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This renewal is crucial to maintain the vitality economic growth and continue success of our downtown area. Maggie will provide insights into the renewal process, its benefits and the future vision for downtown Argentin. Please join me in welcoming Maggie Campbell. Maggie, he introduced you like we're all supposed to applaud or something. I know. It's nice. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Typically doesn't happen in the work sessions like that, but you know Gus is getting all formal and everything on. That's exciting. I don't know what that means, but thank you for having me today. Maggie Campbell, I'm the presidency of for the Downtown Energy Management Corporation. And we're excited today to share with you a bit of an overview of where we are as the Downtown Business District. So I think to start, I need to kind of tell you that what we're about to do is go out for a vote. And as elected officials, that should get your attention. But it's not a vote of the general public. It's a vote of the property owners. That's what the state statute requires. So there's a tremendous public benefit to the work we do. And citizens should care. And I want to just highlight why downtown is important. So first of all, downtown is important because we can contribute to the strong economy. We're a place for jobs, we're a place for new business startups, and we're a place for adding value to our community. It's also the district that celebrates inclusion, where everyone's neighborhood, and we're different from other districts and other commercial neighborhoods because yes we have bars and restaurants and entertainment destinations and banks and commerce but we're also where the public sector lives and we're where churches and social services happen and where people gather in public space and so we are definitely everyone's neighborhood. Downtown is also important because it can represent vibrancy. It represents high density and we need that to work for us with multitude of owners that are represented here. Downtown is also important because we can contribute to the city's resiliency, because of our mix of uses, because of the layering that happens here and the civic uses, we can weather the cycles of economics up and down. And most importantly, in my mind, downtown is important because it represents the identity and the reputation for the community. It is what people remember when they visit a place. It is what communicates to prospects and to visitors, whether someone cares and whether someone's in charge in the community, and it is what embodies the community heritage and spirit. So for those reasons, that's why downtown's important. And as we go out for now, our campaign to our property owners, we are going to dive in a little bit and help everyone understand what we are doing here. So in Texas, there's only one statute that governs assessment districts of all kinds. You're familiar with single use, PIDs and PIDs that are put in place to fund things like lighting and municipal priorities. But we're the kind of a PID where lots of property owners involved and we involve our businesses as well. And so for those purposes I call it a bid. Legally it's a PID and you'll hear those terms used interchangeably. But for downtown Arlington we have always called it a bid. The funding that the owners agree to assess themselves can fund a broad range of improvements and services that are designed to benefit the people paying the assessments. There can be an advisory committee to the government. If there's a desire to change boundaries, there's a process for that to notify those that pay the assessment. And when we sunset, which is something the statute and our ordinance called for, we are sunsetting this year. So that is what's triggering us to go back out. It is the appropriate time to review boundaries, rates, priorities, and services. There are public hearings that will be involved and the plan is updated annually during the term of the bid. So a little bit about our organization, I think it's noteworthy to point out that when our organization was formed back in 2006, that predated the creation of the PID, we applied for 501 C3 designation from the Internal Revenue Service. And we were awarded that designation on the basis that we would be reducing the burden of government. So I wanted to stand before you today and hopefully testify that we've done that over the last 15 years and that we'd like to keep doing that in supporting and partnering with you. Our vision is to have a world-class urban neighborhood that fosters a strong sense of community and our board of drop-to-drawn mission is to create and support a downtown that people love through vibrant place-making, branding, we elevate experiences and we build relationships. So the PID was first created for a five-year term in 2010. Very nominal budget was generated of $140,000 of private funding from the property owners. We renewed that PID for a 10-year term in 2015. That is the PID that is sunsetting this summer. And we are proposing to go back out. We are proposing a modest increase and the ability to have a little bit of growth over the 10-year term. And we're proud that we stand on our record. When the PID was first created in 2010, we were promising what could be. And today we are able to point to measurable outcomes and value driven measurements of success. And we know that the work we're doing is creating tremendous value. We have a strong tie to our visitor economy, and that is increasing and improving all the time. We're most proud of the most recent addition of our clean and safe ambassadors Kevin Johnson is here today from Block by Block. Our ambassadors have been on the street at work for a year and two months and we're really happy with the visibility and the tangible visible results that they're getting for us every day to keep our district clean and safe. And we've moved the dial quite a bit in the last 10 years, increasing walkability factors, increasing the attractiveness, and our property owners themselves have stepped in in and we leverage grants to our individual property owners for them to improve their own buildings. So they are coming along beside us and investing with private dollars to exist to invest in existing real estate as well. Also as part of our clean and safe and beautification programs we've invested in public art. We are the stewards for the Arlington Cultural District, and as part of that, we have made significant investments in public art pieces, which is helping drive the vitality and the art economy for downtown Arlington. Our marketing is growing. We have a very robust searchable website that all of our businesses benefit from. We work year round to tell stories and build community and raise awareness about what's happening in downtown Arlington. Our social media also is a big driver of success for us. And with our budget, we also share our money. We give funds to, over the last 10 years, to 58 different organizations for their own event sponsorships. And we've also raised almost $500,000 in corporate sponsorship to supplement what else we do. We have also gotten better at applying for grants. We have been the recipient, the proud recipient of funding from the Arlington Tomorrow Foundation, but we have also received grant fundings from private corporations and other sources to fund things like acquiring public art, paying for studies, and getting the cultural designation district in the first place. So the PIDRI new campaign is officially started. We are releasing petitions to property owners, and we are doing everything we can to find all of our property owners so that we can help them understand what we're doing. The PID assessment methodology, according to the State Statute, can be built on any number of methodologies. We've always used assessed value provided from the Terranopraisal District. The State Law does allow you to set up an assessment methodology based on square footage in land or any other method that results in imposing equal shares of the cost on the properties paying the assessment. We did a little bit, I'm going to go back. We did a little bit of an evaluation to look at whether we might change our assessment methodology, looking at the land and square footage option, and we spent quite a bit of time doing that, and at the end of the day, we set that aside and stuck with what we knew and are moving forward with the same methodology as we've had for 15 years. So the proposed boundary is the same. It is the boundary marked in blue on the city provided map. We are proposing a 10 year term. When I describe the boundaries and where downtown Arlington is to the average person, I generally say, and it captures both sides of the street, Collins to Cooper and Sanford on the North and Johnson Creek on the South. It's one mile square. The edges move a little bit on some of those boundaries, but that's generally what we use to describe the boundaries for downtown Arlington. So our services and uses of funds, I wanna go over there, but'm going to highlight that we are adding to our budget and to our proposal this year, the creation of a business continuity reserve, generating just 2% of a set aside annually to try to build up a bit of a reserve for the bid services. So for revenues, the appraised value is tied to the tad rolls. And this will be finalized when we come back in September for the annual budget approval. But this is the required five year forecast so that our property owners can plan as needed for their own businesses. We're also required under the statute to tell them with a five-year estimate how we plan to spend those funds. So this is how the expenses are broken down by each of our core areas and then you see that business continuity reserve added at the end. So for our work plan, you guys probably know a lot of what we do, but I will just highlight maintenance and beautification. We do sidewalk litter patrol six days a week. We empty the 78 public trash cans located throughout the downtown six days a week. We do 24 hour response on graffiti abatement on both public and private property. And we do supplemental cleaning services. We manage all the banners in the public right of way within the downtown boundaries. We do wayfinding place making activations, storefront improvement grants, and our public art program. Our second work plan area is security. This is an area that we see more need for in future years. But today we provide coordinated response and work with city, staff, and the homeless outreach team. We fund a late night shuttle ride home program for UTA, and we also fund additional ambassador hours, which serve as eyes and ears for us in our district. For marketing and promotion, that's our year round advertising, social media, website, event production, marketing, media relations, and business engagement. And in economic and community development, we come to work every day and think about what do our small businesses need from us today? What can we do to help make sure our businesses are staying in business? And then what are the next cool businesses that we need to bring to the mix? We work closely with GUSs with the Economic Development Team, and we support conversations with investors and developers. We do data and research on the Downtown Workforce and Residential, and we generally serve as the advocate for downtown. And all of that takes staff, takes an overhead operation, so our budget also includes the necessary funding to make sure that we have professional experience staff with established office presence so that we can provide all of these services. So the petition process, we have to provide information to each property owner that defines the term, the improvements, provides the estimated cost, tells them the boundaries, the method of assessment and the management entity, which is our organization. We are striving now to secure the required signatures by April 15th so that we can stay on schedule working with city staff for the required public hearings and establishment action that is scheduled in June. That allows us to reauthorize the business improvement district without any interruption in service or funding. And it provides adequate time for the appraisal district folks and the tax collector to add that assessment to the tax bills. Remember, this is not, I like to say this is not taxes. This is a self assessment that the property owners agree to pay. If they did not agree to pay this, this is not money that could be spent on other city services. This money would go away. So this is a self-assessment to provide supplemental services, services that cities don't provide to the rest of the city. So they are funding these services and then we partner with and work with UTA and the city to round out our budget in a variety of ways so that we can continue to provide the robust services that we provide. The petition will be sufficient. It's a two-part test. We have to get a majority of the number of property owners to sign or representing the area and a majority of the value of owners. So what that means is every property owners vote counts. And if someone is unresponsive or they vote no, that goes on the no column. So it's just like a political campaign. Every vote counts. We've got to get to every person. And we believe that our value proposition is strong. We have a very strong and dedicated board of directors and a new advisory council that's going to help us. And more than anything else, I just want to say how much we appreciate the strong partnership with the city and the 15-year tradition of building our downtown into a great place. And I am happy to answer questions. Questions or comments from Maggie, Council Member Boxel. Thank you. No question. I just wanted to congratulate you. I think you're doing a fantastic job and we couldn't be happier to have downtown on all the time helping us out in downtown. Thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question. Post office, are they part of this? The post office is included in the bid boundaries, yes. They do not pay an assessment because they don't pay property taxes. Okay, that's what I thought. So I just, I know they've got a new postmaster here in Arlington, so we've, I lost my contact trying to get it cleaned up. So if you have a contact, let me know. And I do want to thank the ambassadors for cleaning up, because since you added them, it's made a world of difference. And thank you for implementing that and getting it done, because it's made a world of difference when you walk around so it goes to the ambassadors and to you all. Thank you. You know, we would not have been able to bring block by block on without the additional contract that we have to do the maintenance in the 101 Centre Public portion of the garage. And you know, the combination of that along with our bid budget is how we make that work. So thank you. Any other questions, comments? Councilmember Femme. Miss Campbell, for all the business owner at the downtown area, what percentage of them should I invoke for that? You know, percentage of the business owner come out and invoke for what they call it. That's not the tax what they call it the bid yeah. So it is the property owners that vote not the business owners and we have over 400, 460 individual parcels within the bid boundaries representing a little under 300 individual owners. So it is the owners that have to sign the petition not the businesses. Now in some cases, a business is the owner of their real estate. We have business owners on our board because in many cases property owners pass those taxes through to their tenants. So we make sure in our governance model that we have businesses represented, they have a voice as well, but they don't have a vote here. It is just the property owners. And so if you know people that own property downtown and you have an opportunity to ask them, have they seen their petition yet? Do they know this is happening? That would help us. Because again, every property owners vote counts. And in many cases, some of them don't even know who we are or what we do. They may be absentee. They may have inherited their property, and they just get a rent check at home. So it really is a time for us to engage and educate and try to expand our relationships. All right, well, thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you Maggie. Good luck with all the signatures. That's a lot of work. Thank you very much. Okay, 3.2 Arlington socio-economic profile update. Sarah, double fill. I'm back with some more data. This time is our socioeconomic profile for 2024. Each year, the Census Bureau releases the American Community Survey data. And so we do our socioeconomic profile with that new data to kind of keep a pulse on all of our demographic and housing trends from the Census Bureau. All of the data that you see today is from our five-year estimates. This is the largest sample of the American community survey data and so it's the most accurate for us to keep an eye on all of these data points. I also wanted to remind you all that we're gonna be looking at population, race and ethnicity, age, gender, educational, attainment, housing, income, poverty, and some employment data. And all of this is on our socio-economic profile dashboard on the Open Data Center, as well as the full report is online on the Open Data Center, like you have at your places today. So to just take a pulse of the average Arlington resident and kind of a baseline of what changed from last year to this year, the average Arlington resident is 33.6 years old. She is female. She has a high school diploma, white, non-Hispanic. She has a household income of $73,519. She was born in Texas and she travels about 26.7 minutes outside of Arlington to her job. You can tell looking from 2022 to 2023, this is pretty consistent. We're not a lot of shifts here. So stability, consistency is going to be a lot of what we see in this report. The first question I always get asked when this data comes out is, what is our population? Our population from this five-year estimate data is 394,769 with an average household of 2.77. We saw a slight dip in our population going from 2020 to 2021. And that was like a little bit of a concern. Is this a trend? What we're seeing is no. We're back on sort of positive trend. It's small. But we're not seeing declines in population. So that is a good thing. The next thing I always get asked when this data comes out is what is our rank? We are long-done as the 50th most populous city in the United States which we are maintaining with the new 2023 data. We also didn't really see any shifts in the size of the cities around us. Last year there was some kind of movement between 21 and 2022. We're not seeing that here. So basically the same ranking, some cities are losing their population. New Orleans and Cleveland most notably, they saw a decline from year to year, but all of the other kind of peer cities in this population range are seeing those slight increases as well. From a rate of ethnicity perspective, we saw our largest increase in the white population went up 0.9%. Something we haven't seen in the last few years, so I wanted to point that out. And our Hispanic and Latino population is also increased 0.3% up to 31% of our population. Age and gender is something that we kind of keep an eye on. Across the country, we're seeing our populations getting older as the baby boomer generation is aging and that population of younger folks coming online, people having children is decreasing, which is consistent with what we're seeing in this year's data. Our largest increases, unsurprisingly are in that age range from 65 to 79 years old. We also saw a pretty big increase in our population from 40 to 44 years old, that increased 8% since 2020. Some of the largest decreases that we're seeing is in that 25 to 29 year range, that young professional age, 50 to 54 years old, and then also our under five population has decreased 6% since 2020, not from last year but from 2020. Another thing we like to look at with this new data is our foreign-born nativity. It's immigration from other countries as a big component of how we calculate our population increases. And so we have seen increases in our foreign-born population. We have over 84,000 Arlington residents that are from somewhere else besides America. The largest share of those is in Latin America, which includes Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Since 2020, you'll see in this table over here, our foreign-born population has increased 1.8%. The largest increases in this other category, which includes Europe, Canada, and sort of the Australia, New Zealand area. We've also seen a decrease in our African population since 2020 a decrease of 10.9 percent. This is probably one of the most exciting pieces of data that we got this year is our educational attainment. We're continuing to see our Arlington population be more educated. Our education data is for population 25 and older, so give them time to get through the full matriculation of school. But since 2020, over 7,000 more people have received an associate bachelor's or graduate degree since 2020, which is an increase of 7.1%. We also look at household income, which in this case is generally kind of flat when you account for inflation. So we don't see a whole lot of fluctuation there. As I mentioned this year, the average household income in Arlington is $7,000, $3,500, and $19. We also have a map here that shows the geographic distribution of our household income where the green areas have the highest household incomes and the purple areas are the lowest. Those are concentrated, of course, in Central Arlington, right around the university, and then also East Arlington, with the highest incomes up in Vardian and in the southeast part of town, and then over by the lake. Poverty rate is continuing to decrease. It has gone down 1.1% since 2020, between 2022 and 2023 up to 0.1%. So we're sitting at 13.1% poverty rate citywide. One of the biggest changes we're seeing here is for our children under 18. The poverty rate there has decreased 3.5% since 2020, although it still sits around 18.2% for those kids. And then our property rate for seniors over 65 is 10.7, so below the city average. We also get some home occupancy and ownership data from the American Community Survey. From this data, our total housing units have increased over 5,000 units, or 3.%. 1,500 of these are owner-occupied units, while 3,600 are renter-occupied units. We also provided some home sale data here. For the first time in eight years, our home sale price has actually gone down from the previous year, but it's still sitting at $357,000. And is a positive upward trend if you don't take as sort of the market levels out. And you kind of take out that 2022 outlier. We've also provided a map of our home ownership distribution, not surprisingly, a home ownership rates are higher in areas where we have more single family homes throughout the city. And as we shift into unemployment, our total employment has increased by 0.4% since 2020 with the largest increase in the government sector, which has increased 9.1% since 2020. We also put in some unemployment rate data, which is not census data, it's from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But we are seeing that sort of staying pretty low around 3.7% after the pandemic increase with the impact of the pandemic. Occupations and employers, we get high level data from the Census Bureau on the industries and how they're moving in the city. So we saw the largest growth in the production, transportation and material moving occupations, which grew 8.6% since 2020. We did see a decrease in the sales and office occupation that went down almost the same amount 8.5%. We've also provided a list of the top 10 employers in the city which make up over 23% of the total jobs in the city between these 10 employers which includes general motors, AISD, UT Arlington, Texas Health Resources, Six Flags, the city of Arlington among others. We've got the rangers in there. And finally, we look at work commute. It's sort of a quality of life measure if you don't have to drive this far. You might be a little happier. That's my philosophy anyway. Residents who are working in Arlington have increased 3.9%. So we're seeing more of our residents stay in Arlington to work. One of the big factors there is working from home that continues to be a pretty significant increase in something we've seen since the pandemic. In 2025.7% of people work from home and today with the new data we're at 11.8% so that's more more doubled. As a result of that we're also seeing lower rates of people driving themselves to work that's decreased from 80% in 2020 to 74% in 2023. And so to wrap up just some summary highlights like I said a lot of consistency these numbers, nothing that really jumps out at you, but we're seeing some generally positive trends. 50th largest cities, seeing increases in our population, in our education attainment, we're decreasing in poverty, we're seeing more housing units come online, unemployment is going down, jobs are going up, that work from home number is continuing to increase, and we're seeing more people stay in Arlington to work. Those are the highlights and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions or comments for Sarah. Dr. Odom Weissley. Thank you Sarah. This is a lot of helpful information and take a look at our city. Do we have any comparison data? Do we have any idea how we look when we compare to other cities in the area? So this report is not a comparative report, but as some feedback that we received from the socio-economic profile last year was to have some of that comparison data. So the socio-economic profile dashboard that we have does have a comparison tool where you can look from city to city or city to county At a variety of these metrics all of them to see sort of how we compare So there are certain cities that were particularly interested and we can do that analysis for you But if you wanted to poke around on there you could you could do that yourself as well Question you just said up do we have this data on the open data portal? Yes, so we have the full report. the . . . . . . . . The same size of the region or nationwide. Um, for right now it's set up, I think just for cities within the state. But yes, we can, and if we need to go out further, we have that data. It's just the more you put in the dashboard, the little slower it gets. So, um, we have the data on the dashboard that we've limited it, we think is most useful for the public. Thank you for your work. That helps information. Anybody else? Thank you, Sarah. 3.3 comprehensive plan update. John Chapman. Good afternoon, Councilmembers. John Chapman, Long Range Plutting Manager. I have an update for Council in the public on the Comprehensive Plan. Last time you all heard from us was at your November 19th meeting when Jay Raikin, the principal in charge over the MIG team, was in town. So, a couple of items that we're going to discuss with you all is related to what the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee has been working on, what the internal stakeholders and directors have been discussing and working on as well as our public engagement plan and current and public engagement that we've already been working on as well as the Comprehensive Plan name. The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee has met three times in November, December and January. They've already been talking about a lot of items primarily with what the objectives and the role of the Comprehensive Plan, as well as their roles as committee members, the importance of a comprehensive plan, the anticipated scope and timeline that the MIG team has put together, the various engagement techniques, which we also discussed with y'all at your November 19th meeting, an overview of the 99-square mile plan, as well as council and directors input, which I'll have a slide about here shortly. We've done a lot of visioning exercises with them as well, which is in scope with what the phase one process involves. If y'all recall, we did a newspaper headline exercise with y'all about remember the future about Arlington in 2044. That headline exercise was also completed with the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee. They also identified inspirational places around the world that they are familiar with. And we discussed the Comprehensive Plan name. This is an illustration that was created by Marco Hinozzo with the MIG group just over there behind Jay on that wall. It was really cool to watch him listen to the room as they were discussing inspirational places and headlines and big topics that they really want to tackle with the comprehensive plan and diagram that all for us. So we have that that will be a keepsake for the city of Arlington and it will be something that, you know, we'll bounce back to everyone in a while as well. So for our internal stakeholders and directors meeting, this is an all hands on deck project. We have a lot of participants not only listed here on this presentation but also in the background helping everyone on this slide. So it's a huge undertaking, lots of support, there's a lot going on not only with this project but a lot of other departments so I really do appreciate everyone's support that I've already gotten in my G team has received. We had a directors meeting in December, GenCNI provided an overview of the comprehensive play name and asked for some feedback from that group related to what we need to be focusing on and what we need to look at in terms of implementation. So we wanted to, we wanted to make sure that we're looking at a strategy that can unlock the city's economic perimeter. There's a lot of development happening at our perimeters and so that'll be a highlight that the MIG team as well as city staff looks at so that we're competitive in that field. We will also assess trends that could impact tax-based revenues and how to respond, making sure that our land use techniques are going to be innovative and prosperous for us moving forward and then connecting the housing to land use recommendations kind of forming up what we currently have with the 99-square-mile plan, but even making improvements to it. And then there's been a lot of deliverables since November that the MIG team has provided to us as part of their scope of work. For those including the Policy, Inventory, and Document Review, that was a hefty document that a lot of staff members spent a good amount of time reviewing what it entailed was taking all of our city plans, policies, strategies, guides, putting them all into one Excel spreadsheet that incorporated all of our goals and objectives from those documents and then staff worked lined by line to update the MIG team as well as inform ourselves about what the process is for each of those goals. So it's a very it was a very informative document for MIG as well as the city. We also have our community engagement plan which is an overall generalized plan for the entire process itself. Jay and his team helped a lot on ensuring that we're going to be meeting with youth, with seniors, with minority groups, students, everyone, to make sure that we're identifying who we need to speak to and how do we get out there. We also have a more detailed phase one strategy plan for engagement that's currently being incorporated and utilized and I'll kind of get into what a lot of those public engagement opportunities look like. But that's going to again make sure that we're reaching out to all the appropriate audiences as best we can. And then what's currently under review, staff review was completed and we've delivered back our comments was the existing conditions atlas. This includes a overview of Arlington's history as well as a lot of visual maps related to a lot of the data including the data that Miss Doublefield just presented on related to socioeconomics. So it's gonna be a lot of broad data that will be utilized as part of our public engagement portion during the space one as well as within the comp plan itself. So on December 9th, we actually had our first external public engagement event with the WeCan group out of the West sector Arlington. We provided them an overview of the comprehensive plan as well as the scope of the project, how to stay involved. We highlighted ArlingtonListens.com, which is where a lot of the virtual engagement will take place as well as a general overview for anyone interested in the comprehensive plan. But this is a great opportunity to highlight that anyone can ask my staff in the city of Arlington to come to their one of their events or one of their neighborhood meetings. We will be proactively reaching out to a lot of Arlington affiliates that we're already aware of. But certainly if there are anyone that any council member, anyone listening in would like to notify us about. Please do so, because we definitely want to make sure that we get you on the calendar and can provide some great information. For instance, this Saturday, I will be presenting at the Arlington neighborhood or leadership network. So that'll be a great opportunity and we're also meeting with downtown Arlington. So we are getting a lot on the schedule already. So phase one engagement really kicks up in March in terms of community wide engagement, but it'll also be going through the month of February. But our first big engagement opportunity will be March 18th. That will be a part of the three-day workshop window when MIG will be in town, as well as late March into early April. Both of those time periods, we will be having a community wide workshop where the MIG team and city staff are presenting a lot of the facts of Arlington and getting back more visioning activities from community members about what they want to see for Arlington and that will feed the a lot of the the scope to materials for phase two so March 18 18th is during spring break. It'll be a great opportunity for anyone in town to come talk to us from 530 to 730 at the downtown Arlington Library. And then the week after into early April, we will be taking that workshop and going to each council district. You have a map in front of you if you've not seen that. Detailing when we will be, when and where we will be at each event in downtown in Arlington. So we definitely hope that all council members that can participate at each of those events do so. You can let me know when you'll attend and we'll be following up with a formal invitation and email and have all of these dates on your calendars. It's going to be a great event. I'm excited to learn more about what our community members in Arlington really want to have us work on for the next 20 to 25 years. March and April will also have the virtual community, community-wide questionnaire. That will be posted in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. We will have pop-up events with the MIG team, specifically two pop-up events with them that will be take place in April. And those will be events where we ask the event operators if we can have a presence at their event to kind of run through some of those engagement activities and get the feedback we need. But my staff will continue with more outreach efforts as well with Arlington affiliates through that month as well. We will have social media posts throughout all of this time period, making sure that our community is aware of where and when we will be and how to participate. We will also have a water utility newsletter as part of their April Billers posters at all of the libraries and recreation centers. So it's been, it's going to be a lot, but it's necessary for sure. And then of course, on the third Thursdays of each month, we will continue to have as necessary our Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee meetings. The Comprehensive Plan name. So back in November, we published a community-wide survey about the name itself. It was shared on newsletters on social media, mentioned at public meetings. We had, and so from November 13th to December 31st, New Year's Eve, the last year, we had 33 participants and 174 names suggestions. All of the names suggestions were provided to our committee members at their December meeting or at their January meeting. However, they discussed names at both their December meeting and January meeting. During their December 19th meeting, They created a top 10 preliminary list. They did have a list of names that were submitted by community members that were that had been submitted up to this time as well so this does involve those suggestions. But the top two that came out of that night was Innovate Arlington and Aspire Advance Achieve Arlington. Fast forward to a month, they kind of fought about it some more. They were given the full list of names provided by our community members. And the top name again was Innovate Arlington. And not only tied, but actually took a greater lead from where they were the committee stood in their December meeting. And then just a fun fact about innovate Arlington and the committee's choice. This name was the only name that received a top of four ranking by all committee members. All the other names it fell in the lower half potentially down at the bottom. So it was definitely got great support The term innovate is very reflective of what we're already hearing not only from y'all but our directors and internal stakeholders as well as the external stakeholders that we've already been meeting with. There's a lot of innovative work that I know that is ahead of all of us that we can think about. So the term innovate being synonymous with the Comprehensive Plan for Arlington for the next 20 to 25 years is certainly reasonable. So this afternoon we would definitely are seeking your confirmation of this name so that Jay and his team in the office of communications can begin working on logo and branding. Open for any questions. Any questions from council comments? I love the name. I think they did a great job with the name choice. All right, we'll move forward with with the Nivea, Arlington and I appreciate y'all's support. Thank you. We're gonna move on down 3.4, boarding home, ordinances. Thank you, Mayor Jennifer Wickman, Deputy City Manager. I'm here to bring forward work that's been done by a number of departments. The police, city attorney's office in particular, planning planning and development services code and fireball had a hand in putting this together. And this is an item that's on the evening agenda for you all this evening. It's a item 11.2. So we wanted to go over it in greater detail here in the afternoon work session. So just to begin, boarding home facilities, it's actually not what you may think of as a boarding home in which someone might rent an individual room from someone and then go about their daily life. This is actually, has a specific name to our term that's been coined by the by the state is sometimes these are referred to bed in board home. So these are homes where multiple people who may be elderly or who may be disabled and cannot live on their own will live in in a neighborhood in a residential setting, but they'll have three or more people in there. And so that's something that's been encountered by our police department. And that's really where this discussion got started. They have seen some challenges of the local boarding home facilities. They can see some criminal offenses that may go unreported there's a lack of standards. They have observed up to four individuals per room in a crowded situation and have also discovered some economic exploitation that occurs in these, in these situations. Residents can be moved in between these homes to avoid investigation because at a certain number they are required to register with the state. And then there are calls that APD receives for service to the same locations again and again. So in terms of the council action that's been taken so far, we did come to you all with the briefing. An informal staff report on September 3rd. You all had a chance to hear about this. We went to the municipal policy committee on December 10th. We presented more detail about the draft. There's a draft state ordinance that was a model ordinance that was put forward. And the municipal policy committee was reported out and said, yes, please move forward with this. And so this is us coming back to you all for that beginning of that approval. So the proposed ordinances back in 2009, the state legislature passed this instructions to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to establish a draft sort of a model ordinance that cities could use and adopt. It was codified as chapter 260 of the Health and safety code. It authorizes cities to adopt this regulation, but it does not itself establish the requirement for that. So it really leaves this to the cities and they can take that option to adopt it or not. So the City of Arlington has not previously adopted these regulations. However, both the City of Dallas and the City of Fort Worth have done that. As we looked around in our region, we became apparent that as more cities adopt this, it could, if the city of Arlington does not adopted, it could lead bad actors to come here into an unregulated environment. But the burden is, as I mentioned before, on cities to adopt and then enforce these as applicable. the cities is the current landscape I discussed. You can see in green, the cities that have adopted and have these in place. And then Capell, Irving, Graham Prairie, and Cedar, Hill Relate, really, everything along our eastern border. They are in progress for adopting these. So the proposed model ordinance has a lot of different standards. They're in the areas of construction remodeling in maintenance. They have health and sanitation standards requirements on reporting and investigation of injuries. A lot of policies and procedures to ensure resident health requirements for the residents must be able to selfminister medications. This isn't really a nursing situation. Criminal history background checks being required on workers and oners. And then the owner operator required an assessment and continue monitoring of their residents. So they're aware of what needs they have. The permit application that we have included in the ordinance denied, and this is very much in line with what other cities in the area are doing. It has 13 different requirements but in particular what we just and the some important points that we discussed with the committee as we were we were meeting with them is that a letter from the property owner authorizing that this property is being used for this oftentimes I think we've discovered that homes would be just rented and the owner of the property wouldn't realize that it was actually a very different use than just a typical residential use. Evidence that the property's up to date on property tax payments and identification information for the owner, operators, and employees. That's also important because those people can be a bit fungible as they move in and out. Inspections would be done annually and then as needed if complaints came in there would also be an annual fire inspection conducted by the fire department. All of these activities though we would be charged and be cost recovering so this is not something would be an additional burden on the general fund this would be something that would cost recover. So the next steps in this this evening is your first reading. And so should the council decide to approve that this evening. Then the second reading be on February 25th. Additionally, the schedule of fees would be adopted for these inspections and application fees and all of that. Would be done in February 25th. And then we would use March to do an educational process with existing operators. The police department in their work has identified about 21 different operators. We're not sure if they are still operating or not, but we want a chance to sort of get information out. And then we'd have an April 1st effective date at which point we would begin the requirements. So I'm happy to answer any questions and I have other folks in the audience here who could answer more detailed questions if they come up. Dr. Odom Wesley. Thank you Jennifer. Thank you for studying this very critical issue. Just to be clear, does this include homes that house students who are aging out of foster care? There are several things that they do not cover. I don't believe that's that's one of them, but nursing homes are exempted and let me check. I can get back to you before the evening session to be sure on that, but I don't have that information off the top of my head. Okay, okay, thank you. Mr. Hogg, yeah, thank you, Mayor and thank you, Jennifer and Dr. Bartow-Rose, so I let our NPC and I think the one thing we, as we went through this with you, the one thing we said was, how fast can we do this? And so to my council colleagues, this is, it's fast from when you saw, we saw it in December of where we're going in the process. So this is that one map's pretty glaring that as we so, if we don't have this, we do think there's negative ramifications of individuals that will take advantage of us not having this type of policy in place. Any other comments or questions for Jennifer? I would agree with Mr. Hogg. This is, I appreciate the desired expedite this as soon as possible. And I think it's necessary. So thank you for doing this. OK, thank you. Council, we're going to move on to the informal staff reports. You've all received them. We're going to go through on one at a time and address any issues that you may have with them. First one is 4.1. The artificial intelligence update. Any questions or comments on 4.1 for Sarah's double field. Come on Sarah, we almost got you away from now. Thank you for all this information Sarah. I'm just wondering if you had access the resources that are available from NLC on AI and the impact on local governments. I know they have resources available. I haven't had a chance to look at those. I just learned about them last week. I will say this is a fast moving industry. Resources are popping up from all different directions all the time. So if you have something that you come across, please send it our way so we can incorporate it into everything that we're looking at. Any other questions, Mr. Peel? Yeah, I'd like to ask specifically for maybe an update on how, this is just not an presentation, just an email to me, on how planning, A, I can help the planning department review plans. I've found a couple of vendors that actually do that. They're actually doing it in Austin right now. It has really helped their planning department. And it seems like that would be something that would facilitate economic development. And I didn't see that specifically called out in your memo. And I would love to have some more specific input from you on what the city's doing to help planning with AR review of plans and that's what a thing. Okay, I can give you a little bit of information not directly related to planning review, but we did go through an AI strategy process where we developed some use cases earlier in January and our planning department did participate with us in that. And so we opened it up to the departments. What are your biggest issues, obstacles that you're trying to work on right now and they really focused in on trying to get customer responses to things like a fence permit or how do I get a building permit or can I build a shed, those types of things, those planner of the day type questions. And so they focused on a use case that would help get those responses out faster. And so we're expecting every department has multiple use cases. That's one that Trey brought up specifically was the plan review as well. So we'll be looking at that and I'm happy to do the research and kind of see what's out there and how it's being used. And I appreciate your efforts in this regard because some other jurisdictions that are evaluating this are moving so slow. And as you said, this is a fast moving industry. And given the unique budget pressures we're facing, they need to do more with less and increased productivity. I really want this process to move as quickly as it can. I mean, be wise about it. But I don't want this as something that becomes bogged down and pure a critic, you know, lack of motivation. And I know with you in charge, you won't do that. But I guess I'll just say faster, please. Yes, we're doing our best. I will say also in our use case exercise that we did we we tried to focus in on Departments that don't necessarily use a general fund so maybe we can we accelerate that just with a little bit less pressure on the budget I don't know try what a group me, but and and also Upskilling is a huge thing that we're looking at and that's not as expensive but teaching employees how to use the tools that are out there in a responsible way as a focus of ours that is not as budget intensive so we're trying to find the balance for sure. Mr. Peel just to follow up to a couple things on your deal. AIS clearly already here and it's already embedded in several systems that we've got. So to your point about hurry up, in some ways it's already caught us. And now it's like how do other elements get embellished or added to our capabilities, our productivity enhancement and things like that. So we're definitely motivated to explore what's out there and be responsible about how that's done. And then to your point on planning, thanks to y'all's involvement last year's budget, I think, or this current budget. We were actually in the process of in an Amanda swap out as it relates to permitting. That's a specific expectation. Your point about how the AI tools can help plan review so that the human touch is minimized and let computers do as much of it as we can. So it didn't show up in our use case stuff because it's already kind of in the review mirror to a degree. It hasn't been operationalized yet because we've got to get there, but it's at the top of the list. You know, and that just goes straight to some criticisms we've heard in the past. Sometimes unwarranted that, you know, it takes too long to get things through permitting. And if it's possible to get more economic development projects on the ground faster, it benefits all of us. Mr. Hogg. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I'm a huge fan of AI. It's made my life much easier, but I also understand there's risk in what we're doing and Mr. Peale will like this. Sia is a governing body. I think we've got to start thinking more of policy. We've got to also start thinking of what happens with this from, because the big piece of AI is, in essence, your data is going out and protecting and controlling your data as a big function on this. And Mr. Pill, you'll like this. I hate to give them a lot of credit, but the University of Texas system at Austin has a very strong policy. they've really taken a lot of lead on this. I was down in Austin at a conference for the health benefits side of the world, and we were talking about AI used, and that was pieces from where it's going. And so I think anything we can do is there a little farther rowing the boat, way farther than what we are as a local municipality to really kind of protect some of that data and as departments, they're encouraging AI, but they're also saying let's encourage it,'s make it easier we see the buzzes but let's make sure we're also putting some protections in place so I just think as a governing body we've got sure thinking of some of those policies of how we get to that as an organization for protection while also enabling our staff to be able to use this to make them more efficient as my colleagues have been talking about. And we have been working on some policies, light policies, trade, and I've been talking about how do you put up guardrails that don't completely derail innovation, but kind of make sure we do that protection. And so I am going through all of this AI stuff with a partner, Bryce, our Information Security Office serve for the city to make sure that we do have those policies in place and he's got some that have already been through the approval process and I know they're working on more. So we're definitely making sure we keep those guardrails up. Dr. O'Donnell, why is that? I was just going to mention, I don't think I saw it in the report that our legal department is using AI to analyze bills. We have over 3,000 right now at the state level and so that's giving them a lot of assistance on C.J. just stepped out. So I don't know if you wanted to speak to that or not, but just let you know that application. Thank you, Dr.. And yeah, I will say that we put some samples in the staff report of what's going on with AI in our department and there's more. We do have a goal of creating an AI inventory so we have a complete record of those things in a process for getting a record of that as we bring new stuff on. So yes, lots of good AI innovative work happening. Any other questions or comments? Council member Boxel. Thank you. Thank you Sarah. I think we can all think of applications where this could help but it occurred to me that since we're starting with our form-based code there would be an opportunity there once we get it settled that because there's a lot of confusion about what it is, what it can do, and all that. It could be an AI assistant to help people to understand it better, and especially developers to come in, maybe plug in what they want to do and see how that matches up with what we want, what our goals are. So that's a perfect application that we could come up with right now if the consultant was agreeable to adding that component. Yeah, we can certainly coordinate with planning to see where we can go with that. Okay. Anything else? Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Okay, we're gonna move on down to committee meetings, 4.2 finance and Audit Council Member Hunter. Thank you. This morning the Finance Committee met all members who are present. We went over the fiscal year 2024 year in budget analysis report. We basically talked about all of the operating funds finished a year on a positive ending balance. The general fund revenue was 6.7 million less than budgeted. This was largely due to property tax revenues being under budget by 4.4 million due to protests, settlements, and lawsuits throughout the 2024 year, which resulted in a loss of approximately 1 billion in assessed property values. We also talked about the general fund expenditures which were under budget by 8.1 million with some savings attributable to the vacant positions during the year. And finally we talked about the water utilities fund revenues which were 7.3 million more than budgeted. Expenditures in that fund were 4.7 million under budget, mainly due to positive set-elups from the Terrent Regional Water District. I don't know if any other committee members have anything that they want to add. Or if there's any questions from any council. Anything at all from Ms. Hunter. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. 4.5. I'm sorry. 4.3. Community and Neighborhood Development. Thank you, Mayor. The Community and Neighborhood Development committee met this morning. All members were present. We had several things on the agenda. Today we had a presentation by Dr. Nick Yluos on the HUD consolidated plan and action plan. And during that we talked about the accomplishments for the last consolidated plan which was 2020 to 24. During the 2020 to 24 consolidated plan the city invested 19.26 million in high priorities and served over 101,000 people within Arlington and in our income communities. The city has not received a notice of funding from HUD for this year. We're expecting that later this year. The C&D committee will continue to consider funding requests for 2025 based on action plan based on last year's funding levels, which we hope we will at least match. Subrecipient awards will be pro-rated once final allocations are received from HUD. Dates for submission of the plans have been extended due to delays with funding allocation notifications. The committee also revisited the tax credit application. We had one this year. It's the Watson 82 units of mixed income housing on 360 on the east side of 360. The committee requested additional information related to connectivity to the nearby city park. Both the parks director and the developer are agreeable to facilitating walkability from the development to and through the park which is crucial to moving forward this project and providing safe pedestrian access to nearby schools. So the second follow-up is the item related to whether the proposed development would overcrowd the schools and data showed that the schools largely had declining enrollment and the schools continued welcomed additional students. So the C&D committee recommends to the the City Council support a resolution to support the 225 City Council meeting. The resolution would be on the consent agenda for consideration tonight. TDHCA will take action to provide tax credits in July of 2025. And then to catch up with the past item, the Neighborhood Matching Grants Program. I just wanted to go over with you where we are with that. I think we wrapped it up finally. We had five applications originally received for the 2025 grant cycle, representing a total grant request of $72,565 at the January 7th meeting, CND removed the Arlington Downs Town Homes application from further consideration. The revised total grant request for 2025 grant cycle is $61,815. On January 28, the CND requested additional information regarding one of the applications, Creekside Park application. We received that additional information and upon review the additional information received. after full full evaluation, the C&D Committee prepared to make a final recommendation for Council at tonight's meeting. So we have, just real quickly, I'll go over the ones that you'll be voting on tonight. Castlewood Estates for $7,215, North Central Historic Neighborhood Association for $9,600. Creekside Park Residential Association for $25,000, and Elements of Ridey and Homeowners Association for $20,000. So after the grant proposals are approved by Council, a contract will be executed with the and training sessions will commence March and 2025 followed by project implementation and completed by March 2026. And that's all I have. Mr. Gonzalez. Yes, Mayor, thank you. Ms. Boxel, I have a question on. What is that and how much to date? How much did they raise? I know there's usually a matching. I don't have the matching right now in front of me Let's see Installate we can get them for you the insta it's an installation of public art sculpture is what the project is for Verdean Miss Boxel you have it. Jacob Browning strategic initiative is manager the the match for Veridian. Ms. Boxel. You have it. Jacob Browning's strategic initiative is the match for Veridian is $5,000. And is that a homeowner's association? Is that what that is? Is the homeowners associated? Yes. All right. Thank you. Any other questions or comments for Ms. Boxel or Jacob? Thank you, ma'am. Move on down to 4.4 Mr. Buskin. Any appointments towards your commissions this evening? No, sir. No appointments this evening. Thank you, sir. 4.5 2025 bond election consideration, Mr. Randolph. Thank you. Mayor, members of City Council, let me will hand out Deputy City Manager. Don't have a presentation for you. Thank you Mayor. Members of City Council, let me will round out Deputy City Manager. Don't have a presentation for you. However, this evening, as you're where you'll be voting on the bond election ordinance. And so if you have any questions in advance of that, otherwise, it's all I had to report. Questions or comments for Mr. Randall. Thanks, sir. 4.6 legislative update. Natalie, are you stalking it out there somewhere? Yes, yes, I'm here. Natalie Rawlsson, intergovernmental relations manager. So we have a few updates over the weekend. Oh, I didn't have a verse to order. Oh, well. Over the last, late last weekend, over the weekend, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor laid out their priorities. The Governor has a, named Seven Emergency Items for this session, Property Tax Relief, Investment and Water, Teacher Pay, Expanding Career Training, School Choice, Bill Reform, and Cyber Command. And the Lieutenant Governor has increased the number of priority bills from 30 to 40 for him. And he's announced the first 25 of those 40 and among those are school choice increasing the homestead exemption to $140,000 or $150,000 for seniors. Senate Bill 8 would require local law enforcement to assist the federal government's deportation efforts. Senate Bill 15 is about affordable housing, and Senate Bill 19 is about stopping taxpayer dollars for lobbyists. Those bills haven't been filed yet, so I don't have the text of those to give you any kind of idea what that might look like yet. And then 26 through 40 will be announced shortly. So far for bill filings, we've got more than 3,300 filed between both chambers. We've got about five weeks till the March 14th filing deadline. And compared to the 88th session at this point in time, we're about 30% higher on bill filings than last go round. And the city is currently tracking 850 of those 3,300. We're looking at them to see if we need to track them. And I've heard from TML that there's approximately 9,000 bills in the LEG councils draft queue, so there's going to be a lot more common at us and common at us quickly. So that's if we're bill filing and then the House is expected to have committee assignments out late this week or maybe early next week. I know you have a lot of questions probably on the federal stuff, so let me try to catch everybody up on that. Last week, House Republicans met in Florida to discuss budget reconciliation, but they have not reached a consensus. The fiscal 25 budget deadline is March 14th, and the funding freeze from last week seems to have halted talks on that, so we're going to have to see where that goes. The new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, was recently sworn in, and he rescinded policies on climate, DEI, environmental justice, rolled back a rule requiring emissions tracking by state agencies, and ordered the Department of Transportation agencies to prioritize economic growth, family values, and compliance with immigration enforcement. And then as you all know, last week the White House Office of Management and Budgetment had a federal financial assistance freeze that just kind of went haywire, I'm not going to relive that if we can just bypass that please. There have been several injunctions issued to block that and then programs agencies are assessing programs to see if they align with administration policies. Immigration and tariffs, let me start with immigration, there next week the House will consider a sanctuary city bill so there will be no bailouts for sanctuary cities. They'll withhold federal funds from those jurisdictions. And then an identical bill passed the House last year but failed to advance this Senate. And then for tariffs, the President has announced 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports. The Canadian and Mexican tariffs have been paused for 30 days and we don't know what that impact's gonna look like yet. So that's a quick rundown of the, what's the nice word for chaos? The chaos that's ensuing and I'll have more as we move along. Are there any questions? I'm almost afraid to say this, but council member Peel. I can quick and easy. Was there ever an analysis done, you know, when the funding freeze happened, it's unfrozen now, so it's still kind of hanging out there. Is there any list of our exposure to federal funding freezes that, I mean, I just kind of, my thought when that went down was, oh my God, we're facing the $21 million budget deficit. If we don't get the money that we thought we were going to get in the federal, how much bigger is that budget deficit? Has anybody run those numbers and figured out what our exposure is if it were to happen? I know finance started that process, but when the freeze was un-possed or whatever, I'm not sure if that process was completed completed so I can check and get that to you if it has been completed. Councillor my bro to Wesley. Thank you Natalie for staying on top of all this for us. I know next week we're going to Austin for a tenant county days. Do we get any orientation or advance prep or plan for what we're going to be up there in Austin? Yes, ma'am, I plan to prepare a briefing email. I just haven't gotten to it quite yet. Okay, thank you. You should, I'm hoping to get that out. What day is it Tuesday? Hopefully Thursday, probably Friday. Okay. Councilwoman for Gonzales. With regards to that, I went to last year and I strongly suggest when we go that we sit up front because if we sit in the back and you raise your hand, that's the question. It never comes to you. And if you have a question, you gotta be up front and you get, you get the notes a lot to do or so. If they put us in the auditorium where they, we met with all of them, I'm just strongly We suggest those that are attending that we set up. You probably have the most secure position in the entire city with everything going on right now. That makes me feel good. Okay. I have a million questions floating through my head, but none of which I will ask right now. So thank you for your information. Evening agenda items. Councilmember Femme. Yes, the reason I think last October there's some fees increase for the fire protection system fire line. Can we get no city staff? Do we have some study on that and what number are you dealing with with an evening agenda item? Oh future. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll give back your lady. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Evening agenda items Dr. Odom Wesley Thank you, Mayor. I have two Item 7.17 Thank you, Mayor. I have two items, seven point, one, seven. And, actually, that's related to what we were just talking about. I know we had to postpone our groundbreaking for the child care facility. We were going to build it, filter and sanford because of the freeze of federal funds. we're voting on that tonight So are we free to move forward with that? Are we getting those funds? Yes, ma'am Nikki Lewis grants manager There was a decision on behalf of the organization child care is Associates just to hold back because of everything that was going on with the groundbreaking But that has nothing to do with the federal funds that we have for that project, for the lease agreement, or for the sub-recipient agreement, that project is still on target and moving ahead. Thank you for that reassurance. No one appreciated. I have one other item. Oh, sure. And Nikki, we hope it's there, but what if their funding goes away? What does this do to us? What risk are we at with this? Well, so that's the purpose of the contract and the agreement. So in the agreement, it always says that it's contingent upon us receiving the funds from the federal government. So it's not as though we're on the hook for those funds, should that funding go away. But that's specifically what the agreement says. So we have that all written, it's all documented that if should we lose the federal funds, which we do not intend to, those funds were allocated from previous years, but should we lose them? Our contract does give us an out to say that, you know, it is contingent upon us receiving those federal dollars. So then child care associates just has to take over full responsibility without any funding from us. More than likely because the project is partially funded with CDBG funds. It's also partially funded with Terrent County ARPA federal funds. So this is a federally funded project and the project just would be unable to move forward. Okay. Any other questions on that issue? Your next one, Dr. Odom Wesley. I have 10.2, which is a zoning case, the telecommunication tower. And now Mr. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. No question. Sorry. You just like that number. I just... Okay. I'm Mr sure if you're asking for a question. No question. Sorry. You just like that number. I just. Okay. I'm Mr. Gonzalez. I have three. I have 10.1. The tree mitigation. Yes, sir. I think you're asking us for some type of direction. I want to make sure that we've all discussed what's going to come up today with regards to their ordinance. So, absolutely. I'll go ahead and say what you need to say. So, at your places you should have a revised red line for tonight's ordinance that has two points of clarification. Well, one point of clarification and then in addition to that, a new red line for related to multifamily development development incentives. You also have in your mailboxes right now, if you'd like to refer to it after I kind of go over this with you and email from Richard Gertzin, also explaining the multi-family development incentive. So first, 5.2.3, B, applicability, and then subsection 5. We have a new red line to include cottage community during the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The cottage community was discussed whether that would be something that's within the multifamily development and how the development incentives would be applied. That this is just to clarify based on what's currently on the unified development code for cottage communities that tree preservation and mitigation requirements would comply with the residential standards, not the multi-family. So we just wanted to add cottage community as part of that reference for residential development for not only clarification but also cross-reference due to what's already on the UDC. And then G, development incentives for subsection for non-residential development. The commission asked for us to really look at the development incentives for multi-family to try to come up with something that was more appealing to developers as they were considering preserving more trees on top of what the 10% that's being proposed. So the original proposal had a maximum 25% reduction of their overall garage parking. So let's say you were preserving 10 or 15%, so you would get a 5% reduction for a simple math of let's say you had 20 parking spaces that needed to be covered. That would only be four spaces that you would then convert to something else. What's being proposed is let's take that same number. You're gonna increase from 10% up to 15. The five extra percent that you're proposing would actually decrease the overall 20% requirement down to 15. So you would have a 15% reduction of the overall parking. I'm not the overall parking, but for the covered parking. So we are increasing the amount of parking spaces that would be covered into tuck under spaces, which as we've heard from developers, is less expensive than the traditional detached garage parking. So that is what will be up for discussion and as part of the proposal for this evening. Also can take some questions and, Jensia Richard, if I'm missing anything that you'd like to mention. If I may, John. Yeah. Richard Gertz and Assistant Director, on the point that John was just making about the proposed increased incentives for multifamily. It would change what was the proposed cap of 25% of the required enclosed garage to 50% of the enclosed garage. So if a multifamily development was able to, for example, preserve 20% of the protected trees on site, since that exceeds the 10% threshold by 10%. There would be a percent for a percent reduction from the requirement. would mean then then that the garage to spaces instead of being 20 percent of the total parking could be reduced down to 10 percent of the required parking on the site. But again, anything that remains after that incentive, as John said, proposing that that be in the form of tuck under garages versus standalone garages. And having less standalone garages, a lot better because a lot of the people don't even use them for car, they use them for storage, and they're usually broken. So, I mean, hopefully that helps on that. That's all I have on that. 10.3. Oh, sorry, Barbara. Sorry, I have nothing to do with mayor. Thank you, John. I have one thing that we talked about in our meeting the other day. You said that there was a requirement included that said they couldn't pave up to a certain diameter around the tree because it would kill the tree. Is that in the ordinance we have tonight? Yes, it is contained in the ordinance and just for some background. That was also something that the commission brought up during their public hearing was consideration of making sure that the drip area or the root zone of cross-timbered oaks be protected not only throughout construction, but also from any impervious or pervious pavement within that zone. So it is part of consideration tonight that that root zone be protected from any impervious or pervious pavement is pavement is part of development. OK, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Alice. 10.1 for me. Ginger, I know that they're coming in because they want to add parking in the back. And they said parking. I then ever ever came to me so this is just from the conversation I had with you. The people next door have their parking and their spaces and they need more parking. There's two things. First of all, there's 25 parking at the dermatology office. Those are not special needs parking. Those are just regular parking and then they have 22. So that's a total of 47 spaces. My concern is that they add more parking in the back, which is good as commercial property, don't get me wrong. But if something were to happen to that building, well, we're gonna have an issue with those parking and what are your thoughts on that? If I remember correctly, I think in the staff report, it does mention how many parking, I think it was 23 parking spaces that they have on their site where their building is. This will be additional over parking for our UDC standards, which we do allow based upon the demand of that center. They can ask for it. It is a property that the same property on owns that property and it's just adjacent to his property. There is a way and they've shown us the parking lot construction drawings where it shows a clear path from this parking lot that they will add to get to this building. There's a clear pathway. So everything looks very legitimate as to why they feel like this extra parking is needed for the our development. All right. Thank you. And then 10.6. I forgot my question. I got to look at my notes. I'll do it. Oh, wander away. There's been some changes. You want to go over that because I know there been some discussion. Yes. So we have sent you an email and it will be there in the, I don't know if it's here on this desk. Yes, there is a memo in front of you all that says, we did have an opposition email from one more opposition email from one of the residents in the neighborhood. And since then, the applicant has agreed to change the or request to take out the deviation for the minimum living area. So the minimum living area that they were previously proposing was 1200 square feet. They have increased it to 1500 square feet to meet our UDC minimum. So that's no more a deviation. then we were not very clear on their setbacks, rear setbacks, and front setbacks of every lot. So we asked them for a typical lot layout, which is attached with that memo also right after the opposition email. There's two pages of typical lot layout that specifies their rear setbacks. So the rear minimum rear setback along Cooper Street, they will be providing 10 feet. Our requirement from UDC is 20 feet. What they are also, but they are trying to provide this additional information that the rear setback they are, they are providing us 10 feet plus we have a requirement of at least a minimum of six feet of an open space lot right outside of the fence. That's where they put the street trees and they're supposed to put some landscaping and that's in the staff consideration to add landscaping as well. But they're also showing that Cooper Street right of way the parkway itself is around 16 feet. So they will be presenting to you at the evening meeting that there is 16 feet of right of a and then the six foot of open space lot and then the 10 foot building setback. So that's what they will be presenting. However, our UDC required minimum is 20 feet. Ms. Boxel. Thank you. Jensi, there is an exception to that, or not really an exception, but an addition to the setback. You can go into the setback five feet for a porch. This is the front setback. That's the front. So that doesn't apply to the back. Not applied to the back. OK. And then I am going to move. And on the front part, they have another deviation. So we allow a five feet porch encroachment for J-Swing garages. Here they do not have a J-Swing garages of front-loaded front-facingfacing garage, but they are asking for an encroachment of the poor chairia up to 10 feet. Are there 10 feet? Yes. Is that a deviation? That is a deviation. OK. And so given that, and some of the other deviations, particularly they are asking not to put brick on the rear of the home, and the rear of the home is the one that's facing Cooper Street and And other things I would wonder if the applicant would be agreeable to a Continuance so that we can discuss these issues because my feeling is that some of these deviations could be reasonably avoided through design changes, but they just haven't explored it. And we don't even have elevations. We don't have any information, but I believe that they could avoid some of these deviations, but maybe they're not aware of that. Right. And the applicant never contacted me, so I haven't talked to them. But the applicant does have a presentation where they do show some concept elevations. Have ever doesn't show the rear. It's all a great rear. But that is something that I think the applicant can talk about at the evening meeting also if what you want along Cooper Street. We have along Cooper Street and also some clarification on what their rear Cooper Street, what is the fencing material there? It is brick. It is a solid brick wall or suspended brick. The way they've shown it, it looks like solid brick wall, but that's a clarification. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine that. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Anything else on that particular one? Dr. Odom Wesley? I had a question on that one as well. And you know, we had talked and you said they didn't provide any floor plans or elevations, but they are going to this evening. No, I don't think they're providing the floor plans or elevations. They're only providing concept elevations. However, they also made a comment to our staff saying that most of their floor plans will be very similar to what the Hogan's cottages are. That's a project on 287. So it's if the applicant is hearing us maybe at the evening meeting, if they want to provide some floor plans from Hogan's cottages, if that is what they want to pursue here, that may be another way to move that forward. But we haven't received any floor plans for this case. And this is a PD. That is correct. Do we typically require elevations and floor plans when we're voting on a PD? We typically do. Okay. And one other thing that's confusing me on this one, they're calling it cottages, wanderway cottages, right? But they're not meeting our standards for cottages, right? So cottage community standards are for more denser project than this. This is a single family detached project. They're calling it as cottages because the units are smaller that they've previously proposing 1200 square foot. So in their minds, I think the units were smaller. And the look and feel they wanted to create as a cottage. But again, that's something the applicant probably can speak better about. OK, thank you. Mr. Gonzalez? Yes, on the plans I asked for them and they were supposed to submit them today. They said when I spoke to Nicky Moore that these homes are going to be they didn't submit any because it's going to be like the Hogan's cottages where people can change stuff and stuff. So that's why they, but she promised to get something. So I'm surprised that was not turned in and then with regards to the college name I said the same thing so, but when they started this it was a 1200 square foot minimum and they have since changed it because of seclusion ridge the meeting with them and then the owners so they've increased it so that might all change so that'd be a good question for you to ask so. But I just want to get to let you know I I've been working on this property for a long time. The only thing I've ever gotten in my four years is multi-family, so I was excited to get this in. So if you all can ask the tough questions to make sure it gets them, but do what you need to do is what's best for the city. So I appreciate it. Anybody else? this issue or any other evening agenda items? Thank you, Jensy. We'll move on down to 4.8. I guess I'm the only one that gets to say anything. I have 4.8 unless you have questions. I attended the Texas Municipal League Governance Committee. The governance committee had four issues they dealt with. Two of them being Constitution amendments, two of them being policy amendments. First Constitution amendments simply changed the name of an associate member to a business member. That was the full extent of the amendment. The second constitutional amendment dealt with the actions of a committee being able to vote by electronic means and subsequent ratification by the board. The first policy amendment dealt with the desire of individuals running for an NLC board position and getting the endorsement of TML and the requirements to notify TML of your desire to run and get the endorsement. And the second policy of amendment dealt with the regional director elections. The decision was made to, if you want to run for a regional director, that has made public once you've submitted your name. And if you are running on imposed, they said you automatically win. What a miraculous decision that was. I also have a question mayor. Yes. So if you're running for the NLC board, wasn't it already a requirement that you got get the TML endorsement? Wasn't a requirement to get the endorsement. It was not. It is now. But it wasn't before. It wasn't before. That's my understanding. What? It was. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Because I know I had to get there endorsement. Okay. You should have got there endorsement and you won too, by the way. Yes. Yes. Yesterday I attended the Tarrant County Mayors Council meeting that's made up of the majority of the mayors or their representatives here in Tarrant County. Only had two real issues that we dealt with. The first one was a presentation from Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare that spoke to the need of a Tarrant County State-run mental health unit. Tarrant County is the largest county in the state of Texas without a mental health hospital. State-run mental health hospital. We send our people to which to falls. It's been my understanding, according to Judge O'Hare, that a good number of the people we try to send up there are rejected because they're taken patients from all over North Texas. So they're pushing Congress to authorize a new mental health facility here in Tarrant County. This second presentation was done by Dr. Brian Bird, the new public health director for Tarrant County. Talked about an uptick and the flu coming around and the concern that everybody has about the bird flu. He says they're tracking it but there's no immediate concern here in Tarrant County. Any questions? Okay. Issues relative to city or tech stock projects, anybody have anything with that? Future agenda items. Mr. Femme. Yes, Mr. Mayor. On the fee for the fire protection system, fire line fees, it's went up, I think, in fact, in 1 October last year, because it got a couple of complaints from a couple of churches here in the city of Allenton that the fee were going too high. So I would like to help our staff do a study on it and then give me an explanation why the fee go so high from, you know, let's say $100 now is like $300, $400 per month for the five protection system, five line fee. So we'll get just to have report on that one. Anything else on future agenda items going once. Okay, well thank y'all very much this afternoon session is adjourned. We'll see her by at 630. you you you you I'm sure you're right. I'm sure you're right. I'm sure you're right. I'm sure you're right. 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