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I hope everybody had a blessed holiday season, a very wonderful Mary Christmas and a happy new year. Welcome back to the Arlington City Council in our first session of 2025. No better way to start the new year off than inviting our good friend Pastor Gary Hutchinson forward from Grace Community Church to lead us in an invocation. Good to see you, Pastor. Happy new year to you. Before we pray, I tell you a real brief story real quick. So there's this guy he wanted to talk to God. He lived in California and went to a church. Pastor said, well, you have to use the phone in the back. It's the golden phone and it cost you $10,000 to talk to God. He said $10,000 for get about it. So he left California. He made his way to Arizona. Got to Arizona, he found a church. And as the pastor, he said, I want to talk to God. The pastor says, there's a golden phone in the back. Of course, he's $10,000 to talk to God. He said, $10,000, we get about it. He made his wedding in New Mexico, same thing. Golden phone in the back, $10,000. He said, what's up with us? He made it to New Mexico. Same thing. Golden phone in the back $10,000. He said, what's up with us? He made it to Texas. He goes to this church in Texas, talks to the pastor, says I want to talk to God. Pastor, there's the phone in the back and cost you $0.10. Talk to God. He said, 10 cents is $10,000 everywhere else. He says, son, you're in Texas now. It's a local call. Now y'all know why we started off with this pastor, all right? Well, you want to just say we are blessed. We're a blessed state. We're a blessed city. A big reason why we're so blessed is because of you and your service. And I just want to say thank you. I want to say thank you for what is most of the time for all of you and your staff a thankfulest job. A lot of times the only time you hear from citizens is when they complain about something. I know because I've been one of those citizens in the past. But I just want to thank you. And I want to pray God's blessing over you and over our city. Let's pray. Well, thank you for these men and women, Lord, who are willing to serve long hours. Most people don't realize the amount of time and energy they put into it. That's, and they get very little thanks for it. It's not glamorous. It's because they care about our city. They care about the people in the city. So I ask you, and Jesus' name, Father, would you bless them and bless everything that matters to them? And would you bless Arlington and the residents of Arlington? Would you make us an easy place, Lord, to prosper, to be safe, and to be blessed? Would you make us an easy place for the people of Arlington to really find true love with the citizens but also come to know you. I pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Please join us for the pleasure of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, individual liberty and justice for all. On to the text of flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one, and individual. Thank you, you may be seated. We're going to start off with a apology tonight. If you allall notice up here at the council, you get one character dressed in burnt orange. And he's excited about some game going on Friday and we can't seem to get him out of this UT mood. So, y'all just forgive Mr. Peel for his enthusiasm. And we wish the Longhorn's a lot of luck this Friday. Anna, you mind coming up? Oh y'all don't know about this yet. No way. Yeah. Well, my name is Lytton and Anna Maslinika. I am the lieutenant of the Salvation Army here down the street on Abram. And we serve the areas from Calaville down to Mansfield. And I'm excited to be here today because you know what? I have a special award to present. This award has been sitting in Mansfield City Council and probably on Mayer's Evans' office since 2012. But this year, because Mayor Jim Ross and the City Council and the citizens put so much effort into finally being in the Mansfield. So I'm happy to present this award for this year the winner of the mayoral challenge of the Red Catalyst Mayoral Challenge of 2024 with a total of 45,450 $19.99 You are missing what said to make it round. All the results already printed, so sorry, it's too late. I'm excited to present it to the city. Mayor Michael Evans, I hope you pull this up and watch it carefully because this is gonna be the last time you get to see this thing, because Arlington will continue to beat all the other cities here in North Texas on the mayoral challenge for the Red Kettle challenge. So this is it, it's home now, baby. I think we're going to leave it up here in case Mayor Evans dials in to watch our City Council meeting tonight. I want him to be able to see it. I love that man, but I'm sure going to rub this in for quite a while now. So, okay, Mr. Buskin, Speaker Guidelines and General DeCorum, please. Thank you, sir. The City of Arlington fully embraces the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility where people have all identities and experiences, or understood, appreciated and fully included in the community and where equitable treatment and outcomes prevail. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assistant preserving the ordering Decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance at and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats or hostility. Any person making personal profane hostile, slanderous or threatening remarks who uses vulgar or of seen language who engages in any other actions that disturb or calculated to disturb the meeting or who becomes disruptive while addressing the mayor and the city council or while attending the city council meeting may be removed from the council chambers. All speakers shall address the city council and not the audience with city staff and shall not call out individually named members of city staff for the public. For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please kind of the microphone of the podium and state your name and city of residents for the record. Speakers may not use music videos other forms of media signs or props. 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 in 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. multiple speakers plan to to provide the same or similar comments to the speakers, may if they so desire to designate 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. Buskin. We have any appointments boards or commissions this evening. Yes, sir We do not thank you consideration of items from the executive session. Can we handle 6.1 first? Please yes, sir 6.1 a resolution authorizing condemnation of fee simple title to certain tracks of land along in adjacent to division street Also known as state highway 180 between Cooper Street and Collins Street within the City of Arlington for the public use of sidewalks and landscaping for the Division Street text out sidewalk project, Cooper Street Collins Street. Thank you, sir. Do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of 6.1? No, sir, we do not. Thank you. I'll recognize Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. I move that the city council authorize the use of power of MND domain by the city of Arlington to acquire the property necessary for the public use of sidewalk improvements for the division street text outside walk Cooper Street to Collins Street project as read by the city secretary and as more fully described in the resolution for this item. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Gonzales. I have a motion from Council Member Gonzales. A second from Council Member Hunter. Please cast your vote. And the motion passes, Mr. Busken, the rest of the executive session, please. Thank you, Mayor. 6 6.2, resolution authorizing the settlement of negotiations for fee simple ownership of 1,372 square feet being a portion of six. Six A, steel, denny, and finch addition in addition to the city of Arlington. Terrent County, Texas, otherwise known as 621 West Division Street, Arlington, Texas. For the public use of sidewalks and landscaping improvements for the Division Street, text out sidewalk project, Cooper Street, Collins Street, 6.3, a resolution authorizing the city manager or his designate to execute a modification to pipeline license agreement between ET gathering and processing LLC in the city of Arlington relative to a natural gas pipeline located within a portion of the Arlington landfill located at 800 Moser Valley Road, City of Arlington, Tarrer County, Texas. Thank you, sir. Do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of either of these items? No, sir, we do not. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Oden Westley, a second from Council Member FAM, please cast your vote. The motion passes. Consideration of minutes, Mr. Buskin. Thank you, Mayor. Minutes for consideration this evening or the afternoon and evening meetings from December 17th, 2024. Thank you, Council. Do y'all have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin. Are there any speakers on these items? Yes, sir. Thank you. I have a motion from Council Member Gonzalez, a second from Council Member Odom Wesley. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Consideration of consent agenda, please. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains eight minute orders, three ordinances and and four resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal of annual requirements contract for liquid chlorine, two renewal of contract for remittance processing hardware and software solution for the water utilities department, three purchase and installation of new carpet at the northeast library, four purchase of a chlorine generator for active pools, five through seven contract modification number one to the construction contract for John F. Kubala water treatment plant backwash modification to the engineering services contract for Pierce Verge water treatment plant filter and backwash improvements and to the engineering services contract for key branch sanitary sewer main relocation may field in woodside. Eight engineering serves contract for California Lane drain and improvements phase two. The ordinances seek to authorize nine new school zone for Newman International Academy, 10 zone in case PD 24-21, 1537 and 1531 West Randall Mill Road, and 1109 North Field Road. 11 zone in case PD 16-3R1-1211 West Harris Road. The resolution seek to authorize 12 authorize a request for proposal procurement method for a third party administrator for workers compensation, automobile and general liability and subrogation claims, 13 interlocal agreement for cooperative purchasing services with the City of Desotto. 14 A and B economic development agreement updates. Thank you mayor, this concludes consent agenda for this evening. Thank you, sir. Do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of any of the items that appear on the consent agenda? Yes, sir. We have one speaker in opposition to 8.14 Richard Weber. Mr. Weber. Happy New Year, Mr. Weber. Happy New Year to you too. Richard Weber, Arlington, Texas. I oppose 814, which is once again, the City Council refusing to hold developers responsible for the deals they signed. Developer signs a deal and now he wants to change the dates. Now the second one, second half of this item, I can probably live with that one. That's changing a date in 2026. But the first item, they've had this deal for almost five years. And they can't make the deal. They want to blame it on getting equipment there to put it together and so on and so forth. I mean, this is ridiculous. This is BSSS, BS super sized. This is Greenland space. Probably shouldn't have been granted a tax cut, whatever you wanna call it, a bait meant in the first place. I mean, it's a green space land. And now we're made, not only made them a deal, but now we're extending them. I oppose 814, the amendments to these deals. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers? None on the consent agenda. Thank you, sir. I have a motion from Council Member Galante, a second from Council Member Odom Wesley. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Move on down to 11.1, Ms. Thoppelman. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.1, zoning case, Z824-8. This is a request to change the zoning from residential estate, our E zoning, to a residential single family, 7.2 RS 7.2. On four parcels comprising 6.26 acres, located at 7,000 1,7,000 5,7,000 7,000 and 7,000 11 calendar road, generally located north of West Harris Road and east of calendar road. As a straight zoning change request, if approved the applicant is not bound to any proposed layout as depicted in their narrative, however, all lots must meet the minimum lot requirements and other applicable standards of the RS 7.2 zoning district. This evening, we have Trevor Truss from Hamiltonuffy, PEC, presenting the case for us. Mr. Trust. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Council, my name is Trevor Truss with Hamilton Duffy. Look at it, eighties. Sorry, 8641 mid-Cities Boulevard, North-Eastern Hills, 76182. Before you, we have a proposed zoning change for, it's actually three parts that was not four. If you look at the lot to the north of the red line there, that is not included in our zoning change proposal. Right now everything is on residential estate. We're surrounded by RS 7.2 so that is the zoning we're here asking for tonight. This shows the outline of the 6.26 acres. There we go. This is a of a preliminary conceptual sketch of the layout that the property owner and myself have put together. This most likely will be very, very close to what the final product would be. As you can see, it's 25 lots with some open space, including density is four units per acre. When the minimum lot size is greater than 72 hundred square feet. Everything is exactly as it is in the City of Arlington zoning districts with the exception, the minimum house size. The zoning district is 1500 square feet. The proposed houses on this development would be 2500 or greater. So we would be above that. This is the layout on the aerial. As you can see, we are our proposed development. We're very similar to what's existing now. Like I said, RS 7.2 is what is surrounding this whole, the whole area. The development to the west is a PD, but there are a lot a tad larger than ours, but very similar to what we were proposing. These are just some kind of example layout, I mean, sorry, elevations of what the owner kind of has proposed. So you can just get an idea of materials, that sort of thing. Be a lot of stone, masonry, brick, some siding and some spots. And that is pretty much all I have. I'm open to any questions that Council has tonight. Thank you, sir. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Quick question for Gen.C. I have a question for you. But with regards to the zoning case addresses, how is that? What happened or why is that different than? The addresses are correct. It is, if you go back to that map, I was just checking that. Yeah, so the middle parcel that you see tracked, I can't read what that is, but that middle parcel has two addresses. There are two parcels within it, and so that's the reason it has four addresses, but three bigger tracks. Okay Okay, yeah, I wanted to give you a chance to say what you need to say. And I thank, I want to thank you. I don't know if you know who the City Councilman that represents that district. That's me and I did not hear from anybody until I saw this going for P&Z. So I'm excited to see the homes going in there. I know I have gotten quite a, I got some letters from people. You know, those are big estate homes out there. So I know this is the minimum. Is there any chance you're going to build bigger homes in then what you have here? I know it's all about dollars and everything else, but I know the only letters of opposition that we receive from people down there is they're concerned that they're not going to be as high quality is what they're living in now so can you address that? Um, I mean they will be as high quality as out there now if not better. I mean it will be brand new construction as you know the way the market is today you have to put some very nice product on the ground to make any kind of development deal work. So it will be a very high end product put out there. We have 2,500 square feet as a minimum. Most likely, they'll be in the 3,000 square foot range. So yeah. Like I said, thank you for doing business in Arlington, especially bringing homes like that to any part of Arlington, but especially in that area. Most of those homes are big residential lots, and they're given their property to their children, and those children are basically dividing some of these lots to do this. So I appreciate it. Thank you. Yes, sir. I know. Council member Oda Councilmember Oda, why is she? Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mayor. I read in the application materials that there was no outreach to any of the neighbors. Would you speak to that? I can't really speak to it. I know a lot of the neighbors showed up to the P&Z meeting and, you know, voice their concerns. And after that meeting, the property owners, they stepped outside with everybody that as far as the neighbors that showed up, and they discussed all their concerns and everything right outside on the sidewalk out here. So I'm not sure exactly what. So that was after the P&C meeting? Yes, ma'am. So you made no effort to reach out to the neighbors other than that? I can't say. I wasn't involved in that. I know the property owners were after the PNZ meeting. And I didn't see any letters of opposition from the City Council meeting that staff sent. I'm not 100% sure what was discussed with the neighbors, but I know they did meet with them after the PNZ meeting. The ones that showed up to the meeting. So you're not aware of what the opposition positions were. You don't know what the concerns are. I got the concerns for the P& Z meeting. I didn't get any concerns or opposition for this city council meeting. I wasn't given copies of that. Okay. Thank you. It's the same. Okay, so, okay, there's the same. Okay. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this? Yes, sir, we have one speaker in opposition. Karen Blake. Ms. Blake. Good evening, ma'am. How are you? Good, thank you. Good. Karen Blake, Arlington, Texas. I live on Cook and Doll Drive, which is directly to the north of those lots right there. And in reference to reaching out to the residents that were protesting and had many concerns about having a greater number of homes in that area. No, no one has reached out to us. I emailed the developer, he gave me his email address and no one has answered us. So I just wanted you all to know that. We are very concerned about having a greater number of buildings out there, homes out there. We feel like our water pressure has suffered. We had it within the last few weeks. We had power outages for over 24 hours and they said it affected 3,000 homes out there. So here we are putting more homes in and we had AT&T out for a whole day for affecting 2,000 homes. So it's just really crowded and I just don't we don't see the need for more buildings and more congestion, more population of the elementary school up on Harris Road. You know, it's probably gonna have to be redistrict. It's just a lot to put in there in six acres. That was wonderful, Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Miss Odomwissie. I didn't catch that the citizens did not have a meeting so kind of So kind of trouble about not contacting the city council and not contacting the citizens. I apologize, I wish you would reach out to me. Yes sir. So is there anything, I mean, do you see what's our policy with regards to that? I mean, how did that, did anybody question that before? It came to us. That applicant, I mean, it's not a requirement. It's not. Or the codes, but we do have a requirement to send it to the 200 foot radius and we did. And it was posted on next door as well. Okay. And how many, since it's a big lot, how many homes did it go to? I do not have that deal. We need too many, obviously, because there are big lots. So it would be like two homes. It was, I can tell you it was probably about 30 homes. 30 homes I got to notice. Because I walked around to all of them and talked to people, myself and some other people. I just wish there was a little more communication between the citizens and the developer. just I'm really. Exactly. I think when you get input from the citizens, it makes everybody more at ease. When you do something like this and not contact either the council member or the citizens, it just shows a little lack of disrespect and you get kind of a kind of word about it. So. have a little bit above for I have that lot between me. I'm to the North. But the homes directly to the East, yeah, East side, they back right up. They're going to be looking, they're going to have two story homes looking right into their back. Backyards. Well, since there was a meeting after a developer did not know what happened. I'd like to continue this to the next meeting just so at least something can have some kind of communication. I just feel like the citizens need a little more, at least say something to me. That's just me so I would personally like to continue to the next meeting if possible. Okay. Mr. Gonzalez, are you actually making a motion on this? Yes, I'm making a motion that we continue this to the, whenever the next January meeting is. I'll second. It'd be the 28th. That's what I thought. Dr. Odom Wesley, did I hear you say you'll second that? I got you, don't worry about it. I have a motion to continue this case to the 28th. I think it is from Council Member Gonzalez, and a second from Council Member Odom Wesley, please cast your vote. The motion passes as we continue to the next area. Thank you. And if I can have contact information for the council. You can meet with the applicant right back there and he'll get you. You can get the contact information from him and that would be fine. Thank you. Uh-huh. 11.2 Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.2 zoning case PD 24-29 is a request to change the zoning from community commercial CC to a plan development for community commercial uses plus a car wash with a development plan. It's rest at 28.09 northeast Green Augs Boulevard and generally located south of Interstate Highway 30 and west of northwest Green Augs Boulevard. There is an existing car wash structure and a convenience store on the site. However, the car wash has not been in operation since November 2023. Car wash use is currently only allowed by right in L.I. that is light industrial and I.M. industrial manufacturing zoning districts. With the abandonment of the car wash for a period of more than six months, it lost its grandfathered legally non-conforming use status. So approval of this rezoning request would now allow for the car wash used to be back on the site. The applicant is Lewis Hernandez from LE Engineering who will be presenting the case for us this evening. Mr. Hernandez. A Louis Hernandez 3816 Chesna forward Texas. I'm here to answer any questions from the committee. It's pretty self explanatory. There's, you know, we have a gas station and it has one of those buildings next to it. We're just trying to get it back in use. It's pretty, pretty much it. I'm here to answer any questions if there's any. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, do well, Council Member Hogg, you just popped up. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I think this is a good repurpose of this building. I drive and you'll, when did y'all acquire this building? Or this property? About, about eight months ago or so. And I think you've done good changes. It's nicer than what the previous owners had had. And at the last council meeting, we're gonna put everything up to the new Arlington standards. So we're gonna do on-new landscaping, a new rep job like completely Do a boy better upgrade I guess we could say Yeah, we'll make the whole property you can tell y'all are working on the property So I appreciate that one question. I did ask Jensy before um Jensy. Are they meeting? Code I know one thing that I think a violation is you have an aloite's can pee be out there. I call the owner of LA. We need to get this removed. Yeah. Tell me you're putting this on there. Because it's been out there. And you can tell that even though I've wanted to stop because it looks good, I know that's not within the rules. So, Jensi. Oh, that's getting done. Okay. inform them about it and it is a violation. What about anything else on the front? There are a couple of windows signages that does not meet the standards, so we'll get to the old exactly. Yeah, we'll put everything we need to get to code. And so, Jensi, can I ask, when we, because I think, generally, I don't like to approve car washes, I think this is a repurpose of one, the building is already there, it's sitting empty, probably just being used for used for storage right now Jensy came we put a contingent that they will be up to code to code before they get the CEO All signs shall be in compliance Developed before the Cedric vacuancy for the car wash Perfect with that condition then I'm all for supporting this Yeah, it be an in-bait and it's going to be a brand new piece of equipment, you know, so we're not putting some... You know, just saying that. And I trust you, because you all have done good work on the property since you're taking it over. So you can tell a difference and I really appreciate the work you all have done. I don't remember a lot of things. Thank you for investing. Investing in everything, best of luck for you. I know how hard it is to get a business and turn around and so much work. Have a question for you. The name is going to be the same. The car wash name that I have is never too dirty. Car wash in detailing. No, no, no. It's not going to have a name. It's just going to be the gas station name. OK. So we're not even. I like the name, Fyder was a marketing, good marketing. Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no, good luck to him. It's just gonna like the name. I find there was a Markie. Good luck to you. It's just going to be the gas station and they want to get car wash. We're not going to have it. Mr. Muskin, we have any other speakers on this? Yes, sir. We do not. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Councilmember Peel. Second from Councilmember Hunter. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. 11.3 Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.3 Zoning case, PD 23-37. Is a request to change the zoning from community commercial CC to a plan development for neighborhood mixed use NMU uses with a development plan on an approximately 5.4 acre parcel addressed at 1600 East Pioneer Parkway, generally located south of East Pioneer Parkway and west of Browning Drive. The site is currently developed with a Chase Bank building and associated parking. The proposal is to take a portion of the parking lot to the west of Chase Bank building and develop it with the five-story mixed-use building containing 63,789 square feet with a 13,000 square feet of retail office on the bottom floor and the remaining four stories consisting of 48 multifamily apartment units. The applicant is permitted development, represented this evening by Audra Buckley, who will be presenting the case this evening. Ms. Buckley. Good evening, Audra Buckley. Inness Texas. Can you hear me okay? Yes ma'am. Wonderful. Can you hear me okay? I can hear you. All right. Out of this ear. Good. This one's bad. Okay. So most of you do know this as a Chase bank building. We're gonna be looking at, that's what we have hatched right now as phase two. Phase one is the area in question for this evening's conversation. Here you can see we have a trail that's going around from Browning Drive that's going to connect through the property up to Pioneer Parkway. This was something that we were asked to do by P&Z and we were also asked to do this by staff to try to incorporate these kinds of things. This site has come a long way from where we started. We started this thing two years ago and we went to the E-starling to renewal with the first meeting with the first layout and they sent us packing. So we had to work with you. Do you meet with Sue Phillips? Yes. Isn't she something else? She is something else. I'm just telling you not I ain't just talking much about her, because I know she's here, but man, oh man. Okay. Yeah. So we worked with them to try to come up with something a little bit better. And then we also worked with staff, we worked with P and Z. And it took some doing and the property owners here tonight. So it's wonderful to have a property owner that is so flexible, it's like okay whatever we can do within reason we'll do it. So here's what the first floor, we don't have these demise right now because we don't know who our tenants are. Once we have the zoning in place then we can get the LOIs, we know that we have interest but we don't have any formal LOIs at this point. So one of the things that we asked for and the ordinance was a reduction in the parking. We really have a lot of parking on this site. We're asking for a variance of 96.3. You know the evening surplus we've got 217 parking spaces available even after we made our drastic reduction, you know, down 96.3 spaces. Here's what it looks like a little bit colored up where you can kind of see where all the greens going to be. Down there on the southeast side, we were asked to provide some green space there with that connectivity and we were also asked to provide a little green space up there by the building on Pioneer Parkway on the east side of that building. You can also see the patio areas that we were asked to provide to help folks engage with people walking down the sidewalks, things of that nature. To me, it's just a better storefront. We did change up the fencing. Normally it's a board on board. We decided to go with a masonry column with Rod Iron and staff agree that this was a much better option. It's a lot prettier. Our elevations, these really don't quite do it justice, but you're looking at 60% masonry on all facades. So it's not just on the street facing facades. It's all the way around the building. And this is the rear of that building. We worked with the city staff. We had some other lights picked out and they said no, just go with what works. So we're just going to use the ones that you see everywhere else in downtown and as part of the International Corridor, one of the things that we had to select was how we were going to represent the International Corridor and banners were one of the options. So that's the option we went with. This is the Lyamp Post that has the banners and you see them all over your city now. So we're just going to repeat that. So I'm going to try to skip through these. We did these as kind of show and tell some things that we were thinking about for the Paners, but we were told just a few days ago that no, this is not going to fly. So they're pretty those, so I had to show them to you. So we will be working with the city on the design of the banners. I believe they want something a little more graphic in the background, but we'll get to that when the time comes and we can ignore this slide too. Okay, we've removed the trees so you could actually see the building in these in these renderings. This will give you a nighttime view, just kind of show you what the patio area is going to look like at night. I do know that we had some concerns expressed about light refraction. So I believe as part of the permaining staff is going to require us to do a photometric study to make sure that we're not refracting out into the neighborhoods and bother anybody while they're trying to sleep. Here's a daytime view of that. Look at that from the other end of Pioneer, from the bank side. Here's the rare Southwest perspective. It's a good aerial here. You can kind of see the trail going back in the back. Thank you, ma'am. You are absolutely welcome. Mr. Counselmember Boxel. Thank you, Ms. Buckley. This is a very good project. I've been with keeping track of this project since you first presented at the East Arlington Renewal and you're right. You've come a long way. This building is very attractive, very simple, understated, but I like it, and I think it's going to be a great addition. And thank you for agreeing to the photometric study, which, by the way, is going to help us with driving safety along Pioneer Parkway. That's going to help a lot. So I'm fully in support. I like this and thank you for bringing it to Arlington. Thank you, Council Member Hunter. Thank you. I want to thank you for your willingness to really make those changes. I think that's what brought me on board. I also want to thank you for your willingness to really respect our international courtors. So thank you for that. Absolutely. Council Member Hogg. Yeah, thank you and miss Buckley, good to see you. I first heard about this at a Starlink server in New Orleans. One of you all's meetings I was at. In general, I'm not voting for multi-family. Now you've added mixed use to this. So it's at an element and the team at a Starlinker in New Orleans ran you through the grinder to get there. And they put you through to make it a right project. The only concern I have over this, because we've had other developers do it as a little bait and switch, of then they can't lease out the bottom retail and they come back and ask an us to make it into retrofit to apartments. You're not planning to do that correct and there And there is, that will not be approved if you do ever come back and ask for that. Correct. And you've designed it for retail on the bottom. Yes. And Miss Sue has asked them to provide an Indian restaurant on the first floor. So I think we have to do that. So I know she wants like a fine dining night. Yes, I know what you're looking for. Yes, yes. I think it's a good use and I look forward to this, but also what you're going to do to then the second phase is the chase building and some renovations to that. Appreciate it. Thank you. Ma'am, I don't know what you did to get Miss Phillips, Council member Hunter and Boxle all in line with you. They're not an easy sell. I'll be honest with you. And if you get Councilmember Hogg, vote yes on any daggum multi-family, you're doing something special. International corridors critically important to us. And I think this is going to be a catalyst to help other development go along in that area there. So thank you for coming in and doing that. Mr. Muskin, we have any other speakers on this? Yes sir, we had one other individual register to speak. Sue Phillips? Ms. Phillips, you know there ain't nothing. You're going. You're gonna say that's gonna change your mind, right? Is that a problem? Trust me. I'm nervous, but I won't go for it. You're welcome to talk, but you know you can trust us. Mr. Buskin, anybody else? No, sir, no additional speakers. One non speaker in support. Thank you. 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. Council Member Gonzalez, your vote, please. I was just trying to make Sue sweat. You're making me sweat is what you're doing. The motion passes, congratulations. Thank you. 11.4 Miss Loppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 11.4 zoning case PD 24-9 is a request to change the zoning of three lots, 108 and 110 Hosek Street. Generally located south of East Mitchell Drive and East of South Center Street. Comparizing of total of three quarters of an acre from residential multi-family 22, RMF 22 and residential medium density 12, RM 12 to a planned development for residential medium density 12. That is a PD for RM 12 uses. The site is currently vacant and just south of an existing student housing live plus apartments. The proposed development plan is for a seven lot single family, both attached and detached dwelling units. No short-term rentals will be allowed. This evening we have the applicant joy, stay in from the Shaluteri, stay in an associate's presenting the case for us. Mr. Tampton. Hello. My name is Joy Stant, I live in Pentica. This project is at the corner of Housac in Synerstreet and as Jensy told you it's just south of a multi-story student housing project. It is across this on the north side of Housac. It's across Synerstreet from UTA and a park. And it is in an area that is owned RM12.. So this is the existing conditions that's currently vacant. It consists of a couple of lots that are zone Rm12 and one zone Rm22. And you can see the park across the street and the alley to the south. There are some duplexes down at Hosek and Mitchell. Are fourplexes, this is the site. We're proposing these units will be two-story. This is just looking west southeast. So if you can see up here, you can see that four of the units are attached, the four northern lots, and then the three southern ones are all detached. I don't know how to blow it up in a PDF. I'm being in a PowerPoint and I didn't present it as a PDF. So, but you can see that duplexes on the top two, lots one and two and six and seven, not duplexes, but detached townhomes. And then there's three single families detached on the south end. Those X-lots are detention ponds, so we're going to take all the water and flow it through those detention ponds. These are detention pond lots and the water will flow around the units to the detention ponds, and that will allow it to sheet out so that it's at our below existing conditions. And we're going to use smaller outlet structures instead of one or two. You know, larger ones, we're going to use very several smaller units to allow it to simulate sheet flow towards center street. So that it will not be a negative influence on the drainage and center street or in the alley, the south of there. This is a sample. Most of the units have, all of the units have three bedrooms upstairs. The owner who is also signed up to speak wanted to have a bedroom downstairs. We went back, that's the reason we had to postpone it from our original planning and zoning meeting. He wanted a bedroom downstairs for elderly people that didn't want to climb the stairs. And so we had to go back and figure out how to fit that in all of those units. And we managed to get in in all of but one of them. This is a view of from Hosek Street on the top and from center street down below. Now you'll notice in the ordinance it says we have our picture shows half ornamental metal and half masonry on the fence along center street but the ordinance says it'll be six foot masonry and the owner wants it to be six foot masonry as presented in the ordinance. This is the landscape plan where the trees will be planted as as required in the ordinance and in the PD and SREPs. We unfortunately are not able to save any of the trees on this site. All of the trees will be removed and mitigated because they are all either sick or under the power lines. And this is just showing the drainage into the detention pond. We did have a public meeting. We had it as simply de vune over there at Abram Street, and Bowen across from the Kroger. We served refreshments. So we had a good turnout. We only't have, we only had one opposition and she was opposed to center street traffic and so we could not, we can't affect the center street traffic. I did want to make a comment on the ordinance. One of the lot dimensions says five foot interior side setbacks and one of the houses are only three foot off and I'd like to have that change to a minimum of three foot most of them are five but we have one is three and of course we have the two duplexes on the north end which cannot be offset from interior. Thank you ma'am council my brod and Wesley. Thank you ma'am Thank you for the presentation and for the project. Now, are these going to be sold or rented? They are separately platted. They are set up to be sold. However, short-term rentals is one of the prohibitions in the ordinance and the owner's going to done a marketing study since then. He wants to be able to have it not prohibited, said double negatives. We'd like for that provision to be taken out the ordinance where if he comes back and he needs to be able to lease him to some professors visiting the university or something such as that, it would be a possibility. But all of these are set up to be sold. They are planted separately. They'll have separate trash, separate water meters, separate fence yards. So long-term maintenance is the responsibility of each individual owner. For their homes, yes, there will of course be homeowners' associations to take care of the pavement and detention ponds and the perimeter fencing. And you're not agreeing to the prohibition of short-term rentals? I don't want, I want you to let the owner speak to that, but he's done some evaluations and he needs to ask to have that removed. As a prohibition. Is he going to speak tonight? Yes ma'am. Oh, okay. All right, thank you. Councilmember Boxel. Thank you. I have a couple of questions and one was about the short-term rentals. On your, you said on the fencing on the center street side that the owner does not want to do. The rot iron mixed with stone, he wants to do completely masonry, six foot fence. Yes ma'am. And that was what some of the planning and zoning commissioners asked for and after he left, he wanted to do that. And yes. Okay. I'm not in favor of that. I don't think that's going to look nice. And most likely it's not going to be real masonry. It's probably going to be that suspended masonry. Also on your floor planet, it looked like one of your ground floor units was a separate unit. I mean your ground floor bedroom was a separate unit with its own garage. Oh, they do have one off to the side like a mother in law suite on one of the units just ma'am. Okay so that's not allowed under our zoning currently I wish it to look at the other. So that makes it six dwelling units instead of five. Well it does not have a kitchen in it. Oh it doesn't have a kitchen but it has no internal door to the main house. Uh, it does not have an internal door to the mini house. So it has, it has, it doesn't have a kitchen, but it doesn't, it's not connected to the main house. It does not have a kitchen, but it doesn't have a door into the main house. That is correct. Okay. All right. And in. She's looking at law five. And we can let the owner and the architect speak to that. They're here to speak tonight also. Okay. And you know, he had spoken a couple of weeks or months ago about perhaps on that unit that's on the corner of Center in Hosek, having, you know, respecting the corner and having something there like the main entrance, because that is the front of your house. I realize it's sort of the back as well, because now you're wanting to fence it off as a backyard. And at that time, it seemed like you were agreeable to that, but then I don't see that reflected in the elevations or the plan at all. There's no differentiation whatsoever on that as you approach coming south from center. You're just seeing the large gable side of the building. Do you remember that conversation? I do miss Boxel. So I personally think we should have had something different but it's not my land. So how do I answer these questions? Okay. Well, maybe you're not the right person to ask. Maybe we're the owner and the right person to answer this question. Okay. And then you're also asking for a deviation on the setback in two locations. So let's see. So we have this house and this one. I can make that work because we had four foot off set and six foot off set. But over here, I had a little bit of a squeeze and that unit is three foot off the property line and that's the reason I'm asking for a variance. The way I have it set in there. You know normally I wouldn't quibble over such a small thing but in this case what I see here is that an unwillingness to work with the site overall. I mean just in general there's just you've got a plan and you've got a design and you're just shoehorning it into these lots. And there's no willingness to work with the site at all. And so what you have to do is you have to say we didn't work on this quite a bit to try to come up with something that was attractive. If you rotated that building like three or five degrees, you wouldn't have that issue. So what I'm saying is that you're asking for a deviation that you really don't need. You created the problem yourself and that it's not even something that you really need. So I'm just in general because of the corner issue and some of the other things it's looking like you're sticking to that stock plan and you're not willing to deviate at all. That's what it looks like to me. So I will, that's fine. You're right. We could rotate that building. I was looking at it from an engineering drainage grade and kind of perspective. Yeah, I wouldn't take much of the rotation to get that up. I understand. Okay. So just in general, yeah, it's not what we had talked about several months ago that at that time it seemed like you were more agreeable on the on the fence and on the corner and some of the other things. And some of us would like to see more open fences along center street and other planning and zoning commissioners and city council people want to and owners want to see the masonry walls along center and so I have brought you where we ended up. Okay, man, let me I'm going to cut to the chase a little bit and not burden a lot of people on this. If I were the applicant on this tonight, sitting here and reading the tea leaves on what's going on, there's no way council can approve something like what you have in front of us. I would ask for a continuance of this if I were you so that these type of issues can be adequately addressed before you come back and seek a full vote of council. Sure. Because if you don't, I'm fearful you're going to be declined tonight. So let's, let's, let's, so then we'll, we'll best these items. So, are you asking us to continue this? And we will ask for continuous. Okay. Then I will make a motion to continue. Can I have a second on this? I'll second. And I have a second from Council Member Boxle. And please cast your vote. And it's been continued. Congratulations. Now, go let's see if we can work through all of these issues before we come back and have greater success with this. Continue to the next meeting. Yes, please. Okay. Is the 28th? Yes. Citizen participation, Mr. Busken. 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 of pre-registered will be given two minutes to make their comments, except that if 26 or more speakers are pre-registered, each speaker will be given one minute to make their comments, except that if 26 or more speakers of pre-registered, each speaker will be given one minute to make their comments. Our first speaker this evening is Michael Donald. Mr. O'Donnell. Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council, City Manager and staff for allowing me. Thank you for allowing me to come to speak to you tonight about Shakespeare Live. We're very excited. Our performance dates are April 3rd, 4th, and 5th, all at 11 p.v. And there will be evening performances at 7.30 each night. And a Matinee show for the education community on Saturday, if part me on Friday at 11 o'clock. Again, all performances are at 11. We're very thankful to have Dan Steter Arlington as our fiscal sponsor, whose founder of a late-pursus forster, U of the City Council recently honored last year with adding a street top resign to South Oak Street, Miss Pursus Way. Our show is cast with multiple UTA alums. In addition, we are working with the UTA Theater Department and one of their very own members, Margaret Monestore, is our costume designer. You're going hand-wrapping. I get four more seconds. No, I'm not. In addition, Mr. Peel, we are extremely grateful for the support of the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, women inspiring philanthropy, total energy, and the James Avery Foundation, as well as numerous other donors. As part of our educational outreach, we conducted two summer sessions with two different branches of the Boys and Girls Clubs, and they were very well received. Further, after the performance, we are planning on offering a workshop for veterans. Chris Hightower in the Arlington Museum of Art have been great partners and are allowing us to use space at the museum for our rehearsals, which we begin on February 17th. Our play, as you like it, is a playful, romantic comedy set in the Forest Arden. You can help by liking us on Instagram and following us on Facebook. Join us for our historic three days as the first live theatrical performances will be performed in downtown Arlington at the Levit. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, Mr. Busskin. And kind of it out well. Our next speaker is Katherine Coglin. Mr. Coglin. Good evening, sir. Good evening. It's been a while since I've seen you, Mayor, like the new look. Thank you. So I'm here this evening. I'm Kathan Coglin. I live in Arlington. I'm here this evening to show you these city plans that were done in the 1950s, and the leadership of Mayor Tom Van der Griff. And you may wonder why I'm here to show you that. 25 years ago, when I was a doctoral student, I wrote a paper on the socio-political the ecology of Arlington, and I was looking for these plans that I had heard about for several years. When I went to the Planning Department, they told me they were a myth. So I want to make sure that everybody knows they're not a myth. They do exist. I know many of you are very familiar with the first plan done in 52. The second plan is lesser known it was done in 1959. UTA Special Collections has two copies of the 52 plan, so I'm not donating the 52 plan to them, but I will be donating the 1959 copy of the plan to UTA Special Collections. Again, I'm here telling you this because 25 years ago, when I was trying to write my paper, I have to sift the many, many days of council meeting minutes to find out where the plans came from, which was Breeze and Nichols in engineering firm in, and I see you nodding. So you're well very familiar with this. An engineering firm in Fort Worth, and I was able to go to them and get copies of the plans so that I could do my paper. So anyway, that's why I'm here and I think these are valuable historical documents for Arlington and now folks should know where to find them with some ease. Thank you, sir. I appreciate what you do for this community. Thank you. Next speaker. Our He can hear me. As you all know, I run rainforests all the time. And I'm kind of debating on whether or not to try to ask dogs. I can put tents up so that I can keep the homeless. Because I don't think that I don't know where else that the city owns. Maybe we could put a homeless camp. We need one because it's, they've got to be somewhere. And y'all don't want to be in out there with the tourists, they're going seeing them. You're in black people here from all over the world to see the games but then you know they're gonna get a bad view all engine that we don't care because they see all these homeless people part behind businesses places and like I said let's not make homeless being an illegal fun you can't be here you can't be there or anywhere where do you want the homeless to be and what if the world was yours what would you do would you leave it like it is I'm making something new would you stop all these fighting in the streets? Would you stop all the hippies and the way they die? Or have the people living back in their caves? It's a big job and it's all up to you, if the world was yours. What would you do? And I'm hoping that maybe they're city owns a piece of property across from inside the park there on Abrams or there's a big bike box and then there's businesses behind there that's like it. Nobody's there. I don't know how to say it owns that but it does. That would be a great place to put it. And I don't know how to go about finding that out, but it's a- Thank you, ma'am. Y'all please consider it. Thank you. Next speaker, Mr. Buskin. Our next speaker is Vanessa Strength. She can't be here. Okay, well, Ms. Strength, she's not here. Mr. Buskin, do you have any other speakers? Yes, I do not. Thank you, sir. Council, do you all have any announcements tonight? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin announcements. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents, Arlington City Council, evening meetings evening meetings Are rebroadcast on Sundays at 6 p.m. And on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m The Council's afternoon work sessions are rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. And on Saturdays at 6 p.m You can also watch the meetings online anytime at www.arlington tx.gov Thank you you. Thank you all for coming out tonight. City Council meeting is adjourned. you I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I'm going to be a part of the TV show. I started to work on a TV and started to talk to people, with cell phones, putting cameras. That really started to me when I arrived here in the United States, I wanted to call it an exciting, emotional. We got close to the stadium, and I didn't want to live here. There was a lot of traffic, because I saw the kids' life. But when I started to see him and to know Arnit, I started to love more and more of the city. We live from Arnit to Texas, the capital of the port, the spectacle, and the entertainment. We're going to leave all of it. The radio was met with the work of the cabos, where we talked about the house team, what's going on, I played guitar, I played drums, and opened a space for the rocker. Thanks to Alex Lora, who is the Mexican Mick Jagger. And remember that the rocker is Thanks to Alex Lora, who is the Mexican Mick Jagger. And remember that rocker is a sport, practice it, practice it, connecting it to radio, Metroplex, with Angel, Martinez. Now we are 14 programs, we are already in 15, where we talk about everything. Arlington is the best city in Metroplex to invest in this business, it is a very very healthy city with a lot of diversity. In a few years or two or three years, everyone will be here in the city of Ardinto. The American dream is that you can adapt to the American system, that you can come and be something important and bring something to the country that is giving you something. I want to tell say to the community if you are going to put your business, if you are going to put something to do it well. In fact, I was going to tell myself, son, if you are going to save, be better, I will render. If you are going to paint a house, the best painting of the houses, what you do, do it well. I am Angel Martinez and I live the American dream. It's just become a wonderful event for our community as big as our parades and anything else. It is the event that people want to be part of. It's been a long time. I'm just glad now that the interest in how it really got started is coming about. But give up! But give up! But give up. But give up. But give up. Time passed so fast. I couldn't remember Bob Road and Wesley and others going before the school district to get it as a school holiday. Young lady named Beverly Lockhawk and she asked me if I knew that they were taking Martin with King Holiday off the school calendar. They're ways to make things move and if you think about the bus boycott that they had and Alabama, the reason it was so successful is because all those people heard it on the television. By requiring students to come to school on King Day, officials say they could end the school year earlier than June 1st. The school board is expected to vote at their next meeting on the proposal to eliminate Dr. King's Day and possibly other holidays from the school calendar. We the African-American community went to the school board meeting and convincing them that they should designate Dr. King's birthday as a school holiday. What I spoke about was that it's not really a day off, but it should be a day on to serve, to honor Dr. King and the work that he had done. They did got on the calendar and then they organized a committee to see what we need to do with maintaining his dream, Martin Luther King's dream. The Arlington MLK celebration started with a group of individuals back in 1988. Representative, various of our community, including the City of Arlington, Mary Anderson Cultural Society, the United States Postal Service, AISD, the Ministerial Alliance, and UTA. I was asked why was I part of the group and I said because of what it represents, but I can remember ranging to have the you