Felton City Council meetings at 24th, 2024, 530 PM, right, Ramhe Harris Center. It is time to get rolling. All right, this evening, thank you guys for being here this evening. We're going to start off with the pledge of allegiance to the US flag led by Councilmember John Holmes. The Texas pledge will be led by a BEDC executive director, Cynthia Hernandez, and then I will leave the invocation if we would all rise. Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under our indivisible liberty and justice for all. I'm going to have the Texas flag, have the flag of allegiance to the Texas one state under our one indivisible. You bow with me. Dear Lord, I just thank you for this beautiful day as we headed to the fall and as we start You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. You're not going to be in the middle of the day. and back and forth the schools and all the construction that you just keep folks safe and just be with us this evening as we deliberate and guide us into decisions that have to be made in your name or pray, amen. Amen. All right, we will call today's meeting Tuesday, September 24th to order at 5.31. First item on our agenda is public comments. Anyone who wishes to address the council may do so. We have several that have signed up. If you have not signed up and you wish to do so, you are welcome to do. Do that. We'd usually limit to roughly three minutes. And I'm going to start with the first one. Wayne Cooley, I'm the school resource sergeant for Belden Police Farmer. I'm also the National Night Out coordinator and I came out here tonight to give you all a little bit of information about it and also mixed in and then take invitation to all of you as well as all of our community members to National Night Out this year. If you're not aware National Night Out it's an annual community building campaign that promotes police and community partnerships through neighborhood camaraderie. This is accomplished with citizen hosted neighborhood block parties and this year we have several of them Throughout our entire city. I left a list of those up there for each of you to review This year's event. It's on October 1st the party start at either 5 30 or 6 They'll be hosted like I said throughout the city and they'll be going on until about 8 p.m If you'll watch the city and they'll be going on until about 8 p.m. If you'll watch the Belton Facebook, Belton PD Facebook page, there's gonna be more information and put out about the parties as we get a little bit closer. And if you also have any questions, you can always reach out to me. I'd be happy to answer if you have anything. Any questions about what's going on with National Idol? That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And usually some really good food so encourage anybody who has an opportunity to go go to more than one. It's pretty awesome. All right the second one I have listed is also another one of our own city manager Sam Liste. She's in trouble. It's worse than going to the principal's office. Go to council. We just had evaluations. I thought I'd bring her up here. Mary council, it gives me great pleasure to recognize Amy Casey for completion of her Master Municipal Clerk program designation. I'm really exciting. a lot of extra work. The Master Municipal Clerk Program is the second and the more advanced of the two professional designations granted by the International Institute of Municipal Clures. The program is an advanced continuing education program that prepares participants to perform complex municipal duties. It has an extensive and rigorous educational component and a professional contribution component as well. The requirements of the program designation include holding a certified municipal clerk designation in good standing, being an active full member of the International Clerk Association, reaffirming the organization's code of ethics and attaining 60 points in advanced education category and 40 points in the professional contributions category. We're very, very proud of Amy for this accomplishment, her ability to complete these elements in the midst of other very demanding activities and challenges, requests on her time. I want to recognize her in this achievement of excellence in professionalism and in her chosen field. So congratulations Amy. Join me in doing this. Thank you. It's great to see folks continuing to improve the toolbox that they have. So congratulations again. That's all I have as far as signed public comments, anyone else wish to address the council? Right. They're being done. The next one is a proclamation, a manufacturing day. I'll come down and read in just a second. I do want to give a little background on manufacturing day at least for me. Near and dear to my heart, my dad was a manufacturing engineer, a community back in fourth to Austin. There weren't many manufacturing jobs here. I had an aunt, Nell Rinschler, that worked for the Joneses back in the day. I guess Bell, what was the Bell co-bell? What was the one on sixth? Continental. Continental. Continental. Yeah. So anyway, so Ann Nell worked there. My first great teacher was Mrs. Kennedy and her husband Robert Kennedy was, you know, superior chair. And then as a kid going, the Brentham boys would borrow the big wheel as they started hydrophitness. And then myself started a manufacturing company that we're so anyway, manufacturing is near and near primary jobs is a really key thing. And it's nice to see that Dalton still has them. So I'm going to come down here and read the proclamation. That was not the proclamation. It's going to be much more confusing. This way. Yeah. We do have representatives of our manufacturing community that are receiving these proclamations. I'll let Cynthia hand those out. But I'll go ahead and read this. Whereas the City of Belton, Texas is promoting manufacturing day on October 4, 2024, and whereas, factoring day was developed to improve public perception of manufacturing and is supported by thousands of manufacturers nationally as they host students, teachers, parents, job seekers, and other local community members at open houses as well as digital and virtual events designed to showcase modern manufacturing technologies and careers. And whereas a digital celebration of modern manufacturing designed to inspire the next generation, on how they can make a difference through manufacturing, give guidance on how to take first steps in starting a career in modern manufacturing, effectively communicate that manufacturers next generation show students, parent cases, the opportunity, creative creativity and possibility of accomplishing those tasks. And whereas the manufacturing industry is a critical component of the state of Texas economy with over 986,000 employees and gross domestic product of 256.9 billion in 2023. And whereas the state of Texas and the city of Belton's economic growth on the educational and vocational opportunities that align with the manufacturer's skilled labor needs, and whereas manufacturing relies on implementation of innovative technologies, provides competitive benefits to employees, and thereby makes manufacturing worthwhile career choice for all residents and whereas the City of Belton supports and joins in the national effort to help America's manufacturers do what they do best grow their business create create jobs and ensure that our community remain as vibrant tomorrow as it is today. Now therefore I David Lee mayor the City of Belton do do here by proclaim October 4th, 2024 as Mayturing Day. All right. So. Yes. Yes. This manufacturing engineer can read. So. Thank you. It's the S.U.N. And you may be sure. Thank you. Great. I will share these in just a minute, but if you'll permit me to make a few comments, thank you Mayor and Council for this meaningful proclamation. Manufacturing Day is a national initiative to promote modern lecturing in America. This is Belton's fifth year participating in manufacturing day, and with each year our partnerships grow stronger and our reach is expanded. And so you can see in this slide, our manufacturers in Belton and at the bottom, you can see all of our partners that make manufacturing day possible. So a few activities that we'll do to celebrate manufacturing. On October and second, we will host industry tours. So Belton ISD, we partner with Belton ISD, Dr. Melinda Golda and Gabby Nino is here with Belton ISD. And so we will start the day with 40 high school students touring two companies on one day and then two companies on another day. We are touring Beltech, American Spin Cows, True and TARCO. Aphistory tours, we will join back here at the Harris Community Center. Thank you, City of Belton, for hosting us. And Texas Workforce Solutions will provide a presentation on occupations to our high school students. And then that will be followed by interactive activities provided by Temple College, Dr. Christy Ponce is here as well and Temple Coast Skills Development team typically leads those hands-on activities with our Belton High School students. So it's a great collaboration, it's our opportunity to showcase what products are being made in our backyard and what manufacturing looks like and we appreciate the school district being open to these tours and our industries as well. We have here today, Stratisus is here as BELTECH industries. And if I've missed any other manufacturers, please stand and actually, I'm noting on up there, but can we get a code act moment? Can we take a picture? Yes. So I would invite Temple College, BISD, Beltech, Stratisys and any other industries if I've missed you if we could come up here. And while they're making their way up, I also do say thank you to the BEDC team. Catherine Mutchler, our research and marketing specialist, has done lifting and pulling this together and Warren Ketterman. You to our team, our Director of Industry Development, has been a great hello. And so if we can get everyone up here, distribute the proclamations, and Paul, if you could do us the honors with a photo. Thank you. right here right here we go we're under the Thank you. Thank you guys. Next on the agenda is our consent agenda. Items four through eight can be enacted by a single motion. If anyone wishes to pull any of these items we can consistently. I'm going to read those and then we can discuss or we can adopt these in one motion. Item four is adopting the minutes of the September 10th council meeting. Item five is adopting a resolution nominating a candidate for the Bell County appraisal district board of directors. Do we have, yeah, and so I just wanted to make sure, yeah. So we're nominating Hugh Shine. Oh yeah, it's right there. Hugh Shine to fill that. Next one is authorizing the purchase of three portable buildings from Belt and ISD. Item seven is adopting an interlocal agreement with Bell County authorizing funding in the amount of 1,181,000 from the Belt and Tax Increment Reinvestment Number One to be used towards the purchase of approximately 3.8 acres of land for future Bel County facilities as included in those projects and financing plans. And item eight is approving a facade easement grant application for exterior renovations to the structure at 210 East Central Avenue located in the down-belton commercial historic district between South Penelope Street and North East Street. Those are the items that I have. The chair would entertain a motion or we could pull items from this. Move with proof items 4 through 8 is presented. Second. We have a motion a second to prove items 4 through 8, any other discussion before we vote. They're being done. All in favor say aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. So items 4 through 8 pass. Item 9. I think in zoning, Miss Tina looks like she's going to be doing a few things. Hold a public hearing and consider a zoning change from single family one retail and plan development repo, amended plan development retail, on approximately two acres located at 2910 and 3,000 to North Main Street. Ms. Dianne. Thank you, Ms. Mayor. Hi, everyone. Hope everyone is doing well tonight. For this old, the owner attends the construct two fast-food restaurants, Appendus, Fress and McDonald's, with Joaquin Thue Services at both of the location. The Appendus Fress site has a couple of easements the express and McDonald's with drive-through services at both of the location. The Penda's press site has a couple of easements that restricts their building area, so they're requesting a reduction in the side yard set back to allow for their construction. Here is the curtain zoning in the location of this property. It is north of River Fair Boulevard, and on the west side of North Main, as you can see the property is zone oh Family one retail a plant about my retail I thought something weird was going to This would it sounds like when you eat Panda Express in McDonald's on the plane day Sorry moving right along. So the proposed zone in is to change all of that to a plan development retail. Here's a look at the certainly undeveloped. Here is a look at the rest of the property. This is not a sand plan yet, so there might be some changes in the future. The highlighted area, the yellow and the salmon color, those are the utility easements and access easement that has impeded their property. Hence why they need a setback in a 15 feet on that southern property line where the building is closest to. Here's a look at the elevations, what they're proposing is EFIS, stack brick at the bottom and accents around the building. Here is a look at the McDonald's side. This is Dermonari. They're also shown access off of that access easement on the south side of the property. They're proposing a 3600 square feet building and they're also going to have two drive throes that converse into one at the pickup windows 37 parking spaces are proposed on that site again. This is preliminary could be subject to changes The future lane use this area is a lifestyle center. So what is being proposed is permitted in that lifestyle center area The zoning commission heard this item at their meeting on the 17 and they unanimously recommended approval of the Zomge. For the criteria, the development of the site must conform to the retail zoning district. A 15 foot side yard setback is allowed for the southern property line of the PANIS for a site. A final plat is under review at the moment that will be coming back to you guys shortly, maybe next month. And development must comply with all of our developments. And that the applicants is here. Should you have a chance for him? And I'll be having answering the questions that you have as well. All right. Thank you, Tina. I'll go ahead and close the deliberations and open the floor for public comments. And so this is a public hearing if anyone would speak in favor or against this particular zoning change. How's the time to do so? There being no comments positive, we will close the floor and reconvene to consider this item. Any comments or questions. I should this takes care of all. Is this all for properties? Or five technically? If you're talking about from the riverbed parcels. Yes, sir, that takes care of all of them. The next one is where the cemetery is. So that will remain as agricultural. I just for somebody that I saw on the panel one, there's something like on the drawings next to it, but then you look down one, there's a gap. So I wasn't sure if this was all those or not. That is all. Sorry, looking. There will be something at the Eastern part of it. That's what you mean. Tina, are we changing that exit onto 317? Will that be a bright turn, or will that remain left and right coming out of? We're currently doing a traffic study over there to see whether or not we can probably get a traffic light. Some kind of improvements over there. We don't know the results of that yet. That's just started. So we should hopefully have results soon that we could present to you guys. Are you asking about the current ride in on as you leave the cinema or start the river. These river fair drive. We're over here on the 317. I think it's full access right now, but it's just a long time. You're going right now. I'm just worried about it. It's actually going off. It's dicey all that. Correct. I'm just worried about the situation going well. I'm just asking all of that. And that's all we're trying to do that study to see if we can get some other improvements over there to address that safety concern. The developer in the city here are participating in a TIA right now at that intersection. Try to evaluate whether a signal light can be placed there. We're not sure yet. We appreciate the cooperation to investigate that. Certainly, the four restaurants in the vicinity and all the other activity are generating traffic. Certainly in the future there's going to be additional residential development on the large property. So whether the signal is appropriate now, or sometime in the future, there may be a certain threshold of counts that would just either now or in the future. A big oval about. Yeah. Well, I was going to say, if I don't know what the TA will recommend, but if there's a chance that maybe just a U-turn only at the current Lake Main Street because I think it's wide enough, you know, something like that would, I don't know about another stop. That's dangerous for all of them. It's the close proximity to 439, the crisis signal. I think the four-way stop. The four-way stop. They're coming out and also I think the access to Lake Road is efficient. I would expect some increase on I should know the name of the street. We're referring back to that towards the hospital. I think just prepare for those for some higher traffic. I think that's the four-way stop. I think that's the four-way stop. I think that's the four-way stop. I think that's the ask off and just prepare folks for some higher traffic flow And yeah, I would say that internal circulations got no lot better people are using internal circulation now the the cross-access and Those streets back there. It's much better Right any other comments or questions I'm just hopeful about the traffic light because that traffic is really picking up. Starbucks is a constant stream for one. I'm sure that the other developments, including the housing that Sam Winson are going to increase it as well. Chair, would you entertain a motion? I'm going to move the program out of the Z24-21 as presented this evening. Senator Jacob. A motion in second to approve the zoning change as presented. Any other comments or questions before we vote? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Item 10. Hold a public hearing and consider a zoning change from retail to plan development retail on approximately 2.84 acres located at 35 South Loop 121, the southwest corner of Loop 121 and FM 93. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The owner intends to construct a retail center at this location. He currently owns a dental office that would be moving over here as in one of the anchor and the other spaces will be leased through a potential tenant's in the future. Here is the location of that property. It's currently its own retail. The purpose of this is to allow for a side yard reduction for this as well. The applicant has submitted in a final plat that provides internal property line between two properties. And there is a reduction that's requested with that area. Here is the proposed site plan. As you can see, it's proposing two buildings. Building A is over 9,000 square feet. Building B is over 7,000 square feet. Two food truck parking spaces are also shown on this site. One has 95 uncovered parking spaces and 10 covered parking spaces. There is a car port proposed at the Weston right around here, at the rest of part of the property. A restaurant would drop through services as proposed at the anchor end of building. If that should become available for a tenant. There is a 31 foot separation between the two buildings and with the new additional internal property line, this is for a 15 foot side yard setback from that internal property line for the separation to buildings. Here is a look at the the plat that's coming through for reviews so you can see that property line that is going to be connecting. Here is a look at the elevations that is being proposed so the materials include masonry and some hardy plank. Each online use map shows this area as a small scale commercial center. So the propels you use fits into that. The planning and zoning commission heard the site of met their meeting on the 17th and recommended approval of this. What that there is of course compliance with the retail zoning district. A side yard setback of 15 is permitted on. Gosh, there's two different sides that's in your packet, but on the north side of building of lot two and on the south side of lot one for that 15 foot building setback and accessory structures set back where that carport is of two feet is permitted. A final class currently being reviewed and the development was complied with all of our standards that we have in place. At the applicant is here, should you have any questions for the home and I'll be happening and saying questions that you guys have as well. Thank you. Again, this is a public hearing so we will stop our deliberations and we will open the floor for anyone who wishes to speak in favor against this item. I want to use the name and address for the record. Jay Littlefix, 670 East 24th Avenue, Belton, Texas. So I'm the owner of this lot and put together the plans for everything. So my goal was we need some current more space that our current offices some of you know and so I'm just trying to build something that I think would be in a good location easily accessible. I think it would be we're trying to have not just my own space but some space for other co-tenants and us is in the area And we just kind of just want to make it You know better for the city of Belton So do you have any questions for me? Yeah, yeah, it looks looks like a great development really does I hope so Thank you go forth and do good things. I'm sure of Baskin Robbins and all those things that little kids eat the sugar so they can feed it to my hygienist Paul and do the freezing point. Yeah, they're yeah. All right. It does not look like we have any other public comments so we'll close the floor and reconvene and entertain a motion on this item. I move we approve item 10 as presented We have a motion a second to approve item 10 as presented any other comments or questions. There's a pretty good Facebook post with a lot of ideas for you out there if you're needing ideas on tenets Yeah, Facebook is a wonderful I Wouldn't call it wisdom, but there's a lot of opinions out there. All in favor, please let it be known by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right. The zoning passes unanimously. Item 11 is hold a public hearing and consider consider zoning change from come away to commercial highway with a specific use permit to allow for 70 foot pull sign with an electronic changeable sign on approximately 8.963 a located at 1901 South I-835 service road. Right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This site is intended for the Belton Foodies Travel Center. What the applicant is recrusting is approval for the Belton Foodies travel center on what the applicant is repressing is approval for 70-foot tall sign 357.7 square feet high profile sign with electronic changeable copy Here is a location of this property is off of 35 and it's adjacent to where the proposed Leyla extension would be coming through Here is a site plan that the applicant is proposing. Again, this is that extension of Leyla with the right-end right out to access off of 35 frontage road. The committee and stores located right there is going to be a little over 18,000 square feet. There's 94 parking spaces which includes 24 truck parking spaces at the site. So access would be off of 35 frontage road and two off of Laila, one in the front and one turns the back. This is a request that the applicant is requesting. Again, this is a 70-foot tall sign, clad it. The reason for this request is for increase of visibility along the Interstate 35 corridor. The applicant and with numerous overpass that impedes the visibility of their site for a southbound travelers. So the proposed height, things would be what is necessary to provide that visibility. So travelers can get off at the right appropriate ramp for the store location. So here's a look at that 35 area. As you can 14 overpass our in front of that property, their property is located for this arrow is showing. As you may recall, recently adopted some standards for electronic changeable copies. So those will still be applicable. So for the signage, the square feetage of that, square feetage of that. The foodies area is 160 square feet, that's a non-changeable area. And there's 265 feet of digital pricing, that's just for the price. We usually don't calculate that because that's a necessity for that type of use. And the rest of it is 197.7 square feet of the changeable cup. So with that, there is a maximum loons of 300 foot candles for signs. Again, there is a sensor that's required to just to the ambiance light condition. Blink game flashing is permitted and changes between the messages have to be within seconds or display has to be for about 10 seconds minimum and Changes has to occur in two seconds or less The plan and zoning commission heard this at their meeting 17th and they recommended approval of the requested 70 foot sign with the electronic changeable copy. Of course, this has a comply with the commercial highway zoning standards. A 70-foot tall sign is permitted. Staff have recommended a maximum area at 300 square feet, planning a zone and approved the applicant's request for 357.7. A 15-foot front yard setback is required for both 35 frontage room and for lay lay laying Electronic message center has to conform with our current adopted standards with that be happy to answer any questions that you guys have The applicant is also here. Should you have any for him as well? Right again being a public hearing we will close our deliberations open the floor for any public If anyone wishes to speak in favor or against this item? There being no public we will reconvene our deliberation and if you guys have any comments questions or would like to make a motion. I'm going to go to the next slide. Is this been through text not for right away approval? Yes, sir. Actually, the last remaining comments I need to be addressed. There is a text dot donation request form that needs to be done. Yes, it has been reviewed by text thought because of that intersection for Leila. Was a crucial part. I was also just thinking about the future interchange. Who knows where on-ramps, off-ramps, and new overpasses are going to be. And what's current heights of signs that we have now. Currently, currently we allow for 20. But if there's an elevation change based on the drive lanes of the 35, it can be elevated up. But the drive lane at this portion is consistent with theirs, but their concern is softbound traveling with the overpass. Feel like the work we've put in leading up to this on previous signs seems to have been a good guide and to navigate through this request. And I think it's appropriate use for considering the challenges that have been presented. I guess stickler and I think part of the scenic cities had a front for digital signs, but they have come a long, long way in terms of how they appear, what they look like. A little concern of, but with all the capabilities of those signs now that they've automatically changed. They do a pretty attractive, I was curious type of messages do we know what will be displayed up there before? Well because of a signage limitations they have other uses as going into our foods on barbecue and a bakery that's also going to be going into that trucks center so he advertising for the other businesses that's going into our foods barbecue and a bakery that's also going to be going into that trucks center. So, we advertise them for the other businesses that's in there at that location. Well, ensuring my change of the guess I'll go ahead and rip you with proof out of the room now is presenting. Second, second. You have, that's amazing. Shift, I'm shocked. Yeah, we have a most second to accept this item as presented. I'll make my comment. I'm with John. I think I voted against every single digital sign along I-35, because I just don't think, one, it's just more electricity, right, just used for advertising. And the signs I see, typically, they don't know. Just more electricity, right? Just used for advertising. And the signs I see, typically, they don't have the best graphic artist designing the sign, and so it's typically an eye sore. So I just usually have a problem with them, but they have come a long way. Software has come a long way to help people make good signs. The other concern I have is I think we're going to need to address the arms race of the 70-foot pole sign because now two, then we're going to have three, then we're going to have eight, and then we're going to look like some of these communities along I-35 see lots of sticks in the distance, and that's what you see. And you look at say 13-25 and I-35, which is where loop one is, a very high-energy section. And as you go into Austin and Round Rock, lots of businesses, nobody had foot tall sign. So you don't have to have a tall sign to have a good business. So anyway, I just, I think we need to think about, you know, now that this is a second one and it's a key intersection, we probably need to, what is stated, we've done a lot of stuff to get ahead of this I think we may end up having a dozen or so signs in this area and so we probably need to get a handle on limiting the density that's just my own comment but any other comments or questions on this item all right they're being none all in favor of approving item 11 as presented. Please say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Aye. Maintain consistency. All right. Passes. One, two, three, four. Five to one. All right. Item 12. Hold a public hearing and consider amendments to the Belton zoning ordinance related to the sale of alcoholic beverages Yeah, yeah, it says the Baptist to the Baptist We need to move off to the back porch Go ahead, Bob. Since you brought the back to the so I'm going up to Catholics and you're talking about the backseat we invented that so you can't take that. I've got a big picture of this thing coming along here. I'll call it beverages. I'll call it beverages. I was going to go to this. Pick any one of them. I mean, they're all just taking signs. Now call the beverages. Pick any one of them. I mean they're all just take the sounds. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. Absolutely. Good luck, right? Okay. It's going to be big on the screen, big in front of you. So you probably learn more than what you probably want to know. So our goal today is to be proposed alcoholic beverage policies and along the way we'll ask you to overcurate and get that taken care of as well. As you know, we had an election back in May that as a well, the wet dry election passed in May so it went, is that it allowed for on-premise and off-premise consumption of alcoholic beverages, so on-premise bars and restaurants and off-premise would be convenience store, package stores, bars, excuse me, post things like that. So our job after the election was to basically implement the voter mandate. So we had to figure out a way to get that done. And so we're looking at ways to consider how and where these usually place where process we engage the governance subcommittee. I think some of y'all were on the committee. So thank you for your work on that. Had some meetings this last summer made some recommended amendments to the ordinance. And we issued a technical memorandum in anticipation of the public hearing process back in August to highlight the activities that we were talking about there. As you know, the ordinance regulates what type of activities and where those can take place. And as I mentioned a minute ago, we do have, we allow for off-premise consumption, we on-premise consumption, we don't allow for off-premise consumption. So the amendments that were bringing forward to you are for off-consumption and then some adjustments to the ordinance itself. Y'all know probably that gosh over the last couple of legislative sessions, particularly in 21, the rules significantly in terms of the administration of alcoholic beverages. A lot of things were changed most notably in terms of percentage, you know, how people define businesses based on the alcoholic beverages sold and versus non-acol beverages sold, that kind of thing. They, for the most part, taking that away, particularly for local governments and things like that. But it didn't necessarily, well, it did not take away our ability to regulate these types of years in our zoning ordinance, which is very important to us. They may have been other manufacturing requirements and other criteria that are very pro business for the alcoholic industry, alcoholic beverage industry, but luckily we were able to retain some or many of the requirements that we need to regulate on a local level. So in terms of the proposed ordinance, there's some uses in our ordinance that we just added the statement to the back of it, which said, you know, whether without off premise consumption of alcoholic beverages that way, if you had something like a truck stop or a pharmacy or a drug store, they chose to do this, then they could. The other aspects of the ordinance is that we included requirements for a specific use permit for many things. We highlighted up there for breweries and distant things like that, and I'm not talking about manufacturing facilities. I'm talking about the micro breweries, and I think our ordinance already does those things is no more than 10,000 square feet. And whether they were previously not permitted, and you can see on the spreadsheet what is allowed and was not allowed and we'll touch on that here in a second. Restaurants previously not permitted were suggesting where they apply for specific use permit because they might be in an area where traditionally locally we have not allowed them to occur and then with issues with Or excuse me uses such as pharmacy and drug stores also where they're not permitted will be required will be Asked to get it SUP and of course package stores, which we have not had in bar They would have the SUP's associated with that. That's kind of in a nutshell, you know kind of where we are at that point time We do remove a lot of the maximum minimum percentages as I mentioned to you You know, kind of where we are at that point in time. We do remove a lot of the maximum minimum percentages, as I mentioned to you, simply because we don't have the authority to regulate those things. But the state does. The state jumps in there and takes care of it. So we don't want to send it as different than the state or more stricter than the state or what have you. Because they will say, if it's different than ours, you guys can do it. Oh, and by the way, the rules don't let you do it anyway. So why go there? So it's kind of an interesting kind of conundrum. So here we have some other things. Oh, I mentioned the 10,000 square feet for breweries, distilleries, things like that. We had to obviously tackle the issue of package stores, which are liquor stores and bars, add them to the table of allowable uses and then add a definition of off-premise consumption, that kind of thing. So these are more of the administrative things. We put them in there because those become part of the equation because of the wet dry election. We have to have these things in there so that we address the things that we are talking about. So this is the whole thing in a nutshell, I guess, the summary of proposed uses. And you can see some of them by right. P is permitted, NP not permitted, and then, of course, the red add with an SUV, add with a permission. P, you know, that kind of thing. So on the left side of the screen, on my left side, you see things like grocery stores, convenience stores, pharmacies, restaurants, and those kind of things. So we add a P where we think is OK to add a P, if permitted. You see the yellow is allowed by SEP, which is already allowed by SEP. And we get into restaurants, you see there, where it says add an SEP where historically is not permitted. And then we get distillery and breweries and we had to dig a little deeper to make those things happen because they're new, essentially they're new to the ordinance. So you can see that a lot of those things are done with a specific use permit. And the committee, as y'all may remember, felt that this was a good beginning point. And we're kind of stepping out and doing some things. And that have not been done before. And it's a very safe way to do this, I guess, is to kind of take them case by case. Somebody wants to open up a bar or look store things like that. Take them case by case, somebody wants to open a bar or look store things like that, take them case by case, evaluate them, and they make that decision using the latitude that you're hearing in SEP process, which is a similar process to the zoning process, right? And so you can kind of case by case basis. And so that is, I think, a very appropriate proscene with. And it does allow us to be involved in the establishment of these places in the community. So I think it's a safe place to start. And let's see what else we got. OK, yeah. So today, as I mentioned, our goal is to conduct a public hearing on these proposed amendments. Our staff recommends approval of the proposed ordinance. We took these policies, had a public hearing with a planning commission on the 17th last week. They did the same thing and recommended approval as presented. So all right, it's okay with you. I'll just step back and let the public hear it. I'm sure we have quite a few questions. We'll save those questions after the public. So we'll go ahead and close our deliberations and pause our questioning to open the floor to anyone who would like to comment positively or negatively on this item. Yes. Name and address for the record. Harold Brockway, 3341 in road. One of the questions we've been trying to understand is there's a 14% limit and a 17 limit. Will those still be in place or are they kind of get blended out of it? Do it locally. With this last election, it'll all be 17%. Thank you. Trying to make it simpler. Any other comments or questions or public comments? Yeah, you talk about, you know, if this was 1980s, we would have the whole city lined up on this public hearing to have no comments, not say not no comments, but not a significant number as the community's come a long way. And I think our habits of socialization have come a long way. All right, I will close the public hearing on this item and reconvene the council. If you guys have comments or questions, I know I have a few, but far away. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. And can you clarify the very far left hand column, the last four options that are in our code? What, what, what are those again? Can you remind me the IP L I H I R D? Oh, those are the zoning districts. I know, but remind me to the last four. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . But you could have a pharmacy or store selling out haul in a residential period. Permitted? Is that correct? No, sir. It's an NP on the top of the list. It says residential on the left with an asterisk. R is retail. Oh, I'm sorry. R is retail, yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. Very good. Good question. You got the same thing in my first. Yeah, our single family is SF. So yeah. It's CBV. No, they should probably need to find a new initials for that. Let them find another. So a couple of questions for me is under the light industrial and heavy industrial. It says you do not allow for restaurants with beer, wine and liquor. But you could have a distillery, a brewery, a package store, or an a bar when you can't even have a restaurant. I don't think that's probably consistent. I can understand if it's like permitted and those are permitted, but I don't know why you would have a bar with an SUP in a heavy endowment. So you would suggest that change? I would suggest that it would be consistent. People that are operating heavy equipment do not need to have alcohol or access to alcohol easily, especially on the night shift. So I would just say when it comes to industrial, that it would be like it's under restaurants where it's not permitted. That's fine. That's just, that's one. I was just trying to look for consistencies on the grid. The other comments last question. You see is university campus? We've not come far enough. I'm kidding. It's me and alcohol, I don't think that makes us either. So I think that's fairly consistent. So have you had speaking up, have you as anyone on campus reached out to the city about any concerns about this as it relates to the college population and alcohol sales in this city. Not to me, Mayor. Okay. We did have a committee, a UMSB representative on the committee. Okay. Now that's correct. Yes. Okay. Okay. All right. I just wanted to make sure that we heard what they had to say. I've got another one. So when we have, like, what we're going to have this weekend with the beef for and after, when we do that, right now we can use somebody's permit to allow for alcohol sales in a specified area. And it's limited to wine. If that person were to be a bar, would that allow for stronger drinks in public square? Today, it would not be permitted because we don't have bars in this only. No, I'm just saying, but what I'm saying is when we do, when we make these amendments, and then now we have a bar, and now we have an event, and we have somebody else there permit. I'm assuming it would be anything you can drink at the bar. I don't know the answer to that question, but I'll certainly research it. Okay. It would make sense to because we do temporary prevent permits that if they're allowed and the person the main vendor is Wet our life for alcohol. It's possible. But let me do some research. Okay. Yeah, I think that that I'm not No scare tactics or anything. I just I know that's something that wouldn't potentially try to kill a good time. Yeah. Yeah. To go. Is that a week? Do we interest that? It's not allowed or allowed or they didn't. Yeah, it's a statement. The statement that even on like the convenience store permit, because most of those two groups are actually made with wine or beer. They're not made with the heavy. But a bar, if you wanted to take that. I don't know that that's allowed under that situation. That's another one I'd have to research for you. And that was the other thing I was thinking, well we have something on downtown Square. There are some bars there, full service bars. And so I was wondering if that ability to be promising makes a drink or deal with the food that happens. I'll add that to the question. I think if that has to do with food and beverage permits, I believe that's pretty good. There's a tape over the straw move that works. Prior to 2021, if you went to some venues that would have sale of beer wine and mixed beverages, if you went to some venues that would have sale of beer wine and mixed beverages, If you wanted to go and have mixed beverages, you had to go behind a line And you couldn't bring those out to be amongst the beer and wine, but the beer and wine was broader But I think 2021 they might have changed that to where it just No restrictions and I don't know I just I can see that that would impact us. That. I said something about 10,000 square feet. Was there a magic number of 10,000? Someone had an older building that was 11,000 square feet. But yeah, chuckle about that because yeah, there's always a line that you have to draw. That's in the ordinance currently. I just wanted to keep that in front of us so that we knew the difference between manufacturer like a big place in a micro brewery. So we're locally defining that as a 10,000 square foot or smaller. And if somebody, I don't know whatever, still austere, somebody wanted to come up and do that they could or could not. They could. They would need to go through probably a PD process to get a special exception from the city. So there's not allowed by right of zoning for manufacturing. This is just 10,000 that we're looking at tonight. Correct. Exactly. Manufacturing this is just 10,000 that we're looking at tonight. Correct exactly. That's kind of clear. Yep. Sorry. Yes, sir. OK, good. Do you have a comments or questions? I don't think it's about all the intricacies of the code, the different districts and zoning and say, I trust your guidance. I don't know, do these questions, do we need to ask questions? Or can we just kind of, like if I made an emotion to basically, you can't add any more SEPs or piece to this chart without our bringing it back and then I... Yeah, we wouldn't be able to do that anyway. Yeah, okay. You got that. I'll make a motion that we just, that we approve as recommended with the current categories, with the exception of, I think, making the LIH up so consistent. Yeah, the mayors. Not permit. So the LI and HI, or either not permitted or all SUP, I don't know how we're putting the motion. It's probably better just not permitted or all SUP. I don't know how we're putting in the motion. It's probably better just not permitted. OK. Let me clarify that motion. Are you saying not permitted across distilleries? I just want to hear. Or should we just leave it at this and we deny the SUP if we don't? We do want to control expectations. So Mary, if you wanted to maybe reiterate that for us, we'll capture this. We'll capture this. That would be the second. OK. All of this is $10,000. Yeah, we defined distillery in brewery as $10,000 square feet or what. Yeah. If Miller wanted to move their plant for a worth, that's a different belt. That's not an animal. That's not an animal. That's not a whole sever process. That's a manufacturer of a product. I'm trying to picture where, if I've ever seen microburry or. Yeah, and cell is burry. Tell us burry in Austin back in the 90s, opened up in a industrial part. And I know that my breweries down in the industrial park. And so there's some places that do allow. I think that was part of the thinking of the LINE HI that you might have something say in the business park that was LINE HI that might request that opportunity that would require rezoning in order to accommodate if it's something zone LINE HI or H.I. and it's prohibited. But that's certainly. Yeah, I just, I'm just saying if, same with restaurant because if you're going to have, let's say, a brew pub and then they also serve food in L.I. Anyway, it's just, you're going to rezone it anyway. Yeah. You'd have to rezone it. So we're opening the way. So we don't have a motion yet. We kind of I'll amend the motion to well, no motions been made. So you just stated again. Okay, I'll state my motion again. That we approve as recommended with the exception of L. I. and H. I. cross the distillery package form bar. Be changed to N. P. We have a motion. To accept as the distillery package form bar be changed to NP. We have a motion to accept as presented except for the exceptions I H I that he mentioned. I did. Do I hear a second? I'm glad I didn't die. I heard a second. All right, do we have any comments or questions about it in almost not second? I have a quick question Third, second. Second. All right. Do we have any comments or questions about it in almost not second? I have a quick question again. I'm sorry. But in the heavy industrial, what square footage is allowed in heavy industrial now? Create an issue there or not? For distilleries and breweries, have you? I guess anything. Oh, no, no, no, because we're just dealing with entities at cell, I call it, but you're talking about somebody is making car tires or anything like that. No, no, no, no, no. A distillery type manufacturing, Bicomilla or whatnot. Oh, I see. Like a larger factory that I believe. No, I wouldn't have an effect on that because that is a different. Yes. Because that's like a manufacturing. That's similar to like I said, you know, manufacturing tires or anything like that. That's a factory. Except you make it beer. Okay. It's not a place like it's. I'm not selling to the general public. That's what I'm asking is there something that. Yeah. In that wording, it makes that confusing but I'm fine with the part. It seems like it's overkill. So there's a motion in a second. Motion to second. Any other comments or questions? All in favor please let it be known by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right, passes, you net. One step closer. Thank you. Item 13, hold the public hearing and set a date to consider an annexing 2.305 acres of right of way along old golf course road. Mr. Vantill. Wonderful. The image on the right that has red line around it, just south of Iffin all the way down to the dog leg on Old Golf Course Road is the area that is subject to annexation. We're just extending the city line out about 60 feet to the west, encompassing the existing right away of Old Gulf Coast Road. With the beginning or with the approval of Skyview and their development out there, part of the discussions on that project was the improvement of Old Gulf Coast Road, a two-lane black top to a collector-style road. As you can see, it's on the construction there. When it is done and accepted, the right-of-way will be maintained by the city. So this is why we are requesting that we annex that area into the city. So part of the process is to conduct a public hearing this evening on the annexation and then set an adoption date for October 22, 2024, which in essence will be hopefully a consent agenda. I don't know. We'll finish the process. So that's pretty much all I have. All right. This being a public hearing, we will open the floor to consider any comments on the annexation of the right of way along Old Golf Course Road. I wish to say anything for or against this item. There being nobody's saying anything about this item, we will come back to the council. Only we will have something to say about this item and reconvene. So Chair, would you entertain a motion or comments or questions? Oh, there's no action. Oh okay okay. Saturday. Oh it's Saturday. Yeah. All right so I would consider setting making a motion to set the date. I think a motion to set the adoption date of October 22nd, 2024. Second. We have a motion to second to adopt the date of October 22nd, 2024. The only question I have is, who initiated the annexation proceedings for this? We did. We did. And we can legally annex when somebody does not voluntarily. Public road. Public road? Okay. Prevision for public road. Okay. County has concurred in that. Okay, I just want to cause all the law changes. I just want to make sure that we're doing what we need. Okay. Okay. I just want to cause all the law changes. I just want to make sure that we're doing what we need. Okay. Right. There's a few things left over. Right. Motion a second to Annex. All the critters, all golf course road. Please let it be owned by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right. Passes unanimously. The last thing that this council and previous council have done on that part of town in the last five years and the council had a real vision for that and in large part made that happen. It to me is transformation of anything in the city of Belton and along along. Yeah, absolutely. Item 14, hold the public hearing and consider an ordinance amending Chapter 20, the code of ordinances related to utilities. Mr. Rogers. Mayor and councilman Homes picks me laugh. Tonight we're going to talk about the Chapter 23 of our code of ordinances. That's our code related to utilities. Stop it. Okay. So whether you adopt some of our new rate structure reach the Chaper 20th in general, and that has not been reviewed in quite a long time. That section ever code of order. So there are several amendments we need to make to that ordinance. Those amendments kind of fall into three different categories. Some changes we need to make to accommodate our new rate structure. We basically need to reflect our current practices that have changed over the years. And then there's kind of a last kind of a housekeeping type of cleanup that we need to do in this ordinance. So I'll go through some of these. The first group related to race structure implementation, we've added a new section 23163 that essentially defines our four commercial classes, residential, multi-family, customer classes, commercial, residential, spring quarters. So those have been added and we deleted then these sections you see there that were previous definitions of our classes as they existed back then. So that establishes those rate classes going full. What we also did with section 23173 and moved the sewer section, the parts related to sewer rates, that essentially just says it's on file with the city clerk. That 23194 moved up to 23173. And then also in 23173, we had some language that says we have the right to negotiate customer that uses more than 500,000 gallons per month. I decided to just scratch that because now we have a rate table consumption up to that 500,000 gallons. So if that really doesn't necessarily apply, we can always add, come back later, one day if we have somebody that just uses a tremendous amount of water and wants to negotiate some rate, say I like a water bottling company. I'm just using that for an example. Then we dress it at that time. But for now, all of that kind of type of consumption and that volume of consumption wouldn't do our current tables. There's several sections that need to change based upon our current practices. In 23.6, it lists several reasons for disconnection. I added failure to pay as one of those reasons. There's another section that addresses that, but just to be clear, I'm putting it there as well. Section 23-8, we removed the section that has a minimum charge for basically apartments. We used to do that based upon the number of units. So we would charge a rate like the residential rate is what it was times the number of units in that apartment. And that's the minimum bill without apartment complex would have done. But we don't have that any longer, we build based upon meter size for a base rate and then the consumption. So, maybe there's no, the number of units has no bearing any longer under our new structure. 23159, you fire a written request to the finance group for a reread, all I have to mean, I'm fine with that. 23176 relates to leak rate adjustment procedure. That used to require the language as it sits now, says the finance director, the public works director, manager, all have this committee that gathers together to approve our leak rate adjustment. That's not what we do now, and now it's the finance that has final approval on that. We did add some bill cycles during the last couple of years. So 23207, we're adding billing cycles and changing the due dates accordingly. I just put a question on lead. Do we have to provide a service or notify users if their water is fine. I thought we did. We tried to. Okay. And we're pretty liberal working with those folks who have lead or get side board. Yeah. Yes. Our ordinance says they pay for the water, but at half the rate. That's what our ordinance says and still would under this. But yeah, at times when there's just something really strange and unusual, I'm a little lazy. Yeah. Also, other changes for curses. 23 to 10 had this long drawn out process for somebody to basically protest a disconnection for non-payment. I don't think we've done that for years. We don't embody on our disconnect list until there are two months delinquent already. And so there are already two months behind. We give them a notice, we have phone calls, sometime what we call a door knocker or notice on your door that, hey, pay it, but by Wednesday or so or you'll be disconnected. But that's the notice that we provide now. There is no, and that's been the practice again for years, not the protest of disconnection. This is for non-payment after all. 2310, there were some due dates on drainage fees, that's other locations in our code. Some basic housekeeping type things. Our code referenced the Texas local government code, that's changed a bit. I'm clarifying what's a prompt payment. And then we also had some language about deposit waivers for those in the military. We used to have a program, it was called a program with forthood. Well, there's not really a program with forthood anymore, obviously, but we still do give way deposits for active military members that show an ID. I'm just a gesture of waste. I'm just moving from one section to the other. Title change only for the same 3208. And like the others others instead of having an actual schedule showing exactly for drainage we have now just the language that the rate is on file with the city clerk's office. So the recommendation for council tonight is approved amendments to chapter 23 of our code of ordinances and I'd answer any questions. Right this being public hearing, we will open the floor to anyone who wishes to speak on our code of ordinances and the changes that are being presented. No public comments, we will close the floor and reconvene to consider this item. I will state, Mike, I really appreciate your efforts during the overwhelming water study that we did and adding winter averaging and focusing on conservation and some other things. I think this cleanup just kind of some tidy up or being congenst with that. So we'll do appreciate the difference as a big big undertaking. Thank you. And with that, I'll move to move. We approve item number 14. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second to approve the chapter 23 of the code of ordinances. Any other comments or questions? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Item 15. Hold a public hearing and consider it's designated a no on-street parking area along the south side of 13th Avenue with Main Street Highway 317 all the way down to Owe Gourmet. All right. Council. It's got. Appreciate the opportunity to go over the 13th Avenue bike lane ordinance here. Just a general map of the area where the bike lane which would be on the south side. Just a little bit from Main Street and all the way towards Old Waco Road, pretty close to Waco Road. This bike lane, the proposed design, as mentioned, was on the south side of each 13th, showing a little diagram there for you. In 2020, we did send out notices to owners and before the project began and the overall consensus with the respondents was the majority approved of the bike lane and wanted to have the bike lane. Additional notifications were sent out here before the commencement of the project here in 2020 with no comments or concerns regarding the bike lane As mentioned, it's on the south side and we've kind of gathered that to put over there for a little shared space You could say with between the sidewalk and the shared the bike path This code of ordinance is Section 22-77, Parking in prohibited areas, which basically just states it's unlawful for anyone to park in the area designated by markings on the street or by signage within the street. It is our recommendation to hold the public hearing and adopt the ordinance, designated in no on-street parking area along to the south side of East 13th Avenue. All right. Happy to answer any questions. It's nice to see that coming together as well. Any comments or questions? I think it's good. All right. Chair would entertain a motion. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I flipped the page.. Oh, but I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've flipped the page. It's a good idea. So yeah. All right. So anyone wishes to speak in favor or against the no on-street parking along 13th of the byclaim now's the time to talk about it? Or just reserve your rights to complain and Facebook in the future? All right right there being no comments now Do you know how wide that bike lane will be we've had some other bike lanes in the city that range from narrow to really really wide Yeah, this one was approved at six foot, which foot which is decent decent decent disaster with that approved item number 15. Second. We have a motion of second to approve item number 15. All in favor say aye. Aye. I'm going to go back to the post. All right. We'll go back. I just wanted to thank the avenue. It's come such a long way in such a short period of time. And the West 13th is wonderful. Absolutely. All these years. All right. Item 16 seems like we're putting this all the things all in the same day. Item 16 is consider a resolution recognizing Beltton as a support of the craft brewing industry and celebrating Belton's membership and the Texas Craft Brewer's Guild Brew City Texas program. Did you bring samples? Well, we have no one create brewery here, so maybe they did. Thank you, Mayor and Council, while Bob was working on the amendments, we were working on adding built-in to Bruce City Texas. So here we are. Let me see, let me check this. Okay. What is Bruce City Texas? The first of its kind in the nation launched in 2024. Dedicated to propelling Texas to the forefront of the craft beer generated economic development and tourism and with a craft beer industry contributing $4.5 million annually to the Texas economic communities, large and small and happy going to recognize the industry's vital importance to fueling the economic development. Attracting food and drink tourism cultivating community for local residents. Bruce City, Texas, aims to be a recent community process state under a shared vision to position Texas as a world-class craft beer tourism destination. With that, by fostering strategic alliances providing tailored national resources and deploying targeted marketing efforts. So the program aims to bolster Texas craft beer tourism for communities large and small. The cost of the membership is $350. Any questions? Good. I think it's great. Okay, the benefits of the membership is joint marketing efforts for social media and press releases for Bruce City, Texas. Ability to utilize the Bruce City, Texas mark in tourism and promotional materials to promote Belton as a craft beer destination. Receive Texas brewery passport and Texas craft beer destination, promotional materials for our visitor center, and for our brewery. So we're really excited that they're here tonight and they have supported this and highly recommended it. So they're excited to be a part of this. Post unlimited economic incentive and real estate opportunities to the Texas craft breweries, breweries, guild, Texas beer industry, classifieds page, to get in front of breweries and planning as well as operating breweries the community. We have a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a community that has a guild, member online forum, and information tables at in-person events, such as one where that's coming up this weekend if anybody knows about that one before festival. And build relationships within the Texas craft brewery community and contribute the industry culture. So this has been a big deal in our community and not nationwide yet, they do expect it. Nationwide we're starting this in Texas they started this in Texas and so we are very excited to be a part of. So our recommendation is to adopt the resolution recognizing built in as a supporter of the craft for real street and celebrating built in membership and the Texas craft brews guild Breuse City Texas program. All right. Any questions? Bottom line, economically events and its more tourism, more money, and economic development in development. I appreciate our local brewery and glad to hear tonight and I would move to read the adoption resolution recognizing building as a supporter. Okay. to be adopted resolution recognition as a building as a supporter. I can. We have a motion a second to adopt the resolution in support and joining the Texas craft borers guild. Any other comments or questions? We're going to need a bigger letter heads if we keep coming all these cities. Music city. All right, all in favor say aye. All right, those opposed? Passes unanimously. Thank you. All right, item 17, considering authorizing chapter 380, economic development agreement between the city of Belton and beer, then investments. Sorry. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. There's keeping with the thing for the evening. Thank you. I remember the council. Happy to present this item to you tonight. We do have Chance Bearden available remotely. Chris has confirmed that he's available. If you have any questions about this request, they weren't able to be here tonight. But they are very interested in participating in the process if you have any questions this is a project that we'd like to present to you tonight for your consideration Bearden as you may recall purchased the southeast corner of wheat road in digby from BEDC they proposed to develop two buildings total totaling 66,000 square feet, and really bring to town a significant project that would establish the Central Texas Hub for products and services principally for apartment development in this corridor between Dallas and San Antonio. This is the site plan you may recall seeing earlier. The building on the left is what they call This is the site plan you may recall seeing earlier. The building on the left is what they call their core distribution facility totaling 48,000 square feet. That's their distribution facility. The blue building is 18,200 square feet and proposed to provide for HVAC type activities and materials basically to serve the region. Just as a reminder, Chapter 380 local government code is a tool that's available to cities to incentivize proposed development. We've done this on a few occasions in the past. We have tax evapment, we have a 380 agreement of utility extension policies, other kinds of things that are available as incentives to development. But in this case, we kind of landed on the 380 agreement as the most appropriate mechanism. Their project proposes a total of $10 million investment in the area, an addition of 30 employees, and certainly impact on property taxes and sales tax, which would be positive as they bring these businesses to town. Our proposal to the council tonight is to authorize a permit fee waiver. We've calculated that, we have that in your packet. It totals a little over in the $22,000 range, but we'd like to recommend a waiver of up to $25,000 to help launch this development in town. We have identified and coordination with the developer established some conditions on time frame, and they are very anxious to come to town and get started. We have recommended a building permit by the end of 25 and a CO for the buildings by the end of 26 so they are ready to go and they believe this Incentive would help them get underway the fiscal impact again would be a maximum of $25,000 in permit fees Building and associated fees and again, I mentioned chance bearden is available remotely to have if you have any questions. We would recommend that the council consider this 380 agreement. We had some discussions with the applicant about tax abatement, but we felt like this was the more appropriate mechanism at this time, and we recommend your consideration. All right, thank you, Sam. And thank you, Chance, for joining us remotely. Any comments or questions? The math maths on their potential sales revenue or sales tax and not to mention from the tech. So I appreciate them. Want to work on that, for sure. All right, Chair, we'll entertain a motion. I like a motion to approve that. I'm as that. Sure. All right. Chair would entertain a motion. I like a motion to approve that. I'm as presented. Second. Two motion and second to authorize City Manager to execute the Chapter 380 Economic Development Agreement and not to exceed $25,000 in the waving of different fees. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right. Passes unanimously. Again, thank you, Mr. Bearden. Thank you. All right, item 18, consider authorizing a letter of support for legislation in the 2025 Texas Legislative Session that would enable the creation of a central Texas Water Alliance. All right, Mr. Felicity. Thank you very much. All right. This is a really exciting one that we would like to ask for the Council of Consideration. We've had some discussions with the county judge recently and Judge Blackburn has expressed an interest in leading an initiative to seek state legislation to create a central Texas water alliance. Really important, you know, we've just come through our water master plan and a number of investments in the area. And the item would authorize a letter of support for this really important effort. We just completed and adopted our strategic plan, which one of the goals is to identify a strategy to develop long-term water resources. And as you well know, this action would be consistent with that planned goal, the water master plan that was just adopted and some major recent investments in water infrastructure. Who would comprise the alliance? A lot of interest growing in the area, in counties, in the immediate vicinity. I'll show you a map in just a second. Alliance membership is yet to be determined, but certainly there's a lot of discussion. And everyone is expressing a similar interest and need. As we've shown in the Water Master Plan, we're in pretty good shape for a little while. We've made some investment for additional delivery of water to town and additional capacity, but looking in the long term, we need to identify additional water resources to see the cities and counties that would be involved. And again, it kind of shows the central Texas region kind of centered on the Temple Belt and Area basically with about five counties that have been denied so far that have expressed an interest in participating. The initial projects for the alliance principally would be two. First, supporting legislation that would authorize the creation of the Central Texas Water Alliance. This would take legislative action. The intention would be to grant the authority for pursuing water rights agreements, essentially easements, and the authority to build infrastructure to deliver water to the central Texas area from underground aquifers that are located east of Belton. Want to make clear that while the opportunity to secure easements would be honoured of the legislation, this would exclude taxing authority. That is not a component of what's being proposed in relation to that. That's a pretty important factor as well. There are a number of these entities in place right now. I'm understanding as there is about these. One of the more recent ones established was in Hayes County. And so this is an increasing trend to recognize the fact that we are now in excess of 30 million people in Texas and Central Texas is a huge component of that. And so again we need to control our destiny and that's why it's so important. Timeline, if we're successful in securing the legislation in this next session, we could cure water rights that have delivery to town by 2030. So again, you have to do the planning and get ready for this, easement acquisition and development of pipeline plans and programs are certainly going to take some time. But 2030 is not that far off to have something in place. The in terms of the cost and how this would be funded, the members of the Alliance would contribute funding on individual needs and what share of the water they are being provided. The funding for this would be more than likely bonds through Texas Water Development Board and other state and federal funding. There have been some discussions in that area as well. And again, the strong growth pattern of Texas suggests state and federal funding, drink funding, hopefully, would be available. That's right. So the next steps would be the support of the council for us to sign a letter to express our interest in this. Legislative priorities are being finalized now. The judge has asked for letters of support by about mid-October in order to get into the initial filing period. Also asked us to identify any water and for plans that we know about to begin to develop a capital improvement plan. And then of course for us to be available for phone calls, support and testimony during the legislative session. Again, no fiscal impact right now. This is just an expression of support that we would request from the Council to allow us to speak with one voice, legislature, and would ask you to authorize us to sign a letter to be signed by the mayor and myself on enabling the legislation in the 2025 session that would create the Central Texas water lines. Any questions? So I still understand this entity would not have taxing authority but I think I read that it would have imminent domain authority. In a domain authority. How would that work? That would be authorized into legislation for us to make offers on property, acquire, to try to acquire easement, certainly with the goal of securing that through negotiation. If that were not successful and you had alignment on two sides of a line and there were perhaps a property under the did not agree, imminent delay and authority would be available to us and we could secure that through contemplation. It would be basically for a pipeline through the property. Correct. And not a taxing authority, but could issue debt. So I guess they would bet off the debt through revenue, bond, or resource. Yes, correct. Each entity similar to groups that we participate in, like the district, the water district. The member entities would comprise a share of that debt that is utilized to get the pipeline to town. No, the thing I was curious about is it's a single county or is this being set up for five counties? No, the five counties are what have been discussed up until this point. The last county sure has some issues with water. Yes. And then a full member board elected appointed board County overseas. Some elements to be worked out basically as again depending on the expression of interest the composition of the board and the membership would be accordingly. We would be- We have experience doing these kind of things with the NIMO-1 Center, with the Civil Texas Water, the Water District basically, the BCWC-ID number one. So certainly working with the judge on previous experiences like this, there are certainly examples out there of how to comprise a board of this kind, basically based on the strength of the strength and participation of the membership. We would be a member of our cells, or we'd be a member of the WCA anyone? No. The city of Belton. Got it. Okay. Any other? The only question I had is, you know, hypothetical. And again, this is just letter of support, but trying to get ahead of it. If the citizens of Belton don't really need, let's say, water. But somebody else in the group does. And we have to go collectively to borrow money. I would assume that this would be a kind of page you go. Oh, the burden wouldn't be shared amongst everybody if only one member needs something. I think those de-tempted just be worked out. We've had similar situations in the district. Not everybody needing it at one time. Not everybody in debt. Or sharing the debt equally. So that would have to be worked out in each bondage that comes forward to pay their first. So likely a base rate based on the number of acre and then a variable rate based on utilization or usage. A lot of those details are going to be in the legislation which will probably have very little control over. And then we can decide if we're going to join. I mean, maybe you should just something to appeal. That's a big deal. Those last questions, we identified someone in the legislature to help sponsor this and make sure it gets to the floor. There is one, two. Hopefully a senator in a representative. I would think he maybe Brad. Okay Brad Buckley I believe was who was mentioned as a be carry carry the bill in the house. Okay. Can't thank you anything more important than securing your water from the future. So I will move that we authorize the letter of support. Second. We have motion to as the letter support for Texas Water Alliance. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. All right. Receive a presentation and discuss sidewalks as required in ordinance 2021 to 25 which requires a sunset review no later than three years following its adoption Mr. Vantill I will say All right that concludes my presentation. Thank you. All right. All right. Item 20. We moved on. We already have sunset out. Speaking of sunset. Where's the beer? All right. Mr. Vantill. Speaking of sense, where's the beer? All right, Mr. VanTill. Just a few more minutes. We'll be done with this. All right, sidewalk policies. As you know, they were adopted back in 21 and along with the master plan. Sidewalk trail shared use master plan and those and and that plan led to the amendments to the subdivisions and in the ordinance it said that we wanted to take a look at this three years hence to make our policies are being implemented in the way that we imagined it. So here we are. So since then we've had 37 projects come through the process. 14 did not require any rain neighborhoods. As you can see 23 did require and we had one variance and that was metalmark. They did not build their sidewalks there on a dog-rige road. And the council agreed with us that they shouldn't have to build the sidewalks there. We had one waiver that was for business called Frosty Cone on Waco Road, that's primarily because they would have built the thing in a floodplain. And so that was a waiver on the staff level. We do have the ability to do that. And it's on Waco Road in 13th, so the 13th Street sidewalk is going to take care of the 13th Street sidewalk is going to take care of the 13th Street sidewalk. There you go. The last one is for Hidden Trail Division down at West Side of Wall Street. You need to build the sidewalks out to TIEC and to the Millard Walking Trail. And that was in lieu of park improvements. So the vast majority of these projects have followed through on the use of the sidewalks. The map that you see right there is one of the master plan. And so basically we follow that as part of the development process. Our opinion is that the policies are working well. I think that we would like to consider in the future is that the payment in lieu of construction is a little bit low. We set that fee three years ago. Now it's probably up to 15 maybe even more per square yard. Other than that, we don't think we need to make any use to the sidewalk map any changes to the ordinance in the subdivision ordinance so I hope you'll be on the way and that's basically the extent of our report this evening. Awesome. of being a work session. Any comments? Discussion on this item? I'd echo. The city just revisit our own commitment to sidewalks. Maybe a main street where there's some areas. There's people walking in. There's short spurts that we've missed or haven't been done. Might be nice to kind of fill some of those in How do you notice quite a few people on Beale Street walking or the sidewalk ends as well? Like Daniel said the number of waivers and All of that has gone way down. I mean, I think we went through a period of a couple of years. I think every meeting we had some issue with a sidewalk always coming to council. So this seems to have gone well. As far as the price, no actions needed to change that. Or... Well, the next time that we do the fees ordinance will... It'll be suggested. ...properially approved. ...in November or... I'm just going to solve the list. Okay. it'll be a bit more. I agree with John's comments on the sidewalks and areas like Beale and I think looking also it maybe there's some places there that we need to not allow parking on both sides of the road because it's just frankly dangerous. It's actually near the railroad. Railway is not a component of that. I don't necessarily think, but in that area, if there's cars on both sides, it's dicey. And there's always cars on one side on the east side. All right. All right. All right. Sounds good. Thank you Bob. Item 20 is receive a presentation of the short term rentals as required in the Ordinance which requires a sunset review every 18 months following its adoption. Mr. Vantill. Gosh yeah. Well the purpose of this ordinance was its adoption, Mr. Vantill. The good news is that the purpose of this ordinance was to capture several of the hotel occupancy tax that was going through. And then we had a couple of complaints at the time that was troubling enough for us to gather up ourselves and to working on this ordinance. The ordinance review committee met many times and had, and we had numerous public meetings. I make only because you're recalling some very fun moments I can tell. You remember this thing? Yeah. Christmas time. Yeah. And it was a thorough transparentness. And as we well knew, as we were stepping off into this project, it would be, you know, kind of like a 50, 50, 4, and against the type of thing. However, in March of 23, as part of the adoption process, we agreed to revisit 18 months from then, as part of the process of seeing how we did in terms of adoption of a new ordinance to regulate these things. And so our ordinance essentially just basically asks people to register with the city so that we know who they are and where they're at. And if there's any problems that we can get back and hold them accountable for that kind of thing. So currently we have 20 active SDRs. We're seeing aid going through the renew and several of them are expiring later this year. And we have four are probably struggling to get renewed because of payments of taxes and things like that. So those things are out there. Bob, can you clarify on the 20? Is that just 20 that have registered or 20 we know about? 20 that have licenses or have permits. Okay. And so? Yes. Well, there's a couple of them that do not pay the four on the bottom there are probably struggling. Okay. Two of those are struggling to put to occupancy taxes. And I use the word struggle to be nice to understand. I understand. Step in the conditions for up 20 licenses in 18 months. Yeah, I know I agree. Right. There's more. So, after the adoption of the ordinance, we created this like anybody else that applies for a permit, they can apply online. It's all electronic, they pay online. The finance department keeps a website and collects all the hope to occupancy as we do that locally. We have a map online on our website that you can look at to see where they are, and we have the 500 foot radii around there and all that kind of stuff. So it's very transparent even still. You can pretty much learn anything you want to know about who's wearing with. We think the policies are working well. The challenge that we have is finding all of them and asking all of them to pay the taxes that they pay and to get their permits, even as late as today or yesterday, we got a list of about 35 folks or, excuse me, addresses that from the police department. And it's, you know, it's, we know they're out there. We just have a difficult time finding them. The reason I put that graphic on the board there is that's 50 websites that you can book a STR through. And so it's just, we can go to Airbnb and VRBO and maybe a one or two, but there are many all of them. And so our only suggestion in this particular juncture of the process, excuse me, is to consider hiring a third party consultant to help us find the STRs in our community. And I will tell you from a pretty high level perspective that if you look on the websites and you find the dots on the websites, like we showed on one of the pictures here, their approximate. And you know, three years ago when we had the chore of finding how to ask us the question is, well, what are we dealing with? Are we dealing with a thousand? Are we doing with one two five twenty? We didn't know and and so basically you pick a certain period of time and You know you pick out the the dots on the map and you might have and a lot of times you can't find the exact address until You book a room Unless you're real savvy like some some, I won't mention to you, that can recognize specific homes and specific needs. They will say, okay, there's an STR. And you report it to us. And of course, we'll follow through on that list. We'll send it just like we did three years ago. And unfortunately, some people will say we're not an STR, or they'll peg their neighbors an STR. Well, they just won't respond. And so I think to kind of overcome that kind of weakness in the process, we should consider seriously hiring a consultant to help us to find them, hold them accountable, to pay their taxes and things like that. Obviously, there'll be a cost to us. but I think it would be more efficient than having our city staff doing all these hidden STRs. I think that is, oh, we have a little map here showing how many that we, I think we mapped the ones that we received from the police department and some of the others that we found earlier and blue that are permitted. So all in all there's probably about 30, something like that all together. So we you know we are we're challenged to find them all. Well what's been our communication and educate community education program to help people understand or know that they need to register and give permit from the city. It's pretty easy for you to go out there on one of those sites and sign up to bring out a property. Some people are directed to the city or no, they know they have to get a permit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did following the adoption process, which was very public and very transparent. We did get a lot of feedback. We actually had a pretty robust list of people that admitted they had STRs. And so we followed up with them. And once that was done, we found other folks, we sent letters to folks that we thought they were STRs. As I recall, that was the extent of our outreach program. And so it kind of snowballed from there. And so we had people calling from the reg skiing us if they needed to get a permit from Belton. And so we, you know, just kind of said, you know, if you're a Belton, you need to get one of these permits. As I recall, I believe that was the outreach process. We do have on our finance website the information that, you know, you have to register with us, you have to pay hotel log-ups to taxes. What everyone that has come to us with a payment that's to link with, and I think Megan could vouch for this, every one of them thinks that their platform is going to pay us. Air B and Airbnb would remit payment to get built in. That's a misconception that does not happen. We try to intervene. I personally try to intervene with Airbnb to get them to begin collecting for the city. You get so far into that email chain before you get dumped because you're not one that has short criminal. You're not their client. So yes, there is still more outreach to do. Bob is correct. Probably the best way to do it for us to do it is to reach out to the consultants. I'm aware of several and we can request a demo for their product that sort of do those platforms collect taxes for other entities Yes, they do in fact for the state of Texas They just don't the city of belt. They do for some cities even Bear County don't know why See what we do. He's done. Yeah, we'd like the opportunity to just do that, bring a proposal to see how that works out. Yeah, it's a lot better than when people buy stuff from Walmart and Amazon that it comes to belt and they collect the sales tax and send it to us than trying to identify the packages on people's porches. Which is the same as trying to identify who's written a room. I think we need to probably look at the platforms and we've and consultant may may be the way go for that the last question I had on on that this is when we collect They'll tell motel tax. There's a component that goes the county correct The county does have their own Tax you not collect that for the county so the county okay? So we pass the ordinance to allow them to collect it, but we don't collect it and remit to them correct well to allow them to collect it but we don't collect it and remit to them. Correct. Well, if the county's using consultant to collect, why wouldn't we just piggyback on them? Because every house source is a service. Okay, here, a minute. Yeah, that we would pay a per-run a share to, it seems like it'd be better to ride along than to take off. We've had some discussions with the county about that. I thought that county had hired a firm, but they're just not there yet. They've been their process as far as discovery and all of that. I don't know if we can participate in that contract or not. That's the under one. Because 100% of the citizens of Belton are in Belton County. And so 100% of people paying taxes in Belton are also paying We have initiated those conversations, so they know they're interested so if there's some kind of body there would jump on it Yeah, it may be an opportunity for kind of like the central Texas water alliances central STR alliance short-term railing I tell you so I could wonder if Jesus or Marble or marble falls, horseshoe bags, somebody has a figure. Projectsburg. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody doing it? Okay. Thank you, Bob. Thank you. Thank you all. Great report. Appreciate you. Well, any other comments or questions on short-term? They're being none. I don't see anything on the following page. We will call this meeting adjourned at 718 on Tuesday same day we started. Did we get another one?