Belton City Council meeting April 22nd 2025 530 PM right-room Harris Center. Dean Carpenter the Texas Plague that will be by CityCark Amy Casey and then the invocation with Bob Greg Pierce. Please stand with me. Please join me as we say the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. The indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Just join me in the Texas pledge. Honor the Texas flag. A pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God. One and ind in the physical. Pray with me. Father God, we come to you in Jesus' name. Father, we're reminded, especially at this time of the year, of just tremendously much we owe you. And Father, we will desire to praise you and thank you for that for all eternity. We ask your blessings on this meeting. We know that you're here. We pray Lord that all is said and done. We'll bring you honor and glory and that your will be accomplished in both process and product in Jesus name Amen. I 35 shows up. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I'm going to have to go. I shown up this evening. I do have one but looks like it's going to be on an agenda item. Anyone else? All right there being no public comments will move to the next item on the agenda which is our consent agenda. Items three through eight can be enacted by a single motion to save us all time. I'm going to read the items if the council, any member wishes to remove one of the items they can do so we can consider them separately. Item three is adopting the next information. Item eight, council meeting. Item four is a resolution adopting Bell County Hazard Mitigation Plan for 2025. Item five is approving a Fassade's Improvement Grant Application for Exterior Innovations to the Structure at 106 North Maine located in downtown Belton Commercial Historic District between West Central and East First. Item 6 is another Fassade's Grant Application for Exterior Innovations to the property located at 213 East Central and the downtown Belton Commercial Historic District. Item 7 is adopting a resolution authorizing the release of the cities of Belton's ETJ of approximately 15.6 acres owned by Miss Tech's investments LLC and situated in the Young William Survey Abstract number 861 Bel County, Texas being a portion of a called 235.3 acre tract of land recorded in document number 202-1005-414. Man, that's like code. Located generally west of Interstate 35, south of FM 2484 in west of William Drow. And the last on the consent agenda is adopt a preliminary plat for River Farms Phase 1A, comprising 21.1 acres located generally east of Interstate 35 on Tolbridge Road, north of the Lancaster River, and in the Belton's ETJ. Chair, we're gonna obtain a motion or we can pull the item. I move we approve items three through eight. Shaggot? We have a motion to approve the consent agenda items three through eight. Any other discussion before we vote? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Aye. As is unanimously. By shirt Daniel. You took the shirt Daniel. That's super pretty. to be sure. Last shirt, Daniel. We text each other. Item 9 is in planning and zoning as hold the public hearing and consider a zoning change from single family 3 residential district to single family 3 residential with a conservation revitalization overlay district on approximately 0.26 acres located at 3630 Brenda Lane Christina. Thank you Mr. Mayor. First I want to let you know this is an appeal if and it's a decision from the Planning and Zoning Commission board. For this property it is currently Zones single family three was changed to single family three in 2022 from a previous applicant This will add that CR overlay to offer a manufacturer home to be placed there with some additional requirements The location of this property is off of Brenda Lane It is on the north side right adjacent to the countryside and up on park, a home was installed, and we got to receive the call from one of the property owners there asking why that type of home was placed there and asked for the city to look at it. We determined that the permit was not issued for the home to be installed, and issued a stop work order for that when we evaluated it. Because of the applicant come in for a permits and also to provide them information on the zoning. Here's a look of the home that was installed. For the CR overlay, we do require a couple of different things including an engineer foundation and scurting and siding that matches the exterior materials of other poems in the area. Also has some requirements for the eaves and roof pitch should be at a certain thing. So it looks more like a regular home, a sight-filled home. So those are other stipulations for the CR overlay. For this, the flume has us as residential and the zoning is consistent with the flume. For water, this is in the dog water CCN. For sewer, we are installing new sewer lines in that area. They will be within 200 feet of that sewer line. And depending on time, and they may need to connect to that sewer line. Property owner notifications were sent out. We received a phone call from Mrs. McIntyre in support of the zoning change. This was previously heard by the Planning and Zoning Commission in 2021. At that time, there was a lot of oppositions from the neighborhood, so they had recommended disapproval of the zoning change at that time. And again, at the public hearing, there was one person that spoke in opposition of the neighborhood that was there at the previous meeting. So with that, the planning and zoning recommended disapprove of it. But should the council decide to approve it? We do require that it be assessing a family three regulation and also the requirements of the CR overlay. It be constructed to building co-standers and ensure architectural compatibility with the neighborhood. And the applicant must obtain permits for the utility connection with the city wastewater and also dog rage water permits. What about the applicant is here? Should you have any question? And I'll be happy to answer any questions that you guys have. This does require a super majority vote because the Planning and Zoning Commission disapproved the item. A quick question you mentioned. I didn't, I don't think I heard it. You said maybe 2021 is what I heard about when the planning and zoning reviewed this when when was this before it was in November of 2021 for the first zoning change a previous owner had applied for a mobile home district at that time and it was disapproved at that time and she came back in the following month with a single family Three zoning and that was approved in January 2022 Okay, let's spend four years. Yes, sir. Okay, and this property has changed since then. Okay. Okay, okay Understood All right, any other questions before we open the public care All right We'll close the bill operations for the council open it to the If anyone wishes to speak, speak in favor or against this item. Now is the time for you to speak. We ask you to limit your comments to three minutes during public comments, but you're free to speak. So anyone who wishes to speak. Name and address for the record when you get to the mic. Thank you. Hello, my name's JT Han, 4392 Betty Place, Salato, Texas. I kind of financed a lot for the Vicente and his wife. About, I thought it was five years ago, but I guess it's three years ago. We bought the lot in the thoughts that we could put a mobile home there or a tiny home type home affordable housing. And when we found this trailer, I was building a house for someone else and we found this one. So we got the trailer to move there. Hurl went to the, which is the daughter that is actually the owner. She went got to go to the doggridge. I made sure she went and did that before we moved it. We moved the trailer there. It's not put together. It's just moved there. That's when we found out that it was stopped. We thought it was going to be septic. had no idea that there was going to be sewer there at all either. All that being said that is a area that is more affordable housing than other places in Belton and we would just like to request that we could put affordable housing there. They've done a great job of working hard to be able to pay that lot off and stuff like that and I don't see why that we can't. I understand that taking the integrity of the city, but like affordable housing is very hard to find right now in taxes and insurance and things like that. And they've worked very hard to be able to have a home there so that their daughter and sons can go to Milton school district. So. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Before or against the silence. Good afternoon. My name is O. Satan Solis. I live in 3675 Brenda Lane down in the street right from there. I live in an exact identical home to where they were moving're moving in. I've been there since 2020 about the property from the previous owner and he had it there for a few years before that. Towards the end of the street there's actually four maybe five homes with the elect identical substructure. All mobile homes we run up septic on the last ones and he's actually having a sewer cooked up to his so he doesn't have a lot of space to actually have a septic system so he'll have access to the main city sewer. So I really don't see him bothering us at all in the street are messing with the structure of the actual street Due to the fact that there's other mobile homes down the street identical to it like I said minus one of them and I've been there for a few years now and like I did have to do a couple of things to bring it up to Code bring it bring it up to speed, but Obviously he's doing that as well as far as with the escirting and anything else that might be required. Thank you. Anyone else wish to speak. Just and it's going to be our translator tonight. Okay. Just marine. My name is Maria del Carmen Coronel. My domicilio is 3664 Brenda Lane in Beltonteja. My name is Maria Carmen Coronel. And she lives in 3664 Brenda Lane, Beltontex's. 6, 76513. I have been living there for seven years. She's been living there for seven years. I know the family of Martinez, Alvario. I know the family of their good-grandchildren, their workers, and their good-grandchildren. She knows a family. They're good on its family. And they grow hard workers. She has no problem with them moving into that area, like that. She says she has no problem with them moving into that area, like that. She says she has no problem with them moving into that area, like that. She is the benefit to all the neighbors we live there. She says. they are in their space and on the contrary, they maintain the clean and in order and that benefits us to all the neighbors of the that we live there. She says that is their area and they do keep it very clean and it is beneficial for the whole neighborhood to have them there because they do mean up the neighborhood and make it look good. That's everything. Thank you. Thank you so much for the time. Appreciate it. Thank you, Justin. Appreciate it. Thank you, Justin. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. the moment we have not been informed, we have been in, I do not know. We were looking for a look at the water, until the moment we had no information, we were not in the directions, but we were 24 days away from there, they sent us to the center. I'm sorry. Sorry. No. Name it, Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Maria Carmen Bodela. Bodela. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Her name is Herna. Right now they're living in temple. She wants to move over here for the school district. She wants to move over here for the school district. She wants to move over here for the school district. She wants to move over here for the school district. Right now they're living in Temple She wants to move over here for the school district She has the Sonny and Oshina application right here And she has an application right here? And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has an application. And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has an application. And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has paid the cost of our work. And she has paid the cost of our find the place to go to the hotel. The division. Because they found the hotel six and eight, the seven of us. Okay, they've been looking for this lot, seven red, and that's the seven. Okay, yes. And that's the coffee basically, they're going to go to the moon or two. They're looking. Checking what we're doing. And here's a paperwork trying to get the physical address right here. So they can get the meter. They're trying to get a meter from a large bridge put there. And a sign that you have been applying for a water meter for a year now. And they haven went to the city hall and she said the lady was very helpful and told her that she couldn't move that there. So I said, I know this was. And then a year has passed by, and then she finally has got this physical copy. OK. So the she was trying to get a petition and then the lady told her the lady at at the city hall told her just to come to court and that's the last. Here's the last one. Here's the last one. There was no direction. We wanted to find a direction and a number. We signed up and we have all the information. In this one, there's a person, there's a permit, there's a permit. And because of this paperwork here, and they finally got the physical address. They are So, I just want to ask you to get in check, get out of the council. Are they counseled or they are, or they come? City Council. No, is that okay? This is the application that we needed to get in the permit. Permission? They will put in the trailer. Okay. And then, one last thing. I think there's a three-dollar can translate. Sorry, Justin. I think the daughter would like to go step in to translate what's being said. So is there water? No sir, there's no water. We've been a year last year. We've been looking for water supplies and everything. This is from dog rage all the way to, let's see, what was it? The building permit application to be able to have an address because they could never find our address. It was lot six, lot eight, but there was never a lot seven. So they told us go online trying to look for your lot. The lot never had an address. We went from one place to another, bouncing up and down. We went to City Hall, City Hall said we could have a mobile home, but they said it was not supposed to be too old. The law was supposed to have, as long as we put the mobile home and then we fixed it over time to make it look like an actual house that we could have it there. But last time my mom came in and talked to Ms. Moore, my brother was here to translate. She told my brother that she didn't understand what he was saying. He was speaking in English. He was translating back and forth to Spanish to English. I had to get off work to come in translate for my mom and dad. She did not say anything about any requirements of anything of how we were supposed to put in the lot, how the trailer was supposed to be or anything like that. She missed, I don't know if she missed some information, but she only said you need to come and get the zoning change application and it's a $300 fee. We came in last Tuesday on April 15th. There was no translator. She knew my parents did not speak English or Spanish. They didn't speak English. They only speak Spanish. And there was no translator to help them. Thank you. Thank you. Do you want to check these? No, it's OK right now. We're just right now. We may, if we need to ask, we will. Yeah. Yeah. I'll go ahead. OK. We have the weeks passed. They went last week. OK. Send a card to the second. They said. They said. Uh, yeah. The city they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they said, they can say agape, appetition, I'm sorry. And so, the neighbor that I don't want to tell me, now he's talking to the neighbors that I speak more than one of the neighbors. And I never talk about the neighbors. Your neighbor is talking about the neighbor. Here, he's also here in the court. He's saying that one of his neighbors that doesn't like him was here last week. And... Who did you say that? I... I didn't want to say that because I had a lot of time and I told him to do it. I said that I had told him. And he said that he didn't speak to me anymore but we didn't talk. You have a lot of fun. No, we all say that. that he was talking about the neighborhood having a bunch of trash and he did not say that. He only came out of the and he did not say that. I was talking about the neighborhood having a bunch of trash. And she was only one that spoke last week. And now the neighbors are mad at him for saying that he was talking about the neighborhood having a bunch of trash. And he doesn't want any problems with the neighborhood or the neighbors. And now that that one to particular neighbor is saying that he's been talking bad about the neighborhood. Okay. That was everything. Thank you. We're going to be able to spread the lane right now. We went away. My name is Perla Martinez. I live at 3630 Brandel Lane. Last time when like I was saying previously we were looking for information about our lot. There was never giving the right information. I was told that I needed a water meter. It's still time that I have never gotten the call back an email or anything about whether we were going to get the water meter or not. I also have some notes that I was told that if I knew the panel codes better I could have understand whether we could have a mobile home or not. So it says here. There's also a question you can answer if you like. May a city regulate installation or mobile homes. An additional city can adapt or organize that required an industrial home to have a value equal or two or greater than the median textible value for each single family welded location within. My other question is, is it more dangerous to have a mobile home in my law or having an RV parked outside in someone's neighbor in front of their lawn? So in Texas Transportation Code, 3011.001 and 3011.002. Me as the City Council can pass an audience regarding or preventing RVs from parking in public streets. Those are all my questions for today. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, you can. Yeah, the name and address for the record. We can get the address in the previous speaker. My name is Brijillo Carbajal, I'm even 3642, and I'm on the neighbor to miss Martinez. I I mean, I'm feeling bad for staying in this situation and because I see there's a good people when it comes over here. It's no way to move. It's coming like every day, play the kids and everything. And I had trouble. And a couple of years ago, it's the same. I think that lots, I don't know, with the number of M, M and H, that want to put it like application or something for a move. And that people see cry because they want to like a double mobile home. And what he says, I got money only for like a single home. You know, but right now, this person So got a double white. Why is the problem to move? I mean, I don't know. What is the point? I mean, why the people should cry? Oh, I don't want this mobile home if he is like a double white. So you're in favor of of this I mean problem that's personally how the money for building the house. I mean I don't stand really I'm happy with the person's coming to To All right. Thank you. Thank you. Amy, do we have everybody's name and address as far as we know? Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else wishes to speak to this item? All right. There are being no other speakers on the public. Hearing will close the public hearing and reconvene to consider this item. First, before we reconsider, I want to thank you guys for coming and speaking. It's hard to do. It takes a brave soul to stand up in front of a body like this and to speak your piece. And so again, for all of you who spoke today, regardless of what the decision is, it took a lot of courage. And so again, I want to thank you for doing that. So. All right. All right, let's say the council Sever from this request I think I think we need to set up some standards for Accessibility to translators Either through a service similar like we have to death for that translation or we calling it I think that's a big key here. I think that something's been missing there. That's just what I want to start with. So. OK. There's a couple of things that I see here. One is there's an's an issue with I guess the understanding of dog Ridge water supply versus the city of Belton being separate entities with different review processes and different applications and so we don't we don't have any control over over the water meter since that's in dog-grage water supply. It sounds like that's not yet resolved. So there's still some work to do there. The fact of the matter is that existing zoning does not allow mobile homes. And the onus is on the property owner to do the due diligence before they move a mobile home there. And so I understand the challenge in that also. Whenever I reviewed my back and looked at this, I always reserve making my decision until we have the deliberation. I never try to pre-decide something before I come to the meeting. And I say that to say that your testimony today and support from your neighbors is impactful to me. It's a tough deal because a lot of the, a lot of window line is normal single family homes, brick homes, you know, what had you. And then the end of it, there's a collection of mobile homes there. And so I can see where that would be confusing. And it's tough to say something that, you know, wasn't in the city and homes were built before the area was annexed. And then it's come into the city and there's kind of some catch up to do there. I think coming into the meeting I probably thought that I would not support this but it's tough and there's definitely some tension there. I think with the with the number of mobile homes that are just two doors down from this lot I don't feel like it's unreasonable unreasonable requests. I don't think it's a slam dunk, but I do find myself a little bit on the fence about it. And for that reason, I feel like I'm going to support the property owners in this one in their request. So I know that was a long boat, but those are my are my thoughts. Yes, it's good. What about the company? It's right. Would you clarify for us exactly what would have to occur if this were to approve and with a conservation revitalization overlay? Sure. First, we would need to get a building permit. First we would need to get a building permit application into the city of Belton. We do need permission from the utility companies to connect so we will need permission from dog-regid water for a new meter to be added to that property and we also would like for a connection to the city sewer on the property. So we will need a building permit to ensure all of those measurements are met and also to ensure again some of the requirements in the PD that there is an engineer foundation on the property. The skirting that we are requesting on the property. We need a site plan to look at the setbacks of the property. Make sure it meets all of our requirements. So a building permit with a checklist of everything that we need will be provided to them for the applicant to know what would be required if this is approved. But the first step is to get a building permit. Prior to 2021 and that rezoning change, did they put a mobile home there? No, sir, zone agricultural, just like most of the rest because of the annexation, so prior to that they would not happen. There's one application as you can see at the the cul-de-sac that was zone in 2018 that allow for that so there was a different zone in case for that but other than that and nothing else everything would have to be changed from agricultural to a different zoning. So it's all agricultural now? But there are existing mobile homes on the same street? There are. I'm short at the end in the coldest sack. They were grandfathered, is that right? They are grandfathered stuff for the one that was approved in 2018. Can we go back to the part you see on the aerial and reonly have that one property. And They didn't have an address so they couldn't get a water. Maybe that's not the thing. The doctor is wanting a subject plan to get the water. Okay, that's good. Okay. Thank you. And again, the sewer line is under construction. So it was not live yet for them to tap in. What's the timeline on the sewer line is under construction. So it was not live yet for them to tap into. What's the timeline on the sewer? On January 20, 26. Okay. Oh, that's the I-14 project. Okay. What are these other things? Okay. I think it's in January, so we'll work it out. Yes, sir. And so to issue a building permit, even if this approved for the super majority tonight they would still have to before they got Certificate of Occupancy they would have to do the engineered foundation and all of this sewer would have to come in and correct etc. Yes, sir and We might need a decision whether or not SEPHEC is allowed if that is the lead time for the home if it needs to be occupied before 2026. It's 0.26 acres, right? Correct. Which is too small for the whole department. The whole point of service for part, so that's for the new plan. You can do infill development if you can meet the setbacks theic design that it doesn't spray within 10 feet of the property line and so many feet of the house itself and that kind of thing. Yeah and I think that there would be if this was a prune I think that there would be a question that the owners have to answer as to whether it's worth spending the money on the septic system or waiting a few months and tying it to sewer It would probably be cheaper to run some sewer line than to install the septic system But either way all of the neighbors are on septic currently so we think and figure out what a new septic person's waiting for sewer There within 200 feet. I'm not quite sure the distance Yeah, it could be basically, Brenda Lane basically, if you remember, we come through all the properties. It was at phase two that kind of looped around. It kind of comes up, not necessarily intended, that initially the thought on Brenda Lane, knowing that all of those were septic. It's more to get out to the FM route there. 1670. 1670. So, but just by proximity, we start talking about it, it seems like a valuable tie-in and probably better for the development or to tie-in to sewer. So the sewer would be at the end of Brindelaine along the kind of comes through. If you go back to the aerial, in between, it's kind of hard to show you because we don't have a map out, but there's essentially a drainage way that goes through Brindelaine. If you guys have your little iPads, you maybe can see just a little gap where there's kind of a drainage it's following that. That's the low point. And so that's where the sewer will be. OK. Can we go with the colors? I think I would just add a little bit to what Dave was saying that, I mean, if you read it just straight through, it seems, you know. But to hear what was shared this evening and the support from the neighborhood, when you look at the, I know mixed use is probably not the right term, but the mixed use that's there now, that's been there, I think it fits that. And if there's a way for us to accomplish this for them I think that we need to do that. I know this area has been before us multiple times and it is an area in transition even before it was annexed and certainly since that time. It's understandable why there has been some confusion and when you throw in dog roots and all this other stuff, see, English is my first language and I'm confused. So... And a language barrier. That's right. language barrier has created a lot of congestion. Do we know if it's acceptable or not? Well, we'd have to get designed. They'd have to get designed before Bill County answers. Yeah, I think based on some of the comments that are made as if we were going to do an, it would have to be a contingent upon approval. The issue before the council is the zoning decision obviously. You can go ahead and act on the zoning tonight. All the other stuff will come later if you have before the zoning. And in fact, and I would hope somebody could maybe they could come down to the city's plan to if in fact you do approve the zoning, prove the zoning which I have no idea if you're going to turn out obviously. But they could start all of these other processes by getting a bill in permanent everything else but they would not be able to get a certificate of occupancy where they could actually move in until the sewer situation was satisfied. The address more or the other. They could have a lot of things going on during the interim. But they couldn't move in until the sewer system was connected. So can we make this recommendation based on this case? Or does it stay with, since it's already a special, with an overlay? This is just one lot. One lot. You're just right. So it'll just stay with since it's already a special with an overlay. This is just one lot. You're just right. Yeah, right. So we'll just stay with that one lot. Right. Even if they couldn't. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's what I wanted to clarify. I'm going to make a comment on nothing on fat limb, but I think based on the barrier that has been encountered, the fact that we've had one improved in 2018, the toss up between when sewers come in being told sewers, but now they've got to basically develop it and run sewers either down the street or through somebody else's easement or it's not going to be on their street for them to just tie in and there a lot. I mean, I think there's too much that makes this difficult on the owner. And so I understand that confusion. And affordability is a big deal. And I think if we're looking at, based on what I can see on Google Maps, the character of the neighborhood, even directly adjacent, I don't think the work they've done to clean up the lot already has helped. And so I'm going to go ahead and make a motion that we approve this zoning change to be able to push it forward where they can start to finally get some relief and work on some of these things that I think you're being held up by this process. I'll second. Before we vote, I would just like to give me some. Yeah, so we have a motion and a second to approve the item that's been appealed item nine. Yeah, further discussion. I just want to make sure that the translator has made it clear to the families here that they're still hurdles, even if we approve this. There are still quite a few things that have to be accomplished before. As John said, a certificate of occupancy could be- Justine, can you come up? microphone. Can you come up? I've spoken to them and they understand the conditions that they can't live into their sewage, whether it be through the main or through a septic tank, but they are willing to wait till get that septic and they're okay with waiting till the 26, I believe. No, Januay. That's a date. The year 2026. The 2026. But they're aware of that. But they're also, if it does work out, they will go. They already know that they're wanting to go septic as well. Thank you. All right. Any other comments? I'll just add to it. Again, thank you for coming and pleading your case. The ability to speak to your reality is powerful. And I think you have a very compelling story. I think just black and white rules, This is something that we would 100% support for the Planning and Zoning Commission whenever they said no, because they heard the people complaining about it. They didn't hear your voices. We hear your voices, and the same truth sounds different. And so again, thank you for being here. Thank you for speaking your piece. These are the kind of citizens we want in our community, ones that want to take ownership and fight for, in a reasonable way, for their community and their neighborhood. Thank you for the neighbors that came as well. So I'll let anyone else speak if they want, not. All in favor of approving this. Say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. So good luck on the next stage. It won't be easy. But if you just, they've already dealing with us, dog bridge, but the septic tank, so everybody knows, is a county deal. Yes. Oh, go ahead. You know JT. And they don't have an engineer right now, so good luck. Right. And they don't have an engineer right now, so good luck. Right. Let's see the good news about you. Right. We would invite the property owner and come down and visit with Justin present, basically to talk through the conditions that have required. The zoning has been approved. So the use is allowed. the mobile home use is allowed, but as stated, there are a number of conditions that have to be satisfied. We want you to fully understand those before you go further. As was stated, it is a planted lot, and so there is an opportunity for a subject tank, but we also want to fully evaluate the sewer line extension as the preferred alternative for ultimately, so thank you you. May I do appreciate P and Z in the effort that they have to I know there's an awful lot of deliberation here in that meeting. I think you also had a lot different crowd representation. You're meeting the next one. Yeah, I don't I don't think that it's necessarily bad thing for P and Z to to look something and make a decision and the council to make a different decision. I think that the so-part of the process is a little more narrow and I think that's just the nature. They literally did what Mayor's appointing him to do. That's a process. Great job, P&Z. Good job. Okay. All right. We're going to jump to the next one. So item 10, home of public hearing and consider a zoning change from agriculture to single family one on approximately 4.38 acres located at 7040 Longbow Road. Thank you. Ms. Tina. And thank you, Mr. Mayor. This property is south of interstate 14 and is on the west side of Simmons Road going toward the lake. The applicant is looking to subdivide this lot in the future into one acre lots and also looking to construct detach homes in that area. This area is not in the city water CCN or in the wastewater CCN so they will be required to get an on-site septic and also a permit with dog rage for water connection as well. The future laying use ramp supports of residential use in this area. We received one letter of support from a Jason property owner in this area. With that, the applicant is here. Should you have any questions for them and I'll be happy to answer any questions as you have as well. No, I'm just going to go ahead and against item 10 on Longbow Road. Now is your time to do so. Name and address for the record. This is Tommy Shaw, live at 4707, high oak drive, built in Texas. I'm here on behalf of the owners, they purchase this land, carry if you can go ahead and put this up. I know this is just kind of standard going from agriculture to R1. Single family life. Single family, there you go. You can kind of see here it is from a drone shot, kind of the layout. Carry if you'll go a little bit more. And so they originally were wanting to put a venue out here. But we did go in and see Tina and Tina said, we have to play by the rules. So no business out there. And so he wants to divide this part up and go ahead, Carrie, if you'll go to the next one. This just gives you an idea. We're working with all county right now. And on the next slide, you'll see the way it's going to be divided up. So after speaking with Tina and understanding that there was a new ordinance that came out last year in this particular area because it is dog rage water. No structures within 500 feet of each other if they're larger or I'm sorry 100 feet if they're larger than 500 square feet they can't be within 100 feet of each other. So I went to see a chief font note and I will tell you I thought it was going to be like here's a rule sorry I't help you. But he actually spent close to an hour and a half just brainstorming with me on how can we make this fit for the homeowner. So Chief, I appreciate you doing that, sir. And I think the fire marshal is there also. Anyway, so he actually gave us an idea of using the code 13D, putting suppression in the homes But dog Ridge cannot handle that out there. So This is the zoning that they would like to do and that tool becoming up as soon as we get the plaque from all county Surveying it will look something like that and they plan to build some houses out there So thank you guys and thank you Tina for always helping us. Anyone else wish to speak in favor or against this item? There being no other speakers, we will close the floor and reopen our deliberations and comments, questions or a motion. Looks at a good plan. I'm over here make a motion to approve item Z, 2013. Second. We have a motion, a second, to approve the zoning change on the Longbow Road. Any other comments before we vote? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. Item 11. Hold a public hearing and consider zoning change from Ag to single family one on approximately 10 acres located at 69.59, long way road. Ms. Tina. I wanna say Ditto, but. Yeah, it's across the street. It is across the street and they're also looking for single family one zoning district. Another future subdivision is planned for that area to subdivide this into one acre lots and The their plan on constructing detached homes again. This is not in a belt and CCN area dogridge and septic tank will be required with a proof of run the bell county of public health district the future lay use math supports Presidential in this area and the adjacent properties are all residential We did did receive one property owner notice today. The applicant wasn't so hard, but she was concerned about her viewshed and making sure that she still has a V of the lake. I believe it was habitat crossings was the last part that she was concerned about. Other NATs, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the zoning change, and I'll be having any of the questions as you guys have, and I believe Mr. Tommy has another presentation that Mr. Shaw wants to show you guys. All right, so we'll close our deliberations up on the floor, round two. So anyone who wishes to speak for or against this item. My name is Tommy Shaw. I live in 4707, where they try belt in Texas. So again, you can kind of see this as at the corner of Longbow and Simmons. So the Robinson family bought this a couple of years ago. This property was covered in trees. As he started taking some trees out, he realized there's some great views right there. And this is actually a valley that heads down and goes against core of engineer properties and so as he's cleared this out again after meeting with Tina and Chief Fontenot you can go ahead to the next slide thanks Gary. He's decided to take it there is a house there right now and so again trying to follow the guidelines from the ordinance that came out last year this will be four lots which is the maximum we can have without fire suppression. So the house is on one and then go ahead, Carrie. And then so you'll see, too, on this side, there's going to be one lot and on the side where the valley is, there will actually be two. And they should all have some great lake lots to them. And Carrie, one more picture you You can kind of see again the kind of the overview of what it's gonna look like. So again, there'll be one home to the right and there's enough to put to the left. So, carry if you'll just show us that drawing then. This is kind of what it's gonna look like when it's all said and done. Everything will be one plus acre. As soon as this first sale, I hope y'all buy some. Thank you. the case. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if I can make a mistake. I'm not sure if that's right. Realtors understand these things. Thank you, guys. Thank you. All right, anyone else wish to speak in favor or against this item? All right, there being no other comments. We will close the floor and reopen for deliberation. Comments, questions, or a motion? A motion to approve agenda and must present it. Second. We have motion to second to approve item any other comments? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right, passes unanimously. Exciting. All right, thank you, Tina. Item 12. Hold the public hearing and consider amending chapter four of the Code of Ordinances by addressing sections 436 and 437 related to fence requirements. Mr. Bob. Great. Thank you very much. Do you mention the purpose of this item is to consider an ordinance that establishes additional requirements for offencing. The proposed ordinance basically supplements the existing codes and proposes to what I call close the gap. Some of the requirements are fencing, you know, giving a standard to review a fence when we get an application. In addition to the existing conditions that we have today. The current codes, we have current, but cover fencing include the zoning ordinance, the design standards, the imagined belt and standards that we recently adopted and the engineering design manuals. We have a lot of criteria that are covered in and handle these things. And although these codes are very good at covering the things that we feel are important today, for instance, what offenses needed between commercial and residential things like that, the item offense, I don't necessarily give the specific requirements that we need in order to fully review offense permits, what I speak. And I'm referring to an experience that we had on a North Main where we had a situation where we just disagreed with the situation, but we had no criteria in order to deny the permit. So we embarked upon a solution, which we hope y'all will agree to, to fill in the gaps of our existing codes and the issues that we felt are unaddressed. So just the highlights of the ordinance that is in your packet and the ordinance that we are proposing. We talk about materials, expand the list of materials, its fences relationship to right away easements and visibility triangles. We most certainly have to cross reference early codes. We talk about ADX accessibility and how fences cannot interfere with that. We talk about how fences cannot interfere with traffic circulation and to affect the number of required parking spaces that are on a site. And, you know, obviously cannot have a negative impact on neighboring property and cannot affect the access to a site or a site to the right way in the way that we have talked about that is that maybe we don't want vehicles backing out of a commercial piece of property into a right way like Main Street or Sparta or anything like that. And we don't want the fence to cause that. We just don't want that darker. So our recommendation, I just want to make this presentation short. And so that we can get into the questions if you have any later on. So we would recommend you have the public hearing and then consider the fence ordinance. Thank you. Thank you Bob. This being the public hearing, the three items prior to this being public hearings were all, this is old hat. So we're going to close our deliberations and open the floor. If anyone wants to talk about fences, now's your time. Good, batter and different. All right. Nobody wanted to discuss fences. We will close the floor and we will reconvene any comments, questions or motion. Does traffic flow that come in adequately address access by fire and EMS? It does, it does. Okay. We're gonna talk for the chief, but also don't wanna throw, you know, put them on the spot. We have requirements in the fire code that address access requirements, and so the fence cannot impede those access requirements. Right, and so within the ordinance, as you presently propose it, we've adequately addressed that. Yes, sir. OK. So hypothetically speaking, if there's a red line in a parking lot that says Fire lane and somebody puts perpendicular to that offense that impades the fire lane correct It does and so it's a not and and that's not subject to a non-conforming grandfathered use that is a safety issue Okay, I think we might have one of those at the corner of Maine and sixth. Where's the fire lane on that? No, I'm saying it would not be subject to a grandfather non-conforming use. We actually looked at that on my fire protection standpoint and the bottom line on that situation is that the access to the building is not impeded. Okay. Okay. Because it's a shallow law. It's a fairly shallow law. Okay. Yeah. The building is actually within 150 feet of the road and the road is considered our access. Oh, is it? Okay. So you can check the dark. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Are deeper parts on it instead. It would be a fact. Possibly. I've got two questions. In residential neighborhoods, it's quite common to have fences along your back property line and side property lines. And a lot of neighborhoods along the back property line when they're overhead electric, it goes down the back property line over the fences. And on the survey, it will show, you know, five foot utilities or 10 foot utilities or something like that. You don't have any very utilities there, but you've got overhead electric. Right. The way the proposal is written is that the fence shall not be built within or across the utilities and it or a drainage easement unless approved by the utility provider. Correct. Could there be an exception for overhead utilities as opposed to very utilities? What if it's a good point? Any thoughts on that? An exception in terms of what does it mean? Where a fence could be allowed to be built underneath overhead utilities. I certainly don't want people to dig a post hole for a fence and go through a water line or a cylinder, a gas line or a electric one. Or a barrier electric. Yeah, but when you've got overhead electric, I wouldn't think that a fence would mess with that. I know that obviously the electric provider still have the right to go in there and if they didn't tear it on the fence to offer it. They work on their lines, they've got the right to do that with the easement. But it's quite common to have fences underneath overhead electric. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what we imagined is that if somebody applies for a fence permit, then we would circulate that to the appropriate utility companies, including the overhead guys. And they will review it. And then they would give us their opinion about what, you know, the homeowner should do. We actually talked to the encore this afternoon about that in terms of how that would work and they've actually reviewed our ordinance and think it's a good product. They would most likely not give us any feedback on that because they know what this historical situation is, if they'll put a fence in there. It's Basically, they look at it as an encroachment into their, into their easement. Actually, it's a PUE, not necessarily an encore easement, that kind of that. So it would have, you know, it would be able to get a permit for that. You just said it probably wouldn't in the way he's just said that. Oh, man. Well, maybe I wouldn't say that. because they see it as an encroachment. And so when I hear they think of it as as an encroachment then they're not going to allow for this. And so the thing is the question is once we open that door and Pandora's box door and it goes there and we start getting a stream of nose are we gonna then have to go and revisit this ordinance. Yeah I'm sorry I probably didn't use the the appropriate word I was I his words. Okay. The word he used was an encroachment. Yeah. And he was not implying or he was quite straight up with us that that's the terminology they used in order to review a permit. But they most likely would never ever deny one because of the historical situation.. And I'll add a little bit to it. They mentioned today that early when they do, their encroachment is their term, what they use. As long as it's not close to the conductor, which is way higher. So they said eight foot and below is rarely ever except extreme grade issues. Going to be going to come into equation, but What will happen is we would get the apartment all the polls in Belton are either Majority are owned by encore and if they're not owned by encore they're owned by AT&T And so we would send that to them we would give them Because the other side of it is asking on core for permission and making sure that you get a timely response that is in line with the customer service we want. And they said that just to put a day limit on them for them to respond, and that this is common, and that they will respond in almost all occasions. They are just gonna say there's no encroachment proceed. They're not gonna give approval, because it's not there approval to give. It's a public utility easement. And so anyway, they did respond and felt very comfortable with that. So if we can get an objection from on-core AT&C and we can give the approval. Yes, correct. Okay. Yeah. It's not just a normal one. Right. My other question is the prohibition of barbed wire. There are a lot of areas in the city that are agricultural and nature, especially in the outskirts with that. How would that work? And can somebody who has 100 acres on the outskirts not have barbed wire fence? Well, our initial thought was, what we think in other terms of barbed wire was the barbed wire on top of a fence, you know, kind of like that. Like razor wire. Yeah, like razor wire. Things like that. So as a matter of fact, let me just kind of scoot you ahead. You know, we pulled some pictures together. And this is what we're thinking, because we didn't actually think about ag uses, you know, that kind of thing. Of course, we want to make sure that all fences are on outside of right away, outside of easement. I mean that occurs in ag areas as well. So what do you do for security areas? We are suggesting from a policy perspective that the razor wire on top of there is not allowed. So around a tower substation or something like that, when they're trying to keep people from, or let's say I know a water tower when you don't want people to come in or county jail right right so that's what we're saying yeah okay okay I think that's a there's a variance to the exception right Bob is in in those instances what they're talking about with a, for instance, a pump station requires said three strand barbed wire to be around the top. I think in those instances on its merits, we're just generally saying applying barbed wire without a high security purpose. Okay, it's interesting. It's your saying there's a way for a provision to exception to get an exception. Right. Well, we probably need to have that variance. Yeah, we need a permitted variance in the ordinance instead of our request. So we don't have to come here. You can make it possibly if you want it. Yeah, we suggest making an edit to an amendment that clearly specifies the locations that would be. How else is that? Do we have a big problem with people putting barbed wire and razor wire fins, where they're not supposed to be? The question's come up a couple of times, and we've thought, you know, well, we don't have anything to prohibit it, and since then we thought at this opportunity, we'd throw it out there see what happens. I think some businesses see a backlog or security type phencing think about it. I don't know if he had made it for us. I just think I'm going to throw you a s on like that. And if we had that, would we decline that? Would we turn down variants? I mean, up to you. It would have to go through voting, go through the due process, due diligence, whatever. It would probably be better if you gave the staff the authority on a case by case basis to allow those fences and if they didn't, they would come to you. Yeah. I don't want to say that somebody can't absolutely can't put one of those up because they're here. and if they didn't, that would come to you. Yeah. Maybe for public projects. I don't want to say that somebody can't absolutely can't put one of those up because they're everywhere. Maybe for public projects. Well, like you say, I think it might not be for public projects. It's just going to be this. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think we could probably amend the current instead of sending it all the way back. I think probably. Yeah, but we And our goal is acceptable for a variance on of course, y'all can always do anything. Yeah. But if if we don't know, it's happening at the staff level, then we can't because if it's just getting kicked out. I say, you know, give the staff the ability to grant the variance where you don't have to come to you, but if the staff doesn't do it, then honor if they want to pursue it, they come to the council. If I heard Dave's motion, I'm going to make a motion to approve this item as presented and add that administrative approval by staff can be given for Barbed Wire and Razor Wire offenses where appropriate. We have motion a second to accept the fence requirements but adding administrative approval in the case of barbed wire and raised wire for security and I think I also heard for ag uses were appropriate. Okay. All right. That's the motion of the second. Do any other comments or questions before we vote? All the favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Thank you. Passes unanimously. All right. Lucky 13, consider resolution authorizing the City of Management to execute an advancing agreement, AFA, with a Texas Department's Transportation for widening of South Canal Street from Loop 121 to Shreyway. Shreyway. Shreyway. CSJ number 0909-36-210. Thank you, Mayor. Council, I'll be brief with this one. The y'all are aware of the South Canal project. It's an existing largely 22 foot wide roadway. We'll be widening that to 44 feet. We have right away acquisition firms currently going to work. We all authorized that down last meeting. What we're coming down to is the funding mechanism at the moment. You'll be aware, Sam had said a message earlier this year that we thought we had it. We thought we had the, you know, airmark allocation for the full roadway. That since did not happen. We're encouraged by some dialogue that Sam has had with Carter's representatives that we may be eligible for some more but what was approved through K Tempo was funding for one phase of this roadway and that phase we're going to call phase one which is loop one twenty one to Shreway. Shreway was kind of the Huey Shreway. It's kind of that middle section of the Huey just felt a bit short. I think we could, with the monies that we are allocated through Ktempo. So Ktempo money is already authorized. It's ready to go. I'm not even doing the PowerPoint, I should be showing you. But real quick, this is the Shreway that you're seeing you know loop on 21 phase one and then the remaining would be done phase two hopefully either with the earmark remaining earmark or potentially another round of funding from K-tempo phase one would get done that funding is would become available in 2027 per this AFA but obviously this today tonight signing the AFA as a commitment that we are ready to execute phase one. There is a match of about a million dollars for us and over three and a half or so million dollars in federal funding from the K-TEMPO 3.7 there. So with that, we would recommend authorizing the AFA. The AFA just real quick, just procedurally, allows us to have dialogue and review with TechStyle. Before that, right now, this project doesn't really, I don't want to say it's not on TechStyle's radar, but it's not part of their review or scope. Entering into the AFA, we then will start to work with them closely, critical during the right-of-way acquisition because we have to get environmental clearances up and down the way. So that's the reason for it. And we recommend proceeding with authorizing the AFA. All right. So we've got the presentation. There is no public hearing. So we wish to make a motion. Or I do have a question. Yep. When looking at straightaway to 14, I can't even say that right, from where we're stopping the phase two. Yep. If Bids come back favorable. Yeah, absolutely. We would just keep going. Yeah, I like, yeah. So like we're planning to say, if we got creative, like it's setting a turns funding and a bid came back. Absolutely. We could add scope. I mean, the good thing that we've done, the city initiated through tours, initiated full design of the whole thing. So it's ready to go. It's ready to be designed or it is designed. So we will have acquired all the right away and we have moved for utilities along the whole corridor. So you're right. In your example, if we got good bids and we had some leftover money, we're not going to leave it on the table. We're just going to keep going to meet our match requirement. And obviously maximize the funding from KTEMPO from the Fed. Everybody's favorite line item is mobilization piece. Yeah, mob fees, yeah, absolutely. You hear her? Kind of two questions. Yeah, Moe fees, yeah, absolutely. So. Any other comments or questions? I'll make a motion that we approve item number 13 as presented. Second. The motion is second to approve, authorizing the city manager to execute the AFA. I will say this, it's great to have the county on the tours. I think Russell and the judge both encouraged us to be proactive in the way we look at these projects. If we're thinking about doing it, go ahead and spend the money to get the engineering and start looking it right away because money, if money shows up, you can act. If not, you'll always be behind. So I think it's been a really good advice. It's also nice to have the tours to have a little extra cash to go ahead and invest that and so again thanks to staff and also the county for participating. Any other comments before we vote? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. Passes unanimously. All right Mr. DeLaying Action. Federal thing. Consider resolution delaying action on an ordinance authorizing the issuance of the city of Belton, Texas, combination tax and limited revenue certificates of obligation in the amount not to exceed $17.7 million and other matters related there too. Mr. Rogers. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Your call that we planned on issuing bonds on April 8th. At that meeting with the bond market being in turmoil, our financial advisor recommended that we postpone that until the 22nd. Subsequently, we learned that the city of Georgetown was hitting the market today with an extremely large three issues actually. And the concern was that our bonds would not be competitive with AAA rated city of Georgetown. So our financial advisor again recommended delaying our bond sale until next week, April 29th. We would go April 29th regardless of the market. We just need to sell these bonds. So a special meeting next Tuesday would then sell, we'd sell it in the morning of the 29. So the action tonight is approving a resolution to delay for one more week to April 29, and we'll see you at that that 530 that night All right, any comments or questions Chair would entertain a motion Move we approve item 14 as presented Thank you motion a second to approve the delaying action on 17.7 million dollar worth of bonds any other comments or questions All paper. No, I'm more paper. Good. I'm good. I'm sorry. All paper say aye. Aye. or worth a bond, so any other comment or questions? All paper, no. I'm willing to. It's fine. Good. I'm good. I'm sorry. So all papers say aye. Aye. Those post? All right. And we are adjourned. See you. It's going to be a little bit more. It is good.