you you you you you you you you Thank you. I'm on the phone. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the Arlington City Council meeting. I want to invite one of my favorite ministers of all time, Miss Kate McGee, to come on up and lead us in an evocation. Please rise. Thank you, Mayor and City Council. I am Reverend Kate McGee from Westminster Presbyterian Church. It is privileged to be with you. Let us pray. Creator God, we humbly come before you asking for your blessing on our city and its leaders. We give thanks for our Mayor, City Council members, city manager, and other city staff members who serve our community with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love. Continue to sustain and uplift them in the leadership of our wonderfully diverse city. From the possibilities of farmer markets and mental health programs to public hearings on zoning cases. We ask God of imagination that you keep minds and hearts open to new opportunities in our city. May your wisdom guide all the decisions that are made tonight, especially those concerning the poor, the hungry, the lost, and the least of these. God who is near to us, you know that these are uncertain times for many of our city residents. Fears and doubts lurk around every corner. Help us stay focused on the differences we can make, on the good we can create, on the light we can share in the work that lies before us. May we continue to lift up the American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not just for some, but for all of your beloved children. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, your son and our Savior. Amen. Amen. Amen. Please join us in a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for whichishes Dance, one nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all. On a text like a ledil, EGT text, one state under God, one individual. Thank you, you may be seated. Will, where are you? There you are. We always do the front-pont stuff up front so everybody can leave after this is done. Because the rest of it's going to be real boring. I'm going to tell you all right now, okay? We're going to do a proclamation tonight, whereas public procurement organizations uphold the highest standards of honor and integrity to earn the trust of government agencies and the public and ensure prudent use of taxpayer dollars. Whereas procre- I'm going to struggle with procre- your men all night long. Whereas, folks, Lord, have mercy. Thank you. Thank you. Focus on efficiency and effectiveness and procur- We're as pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro off good aren't we? Managing contracts, developing strategies and fostering relationships with suppliers and internal departments. And whereas the City of Arlington adheres to the public procurement guide I did it. Oh look they're going to put an explanation mark on all of my messing up. I love my council up there. Guiding principles of accountability, ethics, impartiality, professionalism, service, and transparency, and promotes an open and competitive business environment, ensuring equal opportunities for all suppliers to partner with the city. And whereas March is designated as Procurement Month by the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing to raise awareness of Procurement Professional Rolls, whereas the City of Arlington celebrates the contributions of Pro professionals who promote economic development and ensure responsible stewardship of public resources. Now therefore I, Jim Ross, mayor of the City of Arlington do hereby proclaim March 2025 as procurement month easy for me to say,? Congratulations. Let's say or. Mayor council. City staff and training we appreciate all the support you continue to give us as a department when we're trying to implement policies and procedures to ensure that we are adhering to the highest level of transparency and integrity with everything we do here in the city. So we appreciate y'all's support. Thank you. We've got to take a picture. Oh, yes. Oh, the way. We don't want to do ugly ones. Yes. Everybody say procurement. I've never been so happy to get a proclamation over with. That was rough, y'all. I know. Michigan education, thank you. Smart, Alec. Okay, Mr. Bosken, Speaker Guidelines General DeCorum, please. Thank you, Mayor. We ask that the citizens and other visitors and attendants assist in preserving the order and 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, soonders or threatening remarks who uses vulgar or obscene language, who engages in any other actions that disturb or are 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 or 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 come to the microphone at 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 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 of their items on the agenda, speakers will be given three minutes to speak. If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments, those speakers may, if they so desire, and eight one or more individuals to provide public comment on behalf of the group. A bell will signal the end of each speaker's time. And considering comments, those 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. Busken. Do we have any appointments this evening to board or commissions? No, sir, we do not. Thank you. Consideration of minutes, please. Thank you, Mayor. Minutes for consideration this evening or the afternoon and evening meetings from February 25th, 2025. Thank you, sir. Council, do you all have any additions or corrections? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin. Are there any speakers on this item? No, sir. No speakers on this item. Thank you, sir. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Wesley and a second from Council Member Gonzalez. Please cast your vote. The motion passes. Mr. Buskin, consideration of consent agenda, please. Thank you, Mayor. The consent agenda this evening contains two minute orders and 11 resolutions. The minute orders seek to authorize one renewal of any requirements contract for motor maintenance for water utilities, two three year soul source contract for software support and maintenance for the encode court case management system. The resolution seek to authorize three downtown Arlington Farmers Market license agreement. Forward North Central Texas Council of Governments, Work Zone Data Exchange Grant 6 Office of the Governor of Fiscal Year 2026 Rifle Resistant Body Armor Program Grant, and Fiscal Year 2026 First Respondor Mental Health Program Grant, 7 A and B, Part Time Seasonal Temporary Deferred Income Plan, and 457 Part Time Temporary Seasonal Plan. 8 Authorize the Request for Proposal Procurement procurement method for electricity supply services. Nine, Texas Smart by a membership program. Ten, authorizing the execution of a contingent fee based professional services contract for financial advisor services. 11, two year contingent fee contract for legal services for disclosure council. 12, collateral assignment, agreement, LLC. Thank you mayor, this concludes the consent agenda for this evening. Thank you sir, do we have any speakers and supporter opposition of any of the items on the consent agenda? Yes sir, we have one speaker on item 7.3 Nancy Tyson. Okay. Do we have any other on 7.3 or any of the other items? No additional speakers we had one non-speaker in support on item 7.3. Okay what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull 7.3 from the consent agenda. I got call for a motion in a second on the remaining items of the consent agenda. I have a motion from Council Member Galante. A second from Council Member Femme, please cast your vote. The motion passes. We'll go back to 7.3, Mr. Busken, the speaker on 7.3, please. Nancy Tyson. It's Tyson ties come on up. Yes, ma'am right here at the podium. I can make it to here. Mayor and council, my name is Nancy Tyson. I'm president of the Arlington Historical Society, and I'm here in that capacity. We are planning or have in the works several days to close center street to West Street for some events that we are planning at the NAP Heritage Park and in front of Front Street partnering with Steve Moya and Janice Moya, which you probably all know that he is an excellent artist. I'm sorry. the, she do it. From the, the paintings that he has done, hung in the Arlington Museum of Art during the period of time that I was there. And also the baseball stadium, which he just recently did. Now, I'm here to say this. I also know that the farmer's market is going in and hooray for that. I'm all in favor of that. And I don't like the fact that you've got either opposed it or you're for it, because I'm both. And the opposing part of it is very, very small. And I understand with the assistant city managers assistant, we are going to work it out so that we both have what we want at the same time. So that's it. Thank you very much for your time. I love you all. Well. We love you too. I can speak on behalf of council. I especially, I think I love you more than they do personally. Well, maybe one or two lovely more as well. Thank you so much, Mayor. Thank you, ma'am. And Steve, you know you're a really good artist. I'm just giving you a hundred times. Any other speakers, Mr. Busken? Mayor, we had one individual register as a non-speaker. I think they may want to speak on the side of the carrot. Martin. Hello, Mayor and Council. My name is Garrett Martin. I'm the vice president of the Downtown Arlington Management Corporation. We just want to say we are very in favor of this market in downtown Arlington. Just for some background, we started working with this vendor, four seasons markets. In November of 2024, we brought them to the table with meetings with plenty of development, economic development, and with Jennifer workingman as well. And maybe it went great. And December we sat down with the vendor and we have been working out this license agreement. And it seemed to go very well. And so we will appreciate your vote in favor for this market. Thank you. Thank you, Garrett. Okay, I have a motion from Councilmember Gonzalez. A second from Councilmember fam, please cast your vote. The motion passes. Thank you all for coming out. We're going to go on down to 10.1, Ms. Stopple. Thank you, Mayor. Item number 10.1, zoning case PD 24-30. Is a request to change the zoning from neighborhood commercial NC to a plan development for residential single-family five that's RS five with the 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. The current PD proposal is for 29 detached single-family units. In lots ranging from 30-50 square feet to 10,500 square feet in size, with a lot width of 40 to 50 feet. Since the City Council meeting on February 4th, the applicant has provided typical floor plans and alluations. A few small changes to the proposal and a few clarifications that are listed in the staff report. This evening, the applicant, Nikki Moore, with MMA will present her case. Thank you, Ms. Moore. Okay, good evening. Thank you so much for allowing us a few weeks here to kind of clarify some site conditions and bring them ahead of before you to the presentation. Awesome. Thank you. Okay, so overall the site plan. Okay, don't start my time. Too late. Okay, I'll go fast. So overall we understood there was some low-hanging fruit. The word cottages caused some confusion of what type of development this was. And so the name has changed from the cottages on Wandaway to the preserve at Wandaway. Overall the site plan has not really changed, but we did wanna bring some pictures on what the fencing and screening was going to be like. Since that was a point of, am I still able to go? Okay, so we are going to provide a more concrete, so the precast concrete screen wall has more of a stacked stone look with columns. And this fencing will of course be placed outside of visibility triangles, out of traffic. This is really consistent with the developer's vision of the property and all of their properties, which I'll show you some pictures later on in the presentation. They do really, really quality screen walls, entry features and things that they like, and this development will be no different than that as well. Okay, so on this slide, this kind of better shows the pad dimensions and the setbacks that we were discussing earlier at the last meeting. So even with a 70 foot depth pad, we are able to, if this is right here, no, little dash line is the building setback line. So then we have 14 feet from there to the screen wall and then that six feet HOA lot includes the screen wall and the landscaping that will be a long Cooper Street for a total of 20 feet setback and as you can see that even with the 70 foot Pat depth we still have some room on a majority of lots on those facing Cooper and So that this kind of just depicts a little bit better dimensionally those setbacks along Cooper and then offering a total of you know 20 feet in total that's consistent with the UDC. So due to the fact that we have more pad depth on this site, Graham Hart is able to bring the master or the primary bedroom down in their four plans, which is more desirable to the market. They've also created right here a one story floor plan that would be a minimum of 1,500 square feet that was requested by council. And then a majority of the homes will be two stories and be about 2,500 square feet. Kind of going back to the site plan to the seven seven lots that face Cooper Street, if you see right there, a lot six through 12, those are committed to be 100% brick facades on the rear facade of those facing the public realm of Cooper Street as well. So here are just some additional floor plans exhibits and whatnot, just so you get a flavor of the things that we're all about missing from our last application. But then ultimately, in an effort to compare apples to apples, we take home values and we break it down on a price per square foot. We don't use the straight sales price because that includes many factors such as lot size, age of the home, the finish out of the home and whatnot. And so when we compare these homes, similar product and Hogan's Alley, they are very, very comparable in price per square foot than the older homes right next to it. And so we just show this slide once again to reiterate that the addition of these homes in this area will not negatively impact home values in the area. This is a different product, different offering. It's a new home. And also the finish out of the future home buyer selection will impact that sales price as well. And finally, it knows the who, not just the what. Gary and Brandon not with double-ego real estate. They're long time Arlington residents and local developers. They have proven themselves with time and time again with quality housing developments. Here's a few of their other housing developments you can see in the screen walls, the entry features and whatnot that they are looking to bring a really beautiful development to this area. And so with that, I'm happy to answer any other further questions. We'll recognize Councillor Marlborough-Glonte. Well, thank you for the developers that are here for working with us and bringing the elevations and four plans and also addressing a couple of deviations. I think the project is much better now. Thank you for investing in all that's a beautiful project. I'm a support. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this item? Yes sir, we have two additional speakers in support and five speakers in opposition. Our first speaker in support is Gary Not. After Mr. Not is blamed cook. Good evening, Councilor, good evening mayor. Thank you for what y'all do. My name is Gary Not, resident of Arlington. For 65 years I've been a resident of Arlington. I've been involved in real estate since the early 1980s. And we're trying to bring more supply to the city of Arlington so the housing needs can be met. We feel like this will be the highest and best use for this particular location and if you have looked at the slides as far as our other developments we really try to do some really upscale developments to make the homeowners feel proud to be living in this development and I just want Wanted to speak tonight you asked me to speak last time. So if you had any questions feel free to shoot them my way Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming out next speaker mr. Busskin next speaker is blame cook After mr. Okay, so I'll go ahead and move to the next item. Okay, so I'll go ahead and move to the next item. Okay, so I'll go ahead and move to the next item. Okay, so I'll go ahead and move to the next item. Okay, so I the years, but most of the activity has been with developers that didn't really align with the city and the neighborhood. That we feel having now known Brandon and Gary for almost a year just working with them on how to get this project going. I feel very strongly that this is the highest and best use for this property and I'm back a 100%. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is Regina Miranda. After Ms. Miranda is Mario Miranda. Good evening, ma'am. Thank you, Mayor, Council. I enjoy doing this, so pardon me. They were referencing Hogan's cottages off 287, so I'd like to just address that. And I have driven through that recently. It does align with the community around it, so yes, and so I would say that. It does, it matches well for what they've done. But this proposed development does not align with the architectural style, scale, and density of the surrounding area and in South Cooper and one to way. I know that the staff has reported that to you all and you've received that as far as your staff recommendations and past they've, they have expressed that to us as neighbors that they have informed you that doesn't really match the area. So allowing one development to break with neighborhood character could set a precedent for more leading to an irreversible shift. as well as in-congrat development may reduce the desirability of the area affecting property values negatively. It is the council's responsibility to ensure thoughtful well integrated growth rather than peace milling and causing disruptive changes. Thank you very much. Thank you, ma'am. Our next speaker is Mario Miranda. After Mr. Miranda is Gloria Smith. Good evening, Council and Mayor. I'm here to talk about 10.1, the wand away development. As I view it, the density of this location is different than the reason we chose to move there over 20 years ago. It was a very unique, large lots, tree lots, a very quiet neighborhood. And I feel in contrast, the new development is looking at small lots, removing all the trees, but one, change from a quiet neighborhood to something different. And we don't oppose residential. We're very close to liking this. It's just the quality of the development, the details of the development, the size. I have seen not not the cottages, the other development that the developer did. And if you look at the pictures that Nikki Moore was presenting, you could see where the elevation shows the garage is being, to me, 50% of what you're seeing there. So very different than what's in the neighborhood. And so please consider altering the proposal to something lower density and if possible, fencing so we could separate, at least visually what we have and what's coming in. And maybe preserving some trees also. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is Gloria Smith. After Ms. Smith is Tim Smith. Hi, Council. As a late person, when I bought our house 25 years ago, I assumed when I bought into a rural residential neighborhood, it was going to stay that way. This lot at the end of our street has been zoned commercial and it was under that knowledge that we purchased our home. I thought the purpose of planning and zoning was to protect established neighborhoods from these cookie cutter. Large quantity moving in to an established neighborhood. Our neighborhood consists of 10 homes, so we can't flood the gallery with a bunch of opposition. 10 homes. Each home is on two acres. If you would imagine looking out your front door at the two homes across the street, take those two homes out and now put in 29. That's what's happening to our neighborhood. And it's clearly not a good fit. As mentioned by the staff report, it says the proposed project is not substantially conformed with the land use goals for rural residential. The proposal doesn't even meet the minimum requirements of a neighborhood in Arlington, Texas, per current code. There are so many deviations from this. I don't see how you could put the smallest option of a residential neighborhood into a rural residential neighborhood and establish neighborhood. Neighbors that have lived there 30 plus years. So what I ask of you is vote no. Let's go back to the drawing table. Let's try to find a compromise. Something that fits with what is currently there. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Our next speaker is Tim Smith. Matt, Matthew Smith. Okay, yeah, I've got your car. You don't get to add three minutes. No, I understand, I understand. Okay. So, my name is Matthew Smith, I'll have him for the fourth. So just to echo what my mom said, there is a PD is an essence, a new zoning district. You're not voting on a developer, which I am very impressed by what Mr. Nond has done, but that's not to say that he can't turn around that site plan if you approve it and sell it to the next person. So we have to focus on voting on the zoning and not who is going to complete the zoning or the development. As my mom stated, the staff does not support this project. It does not fit the comp plan which you all vote on. And if you were to approve this, I would ask that you approve this with conditions, given that it's not a straight zoning case, it's a plan development. With five deviations, the utmost due diligence should be required, including a drainage study and a TIA. I think that would do a lot with the residents to show a dedication and an investment in the project and show that whenever this gets approved there won't be a bunch of amendments changing the site plan that most of the due diligence has been done on the front end before creating a zoning district that as I said could be sold to the next person. And I'll say that's the case here, but I think whenever you're looking at a PD, you're creating a new zoning district. So I think everybody needs to take that into consideration. Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir. Mayor, that concludes our speakers on the side and we did have two non-speakers in support and four non-speakers in opposition. or Moore, if you want an opportunity to speak and rebuttal to any of those speakers, you're welcome to. Yes, sir. Okay, I think the two most important things to address are, of course, traffic and drainage. So right now, a 29 single family development would produce 22 trips during the AMP hour and 29 trips in the PMP hour. If the land was developed per what it is already zone now, there could potentially be a 30,000 square foot retail strips that are there. That would produce 1,749 average daily trips. This change in zoning to a less intensive use, the neighborhood commercial, significantly reduces the traffic impact on the adjacent roadway systems. Now for drainage, every development, whether that single family, multi-family, commercial development that comes through the city of Arlington, is required to meet the standards in the design criteria manual section 5.2.1 storm water submittal requirements. To prove up that the development in and of itself will have no adverse impact downstream or to its neighboring properties. And so that is the same thing that this development will go through at the plating phase and of construction documents and engineering process engineering process. And it will comply and we program detention on site to accommodate that. In addition, we are preserving 40% of the tree preservation on site, including some significant post-oaks that are on site to keep that tree line along the western boundary. And yes, the residential is going to be a less intensive use than commercial. And I think that pretty much covers everything that I needed to say. Thank you. We'll recognize Councilmember Oden Wesley. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Ms. Moore, for bringing the project. I do have one additional question. First of all, this seems like you've addressed all of the deviations from the UDC. Well, there are deviations because we're doing a plan development. And so we are asking for a shorter or a less lot frontage in terms of 40 feet where a typical is 50 feet. But I would tell you that we still have about, we have eight of the 29 lots are still over 5,000 square feet. 17 of the 29's lots are between four and 5,000 square feet. It's only those four lots in the center that are 35-foot lots that are really significantly reduced, but they still have the appropriate length in order to create a good housing development and were able to meet all the setbacks. Okay, that was one additional concern that I read about in the materials and that was about the Wandaway street itself that the street itself does not support this development and that it would require some improvements. So would you speak to that? Yeah, so right now Wandaway is a asphalt covered road with bar ditch drainage. And so part of the development, the city has requested, working with the developer and creating an improved pavement width section and putting in the sidewalks and the curb and the gutter. They would be up to that development. They would also serve the rest of the community. And I think there have just been some conversations about how we can all partner together, because it is a public road that serves many other residents, not just this neighborhood, but in partnering together to improve that roadway portion. So that's a part of your plan? Yes, it is written into the okay. Okay. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Any other speakers? Mr. Buskin. No sir. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from council member Galante. A second from council member fam. Please cast your vote. The motion passes, congratulations. 10.2 Ms. Busken. Lord, I'm just married you to the city secretary, Ms. Loppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.2, zoning case PD24-39, is a request to change the zoning from neighborhood commercial NC to a plan development for residential medium density RM12 uses with a development plan on an approximately 5.4 acre site addressed as 1501 Mansfield Web Road, generally located north of Mansfield Web Road and east of South Collins Street. The applicant is proposing a 46-town-home unit development on this oddly shaped undeveloped site with two points of access on Collins Street. The proposed internal street is flanked by two or three unit town-home buildings on both sides. Three common open space lots with amenities are provided internal to the perimeter fence along Collins Street for the residents. Each individual lot meets the UDC standards except the lot depth of 90 feet. Since the planning and zoning meeting on February 5th, the applicant has revised the landscape plan to show four inchinch caliber trees along South Collins, agreed to work with the adjacent property owners regarding the replacement of the Bodeon Board would fence along South and east sides of the property, agreed to 100% masonry on the end caps of buildings facing South Collins Street and provided revised elevations showing enhanced garage door conditions. The applicant discord work company represented this evening by Brian Holland. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, Council, staff, appreciate your time tonight. My name is Brian Holland with the Scorper Development Company offices at 8214 Westchester Drive in Dallas, Texas. Appreciate your time tonight. I'll try to be quick to get through this to answer as many questions as you all want to pose. We're calling this the Manors of Lynn Creek. And I'll just tell you just quickly a little bit about ourselves, talk about the property details, the project details, and then some of the representative product that we're going to be putting on this project. Some of you have been around long enough did you are familiar with who we are and what we do. But we're a locally owned private single family lot developer. All we do is single family development. We've done over 120 projects across the metro area in about 33 different municipalities have about 25 active projects currently from small infill sites like we're talking about today to larger big master plan communities, Rockwall, Anna, to name a few. This shows you a map of some of the projects we've done in and around, not only Arlington, but your southern neighbor in Mansfield directly across the street from the subhexitis, Lynn Creek estates. We did a little project across there several years ago, Mansfield or Mayfield Farms. Next to the high school, just south of the high school, Turner Ridge. And in Sterling, Green our most recent one on the kind of the upper left hand corner there of this. We just delivered those lots to K Havnanyan, not more than about 60 days ago. So we're real proud of that project as well. So the subject property we're talking about is on South College Street, just more at the Mansfield, Web Road. That's about 5.338 acres. The current zoning is neighborhood commercial and the future land use plan is established residential. This just shows you some of the how the area has grown over the years from 1995 imagery where there was nothing out there to today where it pretty much filled in everywhere around it with single family. This is just kind of the hole in the doughnut that got left out. One thing I will talk about is we've had this, we do own this property ourselves, corporate company. We bought it when we did the Lin Creek Estates project across the street. It was a remnant piece that this owner had, didn't know what to do with it. He'd been trying to market it for retail, commercial uses for his tenure. We bought it about six years ago, Randy Church with Wicker and Associates, commercial brokers firm, we've had a sign on it, we've been marketing it for the last six years, and the only activity we got was from a many warehouse storage facility, to put storage units on the site. So after six years, we figured it was time to try to figure out what we could do with it and so hopefully what we're buzzing night something we can get your support of. The project as Jensy said is 46 single family two unit town homes. There are two three unit town homes just because of the way the sites configured. It's about 8.6 units per acre which is significantly less than the 12 units per acre allowed into the townhome zoning ordinance. Our lot sizes are typically 29 by 100 feet. She didn't mention that our minimum is 90 because as you go around the knuckle on a couple of these we need a little extra a little reduction in that in that lot with to make those lots work so our home builder we do have a home builder on this project they're their square footage on their plans is 1891 to 1982 so good-size homes they're gonna start in the $335,000 price range. One thing I do want to point out, which we're real proud of, for a site this of this size, we have about 1.05 acres of open space, which is over 24% of the overall site. So take the in comparison, under the town home ordinance, it's about 200 square feet per unit, it's what required. So we're 10 times what's required under the UDC. And then obviously we'll have an HWA maintained a perimeter landscaping in open space. I'm gonna fly through here so but this is our screening. It's a first-class community we're gonna be doing mastering on the outside of the project a six-foot board on board fence against the existing neighbors. We talked about that in PNZ. We'll replace, with new fence, whatever folks want to have replaced at their option. And then we'll be just a four-foot ornamental fence and then the entry signage and monumentation on our entries. The community amenities, we've got a dog park, we've adult swing and and shade structure and lawn games in the two areas He circled there additionally we're gonna be extending sidewalk all along South Collins Street We'll be tying it into the existing neighborhood on the north side and then we got guest parking for our open space There's just some renderings of the actual Product and what it would look like on the ground Thank you, sir. Councilmember Hunter. Thank you. Well, thank you for bringing this project to the possibility of Southeast Arlington. As you know, I am the representative and I live in Southeast Arlington, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New. But then we also have that 200 and so something units that will also be using that. Can you speak to us a little bit about how you plan to alleviate that traffic? Yeah, so as I think you, as about when we had you on the phone the other day, this is actually a down zone from the existing zoning from so if you're in staff report, I don't have that in front of me today, but you've seen it by reducing down zoning this from retail commercially used to a single family use that actually decreases the traffic in that area significantly. So over what could be developed today? Council Member Boxel. Thank you. Can you tell me what your rear yard set back as along the side that is furnishing the home the existing homes. Yes, ma'am. The the minimum is 10, but all of these we have a 70 foot pad so 95% of them are going to be a 20 foot set back a 20 foot set back to the building line to the yes ma'am to the to the building envelope. That's correct Okay, and are those and those are all two story the site plan, it looks less than 20 feet. That's why I'm asking. It's 20 feet. It's based on the, and I'll show you, I've got it in my appendix here. Somewhere. Okay. So it looks at the, yeah, the site plan is a little different. So yeah, you got a roomy backyard. Yeah. And at you and 20 foot front yard, set back 20 foot rear start and this is actually one of the floor plans from the unit so. Okay thank you very much. You're welcome. Mr. Buskin and any other speakers on this item. Yes sir we have two speakers in opposition. Our first speaker in opposition is Janus Nix. This is Nix. Miss Nick is Karam Aryan. Good evening, sorry I'm a little afraid I've never done this before. Thank you for hearing me. Tonight I want to express my concerns growing over the construction around my neighborhood. I live in nature's Glen neighborhood where there is only, the only outlets on Demandsfield Web. There are two, there are only two outlets for my neighborhood. There's two additional outlets. If I go around the back of the neighborhood and go into Western trails, all four of them drop on Demandsfield Web, which is a two lane highway. Over the past five to six months, there's been two new building projects. One of them on his slide showed an empty lot. If that empty lot is between nature's Glen and Western trailsils, and there's 226 homes, supposedly single family homes on it. My concerns about this is, now I know there's gonna be 46 homes on that small lot. That's a minimum of two cars each 82 cars. On that property it's this one it's yardly eating. There's 226 homes. Some of them go up to a three bedroom and I I figured there's gonna be anywhere from 350 to 400 cars on the road. There are times when it takes us 10, five to 10 minutes to even get out of our neighborhood because of the traffic on Mansfield, Web. So I wanna know what are you doing about expanding the roads to alleviate the problem? I want to know when you're going to enlarge Mansfield Web and Collins. If the infrastructure is already there, but nothing, we've lived there six years and nothing's been done with it. But now we have these other issues. There's actually three construction sites. There's another one further down Mansfield web across from the beacon. We don't know what that is for. Then to alleviate the problem, this site, you guys are extending Eden behind it. And my concern is that drop, there's no exit behind there. That exit's on to Mansfield Web also. there's two exits and I'm wondering if Eden is gonna drop into my neighborhood and if it just drops into my neighborhood How are they? Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Our next speaker is Toram Aryan Hi, my name is Coram Arian. I am a product to be an art incident for over 35 years. I live actually right across where that development is happening on Everett Court, which Lin Creek State that was developed four years back. The problem that I have is I'm very opposed to it. The reason being is that that's right in front of, as soon as we exit out of our neighborhood, it's right across the street. And there's gonna be so much traffic as much it is hard on college right now to make a left or a right going towards south or north. It's difficult because heavy traffic's coming. I'm opposed to it because any time that neighbor is going to be built, that's going to have like 46 units, that's going to have a lot more cars that are going to be coming in and out of that area and it's going to cause more traffic congestion. There's also, it's only a two lane road right now. It's not been developed to a four lane road. There's schools, if you further down so there's so much heavy traffic. School bus is coming down and right. And other thing that I have is that existing land that they developed the company developed, the developer developed after the initial plan was submitted during the time of COVID there were multiple amendments to the plan. I don't know how that was happened, but basically that area we have an HWA community. We have nothing inside of it and there's we're paying for HWA for no reason and I just don't want that area to be done as, hey, it's going to be done that way and then really our amendments be presented to it and that initial plan doesn't take in place. Thank you, sir. Is there any other speakers, sir? No additional speakers on the side. Thank you, sir. As an applicant, you get an opportunity for a rebuttal if you would like one. And just quickly, on the traffic, I understand the concern. That is, is there traffic in that area? this property We've given up the right away necessary to To expand Colin South Collins in that area. It's intended to be expanded at some point We're gonna be putting the sidewalk in along the front as the South Collins so that's something that the city doesn't have to do later We're putting in a first-class community. We're gonna be a masonry wall all out out front. It looks very similar to Lincoln Creek States across the street. It'll fit in and blend nicely. As far as the H.O.A., this 11 mandatory H.O.A. Our H.O.A. will maintain all the street, not only common area, but it'll know all the front yards. Any green space, any grass is not behind a privacy fence. the H.O.I. will maintain. We've written that into the PD. We are stating it here today, that's not gonna change. So, just wanna mention that. Thank you, sir. Council Member Hunter. Okay, thank you for that rebuttal. As you said, at some point Collins will be redone, but as a council member for that district and seeing that traffic, I have to think about my residents for now. I have to think about what's best for that land, is that the best use of that land right now? So at this point, I cannot support this, so thank you. Thank you. No other speakers, Mr. Buskin? No, sir, no additional speakers on the side. Appreciate you bringing this in. I like this project. I'm going to be supporting it tonight. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Galante, has second from Council Member Gonzalez. Please cast your vote. Motion passes. Congratulations sir. 10.3, Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.3 zoning case, PD 24-35, is a request to change the zoning from residential single family RS 7.2 to a plan development for RS 7.2 plus 125 foot tall cell tower with a development plan on approximately 0.05 acres of land addressed at 5510 Matlock road generally located south of West Nathan Low Road and west of Matlock Road. The site is currently developed with Rushcree Baptist Church, and this 40 by 50 foot site will be leased by the cell tower company. The PD zoning request is needed because the 125 foot tower does not meet the 3-1 distance to height ratio from single family zoning district. The applicant is broadest towers represented this evening by Alan's Kibbley. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Alan Sivley with broadest towers. We're in Delaware, thinkton Gardens. This side I don't know if been before you a few times over the last few months with some of these. And it's once again, as we see with the two prior cases, Arlington is booming. Everybody wants to be here. So we're looking to help fill those infrastructure needs that come along with it. This side, our anchor tenant is Verizon. They're looking to improve both coverage and capacity, just with all the new homes, new residents, new visitors, their network can't keep up. We have also had discussions with other national carriers and there is interest from a second carrier and collocating on the tower if we do get approved tonight. So would be a win for, like I say, all the residents, businesses and visitors to this area. And I'm available to answer any questions that any of you might have. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We had one additional individual register as a speaker and support. Alec Brottis. We had questions. You're good. He did that good of a job for you. All right. All right. No other speakers, Mr. Buskin? Yes, sir. I want to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Odom Westley, a second from Council Member Gonzalez. Please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, sir. Thank you. Thank you. 10.4, Ms. Thoppel. Item 10.4 zoning case, ZA 24-10 is a request to change the zoning from residential estate, RE to residential single-family RS-5 for one single-family detached home. The site is currently vacant. To build a home, the property owner will be required to replat and at that time the lot has to meet the requirements of that zoning district. The current zoning on the property requires the property to be one acre in size to allow one home to be built. However, the site is only 7,500 square feet and the lot dimensions are 50 by 150 feet, which meets the RS5 minimum requirements for law to width, hence the request to rezone to RS5. The applicant and owner is Karen Lopez and is here this evening to present our case. Miss Lopez? Miss Lopez? Oh, there you are. Good afternoon, I'm Felicity, Counseling Committee members. My name is Jeannie Vittusman. Would you mind pulling that mic down so it faces you just a little bit? There you go. That's better, thank you. I'm represent Karen Lopez and I am president of Arlington, Texas and I am the owner of the land located at 2015. We travel in Texas, it's 0-0-2. I am here to request your approval to chance the signing of the land. The main object of the signing change is to develop the and build a single family home. Just will be created during the construction and the properly developed will generate increased task revenue for CD. The project is designed to blend in with the aesthetic and functionality of the neighbor while respecting current urban characteristic. We will work with the CD to ensure water, sewer and electrical system. We plan to use sustainable material in where we local contractors to support the community. I respectfully request your approval for this zoning change. I am committed to work closely with the city and residents to ensure that they probably have a benefit to everyone. Thank you. It wasn't that bad, was it? It was nervous. That's okay. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have no additional speakers on the side of. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Galante, a second from Council Member Peel, please cast your vote. The motion passes. Congratulations, ma'am. 10.5 Ms. Thoppel. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.5, zoning case PD 24-24. Is a request to change the zoning from Entertainment District overlay EDO RMF-22 and entertainment district NC neighborhood commercial to entertainment district EDO RMF-22 with a development plan a PD for that on approximately 6.45 acres of land addressed at 712 East Randall Mill and 701 on street, generally located south of East Randall Mill and West Collins Street. The site is currently developed with two multifamily developments. The owner is proposing to remodel 23 bedroom units in the northern apartment building to two bedroom units and a studio unit, does increasing the total number of units by 20. The PD is mainly requested because with this remodel, they will not be meeting the minimum required unit sizes for the efficiency as well as the two bedroom units. However, they will be upgrading the site with additional landscaping along Randall-Mill Road and Slotter Street, as well as replacing the existing chain link fence along the Western property line with ornamental rod-eye and fencing. The applicant, Jonathan Winson, representing Jackson Walker LLP, will be presenting the case this evening. Good morning, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Council members, my name is Jonathan Vincent, 2323, Ross Avenue and Dallas. And here tonight representing the Lighthouse group on this request as the staff report tells you the site's zoned entertainment district overlay on both halves, RMF 22 on the north and neighborhood commercial in the south. Really this operates as one unified site, even though it's on two lots. And it's part of the reason we're here in front of you tonight. It's built in 1968. And as constructed, it's got a total of 184 existing dwelling units, 84 in the north and 100 on the south. 20 of those 84 units on the north are 1,200 square foot, 3 bedroom units. And in the multi-family market, those are very difficult to lease. They tend to be not very affordable because of the amount of square footage and the rent that you have to charge for that. We think that there's a much better market that serves the community better by dividing those up into studio units and two bedroom units. And interestingly, they're already plummed to to be two units. We can set it up with two kitchens. They even have two entry doors, which is very unusual. The lighthouse group required the property in 2019. And they've spent about $5 million plus to date on upgrading the property. And you'll see some of the work they've done. This is a depiction of the two lots that comprise the area of request for the zoning case. It's important to note that as I say this was built in 1968. We are not proposing to do any changes to the exterior. At all there's no expansion, there's no change in use, nothing like that. All of this work will take place on the interior of the site other than the landscape upgrades, which we've mostly actually already completed. Again, that's another view of the site. A little bit zoomed out view. You see the red pen is where the site is. You see to the west that's a city-owned surface parking lot. To the right is AT&T Stadium, Randall Mill, the street on your north. So a lot of commercial development in the area, the staff report points this, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the city of New York, the entertainment uses in the area. And we think that by providing these smaller units, additional smaller units, that's going to help serve the need for workforce housing in the entertainment district. I've noted that a lot of the cases here tonight are different types of increased residential density. I perceive that there's an understanding that as Arlington grows, as the area grows, there needs to be more places for people to live and that's what we're trying to do here. A little bit closer view, you can see, again, the stadium, the surface parking lot. So I'm not going to read this to you because I don't have time. But they have done a ton of work on this project. As I say, at least $5 million just since 2019 when they acquired the asset, upgrades to the exterior, to the interiors. It's a much nicer place now than it was. I think it's fair to say that this is an excellent owner, excellent property manager. And I have with me, and I'm an antfowler, who's the regional property supervisor, Robert Lawre, who's the national construction manager in Linda or Avalot, who's the property manager. And they're all available for questions. But they are committed to doing the best possible job to the city of Rowland and they're here tonight to underline that. Interior upgrades, you'll see pictures of that, which I'm gonna have to go through pretty quickly, but I've explained all that in my communications to you and upgrading of landscaping, including as recently as February 27th, the 20 additional shrubs mentioned in the staff report as being a staff recommended condition. Those are already planted. They've already been purchased and installed. So committed to be a good corporate partner for the city and they built a new leasing office as well. The landscape upgrades, the landscape improvements these drawings show. A lot of the ones on Randall Mill were done right after they acquired the asset on the right-hand side with the red notation. Those are the ones that were most recently installed. So, you know, your planning staff has done a great job of pointing out to us where we can do better with the landscaping and we follow through with that immediately. Exterior improvements. These are all before and after pictures. So I'm going to run through these quickly, but it's a much better look Much nicer place for the tenants to live much better for the surrounding neighborhood surrounding community Again the kitchen upgrades bathroom upgrades Even the amenities like the laundry room and mailboxes and the leasing office and Community facilities in the leasing office So this the red buildings as I mentioned in my email are the ones where the unit conversions will take place They're all on the north side on the Randall mill side the orange circles are where the gates are so the parking really functions now Thank you, sir, okay, council member boxal Thank you, sir. Okay. Council Member Boxel. Thank you, sir. You said you have 164 units right now. Or is that the final total? It's 184. 184. And then you're adding 20 more. We're taking 20 of the three bedroom units and splitting them. you end up 20 more units total correct the total numerically ends up being 20 more but it's not yeah the same footprint. Yeah, it's the same footprint. Okay, my only question is how many of the of your units on both sides of the development are currently STRs. Great question, none. And that actually is prohibited in our leases that came up at PNZ as well. And they even do spot checks on verbo or Airbnb and things like that to make sure that no one is doing that. That's actually. And where does that restriction come from? It comes from the management or? Correct. Yeah, it's written in the lease, which of course is a contractual agreement between the tenant and the landlord. So it's prohibited. They take steps to make sure that it's not being done. Okay. Thank you. Elisabeth Guilante. Well, thank you for bringing this project. I know the property. all of you, your council member and you guys have some station improvements in the property. And I'm curious to see how this can be a good option for workforce housing near the entertainment district. Good luck to you, guys. My support. Thank you. Thank you, council member. And I just wanted to add two things. There was one thing that came up about staining the paving on the Randall-Mill side. That's actually asphalt. So because of that, we can't really stain it. We would ask for that not to be imposed. And then the chain link fence on the west side, that's the surface parking lot. Hopefully, we would not be required to do that. But that's certainly your priority if that's up to council. Does the alumni too ask that we have there a little different than what staff is recommending? Okay, well we don't have any modification on this thing right now are you are you asking to amend this or are you wanting to go forward with the vote the way it is. We would certainly like an approval. The fence issue, while it's something that we wanted to put before you for consideration, we understand the city's desire to upgrade the fencing. So that's not a hill we're gonna die on. Well, I don't think the staff's gonna let you stain stuff that you're not able to stain. Okay, so that will be okay. Okay, thank you. Any other speakers on this, Mr. Buskin? No, sir. No additional speakers. We did have one non-speaker in support. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Galante. A second from council member Peel. Please cast your vote. The motion passes, congratulations, sir. 10.6, Ms. Stopple. Thank you, Mayor. Item 10.6, zoning case PD 24-34, is a request to change the zoning from residential single family, RS 7.2, to a plan development for light industrial LI uses with an electric utility substation with a development plan on 3.43 acres of a site addressed as 1918 and 1922 South Cooper Street, generally located north of West Pioneer Parkway and west of South Cooper Street, north of South of Lavers Lane, actually. The site is currently partially developed with an on-course substation and they are wanting to expand the operation, mainly to upgrade and improve the overall reliability to the electrical grid and allow for increased demand in the area. They will be providing a maestory screening wall with landscaping outside of it along lovers, lane and Cooper Street and at the West property line. On the south side, a chain link fence atop, a retaining wall is proposed to help alleviate the flood plain requirements. The applicant is half an associate represented by Brian Sattagic. Brian? Yeah, thank you Mayor and Council. My name is Seth Samson. I'm studying specialist with Encore and Brian Sataj and Travis Anchor with half associates there are civil contract and company on for us. So I'm here to answer any questions that you may have and I'll stick around. Thank you, sir. Councillor Boxill. Thank you. I have a question about your landscaping. My concern is to, I support this, we need it, but my concern is to make this as attractive as possible. And I would love to see what kind of landscape you're going to put in. I know you cannot put in trees with canopies, but you could put in trees that grow straight up, like Italian Cyprus, or you could plant, I think it's called Arbor Vaité, the miniature version doesn't get tall, but it comes out bushy and it gives a lot of a continuous green wall. Anything you can do to make the area just more attractive along Cooper Street. Yep, so I understand what you're saying first of all. The issue with, and I'll just speak towards the Italian Cypress is because I'm familiar with them, I have them at my home, but the height that they can grow to is what is restrictive to us because not only are we considering the screening which I understand trying to screen as much as possible, our utility lines have a space requirement on any type of landscaping that we may put on site. So depending on temperature, time of day, load those, every line sags to a degree and they kind of, they move more than you would think. So we have industry standards that we have to abide by as far as the tops of what potential tree species could grow to and what those lines can get to. That's just one concern. Another is the trees that we typically try to use are drought resistant. are districts. They're very good at many things. Maintaining landscaping is not necessarily one of them. They're just not designed for that as well. So we try to use drought resistant and types of shrubs that we're familiar with that take minimal maintenance for us. But I understand you're concerned. There's some wiggle room. We do have approved species that our company approves and that we're willing to share with staff and we can work out where we can. There are drought tolerant tree species that are really more of a bush. But what is your maximum height that you can go to? I'm not sure of that maximum height is right now. Because there miniature versions of almost every species that wouldn't get too tall. Sure. And we're willing to work with staff to try to come up with a compromise. I just know from our past experiences with working with municipalities, we are very limited on what we can provide. Okay. I really would really love for you guys to make it as attractive as possible. Lord knows Cooper Street needs it. We need more cleaning on that street and this is a perfect opportunity to put a little bit of green back on Cooper Street. I understand you. Thank you. I just want to thank. You guys have a good fabulous job because I go by there almost every single day. I do go by there every day and there's been homeless in campus everything else. And you guys have cleaned them up when they're there. So thank you for being great neighbors. If we talk about cleaning up, I wish the people across the street from the power station that had that fence all painted up. Probably needs to be fixed more than anything else, but thank you for doing what you all do, and I'm looking forward to seeing you all keeping that, the area clean as usual. So thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers on this item? Yes, sir, no additional speakers. Thank you. I'm going to close the public hearing. I have a motion from Council Member Galante. second from councilmember road and Wesley please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations sir. I remember Goulante, a second from Councilmember Rodin Wesley, please cast your vote. Motion passes, congratulations, sir. Move on down to 11.1 deputy chief Daniels. I don't have any comments just here to answer any questions. Thank you, sir. Mr. Buskins, do we have any speakers on this item? Yes, sir. We have two speakers in opposition to this item. Our first speaker is David McClelland. After Mr. McClelland is James Bennett. Good evening, Mayor. My name is David McClelland. I run a small business in Arlington, moved to Arlington in 1984. I'm actually here today to highlight some concerns I have with the wording here as it relates to officer safety. My background is a 21-year first responder. So 16 years as a first responder with municipality and then five years as chief of staff at the Terrent County Sheriff's Office. Jump right in. In section two, it lists as in section b a reasonable estimated time for the person to reach out to a record service. It doesn't decide what that reasonable time is. Currently, studies show that the longer an officer is out on a scene, the more likely it is that there's going to be an incident that affects that officer's safety or the safety of people that are involved in traffic related to that accident. The fact that it doesn't define what a reasonable time would be is ambiguous and it leaves it to question. At the officer on the scene, these needs to make a decision as to is 30 minutes, 60 minutes, an hour and a half, a reasonable time. That's concerned because again, the longer they're there, the more likely it is, there's gonna be an incident. The other issues that I have with this is, it appears to give the resident, the incident person, and the police officer, the knowledge, or they need to have the knowledge noted incident management company is. Majority of the record services in Texas, in fact, roughly 95% of them are triple A bonded ratings and they're not incident management companies. They're not certified as incident management. The difference there would be incident managers need to bring brooms, oil dry, shovels, cleaning equipment to clean up the accident after they tow the vehicle or load the vehicle on the record. AAA bondage are not required to do that. They don't need to have those things on their record. So if they show up at an incident because somebody's called them, they're not going to be able to clear the accident roadway, which again is going to require the officer or the first responder to stay there and call additional support to come make make sure those they're not going to be able to clear the accident roadway, which again is going to require the officer or the first responder to stay there and call additional support to come make sure those things are cleaned up to free the roadway back up. Again, more time leads to a higher likelihood of incidents as it relates to first responders. And those are my concerns as it relates to these things here. We shouldn't require the citizen involved in the accident or the police officer on the scene to be able to identify what record service is an incident management versus just a AAA standardized record company. And we shouldn't leave it up to them to determine on scene what a reasonable time frame is to show up because if it's a 30 minute or 45 minutes and they don't show up for an hour because you're not required to to, as a Tribal A bonded Record Service. It leaves ambiguity and issues for officer safety. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, Mitch Busskin. Our next on. Okay. Good afternoon, Mayor, Council, City Manager, City Attorney. I don't have really too much to say on this. I do agree with what the gentleman said before on a lot of it. I just would like to request maybe some conversation back and forth so that we can as a stakeholder and a partnership with the city can kind of give a little bit of detail on our end of how things work on the accident scenes and stuff. I'm in favor of a resident being able to call for their own record. I own a record service. If somebody told me I couldn't call my own record, I'd kind of be ticked off about it. So I'm 100% in agreement with that. But there is an emergency response aspect to it. And then there's a couple of other little things. We don't do AAA, so sorry. But we don't do any AAA stuff. We focus on clearing the roadway. So I'd like to just request maybe some type of a meeting with staff and a city manager and maybe give some ideals that we deal with on a day-to-day basis. Thank you, sir. Miss Boxel. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. I have a question. I have a question. I have a question. Are you comfortable with our Arlington APD officers being able to make those decisions on the scene about about how fast it needs to be cleared, what the, let them assess the situation and make that determination how fast it needs to be cleared. And if the person did want to have another record service, but the officer felt that it was just not, it just need to be cleared faster. Are you comfortable with them being able to make that determination? It's. It's very circumstantial. I sit on the board with the state legislative. I stay in Austin for two weeks at the time. I've got four bills that are passed that I co-authored when it comes to incident management and record driver safety. It depends on the safety aspect of it. Right now we're currently building our teniouator units for blocking devices to help block fire trucks and police officers while they're on the roadway. Because of the long terms that were on the roadway, it's a lot cost effective for a blocking unit to get hit in a fire truck by a lot. It it's also the same thing on mine. My cheapest heavy duty records $1.4 million. And I would rather spend $150 on a blocking, $150,000 on a blocking unit, then have to go back and forth on a $100,000 on a $1.4 million unit. Officers, if they're capable to save my life, they're capable to make the decision. However, there's a very fine line between satisfying a citizen of the city and an officer safety or my guys, my record operator safety. And that's more or less the discussion that I'd like to have with the city. Thank you. I don't disagree with you, but I'm a former cop. And James, you know that when the cops are out there on the scene, they're the ones in charge of what's going on. They're in charge of the safety of the traffic lanes. They're in charge of their safety. They're in charge of the citizen safety. So there would really, at my opinion, be no better judge of what a reasonable time would be than the officer on the scene that's in charge of all of that. So if there's a substantial difference in my mind, if the accident is happening in the middle of Collins and Randall Mill, where we're blocking all kinds of traffic going around out there. Any amount of unnecessary time is unreasonable and the officer is going to say we're towing it. Absolutely. It beards out here. But if it happened on my residential street where I live on a cold assack, and the car is sitting on the side of the road. Well, a reasonable time may be 60 minutes. So when this gentleman complains that, well, we don't define a reasonable time, well, there's a reason we don't define a reasonable time in my mind. And that's because reasonable is going to vary from every situation that's out there. And it's the officers who are going to have to make that determination. So I take exception with what this gentleman was saying earlier, because I wouldn't want an officer to have a very rigid time frame to make that decision. The officer is going to have to make the decision on what's best for the traffic for the safety of the citizens for his or her own safety. And it's going to be dictated by a number of the things in the circumstance there. But I also agree with you that I think it'd be incumbent for our police department to have a sit down with you and talk to you about that because you do bring some tremendously valuable insight into what's going on out there. Councilmember Galante. Thank you James for servicing the city. And yeah, thank you Mayor for clarifying. I had a talk with him this morning about exactly that. What is a reasonable time? So I guess the commanding officer in the scene has to have discretionary power to say, yeah, now we are out of here or we can wait a little longer. So that for me is a great clarification. Second is we actually discussed this in an afternoon session. And I had the same question for the chief. Maybe the chief can tell me better about the costs involved on the call. So now you have an option for the owner, the owner of the vehicle, call his own service. And if it happens, it can happen that the officer calls your company, and then another company's called the same time and she'll open you and you. My question is is that cost involved? Second who pays the bills? Is the city got billed when you're called and you don't finish the service? Did you have any cancellations like you know any data to show us that? I guess you're gonna have a sit down with the police and you can clarify those things but do you want to tell us something that it can be improved on that relationship? Appreciate. Absolutely. At first, if I can address mayor and your comment, 100% agree officers are more than capable of it. And like I said in the beginning, it's circumstantial to council member Rebecca Bauxle. It's circumstantial. If we're in the towing business, that's what we do. We tow, but we're more emergency response business. Okay. I want to make that clear. I want if your vehicles broke down in a residential area and it's safe or even if you're broke down in a lane of traffic and the officer allows you to push the vehicle into a Walmart parking lot or something like that. I'm 100% okay with that. That has nothing to do with me. Would I like to get a tow? That's what we're in business for. This is certainly not a hobby. But I'm also a citizen too, and I would like an option to be able to not have to incur any more expenses. So if an officer determines that a vehicle can be pushed into a parking lot or off of the roadway, and there's no record that needs to be called and I lose out on that. I'm telling you right now I'm 100% okay with that. That is not why we're here. My only concern with this was on accident scenes in a roadway. If a vehicle by the Texas State Statue, if a vehicle is deemed disabled and cannot move on its own free will, it is required to be towed. Then you go into a second statue where it talks about vehicles being hazard, whether it's hazard to pass or pass in cars or hazard to the off the server fire department safety. And that goes into where I emphasize on for that to be done. Now to address your question council member, every time that beards gets cancelled on a police initiated tow, our cost is $63 that it costs us for every single time. That means because I have to pay the driver by state law, you know, you've got to pay them, I've got insurance, I've got fuel maintenance costs, et cetera. So, and I have books of stuff that Chloe, my office manager, my wife, my boss can tell you exactly how much it costs. It's $63 for every time. Last year with the city of Arlington, we were canceled 1,254 times. So do the math, you there's a lot of give and take, and that's part of being a partnership and that's what we are. So this is not about making the mighty dollar, this is all really on mine and this is a safety aspect. And if you look at bills that I've written in the House for the state of Texas, you'll see that it's not just here in Arlington, it's across the State of Texas. I think that it would warrant some time with the police department to see how we can remedy something like that, certainly. Because we don't want to invite losing a bunch of money as a result of that. Absolutely. Mr. Gonzalez. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Bennett, for being here. I guess the question I had is something that the prior speaker spoke about is cleaning up the streets after an accident. If they're not qualified because I know the city manager and I have had many discussions when I see that on the streets, I see oral, I'll see broken glass, I'll see that so that's not something for us to discuss, but I know that that has been an issue. So I know that's part of the whole discussion and what we need to do, but that's been one us to discuss, but I know that has been an issue. So I know that's part of the whole discussion or what we need to do, but that's been one of my major issues that I have noticed. Even bumpers, just luck there. So. Absolutely. And if I could address your comment in a little city manager, I'm sure you're aware that we have been asked to take additional photos and for periods of time so that we can verify and justify what we do. When it comes to a non-consent police initiated tow that's where we come in. And I guess the best way to verify this for everybody to understand there's three types of tows. There's a CT tow which is consent tow. There's a PP tow which is private property and then there's a IM tow which is incident management. Incident management is the top and it umbrellas the rest of them. As you go further down there's less qualifications and less requirements. If you have an accident on the road and you call any yellow page record service or Google now, I'm sorry, maybe date myself there. If you Google a record. You still carry a phone book round with you, James. I have a rolling deck so you apologize for that. But you can call any record from the side of the road and ask them tell them you've been involved in an accident and they're not gonna care if they're incident management or CT or they have the right equipment to be on the road. Where that leaves us in a bind as a city contractor is, is that we're not there. The record's not called on every accident. If it's a fender bender or a bumper, and the cars are still able to drive away, the record company's not there. So we have a hard time on our end because we are the contractor to say, well, let me go research and see if, in the last month, we were actually there and we worked an accident there Or if there's a bumper with a license plate our system can pull that license plate and we can give you a full report You know when we tote it with every picture, etc But it still creates a lot of back-end work that again, there's a cost of that as well Thank you, sir sir. Mr. Buskin, any other speakers, sir? No, sir, no additional speakers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, James. I have a motion from Council Member Galante and a second from Council Member Oden Westley. Please cast your vote. I have a question now. Sorry. So are they going to have those discussions? We vote for it. Are we going to have that discussion with regards to that? We're voting for this chapter amendment now, but I'm going to instruct the police department to have a discussion with Mr. Bannon about that. So we're voting for it now to try to ram it, to handle what the police department wants to do. Are we waiting on somebody else, Mr. Bonskin? Yes, sir. Councilmember Femme, your your vote please. Motion passes. Okay, citizen participation, Mr. Busken. Thank you, Mayor. Citizen participation gives a 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. So, 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. Our first speaker this evening is Mary Owens. Okay. I'll see. I'm going to be here. I won't stop y'all, no I run, I'm far from starting to. And I want to thank you for considering all the trees. The canopy of the greenery in Arlington, we need to improve the yard of the moth for that. Let's try to stick with the old growth trees as much as possible. Okay? And trees that will reproduce and stay green even in wintertime. And the drought resistance also, another thing I'm trying to get across is sidewalks. It's gonna not attention that if you ask someone to leave your house, you can even have CTs that can stand there on the sidewalk in front of your house or as long as they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. And this is ridiculous. It makes me feel very insecure. And some of these three parts just really jerks about it. And I've done that quite a bit. Like I've had two or three people that have pulled that on me. And I'm called it in Bill Orr. Also, I wish I could do something to make an addendum to that rule of that people could be on the sidewalk a little bit like it or not because they can like to you go on the house or turn your head and blink and they try to sneak around and get in your house or go take something out of your yard. So I hope you all can consider that a little bit safety for the motion. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Any other speakers, Mr. Buskin? No, sir. Thank you. Council, do you all have any announcements tonight? Seeing none, Mr. Buskin announcements. Okay. Mr. Hogg. Yeah, thank you Mayor. I just wanted to let everyone know and I was asked, we all approved and they came before us for Shakespeare Live. It's starting in a little less than a month. They even had the mayor and myself trying to speak like we were back in back in the old days, which I don't know how well that went. As we know, as a council, part of our goals, great neighborhoods, and part of the arts is a huge piece of that of what we're doing. So the organization asked me to announce, they're April 3rd through 5th at 7.30, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. They'll be putting on as you like for Shakespeare Live. They're also doing a free performance for students. I think they're bringing tons of schools out there on Friday at 11 a.m. and it's being done at Levitt Pavilion. It is a great thing. Something that if y'all remember, they came to us and we kind of said, you guys go back, find private fundraising, and then we'll help get you over the final edge. And they did that, and we kind of said you guys go back find private fundraising and then we'll help get you over the final Edge and and they did that and they followed through and they've worked really hard and they've really pushed a lot out So I hope all the council will make an appearance and also help promote this going on They have a little one-minute video who it do it do we have sure we have it loaded or? Oh, the world. There it goes. Stage. And all the men and women. What say is that? Sylvia's. Sweet Phoebe. Pity me. They have their exits. Let's speed as little as we can. I do desire we may be better strangers. And their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts, his axe being seven ages. At first the infant meeling and pukeging in the nurse's arms. He never talked to me for I will wait. Last scene of all that ends this strange event for history. I am not fit and therefore I pray the gods make me honest. Truly! Sounds teeth. Yes, when he is in. Sounds eyes. But I think he is not in. Sounds taste. Sounds everything. As you like it, premiering April 3rd through April 5th at Arlington's Levit Pavilion in downtown Arlington. Perfect, thank you Mayor. And I think just one note, that video was actually made by a local Arlington resident that does this professionally. So they put that together and it is in all hands on deck what they're doing. So I just want to thank you for time. Thank you for the support and thanks to all the Council for this. I think their accents were better than you and I as well. That is. There's a reason that it's not, Asco's to actually perform there. Any other announcements by Council? Thank you, Ms. There's a reason that it's not asked us to actually perform there. Any other announcements by Council? Thank you, Ms. Trogg for that. Ms. Baskin, announcements, please. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to remind our residents Arlington City Council, evening meetings and rebroadcasts on Sundays at 6 p.m. and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. Council's afternoon work sessions or rebroadcast on Sundays at 1 p.m. Wednesdays at 1.30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 6 p.m. You can also... Saturday mornings at 6.30 a.m. Council's afternoon work sessions or re-broadcasts 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.arlingtonTX.gov. Thank you. With that, City Council is adjourned. you Hello folks, Mayor Jim Ross here and welcome to another exciting episode of Explore Arlington. I'm out here at the park small and if you can't tell, I'm next to the ice ring. With me today is a friend of mine, Chuck Buke, the general manager of the ice ring. Chuck, come on in here. How you doing today? Good, how are you, Mayor? I'm doing good. I'm a little bit worried now. Although I grew up in Detroit, I ice skated as a young kid. It's been well over 40 years and I don't know if my big bird legs can keep my body up on this stuff. Tell me what's going on out here at this ice ring. Right now we have public skating. So anybody that wants to come skate can come in and skate. We usually do that during the day and then into the evenings we have youth hockey, adult hockey, we have learned escape classes. We have a whole gambit of stuff that we do. If you do it on ice, we probably do it on. Alright, well let's get over here and get some skates on. Let's see what we can do. Folks, pray for me. Would you please? We'll see you in just a second. We're going to get you out here and see what you've got. We're going to go from there here and see what you've got. We're going to go from there just for safety tips again since it's been a while. Hand on the rail, hand on the rail, step a little bit wide, come out and then bring this hand out just coming out slowly. Woo! We feel that. This ice is slipper than I remember.