you you you you you you you you you Thank you. to I'm sorry y'all can't find anything more fun to do tonight but to come see City Council but we're going to try to make it as entertaining as we can for you. I'm going to ask Mr. Matt Hart to come forward from Mission Arlington to lead us in an invocation please stand for the invocation. Thank you, Mayor. Let's pray. Father, we thank You for this evening and as this meeting comes to order, we pause because we have much to be grateful for. And so thank You for Your kindness and all the ways You've been kind to the city. So do you tell us to seek the peace of our city and the prosperity of our city and we pray for that, guys. pray pray for peace for your protection of this city and of its people, God, for the continued unity of this city and of its people, God, that even when there's disagreements, you've made this city where one of the neighbors loves each other and we thank you for that. God, we pray for your provision here. We pray for the leaders in this room. God, we pray that they would be wise as you You can wisdom. God, that they would love who you love and value what you value. God, we thank you for all the ways you have shown that to be true here. So Lord, we are grateful to you and we pray that everything that happens is meeting you guide it. And then what can happens in the city pleases you. Cares for the people you care about and honors you. We pray all these things in Christ's name. I think that, please join us with the plague to believe it. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the text of flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one in indivisible. Thank y'all, please be seated. Mr. Buskin, Speaker Guidelines in general, DeCorum, please. Thank you, Mayor. 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During public hearings, for zoning cases, the applicant will be asked to speak first, and will be given five minutes to make a presentation. Speakers and supporter opposition of the item will be given three minutes each to make their statements. The applicant will then be given three minutes for any rebuttal. For all other items on the agenda, speakers will be given three minutes to speak. If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments, the speakers may, if they serve desire, it doesn't make one or more individuals to provide public comment on behalf of the group. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. In consideration of other speakers, please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell. We ask that you address your comments to the mayor and council. Thank you, Mr. Busk. And we have any appointments to boards or commissions? No, sir. No appointments this evening. Thank you. Consideration of minutes, please. Thank you, Mayor. Minutes for consideration this evening are the January 28th, 2025, afternoon and evening meetings. Thank you. Council, do you all have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers in this item? No, sir, we do not. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Gonzales. A second from Council Member Peale. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Consideration of consent agenda, Mr. Busken. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains five minute orders, six ordinances, and nine resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal of annual requirements contract for food and drinks for Arlington, jail two, purchase of an armored personnel carrier vehicle for the police department tactical unit, three and four professional services contract for special event training for the fire department and for resiliency Management Training and Mental Health Services for the Arlington Fire Department. Five Modification of the SoulSource Contract for the Fire Department's Incident Record Management System Software, RMS, and Health Electronic Health Record Software EHR. The ordinance is seek to authorize six ordinance and May 3rd, 2025 special election. Seven zoning case C824-87001, 70005, 70007, and 70001 calendar road. Eight zoning case PD24-10, 300 Stephen Street. Nine zoning case PD24-33, 525 South Bowen Road. Ten zoning case PD24-31, 24-21, and 24-23 West Division Street, and 347 North Bowen Road, 11 Zoning Case PD 24-19410 East Rogers Street. The resolution seek to authorize 12 authorize the Competitive Seal Proposal Procurement Method for the construction of the Collins 2.5MG elevated storage tank, EST rehabilitation, 13A and B, US Department of Transportation, promoting resilient operations for transformative, efficient and cost saving transportation program grants. 14 Office of the Governor General Victim Assistance Grant Program, 15 Office of the Governor Paul Coverdale for UN's improvement grant program, fiscal year 2026, 16 A and B Office of the Governor of Violence against Women Justice and Training Program, fiscal year 2026 grants, 17 childcare associates, ground lease agreement, Tarant County Child Care Expansion Project, 18 fiscal year 2025 neighborhood matching grant awards. Thank you, Mayor. This concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Thank you, sir. Do we have any speakers and any of the items that appear on the consent agenda? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in support of item 7.15. Malika DS, I believe is what the- Yes, DS. Card has on it. Please go up to the podium. Hello. Yes, I'm speaking in support of this particular agenda item because as a citizen living on the ground, being able to witness the consequences of, let's say President's oversight of cases raised to the police department and I think room for improvement on response to reports made that an incentivized, right? An incentivized push to be able to commit to integrity and intentionality in this department with lead to citywide growth and also increase safety of all civilians, no matter of socioeconomic class, area lived in, or other things that typically are a hindrance to their inherent right to safety due to historical things or other things that affect them because of the, I think, immediate perceived notion of, like, non-existence of serious crime because we live in a suburb. And we've already been able to see from different accounts in media from films to TV, like A DuVernay's account of the Central Park Five, how something overlooked that seems small can turn into a big nationwide issue where who we have as president now Donald Trump called for the death of people who were deemed criminals and found innocent thanks to a sock planted as false evidence to a ledge that five young boys raped a random white woman in a park. Because the suspect was a name. So I would say in an effort to make Arlington the actual American Dream City and not an effigy of what it wants to be, it's definitely good to fund this grant and definitely ensure that intentionality is placed wherever these dollars are put. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Is busking any other speakers on any of the items on the consent agenda? No, sir. No additional speakers on the consent. Thank you, sir. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Wesley and a second from Council Member Pham, please cast your vote. The motion passes 10.1 Ms. Stoppill. We have John Chapman, our planning manager, presenting the case. Mr. Chapman. Good evening, Mayor, Council members. I am John Chapman, long range planning manager with the planning and development services. Here with you all for tonight's first reading, a UDC amendment for tree preservation and mitigation We're going to talk about several items, but I want to highlight items five through six that will have some updates from the planning and zoning meeting that we had that I just will go over with y'all I want to highlight and spend a moment here to really acknowledge the amount of time and effort, the city staff, impact, NPC, the developer's round table, as well as the landmark preservation commission has spent on this ordinance update. There's a lot of from my understanding support on what we are considering this evening, and it's been a long time coming. So happy to be here in front of y'all and looking forward to the implementation of what we have proposed. So, planning and zoning commission, public hearing, we had two suggestions that came out of that meeting that was held on January 22nd, one related to multi-family development and one related to the cross-timbers protection. For multi-family development, it was suggested that we evaluate additional incentives related to tree preservation and one multi-family developers would get out of that. And then for cross-timbers protection, making sure that no pervious or impervious pavements are cement be located within the drip lines or root zones of those cross timbers oaks as part of the development. So what brought us this UDC amendment back in 2019, we had an amendment that really focused on the cross timbers oaks and provided some bonus points after some analysis of how that's been implemented over the last several years. It was found that due to those bonus points, what Arlington was seeing was a reduction in their overall tree canopy. So we are coming forward with a modification to how we can still achieve some bonus points for ensuring that cross timbers are still preserved, but without hindering Arlington's tree canopy. This is a broad overview of the bonus point structure that is being proposed. The middle column highlights the current structure that's in place in the current UDC, and then the right column highlights the modifications. For cross-timbered oaks, that will be decreased to 1.5 additional points per caliper inch preserved. For bonus trees, as specified in the UDC user's guide, that will decrease to 1.25 per caliper inch preserved. And then for a significant tree stand, which is also receiving a definition update that will be increased actually to two times due to the enhanced definition. Another addition to the point system would be defining the heritage tree, which would be a cross timbers oak greater than 40 caliper inches. This would receive two times bonus points if preserved, and it would also receive a de-incentivization for the removal of that tree. So if a developer were to propose the removal of a heritage tree, they would receive if they needed to mitigate, they would receive a times two penalty. So if it was 40 caliber inches, they would receive negative 80 points as part of their calculation. The updates to the significant tree stand and then I'll also go over down there at the bottom of the screen the new enhanced significant stand that came out of the PNZ work session. The definition for significant stand is being increased to really highlight and be true to its name in terms of being significant. And so that's what is proposing the two times bonus points from 1.5. Down below you see a new definition that would be included as part of this proposal and I'll get more into how this definition is going to be used. It would be an enhanced significant stand, so that would be a minimum of 10 protected trees where five of them are cross timbers, oaks, all of the trees would need to be at least eight caliper inches and they would receive three times bonus points toward earning their any development incentives. So for development incentives the minimum tree inventory in order to be considered for development incentives would be 300 protected calibre inches on a site. The 300 number comes from an average of the last four or five years of plan development applications that have come through with protected trees as identified on their tree survey. And based on the average of those developments, 300 was an appropriate number. Single family 35% would still be required as part of their preservation. The development incentive that is under consideration tonight is to allow for reduction of lot area dimension requirements and dwelling size up to 15%. That would be achieved by once a developer reaches their 35% preservation. Once they start going above that, each percentage that they go above, they would receive an equal reduction in those development standards. For multifamily, I'll spend a minute here to talk more about this one due to planning and zoning commission suggestion and how we are proposing to kind of redraft this. 10% preservation would be a new requirement for multi-family development. And I do want to highlight here that that would not include community cottages. Community cottages as part of the current UDC are required to meet the single-family tree preservation and mitigation requirements. So that would continue to remain in place. But for multi-family, for each 1% preservation over 10%, that would entitle the multi-family developer to an equal reduction of the required garage parking spaces. Currently, the UDC requires that 20% of the total required parking spaces for multi-family development be within a enclosed garage. Typically, that is a detached garage somewhere on the site. And so the incentive would be to reduce that number, up to half of what that requirement would be on paper. So how that would be achieved is if a development preserves say 20% of their total caliper inches, the garage parking requirement would be reduced from 20% down to 10% of that required parking. The why we're looking at this as a new proposal is it actually does decrease the amount of required parking garage. And then any parking that would be remaining, that would be still part of that 20%, which would be 10%. Would be required to be tuck under. So essentially any of the detached garages that would otherwise have been required would essentially go away. reducing the amount of building materials that a developer would need to utilize. For a non-residential and mixed use, 10% preservation would be completely optional. Right now there is no preservation requirement for this category and that will remain the same. But the development incentive would be limited to 25% of the total parking requirement. The number of spaces you have to have, depending on the use, that's achieved by again going above that 10% and then for every 1% above that 10, you get an equal reduction to the parking requirement up to a 25% reduction. Some additional development incentive, bonus point structure that's being added, and these would only be included as part of the development incentive for residential developments that would be one additional three point for significant stands and heritage trees, and then for all other development types, it would be one additional tree point for that enhanced significant stand. And again, that's the 10, the 10 trees five being cross timbers, oaks eight caliper inches. And then they would also receive those bonus points for the significant stand. Then some other miscellaneous rev we're including a larger purpose statement for why Arlington has a tree preservation and mitigation ordinance. We are proposing to exempt the City of Arlington National Airport from our tree preservation and mitigation standards as well as adjacent properties or abutting properties depending on FAA regulations. Four base code would be exempt from section 5.2.3 which is what we are considering tonight. If the adopted code explicitly states that exemption, then we would also have stepped up enforcement for unauthorized tree removal. Down there at the bottom is a separate action that is scheduled for your next meeting on February 25th and that would be a new fee assessment of $600 per calibre range of unauthorized removal of protected trees. So this is just a in summary slide. I do want to highlight that for single family residential originally that ad tree stand definition and incentive to single family was identified as a proposed change to the UDC based on the objective here, which is to really protect Arlington's tree canopy and that it's currently not on the books in the UDC. We reverted back to not including it as part of our recommendation. So that's just a highlight there. And then what's next tonight, we have our first reading. This would continue on to February 28th or March 4th, depending on the action that's taken. And then the ordinance itself would go into effect on April 1st, if approved. It's just the items that we discussed here this evening and I'm available for any questions. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, do we have any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two speakers in support of this item. Our first speaker is Sherry K-PART. This K-PART. After Ms. Kate Part is Laura Capick. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Sherry, Kate Part, Arlington, Texas. I have some handouts for you. I'll give them to the city this evening to thank you. It's been a journey. It's been learning curve for us and maybe for you as well. But we're very happy that we've caught to this point with very thoughtful and deliberate conversation between the development community and us and all of the nature of every one of you. So we're very appreciative of the work and the time you've put into this. And tonight we're very supportive. We went to PNZ as well and the two amendments that they've proposed at the end of the staff report were We're very supportive of it. It certainly came to our attention that the 35% is not one size fits all. And we only have to look to district four and to see that development where all of those trees came down and everybody still refers to that right. And I think it was called a preserve and seemed to be a misnomer. One size is not fiddle, but generally speaking, the 35%, the vast majority of the time, it'll work. But if you have the PD available to you, I would suggest when you have a track of land like that, it's so heavily, heavily tree, that you use a little bit more discernment with the advantage of having a PD to understand that maybe if they hadn't taken them all down, right on 303, where everybody could see it and kind of land strip the whole thing, where it continues to be an irritation to everybody that drives by, it seems, that maybe with a PD, you could have at least had a little bit more input with the people. But we didn't see that. I mean, I was on the council when we did that. They met the 35 percent. It never occurred to us all 35 percent would come right off of 303. So we would ask that you consider that. And the thing that I've just passed out to you is something that my neighborhood did. And so it kind of refers back to Mayor Pro Tem, Barbara Odom Westley back in 2020, when we were first tharning down this path. And she said, as many of the council members did, we didn't know we had a forest. Well, we did. And there's even a book that's been written about it, called The Iron Forest. And so yes, Arlington has a forest. And as I've said many times and you've heard it, we have the largest remaining stand of the Eastern Cost Himmers Forest. And Barbara said, we need to advertise that. We need to let people know. So our neighborhood took that first step. And what you have is a sign that we made, that we would encourage other neighborhoods that have, that are in the Cost Himmers Forest pretty easy to identify them if you go on Cooper Street or headed south to North pretty much everything if I may finish me no thank you ma'am okay can or no no okay thank you I'm a stick you know I'm a stickler for time limits Next speaker mr. Busken our next speaker is Laura K pick Did he think council later I Would just personally like to think the groups that have worked with us so closely over the last several months, the planning department, the municipal policy committee. And it's always a challenge when you start something to where it finishes, especially if you do it with the city. It just seems like it takes forever. The South, the Sherry Cape Art Nature Preserve seemed to take forever, but it's been a jewel in the city. And here we are in the cross timbers. As Sherry was saying, do you know that there are only three stands of the original cross timbers in North Texas? And we have the largest and we need to protect it. I had hoped or we had all hoped that our last policy would work. It didn't. So we're hoping now with a little bit more bite into it, this will work. I don't know if we'll ever make the developers happy, but the trees will be happier, and the communities will be happier. So again, I would just like to thank everybody that's been involved in this and getting it to this point and would love to see it passed and see if we don't, maybe have to go four years before we don't see it working, and we can try something else. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Recognize council member Odom Wesley. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to say thank you to Sherry K. Part and Impact for bringing this to our attention and for sticking with it through all of these many months and studying the issue and helping all of us to realize how valuable our three resources are. And I am hopeful that this ordinance will accomplish what we set out to do and place value on this natural resource and protect it from any further, I guess, unnecessary removal. Thank you all. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers, sir? No, sir, no additional speakers. We did have four non-speakers in support of this item. Thank you, sir. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Boxel, a second from Council Member Hunter. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Congratulations, impact. And the mayor, the revised ordinance is what on the table is what you all are approving. Thank you. There is the revised ordinance that everybody has in front of us and that was what was approved today for the record. 10.2 Ms. Thoppel. Thank you Mayor. Item number 10.2 zoning case CA 24-17. PD 24-17. Is a request to change the zoning from community commercial CC and plan development light and dustLI to a plan development for community commercial PDCC for telecommunication tower greater than 75 feet on approximately 1.832 acres of land addressed at 2007 Northwest Green Oaks Boulevard. generally located north of Northwest Reno, Spullerward and east of Wilma Lane. Just south. at 2007 Northwest Green Oaks Boulevard, generally located north of Northwest Green Oaks Boulevard and east of Wilma Lane, just south of city of Fort Words, Village Creek wastewater treatment plant. The applicant is proposing a 80 foot tall tower that is within the required three is to one distance to height set back on well up from a single family residential zoning district to its west and Hence the PD rezoning request this evening. We have Alan Skivoli from Roddus towers who will be presenting the case for us. This is good early Good evening mayor and council members Alan civilly with broader services from Dauer, thanks and gardens. Representing Verizon for this tower. They've been looking in this area for quite a while. Finally found this location. We do not meet the setbacks are residential. The residential that we don't meet the setbacks to is the wastewater treatment plant to the west and north of the subject property. We do meet the setbacks to the residential that's across green oaks to the south. We did try to set the tower back off of green oaks. One, there's a lot of trees on the property that we intend to leave. And they will create a natural buffer and barrier from not only the residents, but also traffic along green oaks. The other item I know was exceeding the 75 foot. The tower itself is 75 foot with a five foot lightning rod on top for the 80 foot total height. In working through all of this, we did meet with several of the residents that live in the homes that are in the neighborhood to the south that are on the south side of Green Oaks. The majority are all of the response that we received wasn't supportive of the tower. Many of them saying that they haven't had good cell service in the 10 plus years that they've lived in this neighborhood. They have automatic gate and a lot of times the gate can't even get a signal to call whoever you're trying to go visit so they can't let people in. Issues of when emergencies happen, you call 911. Either you don't have service or you do have service but get connected to a tower that's in another city. So you get connected to city's non-1-1 service and have to be delayed and transferred. So a lot of issues that the residents in the area had that hopefully will be alleviated by this. One of the other concerns that was brought up at the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting was that this area, I believe to the north is some parks that have bird watching and things of that nature and so concern if there would be any hindrance or impediment to that. Our response on that is there are, on just north of where our tower will be, a run of on-core transmission lines that are both taller and larger. So there are gonna be more of an eye sore than our tower would be. And our tower is not going to have to be lit or anything, so there won't be any obtuse in there as well. So I think we've done everything we can to try and find the best possible solution here and hope that you would agree, and I'm available, anyone has any questions as well. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any speakers on this item? No additional speakers on this item. We do have one non-speaker in support on this item. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Hogg. A second from Council Member Galotte, please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, sir. Miss Stoppill, 10.3, please. Thank you, Mayor. Agenda item 10.3, zoning case, Z824-9, is a request to change the zoning from residential estate, our E2 community commercial CC on approximately quarter acre of a site addressed as 8,000 seventh South Cooper Street generally located east of South Cooper Street and north of West Turner, Warnell Road. The property is undeveloped. The intended use is a parking lot to serve the Chiropractor Office immediately adjacent to the site which is currently currently zone CC, and hence the rezoning request to CC. After the properties rezoned, the applicant will submit a reply to combine the two properties into one lot. This evening we have Charles crook on behalf of Charles crook consulting ink presenting the case for us. Sir. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Councilmembers, my name is Charles Crook. I'm from Mansfield, Texas. It's a little bit south of here. This property is just barely in Arlington. You throw a rock and it's in Mansfield. It's down on woodland. This is really just kind of a clean up case more than anything. This property was originally planted in zone for commercial. It has been there for some time. There's been a need for parking lot in the back there for all the overflow. You can see that there's just parking in the front, not along the edge of 157. So it's just kind of limited parking there. So by building this parking lot, we're not only going to be able to give him additional parking for his employees for the two suites that are in there, but also to be able to take care of some of the drainage issues that are associated with this particular area that won't get into that. I'm an engineer that will not tell you how watch this made. So we have been able to accomplish all that with this. When we went into plat that property for the parking lot, along with what's already there, we were asked to get the zoning change to be consistent with the other also. That's pretty much all that we're doing here. So I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, sir. We do have the owner here in case you have some questions. Thank you. How you doing? Mr. Buskin and the other speakers on this item? Yes, there are no additional speakers on this item. Thank you, sir. We do have the honor here in case you have some questions. Thank you. How are you doing? Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this item? No, sir, no additional speakers on this item. Thank you, sir. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Peel. A second from Council Member Fan, please cast your vote. Motion passes, thank you, sir. Congratulations. Ms. Thoppel, 10.4 please. Thank you Mayor, agenda, sir. Congratulations. Ms. Thoppel, 10.4 please. Thank you, Mayor. A gender item 10.4, zoning case PD 24-5 at 901 West Abrams Street. This half acre site is generally located north of West Abrams Street and west of Proctor Place. is currently zone downtown neighborhood overlay plan development DNO-PD for RMF-22 residential multi-family 22 uses but has an expired development plan which was for 10 units. This rezoning request comes with a new development plan for a similar type of development, but with eight townhome style rental units. The applicant is in west as one REI represented by Dave Parish. However Dave's under the weather today and instead his engineer Mike Molga will be presenting the case this evening. Mike, if this fails, I'm going to call Dave telling me you just screwed this whole thing up. No pressure. Okay I got your back brother. Thank you I appreciate you. All right. Say good evening mayor good evening counselors. My name is Mike Mulgee I'm with Kim Lee Horn I'm a resident Frisco Texas. The project that you see before you. No think Mike we don't let that F word be in set in here okay., already started off on a bad foot already So the project you see before you is an eight unit town home project The units from the project are for bed for four four bedand-a-half bath with walk-in closets and two car garages. What the architecture that you see before you is the results of a lot of work with city staff. We were actually denied at our first PNZ, ticked the feedback we received, adjusted the architecture. We've increased the brick, increased the size of the windows, added black framing to all the windows for appearance purposes, added covered balconies, raw iron fencing for door yard frontage with the covered entry, as well as added window awnings to get to the version of the plan that you see here. Along with this, the civil plan has gone through about a little over a year of coordination with town staff. Major points, I would say, are tree preservation. Dave's going to be paying about $2,000 in tree preservation just due to the limitations of the site. From a 2D perspective, there's not a whole lot of area to work with. He's making the most of what he has. And then property management. They're working on vendor selection for the ultimate property management of the site. The last thing I want to hit on kind of the big point is the amenities of the site. amenities are there's door yard frontage with covered front entry so for safety for each resident covered balconies, gated pedestrian and vehicular access you can actually see in the picture here the fencing along what would be Abrams will actually have a locking gate for pedestrians to access. The vehicular access is on the backside. You can't see in this particular picture. Landscape and maintenance will be included for the residents as part of their rent. And this site is actually just down the street from where we're located here. So it's got walkable access to UTA downtown and the Maverick Activity Center. So there's two playgrounds, or two parks with playgrounds, picnic areas, basketball courts, hiking bike, and nature areas within close proximity of this project. It's pretty much all I have to present to you. So I'm here for any questions if you have any, and I thank you for your time. Thank you, sir, Mr. Busk and any other speakers on this item? No, sir. No additional speakers on this item. Thank you, sir. Mike. Yes, sir. That's a pretty good deal you did there. Okay. So we'll see how this works out. Okay. All right. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Councilmember Boxel, a second from Councilmember Pham. Please cast your vote. From the Lord, please. Look at there. Motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Beautiful project. Thank you for doing this. Appreciate it. Let me forward to work with you. Even though you're from that other place. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. It's thopple. We don't have any more of those afford people coming in here. Do we? No control. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mayor. 10.5, please. Agenda item 10.5, zoning case PD 24-26. Tropinant sports soccer complex. It's a request to change the zoning from neighborhood commercial and C and community commercial C, C, to a planned development for neighborhood commercial plus recreation outdoor uses with the development plan on approximately 10.64 acres for the development of a soccer and a foot-solc complex. The site is addressed at 6601 and 6881 silo road and in generally located north of east Eden Road and east of silo road. The site is currently undeveloped. The proposed development is planned in three phases phase one will include the construction of the outdoor ball fields and the concession stand. Second phase will include the construction of a 24,000 square foot structure with two indoor fields and a retail space. And the third phase is outside of this PD side and is planned for a restaurant. For the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendation, the applicant will be providing a row of vegetation along the length of parking area and drive off of Siler Road to create a visual buffer from the complex to the adjacent residential development to the north. They will also include a public announcement system PA system for the site for emergency purposes and will install a lightning warning system for the entire development. The applicant is MMA land development presented represented by Nikki Moore who will be presenting the case this evening Miss Moore Good evening this has actually been a really fun project that I've gotten the privilege to work on So, Trapon and complex three regulatory proteins that are integral to muscle contraction I think it's the perfect name for a project taking these three parts of community health and bringing them together, those being sport and recreation, community and the social and physical health aspect. Soccer or foot saw is one of those sports that has a really low cost of entry to play and can include several people at one time. It's like indoor soccer, however, foot sols played on hard courts, not artificial turf or grass, and there are no walls. The site is currently zone community commercial and neighborhood commercial, and so we're requesting a zoning change to the less intensive use of neighborhood commercial with a plan development for indoor and outdoor recreation. I think that this is a great location being nestled in more of a residential area with single family homes and close proximity to schools where kids can walk. We have Ashworth Elementary to the North and Seguine High School to the South. Lenn Creek Trail provides great connectivity from the site from further neighborhoods without having to use vehicular connection. The first phase will feature an 11-V11 turf field that can accommodate soccer, football, and lacrosse training, as well as four foot-sol courts that can also be used for basketball, volleyball, and even pickleball. In addition to the outdoor amenities, there will be warm-up areas, concessions, and restroom facilities. The second phase, which is closer to Silo Road, will include 20,000 square feet of ground floor retail retail and two additional indoor soccer fields on the second floor. The third phase will be a small restaurant pad site. This slide shows more of a three-dimensional view of how the complex will be laid out. The aiming of those commercial uses will be more complimentary to the sports component of this site, another viewpoint of the outdoor fields. And then this rendering here exhibits more of a standing ground perspective of the outdoor portion. These four ball filled lights, they're about 60 feet in height and they'll comply with the UDC setback requirements as it relates to the proximity to single-family homes. To minimize noise and light disturbances, the facility will operate on a community-friendly schedule, use advanced lighting technology to reduce light spillage in the surrounding area and prohibit the use of drums, trumpets, and loud music of that sort. That phase three, which is not a part of the PD, but also part of the development, will be a very small footprint pad site. So think like a HTO, Starbucks I'll let you go, that type of like takeaway type restaurant. And then you know, this component's border arena will be a regional training facility. Primarily focused on after school, youth sports training and weekend tournaments. The community benefit is implying, providing employment opportunities to youth, such as roles as coaches, referees, front desk staff, and field assistance. We run on a membership cost basis plus team fees for seasons, personalized coaching, and training of those types of facilities. So we really do believe like there's tons of these types of facilities more in the grapevine South Lake area in the brisco, sorry sir. Area and so I think it's a really great opportunity to have this type of facility in South Arlington. It really benefits those young athletes who maybe don't have the benefit of traveling so far to get this type of competitive training in their sport. And with that that concludes my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. We'll recognize Councillor Member Hunter. Thank you. Nikki, I know we had a conversation. I wanted to just kind of clarify, were you able to reach out to the community? That's right behind you, which would be streets such as Snap Dragon, which would face the back of it out on you. Yes, ma'am, we did. When we sent out the notices, I had a few responses from folks that live at the 6,760-706 SnapDragon specifically. They reached out to me over a phone call and in person, they wanted to just know more about the project, and after speaking with them, they were supportive and excited that something like this was going to be able to come to their neighborhood. So yes, ma'am. Okay, one more question. So my one concern that I do have for the neighborhoods is the possible noise level. Yeah. How would that be addressed on there? Yeah, absolutely. So I think they're going to have, I think when we think of soccer facilities, we think of really loud, cashews and things like that. So those will be prohibited. There also is, if I can go back to my site plan here. Okay, so right there along that drainage channel that is also a buffer up against that single family neighborhood, that drainage channel is already preexisting and is 75 feet wide in and of itself. And then we are also going through implanting additional trees along that neighborhood fence line on our property line so that that is also acting as more of a sound mitigator along that area. But you know I think just having the rules and of one I guess ownership entity that's managing all of those games and stuff like that and really watching will eliminate the noise complaints. Okay, one last question. Okay. So this would be right across from Seguin High School. Yes ma'am. As well as you said ashwood. Yes. So obviously traffic is bad on solo at certain points of the day. Sure. Has that been taken into accountability with this be on the weekend evenings? Yes. So we expect more of these type of facility to be open in those after school hours. So after school is dismissed and then also on those weekend hours. So kind of working with the schools and trying to eliminate having programs start right around there when schools out for dismissal. So that 320, which I think is elementary and the more 250 to 45 for the upper high school. And so just having those, I think on the weekends, those are gonna be really great opportunities for kids to just be able to walk and to pay this membership to play games without having to rely on maybe parents who are working who would have to normally transport them to these types of games. So I really actually love the fact that this is nestled close to schools and neighborhoods and things like that to give more of a walkable resource, a positive interaction for these children. Okay, I do want to say thank you for reaching out to the neighborhoods. You know I'm very protective of my neighborhood. Yes, ma'am. You know me. So I do want to say thank you on that. For that you have won my support. Thank you. I was a little bit on the fence at first, but thank you. You're quite welcome. Councillor Wemble-Hog. Thank you, Mayor. Nikki, thank you for bringing this and thank you to your client, Dr. and his wife, who I met with them, I think, before they even hired y'all. And thank y'all for being, for one innovative. I think South Arlington needs something of this nature. I was a little hesitant when it first came out on the project, but And as each stage of worry-all-of-gone, you have made this project better each time of how it has been developed. I was overly impressed. The first time they met with me, how prepared they truly were. I was expecting a basic drawing and they were pretty far advanced. So I appreciate the pro-activeness on this and Councilman Hunter, I think there is that concern over that backside, but I think that 70 foot, that 70 foot giant drainage easement back there does give that buffer and the way the lights are set up. I do think there may be a little, a few houses there that probably aren't the most happy about it, but overall for the entire neighborhood, I think it's a good thing for the entire neighborhood and the entire South Arlington community over there. So I fully support this. Thank you, sir. Mickey, were you gonna put some multifamily on here for Mr. Hogg at all? No, I've actually have no multi-family here tonight. You're so welcome. Yes. I was gonna make sure of that. Mr. Baskin, do we have any other speakers on this item? Yes, sir, we do not. Okay. I'm going to close the public hearing just for the record. I really love this project. This for me, this is checking all the boxes and doing some great things in this part of town. And I love. I have a motion from Councilmember Gonzales, a second from Councilmember Galante, please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, shall. Okay, we're going to move on down to 10.6, Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Agenda item 10.6, zoning case PD 24-30. One-away cottages is a request to change the zoning from neighborhood commercial and see to a plan development PD for RS-5, residential single family 5, with a development plan on approximately 5.2 acres, addressed as 7708 South Cooper Street, generally located northwest of the intersection of Wandaway and South Cooper Street. The site is undeveloped, some background and the site in 2011, it was zoned as a PD for NC uses with a development plan for an assisted living facility in an office. That development never came to Prussian. So in 2022, the owner came back to council to get it re-zoned back to NC to market the property for sale. The current PD proposal is for 29 detached single family units in lots ranging from 3850 square feet to 10,500 square feet in size, with a lot width of 40 to 50 feet. This afternoon staff provided a memo to counsel with a new opposition email received from a neighbor, the applicant's typical lot layouts, and the applicant has agreed to increase the minimum living area to 1,500 square feet. A revised ordinance to that effect was placed at your desk, which also includes the applicant's request to have the rear building facade with one material instead of two materials, as recommended by the Planning and Z and zoning commission Additionally, I also forwarded you an email with the applicant's response on the floor plan request Indicating that they will be very similar to the Hogan cottage's project on 287 highway and it did have a floor plan a typical floor plan The applicant is MMA Representediki Moore, who will be presenting the case this evening. This more. Welcome back. OK. Hello again. So this time I'm doing single family for cell project this week. No multi-family still. OK. So this site is located in very far south Arlington, where South Cooper intersects with Wandaway. It previously did have a plan development for an assisted living that never materialized. I can tell you from personal experience, many developers have looked at this property for a variety of residential uses, including multi-family, but not for commercial use. The comprehensive plan calls for rural residential, meaning the single-family detached homes up to four units per acre or neighborhood convenience type commercial. As you can see from this zoning slide, the site is surrounded by single-family lots. There's an opportunity to provide a four cell housing option here in an alternate lot size to facilitate housing diversity in this area. A slight increase to 5.6 dwelling units per acre seems appropriate as we approach more of a busier thoroughfare but staying consistent with the same surrounding scale and form of that neighborhood. One of the major limiting factors that deters commercial uses from developing here is the fact that text-taught only allows one entrance every 425 feet. So you can really realistically only get one access point from this site, including the vacant land to the north before you get to seclusion ridge. And that's why a lot of commercial developers pass over this site and choose other sites. Taking a closer look at the site plan. I call this the perfect trick or treating neighborhood. It's not a lot of commercial developers pass over this site and choose other sites. Taking a closer look at the site plan, I call this the perfect trick or treating neighborhood. It's not a lot of houses. They're a little bit close together. You can make the loop and you can go home, okay? The lots around the perimeter are programmed to be 40 foot wide front lots with front entry garages. The homes that are facing that common area in the center of the development are 35 foot wide lots with rear entry garages. And, as since those homes will face that common area, that common landscaped area, the site plan was oriented around a 27 inch caliper post oak in the center of that community. We wanted it to be a focal point as you drove in. There will be masonry screen walls programmed along Cooper and wand away with additional landscaping and trees. The remainder of the community will have that more six foot wood traditional backyard fence that you see in neighborhoods. We are at the 40% tree preservation mark as well. As for the community's side, you will find a very similar housing product to Hogan's cottages, as was mentioned earlier by staff. The builder is Graham Hart. They're a well-known luxury home builder here in the DFW area and they have a couple of neighborhoods already programmed here in Arlington. The builder has, as we mentioned earlier too, the floor plans, these lot sizes at Hogan's cottages are a little bit smaller than actually what we're proposing here. These lots that we're proposing in this development are deeper. And so that is giving Grant Heart the opportunity to redo their floor plans and add a primary bedroom on the first floor, which is more desirable to homeowners. And so that's what they're in the process of doing. So should this site plan kind of be approved tonight, then they will move forward with that change of floor plan, which also in essence changed the elevations as well. The builder has committed to utilizing two different building materials on each home. They would prefer not to necessarily commit to using two building materials on all four sides. And I give the example of one story home. Having a a, let's say a stone Wayne's code around the back end wouldn't provide a lot of visual value, but would require a completely different facade change. And so would it be OK if we continue just having brick on the rear and having only one building material there, but having the stone Wayne's code or columns on the front of the home.. I kind of provide that as an example as to why they're requesting that kind of deviation from what planning and zoning asked for. With that being said, I think revisiting the Hogan's Cottage development and using those 2024 TAD values of those recent home cells, it provided us with a really good case study comparison in between new home cells and a price per square foot basis in the existing neighborhood home cells as well. So you can see that Hogan's cottages are slightly larger square footage but on a smaller lot they sold at a higher price per square foot. So we normally see that as an inverse relationship. The smaller the home, the higher the price per square foot. That's not what we're seeing here. And then also as well, we have a seclusion rich neighborhood that's just north of this site. And those homes are on average twice the size of square footage and they're priced at around $189 per square foot. So we're only within a $6 difference, which tells us that these smaller lots with modest size homes of like those 2,000 square foot homes. They're really what the market is demanding at this time. And it doesn't negatively impact the property values of the surrounding area. And with that, we'll answer any questions. Thank you. Council Member Boxel. Thank you. You and I spoke earlier. I'm concerned about the backyards that face Cooper Street. We have that situation all over town and it's really not desirable on a busy thoroughfare. So I would like to discuss what you can do to make that a better situation. I did get your cut sheet on the fencing material. I'm not quite convinced yet, but I don't think it's the material that I was thinking that it was. So I think it could work. They were a lot of options there. Some of them were quite attractive and others were less so. So maybe when you come back for your second time if it passes tonight, you could bring us more detail on that fencing. Okay. I do agree that the homes that their backs face Cooper Street will look nicer if they had one material and that material being brick would be very nice, especially if they're two story homes. Okay. And then I guess that's about it. I don't quite understand the earlier conversation we had about the front porch. It doesn't look like you have any front porch at all. On these, with this floor plan, there's no front porch. You just kind of side along the side of the garage to get to your front door. So that I didn't quite get that whole conversation, I guess. Sure, let me maybe I can provide a little more color to that. So I think these are what are being offered at Hogan's cottage. So they have the recessed porch that's behind the garage line. I think what we were thinking was that if we allowed that porch to encroach in front of that garage the front facade It would create a more pleasing street escape so you'd focus more on the front door instead of the garages But if that is not desirable and we kind of like this look that has already been approved in Arlington Then we're willing to say hey, we don't need that slight encroachment will continue with the front porches being well would still be very narrow So I'm not sure it really really help the elevation at all. And that's okay, we're willing to, you know, lay that one aside if that's, if that's what you're choosing. Yeah, I don't see that it would really help you. I mean, you could add some more square footage with the long insurance hallway, I guess. But I'm just really more concerned about the back the ones adjacent to Cooper. And that's where my concern is. I want them to look as attractive as possible, because we have that situation all over town. A lot of them, the fences are deteriorating or whether they're wood or brick or whatever, they're just not attractive. And this is a major thoroughfare through Arlington. So I'm gonna vote for it tonight, but I'm hoping you'll bring us a little bit more information about that fencing and the back facade to those buildings. Okay, we can do that. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have three speakers in opposition. Our first speaker in opposition is Tim Smith. Mr. Smith. Okay. Our next speaker in opposition is Matthew Smith. Okay. Our next speaker in opposition is Matthew Smith. After Mr. Smith is Bill Danicky. Excuse me, just a minute, hold on one second before you start Mr. Gonzalez. Do you want to wait or do you just go ahead, Mr. Smith? Hi, Matthew Smith, 6416, darn what happening forward Texas. So if you could pull up the side plan from the developer's presentation. I'd like to start by just reading off Y'all's residential design standards from your unified development code. DE and F state that the purpose of Y'all's design standards are to enhance residential streetscape and diminish the prominence of garages in parking areas, protect property values, and ensure the compatibility of infill residential development with the existing characters surrounding neighborhoods. So in the staff report, it's very clear that staff does not agree with the use in the density as mixing in with this area. I'll get to that in a second. I had a presentation plan. But so the PD application, a couple of items that were incomplete. In my opinion, building elevations and non-residential design standards, elevation drawings have all sides of building, showing dimensions, height, building materials, color, texture, and design. Only one facade was presented and it actually is the same exact facade as Hogan's alley. It's a copy and paste which, and you also design centers that one of the design centers is to present uniqueness in each development. Preliminary drainage analysis if required by zoning administrator for this request. From the front of the property to the back of the property neighboring the Maldonautas and Levantas. It's a 20-foot drop. A 14,000 square foot detention pond in my expertise is not close to adequate. If you look at the racetrack up at Harris, their detention pond is 19,000 square feet on two acres. And if you look at the 711 down at, I forget where just the south, their centriplons 13,000 square feet on 1.25 acres. My parents house frequently floods, where there's pictures I have here. Traffic impact analysis or circulation analysis, if required by the zoning administrator. The measuring wall they're proposing completely blocks all the visibility turning left onto the Cooper Street. There's been countless accidents since the 25 years that my parents have lived there. There was a right diesel lane for a while. They went three lanes on each side. Recently and that know, the road is not big enough for increased traffic one to way that is. It's a dead end street. There's a one way out into this proposed neighborhood from a fire perspective. I don't know if that meets Yols code. And then I've countless other comments. I don't have them much time, but especially the retaining wall. That would be up against Levanta and Maldonado's house. How high the homes would sit and then the tension pond. There's no drainage easement or grading easements proposed on the east side plan at all. Ultimately the tension pond has to outfall and they are seeking five deviations from the development. So thank you, sir. Don't run off yet, sir. Mr. Smith, hold on one second. In response to this. Let me ask a question, maybe, are you the engineer? No, I'm a real estate developer. Okay, maybe Jensi can answer this. Jensi, the detention pond. Is it on the high side of the site? It is on the low side. But so it drains in that direction. It doesn't drain towards Cooper. Correct. So where does all the drainage for the whole community? Does it drain DeWanda? Where is the outfall? So they have provided a detention pond. Through the PD process, we do not receive the final engineering plans for how the whole outfall, from the detention pond, what the outfall would be. All of that information is not received during the zoning entitlement process. But that is something that can be requested if there is a concern. Yeah, I am newly concerned about that. I didn't know about that. And also, I didn't realize there's a 20 foot drop on the, is it the west side? No, it's the whole side all the way to the Maldonados in Le Bonas there. I mean, the whole drop from the front of Cooper Street to the Creek is 40 feet. So to contain that mass of flow, it's not possible with a 12,000 foot. So where is the 20 foot retaining wall? Where is that? No, it's the drop from Cooper to the back of that side is 20 feet. So the 20 foot fall, okay. But the retaining wall that would have to be placed to make that level work. Anything would work grade wise. I mean mean Levanta and the Maldonautos will be staring up at homes in my opinion though the retaining wall would be Gen. C on the on the residential side abouting the the existing residential on the west I think so 20 feet quite a big Retaining wall. I'm not saying I'm not saying the size of it. I'm saying the. It won't be that hot. So you're going to have everybody speaking. So it's going to slope there. So you'll have a retaining wall. It won't be 20 feet. There will be some other dimension. So yeah, because it would be nice to know those things. It would be nice to know what that retaining wall height will be at that end and other information if we can have it. Just for clarification, those are things done at the PD stage. But if you know the site one's going to change, hack, and prove the site. Please don't interrupt. I'm sorry. Those are things done at the PD stage. They're not. But if you know the cyclone's going to change, I'm sure the cyclone interrupt. I'm sorry. Okay. Those are things done at the PD stage, not at the zoning stage. This is a good permit stage, rather. So, you know, I think we may be getting the cart before the horse here on this because we've yet to be able to see anything to address those concerns there. I guess my question to you would be, I don't think you're going to want multi-family out there, correct? I mean, this hoards on a multi-family. Okay. So you'd be okay with multi-family is what you're doing? No, it's zone never commercial and everybody in the neighborhood's font that I would, and they're not against resident, we're not against residential. I think it's just this application is incomplete. I think reaching out in the neighborhood, seeing, but you understand some of the issues you've raised. Correct, they're on the PDA application if you're busted. Yes. And the PDA, if you approve the site plan, then the site plan is locked now. And those items can be requested for a PE, especially changing from commercial to residential. Right, right. Right. Right. Mr. Gonzalez. Yeah, I want to get a chance to come up here if you want to address any of those concerns. I'm going to invite her back up here in a minute. Well, I was going to wait then. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you, sir Mr. Buskin do we have any other speakers? Yes, sir. We have one additional speaker in opposition bill Daniki Good evening, Mr. Mayor and City Council members. My name is Bill Danicky. I live in Solution Ridge, which is a 58 home gated community just north of the property that you're considering right now. My major concern is the property value issue. I know that Nikki spoke to you about the price per square foot. But the value of the home's in-solution ridge range from $600,000 up to probably $1.2 million. And I don't know the price point that the applicant has put place on their property but I suspect it's significantly lower. So I don't think it's a good comparison just to look at the price per square foot so I would encourage the council to consider the total value. I really don't believe that the plan that they are proposing with the types of homes would be compatible with the neighborhood that we have in Scythlusion Ridge, which is a gated community. We're also concerned about the fact that the approval of this particular project could set in motion a process where the next lot that is owned by another individual would merge into the same types, if not the same builder who ultimately negotiate the price for that particular property. It's basically we're concerned that it will creep towards conclusion rich. Now we did not receive any notification. particular property. It's basically we're concerned that it will crepe towards Scythlusion Ridge. Now we did not receive any notification of this meeting tonight or of the Planning and Zoning Committee meeting earlier. And the reason we didn't we understand is because we are not within the distance parameters as set by the Sea of Arlington, which is fine. But ultimately, we will be addressing that as it moves forward north towards the city towards Soutland Ridge. That's all the presentation that I have right now. So if you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers, sir? No, sir, no additional speakers. We also had four non-speakers in support, and five non-speakers in opposition. Thank you, sir. I'm going to invite the applicant, Miss Moore, if you'd like to have any rebuttal, you're welcome to. Thank you, sir. I'm going to go down the list. If I forget anything, please stop me and I can add to that. So from a PD application standpoint, so when we do, you know, single family homes, you know, a lot of times we do or sometimes we don't have a builder in tow, right? So you're, in this case, we do. They are alternating their floor plans to accommodate these more larger lot size from a previous product that they have developed here in Arlington And so when you change your floor plan that impacts your elevations it impacts where your windows are going and things of that nature There's a lot of costs associated with that. So it was not from an incomplete application standpoint But more from hey, this is relatively what we're going to try to create here There are going to be a few changes, but we want to give you a pretty good representation of what is going to be allowed. The PD standards are really what is going to drive ultimately what the builder will be required at that permitting phase. With that being said, so MMA has done a preliminary drainage study on this site. We do not have any particular size or height of retaining walls programmed. We do believe that is adequately, the detention is adequately sized for this particular site because we do still have a lot of pervious coverage in terms of like runoff and the surrounding. And so the idea with the detention is to hold our water and hold our drainage until the appropriate time as to not create any adverse impact downstream. And so when we get into engineering design phase, that will all be shifted out. And we will have to beat those standards before we are ever allowed to begin grading, which would actually impact that level of fall that he was speaking to. With that being said, in traffic, the Fins line, of course, will be outside of those visibility triangles as would be required by the engineering design code manual, as well as there are talks and plans and process of, you know, how do we create the appropriate amount of pavement and roadway improvements for a wanderway right there up into the development. As for fire code, you can have one entrance in and out of the neighborhood if you were less than 30 homes, so it does meet City of Arlington's fire code regulation. We'll see what else. Oh, from a traffic standpoint, so what would be allowed here by right? We significantly reduce the traffic 100 times less than what could be developed by right from an AM to PMP power. 29 homes only really provides 22 trips during the AMP power and 29 trips during the PMP power, where a 30,000 square foot retail strip could produce up to 228 trips during the AMP power and 39 398. So by approving this development, you're actually reducing the traffic impact along Cooper and Wandaway. As for the second speaker, so I began having conversations with Seclusion Ridge and of these upcoming appointments. I started back in October of 30. If I talk to Mr. the speaker up here earlier, success.. Thank you. Mr. Gonzalez. Did you have any questions for the speaker? You you want to what you were saying about the speaker the last one? I want to hear you just saying like we did start telling them and having conversations because we know that they were outside of the 200 mark, but we wanted to definitely get their input. I have actually stood in front of that neighborhood on a very cold January night to talk about multifamily, which they did not want. And some of the feedback at that meeting was, hey, we could support a smaller footprint, single family home for sale, but not necessarily multifamily. And that was the conversation at this time. And so knowing how vocal they were, I initially reached out to them beginning in October and have been in email conversations, but was never provided an opportunity to get in front of the whole group again on this project. Second of all, in terms of the price per square footage, that's how we break it down so we can compare apples to apples. But if you're in the center, he didn't ask that question, so I was like, you were there. I was addressing his concern. Sorry. You just took it like you had another three minutes and you can keep going. Well, I mean, I'll feel space if you're going to give it to me. Yeah. Thank you for keeping us all under control. So I appreciate it. I just want to first, I'm the city councilman for that district. I've been at the City Councilman for four years and I've had nothing but family. Multi-family people are wanting to develop there. I've tried to get commercial there forever. The same issue with regards to getting only one interest into the development was going to happen. So I've known Mr. Gary Knot. He has developed quite a bit in South Arlington. If you know the preserve of green oaks, it's one of the top quality products that have been out there. It's one of the best. He also did another one. It's called Notts Landing, offered 287 Eden, a him and a son. And so we had different meetings and I told him what I really wish we could have in South Arlington is homes that are attainable that people that can not start their homes, but people that can afford a little better price rather than these big ones, because we have the big real estate homes in South Arlington, which I know is important. Suclusion Ridge is one of the top that we have. I know that was a big issue. We've had different developments trying to come in, and they are very well connected, which I respect. I connect with the President very much every time something comes up. So we have great connection, great correspondence. So whenever with Mr. Knot, I said, make sure you get a hold of seclusion ridge and all the people wander away because wanderway I've been to those homes. They're big and so we got to make sure they're all happy. So I appreciate everybody's – everybody that's worked on this. I really wish I could bring homes like the inclusion ridge. I really wish. We've all talked about that in Arlington. I don't see that happening ever again in every near future. Whether this is, we have to decide what's the best use for this property. I really believe it would be nice to have homes where people can buy homes, brand new homes. We've seen what's happened on other parts of Arlington when they've gone down. I've lived in South Arlington. For 36 years and I lived in the hardest deep part and I saw what happened to those neighborhoods and now live on the other side of Cooper and I've lived there for 31 years. So I just want good affordable housing, attainable housing that's high quality and I think we should not if would you like to address you know I've had this discussion forever and all. 31 years so I just want good affordable housing, attainable housing that's high quality. And I think we should not, would you like to address, you know, you and I've had this discussion forever and all the questions that come up from all these. I wanna restrict any other speakers that haven't been put on screen. So we're gonna keep it in order here. And I think I got my niggies mixed up and I think I called you Ms. Hunter, Denidai. I didn't sorry about that. To both of you, Nicky's. Mr. Hogg. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I'll get it right, Miss Moore. Thank you for not bringing multifamily. I'm okay with the, getting the reputation of anti-multifamily guy, I have no problem with that. Let me ask one question. I did a good question from all of our PNZ commissioners. On the gross, I know we're still in zoning here, but on the gross living, you all, you'll have taken it down to 1200. How many of those? What percentage will be the below 1500 square feet? So they're not. So we are, as our staff mentioned earlier today, sending email, we're, were fine with meeting the UDC requirements of minimum of 1,500. Realistically, I would say the smallest home would be within that 16 to 1,800 range, especially if we wanted to do a complete one story home, which is to the benefit. I mean, I would tell you, that's what my parents are looking for, my parents are looking for, to stay in Arlington. They want a brand new home, but they don't want a two story home that they can age in. But they also want a smaller lot size, less to take care of as they age, but to age in the community in which they have raised their family. And so that 16 to 1800 would probably be consistent of the one story homes. But I would say a majority of these homes are going to be in the 2000 range. And they're even, they're going to be priced to sell between $450 to $1, which I don't think is small change. No not at all. Thank you. You're welcome Thank you sir Miss Thoppel before I go to the next council member there is a proposed revised ordinance that your office sent to council You might explaining what that revised ordinance is yes so in So in the revised ordinance, which I had emailed and then a hard copy was kept on your desk at the afternoon work session. But I will go through the item number six on exhibit B. The minimum living area will be 1,500 square feet. That was one change. The second change was under the building setbacks. The front setback for the four lots with the rear loaded garages will be 10 feet. The street rear setback, meaning a long cooper and one away will be 10 feet. That was, I think we had previously put as 15 feet. So after we got the clarification with the typical lock layouts that was changed to show us 10 feet, the exterior finish materials, all units shall consist of two materials for all elevations except the rear building elevation. That is the request of the applicant that differs from the Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation. So that was also added there. And then we had missed to add the mandatory homeowners association requirement. So that was also placed. Thank you, ma'am. I'm going to recognize Council Member Billante. Thank you, Nick, for bringing this project in a, the last, do a great work. They have great development, developments in this city. My concern is that when we get to the next phase, the engineering phase, and if you get flagged, that you need a bigger rotation pond or you need a different setback from Cooper's in the project. The economics of the project might be affected with it. So you cannot build 29 homes. Let's say that's assume 27 homes, 26. Does the economics of the project still going to work? Because you're going to have that zoning. So can you make it happen with last units in case you need more space to accommodate a bigger pond, setback or something? Can you clarify that for me please? Yes, absolutely. So when we come through the zoning, we wanna make sure that we are maximizing, and I hate using this word density, but maximizing what we can put on the site so that we have an opportunity to reduce if we need to. So, and when we do PDs, we're saying that this is the max density that would be allowed. By doing that, we are allowed to actually come in with less density. So if we need to remove a lot in order to accommodate more detention, then we will do so. In terms of the setback and I want to make sure that we all have speaking the same language, those rear setbacks to the street for the center ones or the rear facing garage of those are 20 feet so that they would have 20-foot driveways for a car to park. So we have that exhibit as well. Is that what you're referring to? So we consider that the one closer to the open space on as you have front setback that's the 10 feet and the rear setback where the drive is is 20 feet. 5-20 feet. Okay just making sure we are talking the same one. Now in terms of from Cooper you know we are having the program the 10 foot rear setback for the yard. I would say our building pad is only 30 feet wide by 70 feet deep so a lot of those lots are gonna have additional space in excess of the minimum of 10 feet and then we also have the six foot in depth HO HOA lot, which is where we plan on putting the fencing and additional landscaping along Cooper. And so while it's called something different, but it's also incorporated in terms of the distance from the homes to the property lines. I hope that kind of answers your question. Yes, we'll lose a lot if we need to to program for detention. We have the ability to do that in this PD. Okay, are you planning to bring the floor plans before the second reading? So, a pass on the packet? So, we can try. Once again, the builder is attempting to redesign those floor plans to bring the primary bedroom downstairs. It really wouldn't change necessary that front aspect. It would most likely be toward the rear of the home, that master bedroom. But we can work with the builder to make that request. That is something that y'all need before the second reading in February, correct? Yeah. And if you don't have that beacon definitely postpone, your second reading to the following. Okay. So if I support the project and put this stipulation for the for the second release, are okay? It's okay. I guess if everybody votes on it, okay, unless there hasn't been an assurance that she can get it from there And it's not something that is necessary at this stage They're telling me we can get like concept drawings. I mean they won won't be perfect. We're a long way from a building a house. We'll do that. Okay. Council member Odom Wesley. Thank you, Mayor. My question is in regards to the deviations. And I know that we have a revised email. And so what deviations remain? Is it locked with? Yes, there are still several deviations. The locked width is 40 feet minimum, instead of the 50 feet. Okay. Lock area? Lock area, yes. Minimum, locked area, 38.50 square feet. That's still a deviation. That's still a deviation. And the gross living area? That is not a deviation anymore. That was been corrected. Yes. To 1500 square feet. Correct. And then deviation for the street rear setback for all the front loaded garages, meaning a long cooper, one away all those street frontage, street rear setback will be 10 feet instead of 20 feet. And the house itself, the building design, the front loaded garages will be in front of the front facade in a few of your elevations, I think, and I don't think. And then your width of the garage, from the front facade will be more than what we allow, which is 55% of the front facade can be garage. The applicant is requesting for 67% of the front facade to be garage. So I still hear a significant number of deviations from our UDC requirements for single family. And you call it one-the-way cottages, but it also doesn't meet the standards for our cottages. So can you speak to that? Yes, of course. So cottages is just a name. It's not necessarily a reference to the type of homes there. So if there is another particular name that we would like to name the development, I think the developer would be open to calling it something else. So in terms of the deviation, so when you request a deviation to the front footage of the lot being 40 feet, you automatically impact the lot area, right? So those are two or hand in hand because you're impacting the square footage of the lot. As for the garages, once again, too, when you have a 20-foot garage on a 30-foot wide home, it is automatically going to take up a higher percentage of the front facade than it would on a home that would be wider on a 50-foot lot. So all of our deviations are stemming from the fact that we are asking for a smaller lot size, if that makes sense. So they're more comprehensive to that singular component as it relates to the set back from Cooper. It is also because we are providing a 50 foot ride of way on those interior streets so that they are public roadways as well as 20 foot in depth driveways so that people have four off-street parking spaces in that community. And so, you know, with each piece of land, you're in a box, right? You have parameters on each side of you, and so we have to decide what standards we want to be able to fit in terms of the living conditions of that neighborhood. And I think here we decided that it was more important to have 50 foot right of ways with sidewalks and deep driveways for off-street parking than it would be to make sure that we have those four extra feet in terms of the setback up against Cooper. Because if you remember, we have 10 feet at a minimum, so that's not always consistent, it could be more than 10 feet, 10 feet's the minimum, plus the six feet of HOA lot along Cooper. So that added together is 16. From that fence line, all the way to the pavement of Cooper, we have another additional 16 feet. So you have up to 32 feet from where the cars are driving, to actually where the back end of that potential home could be or more. And so from that aspect, we're labeling them different things, but the area is there, if that makes. I wish I could draw for you. Can I have a whiteboard? Thank you. I'm having a hard time visualizing it as well. And may I hand you a exhibit without being appropriate? Or did you put that exhibit? I did put it in the memo. Okay. So staff provided Jolik exhibit earlier of more of the detail, the outlining each of the setbacks along Cooper Street. So you could see how much space actually adds up, so that there's, you can visually see how much space there is actually between the back of the home and Cooper Street. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Councilmember Gonzalez. Yes. I was hoping we could continue this before it got to this Point today, because I knew all this was gonna be, everybody's gonna confuse so much, got changed from the time that it went out, especially when I see all the nodding, and the heads back there, I know this is a good product, but I want them to feel comfortable with it also. We have worked hard to get the best possible. I mean, everybody thought there were 1200, so everybody thought there were gonna be small homes. not 1200. Everything's gonna be starter homes make at 200,000. They're not 200,000. Everything's gonna be just a little... I mean, everybody thought there were 1200, so everybody thought there were going to be small homes. They're not 1200. They're going to be starter homes at 200,000. They're not 200,000. They're going to be just little crappy little homes. They're not going to be little homes. But just hearing the questions here on City Council, I'm really concerned that we're not all in the same page. I am very happy to be on this council because I love the questions that we get from City Council because that's what makes every project better. I want to thank Mr. Knott for doing that. But I just want the public to know that we have worked hard to make this project As best as possible and if there needs to be more changes You know we need to I'm available None of you have reached out to me if you reach out to me I did not get your email or phone call. I do represent you so please know that I'm there for you. I'd like to hear from you also. But I'm just rambling. Yep. You are council member Boxel. It's my district. I'm sorry. It's like, you know what? It's hard when I'm going through right now. Believe me, the fact that my family is going crazy. I like this project and I'm with you. So I'm going to be supportive of this project, Ms. Boxel. I like this project too. Everything has a lot of potential but I think a lot of this confusion comes from not having the visuals that the council needs to answer all these questions. And I would like to correct Mr. Galante I think and tell me if, Gen. C. elevations of all four sides are required in the submittal, right? Yes. Okay, and so we don't have that. Site plan of each lot is required, is that right? A typical lot layout, which we did. They did do a typical lot layout. Okay, so a lot of that confusion would be helped if we had that visual information and we just don't have it. But yeah, I'm very in favor of this project. We need more homes in this price range and in this size range and this lot size range. This is exactly what we need. But it's just a shame that we don't have more information to go on because I'm very supportive as well. And I can appreciate that. Thank you. You didn't get a question. Don't start talking again, please. Sir. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers? Yes, sir. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing and I have a motion from Councilmember Galante. Motion to continue. Why? So we can get those visuals. Are you actually making a motion to continue? Because I'm not going to support that. We've already heard the urge to continue. I'm not sure to continue. All right, I have a motion to continue from Mr. Galante. Is there a second from that, Mr. Fam, you had second in, but did you mean to second that? He's going to withdraw his second. This box will seconds it. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. So, I guess we'll see you again. We get to do it all over again. Can y'all tell that I'm not happy about continuing it? 11.1, Mr. Randolph. Good evening mayor. Members of City Council, Lemiel Randolph Deputy City Manager. After about nine months of work and review, 19 member citizen committee, before you Is it ordnance for a first and final reading for a series of five propositions, totaling $200,800,000. Those propositions are as follows. 136,995,000 for various street improvements. Proposition B is public safety facilities and equipment for $48,930,000. Proposition C, parks and recreation facilities, $9,345,000. Proposition D is downtown city administrative facilities for $3,105,000. The final proposition is Proposition E library facilities $2,245,000. If approved this evening, the general election date would be on May 3rd but then we would have the last date of register on April 6th. And so with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any speakers on this item? No, sir, no speakers on this item. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Wesley, a second from Council Member Gonzalez, please cast your vote. Motion passes. 11.2 Ms. Wickman. Thank you, Mayor Jennifer Wickman, Deputy City Manager. The afternoon you from the new you heard about a boarding home facilities ordinance that's being proposed it's before you tonight. This is a state model ordinance regulating some group homes. These aren't traditional boarding homes and that maybe an enabled body to individual would rent a room and then go about their business. These are homes for three or more people for elderly or disabled folks. They are more commonly called bed and board, but this would give the city the ability to inspect and get them registered and regulate them. The effective date would be April 1st, and I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. Thank you, Mr. Busk and any speakers on this item. No, sir, no speakers on this item. Thank you. Motion from Council Member Box, the second from Council Member Gonzalez, please cast your vote. Motion passes, Ms. Mitchell, 12.1, please. Good evening, Mayor and Council, Lindsay Mitchell, Director of Strategic Initiatives. Tonight on your agenda is an item to consider a performance agreement related to reinvestment at what is currently the Crown Plaza Arts' Sweets Arlington Hotel, opened in 1987 and has been owned by Equinox Hospitality for 22 years as an upscale hotel. Recently, Equinox made a $15 million renovation to enhance the exterior and guest rooms. Now they plan to invest an additional $9 million to convert the hotel to a Marriott tribute property, which will be an upper upscale independent boutique hotel. This transformation includes a full update of furnishings, fixtures, and common areas, plus the conversion of the indoor pool, and remodeling of other areas to add 5,000 square feet of meeting space. Equinox has requested 3.25 million in city assistance for the project, payable over three years at key milestones. Construction is set to start in September of 2025 and be completed by December of 2026. This project continues the evolution of the entertainment district by leveraging a $24 million total investment and provides upgraded space to complement Arlington's current inventory. I'm happy to take any questions. Mr. Buskin, any speakers on this item? No speakers on this item, we did have one non-speaker in support. Thank you, sir. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Westley, a second from Council Member FAM. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. Mr. Busk and citizen participation please. Thank you mayor. Citizen participation gives the public an opportunity to make comments or address concerns regarding matters related to city business or affairs that are in the scope of the authority of the city council in which are not posted on the evening agenda. However, please understand that the mayor and council are not permitted by law to respond to, discuss, or address the comment 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 who have pre-registered will be given two minutes to make their comments, except that if 26 or more speakers have pre-registered, each speaker will be given one minute to make their comments. Our first speaker this evening is Mary Owens. Miss Owens. Go ahead for you to see me. I guarantee y'all remember Justin Wilson. In the end I wanted to y'all know I'm part of Rainforest Orange and I run it. And I would like to turn Orange into a Rainforest and it could be done. I liked the thing about the trees earlier. That's just wonderful. And the diversification that they were talking about is wonderful. That's one of the things that I wanted to add with my homeless camp. Just to have people helping plant more trees and things like that. And there's going to be a lot of work involved in this homeless thing. There's so many directions that this can go in and better everything in origin because of the fact that it's embarrassing, too, not embarrassing the old, but that people see homeless people on the streets everywhere. It's still having a place that they could be in congregate during the day. They can only go into these places, these shelters at night. That's not good. That means they're running rampant out there with no place to go. Half-day, because they can't find a place to sleep. And you know, that's just not right. We can do better than this. And just having a place within can be, it's so important. So y'all work with me and let's get this done. We can run this camp and have it big beneficial and a productive for all people involved in this, including Arlington. And I really want to thank y'all for saying me. Miss Vanessa Hadley She was feeling well, but she wasn't like you know, but there's Spotify thank you resilience and reduction. Thank you. This Saturday. That's all. Thank you. Ms. Busken next speaker Caroline Martinez Miss Martinez Miss Martinez next speaker Oh, there you are. After Miss Martinez is Carl Thrasch. I just, I know you'll look down on the homeless and everything, and I understand why. But maybe if you would give, I mean, some of them need just a little bit of incentive to like go in a different direction. Maybe if the town would like, look at the park as a like metal brick park, like it is another work corner, maybe if you have any extra time or any extra money, like go over there, like just give them, just give them something to look forward to, like give them a little job to do around your home or whatever. Just help them out instead of, I don't know, that's all I got. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Buskin, next speaker please. Our next speaker is Carl Thrasher. After Mr. Thrasher is Christa Johnson. I addition against Grime Street here. If you'll come up to the podium served before you get started here. They were sick and tired of the kids knocking down the fence off the tunnel one now. Okay,, I'm gonna ask. I've been moving that property 44 years now and I don't see nothing. I've been changing the fence panels and back of that fence on that roadway or seven and a half panels there. I've been changing them for 30 years. It's sitting and helping I'm just beside myself on the way they're putting the road in and everything because it's harassing us you know I've got to move I'm leaving. I've been there for 58 years and now I've got to move out because all right let's talk about taxes. You have been taxing us for 30,499 feet, and we're only 28,496 feet. You've been overtaxing us 2,000 feet. I've went to the land surveyor, I've had my land surveyor, went to the tax office seven times, and you'll have been charging us to much taxes. And I'm going to go to the office. Hi, good evening. Good evening, ma'am. My name is Christa Johnson. The purpose of me here today is to inform you guys that I believe I should bring it to your attention of the program mismanagement of Arlington housing. I for 18 years with my son been a Section 8 participant. I pointed in from out of state, not having any problems whatsoever on my voucher. I respected and took responsibility for being a program participant. I recently had a hearing. I asked for a reversal of the decision of the hearing due to the fact that my paperwork was stolen due to the fact that I had become now injured. It caused a lot of difficulty for me to be able to get this paperwork on time to them. And I had to circle back financially. I didn't have the money because the paperwork that had gotten stolen also pertained to my credit cards. So you have to cancel your credit cards and go through the whole process of waiting to be issued so I can travel via Uber, et cetera, to go and get this paperwork. And again, like I stated, also with my injury, I had physical therapy and things of that nature. Doctors appointments that I needed to attend. I reason why I say program is managed. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers tonight? No, sir, no additional speakers this evening. Thank you, sir. Council, do y'all have any announcements tonight? No, none, Mr. Buskin announcements, sir. Thank you, Mayor. 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