGurdy, Place 3, Clay Kelly, Place 4, to the Zoning Board of Adjustment, Jordan Foster, Place 3, Susanne Sweek, Place 4, and Rebecca Boxel, Place 5 to the Emergency Physicians Advisory Board, Carla Cash, Place 6 to the Library Board, Peggy Martin, Place 4, and Carol Hagler, Place 5, and to the Team Court Advisory Board, Deborah and Hawkins, Place 5. We have a motion for approval. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember Glaspy and a second from Councilmember Walmond, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we'll move to speaker guidelines in general decorum, Mr. Pino. Thank you, Mayor. We ask that citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the Order and Day Corm of this meeting. Any person making personal, profane slanderers or threatening remarks or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and 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 of the podium and state your name and address for the record. During public hearings, the applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given five minutes to make their presentation and will be allowed three minutes for any rebuttal. Speakers and supporter and 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 and consideration of other speakers. Please wrap up your comments promptly when you hear the bell. And we ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Okay, we'll move into approval of items from executive session. Mr. Pino. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight we have 12 items for approval from executive session. One authorizing a settlement for acquisition of a street right of way easement in over and through land known as 120 East Abram Street relative to the Abram Street, Cooper Street to Colin Street project. Two determining the necessity of acquiring drainage easement rights for the public use in over and through land known as 1414 Randolph Street relative to miscellaneous channel improvements. Three through six determining necessity of acquiring water line easement rights for public use in over under across and through attractive land known as 7909 and 70707, US Business 287 Highway, 7708 and 7520, Mansfield Cardinal Road, and 7510, Hudson Cemetery Road relative to the Bethesda 24-inch Waterline Extension Project. 7 through 10, determining the necessity of acquiring waterline and sanitary sewer, easement rights for the public use in, over and through. Attractive land known as 7810 Mansfield Highway, 7690, 7640, and 7660, Hudson Cemetery Road, and land located in the Louisa Bauer Survey, abstract number 159, relative to the Bethesda 24-inch waterline extension project. And 11 and 12, determining the necessity of acquiring waterline easement rights for the public use in, over, under, across, and through. Attractive land known as 7610 and 702, Mansfield Cardinal Road, relative to the Bethesda 24-inch line extension project. Mr. Pino, are there any speakers on these items? No speakers, Mayor. Okay. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval, from Council Member for our mayors, and a second from Council Member K-PART. Please cast your votes. I'm going to call upon Deputy Mayor Pro Tem, Michael Glaspy to have a proclamation here right now. Good evening. We have a special proclamation we'd have we have for our APD's victim services unit. Would you come scum forward? Okay. Proclamation from the mayor, council, it says, whereas initiated by volunteers in 1987, the Allington Police Department's victim services unit was one of the first programs of its type in Texas. And whereas the Victim Services Unit exists to provide services to victims and family members with the goal of lessening the short and long-term trauma experience as a direct result of victimization. And whereas for 30 years the Victim services unit has provided crisis intervention, criminal justice support and advocacy, information and referral, assistance with violent crime victims compensation claims, assistance with protective orders, court accompaniment, and transportation to shelter all victims of violent crime reported to the Orange and Police Department. And whereas the victim services unit currently has a staff of 11 individuals with master's degrees who provide services to over 12,000 victims annually. And whereas the Allentment Police Department's victim services unit has continued to build strong relationships with victims to make sure that individuals are aware of the full range of hear by proclaim the month of August 2017 as the 30th anniversary of the APD victim services units congratulations I just decided to congratulate the group on 30 years. I've had the privilege of actually watching this group for 30 years and the way that they have grown over the years. And for those of you all who don't know, this is the group if you suffer the loss of a loved one in an accident or the death of a child or you're the victim of a violent crime. These are the guys that are gonna come out and they're gonna counsel with you. And they're going to try to restore you back to health. And so the service that they provide, the citizens of Arlington is incredibly important. And we just appreciate everything you guys do. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next room. next we'll move to approval of minutes miss Pino. Thank you Mayor we have the afternoon and evening meeting minutes from June 27th of 2017 and special meeting minutes from July 3rd 2017. Councilmembers, do we have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mr. Pino, or are there any speakers on this side? No speakers. Then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Councilmember K. Pardt and a second from Councilmember Walman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to approval of consent agenda, Mr. Pino. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains 10 minute orders in the final readings of one ordinance and six resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal of annual requirements contract for traffic control signage and materials. Two through five purchase of firearms training simulator for the police department, two replacement vehicles for the fire department, two replacement backhoe loaders and 12 replacement vehicles for the water utilities department, six engineering services contract for 2017 water and sanitary sewer main replacement. Seven and eight construction contract for city hall boiler replacement and for city office tower fifth floor renovations. Nine professional survey services contract, Makoski McKinness associates, Inc. Pierce Birch addition tracks. Ten amendment number one to the construction manager at risk contract for the Richard Simpson Park improvements. The ordinance is seek to authorize 11 zoning case PD 17-6, jury plaza 101 west road to Six Flag Street. And the resolution is seek to authorize 12, resolution to deny on-course proposed rate increase. 13, vote, profess partnership grant. 14, interlocal Agreement with the University of Texas at Arlington for the cost participation of a 12-inch sanitary sewer main, 15-Amment to the Interlocal Cooperation Contract with the University of Texas at Arlington for the 2015 large diameter sanitary sewer inspection and evaluation, 16 Highway Safety Improvement Project, Advanced Funding Agreement, and 17 Development Plan PD-07-5R4-DP-7, Viridian Village Planning Area 3. Mr. Peno, do we have any speakers on any of the items on the consent agenda? Mayor, we do. We have two speakers. Our first speaker is Donna Simpson. If you could come forward, she's here in opposition of 8. 10. Ms. Simpson, if you could state your name and address and you have three minutes there. Thank you for coming down. Thank you, Mayor. And I appreciate this opportunity to speak to the council. I am Donna Simpson. I am a resident of the City of Arlington. My husband and I own a home at 6,000 9 Lakehurst Drive and in the Waterwood Estates neighborhood adjacent to Richardson Park. I appreciate that the city wishes to update Richardson Park. Several years ago our neighborhood was invited to attend information meetings about the master plan that proposed improvements to the park that would make it a place where you would want to take your family and enjoy the lake. There were walkways with benches for rest and relaxation, picnic stations, playground area, a pavilion, an overlook area, a gazebo, an event garden, an additional pier and the lake house. But many of these proposed items in the master plan appear to have been set aside to focus primarily on the lake house construction. Indeed tonight you're deciding whether to approve amendment one, guarantee maximum price amendment to the construction manager at risk contract. As a citizen of this city city I ask you to consider my discussion when you vote. How can the city justify spending nearly 4 million dollars on improvements that are intended to bring more vehicles into a residential area? Will the city really achieve ample profit to justify the initial outlay? And how long will it take to recoup this initial investment? When I was made aware that the Richard Simpson Park master plan would be discussed at the afternoon council sessions, I attended them, but have not yet heard what revenue is intended to be made. If the answer is that you don't intend to balance this asset, then why would the city spend all the bond money and gas well money on phase one knowing that it will have a negative return rather than spending some on the other improvements included in the master plan that would benefit local park users. And I wonder if the other improvements that would benefit the local park users will ever be wonder if the other improvements that would benefit the local park users will ever be constructed and where the funding for those other phases of the master plan will come from. I have not seen an elevation plan for this building in regards to our neighborhood, but I suspect that several of my neighbors will lose privacy and their late view because of the elevated structure that's to be built. At this height, want the proposed covered patio and community room be looking out into the leaves of the trees rather than on to the lake. It appears from the site plan that the best, most unobskirred view of the lake will be taken up by the outdoor restrooms that are attached to the building. And a handicap park user will have to travel around three sides of the building to get to a two level ramp to get to the public restrooms. Pushing someone in a wheelchair up a ramp is very difficult, not to mention the difficulty a handicap person would have maneuvering this ramp on their own. Thank you again for the opportunity to speak to you and for your consideration of my discussion. Ms. Simpson, it's interesting we have heard from several residents today and most Miss Wileman and I have to and you know I don't know about the rest of the council but I know we we would like to come out and visit because we thought we were doing what the citizens wanted. In fact I attended the last meeting but I think we need to have another meeting out in the neighborhood and and I for one and for tabling this so that we can get it back out there because we want to build what is going to help and that we can get it back out there because we want to build What is going to help and so we'd love to come out? Well, I know that the neighborhood would love for you to speak with Anyone that comes from the city council That would so we'd really appreciate that. Thank you for coming down. Thank you. I appreciate it very much And Howard Portius Did you just speak speak? Okay. Is the applicant on the Verdean Development Plan who's here in support? Okay. So it doesn't wish to speak, but in support. Correct. All right. And that's it for the cards. Yes, sir. All right. So Miss Walman? Yes. So Ms. Walman. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Yes, I would move that we take that item off and then I would like to table it. Okay, do we have a second for that? Okay. Okay. It's that. So we've got a motion. Pull it off to table it from Miss Walmond a second for Mr. Glassbeak. Please cast your votes. Motion passes. from Miss Walman a second from Mr. Glass-Pink, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Miss Simpson, we'll try to get out there soon there and get it. Miss Walman said two weeks, I hope we can get it that quick. All right, so we'll try to move and so we can hear from the residents there. Thank you. Then now we'll move. Here do we have a motion for the rest of the consent agenda? We have a motion for approval of the other items on the consent agenda from Council Member Wolfe. And a second from Council Member Glass-Speak, please cast your votes. Motion passes and please, Miss Alpino, if you can let the record show that I abstained on 817. Yes, sir. Now, we have a special presentation, not that we haven't had several already tonight. It is not every day that we have walk into the council chambers. A hall of fame, Mr. F to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I We are so appreciative. This man is in high demand, you might imagine, because our the Texas Ranger System right here in Arlington, Texas. Just gave an incredible Hall of Fame acceptance speech. The best one given, wasn't it? Wasn't that phenomenal? It was... It was actually holding. So you were nervous. Of course. Of course. Well, he did an incredible job, y'all, and it is amazing what this man has done throughout the years to get back to the community and to help shape so many youth coming up and teaching them the right way to do it. I was so impressed too of what Johnny Bench had to say. Also a great catcher who said that Pudge was the greatest. And it was interesting because Pudge said Johnny Bench was his hero and Pudge sought advice from him. And now people are coming to Pudge to get that same advice there with it. You know, Pudge's dream came true and it's quite a story and I have a proclamation here to read and present to Pudge. The proclamation says, whereas a Von Pudge Rodriguez is the all-time major league leader in games caught with 2,543 and both a 14-time American league all-Star and 13 time recipient of the Rawlings Go Glove the most ever by a catcher. And whereas Rodriguez was a 50 second player to be elected by the members of the baseball writers association America in his first year on the ballot, joining Johnny Bench as just the second catcher to achieve that honor, and is the 18th catcher to join the Hall of Fame, and whereas Rodriguez played with six different teams from 1991 to 2011, starting with the Rangers from 1991 to 2002, and returning to the club for the final two months of 2009. And whereas Rodriguez is the sixth player who wore a Texas Ranger uniform to be elected to the Hall of Fame, joining Ferguson Jenkins, Gailord Perry, Nolan Ryan, Rich Gossage, and Bert Blie 11. And whereas Rodriguez was inducted as a member of the class of 2017 in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York on July 31, 2017 and whereas Pudge will join Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan and former manager Johnny Oates with his own Jersey number seven being retired on August the 12th, 2017. Now therefore I, Jeff Williams, mayor of the City of Arlington, Texas, and on behalf of the Arlington City Council, do hereby proclaim August the 12th, 2017 as a Vaughn Pudge Rodriguez day. Well, thank you. Thank you, Mary Williams. I think this is this is great. I wanted to thank you for this. This means a lot to me and my family. I want to thank all of you too for this as well. You guys are working extremely hard for this beautiful city of Wellington. The city that I always say that I grew up, obviously, I started my career in 1991 here in Wellington when nothing was around it it when it was pretty much empty and it's great to see what is the city today. Thank you for Mayor Williams and all the group they are making all these possible. So to me, you know, as a Latin person, as a guy that comes from Puerto Rico and established my life here in Texas and Allington and grew up here, my kids, they all grew up here. You know, two children is a boy, the born here in AllingtonLintam Hospital and my little one born forward but I feel that this is my home man. I say that last week that you know that everything that you guys you know the fans and and all the support you guys gave me all through those years that's the reason that I was, you know, be able to be in that stage. Thank you for all of you and all my teammates that I play. So I'm going to take this from my heart. Thank you very much. And anything I can do for you, I'll be here for you. Thank you. Thank you. Now, we have a surprise for Pudge. In fact, I haven't seen it either, but Pudge is an inspiration to all of us. But as he mentioned, he grew up in Latin America, and we have so many of our citizens that come from all over the world. And when you think about Pudge coming here in 1991 and seeing his dream come true right here in the American Dream City, it is a story that we want told as a matter of fact that can do spirit of Arlington really was the reason for that tagline of the American Dream City because our citizens want to accomplish, they want to move ahead. And as a matter of fact, we have had 52 films that have been produced about people in our community who have achieved their dream. Of course, we had to do a video, a Pudge, and again, illustrating that. And then to date, listen to this number. 450,000 people have watched these stories on the city's YouTube and cable channels. And we know that now there may be just that many that just watch Pudges. They're coming through. So right now, we are going to watch the debut of the Yvonne Pudrodriga story, which is a classic example of the American dream coming true. You all find a place to watch it. Here it is. The game, you know, opportunity at the age of 16 came here today, stakes, and signed as a Texas Rangers. It was a dream come true because I was my dream just to become a baseball a professional baseball player and that's what I did for 21 years. From the Texas Rangers, catcher, Ivan Rodriguez. The relationship that I have with the MetaPlex, you know, with the four-word Dallas Island term MetaPlex has been this tremendous. I mean, the support. I think the support that these fans give us since they want, you know, a gift to Ivan Rodrigo, the support from day one. The nickname Pudge came a long ago, when I signed professional baseball, and they saw me, I was strong, and I was having a great arm, good ability, and that's what I didn't come from. I didn't expect myself to be a first-time holo-famer, and would not call came in and say, you know, Ivan, you are the first time a whole fan. That was even bigger to me. It was only two times more than two baseball. It's John Adventure myself. These fans love baseball. That's one of the things that I can tell you. I think they're very loyal. It's going to be nice when I'm going to be sitting right there in the first row and look at the left field when you see Lola and Johnny O Oles and Jackie Robinson and this all the corner right there is going to say, you know, I'm Portugal, they're going to be 7, you know, retired and numbers going to be a good feeling. Just for me to be a American dream is just like a dream come true for me, you know, just come from a small town, from a small island in Puerto Rico and come to a beautiful country. You know, like the US, USA, they just established my life, established my career, and then what I did here for so long, for 12 years, Lee here is one of the best, the state to live for me. This is Ivan Poch Rodriguez, I'm alive with the American Dream. Hey, woo! Woo! Yeah! I'd like to call the council up here so we can have a picture if y'all will come up. I also would like to call up another Hall of Famer if y'all didn't know John Blake the director of everything media and everything is here. John come on up here and be a part of this picture. Appreciate you, John. Well, I gotta say one thing about John. Right? You know, John and I, you know, John, you know, we've been working for a long time and I always, always say this and I cannot thank John enough for everything that he did for me, he works with the media, I, are, you know, a team. And he always supporting me then and there, because he knows that my earlier years in my career I was very hard, you know, communicating with the media. This guy right here is a hodge. You need to talk to these people. You're going to be very important for you to talk to these people. And I'm going to tell you why later on. And guess later on what it is. Oh, OK. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to leave it for you. OK, go around this way. Okay. Okay, I'll just try to go like a guy. I still can do it. I need somebody to help you. Come back up. Awesome. Yes. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next we'll move to our public hearings ordinances first and final reading. We have zoning case PD 16-24 platinum storage 2696 Bernie road. I'll call upon Mr. John Dugan, Director of Community Development and Planning Department. Any members of the council? We had talked earlier in our work session about continuing this item for two weeks. We have a motion to that effect. I'm waiting on it. There it is. motion to that effect. I'm waiting on it. There it is. We have a motion for continuance from Councilmember Farah Meyers, second from Councilmember Walman, please cast your votes. It's traffic. How are you doing? the motion passes and we'll look forward to resolving some issues there on this and getting us back on the agenda. Right. All right. Next we'll move to zoning case PD 17-3. Residents at Arbor Grove, 1116 and 1118, given drove. Mr. Dugan. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Brett Johnson is here, presenting. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council. My name is Brett Johnson. I'm partner with Overland Property Group, 535 west, 151st terraced in Leewood, Kansas. I've done about 100 of these things. I've never followed a Hall of Famer before, so I'm officially nervous. You know, I'm really here to answer any question that Council has. I think about 10 months ago, I got to know some of you through neighborhood meetings and various one-on-one meetings that I'm sure back then you were wondering who's this guy from Kansas City coming down here to do housing. I have to commend Council and staff. It was a process to learn affordable housing and learn how tax credits work. You guys had not been through the process in a number of years and this year the State and Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs changed the scoring rules so that Burlington was now competitive against Dallas and Fort Worth. So all of us developers invaded your town and some of us were from outside of Texas. But I gotta say it was very welcoming. And from the outside working with another state is always hard, but I do have to command council for all of their hard work in learning this process and staff in kind of coaching them up on that. I think it was a very fair and transparent process. And through that, as of a little over a week ago, the City of Arlington was awarded two deals, which I think early on in the process, we didn't think was possible. You'll hear from one of my friendly competitors here later on, but that's a remarkable thing for Arlington. You were getting affordable senior housing, which we all know is needed at various levels of income, but primarily affordable. So I'm here and as we can flip through this there's a few slides up there the renderings of our property. We did get approval from P&Z for variants on the parking. It did fall in line with some of the parking ratios that were previously approved one by dial and one by overture. In fact we exceeded the parking ratio overall versus those two communities. So I don't know if John, if you guys can flip through that, if there's any questions about the building, I'd be happy to answer that. I did bring my own local celebrity group of them, actually. Mrs. Elvavroy, who was here with her ambassadors for the area on aging. And then we also have Nurse Darla out there who I think would like to speak as well. But if there's any questions particular to the development, I'm happy to answer those. Any questions? Miss Capehart. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Johnson. In your ride, it's been a few months since we've had this discussion. Refresh my memory. How many units are there? How many living units are there in your ride. It's been a few months since we've had this discussion. Refresh my memory. How many units are there? How many living units are there in your property? There are 126 total units. It's all under one roof. 25 of those units will be market rates. So they will not be income restricted. 101 of those will fall under the income restrictions and rent restrictions established by HUD and administered by TDHCA. So the most an affordable unit resident can make is 60% of the area meeting in Comfort Tarrant County. So on average, our grants are going to range from about 400 to a little over $800 for the affordable units and those are one in two bedrooms. And then our market rate units are not restricted and anyone can live there. And we did see a need in the market study for both types. And obviously by adding the second deal, that's gonna help absorb some more of that need as well. And then tell me again the amenities that you're going to offer at this facility. How much time do you have? Yeah. We tried it. We did sit. The big ones maybe. Yeah, the big ones. Sure. We try to include, I think one of the biggest amenities we have, our third party service providers. We like to offer in our senior communities the ability to age in place. So if someone for instance does have a need for someone to come help with their Linen service or their laundry or dog walking or have their meds check once a week. Those are things that we partner up with and have already started to establish here locally with those providers and Darla can probably speak to that a little bit more. But that's the amenity that we feel allows people to, you know, who are ready to move out of their house, but not quite ready to go to more assisted care. This allows them to remain active and independent and still have some help if they need it. That said, we do offer meal programs which are also optional. This community will have a salon. I'll have a movie theater inside. It will have a library. All kinds of activities and activity director who will schedule events. It has a bus and that was one of our arguments with the parking is we said you know a lot of our residents even if it's two people in a two bedroom they may only have one car but they may not use it and we have bus transportation which is free within a certain radius for scheduled shopping and also medical appointments. Okay great thanks for refreshing my memory. And a dog park. And and a dog park. I remember that one. Thank you. Councilmember Parker. Thank you mayor. First of all I think the location of this particular project is very it really does give an attribute to the area. It is, although it's independent living, it's next to an assisted living facility. It's very close to the hospital, walking distance to Home Depot and two stores. It's a pretty big, high-go-rue whole foods, but walking distance to those. So I noticed that you reduced the parking. And anyway, I wanted to you you discussed the bus concept a little bit and I wonder if you could go into just a little bit more depth into the transportation that you're going to provide for the residents of this particular establishment and how they go about getting a driver to move this bus around and take care of their necessities. Sure. Well, you're right. Absolutely, Councilman Parker. The neighborhood is going to be getting a $20 million investment, which I think is very much needed in that area, which can hopefully stimulate further growth. Being adjacent to assisted and skilled nursing is a huge win. We've met with Heritage Oaks. They are very excited about the opportunity to partner with us because if you can envision someone who has a fall and they go in for rehabilitation and then perhaps can't move back into their home. Well now we have something next door where we can work together with them. So that aspect of having that cooperative neighborhood is great. Scheduled transportation is something we offer all of our senior communities. The way that works is we have scheduled trips to Walmart or to Whole Foods or to medical. And they can sign up for that on a weekly basis. If they have to go outside of that, we also have options for that as well. Traditionally, we try and work with them. If it's within a five-mile radius, we just take them. That's handled by our staff. If it's something outside of that, where they need a special transportation, generally, we'll try and work that with one of the staff and a company vehicle, not the bus. But we try to encourage them. Obviously, we want them to remain independent, and those that can drive we want them to remain independent and those that can drive we want them to but for those that choose not to we have that option for them and also we're on the bus route so We're able to accommodate those I'd like to say that it is a needed piece in that particular Economic strata of Arlington along with the The jury plaza hotel. I'm hoping to the Dury Plaza Hotel. I'm hoping to spark some type of investment in that area. I know that I think Mr. Garrett was here a little earlier. He owes plenty of property in that particular area, and I'm sure that it's going to improve and have other developers that come in and improve that entire region. So thank you very much for your investment. Thank you. You're welcome. Councilmember Wollman. Yes. I noticed that on the P and Z they had stipulation and you said the H-back was pushed back underneath the windows. You can play with it. Does that mean is it individual? Or how is that? I didn't quite understand. It's not central. It's correct. For a building like this with a pitch roof, rather than have air conditioning units on a flat roof, aesthetically we feel this is better. So we use PTAQ units, which are individual units that reside within a mechanical closet in each unit. And what P and Z had suggested was they didn't like how the ventilation was popped out a few inches on the wall so they wanted us to push that back flush which we agreed to. But they still control their own thermostats and in fact usually we put nest thermostats in. Okay, it's not just your regular wind unit. No, no, these aren't wind units. I didn't think it was. When it was wind out. I was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I think it was. I Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Johnson, you noticed that the common area for recreation of common area you had reduced to do some things on the exterior. Would you kind of relate the services that would be how you compared the services if you had the full common area versus the way you've done it? Well, we didn't reduce any of our common area. The calculations for parking are based on total common area, which we don't see the second floor as public space. So in our calculations, we simply use the square footage of the common area on the first floor. We still have, and John, I don't have the numbers in front of me, perhaps you do, but I believe we're around $7,900 or possibly more than that. Is that right? I don't think that's the right. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don't think that's the right thing. I don mentioned earlier in the amenities. For instance, the dining room, the activities room, the movie theater, those are all included in that. And we feel for 126 units that more than suffice based on our development experience with this product. Any other questions for Mr. Johnson? Okay, thank you, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Sopino, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, Mayor, we have three speakers and seven non-speakers all here in support. Our first speaker is Elva Roy. Mr. Roy? Mr. Roy, if you could state your name and address, thank you. Yes, my name is Elva Roy. I live at 37.04 Clark Court here in Arlington. And I know that most of you, like me, are interested in providing a good quality of life for all of Arlington's residents, including those of us who are older. So I lead a group here in Arlington called Ambassadors for Aging Well. We formed in August of 2014, so we have our third anniversary coming up this month. At the June Ambassadors meeting, I ask members to prioritize 11 projects where we will focus our attention going forward. And you might be interested to know that out of the 11 projects, the top five are first universal design principles for new residential construction, two affordable housing for seniors, three employment for seniors, four the Take Me Home Program and five community chorus for people with early to mid stage dementia, their caregivers and volunteers. So we're putting attention on all of these, which I would love to tell you about it another time, but tonight we're here in support of number two, which is affordable housing for seniors. I want you to know that some ambassadors members have shared their stories with me about the impossibility of finding affordable apartments when they're ready to give up yard work and maintenance that comes with home ownership. One ambassador member 62 years old and she told me all of us since my husband died of throat cancer six years ago and because I was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled our daughter and don't and she told me, Elvis, since my husband died of throat cancer six years ago, and because I was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled our daughter and don't have a lot of work experience, I've been looking desperately for a job, but haven't found one. So I live only on a widow's social security after paying all the medical bills. I can't afford my house payment and must move out of my house soon, but I can't find an apartment in Arlington. Everywhere I've looked, the rent is as much as my house payment. For less than half of the square footage, I feel stuck and don't know what to do. So with respect to the two proposed developments on tonight's agenda. I provided a letter of support for the OVP group and their proposed Arbor Grove development. As I remarked at the PNC meeting, I read the letter of concern from Arlington Independent School District about the apartments on Gibbons being converted to regular apartments sometime later. That would be open to all ages, which could be a burden on the neighborhood school. I don't see that happening because the Texas State Plan on aging states that between 2010 and 2050, the number of Texans aged 50 and over will grow by more than 300% from 4 million to 12 million people. And in 2010, there were 305 Texans over the age of 85. And by 2050, this will increase by 500%. The number of tenants wanting to live in these age-qualified, affordable apartments is going to grow exponentially over the coming years. The market is definitely there so that these apartments will not need to convert to regular apartments, opened all ages. So I'll close my remarks there, but the same remarks that I made in support of 11.2 on the agenda apply to 11.3, so I'll save the time by just saying that now. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Roy. Darla Pesnell? Miss Pesnell. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Darla Peznell. I reside at 3819 Carolein here in Arlington, Texas. And many of you know me for my passion for the southeast side of town and our students in the area. But my calling and it is a calling as a nurse in the community. I've served this area for in excess of 32 years. Mostly actually 31 of the 32 years have been with respect to senior health care. It is my purpose and my passion and my purpose for being here tonight is just basically to share with you. I realize that these people that I serve are the reasons that you and I have the freedoms and liberties that we do today. So we have a responsibility to serve them and serve them well. And a part of that is when I go into people's homes and perhaps they don't have all of their needs met and there really isn't anybody to oversee that. Senior isolation is a true problem and so I just wanted you to know that I stand in support of that every 32 years of experience of serving seniors in this area. So I do hope that you all take this housing into consideration and again I'm in support of 11.2 and 11.3 Thank you miss Fizz nail Beverly Windsor Miss Windsor Did you wish to support okay? We have one non-speaker then we have said And we have seven additional non-speakers here in support if you could raise your hand read your name is called Katie win Sylvia Allen back Shirley Garcia Simpson Peggy Jacobs Tina Newsom and day and Wayne burgdorf And those are all the cards ma'am. Okay Then I'll close the public hearing. Oh, okay. Wait, four weeks. Close the public hearing. Mr. Shepard has a question. Yeah, I'm sorry. Mr. Dugan, there was some comment made concerning the letter of opposition from the school district. And candidly, it's been something I've had an issue trying to get my arms around as well. So I wanted to ask, since this PD is limited to independent senior living facility, can you help me understand what that means 30 years from now, for example? Well, 30 years from now would still be an independent living facility. I think the time frame goes well over 40, perhaps even longer, perhaps I could clarify that one. The requirement though is that this has to do with fair housing and it has to do with age limited for 55 plus. Basically, the federal law says that 80% of all the residents are able to housing units, the people in the housing unit have to be 55 plus. You could have a child, you know, adult child perhaps, or somebody that's less than 55, but primarily it has to say at 80% or more in terms of residency. And so how would that be monitored when it's outside the- There are compliant well in this period. Well, until when the tax period is over, whichever that would be, those requirements would go away. But it's, you know, and during that period though, there will be compliance inspections and reports have to be filed every year. When you said those apartments will go away, what do you, did the end of the, did the end of the affordability period for senior housing? And that's where they did backs to the TDAC tax credits program and how long that would be. I'm not exactly sure how long that is right now for this one or might be exchanged in the future. But the restriction in for it to be limited to senior living within vanish and at that point the apartments could be made available for occupation. Well, we need clarification from the applicant on the TDHCA rules. Okay, if it's a PD, it stays. Mr. Johnson. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to get at. Okay, the PD aspect of it applies, it's a condition for zoning. The zoning would apply until you changed, the county city changed it. But okay, so my question then is how is that enforced? When the inspection period required by the tax credit people goes away and there's no Reporting required then to the state is the city gonna go by and inspect all However many units there are to ensure that they're all 55 and older Well, we would have to have some compliance mechanism to investigate that. I'm going to have a list of when those things, those timeframes would be up. And only the PD, I'm sorry, I thought you meant before what we were talking about the federal government. No, I'm just talking about the PD itself. Right. Right. As any other zoning compliance, we depend upon our inspectors and complaints and reviews that we would have. We would know we'd have a list of these of senior housing and when they basically went out of requirements from the federal level in terms of subsidy or in terms of compliance. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Shepherd, did you want to ask Mr. Johnson anything? Well, I don't, was there anything you needed to add or wanted to add, I guess. Yeah, Councilman Shepherd, I think there's something an overlaying guideline that will cover this in your concern. This is a federal program section 42 of the IRS code. So we are required under that code to have a land use restrictive agreement recorded with the deed. The tax credits will be used over a 10 year period. There is a 40 year lura that is associated with that. With that, all of the restrictions, including 62 are better, are going to be enforced until that time is up. At that point, most properties then can then reapply for tax credits through acquisition rehab or other forms. The other thing that consider here is the building design itself is not conducive to multifamily. And with the common hallways, it's one in two bedrooms. You're not going to attract families. As Elva pointed out, there wouldn't really be a need to with the demand for senior housing. So I think there's a lot of things factoring in here to protect that. And we are talking about the year, you know, 2057. Well, I appreciate that and I appreciate her optimism. My email is filling up with people who are skeptical and that's why I'm asking the question to be sure that at least it's on record what protections there are in place to alleviate some of those concerns. Mr. Yeilerton. Mayor, or Mr. Shipperfect has to elaborate a little bit. During the 40-year land use restriction agreement, the inspections and requirements will be administered by the Texas Department of Housing, community affairs. Kind of parallel to that. And then after that, you all know we have a multi-family inspection program in code compliance. We're out on every property every year. And so the file will indicate the requirements that need to be met. And it's part of the annual inspection that code compliance will be able to do. That would be one of the things that would be checked. Any other questions from Mr. Johnson? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. We're ready to close the public hearing now. Okay, I'm going to close the public hearing. And just would like to state, very excited about the senior housing that we have coming, including this project. This is something we have been hearing from our seniors, and it is so important that our seniors not move out of town. And two main reasons. One is, you've lived here, you love our community, you want to stay, we have the housing, and especially when you can afford it, you can stay. And second of all, thank you for all the many ways you volunteer to help here in our city and our school district to help to mentor. And it's very exciting what the seniors are giving back to the community and the quality of life that is there and our life expectancy. So this is a project that I will be supporting and I think it is so important that we continue to solve and look for all of the different needs for senior housing here in our community. And this is gonna be one of those that helps. Do we have any other comments? Okay, with that I'm looking for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe and a second from Council Member Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you to our citizens that came down tonight. Thank you for your investment here in Arlington. Appreciate it very much. Next we'll move to zoning case PD 17-7, Arlington Senior Living 11-21 Debbie Lane. Mr. Dugan. Mr. Mayor, we have Danny Baker presenting the presentation. Mr. Baker. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Danny Baker with one of the Campton Architect, 4311, Oakland Avenue, and Dallas, Texas. How do we move this forward? John, can you, there we go. the It's located on the 7-acre parcel of land out of an 88-acre tract on 11-21 Debbie Lane. The 7-acre tract is located off South Collins Street, near WebFairl Road. Total development costs for this project are expected to be $16 million, and the NRP group our client will design, construct, and manage the community. Our request tonight is to rezone this site from community commercial to plan development for residential multi-family RMS 22 use limited to independent senior living facility with a development plan. Proposed development is a three-story central corridor served building with elevator access to every level. It has over 4,400 square foot of indoor common amenity area. It also has outdoor amenities including a resort style pool area, community garden area, barbecue grill areas, and a walking jogging trail. You can see here proposed entrance would be off Loretta Day Drive, it'd be a new street and access is around three sides of the building. The elevations for the project are a craftsman style building. We have numerous plane changes and roof line changes and material transitions make the elevation interesting. We have multiple types of fiber cement siding. We have stone, veneer, and stucco materials on this project. the community. NRP does have neighbourhood support from the Harris Crossing HOA which is directly south west of this project. Here's the letter of support from the Homeowners Association some residents preference to raise on the site to senior living. Also of support from the ambassadors. And we look forward to your consideration for this project to as the next step on the resolution of support from the city council back in February. If you have any questions, I'm available and also Jay Johnson with NRP group and Jonathan Hake with Cross-Engineering the Civil Engineer. Miss Kaye Part. Thank you Mayor. Tell me again with regard to your project, how many units as well? We have 74 units. 74 total. And how many of them are, you know, for tax system? Well six would be market rates, so the other 68 would be for affordable housing. Okay. And do you have the financing in place? That would be a question for NRP. Oh, okay. I'll ask the next question. Thank you. Councilmember Parker. Thank you, Mayor. I noticed, first of all, that we toured this particular property. We toured all eight properties. We got in a van and rode around for a while. Great afternoon. But this particular property was way down south and it was kind of away from almost everything. Where is the nearest door that you can buy up to milk? Jay, yeah, you want to come up? That's not a difficult place. to milk. Yeah, you want to come up? That's not a difficult question. If you could cite your name and address for the record. I'm Jay Johnson. I'm with the NRP group. The site is actually extremely close to the city of Mansfield. So there's a lot of amenities including other senior amenities right there within a mile of the site. Where's a nearest store where you can buy a quarter milk? There is on Collins within a mile of the site. There's a mile of them. Okay, sure. Then I noticed that your parking requirements as the other applicant had, he had a parking requirement and he was less than, had less parking spaces than required and I notice that you are also less is that correct? We're not requesting a parking variation. We request it was less community space than the report. I understand. Do you have are you according to this saying total parking requirements is 148 you have 119 is that correct? That's correct. Okay good. So anyway I guess my point in bringing that up is you're a ways away from anything do you have any type of transportation or something set up for these people that they could go get a quarter milk or some bread or something to that nature? No, we don't have a busing service. We do have experience with developing these and these are really active adult communities. I mean, these are not assisted living communities. So I mean, this is our ratio is based off of experience in the market and having not necessarily seen a need for certain things for active adults. Okay, I noticed that you guys are requesting certain things from us. Now you came to us with a plan and the plan that you're requesting now, you're requesting to reduce the setback, is that correct? Our setback requirements on the toward, yeah, for you and I expand that part. Yeah, we're requesting to reduce the setback on the Southwest property line, which is adjacent to the single family subdivision. That is only for the car ports, not for the main three-story dwelling building. Okay. Now you're three-story dwelling building. Does that look into the backyards of the single family people over to the side there? By nature of the tide, it could have a view over that housing subdivision. Okay. So, have you talked to those particular residents and are they cool with you looking in their back window? Well, I don't think it's fair to say we're looking in their back window. It's a large set back and to that point, yes, we've spent a lot of time with our neighborhoods. It's the hairs crossing neighborhood and they not only wrote us a letter of support in advance of you all passing our resolution of no objection, but they also went back in light of their being potential concerns of zoning. And they also gave us a letter of support with regard to our zoning. So this comes with neighborhood support for the site plan that you see. Okay. I also noticed that you are reducing, you don't have the proper number or the square footage of indoor recreational, you have about just a little probably about two thirds maybe of the required recreational space inside and also you're reducing the amount of masonry on the back side of the building and using more stucco is a hardy board I'm sorry. So that's kind of two pieces. So with regard to the common area space, for one, our request falls in alignment with the including tonight, the previous cases that you've passed, what were the two overture and dial and overture those to our market rate senior developments. And it's really, I mean, the requirements are in excess of a lot of our market rate developments that we do throughout the state. So we ask for less and it's still over 4,000? 4,400? Yes. 4,400 square feet of common area space. And that doesn't include our outdoor space where we're going to have a pool and we're going to have a community garden and we're going to have a jogging trail for our residents. So we have a lot of outdoor amenities in addition to the indoor amenities and to the second part. I think the idea for us is with full acknowledgement of Arlington's, it's got 360 design goals. We wanted to put our best face forward. A lot of the area that we're kind of taking material away from is really low visibility. So we want to give better views of the property from from Colin or we want better elevations of the property from Colin's and we do from our detention pond. And also the inside court areas would be more of the focus being on the research pool Hull and managing that courtyard on the building. Well my concern is that and I bend to your facility in South Fort Worth over there. Mr. Glass being I went over there one day and saw what there was to see. And my concern is the utilization of hearty board in a very unjudicious way. I mean, if you want to make this very, very nice, my suggestion would be to maintain not only the masonry on the backside, but also increase the masonry on the front side and make it a very nice place. Now, Ms. K. Partt was concerned about your financing. Okay. Do you want me to ask the question, okay? How is your current financing situation? We are, I mean we were awarded our tax credit along with Brett. We're at this point going to finish with our, I mean we moved toward final design and locking our financing in place. So we haven't closed our development that won't happen for another six months. Okay, so you don't have your financing yet. You have your No, our tax credit equity is is 95% of the financing so in every market. I mean our If you're asking if our numbers are our 100% locked They're not locked you don't rate lock on on the tax credit deal until within 48 hours of closing the actual transaction. So that's a little bit complicated. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Councilmember Shepherd. And and I don't go anywhere. Please. And I don't mean to be argumentative at all. Please, and I don't mean to be argumentative at all, but your answer regarding the location of amenities was a little vague from me. So I've pulled this up on Google Earth, and I've done everything I could to try to find a grocery store within a mile, which is what Mr. Parker asked you. So you may not be able to tell me right this second and I'm happy to give you some time while we finish, but if you could give me the address of that grocery store, that'd be very helpful for me. Thank you. Any other questions? Council member K. Part. Thank you, Mayor. With regard to the proximity of services, whether it's a mile or two miles or whatever, if it's just a store, that's still not a lot for these people. Particularly those folks who may have limited mobility. And so it's kind of like you're putting it out on the prairie somewhere. And it's really not going to provide the kind of high quality with regard to not only design, but the amount of open space with the amount of amenities around it. It just doesn't match up with the previous case in my opinion and I'm concerned about that. I need to share that with you. Because while I think probably this entire council is very focused on senior living, it's got to be senior living in the right place with the right amenities for these people who are leaving homes that they've had probably for 20, 30 years and they're having a lifestyle adjustment. And I'm just concerned that they're not going to have the kind of quality lifestyle that they deserve, particularly when they're somewhat isolated. And I know you mean well, when you say, oh, well, we've got to write down a man's fill. Well, we want these people to shop and go to things in our LinkedIn. We don't particularly want to go to a man's fill. So that's not particularly helpful either. So I just need to tell you, I'm struggling with your request. Sure. Thank you. Oh, it's a question. Maybe in the community. I think this is a great location near Debbie and Matlock. That's a booming location. I think it's a great place to be. I think it's a great place to be. I think it's a great place to be. I think it's a great place to be. I think it's a great place to be. I think it's a I'm looking many, many times as this is in District 3 and I'm grateful to see so much support from our seniors in the community. I think this is a great location near Debbie and Matlock. That's a booming location. Most people think it's Mansfield. It's very nice and new. The Walmart is right on the corner. We don't provide me personally as a council member. I'm not looking for you guys to provide transportation to our aging population. We as a city don't even do that yet. And hopefully we'll have some solutions here. So I'm grateful to see you guys here tonight and explaining the great work that you've done. I also understand this development is a little bit different than our previous case. And the location area is different. Also the population is a little bit different. Southeast Arlington, we have a different you know in southeast Arlington We we have a different population than in North Arlington. So in west and east Anyway, thank you. I'm my support Any other questions Okay all right then We'll move now to speakers on this side of Miss Sapino. Here we have three speakers and six non speakers all here in support. Our first speaker is Elva Roy. And do we have any others that want to sign up? I see some hands me and raise. If if you do you can go sign a card here Okay, miss Roy Yes, Elville Roy again 304 Clark Court and I would just all of the comments that I made previously I would like to carry over to this Project as well, but what seniors need is safe, a roof over our heads. We don't need chandeliers and we don't necessarily need shopping that's within walking distance. That would be nice. I've worked with the people at Overture and that's gonna be a great location. They are in Arbrook. They can walk across the street to the Highlands. 700 square feet there is $1,950, which is their bottom rent per month. And we need something different than that. We need that for seniors. I'm delighted that's going to be there. And I have no doubt that that will be a successful project, but we also need to take care of our low-income seniors and not just the lowest of the low, but the next tier up and the next tier over that. of this development we need more. Even with these two developments, it's only 200 apartments, which is a drop in the bucket of what's needed. So this is a good start. And as far as walking distance to shopping, I don't know about the Claremont, if there's a store that's right near there, or Casa Hogar, you know, that have been approved for senior living. So thank you. Thank you. It's Darla Pesnell. It's Pesnell. I'm sure I'm glad you'd sign the card or raise your hand. Hello, Darla Pesnell, 38-19. Caroline Arlington, Texas. I moved to Arlington when I was 12 years old and grew up on the Southeast side of town. As I said before, I'm a nurse in the area. I really am looking forward to both properties. So I am hopeful that you will hear the pleas of those of us in the community who serve the seniors in the community. As I said before, I support both of these properties. I do realize and I do not take lightly the concerns that you have with respect to location, but I actually think it's a great location. I'm with respect to what I do full time in the Mansfield area, sorry, but I serve a lot of people and get a lot of people from the Arlington location. I would like to see an Arlington address. I would like to see the seniors of the Southeast side of Arlington and Districts. Excuse me, three served in this format. We cannot all afford. I, as a single mother, for 20 years, who have served the people of this community very well, will not be able to afford. I as a single mother for 20 years who have served the people of this community very well will not be able to afford a $3,000 apartment for independent living when I reach that age. We all really need to rally and support and give these people a good clean place to reside. So again, there are too many of us that will rally together and do extended services even to the independent living facilities. I've been doing that for 30 years, so we're here and ready to serve them in that format as well. Thank you. Thank you. Sylvia Allenback, did you wish to speak? Okay, so we have seven non-speakers here in support if you could raise your hand or your name is called. So we have Sylvia Allen back. Did you wish to speak? Okay, so we have seven non-speakers here in support. If you could raise your hand, your name is called. So we have Sylvia Allen back. Beverly Windsor. Debbie Luencer. Shirley Garcia Simpson. Peggy Jacobs. Tina Newsom. And Ann Day. Those are all the cards, Mayor. Okay. Any other questions before I close public hearing from Council? Okay, then I'll close public hearing. Any other discussion or yes? Council Member Shefford. Mr. Mayor, thank you. I just want to make a couple of comments. Well, I appreciate Ms. Roy's comment. I don't think anybody was talking about amenities being within walking distance. We're just talking about proximate. If you look down there, it looks like there's just a bunch of houses and there's a bunch of dirt. Doesn't seem to be a whole lot of other developments. So whoever said Matt Locke and Debbie, thank you for that. I appreciate it. I was not able to find it on Google Earth, but I was able to find it then. Coming into tonight, I had some reservations for, I mean, I'm almost 60 myself. So when you're talking about us or them, I am them. And so I hear everything you're saying, that being said, I did have an issue with the location. It does seem a little out of place, given everything else we've talked about. I'm not saying there aren't any seniors in South East Arlington, I'm sure there are, the things that you would normally associate with facilities that allow you and expect you to age in place would be access to medical facilities, access to other facilities that I don't see present in this case like I did in the other case. So this facility becomes, in my mind, these are my words, a transitional facility. If there's not medical care then, they can't age in place, so they've got to go from this facility to another facility. All that being said, you guys seem to have a great idea about it. I'm just going to mark it down that Elva told me to vote for this. And it turns out to be a bad deal. I'll have them come find you Any other comments questions Okay Council councilmember Walmond and then councilmember Yeah, I did notice on this one. This is the one that MISD was not in favor of. It was not the other one. It was this one. Arlington did not have any problem with the other one, but Mansfield did have one with this and did that denied support for it. But with that being said, after the answers we got on the last one, it looks like that it would be restricted, I guess, from now on to age restricted. So I did want to clear that up and maybe we need to let MISD know that maybe because I didn't know it. I didn't know that you could age your strict, but I've learned a lot tonight about how to use restrictions on a PD. But I just wanted to clear that up so that if anyone else has read this, that we did address it, and we do know that that's okay. But I agree. I do think this is rather far out and rather isolated. I agree that in this area, we do need some moderate to low income for people that want to, when they're transition out of their homes and into a place, a safe place, a place where there are others there. I'm in agreement with that. I'm not sure this is really, I wouldn't pick this location, I'll just say that, but I kind of agree with Mr. Shepard, so we'll see what happens. Thank you. Councillor Mellipur. Thank you, Mayor. Well, as in anything real estate wise location location location we got in the van we wrote around. There was a property next to a railroad track also, and I wouldn't put seniors, although it was near some items that were very favorable and nice to have around you within walking distance, you were next to a railroad track. So I would not have voted for that particular project either because there's 30 trains a day that go by that track. So consequently, it's not the place to be putting a residential area. So in this particular instance, I think it's apples and oranges between the previous establishment and this one, because the previous establishment has amenities around it that seniors would like to do. This particular location, I have seen it, it's out as far as I'm concerned unless you have a car to get somewhere. It is in the middle of nowhere. There are no amenities whatsoever near it. And so consequently, that's one aspect of it that I was not enthralled with. We are trying to put senior living in the areas that we can. And what we need to do is not make an effort to put in chandeliers. We need to make an effort to put in affordable housing near things that people want to do. The areas that we have, we have areas in Arlington. This is not one of them. And so consequently, I find it very difficult to not only support this, but I find it difficult to understand why somebody would want to put senior living out in this particular area. It's very arid, it's very desolate, and unless you have, and there's absolutely no transportation available for the inhabitants of this particular facility. So I'm not going to be supporting it, and those are the reasons why. I think we need quality senior living, and I think we can accomplish that and not to rubber stamp everything. One of the times we had an audit of the city and the city auditor came in as an independent individual and he said to make a city better every now and then you got to say no. Okay and so I am I am want to make this city better and I want to make it better for seniors. And in order to do that, I'm not going to rubber stamp everybody who comes in here and wants to put whatever they want to put up, wherever they want to put it up. And I think that is the situation that we have here. Thank you very much. Any other questions, comments? Or a motion? It hasn't come across. Okay, so we have a motion. Do we have a second? Okay. All right, so we have a motion from Councilmember Thalman and a second from Councilmember Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yes. Yes. Oh. Okay. Yes. Okay. Is that a message? Yes. Is that a message? Yes. Is that a message? Yes. Is that a message? Yes. Is that a message? Yes. Okay, the motion passes. So we'll move now to item 11, 4, new school zone for Glen Harman Elementary and Wimbish Elementary and a school zone revision for Wimbish Elementary. And I'll call upon Mr. Keith Brooks, Assistant Director of Public Works and Transportation Department. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Keith Brooks, Assistant Director of Public Works and Transportation. Here to present tonight an ordinance amendment to Article 3, speed regulations of the traffic and motor vehicles chapter of the Code of Ordnances, which will create two new school zones and revise an existing school zone. The schools that we're talking about tonight are Glen Harmon Elementary School, which is a MISD or Mansfield Independent School District school, and then of course Wimbish Elementary School, which is the Arlington Independent School District School. Basically, the revisions here that we're doing talking about tonight are to Make sure that the ordinance match was physically in the field as far as fashers and signs and things that at nature as far as the school zone So we just want to make sure the ordinance match was physically in the field So on Glenn Harmon the Mansfield Independent School The school zone location and effective times is this will be on West Sublet Road. And the general location of this is Sublet and Cooper. So on Sublet, but just East of Cooper. So from Timbercrest to Drive to 250 feet East of Tennessee Trail. And of course the school's own times will be from 15 am to 8 15 am in the morning and then 3 pm to 4 pm in the afternoon. So that's for Glen Harmon Elementary School and Mansfield Independent School District. And then we have one new school's on for Wimbish Elementary School. Now this is on Randall Mill. So on Randall Mill row between .680 feet west of Filder to Forest Drive. And of course the school zones will be from 7 a.m. in the morning to 8.30 a.m. and then 3 p.m. in the afternoon to 4 o'clock p.m. So that's a new school zone that was installed and we just want to make sure that the ordinance matches was physically out in the field. And then the revision to the existing schools on that this is all still Wimbush. So Wimbush or Wimbush Elementary, excuse me, is located right on the southeast corner of Randall Millenfielder. And so for Wimbush, the existing schools on Enfieldder will be revising it. And this revision will also incorporate the entire intersection of Randall Meild and Fielder Road. So we'll incorporate that intersection, but then we'll also make some modifications to that school's on-fielder to match match was physically in the field. So what's in the field today on filter road is a point 240 feet south of Pekhan Park, which is also right street and a point 300 feet north of Randall Mill Road. And the school zone times will be from 7 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. in the morning and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the afternoon. So that's like I said, we're pretty much just matching what's going on. There's physically out in the field matching that with the ordinance as we prepare for the new school year. So at this time, I'll take any questions you might have. Any questions from Mr. Brooks? Mr. Brooks? Mr. Glaspie. Thank you, Madam. Just a general question, Mr. Brooks. So we had set up the zones without our ordinance reflecting precisely what one of the school zones, let's say the one for Glen Harmon. So put that school zone, yes, that is a new school zone. But some of these were just, that's a brand new school zone and then the one on Wimbush, on Randall Mill. That was installed. It was installed, you know, the school district had contacted us and wanted that installed. But we needed to come back and make sure that the ordinance was revised. Normal practice would be you revise it right afterwards or before that would be the normal practice. So we're just making sure that the ordinance is cleaned up and make sure that it matches what's physically out there. Driven about a school district we in turn are finally making sure that our wording is aligned with what's happening. Yes sir. Yes sir. That's correct. Any other questions Mr. Brooks. Thank you Mr. Brooks? Thank you, Mr. Brooks. Mr. Pino, are there any speakers on this item? Yes, speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll close the public hearing and we have a motion for approval from Council Member Parker, a second from Council Member Walman, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next we move to ordinances with first final readings. And we have three ordinances amending the taxation chapter and connection with financing the Dallas Cowboys Complex Development Project and the Texas Rangers Complex Development Project. Mr. Mike Finley or CFO? Thank you, Mayor and members of the Council. Mike Finley, Chief Financial Officer. The purpose of these ordinances is to amend the three ordinances, chapter seven, eight and nine for the motor vehicle tax, the occupancy tax and the sales tax to allow the use for both the existing cowboy complex bonds and then to open it up to allow future use for the rangers bonds. And I'll be glad to take any questions. Any questions from Mr. Finley? We covered this item this afternoon, this afternoon pretty well. I don't see any questions here, Mr. Finley. Thank you. Mr. Pinot, are there any speakers on this item? No speakers, Mayor. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. We have a motion for approval from Council Member Walman, a second from Council Member K. Parp, please cast your votes. Is this for all three? Are we done? Okay. There's three. All three. All three items. Okay. Yes. All three items. Motion passes. Thank you very much mayor and members of city council and this ordinance that you have here tonight refers to an exception that the state of Texas grants cities for licensing requirements for day camp programs. And so with the adoption of this, you would be approving youth program standards of care. This has been done since 1999 in the city of Arlington. And so with respect to that, I'd certainly answer any questions that you might have on that process. Any questions from Mr. Randolph? Mr. Glasping. Mr. Randolph, there's been no changes over the last few years of our standards care, right? From time to time, we have some minor tweaks in terms of program locations. We may tweak job descriptions over time, but generally speaking, the standards are remaining intact. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Randall. Mr. Pena, are there any speakers on the side? Yes, speakers. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. Mr. Pino, are there any speakers on the side? No speakers. Okay, then I'll call for a motion. Have a motion for approval from Council Member Wolfe, a second from Council Member K. Part, please cast your votes. Motion passes. Next, we'll move to zoning case. It's actually in resolutions, and it would be zoning case PD 17-1 Mayfield Farms 7301 Sallow Road. Mr. John Dugan. Mr. Mayor, this is a application on appeal. The Pony Commission denied this case unanimously. It's 233 units in southeast Ar Arlington and Silo Road are design requirements in UDC. Allow this to be heard by the council but you have to call it up and set and basically allow authorized, excuse me, a public hearing. So this is what this petition from the applicants for. So they're asking for a public hearing. Yes. Before you. Miss Hollis did you have something? I was just going to add that if you pass this resolution tonight then they would set a public hearing and at that time then you would hear the case. If you don't pass the resolution tonight then that's the final action. Councilmember K. Part. Mayor I'd like to move to deny the request. Okay now I have first got to hear from the speed we have a motion and second but I need to we have some speakers on this item. We do. Okay we have three non speakers here that are in support. Ronald Fink. Clarence Fink. I could raise your hand when your name is called and Cynthia Fink. Okay, they are non-speakers. They were non-speakers here in support. In support. Okay, and with that, we have a motion there for denial and a second from council member Shepard any other discussion okay then we'll cast our votes then Okay, the motion to deny the public hearing passes. Okay, next we move to announcements. Mr. Pino. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents that Arlington City Council evening meetings are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. Council's afternoon work sessions or 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 meetings online anytime at www.arlingtontx.gov. Any other announcements? Yes, we're still. Any other announcements? Yes, Ms. Delano. And this Thursday, the 10th at 6.30 p.m. We'll be holding a district three town hall meeting on topic F. Safe Re Neighborhoods. We'll be at the Bob Duncan Center from 6.30 to 8 p.m. Thank you. All right. We'll move to citizen participation time and Mr. Pino. Could you go over the speaker guidelines? Yes, 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 comments 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, our first speaker is Sue Himmung Taylor. If you could come down and state your name and address. Thank you. Hi, Council. And thank you for coming down. Thank you. I'm Sue Homemattallard, address 4408 rainforests drive. Arlington. I'm here to talk about animal services and federal cats. I'm concerned about the fact that some changes need to be made in the better. A better? Yes. Much better. Sorry. I'm concerned about some changes that need to be made in the TNR resolutions that would address the adoptability of kittens and cats. And that was left out of the original TNR resolution. I'm also asking that the resolution needs to be rewritten to include the right people who do the TNR work because the people that are listed that the animal services give out the names. Those people are no longer viable names. And so when you need help help you don't get it. The people that they say you can call are not available or their numbers have been changed or they don't do it anymore. And so the people that are there to do it their names are not listed And so there's no one that you can reach. But there are people out there, their names just aren't on the list, so that needs to be changed. There's a lot of people who do these ferrule, they feed ferrule cats they have problems I happen to be one of them Unfortunately, I can't do the trapping and and the neutering if I could trap them I could get them neutered, but I can't trap them and so I just like to tell my story if I could We have a small colony of ferrell cats that most of them were born in our backyard and they think it's their place and we feed them and we try to keep them healthy and we had a mother cat who gave birth to six lovely kittens and she suddenly I noticed that she had something wrong. Being a nurse myself, I recognized it as probably being a pro lab student. I watched her for quite a while to see if it went away. And it did not. And she became skinnier and she was not eating. She had other problems and I knew that something needed to be done. So I contacted my next neighbor who works, I'm sorry. So anyway, I did get help through a veterinary service that a lady just happened to walk in and hear that I needed help. She helped me immensely and she is a person who does TNR work. If it hadn't been for her, I'd have lost the kittens and the mother. So these TNR people are very, very helpful. And if they hadn't been for her, I'd have lost seven wonderful cats. Thank you. Appreciate very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Samantha Trimble. Hi, it's the council. I'm coming to you before tonight to ask you to address some serious problems with animal services. Four years ago, the City Council enacted a resolution to allow trap new to release or TNR feral cats to be legal in the city of Barlington. It has been successful, but not in the way that you guys imagined. From the original resolution, the Arlington feral cat coalition is no longer in existence. The Friends of Arlington Animal Services or FAS is no longer doing any TNR work with Arlington Animal Services at all. There is no more funding, there are no more grants. Where do they all the money go? The program seems to be broke. Arlington Animal Services denies that it continues to prefer people to fuzz or to our services. But emails from just two weeks ago, an open records request clearly indicate another story. They seem to be lying to everyone. But trap-knit-a-release has been successful with individuals who do it. Individuals have been responsible for thousands of sterilized cats, not having babies, ending the cycle by pulling adoptable tiny kittens off of the street, reducing nuisance complaints for the city, increasing the live release rate for animal services, and saving countless thousands of dollars in funding for the city. That's a great thing. But there are three problems that still need you to address. The first one, since animal services enacted a $25 owner surrender fee per pet three years ago, there's been an explosion of abandoned intact feral cats reproducing everywhere. This fee has got to go. If you're disabled, elderly or on low income, you can't afford to bring them to animal services at $25 a pop. Number two, the provision to deal with adoptable kittens and cats was included in the original presentation to City Council but was left out of the final resolution. This has led to widespread hostility and contempt by animal services staff towards homeowners who have helped these adoptable kittens and getting them off the street. Number three, animal services is killed more than 600 kittens turned in the last 12 months. Why? Because they run off most of their fosters and rescue groups. Homeowners take on these kittens, pay hundreds for vet bills, and get them fully vetted and ready for adoption. I come to you tonight to ask for number one, a complete top down animal services management leadership change. Number two, an update to the TNR resolution that includes private individuals who do TNR and do the actual work. Number three, to finally include a directive and procedure to animal services, to address adoptable kittens and cats that is economically fair, demonstrates compassion and human decency and is rooted in common sense. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trimble. Next we have Laurie Blanton. Good evening, Mr. Mayor of Council members. My name is Laurie Blanton. I reside at 237 Jennifer Lane in Arlington, Texas. I have been a registered fair caretaker for over five years. At that time, there were zero resources available. I moved into a neighborhood. There were all of these cats known was doing anything, except for occasionally killing them or poisoning them. I received some visits from animal services threatening me, telling me that I had to stop feeding these cats and trying to get them healthy to adopt them out. I paid a visit. Again, no help from animal services at that time at all. They were, I was walking out in tears, two women trying to adopt kittens referred me to Faws. Within 30 minutes to Faws. Within 30 minutes, Faws called me the next evening. We were trapping. Since then, Faws has just been inundated and they are no longer a viable resource to come out and help people trap TNR. But thankfully, they have been a resource for me that I can call them and get assistance and advice. So I am so thankful that TNR has passed because the stigmatism of helping these feral cats, the neighbors, they all really don't understand or appreciate what you're doing. I've been threatened, I've been shot at. It's just not a lot of fun, but we do it because we care. And we do it to help our communities, not only to help these cats, but to help the community and the city of Arlington. It is deeply disturbing to me that the TNR program that currently exists is not being properly executed by animal services. Over the years, I have trapped, altered, ear-tipped, shot-ed, fed, shelter cared for over 35 cats. This may not seem like a lot, but when it comes to your pocketbook, it really is a lot. When there is no one there to assist you, and then when you find someone that has the knowledge that has the experience that is willing to help you Not only financially but emotionally and every other way to assist you we need to I Don't know honor these people give them the opportunity to help those individuals that are out there doing this every day I recently experienced some health issues where I was not able to TNR. I had an individual come to my rescue and help TNR help assist me with a two day old kitten that was abandoned in my garage. She took it. She nursed it. She gave it health, gave it life until it was ready to be adopted. Unfortunately, when independents take these to animal services for adoption, either you have to pay the $25 or maybe sometimes you don't, but they never get adopted out. For some reason, they're being used and iced. So basically, I would ask that you look into the TNR and to animal services and fix what's broken. We're all good tax paying loyal citizens and we just all want to do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Blanton. Next we have James Baker. Mr. Baker. Mr. Baker. Okay, we have some non-speakers in support of looking into TNR and animal shelter. If you could raise your hand when I call your name. Mr. Ron Helmetaller. Miss Melanie Kelly. Julie C. Arruda. Chrissy Draining. And Pam Reed. All right, thank you for coming to nine I have no other yes come on up Susan if you could state your name and address here for the record. My name is Susan Torres. I live at 17, Biggs Terrace, Arlington, in her 60 years. I agree with all of you that they said about the TNR. I also take care of my son that's 20 years old, born with that brain, totally handicapped. And my mother, that's 91 at the same address. And we have just been in a dip behind her house. We've been overrun with the furlcats cats and I had a lady that is our little angel Samantha about there that came to our rescue and she took she's done 22 cats in the past month month and a half on her own out of her own pocket and I don't we were just beside herself good I've got my hands full with my son and my mother, but it needs to be looked into, because we've got people on my street that shoot them, kill them, throw them over back in the ditch to let them die. You know, we're just a lot of people around. And I love these cats and she has just helped us tremendously. And I found out through her when I went into a vet We tried to get pay for it on our own here and there We couldn't afford it. So she's 22 cats. She's done for me That's all I've say I agree with everything these people have said Thank you. Thank you And we'll have staff looking into this. They appreciate y'all coming down. So seeing no other business, our meeting, oh, get to, okay, we got to move on. Okay, all right, we got to. All right. Not done. Mr. Zach Maxwell. Good evening, Mayor. City Council, Zach Maxwell, 2449, South Graham Drive. I really actually did not plan to be here tonight. I was sitting at home and was prepared to call it an evening when I decided to pull up the proposed budget for this year. And I noticed on almost one of the very first pages that there's a paragraph in there that apparently we are going to go ahead and include funding for a rideshare program. And I was a little kind of confused by that because my understanding was that there's a Transportation Advisory Committee right now which is going through a process of coming up with a formal recommendation. I was told that the recommendation was going to be presented to the City Council and then the City Council was going to go to town halls and attempt to build consensus and get citizen by it. If that's the case then why do we have a dollar amount that's already being included in next year's budget for a rideshare program? I think it's becoming abundantly clear why I was kept off that committee, because I would not have idly just stood by and allowed this to happen. I would have been the one person on that committee that would have been asking questions, demanding answers on this. I'm just a little, I guess taken a back because why are we paying a facilitator $25,000, $2,080 a meeting. That's a two hour meeting. She's getting paid $1,040 an hour. I don't even know top paid lawyers. They get paid that much. That is a good gig. I wish I had that gig. But the city has voted down public transportation three times. I originally said it was two because I did an open records request, but it did not yield the 1979 vote that apparently occurred. So public transportation has been voted down three times. And the most recent time, the margin actually increased from like 55 to 65%, which means the opposition has grown. Mr. Parker, with all due respect, you have spoken against the Max Bus Service funding in the past. And I would hope that you would also be against further funding of a new public transportation program that has not been approved by citizens. I'm extremely disappointed by seeing in the budget that we are already making a decision when that formal recommendation hasn't even come out from your committee yet. So with that said, I am pretty much 99.9% certain that myself and coalition of citizens are going to start collecting signatures for two petitions. The first one is going to be for a charter amendment that requires any expenditures of tax dollars on a public transportation solution to have to go to a public vote. The second one is going to be for term limits. Thank you. Next we have Mr. Patrick Kelly. Hello everyone, my name is Patrick Kelly. I live at 1730 Ridgeview Drive. I've heard tonight there's a lot of careful consideration about developing and I'm appreciative of that. I'll take you back to where only a couple of us remember. You drive down South Collins before you get to Mitchell Street. And there's a really nice street called Meadow Oaks. And it's one of the first and last neighborhoods it was ever built in Arlington. And if you keep driving down Collins and look to the west, there's some pretty nice houses down through there. And it takes you down to the first Christian church and it was very nicely thoughtfully designed and it's still very nice And then the Presbyterian Church is just the south side of that And then as you're going south and you look back out this way past Park Row and all that. You can sort of tell that the era that Meadow Oaks was built and the era that the churches were built and the era that all those starter homes and aren't very good faction right now. It wasn't the same it wasn't the same folks with the same thought process and there's a lot of homes around that quadrant of Arlington that could use some help aesthetically. Now, I like those people just as much as I like anybody else, but they were the disadvantage because they didn't have a bunch of post oak trees on the east out of town, like so many people do on the west out of town. And we've been talking about how we go about making improvements to these homes that were built in the early 50s up to, you know, the mid-70s, I guess, out in the period, the places in Arlington that are sitting on Black dirt. And we need to have orchards around town that are going to grow post oak trees to help these people improve these homes permanently instead of instead of encouraging them to plant something that grows fast and that heaves up concrete and just tears everything up any improvement on the lot. The thing that I tried to get going and I'm still going to keep pushing on it, is that we have an area back there behind me where people know how to manage post-okes. When I first started this, we were working with the fellow in the Parks Department. He's the park director in Coppel now. I forgot his name, but when they ran over all those trees years ago and we lost so many of them, he said Pat, we just don't know how to take care of these places. He says because of that, we're going to get our mowers out of here and we're going to let you guys mow again and we apologize for losing all those trees. Now, we're past that. I'm growing a bunch of them. But I can't be the only one growing them. We're going to need some help and we're going to have to think outside the box or we're going to need a bigger box in order in order to make permanent improvements in some of the places where it's difficult to keep houses nice. Over and out. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Any other cards? All right. Seeing no other cards and no other business. This meeting is adjourned.