The next part of the day is for me and one of those four. Good evening. Welcome to this episode of the Belt to City Council coming to Netflix soon. We'll find out. Start off this evening with the pledged allegiance led by me. The Texas pledged led by Joel Guzman and then Councilmember Dave Covington will lead us in invocation if you don't mind. Rising with me. First, the Texas Pledge of the United States of America and to the Republic, or which it stands, one nation under our individual with liberty and justice for all. Out of the technics flag, our pledge allegiance to the exexas one state under our one individual. Please bow to me. Father, we love you. We thank you for another day that we can serve you of our community. We thank you for the gift of life that we have through your son Jesus. And we thank you for being so good to us and for us. We have to give us wisdom tonight as we consider the business to the city. We just thank you for what a blessing it is to live and belt it. It's in your sons and me, right? Amen. Amen. All right. call this meeting Tuesday January 28th 530-ish to order. Again, thank you guys for and gals for being. As we go through the agenda, the first item is public comments. I do have one public comment, but it is for an agenda item and the person can speak then. If anyone else wishes to address the council on any item, you're welcome to do so at this time. All right. There being no public comments will close public comments and we'll now present a proclamation for Black History Month. I have got somebody We're at the past year. Russell. All right. Let me get the right thing. I'll, uh thing I'll come back here so anyway just a proclamation that we'll give to in a minute, but I'm just going to read this. If you've ever done proclamations before, it's almost like that madlibs that used to, anyway, but this starts with, whereas, whereas Black History Month is a time to honor and recognize the significant contributions, achievements, and history of African Americans, both past and present, and where city of Belton acknowledges the profound impact that black Americans have had on the growth and development of this nation and their role in shaping cultural, social, economic, and political fabric of our community. And whereas black history month serves as an opportunity to reflect on the resilience, courage, and determination of black individuals who have overcome adversity, and it encourages us to working towards an inclusive society that values diversity and equality for all. And whereas Beltans rich cultural heritage includes a growing community of black residents whose contributions continue to strengthen our city and in rid lives of all who call Beltan home. And whereas during Black History Month, we join people across the nation in recognizing and honoring the achievements of Black Americans and reaffirm our dedication to achieving justice, equity, and inclusion for all people regardless of race or background. Now therefore, I, David Lee, Mayor of the City of Belton, do hereby proclaim this month, February of 2025, as Black in the City of Belton. And witness thereof I have signed his and so I'll give this to you and if you would like to say a word, we'd appreciate that. I would just like to thank the City of Belton for all the going support in everything that we do. It all makes a difference and I'll just ask, okay we could do it here. All right Next item on the agenda is our consent agenda. These items for six can be enacted by a single motion. I then the council may pull off any one of these if they wish. First, as item four is adopting the January 14th, 2025, City Council workshop meeting minutes, and also approving the January 14th 2025 City Council regular meeting minutes. Item 5 is appointing the following to boards and commissions, appointing Brandon Skags to planning and zoning, Kayla Pots and Jim Deacon to the Parks Board. Astros to that is we've expanded the Parks Board. We've had a lot of interest there. We've done a lot of activities so we're expanding our board by two members. They will be taking on new spots. Item C is appointing Stephanie O'Banion to our Hill Country Transit District Board. And the last one is Ralph Masters to the Building and Standards Commission. And then finally item six is consider resolutions, I think the submittal of grant applications to the office of the governor, criminal justice division for the following. I'll actually give information on this. Flock license plate reader, tactical micro robot system, police drones and general victim assistant grant of victims of crime act, fiscal year 2026. For those who are interested, the flock license plate readers are readers that are integrated. So if there is someone that they're looking for, if they pass through our area, it flags and so people are able to trace as somebody goes from one community to the other. And so being able to pledge these, especially at the intersection of 35, 14, highway 317, we get a lot of folks coming through here. So I think this is better. It's not only good for our community, but I think it's good for you. And so it's a responsible thing. So I just wanted to put that plug in. So those are items four through six on a consent agenda. I move we approve item 4 through 6 is presented. Second. We have a motion to approve items 4 through 6 is presented. Any discussion on these items. They're being none all in favor say aye. Right it passes unanimously. Item seven is implanting zoning as hold a public hearing and consider a zoning change from agriculture to commercial one with a specific use permit for an outdoor flea market on approximately 9.71 acres located at 1930 George Wilson Road. This floor. And thank you, Mr. Mayor, getting everything everyone. This property is a site for the Bell County flea market. It has been there since 1989. It was annexed into the city in 2006. However, unfortunately, a recent storm, wind storm, damage a couple of the buildings on the B. This is a nonconforming use because next thing it was zoned as agricultural. This is the first step in rebuilding that effort is to zone that property, to a property that is appropriate for the current use. What's being proposed is commercial one, the R, sorry, with the SUP to allow for an outdoor flea market to occur at this location. The surrounding zoning are mostly commercial, Costa Street, sorry, let me get my point out. On George Wilson, commercial two. At the rear of the property is agricultural and also ETJ land below also some commercial property and to the West's commercial one with a CR overlay. Here is the Zestensite plant. There are several entrants into the flea market to offer George Wilson one off of the frontage road and on the Jason property, there's others. With the SEP requirement, we have to look at the compatibility of the use. This is an asus that's been there for several years. They have limited hours only are open on the weekends, between eight and five, we see any impacts, negative impacts in areas and so on. Jason. For the future map, this area's zone commercial center. Notices were sent out to owners within 200 feet of the property. The city received no letters of support or opposite. With this supplanted and zoning commission heard the settlement they're meeting on January 21st and recommended approval of the zoning change. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you guys have. I don't see that looking at in the audience. All right. This being a public hearing we will open the floor for any comments for or against this item. If anyone wishes to speak for or against this item. There being no public comments we will close the hearing and reconvene the council to consider this item Intertain a motion or do you have any questions? I move we have Z-2501 second we have a motion and a second to approve the zoning change Z-2501 One comment I would say is it's unfortunate that the damage was done. I think normally the, I would say our standards are probably higher in the city than what the flea market is, but also I don't think it's fair to shut them down just because they had some storm damage. So I think it appreciate the staff working with the owners and the, I guess the exhibitors or the tenants to do this. So any other comments? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? It passes unanimously. Item eight is, and I'm gonna go ahead and read it, but we're going to postpone this action. So item eight is, hold a public hearing and consider a failed to retail with an SEP for a packet store on 2044 North Main Street At Longhorn liquor and this is being postponed and Do we need to we still need action? All right, we have a motion a second to post the poem this item to a future council council meeting. It says here, date, but we'll just vote, February 25th. All right, so we've got motion, a second to post, but until February 25th, any other commas or questions? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Item nine, hold a public hearing and consider a zoning change from single family to single family one with an SUP for an attached dwelling unit with a kitchen, SF-1 with SUP for 80 U with a kitchen on approximately 3.77 acres located at 8.11 Lake Road. Ms. Moore. And thank you, Mr. Mayor. This property is located on the north side of Lake Road. It is just west of the loop 121 intersection. The here is Lake Road at the bottom. Here is the property on the north side. This is a large piece of track. Here is where the current home is. And the accessory dwelling unit is located just west of that. You can see there is a large setback from the street. With that, review the applicants requested me to our minimum standards that's listed in your staff report, but some of the highlights are the accessory dwelling unit is 44% of the system homes. So setbacks again have been met. Parking they're proposing two garage spaces. In addition to that there is a long driveway that service. That's so there's plenty of room to park. for El three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. There are three beds. have brick and stone in the front of the near. Notices were sent out to property owners within James' property. There was a cup of letters in support. There was one that had questions. Once sat on those questions, he wasn't favored of the zoning change. Also the future land use map shows this as a residential area. The Planning and Z commission heard the item out there meeting on the 21st and they recommended approval of the applicant is in a process of getting a final subdivision place so that is one of the conditions that's required for an ADU. The applicant is here. So do you have any questions for him and I'll be happy to help as well. All right. This being a public hearing, we will close our deliberations and open the floor if anyone's wishes to speak in favor against this item. You may do so at this time. All right. There are ones being no one speaking against it. I know the owners are here and they're welcome to speak and don't have to. So, all right. yeah. Hello Mr. Mayor, gentlemen. My name is Jason Holath. I work at the VA on my business owner here and my wife's a pediatrician. We're mostly requesting to build the in-house, so excited to see my success hydraulic unit for my father. He served 24 and a half years. Retired at Fort Colossos, two tours of Vietnam, as their storm. He's been diagnosed with Parkinson's. He's almost 75 years old. So we'd like to be able to be able to get them to move here and live with us so we can take care of them in the last years of life. And that's also. Awesome. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? Alright, they're being done. We'll close the floor and consider this item. Does anyone on the council wish to make an order? I have any discussion. I approve. I'm emotionally approve item number nine. Second. Second. Second to prove item nine as presented. The one and a half questions I have is the house looks a bit larger than most of our accessory dwelling units. Does it meet the standard? I thought that there used to be there was a standard like size. There is that size is either 800 or less than 60% of the existing homes. So the existing home on the property is over it's It's close to 3500 square feet and the ADU is 15. Okay, okay. So that's all right. That's 44% of the existing. Okay, that's good. Yeah, I just I knew there was a number I just didn't remember what it was. The half a question that goes with it is if it were to ever be subdivided as two residences in the future is the setbacks sent for this to be two or do we not look at it as just an ADU? I just know that with something like that it's a unique, it would be a unique property that likely the seller might want to sell instead of one. It is unique, but one of our goals is with the accessory dwell in it is to keep it together as one property when it's sold instead of one. It is indeed, but one of our goals is with the assessor Duelania is to keep it together as one property when it's sold instead of subdivided. However, if they we will look at that, there's some shared, the egress into the property shared. So we'll look at some of that and there is enough spacing between the egress and the garage there's a, I believe at least, 20 feet between the properties with a single family one. There's a seven foot side your separation so 24 foot Sorry 14 is what's required between the two properties? Yeah, that that would be the only thing I would ask just mainly for you guys is make sure that we don't box them in that if that it would be sufficient You know if they would have known if we just moved it two feet we could or whatever and so okay a little out of the ordinary from a normal aid to use but on over three acres. Yeah sure fits All right, we have a motion of second any other comments for questions All right all in favor say aye. Bye those opposed passes unanimously as item 9 thank you item 10 they all look kind down at the room. So item 10 is hold a public hearing and consider a zoning change from agricultural to single-family one on approximately one acre's located at 275 Elmer King Road. Mr. Moore. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a apartment that came up. This is a property. The owner is subdividing the property to be able to build a second home for a family member. This is off of Emmer King Road, which is on the east side of Interstate 35. There's an existing home that can't currently live and that is where the proposed flat is. Because the lot sizes aren not meet the dimensions for agricultural staff requested a zoning change to single family one to be able to make sure efficiency the zoning requirements that's necessary. The future lay you smart identified this as a residential area so this it's aligned with that requirement. The planning and zoning commission heard this at their meeting on the 21st and recommended approval. Staff Encourage with that recommendation. The applicant, Mr. Jones is here. Should you have any questions for him? All right. This also including a public hearing. We will open the floor for immense four or against this item. Alright, there being no comments, we'll close the floor and Chair would entertain a motion or discussion. Move, come to 10, is presented. Second. We have a motion a second to approve item 10. Any comments before we vote? There being no comment? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Item 11 is hold a public hearing and considering and consider a resolution adopting a proposed amendment to the future land youth map use map on approximately 55.7 acres located at 815 Elm Grove spur in capital way from a residential land use cadet to an industrial land use category. And we've got one council member. You can say here Craig. You can just. Craig Pearson is recusing himself on this item. He has a family member who's still involved with this property so he will not be discussing or and so just let you guys know. So all right. It says Tina, but you don't look like Tina. So, Bob. I have some, that's a very, you know, tall order to fill, but I'm sorry that you got me again. That's okay. So this item before you is to conduct a public hearing and consider a change to the future land use map from resident to industrial. The area that we're talking about is that outlined in the red circle there. The applicant intends to build, as you probably know, warehouse distribution facility there. The zoning history there begins in 2023 when it was zoned from Ag and single family to light industrial. And then last year added a plan development to it, which you see LIPD or PDLI to accommodate for taller buildings. And as part of the zoning process, the applicant asked us to complete the entitlements as they call it and change the future land use map to make sure that's in accordance with the zoning, because it's not that way now. So currently the area on the future land use plan is indicated as residential. As you can see in the red square there, and so we're suggesting that the plan be changed from residential to industrial to meet the zoning category in this area. We took this to the Planning and Zoning Commission. We handled this based on zoning case. We sent notices. We published in the newspaper. And the Planning and Zoning Commissioners on the 21st held the public hearing and following the public hearing afforded a recommendation to the council to approve the change to the future land use map. So our recommendation exactly the same and we ask that you consider changing the future land use map in that area from residential to industrial to support the proposed project. If you have any questions, we have to entertain those. Also this one has a public hearing attached to it, so we will close our deliberations open to the floor. If anyone wishes to discuss the proposed amendment to our future land use map, it's welcome to come up and have a discussion. Alright, there being no comments on that. We'll close the floor and we will entertain a motion or discussion. Move your approval, General. Pleasure. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the change of the future land use map. And also just for those present, typically future land use map is a planning tool. Not all zoning will always be congruent, but it will be closed. Sometimes you'll get a commercial close to residential that we might have thought, but it was a big field. And so in this particular case, even though the zoning has been approved, the zoning preceded this future land use map and the client wants to make sure that we've checked all the boxes. So again, we're not, we're trying not to get the cart before the horse. And we're in the middle of updating the future land use. Yeah, that's right. And it's like within week of getting that done. Just kind of rushing this one to get it done so we check all the boxes. So any other comments or questions before the vote? All right, all in favor of item number 11, say aye. Those opposed? It passes five abstention. One absent. All right. Thank you, Greg. You can have a rejoin. Glad to have you back. I'm back. All right. Item 12, consider a final plat for Wells edition, comprising 4.63 acres located at 3766 smoke signal lane and Belton's extra territorial jurisdiction is more. Thank you Mayor. As you can see, this property is close to the Belton Lake. It is north of Lake Road on the smoke signal. So this is a large track of property. The owner is hoping to subdivide that into six track. The owner currently has a resident on Lot 6. Sorry, glitch. Here. Try that again. On Lot 6. And host to subdivide the rest of that to sell the lots. There are half acre lot sizes. The zoning for this is in the ETJ, so there is no zoning. However, they do require 25 foot for a new setback and applicant is meeting that requirement. Utilities in this area is ran from by 439 water and also there is no sewer lines in this area, so that's served by Sceptic or on site facility. And for the streets, access is provided off a smoke signal road. It's a local road. Our city subdivision requirements have a 50 foot right away. The street there is currently 30 to 36 feet of right away. So therefore, staff asked applicants to provide a right away dedication. In addition, the road over there is approximately 14 feet wide of pavement. Our typical standards for local roads is 31 foot pavement. But this is a rural area and the street dead ends into the core property. So there's no future expansion of that road beyond the subdivision limits. And the applicants were pros and six lots. He's requested an variance from the requirements for both the right-of-way dedication and the perimeter street improvements. With that, the Planning and zoning commission heard this meeting at, heard this item at their meeting on the 21st. They recommended approval and approval of all associated variances that was requested to the world nature of the area and also the adjacent road with would not be increased and they're about the similar size in that area. Upon further consideration and communication with Bell County engineering and also the applicant's survey who also indicated why there couldn't be a reduction in lot six. There's a septic there and I'm filled over there and there's a 15 foot requirement for the leach system so that therefore lot six cannot be reduced to provide right away. I send a grieble to the Planning and Zoning where recommendations. Mr. Wells is here. Should you have any questions? I'm happy to answer any questions that you have as well. All right. This not having a public hearing. Any comments, questions or chair within or obtain a motion? This is the kind of thing we've got a conversation going on with the county about right now. And I don't want to be clear. I don't have a problem with this with this flat. This makes sense. The road didn't go anywhere except right there to these lots. But this is what we're discussing with the county currently about what do we do with stuff like this. And I want to be clear that if we approve this we're not committing to maintaining the street that's not in the city and that seems to be a point of confusion for the commissioners' court. So I think this is fine but just speaking to the bigger picture of what's going on, not this particular plan. So to that point, I'll take that comment into question. So. picture of what's going on, not this, not this particular plan. Hey, you're, that's, that's correct. So to that point, I'll take that comment into question. So could you go back to, you have two overhead views. One is more of an engineering drawing that's before this one. So before, yeah, so that one, where's the road? It's would be between the right ways. Okay Okay, okay, I can see, okay, I see smoke signal. So they're not dividing their property that, okay, so now go back to the other that shows the, so that, okay, so that smoke signal road would be serving them and it's currently a county road. Correct. And we're going to add six people onto that county road. Has the county engineers, have they seen this? And do they approve of this? I've sent over a link and they have informed us as Belk Beltan area to review. But I've bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a bill to be a I think that the commission probably disagree with that assessment based on our meeting. So back to what the recommendation is, because I saw disapproval and approval. So we're recommending approval. Staff has changed the rules. Staff has changed. That was. Exactly. I didn't want to have anything from you, staff report, but what we're recommending is approval for all of the variances, including the parkland dedication. This is county area. We usually don't. We're going to be constructed by there. We're also recommending approval for the right away dedicated variance and also for the perimeter street improvements. Can we pass this contingent upon the county accepting the roads as they are? As far as I know they have already accepted it and the previous flat. I'm just saying if a lawyer got involved and somebody were to rattle a saber about it, can we prove that it's not approval? I called Matt earlier, asking about our current interlocal agreement with the county. And so Matt, do you mind sharing a little bit about that? Absolutely, and I've got, you know, trusted attorney next to me. So you can definitely say the wrong here, but we currently have an ILA interlocal agreement with the county, that is in effect. That was what it was he was being discussed yesterday, amendments to that or doing away with it entirely. So in this in this case. This is a county road We are not suggest we are again agreeing with the variances that PNZ have provided No changes to it to county road county maintained it remains county maintained as part of this apportionment agreement That's how we see it as a staff and how that would go through similar to whatever they want to say from from other apportionment agreements that we've looked into so so did they sign anything the county? This area is a part of the agreement and it is on the map shown as portionment assigned to us. So we are the final plan authority. So the reason I'm saying that, if they say it's a portion to us and we say we want city standards but then the county says oh no we don't need city standards. Who did it get a portion to the county or the city? If I've got my city hat on, I think we should do what we should require for, for not rural roads, but for city roads. And that's what they've in good faith delegated to us. If through some back channel, they're like, ah, it's fine. I just don't want to hear that I wasn't fine. Because what I'm hearing is recommendation from the county, not in a formal way that the current road is fine. And I agree in dedication. But I think when we talk about right of a way, dedication, because if the county needs to come in and get 30 feet because they decide, okay, we need to start maintaining these roads differently, I just don't want to box them in. One of the advantages of us having subdivision plat up there and right away acquisition authority as a part of the subdivision plat, which seems to be missed by the county vote for that discussion. From a staff standpoint we sort of agree that right away acquisition would be desirable. It would have some impact on the lots because of their just barely half acre meeting the septic tank right now. And so there are some impacts if you take some right away. Go back to the subdivision plant. So they're just right at the 5,500 of an acre in size. There cannot be anything that was referring to is there can't be any more secured from the northernmost lot that has the leach fields on it. And so it could have impact in terms of numbers of lots. Certainly the preferable desirable thing to do would be to secure the right away, but as has been transmitted to us, their typical practice has been to acquire right away if they needed to purchase it. Well, that's because of the law that affects counties, they cannot acquire right away the same as cities. So it's not just that they're just their normal practice, that's what legally they have to do. Where legally we can require something different. Which would decrease the number of lots, which would decrease the wear and tear on those roads. Are those roads built to county standards or is it somebody's trip that we just named smoke signal road? Do we know? The area is an older part of Belton. I want to say probably constructed maybe in the 70s. I'm looking at Mr. Wells. 50s. So. 50s. No, I don't. OK. Hi. I'm Carrie Wells. I'm the property owner. I'm only alone with my wife. This area is sort of an unusual area. It's all small roads that lead out into this property. And we're proposing this, but I don't understand what the county would do differently, because they'd have to come in and do everything. We don't, the folks at the PNZ went to last month said we don't want to build a bridge to know where. So we do a big road here and have all these small roads feeding to this. I think the county's concern is that if we approve a road and then they have to start maintaining a road and it's substandard and they have to build a road that we could have potentially required the developer to build that they would then have issue of our approval of it without them approving it. Because they want to make sure that the roads are to a standard. And since they delegated that to us, it creates at least, there's been some issues. And I'll say too, again, I don't have a problem with this plot and with, honestly, with the road the way it is. Unfortunately, you've kind of walked into a argument that's started, that doesn't really involve you directly in the timing of it is just unfortunate for you because the county and the cities in the county are having some current disagreements about how to handle plants in the EDJ. And so that's kind of what's the reason behind a lot of this discussion is everybody wants to be in charge but nobody wants to pay for maintenance is what it gets down to. The county has maintained the road. I see we bought this place about 10 years ago and after we bought it somewhere along the way they came in and repaid it again. So I don't know. It's very much a county maintaining. Before now, it absolutely would be as part of our last words. Well, I think especially since the county is already maintaining the road, it's fine for us to pass this. But I do think that it's also good for us to keep this case in mind in recent history as we go forward with discussions with the county about how these are going to work I think that's a good point. The fact that this road can't ever go anywhere else Makes it easier to swallow I think the situation Yep, and and it makes sense, but I think making sense is not necessarily the threshold that all of this is going to be judged by. So we'll propose that we pass this, approve this plan as presented. Second. With the, I want to clarify, with the variances that the Developers requested. Okay We have a motion a second to approve the final plot with the variances on the right of way and the road with As the scan park land as discussed Any other discussion There being nor the discussion all the favorites say opposed? Aye. So I'll be nothing against that. I want to be pleased. And I would recommend that we send this to them and get a formal in or something that says we did right or you should have done something else. Because if we have another one, it's kind of like, you know, kid coming home from school and you hear loud voices, mom and dad talking each other, not sure what they're walking into. It's not their fault, right? It's County and the city is trying to make sure we're, honestly, trying to do the right thing. So, thank you. All right, that's item number 12. Lucky 13, consider preliminary preliminary platt for saddle creek phase four, comprising 7.591 acres, low intersection of West Avenue D and sagebrush drive. There's more. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Have a good evening, young. This property is located right across the street from the Belton Middle School. At that intersection where sagebrush is, this is anticipated second entrance for the rest of the saddle creek folks over there. Property is on single family 3. The lot sizes there are being proposed. Meet that minimum requirement for 5,000 square foot lot sizes. What's being proposed is 20 lots on this 7a group property. For our plant requirements again a mesa requirements for single-family three water and sewer will be serviced by the city of Belton and they will be connecting to the existing infrastructure from the existing subdivision that will spend down here. Access will be provided from West Avenue D from Saddle Creek Drive. There are no requirements for Avenue D. It is fully built out with no perimeter street or right away dedication needed. Saddle Creek and Charlie Coe, which are the two local streets in the subdivision have a With requirements and they will be constructed to a 31 foot pavement As required during each has member of the site the plan is to have the drainage go to the Jason Creek in the back and Staff has looked at them thinks that's is acceptable With that the plan and zoning commission heard this that they're meeting on the 21st. They have recommended approval of this. And I will be happy to answer any questions that you guys have for this one. All right. Any comments, questions or chair would entertain emotions? So staff recommend the developer declined another entrance onto to Avenue D. Is that correct? No, sir. There was a request for the covert to be expanded, possibly a connection, but I believe our goal was to get this covert extended out a little bit to change that configuration of Lot 9 to make it look a little typical to move that down a little bit and the applicant declined that portion of it. For Abby, then ask for one because there's only 20 lots required. Our standard is one access for 20 lots, but a problem was a sustained subdivision plot. It only had one entrance for the rest of Saddle Creek. So this will fulfill, I think, to provide a second entrance for that. Okay. Previous subdivision plant. Thank you for that. We're satisfied the access is eradiquate. The lot nine is an unusual ration, as you can see. It's so deep. Obviously raises some maintenance questions and concerns. It'd be a lot of property to mo. We had suggested perhaps bringing the cul-de-sac down a little bit farther to reduce the size of the rod and maybe expand on some. But Velper chose not to do that and kind of a market situation, hopefully find somebody to acquire that lot and build a home on. Thank you, Sean. Move the approval of the 10 out of 11, 13. second to approve the preliminary plat for saddle creek base 4. I didn't add one. Second motion. Second to approve the preliminary Platt for saddle Creek base four. Any other comments? All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. All right item 14. Consider a certificate of appropriate Anfesod improvement grant application for Exterior renovations to the structure at 206 East Central Avenue located at downtown Belton Commercial Historic District between South Penelope Street and North East Street. Again, as you can see from the map, this is a contributing, I hope, in this case, we've got to put this back on. Contributing property in the district. So therefore, this went through the commission and you might remember once upon a time. In this case, it's got to put this back on contributing property in the historic So therefore this went through the commission and you might remember once upon a time We had a little bit of heart farm with a previous owner that had submitted in an application for the They have proposed something completely different from what's being presented Pose along is more with our requirements. They're putting in some of the contributing elements of this building. They've incorporated into the new design for the building. So with that, the applicant is proposing to demo the existing facade. They're going to reconstruct it. And again, I am going to show what is being proposed. As you can see up at the top, they're doing the parapet that is currently there. They're also doing that design work in the brick. That's currently there. The two columns are existing, but they're just making more, most of it more noticeable. They're enhancing that future in what they're proposing to do. As far as the windows, storefronts usually change over time, but they're putting in some of the historic elements to arc windows and door that meets with our alignment. For the work, the estimated of around $44,000, the matching grant amount with our new standard would be around $22,000,000. Here's a move forward to show more of what is being proposed. Again, Simmer Xus already there. Wood that looks natural and definitely contributing. Door knobs and light fixtures are what's being proposed. The historic preservation commission recommended approval of the design and also the facade improvement grant for this property. Staff occurs with that recommendation. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you guys have. Any questions? Come in. Adding to C Tavern tool things. Enough there. Appreciate your patience. We'll move to the number 14. We have motion to second to approve the certificate of appropriateness and facade improvement grant. Any other comments or questions? It's going to be really nice. Those doors are at a nice touch today. Great project. I'll echo that. I think it's in keeping with the historic downtown and making that little row of stores really something else. So, you know, maybe one of these days we'll get these lights over the whole area. I'm really glad. Who knows? All right, any other comments or questions? All right, all in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right any other comments or questions? All right all in favor say aye. Those opposed all right passes unanimously item 15. I will be recusing myself I think Dave Covington also will be recusing We have an interest in this property so we will not be commenting so I'll take that over from you May I have a certificate of appropri COA or for sign of proven crime actions for serious renovations to the structure at 1-2-0, L.C. Street located downtown Belton commercial historic district between East 1st Avenue and East Sinhala. Mr. Mayor Perth's hemp I am going to present this item in the following item as they relate as one if you want to go ahead and read that one as well, please. Sure, consider a certificate of appropriateness for ancest facade improvement grant application for exterior innovation to struck at 122 North and Outlee Street located in downtown Belton commercial historic district between East first Avenue and East Central Avenue. Thank you so much. As you can see on the map, this is a non-contributing property in the Belton Historic District for both of this. This is previously owned by the Bel County offices. They recently sold that for private developments, say, yay for that. This building was built back in 1970s. And the applicant, this is what they're proposing. This is the current view of it and this is their renovated view of it. So they're proposing to replace the doors, the storefront doors, the trims and awnings. They're going to use a similar size as what's existing there for the doors. There will be one new window that's going to be installed. And I believe that is right here As you can see, there isn't one there and they're proposing a new one with the money on top of that. With that, they're also going to repair the stucco on the building. There are some damages that's going to be done and there's going to be a new fresh paint applied after that to repair. There are also installing new light fixtures to add a little bit of enhancement and I like the landscape features. With that what is proposed for the facade improvement grant that estimated work for 120 over 70,000 in a grant amount for that will be 35. This has two storefronts, one off of Penelope, and the other is an alley that is at their meeting on the 2nd of January and recommended approval, certificate of appropriateness and also the facade improvement grant. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you have and the applicant is here. Should you have any questions for our Mr. Bills on? Thank you. We'll leave them out of here. I think a lot of questions. Questions for discussion. Do we have to take these out of separately? Greg, for approval? Greg. Greg. Greg. I'm number 15. No, I'm excited. It looks good. We're at use of the AI, but I like it. I'll make a motion to approve item 15 is presented. All right. I have a motion in a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I heard any opposed same said. Most and carries will move on to item number 16. Any discussion or I'll take a motion. It really came that was built in 1970. It doesn't seem like that longer ago. I'll make a motion approved. I'll present as well. I have motion in a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Any opposed? Same side? Motion carries unanimously. Will said just to make a quick comment with all this activity, we really need to start thinking about additional parking. Belton is growing. The activity downtown is increasing. I think I was down there on a Tuesday evening grab of pizza. And there was nowhere to park anywhere around it downtown wealth and I said I love it. Lord, a good problem. They come on back and finish us off. Thank you, Ashton. Yeah, thank you. Strong towns has got a podcast and some things and they say a parking problem is when you have a lot of parking spaces and no cars in them. That's a parking problem. When you're full up, that's not a problem. That's what parking problem. When you're full up, that's not a problem. That's what it'd be. So, but I agree with you. I think, you know, it's, again, we continue to see investment downtown. I think that's great. I'm glad that we're able to partner with community and with the business owners. And I also want to thank you as a recipient of that that you're partnering with us as we take a little risk to brighten their year. and hopefully get some good tenants downtown. And we appreciate the county vacating. Yeah, absolutely. And thank you Wayne, Wayne was instrumental in having that discussion to see if there's some things that we could do in the downtown area. So again, thank you. Thank you Wayne. That's one of those legacies that most people will not realize that they're experiencing. But that's something else. Appreciate the judge and the commissioner's court for taking our suggestions seriously. All right, item 17, consider a mural grant application for the property at 106 North Main Street located in downtown Belton Commercial Historic District between West Central Avenue and the East First Avenue. I think this is the first mural grant, is this correct? Okay, that. This more. The inaugural. No. Comfortable AirPods. Oh, it was. Right. So the beginning of this book. Okay. Actually had the same. But that was like a facade. He's meant plus mirror, right? Or I don't mean it was. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, okay. It's number two. First one I read. First one I've presented. All right, with this, this is located right off of North Main Street. The back of the buildings that front North Mains have an alley that is accessible to the public. So they're proposing to do a mirror on this. As you can see that elevated air conditioning unit, the applicant is looking at getting that removed. Play closer to the ground. He is getting an estimate for that. Here is the proposed artwork. This is for a bison reality. And they've decided to do Indian and a bison for this location. It meets with our requirements. We thought of this as historic. Native Americans first once around the land and bison was very important to their way of life with that We Think that it meets all of the requirements lace and found is going to be the artists on this Project they did the library edition and also the Beautiful salon which is right adjacent to this bill so they had a lot of previous works on their Instagram page that I could prove, proves through to see their quality. With that, the historic preservation commission, they review this, even though this is a previously painted facade. There was also a facade improvement grant that they were looking at, so we just kind of consolidated this. And they're aware of what is being proposed and that is fine. The applicant estimates the work at 15,000 and disqualifies maximum grant amount with 7,500. As part of that, there is also a five year maintenance of 2,500, which is $500 per year for the five years if the applicant requests that maintenance. Well, that staff is recommending approval of the grants at 106 North Main Street. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you have. Anything else being done to relocate the trash cans or clean some of the stuff up in the alley? I apologize, I don't know the answer to that. One point we were looking at maybe a dumpster enclosure so we could get rid of all of that and to consolidate it. But I had a funding and I'm not quite sure where that project has gone. And I keep looking at Judy because I'm hoping for some help. The other thing I would just care to, in there currently. Not a lot just from the parking lot. There is a proposed change that one of the tenants is looking at the vital shop. They own a couple of different properties over there and they're planning on remodeling some of the spaces and their Actual access will be from that alley so with that I'm sure that they're proposed in a put in some light fixtures with that project So there'll be a little bit more of additional lights and that area the time of time I received a few months ago It's really hoping to add that alley almost a walkway or Use path treat them like a mid-park or something. To make street with the parking behind those buildings. And so, any lighting or relocating the trash can, that you can sure would help that and make that a lot nicer in that area. We have talked to them about relocating the trash cans over even the headwork of county, to put it on the county parking lot across the street. And we can get everybody on board because some people said it was dangerous for them to walk across the street, take out the trash after dark because there's people around there and they were afraid to do that and didn't want their employees doing that. So we can get everybody on the same page. They are all in agreement that they want that as a pedestrian alley. And so it's just a matter of working out those finer details and everybody getting on the same page. But I think we will all eventually get there at one point. It's just we haven't all decided on an agreement on one out of it. Yeah, I'll jump on. I think I think what we need to do in the historic downtown area, we have the same issue on those, all of those that you, you know, one or two dumpsters would really prevent a lot of confusion and work and open up spaces because you just look at the development there at the Katie Depot. got you know the sum of the number of dumps of trash cans is greater than a very large dumpster and if you totaled up the number of dollars each one of them is paying for each one of those cans probably the so is greater than the dumpster so we do instead of getting everybody to agree we may need to buy ordinance, that up, and then a portion based on that. Because we're collecting them anyway. We may just want to consider. Anyway, so I would suggest, based on these comments, that maybe we have either staffed us a little homework or we could do a workshop, and I think it's's worth at least considering because no one will be the first one. I think we'll just have to look at what can we do. And it makes it a lot safer for pedestrians and people. It's cleaner and it's all that stuff. Yeah, really I'm concerned about anything we can help with or suggest any type of lighting. There's one other area that's a little tricky behind the gutter building. There's a little bitty walkway going over to the table. Yeah, one that's dark as can be as well. So as we think about these developments and revitalizing downtown, the additional lights that you can add anywhere should would benefit some of those areas. All right, the picture, you might just put picture because I got at least one party shot. Based on where those trash cans are, I think it's just right on the tip of that buff low. You'll have a trash can so you can take care of whatever it is. So anyway, just say. All right. Do we have, do we get, I don't think we got a motion. Motion to approve. A move for the proof out of number 17. We have a motion. And a second to approve item 17 and you have the discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. All right. Item 17 passes looking forward to the bison. Right. I 18. Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance annexing 1.764 acres track of land. at Young Williams Survey, abstract number 861 Bell County, Texas said 1.764 acre track being a portion at certain that certain 558.328 acre track of land recorded in document number 2017-367 official public records Bell County Texas. Mr. Bob. I didn't that on purpose. It's just the way it's written. So thank you for I didn't do it on purpose either I didn't understand anything Especially that's certain that's the best part Yeah, exactly So the purpose of this item is to conduct the public hearing and consider an ordinance and I saying 1.764 acres into the city. This property is part of the boundary adjustment agreement with the city of Belton, Salado and Celts LLC that y'all approved back in December. So a couple of pictures for y'all to look at. Just very quickly. This area right here is the area that we're. Okay, you can see that, I think it says Belt and ETJ is going to black square around it. And this basically shows the arrangement of all the properties that were swapped. And the ETJ area is the area that is subject to the voluntary annexation at this particular important time. The other two areas, as you know, were automatically exchanged between Bell and Soledo when the agreement was filed. And so this picture basically will show or does show the property the city limits after the annexes is complete. So recommendation at this point is to conduct the public hearing and if you all agree to go ahead and approve the ordinance and it's seeing the area in RETJ. Oh and by the way I want to make sure that it's on the record that this is a voluntary action request All right being said we will open the public hearing for a voluntary annexation request to the 1.764 acres as presented Anyone wish to say anything about this The only comment I would add is that the city belton will have no maintenance responsibility for Sal center drive. That was part of the agreement by the Salato Alderman as a part of the negotiations. Okay so they will take over so we it will be back of curb it will be city. Okay. So we'll provide ambulance provide road maintenance. All right. Excuse me, One other comment, the applicant had requested that these current call of beverage conditions would apply to this property without a future election. And Amy has confirmed that that's certainly something we can do. You can't do that without having to do without an election. But that would have to be important. We have included that in the annexation ordinance adopting this property. this is just a very very small piece of property but we just wanted to make sure that the council is aware of that as well as a part of the annexation and that's written in the ordinance that's it is written in the ordinance that way okay I heard it's urgent care so I guess it's for the waiting room We just just need to learn how to keep track of one little soul. Yeah, no, I agree. Different than you. Oh, come on, Amy. She is poor. Question I have is any disanxation that goes with that or is that already done? Or because we were kind of, the swap. The swap. No, there was no. The right now it's just annexing a piece of property that was not ours. I agree with a couple of pieces went to the two cities. There we go. The red and the green was Solito City Limits that came to us. A little sliver. The red was the Belton City Limits that went to Solito and the blue is the area that we were proposing to annex that the request so those Those have already been done by a different agreement. So this is just Chair with entertain a motion I'll make motion to approve as presented Second we have a second to approve the voluntary annexation as written. Any other comments? All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed? The House is unanimously. All right. Getting towards the end. Item 19. Hold the public hearing and consider an ordinance amending Chapter 22, traffic section 22-106, traffic schedules and speed limit regulations relocating the existing school zone on the south side of loop on 21 at the flyover on Crusader way to the north side of loop on 21 closer to Sparta. All right Mr. Scott, not awarding. They counsel appreciate the opportunity to give you this, you know, ordinance proposed change here. Take a little information here. This old picture, sorry for the photo, but prior to 2013 they had the school zone on the north side of Crusade Away on loop 21. So close to a sparta road here. And they changed that due to there being a single lane, going that direction, and traffic coming over the flyover, and having to stop quickly because of the sink was there going northbound. Right now, the current location is on the southbound side of Crusader Way right here. And the proposed new location is back towards original state, so in between Crusader Way and Sparta Road. Text out had proposed this being that now they are going into the two lanes in that direction, along with the left turn lane and the right turn lane. And staff reviewed it internally, also got with PD, talked with the school district and UMHB and everybody was in approval of this and feels comfortable with the safety factor involved. So going to that two lane and also the school, it kind of helps minimize the school zone. Right now having it where it was, you'd go over the bridge, head and southbound until you would get out of the school zone being that it was on that side. So this minimizes it and kind of keeps traffic a little more focused now. This is just a little plan sheet from text.showin that this is northbound in this direction here. Showin' the two lanes that'll be going northbound along with the right turn lane and the left turn lane and increasing it in the next hopefully month or so, they'll be open and add up. So we recommend that the council holds the public hearing and adopts the ordinance for the school zone change. And if you have any questions, be happy to answer. All right. This being a public hearing, we will close deliberations open the floor for any comments on the change in the traffic schedules and speed limit regulations. There being no comments from the public, we will close the floor and reconvene to discuss this item. Chair would entertain a motion or discussion or questions. But we approve item 19, as presented. Say. We have a motion and second. Any other comments or questions? Nothing I'm opposed to moving it, not a traffic expert, not a safety patrol officer either, but many people will see the end of his own start speeding up before and as wide as that road will be now just mildly concerned about that intersection, a lot of foot traffic across it. Just that's a little bit of a comment. Yeah, well, what I've heard is that it's so far away that with our attention span as Americans, once we cross the bridge, we forgot that we were in the school zone. So this way you cross the bridge and you see there's a school zone right before you've got the students crossing. It's like, oh, that's why they're there. Question, is it, it says South side? Yes. Oh, the loop. That's the current location now. And they're at the north side. Of the, okay, I got you. Oh, the flyover of Crusader Way. The way it reads is south side of loop 121. When loop 122,'m north and south and it's in the east or the west side and it's the it's the north side of the flyover on loop 122 I'm just saying that the way it's worded is south side of a north south road. Do we need is the ordinance proper? Does it need to be proper? I would I would make well no I won't if somebody would make an amendment to the current motion to clarify that way we can make sure outside of Crusader way at The fly over the fly over 121 Crusader way right just say I'll make a motion to amend the motion that this school's on is going to start north of the flyover. 121 Crusader Way. Right. Just to say, I'll make a motion to amend the motion that this school's on is going to start north of the flyover on 121 that goes over the railroad tracks. That's part of road. Okay. It was motion to amend the motion. Second. We have motion to amend the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion. Second. Second. Second. Second. Motion second second and I was second twice. Yeah second second second. We all said I was bringing this from the amendment back to the motion. All right now. Which is now amended. Now that we've amended it and made sure that we're on the right side of the road. Why did the chicken cross the south side of the north side? Down the highway. I don't know. Anyway so um it's vote again. Yeah we'll vote again. All in favor of the amended motion. Say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Passes unanimously. Mayor, what's that got to you? One thought about this. I've noticed more and more cities using painting on the roadway itself to warn people of what's coming ahead very soon. This might mean appropriate location to look at something like that. I think we'll share. We definitely have had our share of pedestrian maps in this area so I think we should probably keep that under advised. Absolutely. Good point. All right. Number 20. Hold the public hearing and consider an amendment to the fee schedule by adding fees for the use of electric vehicle chargers provided by the city of Belton. Mr. Bates. I'll spare you the council, the PowerPoint, Mayor Council. But we at, I know, Don's, Biddily, just pointed in that. We have an EV charger that's set up in City Hall Park and lot y'all have seen that. Locate in your staff picture of that. We restriped. Looks really good. Scott and his crew. We also have another one that's going to be going to the library imminently. I think we're just waiting on encore to set that day with those at the poll. So we're ready to go. We're ready to fire them up. We've got it all figured out. Mike's got our bank information. Chris has got our internet ready to go. And so we said, go ahead, light it up. And we're like, what are we going to charge? And then we did some research. I would say that we initially proposed to you all years ago But this was a gene Alice handoff through this project But we were charging a dollar a kilowatt is what we were proposing we did some research that's wild high that's very The super chart Tesla supercharges at buckies and stuff are about 33 cents a kilowatt No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no would be considered a low charge. That far exceeds our base rate that we pay with our electric provider. Plus the nominal fee that the company who flow who is is actually doing it, will take before processing it to us. So we're gonna suggest $0.20 a kilowatt, and we'll take your approval and we will get this thing lit up and ready to go. So thank you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you for the lack of PowerPoint. And since this is a public hearing, we will close our deliberations and open the public hearing and wants to charge forward to talk about the charge on the charge. No one charging forward to talk about the charge on the charge we will close the public hearing and reconvene the council and I will entertain a motion. Move we approve the right standard for the key to the charge station. Second. We have motion a second to approve the EV charging rate schedule. Any other comments? I'm going to park my big diesel right in one of the parking spots. Just kidding. And this is a result of some information and funding that we got through Don Wrangler. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. Don Rieglings got a grant. And so we've already told Don and Donnie that we'll make sure that when we do fire it up, they're going to be aware. And we'll do a little ribbon cutting or a picture of something like that. Thank you. I just want to make sure they got credit for some of that. So we'll give him a coupon for a free fill. 1 hour. They can have a first charge. All right. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed passes unanimously. That concludes the agenda as published. We do have an executive session. We will take a little pause for the cause and then reconvene. But I'll go ahead and read this as you guys are gathering your stuff. I'm just doing it for the record for Amy, that we are going to convene this executive session pursuant to the provision of the Open Meeting's law, chapter 551, government code, Vernon's Texas code, is annotated, and accordance with the authority contained in section 551.07 deliberation regarding real property. All right, we'll be back in here in just a few minutes. So.