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[CALL TO ORDER]
THAT THE PLANO CITY COUNCILS RECONVENED AN OPEN SESSION THAT ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT WILL BEGIN.TONIGHT'S REGULAR MEETING WITH THE INVOCATION LED BY PASTOR ASHISH MATTHEW WITH COMMISSION CHURCH, AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND TEXAS PLEDGE, LED BY PLANO FIRE RESCUE POST TWO 15.
WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND, LET US PRAY.
FATHER GOD, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL EVENING, THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY THAT YOU'VE BLESSED US WITH.
I AM GRATEFUL FOR THIS COUNTRY AND THE OPPORTUNITY OF FREE SPEECH WHERE WE CAN OPENLY PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS, OUR CITIES, AND THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY THAT WE LIVE IN.
LORD, WE'RE INSTRUCTED TO PRAY FOR KINGS AND ALL THOSE IN AUTHORITY THAT WE MAY LIVE PEACEFULLY IN THIS LAND AND QUITE LIVES AND GODLINESS AND HOLINESS.
SO TODAY, LORD, AS I'M GIVEN THIS TASK TO BRING THE INVOCATION TO THIS CITY COUNCIL, WE LIFT UP OUR LOCAL LEADERS TODAY.
I THANK YOU LORD FOR THE AUTHORITY OF THE LOCAL LEADERS AND THE OFFICIALS WHO MANAGE THE MAJORITY OF OUR DAILY LIVES.
TODAY, I PRAY FOR OUR MAYORS, OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, OUR CITY COMMISSIONERS, OUR POLICE CHIEFS, OUR CITY MANAGER TODAY, OUR JUDGES, AND ALL THOSE WHO SERVE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
GOD, I PRAY FOR OUR MAYOR JOHN MUNZ.
I THANK YOU FOR HIS LEADERSHIP AND HIS WISDOM OVER THE YEARS, AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD HIM AND GUIDE HIM.
I PRAY FOR MAYOR PROTE, CASEY PRINCE, DEPUTY MAYOR PROTE MARIA, TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANTHONY ELLI, RICK GRADY, SHELBY WILLIAMS, JULIE HOMER, AND RICK SMITH.
I PRAY GOD, ESPECIALLY FOR CITY MANAGER MARK ISRAELSON AND HIS, HIS AMAZING TEAM OF PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE WHEELS OF THIS CITY TURN DAY AFTER DAY.
I THANK YOU LORD FOR THE DECISION MAKING OF THIS AMAZING COUNCIL THAT MEETS REGULARLY TO SERVE THIS CITY AND THE CITIZENS OF THIS, THIS CITY.
LORD, I THANK YOU FOR A MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES AS WELL.
I THANK YOU FOR POLICE CHIEF ED DRAIN AND HIS, HIS LEGION OF AMAZING, UH, POLICE OFFICERS THAT PROTECT OUR CITY.
AND, UH, LORD, I PRAY THAT YOU WILL STRENGTHEN THEM WITH WISDOM.
YOU WILL GIVE THEM THE GRACE FOR THE HEAVY BURDENS THAT THEY CARRY.
WE PRAY GOD, THAT YOU WILL GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO MANAGE THEIR TEAMS AND PROJECTS WITH LOVE.
I PRAY THAT YOU WILL KEEP THEIR HEARTS PURE AND THEIR EYES TURN TOWARDS YOUR FACE AS THEY WORK IN THEIR BEST, IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE CALLED TO SERVE.
I PRAY GOD, THAT THEY WILL NEVER FORGET THEY ARE SERVANT LEADERS.
I PRAY GOD, THAT YOU WILL GIVE EVERY LEADER THE STRENGTH SO THEY DO NOT GROW WEARY IN THEIR LEADERSHIP ROLE.
FATHER, THE TASK THAT MAY SEEM OVERWHELMING AND EXHAUSTING, I PRAY THAT EVERY LEADER WILL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS THAT, THAT THAT THEY ARE ASSIGNED BY YOU TO DO YOUR WILL IN THIS CITY.
THEREFORE, I KNOW GOD AT THE RIGHT TIME THAT YOU WILL, YOU WILL HELP THEM, YOU WILL ENABLE THEM.
I PRAY GOD THAT YOU WILL BE WITH THEM.
I PRAY FOR ALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE, UH, RUNNING FOR REELECTION OR, UH, LORD, I JUST PRAY GOD YOU WILL GIVE THEM GRACE.
YOU WILL GIVE THEM THE STRENGTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT TO SERVE THE CITY AS WELL AS TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THEIR CAMPAIGNS.
I PRAY FOR DIVINE'S STRENGTH FOR EVERY LEADER.
AND I PRAY GOD THAT THEY WILL NOT RELY ON THEMSELVES, BUT RELY ON YOU.
WE PRAY THE PRAYER IN JESUS NAME.
PLEASE SAY FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE CALLED BY THE TEXAS FLAG PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THE UNITED STATES AMERICA REPUBLIC FOR NATION UNDER GOD.
FLAG PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE, GOD, ONE AND INVISIBLE.
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YEAH,I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE.
[PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS]
SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS.OUR FIRST ONE'S THE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS, PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF THE 2022 RED KETTLE CHALLENGE.
I'D LIKE TO CALL FORD MARCO BACA, SALVATION ARMY OF PLANO, LILA BACA, SALVATION ARMY OF PLANO, AND MARY FREEMAN, SALVATION ARMY.
MY NAME IS LIEUTENANT MARCO SABA.
I'M WITH THE SALVATION ARMY OF PLANO, AS HE JUST MENTIONED.
UM, HERE WITH ME IS MY COMMUNITY RELATIONS DIRECTOR, MARY FREEMAN OF THE NORTH TEXAS, UM, AREA COMMAND FOR DENTON AND COLLIN COUNTIES.
UM, MAYOR WE CAME TODAY, WE WANT TO THANK YOU AND THE CITY LEADERS FOR PARTICIPATING IN OUR 2022, UH, MAYOR'S RED KETTLE CHALLENGE, UM, THAT HELPED, YOU KNOW, RAISE THE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS IN THE PLANO AREA.
UM, YOUR LEADERSHIP INSPIRED YOUR CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS THE LUCAS MAYOR MAYOR OAK, UM, TO ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2000, UH, 2022 MAYOR'S RED KETTLE CHALLENGE.
SO TODAY WE ARE HERE AND WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT YOU WITH A CERT CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION, UM, ONE FOR YOU AND ONE FOR EACH ONE OF YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, FOR HELPING, UM, YOU KNOW, JOINING THE CHALLENGE AND HELPING US RAISE THE MUCH NEEDED FUNDS, UH, FOR THE SALVATION ARMY'S YEAR ROUND PROGRAMS THAT, UM, HELP ADDRESSING FAMILY FAMILY'S INSTABILITY CAUSED BY HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY AND ADDICTION IN THE PLANO AREA.
SO WE ARE HAPPY TO REPPORT, UM, YOURS AND THE CITY COUNCIL'S VERY SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS.
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER ANTHONY ELLI RANKED FIRST IN TOTAL DOLLARS RAISED, UM, $863 90 91 CENTS FROM TWO DONORS.
UM, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER RICK SMITH
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER RICK SMITH RANKED SECOND IN TOTAL DOLLARS RAISED, UM, $792 AND 99 CENTS.
UM, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JULIE HOMER RANKED FIRST IN TOTAL NUMBER OF DONORS, 11 DONORS TO RAISE $762 AND 34 CENTS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A TOTAL OF $3,256 AND 47 CENTS FROM THE PLANO MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL OF YOU.
AND ONE MORE THING I WOULD LIKE TO ADD.
UM, IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF YOUR EFFORTS.
UM, WE OWE YOU A DEBT OF GRATITUDE BECAUSE IT INSPIRED THE RECRUITMENT OF 14 VOLUNTEERS AND 20 MORE DONORS TO RAISE A TOTAL OF $3,761 AND 74 CENTS IN DONATION.
SO WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL FOR HELPING YOUR, UH, NEIGHBORS IN NEED.
LET'S GIVE THE SALVATION ARMY A HAND.
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THANK YOU GUYS.NEXT, THE COLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDNER'S ASSOCIATION IS CELEBRATING ASK A GARDNER MONTH IN MARCH, I'D LIKE TO CALL FORWARD LINDA WILCOX, THE MASTER GARDENER PROJECT LEAD MEG BELLINGER, MASTER GARDENER PROJECT LEAD MARYANNE WHITE CO-LEADER AND CITY OF PLANO EMPLOYEES WHO ARE MASTER GARDENERS.
I'D WANT TO KNOW WHO THAT IS TOO, CUZ I HAVE SOME WORK FOR Y'ALL TO DO
SO IT'S A REAL THRILL AND, AND A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO READ AND PRESENT THIS PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS THE VOLUNTEER MEMBERSHIP OF THE COLLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENER'S ASSOCIATION AFFILIATED WITH TEXAS A AND M AG AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE OF THE TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM HAS SERVED THE CITY OF PLANO RESIDENCE SINCE 1997.
AND WHEREAS THE MISSION OF THE COLLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENER'S ASSOCIATION IS TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE TEXAS A AND M AGRILIFE EXTENSION HORTICULTURAL AGENT IN PROVIDING OUR COMMUNITY WITH THE RESEARCH-BASED INFORMATION ON SUSTAINABLE HORTICULTURAL PRACTICES ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP.
WHEREAS THE COLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENER'S ASSOCIATION PROVIDES SCIENCE-BASED HORTICULTURAL INFORMATION AT NO CHARGE TO THE PUBLIC, TO THEIR ASK THE MASTER GARDENER BOOTH, THEIR INFORMATION CENTER, THEIR GARDEN CARETAKING SERVICES AT HERITAGE FARMSTEAD MUSEUM, THE SPEAKERS BUREAU AND SUPPORT FOR THE PLANO WATERWISE LANDSCAPE TOURS, THE GARDEN SHOW, AND MANY OTHER RESOURCES THAT CAN BE ACCESSED FROM THEIR WEBSITE AS WELL AS THROUGH THEIR MANY COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS AND VOLUNTEER SERVICES.
NOW, THEREFORE, I JOHN B MINES MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PLANO, TEXAS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITIZENS OF PLANO, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM MARCH OF 2023 AS ASK A MASTER GARDENER MONTH IN THE CITY OF PLANO.
AND I DO THEREBY ENCOURAGE ALL CITIZENS TO SUPPORT AND UTILIZE THE HORTICULTURAL SERVICES AND ONGOING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS PROVIDED BY THE COLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENER'S ASSOCIATION.
CONGRATULATIONS LADIES, YOU YOU'RE BACK.
[COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST]
THINK IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON TO COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST, COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING IS TO ALLOW UP TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER WITH 30 TOTAL MINUTES ON ITEMS OF INTEREST OR CONCERN AND NOT ON ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
THE COUNCIL MAY NOT DISCUSS THESE ITEMS, BUT MAY RESPOND WITH FACTUAL OR POLICY INFORMATION.
THE COUNCIL MAY CHOOSE TO PLACE THE ITEM ON A FUTURE AGENDA.
AND WE DO HAVE SEVERAL SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
THE FIRST ONE IS JEREMIAH SMITH.
HE HAD SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ZOOM.
IT'S MR. SMITH IN THE AUDIENCE.
OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO CATHERINE PARKER,
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CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MAYOR MUNZ.I'M KATHERINE QUANA PARKER, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE LIVED IN PLANO FOR EIGHT YEARS.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE HERE TODAY.
NONE OF US IN THE TEXAS NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION WANTS TO BE HERE.
WE HAVE BEEN TALKING TO YOU FOR NEARLY A YEAR ABOUT SHORT-TERM RENTALS.
WE KEEP TELLING YOU THAT ON ANY GIVEN DAY, SOMETHING TERRIBLE CAN AND WILL HAPPEN AT ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF SHORT-TERM RENTALS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
WELL, THAT DAY HAS COME OUR NEIGHBORS IN OAKWOOD GLEN, AS YOU WILL HEAR TONIGHT, WERE TRAUMATIZED THIS WEEKEND BY WITNESSING MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF GUNFIRE OUTSIDE OF A SHORT-TERM RENTAL.
IT'S SHOCKING, ISN'T IT? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
ON BEHALF OF THE PLANO CHAPTER OF THE TEXAS NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION, WE ARE DEMANDING AN IMMEDIATE END TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS IN OUR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
NOW THE NEXT SPEAKER IS TERRY FRAZIER, WHO WILL BE FOLLOWED BY GEORGIA LANDAUER.
HELLO, MY NAME IS TERRY FRAZIER, AND FORGIVE ME, I'M NERVOUS WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING.
UM, I'VE LIVED IN PLANO ABOUT 10 YEARS AND I LIVE IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S BEEN QUIET UNTIL LAST FALL WHEN I, UH, BECAME NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS WITH A SHORT-TERM RENTAL.
AND AS MANY OF YOU NOW KNOW, THERE WAS A TERRIFYING INCIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT I THOUGHT, AND UH, MANY PEOPLE ARE GONNA SPEAK TO THAT TONIGHT, BUT I THOUGHT I MIGHT TAKE A MOMENT AND SPEAK ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE EVEN BEFORE WE GOT TO THIS POINT.
SO LIVING NEXT DOOR TO A SHORT-TERM RENTAL IS LIKE LIVING IN A BAR DISTRICT.
THERE ARE PARTIES VERY OFTEN, AND THESE PARTY GOERS LIE IN OUR STREETS WITH THEIR CARS BLOCK.
OUR MAILBOXES PROHIBIT MAIL DELIVERY.
THEY LEAVE, COME AND GO AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT.
THE PARTIES THAT DON'T REQUIRE POLICE, UH, ASSISTANCE DO STILL CAUSE NOISE, NO SLEEP LIVING NEXT DOOR.
PARTYGOERS LEAVE THE SHORT-TERM RENTAL TO GO TO THEIR CARS PARKED DOWN THE STREET.
AND AS THEY DO SO, THEY PAUSE.
AND I HAVE WATCHED OUT THE WINDOW AS THESE PARTYGOERS HAVE STOPPED TO ONCE TO VOMIT IN MY YARD.
AND ONCE A MAN PAUSED, UNZIPPED HIS PANTS AND URINATED IN MY YARD.
AND THIS WAS BEFORE THINGS GOT BAD.
AND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE LIVING IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA SHOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
I FEEL LIKE I LIVE NEXT TO A BAR.
AND NOW WITH THE EVENTS OF THIS WEEKEND, I'M TERRIFIED BECAUSE ASIDE FROM THE TRASH IN MY YARD, THE CIGARETTES, THE WINE BOTTLES, THE NOISE, NOW WE'RE DEALING WITH GUNFIRE.
AND WHEN THIS HAPPENED, WE DID NOT KNOW IS THERE GONNA BE MORE GUNFIRE? WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? PEOPLE WERE COWERING IN THEIR HOUSES.
I LIVE IN A RES, QUIET RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SO I AM ASKING YOU TO BAN SHORT-TERM RENTALS BECAUSE WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FEEL LIKE WE LIVE NEXT TO A BAR AND WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE
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DUCKING FOR COVER AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING WHEN GUNFIRE BREAKS OUT.THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND TO MAYOR JOHNS FOR LETTING US BE HERE.
I LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I'M GEORGIA LANDAUER.
I LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THIS OCCURRED.
UH, THE PARTY MEMBERS WERE IN CARS AND HANGING OUT OF CARS AND IN OUR FRONT YARD LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, THEY WERE CURSING.
THEY WERE RUNNING BACK AND FORTH.
I STEPPED OUTSIDE AT ONE POINT AND ASKED THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON AND I GOT CURSED AT.
SO I WENT BACK IN MY HOUSE AND I CALLED THE POLICE AT 12:30 AM THE POLICE DID COME BY, BUT APPARENTLY DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING THAT THEY COULD DO ANYTHING ABOUT.
AT THAT TIME, AT ABOUT ONE 30 THINGS ESCALATED AGAIN AND WERE GETTING EVEN WORSE.
THERE WAS A LOT OF ARGUING, EVEN MORE CURSING, MORE PEOPLE RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE STREET.
AND THE PARTY HOUSE, AS I NOW CALL IT, IS TWO HOUSES AWAY FROM ME.
APPARENTLY, THEY WERE YELLING BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER IN DECIDING IF THEY WERE GONNA LEAVE AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
AND BEFORE I KNEW IT, THERE WERE THE MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS GOING ON THAT YOU HEARD ON THE RECORDING.
I HIT THE FLOOR AS FAST AS I COULD AND YELLED AT MY HUSBAND TO DO THE SAME.
IT'S SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE TO DO IN MY HOUSE THAT I'VE LIVED IN SINCE 1998.
IT'S BEEN A VERY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD, A VERY CALMING PLACE TO LIVE IN.
AND IT'S NOT FAIR THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THAT.
I DON'T FEEL SAFE IN MY HOUSE ANYMORE.
AND WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY AND FOUND OUT MY NEIGHBOR HAD A BULLET THROUGH HER HOME, I'M ACTUALLY SHOCKED THAT THERE WEREN'T MORE.
I'M SHOCKED THAT NOBODY WAS REALLY INJURED OR KILLED WHEN THE SHOTS WENT OFF.
SEVERAL OF THE CARS OF PEOPLE TOOK OFF AT THE SAME TIME.
THERE WERE PEOPLE RUNNING ON THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE SINCE I LIVE ON THE CORNER.
AND THEN PEOPLE RUNNING DOWN THE FRONT.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DID RESPOND VERY QUICKLY.
THERE WERE POLICE ON THE CORNER OF MY HOUSE AND POLICE IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE.
THEY WERE RISKING THEIR LIVES TO COME AND RESPOND TO THESE PEOPLE THAT HAD GUNS THEMSELVES.
AND THEY STOPPED AND WERE TRYING TO ARREST SOME OF THESE PEOPLE.
PLEASE STOP THE SHORT-TERM RENTALS THAT HAVE TURNED INTO PARTY HOUSES AND DANGEROUS PLACES FOR US TO LIVE AND TURN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD INTO A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS ZOE SANCHEZ REVEAL, FOLLOWED BY CHRIS BRACKMAN, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MAYOR MUN.
MY NAME IS ZOE SANCHEZ AND MY HUSBAND AND I AND OUR THREE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER LIVE IN PLANO, TEXAS.
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LAST YEAR.EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, I WOKE UP TO THE SOUNDS OF GUNSHOTS HITTING MY HOUSE.
MY IMMEDIATE REACTION WAS TO REACH OVER TO MY DAUGHTER WHO WAS SLEEPING SOUNDLY AND MAKE SURE THAT SHE WAS SAFE.
I TURNED TO MY HUSBAND AND SAID, THOSE ARE GUNSHOTS.
I IMMEDIATELY TEXTED MY NEIGHBORS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE SAFE AND TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
MY NEIGHBOR, TIM, WHO IS THE HUSBAND OF MS. GEORGIA, TEXTED ME BACK SAYING THAT HE CALLED 9 1 1 AND TO STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS, MY BODY WAS PUMPING ADRENALINE AT AN UNIMAGINABLE RATE.
WHEN I HEARD THE SIRENS, I PEERED OUT THE WINDOW OF MY MASTER BEDROOM, BUT DECIDED TO RETREAT BACK INTO THE SAFETY OF MY DAUGHTER'S ROOM.
UM, IN AN ATTEMPT TO EVADE THE CRIPPLING ANXIETY AND FEAR THAT WAS KEEPING US AWAKE AND FROM SLEEPING.
ALL OF US, ALL THE NEIGHBORS KEPT TEXTING EACH OTHER IN THE MORNING.
MY HUSBAND'S PLAN WAS TO LET ME SLEEP, BUT HE WOKE ME UP AND SAID, I NEED YOU TO GET UP.
AND IN MY DOX AND BATHROBE GLASSES AND MY HAIR IN A MATTED MESS, I WALKED TOWARDS THE FRONT DOOR TO SEE ALL MY NEIGHBORS GATHERED IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW OF MY DAUGHTER'S PLAYROOM, WHICH YOU CAN SEE THERE.
MY HUSBAND RAISED HIS FINGER AND I SAW THE LARGE BULLET HOLD THAT HAD PENETRATED OVER OUR DOUBLE PANE WINDOW THAT WAS RIGHT ABOVE MY DAUGHTER'S DAYBED.
AND THEN HE POINTED TO THE WALL WHERE MY DAUGHTER'S PLAY KITCHEN AND MIRROR WERE, UH, STANDING WITH A BULLET HOLE ABOVE THAT, THAT PENETRATED THAT WALL.
HE HITTING MY SHUTTER BLINDS AND THEN HITTING MY DINING ROOM WALL.
I WAS IN A COMPLETE DAZE YESTERDAY.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MY HOME, MY SANCTUARY, WAS VIOLATED BY A STRAIGHT BULLET? I THEN THOUGHT, AND THANK GOD
THERE WERE AT LEAST 20 ROUNDS AND MORE THAN 20 INSTANCES WHERE MY LIFE COULD HAVE COMPLETELY CHANGED.
I SPENT ALL OF THE DAY PRAYING AND THANKING THE GUARDIAN ANGELS AND GOD THAT KEPT US SAFE.
COMING TO LEARN THAT THE GUNFIRE STEMMED FROM AN OUT OF CONTROL PARTY AT THE SHORT-TERM RENTAL BEGAN THE ANGER, I'M SORRY, I'M GONNA KEEP GOING.
THE SHORT-TERM RENTALS DO NOT BELONG IN A TIGHT-KNIT FAMILY COMMUNITY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF PEOPLE COME INTO THOSE PARTY HOUSES NOW THAT WE HAVE NAMED.
AND I DON'T EVEN LIVE NEXT TO THE PARTY HOUSE.
I LIVE AROUND THREE DOORS DOWN TO THE LEFT.
UM, YESTERDAY NIGHT I THOUGHT I DID SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER HAVE TO DO.
AS A MOTHER OF A THREE-YEAR-OLD.
I TOLD MY BABY GIRL LUNA, I SAID, IF MOMMY AND OR DADDY EVER SAY DROP TO THE FLOOR, WE GET DOWN LIKE THIS.
WE LAID DOWN WITH OUR HANDS AND FEET APART, FLAT FACING EACH OTHER.
AND THEN I SAID, AND WHEN IT'S OKAY TO GET UP, WE GET UP AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A TICKLE FIGHT.
I STILL COULDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT, AND I'M SCARED OF WHAT THE WEEKEND MIGHT BRING IN THAT HOUSE.
I WANNA CLOSE OFF THAT PART OF THE HOUSE SO WE CAN BE SAFE.
I CAME TO YOU AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY TO ASK FOR AN END TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS TO HELP ME FEEL SAFE IN MY OWN HOME.
AGAIN, PLEASE PUT YOURSELF IN MY SITUATION.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR SON, YOUR SISTER, YOUR MOTHER.
SO LET'S PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I LIVE IN TO SPEAK WITH YOU.
AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK.
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MY NAME IS CHRIS BROCKMAN.I HAVE LIVED IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD FOR 24 YEARS WITH MY WIFE, DEBBIE, ARE YOU THERE? AND MY NEIGHBORS.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE MY NEIGHBOR.
RIGHT? I TELL YOU SOMETHING I LEARNED SINCE YESTERDAY IS THAT HAVING A GUNSHOT, A GUN, UH, SHOOTOUT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS A GALVANIZING EFFECT ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
WE PULL TOGETHER RAPIDLY AS THE 24 YEARS THAT I'VE LIVED IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, SIX DOORS, UH, AWAY FROM WHERE THE CRIMES OCCURRED.
I'VE ALSO BEEN AN ENGINEER, UM, FOR 39 YEARS IN THE COMPUTER CHIP INDUSTRY.
I'VE WORKED ON RADARS, SATELLITES, RADIOS, COMPUTER CHIPS FOR CARS, COMPUTER CHIPS FOR CELL PHONES.
AND IN THAT JOB WE WORK VERY HARD TO DRIVE RISK DOWN BECAUSE IF COMPUTER CHIP FAILS IN A CAR OR A SATELLITE HAS VERY DRAMATIC IMPACT.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ENGINEERS DO IS THEY ASSESS RISK.
AND THE CARS, THE STANDARD OF, UM, OF, OF PERFORMANCE IS THAT A CART COMPUTER CHIP SHOULD HAVE LESS THAN ONE FAILURE PER MILLION COMPUTER CHIPS.
AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY DRIVING THAT TO ONE FAILURE PER BILLION COMPUTER CHIPS.
AND WHEN A FAILURE HAPPENS, THE ENGINEERS WORK TO FIND WAYS AROUND ALTERNATIVE PATHS TO KEEP THE DAMAGE FROM GOING ON.
SELF-DRIVING COMPUTER CHIPS HAVE WAYS TO REPAIR THEMSELVES, BUT WE ASSESS, ASSESS RISK, AND WE LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES.
WHEN WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE, WE HAVE SHORT-TERM RENTAL PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF PLANO, AND WE NEED TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES.
BUT AS WE'VE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, LET'S LOOK AT WHERE SHORT-TERM RENTALS ARE APPROPRIATE.
I SAY IT'S APPROPRIATE IN ORLANDO WHERE THERE'S DISNEY WORLD.
I SAY IT'S APPROPRIATE IN BRANSON WHERE THERE'S THOSE MUSIC SHOWS.
I SAY SHORT TERM RENTALS ARE APPROPRIATE IN CORPUS CHRISTI FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO THE BEACH.
WELL, IN PLANO, THE ATTRACTION BECOMES THE HOME.
OH, LET'S HAVE, LET'S GO TO BIG HOME.
THE HOME THAT THAT WAS VI YOU KNOW, THE VICTIM OF THIS IS A LARGE HOME, PROBABLY 3,200 SQUARE FEET, THAT BECOMES THE ATTRACTION.
PEOPLE THAT WANT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, UM, THE WRONG KIND OF GOOD TIME IS WE FOUND OUT.
SO I WOULD SAY AS WE LOOK AT ALTERNATIVES, WE COULD SAY TO THOSE THAT OWN INVESTMENT PROPERTIES IN PLANO THAT ARE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LET THEM PUT IN LONG-TERM RENTERS, IS THAT THAT'S AN ALTERN THAT WOULD WORK.
THEY CAN GET THE RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT.
AND THAT'S A SOLUTION FOR PEOPLE THAT COME FROM OUT OF OUR AREA THAT NEED A PLACE TO STAY.
WELL, THEY COULD STAY AT A HOTEL OR IF THEY WANNA HAVE A PARTY, THEY COULD RENT A ROOM AT A HOTEL OR A BAR.
SO WE AS A GROUP DO NOT NEED THIS KIND OF RISK IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WE WOULD URGE THAT YOU FIND A WAY IF IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO BAN OUTRIGHT THAT, TO PUT REGULATIONS IN PLACE TO KEEP THIS KIND OF DAMAGING IMPLICATION OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND PLEASE FIND A, A SOLUTION FOR US.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LAUREN D***S, FOLLOWED BY JOHN GREEN.
GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAYOR.
MY NAME IS LAUREN D***S AND I'VE BEEN A PLANO RESIDENT SINCE 2018.
I KNOW THAT'S NOT AS MUCH AS SOME OF THE PEOPLE HAVE REPRESENTED THAT HAVE SPOKEN TONIGHT, BUT I'M NO STRANGER TO PLANO AS MY DAD WAS A PLANO POLICE OFFICER FOR 36 YEARS.
MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE TWO SMALL KIDDOS, AND THEY OFTEN PLAY OUTSIDE WITH OUR NEIGHBORS AND THEY SCOOTER UP AND, AND DOWN THE STREETS OF MANY OF THE FACES THAT ARE REPRESENTED HERE TONIGHT AS WELL.
MY REQUEST TO YOU SIMPLE IN SHORT TERM RENTALS.
NOW MY REASON IS VERY CLEAR AS WELL.
ALLOW MYSELF AND MY FAMILY TO FEEL SAFE IN OUR HOME.
MLK SAID A MAN DIES WHEN HE REFUSES TO STAND UP FOR THAT, WHICH IS RIGHT.
A MAN DIES WHEN HE REFUSES TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE.
A MAN DIES WHEN HE REFUSES TO TAKE A STAND FOR THAT, WHICH IS TRUE.
SO HERE WE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU TONIGHT BOLDLY ASKING WHAT ELSE HAS TO HAPPEN, WHAT ELSE HAS TO HAPPEN ON YOUR WATCH IN OUR CITY FOR CHANGE TO OCCUR? THE TIME IS NOW AND SHORT TERM RENTALS.
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COUNCIL MEMBER AND, UH, MAYOR MUNZ.UM, THANK YOU FOR WILLING TO SPEAK TONIGHT.
I'VE LIVED IN PLANO FOR 27 YEARS, OVER 27 YEARS.
UH, I ACTUALLY FIRST MOVED HERE IN 1991 WITH MY PARENTS AND THE HOUSE THAT THEY STILL OWN, OR MY MOM DOES.
UM, SO I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH PLANO.
IT'S BEEN A LOT OF MY LIFE HERE.
WITHIN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, THE HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM US HAS TURNED IN, HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SHORT TERM RENTAL.
UM, A FEW MONTHS AGO, THERE WAS A PARTY THROWN AT THAT HOUSE THAT GOT OUTTA HAND.
UH, THE OUT OF HAND WAS THERE WERE, I THINK THE NUMBER WAS ESTIMATED AT THREE DOZEN PEOPLE IN THIS HOUSE HAVING A PARTY.
UM, IT IT WAS ALSO OUTTA HAND BECAUSE OF THE NOISE LEVEL.
NOT ONLY THE MUSIC THAT THEY WERE PLAYING, BUT YELLING, SCREAMING.
AND AS GEORGIA MENTIONED EARLIER, SAME THING HAPPENED THIS PAST WEEKEND.
THIS PAST WEEKEND, ANOTHER PARTY WAS HELD IN THE SAME HOUSE, BUT THIS TIME IT MOVED FROM BEING A NUISANCE, WHICH IS WHAT THE LAST ONE WAS.
UH, BECAUSE OF THE NOISE AT APPROXIMATELY 1 45, I WAS AWAKEN BY MULTIPLE BURSTS OF GUNFIRE.
HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW, AFTER TALKING TO MY NEIGHBORS HOW I SLEPT THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF THE EVENING.
BUT, UM, I WAS WOKEN BY THE GUNFIRE AND I KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT IT WAS.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M A BIG GUY.
I JUMPED OUT OUT OUTTA MY BED, LITERALLY JUMPED OUTTA MY BED.
AFTER REVIEWING THE, UH, OUR NEIGHBOR, MY NEIGHBOR'S RING VIDEO, UH, I CONFIRMED MY SUSPICION THAT SOMEBODY EMPTIED PROBABLY TWO FULL MAGAZINES AND ONE GUN AND PART OF A MA MAGAZINE AND ANOTHER GUN.
SO IT WASN'T JUST A COUPLE OF RANDOM SHOTS.
THERE WAS RIGHT AT 30 SHOTS ALL IN 21 SECONDS.
THAT WAS THE VIDEO YOU WATCHED JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO.
UH, THE POLICE SEEMED TO RESPOND QUICKLY AND THEY PROMPTLY STARTED TRYING TO GET EVERYONE UNDER CONTROL.
INITIALLY, THE OFFICERS I COULD SEE OUT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, WHICH WAS AT ONE POINT ABOUT 12 OFFICERS THAT I COULD ACTUALLY SEE.
THEY HAD INITIALLY, THEY ALL HAD THEIR WEAPONS DRAWN.
SOME OF THEM HAD RIFLES, SOME OF THEM HAD HANDGUNS, BUT THEY WERE, THEY KNEW THEY WERE IN A INTENSE SITUATION.
UM, EVENTUALLY THEY DID GET ENOUGH CONTROL WHERE THEY STARTED RELAXING.
AND AT THAT POINT, I WENT OUT AND STOOD ON MY FRONT PORCH.
I LET THE OFFICERS DO WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO, AND AT 1.1 OF 'EM CAME OVER.
IS THAT MY 12? FINISH YOUR THOUGHT.
OH, UM, THE, HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY NONE OF YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE SHORT-TERM RENTALS NEAR YOUR HOME.
BUT JUST KEEP IN MIND, JUST LIKE US, THAT COULD CHANGE.
SIX MONTHS AGO, WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE.
SO I REALLY HOPE THAT, UM, THAT, THAT YOU CAN HELP FACILITATE SOME CHANGES TO ELIMINATE THIS PROBLEM IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND ACROSS THE WHOLE ENTIRE CITY.
THE NEXT SPEAKER IS MELISSA MAYO, FOLLOWED BY DOLLY THOMAS.
THANK YOU FOR HEARING US THIS EVENING.
MAYOR BUNS AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SO, SO FAR FOLKS HAVE TALKED ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF THIS PARTY.
I WAS AWAKENED ABOUT 1:45 AM BY SOMEBODY POUNDING ON MY FRONT DOOR.
LF CATA CORNERED FROM THE PARTY HOUSE, AS WE NOW CALL IT.
AS I PEERED THROUGH MY BEDROOM BLINDS, WHICH BY THE WAY, FACED THE STREET, UH, TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
I SAW TWO VEHICLES OUT THERE, KIDS PILING IN, UH, PEOPLE YELLING AT EACH OTHER, RUNNING ALL OVER.
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OUT MY DOOR.UH, THERE WAS NOBODY THERE, SO I DON'T KNOW IF SOMEBODY WAS IN DISTRESS.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PERSON OR WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THEM.
UH, I WAITED ABOUT 10 MINUTES AFTER THOSE VEHICLES SQUEALED DOWN THE STREET, YOU KNOW, SCREECHED DOWN THE STREET.
AND, UH, MY DOG NEEDED TO GO OUT IN THE BACK.
SO I THOUGHT, WELL, IT'S PROBABLY SAFE CUZ THIS TIME I THOUGHT WHATEVER IT WAS, WAS OVER.
I JUST OPENED THE BACK DOOR AND HEARD THE GUNFIRE.
SO WE IMMEDIATELY DECIDED NOT TO GO OUT, BUT WE'D FIGURE SOMETHING ELSE OUT.
UH, BY THIS TIME, POLICE LIGHTS WERE FLASHING IN THE FRONT OF MY HOUSE AND OFFICERS WERE OUT THERE BRINGING PEOPLE OUT OF THE PARTY HOUSE.
THERE WERE NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS OUT THERE.
I CALLED MY SON WHO CAME OVER FROM ALLEN TO BE WITH ME DURING THIS CUZ I'M ALONE.
UH, MY SON WITNESSED THE POLICE BRINGING THE INDIVIDUALS OUT, LINING HIM UP IN FRONT, UH, BREATHALYZER TEST.
UH, THIS WAS LIKE A MOVIE, NOT LIKE WHAT YOU THINK YOUR LIFE IS LIKE.
IT WAS ONLY LATER IN THE MORNING AFTER THE POLICE HAD GONE THAT WE FOUND OUT THERE HAD BEEN NUMEROUS SHOTS FIRED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, RESULTING IN A SHOT THROUGH THE WINDOW OF MY YOUNG NEIGHBORS.
THERE WAS NO REGARD FOR THOSE OF US WHO MAKE THIS OUR HOME, WHO HAVE GROWN TO LOVE THE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY OF A QUIET PLANO NEIGHBORHOOD.
I ALSO DO NOT PLAN TO SAY SILENT OR ALLOW OUR HOMES TO BE SUBJECT TO WHOEVER WANTS TO THROW A PARTY OF ANY KIND.
AND I DO NOT HAVE ANY INTENTION OF DEALING WITH THIS TYPE OF THING ON A LONG-TERM BASIS.
SO, YOU KNOW, I WILL BE VOCAL.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION BECAUSE THESE ARE FOLKS WHO COME FOR ONE NIGHT PARTY.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE AFTERMATH.
LET ME GET, UH, CHIEF, WOULD YOU MIND KIND OF JUST GIVING US AN UPDATE ON WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS INCIDENT? THANK YOU, MAYOR.
UH, THE, UH, THE HOUSE WHERE THE, THE SHOOTING OCCURRED, IT IS ON BOTH, UH, VRBO AND AIRBNB PLATFORMS. WE MADE CONTACT WITH THOSE, UM, UH, PLATFORMS AND BOTH OF THEM HAVE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED, UH, THIS PARTICULAR RESIDENCE UNTIL THEY CONDUCT THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION TO SEE WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
UH, THERE WERE NO ONE WAS INJURED, UH, DURING THIS, UH, PARTICULAR INCIDENT THAT, UH, WE HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE OF.
AND, UH, THIS, IT IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION.
I CAN TELL YOU THOUGH, THAT WE DID MAKE TWO ARRESTS RELATED TO THIS.
AND WE ARE LOOKING, UH, CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE TO LOOK FOR OTHER SUSPECTS.
I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE Y'ALL HAVE ME TONIGHT.
AND, UM, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO JUST ASK BRIEFLY IS, UH, UPDATE ON WHEN I CAME BEFORE YOU, BEFORE THAT 1.9 MILLION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SPENT ON HOMELESS PREVENTION.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW IF IT HAS BEEN SPENT, WHAT NONPROFIT RECEIVED IT, AND ANY PROGRESS THAT THERE MIGHT BE THAT YOU CAN, YOU CAN SHARE THAT WITH THE PUBLIC.
ALSO, UH, IN SOME RECENT, UH, MONTHS, I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH A COUPLE OF ELDERLY, UM, RESIDENTS HERE, AND THEY HAVE BEEN, UM, APPLYING FOR HOME REHABS.
AND THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS SO CONVOLUTED THAT IT IS SO DIFFICULT.
SOME OF THEM, WELL, MOST OF THEM BEHAVE EITHER AFTER A LONG PROCESS OF ANYWHERE FROM SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR, HAVE JUST THREW THEIR HANDS AND SAID, I DON'T WANT IT.
OR THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES WILL COME BACK AND TELL THEM THAT THEY DON'T QUALIFY BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LIVE-IN ASSISTANT WITH THEM.
IF THEY'RE ELDERLY, ONE LADY, SHE HAS SEIZURES, SHE HAS SOMEONE LIVING WITH HER, SHE'S GONNA BE DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS LIVING WITH HER.
I AM ASKING THAT THE, UM, THAT US COUNCIL WILL GET TOGETHER WITH NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, GO OVER THE APPLICATION PROCESS TO FIND WAYS WHERE WE CAN HELP THOSE THAT ARE
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MOST NEEDING THIS.UM, I'VE TALKED TO JOHN AND, AND MARK, UH, EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THIS, BUT I JUST WANNA GET SOME COUNCIL SUPPORT BEHIND IT SO THAT WE CAN GET THOSE, UM, HOMES AND THOSE PEOPLE SAFE IN THEIR HOMES.
ONE LADY HAS, HAS BLACK MOLD IN HER HOUSE AND SHE'S, UM, SHE'S HAD A STROKE AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT I'M SURE IS GOING TO BE DENIED BECAUSE SHE HAS A LIVE-IN WITH HER.
AND, UH, JUST GO OVER THE APPLICATION PROCESS, LOOK AT IT AND SEE HOW MANY OF THE HOMES THAT HAVE PUT IN APPLICATIONS HAVE RECEIVED IT, HOW MANY HAVE NOT, AND HOW MANY HAVE JUST GIVEN UP BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO JUST THREW UP THEIR HANDS AND SAID, I DON'T, I I CAN'T, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE.
SO, UM, I'M JUST ASKING FOR THOSE RESIDENTS, IF YOU WILL JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THAT PROCESS AND MAYBE DEFINE IT OR REFINE IT.
FOR THOSE OF YOU, UH, THAT WEREN'T HERE FOR THE PRELIMINARY OPEN MEETING, WE DID AGENDA, UH, THE SHORT TERM RENTAL, UH, FOR, UH, UH, THE FIRST MEETING IN APRIL.
AND SO WE WILL UPDATE, UH, ALL OF YOU ON WHERE WE'RE AT AND, UH, WHAT WE NEED TO DO, UH, MOVING FORWARD.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, WE, UH, UH, WE'RE ON IT AND WE'RE WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY TO, UH, TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT, THAT EVERYONE IS SATISFIED WITH.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, UH, WE'RE VERY SORRY, UH, ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, UH, LAST WEEKEND AND, UH, WE'RE GONNA DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO MAKE SURE THAT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.
UM, MAYOR, THERE WERE TWO ADDITIONAL ITEMS ACTUALLY, IN LIGHT OF THIS.
I ALSO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL REQUEST IN ADVANCE OF OUR NEXT MEETING.
UM, SEVERAL TIMES IN THE PAST WHEN WE'VE BEEN SHOWN, UH, THE NUMBER OF CALLS FOR SERVICE TO KNOWN SHORT-TERM RENTALS, I'VE ASKED IF WE CAN GET THAT COMPARED TO, UH, CALLS FOR SERVICE FOR OTHER PROPERTY TYPES.
AND I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE NOT HISTORICALLY, UH, BEEN ABLE TO PARSE OUR DATA OUT THAT WAY.
SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR IS IN ADVANCE OF OUR NEXT MEETING WHERE WE'LL DEFINE THE PARAMETERS OF WHAT WE WANT TO COME BACK, UH, REGARDING SHORT-TERM RENTAL RESTRICTIONS AT THE SUBSEQUENT MEETING.
I'D LIKE UPDATED, UM, STATS ON CALLS FOR SERVICE BY YEAR FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS AT WHAT WE KNOW WERE SHORT-TERM RENTALS VERSUS ALL CALLS FOR SERVICE IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
I KNOW WE CAN'T BREAK IT OUT BY PROPERTY TYPE OR SPECIFIC ADDRESS.
WE CAN DO ENOUGH ROUGH MATH TO GET A, TO GET A BAROMETER.
UM, AND I'LL, I'LL SECOND THAT REQUEST, AND THAT'S AGAIN, BY YEAR FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
UM, IN ADVANCE OF OUR NEXT MEETING.
GO AHEAD AND FINISH ON HOLD ON COUNSEL.
UM, SO WE HAVE, UH, AND THIS IS COMMENTS OF, OF PUBLIC INTEREST, SO I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M STAYING FACTUAL.
UM, I'LL GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT SPECIFIC REQUEST AND THE TIMELINE ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
SO THE, UH, THE ACTUAL THINGS I INTENDED TO SAY HERE ARE, UH, NUMBER ONE THURSDAY MARKS, UH, THE 187TH ANNIVERSARY OF, UH, TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY.
UM, I SHOULD SAY IT, COMMEMORATES TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY.
UH, LAST YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME, UH, WE HELD OUR, WHAT WAS TO BECOME AN ANNUAL TEXAS FOREVER FEST.
UM, SO EVEN THOUGH TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY IS ON THURSDAY, OUR TEXAS FOREVER FEST WILL BE ON SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH AT HAGGARD PARK.
UH, THE FIRST ONE LAST YEAR, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A FAIRWAYS OUT FROM TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY ITSELF WAS A BIG SUCCESS.
UH, LIKE EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
UH, WE ARE VERY PROUD OF OUR TEXAS HERITAGE AND HISTORY, AND IT IS, UH, UH, COMPLETELY FULL OF THE TEXAS FOREVER FEST, UH, BASED ON LAST YEAR.
SO I INVITE EVERYBODY TO COME OUT.
SECOND, UH, TOTALLY DIFFERENT MATTER.
TEXANS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY RECENTLY PUBLISHED THEIR, UH, LIST OF WHAT THEY TERMED SINKHOLE CITIES IN, UM, IN TEXAS.
THERE WERE A BUNCH OF THEM, BUT THERE WERE THREE WHAT THEY TERMED SUNSHINE CITIES FOR RESPONSIBLE FISCAL MANAGEMENT.
PLANO TOPPED THE LIST, I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY, UH, DUE TO THE DILIGENCE OF OUR STAFF IN, UH, IN, UH, HANDLING OUR MONEY VERY WISELY.
AND IT'S WORTH MENTIONING THAT IN OUR, THE AUDIT PROCESS, WE GO THROUGH EVERY, NO, UM, I THINK THE SECOND, UH, CITY AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TO HAVE EVERYTHING READY FOR THE AUDIT PROCESS.
UH, BUT WE ALWAYS HAVE EVERYTHING BUTTONED UP.
SO I JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE OUR CITY STAFF, UH, FOR
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DOING, UH, AN OUTSTANDING JOB IN MAKING PLANO, UH, UH, ONE OF ONLY THREE SUNSHINE CITIES AND ONE TOPPING THE LIST.I, I'D, I'D LIKE, UH, IN LIEU OF, UH, COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE AT, UH, UH, PUBLIC INTEREST, UM, I REALIZE THAT WE HAVE A MEETING THAT'S COMING UP THAT'S GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THE COMMENTS OF, UM, HOUSING AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND SOME ASPECTS OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
I'D LIKE THAT DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE SOME OF THE RULES AROUND, UM, LIVING INDIVIDUALS WITH HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT, THAT THE RULES HAVE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS AS TO WHAT LIVE-IN INCOME WOULD BE VERSUS A NON-LIVE INCOME INCOME, IN ESSENCE, A CARETAKER'S INCOME NOT, OR NOT BEING COUNTED AS PART OF THE TOTAL INCOME OF THE HOUSEHOLD VERSUS SOMEONE THAT'S A LIVE-IN.
UM, AND I'D LIKE TO GET A CLEARER DEFINITION ON THAT ASPECT.
SECOND, THAT I, I TAKE IT BACK.
WELL, NOT ONLY AM I GONNA SECOND IT, I THINK PROBABLY, UH, I THINK, MARK, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, BRINGING NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INTO THE PICTURE AND, AND, AND TRIED TO WORK OUT SOME SORT OF SOLUTION.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT WE WORK TOGETHER ON THIS.
SO, UM, PLEASE INCLUDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES IN, IN SOME TYPE OF UPDATE AND AND EXPLANATION WITH REGARD TO HOW WE GO ABOUT DEFINING THIS.
COUNSEL, Y'ALL ARE EXPANDING, UH, AGENDA ITEMS PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY HERE.
UM, WE HAVE GONE FROM A HUD DISCUSSION TO EXPANDING NOW WE'RE HAVING NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.
I I'M GONNA ASK THAT, UM, AFTER THIS MEETING THAT EACH OF YOU GET WITH ME ON YOUR LIST OF ITEMS TO BRING BACK TO COUNSEL, AND WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THOSE THROUGH OUR PROCESS, UH, OF REQUESTS.
UM, THE COMMENTS AND PUBLIC INTEREST, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, ARE, UH, INTENDED TO BE FACTUAL IN THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING ABOUT THIS.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE KEEPING, UM, THE INTENT OF OUR MEETING AND OUR COMMENTS FOCUSED WHERE, UH, OUR INTENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
SO I'LL BE GETTING WITH EACH OF YOU AFTER THIS MEETING ON YOUR REQUEST.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.THE CONSENT AGENDA WILL BE ACTED UPON IN ONE MOTION AND CONTAINS ITEMS WHICH ARE ROUTINE.
AND TYPICALLY NON-CONTROVERSIAL ITEMS MAY BE REMOVED FROM THESE AGENDA FOR INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION BY A COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE CITY MANAGER OR ANY CITIZEN.
THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ESTABLISH TIME LIMITS BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF SPEAKER REQUESTS.
MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, EXCEPT FOR ITEM I AS IN INDIA.
I HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM I.
[(i) To authorize the City Manager to execute an Interlocal Agreement with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit allowing Plano participation in funding for Public Transportation Improvements; and providing an effective date.]
I, ITEM I CONSIDERATION TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT, ALLOWING PLANO PARTICIPATING IN FUNDING FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.MAYOR AND COUNSEL, I'VE SPOKEN, UM, WITH A NUMBER OF YOU AND WE HAVE HAD, UH, A DISCUSSION WITH DART, UM, WITH REGARD TO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT.
THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WAS DRAFTED BY DART, UM, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE CITY.
UM, AS A WAY OF BACKGROUND, WE DID SUBMIT A RED LINE VERSION TO DART, UH, THAT INCLUDED CHANGES FROM, UH, A NUMBER OF CITIES, INCLUDING PLANO THAT WE THOUGHT WERE IN THE CITY'S INTEREST.
THOSE, UH, RED LINE, UM, SUGGESTIONS WERE REJECTED BY DART.
SO THIS IS, UM, THE VERSION OF THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT DART IS WILLING TO ACCEPT.
UM, WITH THAT, UH, THE POTENTIAL FOR, UH, JUST OVER 28 MILLION WORTH OF FUNDING IS AVAILABLE BACK TO THE CITY FOR TRANSPORTATION RELATED AND TRANSIT RELATED PROJECTS.
WE DO IT IS KARA MENDELSON AN HONORARY SPEAKER? WELCOME, KARA.
I'M ACTUALLY SPEAKING ON MY OWN ACCORD, NOT FOR THE CITY.
UM, BUT I DO WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
UM, I'LL JUST SAY IT'S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS, RIGHT? SO, UM, I AM TALKING ABOUT THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH DART AND THE RETURN OF YOUR TAXPAYERS SALES TAX TO YOU.
AND THE QUESTION FOR ALL OF THIS THAT, THAT I HAVE ASKED IS WHO IS SETTING THE TERMS OF THIS? I L A? YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZATION OF DART, AND THEY ARE MEANT TO SERVE YOUR AND YOUR RESIDENTS TRANSIT NEEDS.
NOT TO DICTATE THE TERMS TO YOU, BUT TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU FOR A WIN-WIN.
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TO ME, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS THAT DART WOULD, UM, REJECT THE ADVICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEYS FOR ALL THE MEMBER CITIES AND, UM, TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT MUST HAPPEN.THE MOST EGREGIOUS OF THE TERMS, IN MY OPINION, ARE SAYING THINGS LIKE ANYTHING THAT'S NOT FEDERALLY REQUIRED, THEY CAN PULL BACK YOUR MONEY.
IN YOUR CASE, YOU HAVE BETTERMENT WALLS, YOU ADDED GRADE SEPARATION STATION UPGRADES.
YOU REOPENED THE F E I S, WHICH SLOWED DOWN THE PROCESS.
ALL OF THOSE MAKE IT SUBJECT TO THOSE DOLLARS BEING RETURNED TO DART, NOT TO YOU.
DART TOLD YOU EARLIER TONIGHT THAT YOU'RE IN GOOD STANDING, THAT'S GREAT, BUT DID THEY SAY CURRENT PAST? BECAUSE THE CONTRACT SAYS PAST, CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS? THE QUESTION IS, WHICH WAS ASKED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PRINCE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN GOOD STANDING THAT WAS PART OF YOUR RED LINE AND IS NOT ANSWERED.
YOU KNOW THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO GIVE YOU 10% OF THE PROJECT COST UPFRONT.
SO IF YOU DO A PROJECT FOR 5 MILLION, LET'S JUST SAY 1 MILLION, YOU'RE GONNA GET A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
WHAT IF YOU LOSE THAT GOOD STANDING? HOW ARE YOU GONNA PAY THAT OTHER 900,000? AND IT'S A LOT MORE THAN THAT.
WHO DECIDES THE GOOD STANDING? THEY DO.
THEY'RE THE JUDGE AND THEY'RE THE JURY.
WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY THAT CAN MAKE THAT DETERMINATION.
DART LOVES TO TALK ABOUT HOW DALLAS HAS SLOWED DOWN THEIR PROJECT WHEN INVESTIGATED BY THE COG.
GOVERNANCE SAYS, YOU MUST SEE THE DETAILS OF THIS DEAL.
AND WHILE YOU HAVE A VERY NICE, WONDERFUL CITY MANAGER, YOU THIS DESERVES DAYLIGHT FOR YOUR RESIDENTS.
THESE PROJECTS SHOULD BE PART OF THE NOT, SHOULD NOT BE PART OF THE CONSIDERATION OF ONGOING CONSTRUCTION.
THIS RETURN OF SALES TAX IS AN INDEPENDENT ISSUE.
AND I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THE COG WOULD BE A VERY GOOD THIRD PARTY TO ADMINISTER THIS MONEY AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY STAYS ON TRACK WITH THAT.
THERE'S ONE OTHER ITEM THAT DART SAID TO YOU TONIGHT THAT I WOULD QUESTION.
WHEN THEY TOLD YOU THAT ALMOST HALF THE CITIES HAVE APPROVED IT, THEY DIDN'T APPROVE THE I L A, THEY APPROVED THE EXACT ITEM YOU HAVE, WHICH IS TO EMPOWER THEIR CITY MANAGER TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING.
WE, WE, IT KIND OF APPEARS THAT IT'S ONE, ONE OR THE OTHER, BUT WE CERTAINLY CAN TABLE THIS AND, UH, AND DO FURTHER WORK TO, TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN, WE CAN GET TO A BETTER SOLUTION.
SO I'M, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, IT'S, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, ONE OR THE OTHER.
UM, I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS FOR WORKING ON THIS PROJECT DEEPLY.
UM, BUT I WILL ALSO SAY FROM, UM, THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AND, AND AS A MEMBER OF IT AND NOT SPEAKING FOR THE ORGANIZATION, UM, THE COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS AND THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL PUT THEMSELVES WAY OUT IN ORDER TO HELP FUND THE DECISION OF RETURNING DOLLARS BACK TO THE CITY.
AND SO IT WAS A MAJOR STEP FOR ALL OF THE 45 MEMBERS SITTING AROUND THE HORSESHOE TO MAKE A DECISION TO SAY, WE ARE GOING TO ADD ADDITIONAL FUNDS SO THAT THE CITIES WOULD GET THEIR FAIR SHARE BACK.
UM, I WOULD THINK, AND IT IS MY OPINION, BUT I WOULD THINK, AND I WILL CERTAINLY MENTION IT AT THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL, THAT THIS KIND OF CONTRACT COMING BACK IS A REALLY UNFAIR STANCE BY THE DALLAS AREA, RAPID TRANSIT TOWARDS A MEMBER CITY.
UM, IN THAT THEY ARE BASICALLY SAYING, WE WILL GIVE YOU THE MONEY FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS, AND IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, WE'RE GOING TO PULL IT BACK.
AND IF YOU DON'T DO IT IN A TIMELY FASHION, WE'RE GOING TO PULL IT BACK.
THIS IS A DICTATORSHIP IN MY OPINION.
AND I THINK THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL, AND MANY OF THE MEMBERS WOULD AGREE THAT THAT IS NOT THE TYPE OF CONTRACT THAT WE TALK ABOUT AS FAR AS A PARTNERSHIP IS CONCERNED.
SO I THINK WE STILL NEED TO DO A LOT OF WORK ON IT.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT WE WENT INTO IT IN ALL GOOD FAITH WITH THE REDLINED EDITION THAT MANY OF THE LARGE CITIES AGREED WITH THAT ARE CON ARE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS.
I ASKED THE CITY MANAGER HOW MUCH WE HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO DART SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.
IT WAS WELL OVER $1.6 BILLION THAT WE HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THEM.
IF I WAS A CAPITAL INVESTOR PUTTING 1.6 BILLION
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INTO A PROJECT AND SOMEBODY SAID, I I I DON'T HAVE TO RETURN YOUR FUNDS, AND IF YOU RETURN YOUR FUNDS AND I DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU USE IT FOR, I CAN TAKE IT BACK.I WOULD NEVER HAVE MADE THE INVESTMENT.
SO I THINK THAT IN MY OPINION, THIS ITEM NEEDS MORE, MORE DISCUSSION AND I'M WILLING TO MAKE THE MOTION TO TABLE THIS ITEM UNTIL WE HAVE A FURTHER DISCUSSION.
ACTUALLY SPEAK FIRST BEFORE THE VOTE.
SHELBY, YOU, YOU'VE SPEARHEADED THIS.
WELL, UH, BEFORE WE HAVE A, UH, A VOTE TO TABLE, UM, THE, THE ACTUAL RESOLUTION WHICH WE'D BE VOTING ON HAS TWO PROVISIONS.
ONE, IT, WHICH IS TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING, WHICH HE'S ALREADY BEEN DOING.
UH, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS TO EXECUTE THIS I L A.
UM, I'M NOT AT ALL COMFORTABLE WITH AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF THIS I L A AS WRITTEN BECAUSE, UM, IT, IT VERY MUCH IS THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG.
AND TO BE TOLD THAT, UM, WE CAN USE WHAT IS OUR MONEY, UM, ACCORDING TO, UM, THEIR DICTATES, UM, I, I'M NOT AT ALL COMFORTABLE WITH.
UM, SO I WOULD, I, I'M NOT SURE THAT I'D EVEN BE COMFORTABLE TABLING THIS BECAUSE OF THE PROVISION TO EXECUTE THIS SPECIFIC I L A, UH, I HAVE FULL FAITH IN OUR CITY MANAGER TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING.
UM, BUT I WOULD WANT NOT WANT TO EVEN, UH, TO AUTHORIZE OR EVEN PROBABLY TABLE, UM, ENTERTAINING EXECUTION OF THIS.
SO, UM, I WANNA PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS BECAUSE FROM THE TIME THAT I CAME ON COUNCIL, I WAS TOLD THAT 1 CENT OF OUR SALES TAX, THE, UM, GOES TO DART AND WE ONLY GET 2 CENTS.
SO ADD THE 2 CENTS, WE GIVE 1 CENT TO DART AND THEN WE ARE LEFT FOR 1 CENT.
AND THANK YOU FOR OUR COLLEAGUE FROM OUR NEIGHBOR CITY FOR COMING HERE AND SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS BECAUSE FRANKLY, UM, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY PUZZLED.
WHERE DOES THAT 1 CENT GO AND, AND HOW IS IT SPENT? ARE WE, UM, ARE THEY ACCOUNTABLE? DO WE GET ANY TYPE OF TRANSPARENCY AS TO WHERE THE MONEY IS SPENT AND HOW IT IS BEING USED? AND TODAY, UM, WE'RE TOLD THAT WE'RE STILL WAITING, THEY'RE STILL CALCULATING, THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON IT.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS, RIGHT ANTHONY? AND SO, UH, I I'M EVEN AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING IN WHICH WE WERE TOLD THAT THERE IS SURPLUS, AND YET WE DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SURPLUS MONEY THAT DART HAS.
IT'S REALLY, THEY TELL US IF IT'S OKAY.
SO, UM, I MEAN, IT'S OUR TAX DOLLARS, OUR CITY, OUR RESIDENTS HARD WORK FUNDS, THEY'RE PUTTING, UM, INTO A PROJECT THAT THEY BELIEVED IN.
AND YET AT THIS POINT, I FEEL LIKE WE ARE, UM, IF WE'RE NOT DOING OUR JOB, IF WE ARE NOT CONTINUING TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS, AND I, IN THIS CASE, I AGREE WITH SHELBY THAT I, I JUST THINK THAT IT NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO, UM, DENY, UH, LEGAL QUESTION.
UH, I KNOW WE HAVE AN ACTIVE MOTION, UM, BUT IF WE DID DENY IT PAGE, DOES THAT IN ANY WAY PROHIBIT A NEW RESOLUTION COMING BACK TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN I L A, WHICH WE DO APPROVE? NO.
OH, WE'RE PASSED THE RED LINE VERSION ALREADY.
SO MAYOR AND COUNCIL SECOND, WE, WE ACTUALLY PASSED A RED LINE, THE RED LINE VERSION WITH COUNCIL, UM, AT, I BELIEVE IT WAS THE LAST MEETING.
SO THAT IS WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE, IS THE RED LINE VERSION.
THIS WOULD THEN TAKE THE PLACE OF THAT RED LINE VERSION IF IT'S PASSED.
UM, I, I, I AGREE WITH THE POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE.
I, I ALSO REACHED OUT TO CITY MANAGER ISRAELSON ABOUT THIS UPON READING THIS I L A BECAUSE THERE, THERE ARE THINGS IN THERE THAT GO BEYOND THOSE RELATING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF THESE FUNDS.
YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS EXPECT WHEN WE RECEIVE FUNDS THAT THERE WILL BE CONDITIONS RELATED TO THE EXPENDITURE OF THE FUNDS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER CONDITIONS IN THERE THAT GO BEYOND THOSE THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THE EXPENDITURE OF THESE FUNDS THAT
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WOULD, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD OBLIGATE THE CITY IN, IN VARIOUS WAYS.AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE A HISTORY OF COOPERATING WITH DART.
I I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS LANGUAGE IS NECESSARY.
UM, YOU KNOW, I WISH THAT THE DART REPRESENTATIVES WERE STILL HERE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, WHY THEY VIEW THIS LANGUAGE AS BEING NECESSARY.
UM, I'M FINE WITH A DENIAL OR A TABLING.
I, I HAVE TO SAY, UH, I, I, I'M LEANING TOWARD A TABLING BECAUSE I, I JUST, I THINK THAT THAT SENDS A SIGNAL THAT WE ARE TRYING TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS.
I KNOW FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, A DENIAL, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, DOES NOT FORECLOSE THE CONTINUANCE OF NEGOTIATIONS.
BUT I, I, I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO STAY AT THE TABLE.
WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH DART, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE WANT THEM TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT THE MEMBER CITIES THAT OBVIOUSLY FUND DART, UH, HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS AND, AND, AND TO HAVE A FAIRER I L A, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I, I THINK THOUGH THAT, THAT WE SEND THAT SIGNAL THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING BY TABLING.
SO I WILL SECOND THE MOTION TO TABLE.
THAT BEING SAID, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I, I DON'T THINK ANY OF US HAVE, UH, FROM, OR AT LEAST THOSE WHO HAVE SPOKEN, YOU KNOW, HAVE AN INTENTION OF VOTING TO APPROVE THIS EXACT I L A THAT'S ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT BECAUSE IT CONTAINS TERMS THAT ARE, THAT, THAT ARE FRANKLY A BIT DRACONIAN, UH, UH, REGARDING, UH, THESE FUNDS.
WELL, UH, UH, MARK, I, I KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT TO DO, SO I, I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU ONE MORE THING TO, TO ASK.
UH, CAUSE I, I, I'VE BEEN GRIEVING, I, I, I THINK WE SHOULD TABLE THIS.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD JUST CUT IT OFF, BUT LET'S TABLE IT AND, AND LET YOU KEEP WORKING ON IT.
BUT WHAT I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO LOOK AT AND, AND MAYBE PAGE JUST A, OKAY, NOW WE CAN'T DO THAT.
IT IS, LET'S HAVE, WE LOOKED AT THE AGREEMENT THAT WE ALL SIGNED EONS AGO WITH DART A LITTLE, ALL THE LITTLE FINE PRINTS, AND WHEREAS IN WERE TWOS TO SEE IS DART IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AGREEMENT THAT THEY GAVE TO US.
AND, AND IF NOT, LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
SO, COUNCILMAN, THE, THE, THE VOTE OF THE CITIZENS OF PLANO HAPPENED IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, ORIGIN IN THE EONS AGO.
SO, UH, HAVE WE, HAVE WE DONE AN AUDIT OF THAT? UM, NO.
I'M NOT AWARE OF A, OF AN AUDIT THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY A ACTUALLY DONE FOR THAT.
BUT I THINK THE, THE DIRECTION THAT I'M HEARING OR CONSENSUS IS TO, UM, KEEP WORKING AND WHETHER, UH, IT'S DENIED OR, OR TABLED, UH, I UNDERSTAND FULLY THAT I'M NOT DESIGN THIS VERSION OF THINGS, UH, THAT, THAT PART SEEMS VERY CLEAR FROM COUNSEL.
I HAVE A MOTION A SECOND TO, WE DID NOT HAVE A SECOND.
ANTHONY, I HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND TO TABLE, UH, ITEM I, HUH? BUT IT WAS GRADY.
ALRIGHT, I'M LISTENING BUSINESS, FORGET ABOUT
I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO TABLE ITEM I PLEASE VOTE.
[(1) Public Hearing and consideration of an Ordinance to accept and approve a Service and Assessment Plan and Assessment Roll for the Downtown Plano Public Improvement District; making a finding of special benefit to the property in the District; levying Assessments against property within the District and establishing a lien on such property; providing for the method of assessment and the payment of the Assessments in accordance with Chapter 372, Texas Local Government Code, as amended; providing penalties and interest on delinquent Assessments; providing for severability; resolving matters incident and related thereto; and providing an effective date. ]
ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS, APPLICANTS ARE LIMITED TO 15 MINUTES PRESENTATION TIME WITH A FIVE MINUTE REBUTTAL IF NEEDED.REMAINING SPEAKERS ARE LIMITED TO 30 TOTAL MINUTES OF TESTIMONY TIME WITH THREE MINUTES ASSIGNED PER SPEAKER.
IT'S PRESIDING OFFICER MAY AMEND THESE TIMES AS DEEMED NECESSARY NON-PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS. PRESIDING OFFICER WILL PERMIT PUBLIC COMMENT AND ITEMS ON THE AGENDA NOT POSTED FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ESTABLISH TIME LIMITS BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF SPEAKER REQUESTS, LENGTH OF THE AGENDA, AND TO ENSURE MEETING EFFICIENCY AND MAY INCLUDE A CUMULATIVE TIME LIMIT.
SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED IN THE ORDER.
THE REQUESTS ARE RECEIVED UNTIL THE CUMULATIVE TIME IS EXHAUSTED.
ITEM NUMBER ONE, PUBLIC HEARING CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT AND APPROVE A SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT PLAN AND ASSESSMENT ROLE FOR THE DOWNTOWN PLANO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
MAKING A FINDING OF SPECIAL BEN BENEFIT TO THE PROPERTY IN THE DISTRICT LEVYING AS ASSESSMENTS AGAINST PROPERTY WITHIN THE DISTRICT AND ESTABLISHING A LIEN ON SUCH PROPERTY, PROVIDING FOR THE METHOD OF ASSESSMENT AND THE PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 3 72 OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE AS AMENDED, PROVIDING PENALTIES AND INTEREST ON DELINQUENT ASSESSMENTS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND RESOLVING MATTERS INCIDENT AND RELATIVE THERETO, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
GOOD EVENING COUNSEL, PETER BRASSARD,
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DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS.THIS IS, UH, UH, UH, THE SECOND ACTION YOU'VE TAKEN ON THIS YEAR.
THE FIRST ONE WAS WHEN YOU ACTUALLY APPROVED THE FORMATION OF THE PIT BACK IN JANUARY.
WHAT THIS ACTION DOES IS TWO THINGS.
UM, ONE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING AND IF WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS, AND THEN YOU'LL CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE THAT ADOPTS A SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT PLAN, UM, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE BUDGET FOR THE BID FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR, AND THEN A LEVY TO FUND THAT BUDGET.
YOU WILL DO THIS EVERY YEAR FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ON THE BID.
BUDGET, THAT'S NOT VERY BIG, RIGHT? IT'S NOT THAT'S CORRECT.
AND $40,000 FOR MARKETING IS GONNA HARDLY DO ANYTHING.
SO THE CITY OF PLANO, OH, FROM ONE I KINDA, WE HAVE 12 LOTS IN THE PIT, IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHT.
AND SO, AND WE'RE CONTRIBUTING $50,000 THAT'S RIGHT.
VERSUS BEING TAXED INDIVIDUALLY FOR EACH 12 OF THE 12TH.
BUT AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER FROM BEING ON THE COUNCIL, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN 50,000.
DO WE THINK WE FORESEE AT SOME TIME THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO INCREASE THAT? I MEAN, JUST WITH INFLATION, I MEAN, IT, IT, I DON'T, HAS IT EVER BEEN INCREASED OR HAVE WE ALWAYS COME IN AT 50,000? IT HAS NOT BEEN INCREASED, BUT THERE THINGS, A FEW THINGS HAVE CHANGED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
ONE OF WHICH IS WE'VE HIRED, UM, A PERSON TO BE THE DOWNTOWN PLANO MANAGER.
SO NOW WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO SORT OF AUGMENTS THE SERVICES OF THE PIT, IF MA PROBABLY DOES MORE THAN THEY DID.
UM, SO WE HAVE SOMEBODY SORT OF IN AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROLE.
THAT'S MICHELLE HAWKINS, I THINK YOU PROBABLY ALL KNOW HER.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 50,000 IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET TO HELP WITH THINGS IN DOWNTOWN.
WE, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WISE TO SPLIT IT BETWEEN US DOING THINGS WITH MICHELLE AND THEN THE BID.
SO THAT'S THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND THAT IS BUDGETED FOR THIS YEAR.
SO IT'S, DOESN'T REALLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WHICH IS HAVE WE EVER INCREASED IT? NO, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN 50.
UM, BUT WE HAVE INCREASED THE BUDGET TO SPEND.
UM, AND WE WOULD DO THAT THIS WAY.
WE THINK IT'S WISE TO DO IT THIS WAY.
HELLO? PUBLIC HEARING, WE HAVE THE SPEAKERS.
WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER, BUZZ DYCKMAN US.
I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND FIND THE COMMENTS TO THE COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE THIS ITEM.
I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE.
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, PLEASE VOTE.
[(2) Public Hearing and consideration of an Ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 2022-016 to amend Article 7 (Nonconformities), Article 8 (Definitions), Article 10 (Nonresidential Districts), Article 12 (Planned Development District), Article 13 (Lot and Building Standards), Article 14 (Allowed Uses and Use Classifications), Article 15 (Use-specific Regulations), Article 16 (Parking and Loading), Article 17 (Landscaping and Tree Preservation), Article 20 (Screening, Fence and Wall Regulations), and Article 23 (Exterior Wall Construction Standards) of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City, Ordinance No. 2015-5-2, as heretofore amended, to align with specific land use policies in the comprehensive plan; and providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Petitioner: City of Plano (Tabled at February 13, 2023, City Council meeting.)]
NEXT ITEM, ITEM NUMBER TWO, PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AS REQUESTED.IN ZONING CASE 2022 DASH 16 TO AMEND ARTICLE SEVEN NONCONFORMITIES, ARTICLE EIGHT, DEFINITIONS.
ARTICLE 10, NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS ARTICLE 12, PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ARTICLE 13 LOT AND BUILDING STANDARDS.
ARTICLE 14 ALLOWED USES AND USE CLASSIFICATIONS.
ARTICLE 15, USE SPECIFIC REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE 16, PARKING AND LOADING, ARTICLE 17, LANDSCAPE AND TREE PRESERVATION, ARTICLE 20 SCREENING, FENCE AND WALL REGULATIONS.
AND ARTICLE 23, EXTERIOR WALL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY.
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2015 DASH FIVE DASH TWO AS HERE TO FOUR AMENDED TO ALIGN WITH SPECIFIC LAND USE POLICIES IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE, A REPEAL OR CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A PUBLICATION CLAUSE, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THIS ITEM WAS TABLED AT THE FEBRUARY 13TH COUNCIL MEETING.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVES.
UH, THIS IS ZONING CASE 20 22 16.
UH, I'M CHRISTINA DAY, THE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND I'M HERE TO PRESENT THIS.
IT IS A REQUEST AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE TO ALIGN SOME SPECIFIC LAND USE, UH, POLICIES, UM, WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO, UM, THE HISTORY OF THIS CASE, UM, SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT, UH, THE COUNCIL ADOPTED A NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BACK IN 2021, UM, AFTER WHICH WE HAD A JOINT SESSION WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL
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IN JANUARY OF 22.AND THEN, UH, STAFF STARTED A PROCESS OF, OF MAKING SOME CHANGES TO THE PLAN BASED ON SOME DIRECTION FROM THAT SESSION LATER IN THE YEAR IN SEPTEMBER.
AND SO THESE CHANGES ARE RESULT OF THAT CONTINUED PROCESS.
SO AT THE JOINT SESSION, UH, WE HAD RETIREMENT HOUSING.
YOU MAY RECOLLECT IT BECAUSE WE USED SORT OF A ROMAN THEME WITH THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN.
WE HAD FOUR DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS, UM, THAT ARE MOVING FORWARD AS PART OF, NOT NECESSARILY AS PART OF THIS CASE, CUZ ONE IS BEING MOVED TO A FUTURE JOINT SESSION.
BUT TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT RETIREMENT HOUSING AND NON-RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS, MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING IN THE COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT ZONING DISTRICT.
UM, AGAIN, MOVING TO THE FUTURE JOINT SESSION WILL BE DISCUSSION ON US HIGHWAY 75 CORRIDOR REDEVELOPMENT.
AND THEN SOMETHING NEW FOR YOU IS SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING IN THE RETAIL ZONING DISTRICT.
BECAUSE ON THE COUNCIL STRATEGIC PLAN, WE FOUND THAT REALLY ALIGNED.
UM, IT CAME UP IN SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS ON RETIREMENT HOUSING AND ALIGNED WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE BROUGHT TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER SUMMARY OF THESE ALIGNMENTS.
AND SO ISSUE A IS RETIREMENT HOUSING.
UM, THERE ARE FOUR DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF RETIREMENT HOUSING IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE TODAY.
INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITY, ASSISTED LIVING, LONG-TERM CARE AND CONTINUING CARE.
CONTINUING CARE IS A COMBINATION OF THE THREE PRIOR CLASSIFICATIONS.
AND SO RETIREMENT HOUSING, UM, IS CURRENTLY IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE CLASSIFIED AS AN INSTITUTIONAL USE.
AND YOU SEE THAT LONG CLASSIFICATION THERE.
HOWEVER, IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSION AT, AT THE, UH, CONFERENCE OF PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE, THEY FELT FAIRLY STRONGLY THAT INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY'RE NORMALLY BUILT, SHOULD BE CATEGORIZED AS MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
SO YOU SEE WE'VE GOT THIS CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO DOCUMENTS.
AND SO WE HAVE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES THAT ARE NOT SUPPORTED IN A FEW OF THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORIES.
UM, SPECIFICALLY NEIGHBORHOOD CORNERS, COMMUNITY CORNERS AND EMPLOYMENT CENTERS.
SO OUR PROPOSAL TO RECTIFY, UH, THESE SITUATIONS IS RECLASSIFYING THE INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES AS A PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL USE RATHER THAN INSTITUTIONAL TO ALIGN THE ZONING ORDINANCE WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN POLICY DOCUMENTS.
ALSO TO CLARIFY THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT SHOULD BE UTILIZED FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES.
UM, MAKING SURE THAT THEY DO FIT THE STYLE OF DEVELOPMENT ALSO TO RESTRICT NEW INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES WHERE MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, BUT ALLOW IT WHERE IT REMAINS SUPPORTED.
AND, UM, AGAIN, CLARIFY THE STANDARDS FOR ALL RETIREMENT HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING USES.
CURRENTLY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS A BROADER CATEGORIZATION, UH, SUCH AS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THAT'S NOT RECOGNIZED IN THE LANGUAGE TODAY.
SO EXAMPLES HERE WE MENTIONED THAT LONG CLASSIFICATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL USES INDEPENDENT LIVING WOULD BE RECLASSIFIED AS PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A CHANGE CLARIFYING THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARD.
SO ADDING SOME CLARIFICATION OF IN THE, WHERE APARTMENTS CAN TAKE VARIOUS FORMS. WE DO HAVE A FEW MIXED USE DISTRICTS WHERE MULTI-FAMILY, INDEPENDENT LIVING AND SINGLE-FAMILY USES ARE ALL ALLOWED.
SO THEY COULD TAKE VARIOUS FORMS AND WE'RE TRYING TO CLARIFY HOW THOSE USES ARE PREVENTED AND WHAT'S PRESENTED AND WHAT STANDARDS THEY WOULD UTILIZE.
UM, THIS ISSUE IS RESTRICTING SHOWS THE CHANGES TO THE USE CHARTS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGE OF THE USE CATEGORY AS WELL AS THE CHANGES TO THE ZONING DISTRICTS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY NEW INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES AND HOW THEY ARE NOT SUPPORTED IN SPECIFIC AREAS BY THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
UM, THOSE IN THOSE FOUR DISTRICT, UM, WE WANNA DO WANNA MENTION THAT ASSISTED LIVING, CONTINUING CARE AND LONG-TERM CARE WOULD NOT BE IMPACTED.
UM, THIS LANGUAGE IS A SPECIAL DISTRICT REQUIREMENT THAT'S ADDED TO HELP SHOW THAT
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EXISTING USES WILL REMAIN PERMITTED USES.SO WE WORKED WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE THAT EITHER, UH, FACILITIES THAT ARE CONSTRUCTED OR ARE PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS TODAY WOULD CONTINUE AS PERMITTED USES NOT NON-CONFORMING USES, BUT PERMITTED USES SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO EXIST.
ALSO, WE WANTED TO ENSURE THEY CAN CONTINUE VERY CLEARLY TO REMODEL, RECONSTRUCT, REDEVELOPMENT.
THERE'S SOME EXISTING ORDINANCE IN THE, UH, LANGUAGE TODAY IN THE CORRIDOR COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT AS WELL AS THE, UH, URBAN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
AND WE'VE MODELED THIS SOMEWHAT ON THAT EXISTING LANGUAGE.
CONTINUING CARE FACILITIES, UH, ARE ANOTHER ISSUE, UM, BECAUSE THEY DO ALLOW INDEPENDENT LIVING AS A BUY RIGHT USE, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT JUST DIDN'T BECOME AN ALTERNATE SOURCE OF, OKAY, I CAN'T BUILD INDEPENDENT LIVING, BUT I COULD DO CONTINUING CARE AND MAKE IT SORT OF A BACKDOOR WAY OF UTILIZING THE ORDINANCE.
SO WE LOOKED AT THIS PRETTY CLOSELY.
UM, WE LOOKED AT DEFINITIONS AND HOW, UM, WE COULD DEFINE THAT TO BE A DISTINCTIVE USE.
UM, AND WE FOUND THAT MANY MUNICIPALITIES DON'T DEFINE THIS USE, BUT WE DID FIND A DEFINITION THAT WE LIKED IN THE TEXAS HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE.
SO THERE WERE SOME SPECIFIC SERVICES THAT WERE CALLED OUT IN THE, IN THE STATE BY THE STATE OF TEXAS, UM, PERSONAL CARE SERVICES, NURSING SERVICES, MEDICAL SERVICES, OTHER HEALTH RELATED SERVICES.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT LANGUAGE BEING RECOMMENDED IN OUR ORDINANCE LANGUAGE.
SO, UH, CONTINUING CARE FACILITY DEFINITION IS RECOMMENDED TO CHANGE TO INCLUDE SOME OF THAT STATE LANGUAGE THAT YOU'LL SEE, PERSONAL CARE SERVICES, NURSING, MEDICAL, OTHER HEALTH RELATED SERVICES.
SO AGAIN, THAT COMES FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS.
YOU'LL ALSO NOTICE SOME RED, UH, TEXT THERE.
AND THAT IS, THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS AT P AND Z.
AND SO AFTER THAT DISCUSSION, STAFF AND INCLUDING PLANNING STAFF AND LEGAL STAFF HAD A FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT CLARIFYING THIS LANGUAGE.
AND SO WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE CLEARER IF WE, UM, SEPARATED OUT PERSONAL CARE SERVICES AND THEN THE HEALTH RELATED SERVICES BEING NURSING AND MEDICAL SERVICES.
SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT ADDITIONAL PUNCTUATION BECAUSE WE THINK IT'S CLEAR IF THAT WAS NOT DISCUSSED AT P AND Z FOR TOTAL TRANSPARENCY.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT, WE CAN REMOVE IT.
BUT WE DO THINK THAT THAT COULD, UH, HELP PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION.
SO RETIRE MORE CHANGES TO RETIREMENT HOUSING.
I DID MENTION THAT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING IS BEING ADDED AND THAT'S BECAUSE RIGHT NOW MANY OF THOSE CLASSIFICATION ALSO REFER TO INDIVIDUALS THAT NEED, UH, ASSISTED LIVING SERVICES.
THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO AGE FOR SOME INDIVIDUALS, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE ALL CLASSIFIED UNDER RETIREMENT HOUSING.
SO WE JUST THINK THIS IS ALMOST A CLEANUP ITEM WHERE WE JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE RETIRED TO, UH, NEED ASSISTED OR LONG-TERM CARE.
COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT DISTRICT.
UM, THE MAJOR FOCUS OF THIS DISTRICT IN THE LANGUAGE TODAY IS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES ARRANGED IN A CAMPUS LIKE IN SETTING.
SO THIS IS LARGELY LOCATED IN THE EMPLOYMENT CENTERS FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY THAT DOESN'T SUPPORT NEW RESIDENTIAL USES.
UM, THERE HAS LONG BEEN A UNIT STANDARD, UM, FOR BY RIGHT UNITS, UM, THAT'S LONG BEEN REACHED, 2,500 UNITS WE'RE ALLOWED BY.
THERE'S ALSO A CONNECTION TO THE CB ONE ZONING DISTRICT THAT WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT IN THE EMPLOYMENT CENTER'S FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY, UM, NO HOUSING IS SUPPORTED UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
IT'S FOCUSED ENTIRELY ON JOBS.
HOWEVER, IN THAT SAME AREA OF COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT, UH, THERE ARE SOME URBAN ACTIVITY CENTERS THAT'S REALLY GENERALLY CB ONE ZONING IS ALIGNED WITH THE URBAN ACTIVITY CENTERS.
SO THERE'S KIND OF THE MIXED USE CORE THAT'S GENERALLY CB ONE ZONING AND THAT'S SURROUNDED BY, UH, THE EMPLOYMENT CENTER, FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY.
THAT'S GENERALLY, UH, CE ZONING.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO LINE THOSE UP.
THIS IS A MAP OF HOW THAT LOOKS.
THE BLUE BEING CENTRAL BUSINESS ONE AND THE PINK BEING COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT
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ZONING.AND THEN THE HATCHED AREA IS, SHOWS YOU THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THE HATCHING AND THE PINK ZONING, UH, THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY AND THE ZONING ARE GENERALLY IN ALIGNMENT.
UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE THESE ARE NOT PERFECTLY ALIGNED, UM, WE FEEL LIKE BECAUSE THERE ARE RELATIVELY SMALL AREAS OF MISALIGNMENT THAT THOSE COULD, UM, IF NEED BE OR RE THROUGH REDEVELOPMENT, WE COULD USE PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS FOR THOSE SMALL AREAS WHERE THERE IS A MISMATCH.
SO PROPOSALS INCLUDE RESTRICTING NEW RESIDENTIAL USES IN THE CE DISTRICT, CONSISTENT WITH OUR POLICY GUIDANCE AND UPDATING THE STANDARDS IN THESE ZONING DISTRICTS TO REDUCE COMPLEXITY, UM, OF ADMINISTRATION.
SO OUR POLICIES AND OUR REGULATIONS ALIGN.
SO THE RESTRICTION WOULD BE TO REMOVE THE S U P PROCESS WHERE THE CITY'S POLICIES DO NOT RECOMMEND MULTIFAMILY.
AND THIS IS WHILE THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH, UM, OUR CURRENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THIS I WANT TO SAY HAS ALSO BEEN A LONG-STANDING COMP PLAN POLICY AS WELL.
UM, SUPPORTING EMPLOYMENT IN THIS AREA AS THE PRIMARY DRIVER, UM, MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES.
THIS IS THE SAME SORT OF, UH, VESTING OR GRANDFATHERING LANGUAGE WHERE WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE A PERMITTED USE WHERE THEY EXIST TODAY OR ARE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OR WORKING THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, I SHOULD SAY.
UM, THIS IS SHOWING AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE ARE REMOVING THE EXISTING LANGUAGE IN THE ZONING DISTRICT WHERE UNITS ARE ALREADY BUILT BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY ON THE GROUND.
WE'VE PUT IN THE LANGUAGE THAT SAYS THEY ARE PERMITTED WHERE THEY'RE ALREADY BUILT.
SO THIS LANGUAGE IS NO LONGER NEEDED.
SO OUR FINAL ISSUE IN THIS ZONING CASE, OUR SINGLE FAMILY USES IN THE RETAIL ZONING DISTRICT, THIS IS IN THE COUNCIL'S STRATEGIC GOALS, AND THIS RELATES TO THE INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP A CULTURAL CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION THROUGH CITY GOVERNMENT.
INNOVATIVE FOR QUARTER RETAIL, REDUCING AREAS TO REFRESH EXISTING RETAIL DEMAND, AS WELL AS REVITALIZING AGING RETAIL AREAS, INCREASING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, PROMOTING DIVERSE HOUSING TYPES WITH SMALLER FOOTPRINT DEVELOPMENTS AND DEVELOPING INCENTIVES TO PRIVATE INVESTORS BY REDUCING REGULATORY BARRIERS.
SO WE BELIEVE IT HITS REALLY A NUMBER OF THE STRATEGIC GOALS THAT COUNCIL HAS RIGHT NOW.
SO HOW DOES THIS WORK? WELL, IT DOES FIT WITH THE COMP PLAN BECAUSE IT HELPS IMPLEMENT OUR TYPICAL NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN.
THIS IS A LONGSTANDING LAND USE POLICY THAT WE HAVE WHERE MORE DENSE HOUSING GOES TOWARDS THE CORNERS, REALLY THE INTERSECTIONS AND UH, LESS DENSE HOUSING IS IN THE CENTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO IT WOULD CONTINUE THAT PRACTICE WITH THE KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD CORNERS AND COMMUNITY CORNERS, HAVING OUR MORE DENSE HOUSING TYPES.
YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS ALIGNS WITH OUR DETACHED SINGLE FAMILY AND ATTACHED SINGLE FAMILY TYPES ALIGNING WITH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER AND COMMUNITY CORNER, UH, LAND USE CATEGORIES WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT SORT OF REDUCING THE BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT THERE.
SO THE PROPOSAL IS TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR A ZONING PROCESS FOR THOSE SINGLE FAMILY USES.
UM, THEY ARE ALIGNED WITH THE DASHBOARDS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
WE ALSO WANNA CLARIFY THE SCREENING AND FENCING REQUIREMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL USES IN THE RETAIL ZONING DISTRICT TO ENSURE THAT, UH, THEY'RE COMPATIBLE WITH THE ANY KIND OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL.
SO SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE ATTACHED.
SO BASICALLY A TOWN HOME WOULD BE PERMITTED BY RIGHT? UM, THAT'S 10 UNITS PER ACRE, COULD BE UP TO 12 WITH A SPECIAL APPROVAL, UH, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE DETACHED, UM, IS ALSO DEPENDING ON THE ZONING DISTRICT, UH, WOULD BE PERMITTED AND TWO FAMILY RESIDENTS.
UH, AGAIN, DEPENDS, UH, ON THE ZONING DISTRICT.
SO RESIDENTIAL USES, UM, THIS IS THE SCREENING REQUIREMENT.
TYPICALLY A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SCREEN FROM A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT BECAUSE WE THINK THE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT WILL BE GOING IN KIND OF AS A RETROFIT.
WE DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE VERY EQUITABLE TO THEN REQUIRE AN EXISTING RETAIL CORNER TO COME BACK AND PUT UP SCREENING
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BECAUSE SOMETHING NEW IS BUILT NEXT TO THEM.SO WE THINK THE THE NEW USE SHOULD ESSENTIALLY HAVE TO PROVIDE THE SCREENING AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS REQUIRING.
SO IN SUMMARY, UH, NEW STANDARDS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES TO ALIGN WITH MULTI-FAMILY USES.
SO THERE'S NOT THAT DISTINCTION BETWEEN AGE, UH, JUST AGE RELATED DISTINCTION.
UM, PERMITTING LAND USES IN CE ZONING TO ALIGN WITH THE EMPLOYMENT CENTER'S FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY AND SINGLE FAMILY RES RESIDENTIAL IN THE RETAIL ZONING DISTRICT.
SO THERE, THIS ALIGNS WITH A LOT OF THE POLICIES AND ACTIONS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
I WON'T READ THEM TO YOU, BUT YOU CAN SEE THEM ON THE SLIDE AS WELL AS IN GRAPHICAL FORM.
AND WE DID RECEIVE THREE LETTERS, UM, ALL SINCE, UH, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING IN OPPOSITION AT THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING.
WE HAD TWO SPEAKERS IN SUPPORT AND ONE WHO WAS NEUTRAL.
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL BY A VOTE OF SEVEN TO ZERO.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE REGARDING THIS ZONING CASE.
OKAY, SO MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE INDEPENDENT LIVING AND IT TOTALLY MAKES SENSE TO ME TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE IT OUT OF THE OFFICE AREAS.
BUT WHAT I'M CONFUSED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IS TAKING IT OUT OF THE RETAIL SECTIONS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF I THINK ABOUT CONCRETE MALL OR HAGGARD FARM, BOTH OF THOSE ARE GONNA HAVE INDEPENDENT LIVING AND THEY SEEM LIKE THEY MIGHT BE ATTRACTIVE PLACES FOR SOMEBODY WHO IS RETIRING TO BE LIVING NEAR RETAIL BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE THEM, IT EASIER FOR THEM TO GET, UM, SOME OF THEIR RETAIL NEEDS MET OR TO WALK TO A RESTAURANT.
SO WHAT ARE THE THOUGHTS ON IF WE'RE ACTUALLY MAKING SOMETHING MORE DIFFICULT FOR SENIORS OR THOSE RETIRING BY TAKING IT OUT OF RETAIL? RIGHT.
I THINK THE TWO EXAMPLES YOU GAVE ARE, UM, GOOD EXAMPLES BECAUSE COLIN CREEK MALL IS A UMU DISTRICT, SO THAT WOULD NOT APPLY TO, THAT WOULD NOT BE A RETAIL ZONING ISSUE.
AND THEN THE HAGGARD FARM, THAT WAS A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
SO IF THEY WANTED TO BUILD INDEPENDENT LIVING THERE, THEY COULD DO IT.
I KNOW, I THINK THE INDEPENDENT LIVING THAT'S THERE IS NOT PART OF THE LARGER PD THAT THEY DID.
THEY DID IT BY RIGHT BEFOREHAND, SO IT WAS UTILIZING THE OFFICE BASED ZONING.
SO THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD CHANGE WITH TIME.
UM, SO THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD'VE NEEDED TO BE PART OF THE LARGER PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT THAT THEY'VE DONE.
THAT WOULD BE A CHANGE FROM THEN TO NOW.
BUT TECHNICALLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT SOMEBODY COULD COME BACK TO YOU AND SAY, I DON'T WANNA USE THE RETAIL BASED OWNING, I COULD, I'D JUST LIKE TO DO A PD HERE AND THEN GET THESE IN THEM.
IT SHOULD BE FIVE ACRES OR MORE.
IT SHOULD MEET THE PD STANDARDS.
SO IT SHOULDN'T JUST BE, I WANT THIS ZONING, IT SHOULD BE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE WITH A SPECIAL DESIGN.
UM, BUT IF THEY HAVE A REAL PURPOSE BEHIND IT, UH, NOT JUST I WANT THIS LAND USE, UM, WE WOULD, WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT THE SPECIFIC STANDARDS OF A PLAN DEVELOPMENT THAT IT'S UNIQUE AND IT'S MEETING A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY NEED.
UM, SO IF IF IT CHECKS THE BOXES AND MEETS THE STANDARDS FOR PLAN DEVELOPMENT, THEN I THINK WE WOULD MAKE IT WORK.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE AVERAGE ACREAGE IS OF OUR, UM, COMMUNITY RETAIL CORNERS THAT THIS IS PRIMARILY GOING TO IMPACT? THEY'RE GOING TO BE LARGER THAN FIVE ACRES.
I THINK THE, THE CHALLENGE WITH THE RETAIL CORNERS IS THAT, UM, THE STANDARDS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ARE GENERALLY IT'S THE HEIGHT LIMITATION.
UM, A LOT OF THE INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITIES THAT WE'VE SEEN BUILT RECENTLY ARE THREE AND FOUR STORIES, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A CONFLICT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BECAUSE THEY, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS, IS UH, GENERALLY ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, CORNERS TWO-STORY, JUST LIKE THE EXISTING RETAIL ZONING IS TWO-STORY.
THAT'S WHY THE SINGLE FAMILY IS A GOOD FIT BECAUSE IT FITS IN WITH THE EXISTING ZONING STANDARDS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR, FOR CHRISTINA? THANK YOU.
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WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER, FRANK TURNER.UH, MY NAME IS FRANK TURNER AND, UM, HERE IS A CITIZEN OF PLANO ON THIS ITEM.
I'M NOT REPRESENTING A CLIENT OTHER THAN MYSELF.
I'M ONE OF THE, UH, BABY BOOMERS WHO WOULD, UH, LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AT SOME POINT OF SENIOR HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, I'M PROUD TO BE A PART OF THAT GROUP OF BOOMERS FROM 1946 TO 1964 THAT REPRESENT THE SECOND LARGEST GENERATION NEXT TO MILLENNIALS, UM, POPULATION GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES.
UH, AS WE HAVE WANDERED THROUGH THE YEARS, WE HAVE HEAVILY IMPACTED, UH, MANY INSTITUTIONS STARTING WITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT HAD TO BE GREATLY EXPANDED BECAUSE OF BABY BOOMERS AND ONTO HIGHER EDUCATION.
AND OF COURSE HAD PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE LABOR FORCE AND THE ECONOMY, NOT ONLY IN PRODUCTION, BUT ALSO VERY MUCH IN CONSUMPTION.
UH, WE AFFECTED THE ECONOMY AND NOW WE'RE ENTERING, UH, RETIREMENT.
SOME OF US SLOWER THAN OTHERS,
UM, BUT IT IS ESTIMATED THAT, UH, 10,000 PEOPLE CROSS THE LINE TO AGE 65 EVERY DAY.
10,000 AMERICANS, UH, ACROSS THAT LINE, I THINK ALL OF US HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY, UH, TO OUR SENIORS IN PROVIDING ADEQUATE SERVICES AND HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES.
IT'S A COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY AND IT'S NOT ONE THAT WE COULD SHIRK CAUSE THE DECISION HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE.
WE'RE HERE, WE CAN'T ROLL BACK THE CLOCK TO 1946 AND RESET THE BIRTH RATE.
WE ARE HERE AND WE'RE AGING AND WE'RE ADVANCING AND WE'RE PROFOUNDLY AFFECTING AMERICA AND EVERY CITY AND COMMUNITY AND AMERICA.
IT'S ESTIMATED IN 2010 THAT THERE WERE 23,000 SENIORS IN PLANO.
AND A QUICK ESTIMATE BY 2030, EVEN ASSUMING WE ARE STILL WELL BELOW NATIONAL AVERAGES, THAT NUMBER WILL ADVANCE TO 51,000 SENIORS IN PLANO, ROUGHLY 17% OF OUR POPULATION.
WHEREAS THE STATE WILL EXCEED, UH, OVER 20% AS SENIORS AT THAT POINT.
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDING FOR 'EM.
NOW ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL AS MS. DAY, UH, STATED.
THERE ARE VARIOUS CLASSES OF SENIOR FACILITIES AND HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND MANY PEOPLE WILL GO KICKING AND SCREAMING OUT OF THEIR SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
I HOPE TO BE ONE OF THOSE THAT GOES KICKING AND SCREAMING, BUT WITHOUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES, WE WILL HAVE A LITTLE CHOICE BUT TO STAY IN OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
AND THAT WILL PROFOUNDLY AFFECT THE SUPPLY OF HOUSING FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE WHO WISH TO LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THERE ONLY THERE ARE LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPANDING HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO THINK ABOUT THAT, THINK ABOUT THAT IF YOU WILL.
THE HOUSING POLICIES OF THE COMMUNITY NEED TO BE SET BASED ON, BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC NEEDS AND NOT TRYING TO FIT, UH, SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND.
I'LL STOP AT THIS POINT, I THINK TO TABLE THIS ITEM TO ALLOW FOR FURTHER STUDY OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND HOW PLAINTIFF'S HOUSING POLICIES MATCH WITH THOSE TRENDS.
I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, CONFINE THE COMMENTS TO THE COUNCIL.
UH, QUICK, QUICK, CHRISTINA, UH, AND MAYBE I'VE LOOKED AT IT WRONG, BUT THE WAY I SEE IT IS NOTHING HERE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN CONS DOING THE CONSOLIDATIONS.
TO ME IT IS MORE LIKE HOUSEKEEPING.
IT'S CLEANING THINGS UP, BUT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT IS PARTICULARLY GOING TO REDUCE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO STILL HAVE HOUSING, BE IT MULTIFAMILY FAMILY
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OR INDEPENDENT LIVING OR, OR SINGLE FAMILY.AM I INCORRECT ON THAT? I THINK WE'RE INCREASING THE HOUSING OPTIONS IN SOME WAYS AND WE ARE RESTRICTING IT IN SOME WAYS, BUT IT'S, IT IS HOUSEKEEPING IN THE WAY THAT WE'RE OH, OVERALL IT'S, WE'RE ALIGNING IT WITH OUR POLICIES.
AND, AND TO PIGGYBACK ON COUNCIL MEMBER SMITH'S POINT, UH, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, AND THIS MAY BE A GROSS OVERSIMPLIFICATION, BUT WE'RE KIND OF CHANGING THE, THE DEFAULT RULES, BUT WE CAN STILL A AS, AS YOU SAID IN RESPONSE TO MAYOR PROTE PRINCE'S QUESTION, WE COULD ENACT A PD WHERE THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
WE COULD REZONE WHERE THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
AND, UH, AND, AND SO WE'RE, WOULD IT BE, IS MY UNDERSTANDING ACCURATE THAT, THAT IN SOME WAYS WE'RE, WE'RE CHANGING THE DEFAULT RULES, BUT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR MORE SENIOR HOUSING TO GO IN WHERE IT BELONGS? BECAUSE I DO, I DO THINK MR. TURNER HAS, HAS A GOOD POINT THAT YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WE HAVE A NEED FOR SENIOR HOUSING BECAUSE OF THE GROWING SENIOR POPULATION IN PLAINTIFF, BUT WE'RE NOT FORECLOSING THAT OPTION.
UH, ARE WE? UH, THAT IS CORRECT.
GUSMAN GRA UM, LET ME CLARIFY A COUP A A POINT BECAUSE, UM, CERTAINLY WE'VE KNOWN THE NEED FOR SENIOR HOUSING IN ALL TYPES OF HOUSING, AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT SENIOR HOUSING, BUT EVEN WHEN WE GET TO INDEPENDENT LIVING HOUSING, UM, AND, UM, CONTINUUM CARE TYPE HOUSING, UM, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING SENIORS.
WE'RE TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE THAT MIGHT HAVE A MENTAL OR A PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND NEED THOSE TYPES OF SERVICES OF CONTINUOUS CARE.
SO WHEN I SAW IN THE, UM, INFORMATION THAT WE WERE REMOVING THE WORD ELDERLY, UM, I WAS ACTUALLY PLEASED, UH, BY THAT.
UM, BUT LET ME ASK A QUESTION.
UM, THE, UH, I WENT BACK AND TOOK A LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS PLANNING AND ZONING MEETINGS TO SEE WHERE THE OBJECTIONS WERE BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WORKING AT THIS FOR SOME TIME.
AND I, AND, AND IT STARTED IF I'M NOT, UH, WRONG IN SEPTEMBER 19TH OF LAST YEAR.
AND I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING AS FAR AS NEEDING, UH, ADJUSTMENTS OTHER THAN, UM, AT THAT MEETING THEY, THEY DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS MORE DISCUSSION TO HAVE AND, UM, THEY RESCHEDULED IT FOR A FURTHER MEETING.
AND I BELIEVE THAT MEETING WAS NOVEMBER 7TH, AT WHICH POINT THEY FELT THERE WAS FURTHER DISCUSSION THAT WAS NEEDED AND THEY TABLED IT AGAIN TO DECEMBER 5TH.
UM, AND THEN IT WAS TABLED AGAIN TO THE 19TH WHERE THERE WAS FURTHER DISCUSSION AND FURTHER INPUT AND FINALLY PUT ON THE JANUARY 17TH MEETING WHERE IT WAS THEN PASSED.
UM, AND THEN IT WAS PUT ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR FEBRUARY 13TH WHERE IT WAS TABLED UNTIL THIS MEETING.
UM, THE POINT THAT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS, IS THAT THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT AND AMPLE OPPORTUNITY, UM, I THINK, AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE OUR COMMUNICATIONS WENT AWRY THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS WAS COMING FORWARD.
UM, BUT FOR IT TO ARISE NOW AND SAY, WELL, LET'S TABLE IT AGAIN AND HAVE SOME MORE DISCUSSION, UM, SEEMS DEFEAT TO ME.
UM, AND, AND IN THAT CASE, UM, I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THIS ITEM THIS EVENING.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SORRY, COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER PALMER, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR CHRISTINA.
CAN YOU GIMME AN EXAMPLE OF A RETAIL AREA THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THIS DECISION? THE RETAIL ZONING DISTRICT IS GENERALLY ON, UM, MOST OF THE CORNERS THROUGHOUT PLANO.
SO WHAT IT WOULD ALLOW US TO DO IS, RIGHT NOW, UH, YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT PROCESS TO DO, TO BUILD, LET'S SAY PATIO HOMES ON IF YOU HAVE VACANT LAND MM-HMM.
SO WE'VE GONE THROUGH, WE KNOW IT FITS THE HEIGHT, IT FITS THE DENSITY.
WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PUBLIC PROCESS OF SAYING THIS IS A FIT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO RATHER THAN ASKING SOMEONE TO GO IN AND GO THROUGH A ZONING PROCESS, WE'VE SAID, HEY, THIS IS A BY RIGHT DEVELOPMENT, YOU CAN DO THIS TYPE OF SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING WITHOUT THE ADDITIONAL BURDEN OF GOING THROUGH A ZONING PROCESS.
YOU COULD DO INDEPENDENT HOUSING, NOT IT, IT COULD BE SENIOR RESTRICTED HOUSING, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE, IT COULD BE FAMILY HOUSING AS WELL.
IT WOULD JUST BE, IT WOULD BE TOWNHOUSES, UH, PATIO HOMES, UH, OR DUPLEXES ESSENTIALLY THAT COULD BE BUILT.
I, I MEAN, I, I GUESS I DO HAVE THE CONCERNS
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ABOUT US HAVING LIMITED INDEPENDENT HOUSING.GOING BACK TO I, I LIKE WHAT, UM, HAS BEEN POINTED OUT THAT WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT SENIOR ELDERLY HOUSING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT MAYBE HAVE SOME RESTRICTIONS.
UH, WE HAVE LIMITED INVENTORY OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE AGING IN PLACE BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
WE KNOW WE HAVE YOUNG FAMILIES THAT ARE WANTING TO MOVE INTO THESE HOMES, BUT UNTIL THESE, UM, PEOPLE, AND IF I'M, I'M NOT SURE I KNOW WE HAVE A SENIOR TAX FREEZE FOR PEOPLE 65 AND OVER.
ARE THEY EL ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DISABLED ELIGIBLE FOR THAT TAX FREEZE AS WELL? THEY ARE.
SO POTENTIALLY WE WOULD BE FREEING UP, WE WOULD BE FREEING UP PROPERTY INVENTORY FOR YOUNG FAMILIES TO MOVE IN THAT PEOPLE COULD MOVE ELSEWHERE AND INCREASE OUR PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE BEING FROZEN BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE OTHER OPTIONS.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.
THE OTHER THING I WANNA MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR ABOUT IS THOSE OTHER CATEGORIES OF, OF SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ARE NOT BEING CHANGED IN THE ORDINANCE.
IT'S ONLY THE AGE RESTRICTED HOUSING, INDEPENDENT LIVING, THE CONTINUING CARE ASSISTED LIVING, THOSE ARE NOT BEING CHANGED.
THOSE, THOSE ARE STAYING AS IS.
SO IS IT NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE INDEPENDENT LIVING THAT WOULD INCLUDE ANYONE THAT FIT, AGE CATEGORY, WAR HAD A, A NEED FOR ASSISTANCE DUE TO MENTAL OR HEALTH? YOU THE DEFINITION, UH, YOU'RE NOT, THE DEFINITION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING IS THAT YOU ARE NOT SUPPLYING SERVICES TO RESIDENTS.
IT'S ESSENTIALLY AN APARTMENT FOR THE ONLY, UH, QUALIFICATION IS THAT THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD IS 55 YEARS OR OLDER OR DISABLED? NO.
WELL, I, I GUESS I JUST, I, I HEAR WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER GRADY IS SAYING THAT THIS HAS BEEN KICKED DOWN A COUPLE TIMES AND, AND DELAYED.
UM, TO BE HONEST, I DON'T FOLLOW THE P N Z SUPER CLOSELY UNTIL IT GETS TO US.
SO, UM, I I, I FEEL LIKE NOW IT'S ON MY RADAR AND NOW I'M READING THE LETTERS FROM INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE SAYING LET'S DO SOME MORE RESEARCH.
AND, UM, SO I APOLOGIZE IF, IF I'M, I'M A LITTLE LATE TO THAT, BUT I, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING FROM CONSTITUENTS IS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE RESEARCH OR, UH, STUDIES DONE.
SO I'M, I'M NOT SURE I'M SUPPORTIVE OF, OF PASSING IT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS, UM, UH, MR. TURNER'S CORRECT, UH, IN THAT OUR DEMOGRAPHICS ARE AGING AND, UM, AS, UH, COUNCILWOMAN HOMER JUST POINTED OUT, UM, THERE'S NOT REALLY MANY GOOD OPTIONS FOR, UM, EMPTY NESTERS TO, UH, MOVE INTO, BECAUSE I'M GONNA SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD ON THIS, BUT, UH, WE HAVE A DICHOTOMY OF HOUSING TYPES.
WE'RE CATERING PRIMARILY TO TWO LIFE STAGES WHEN THERE ARE FAR MORE LIFE STAGES AND CIRCUMSTANCES THAT PEOPLE CAN FIND THEMSELVES IN.
UM, SO I FIND THAT IT'S, UM, A BIT OF A CHICKEN AND AN EGG EQUATION BECAUSE OUR DEMOGRAPHICS ARE RAGING IN PART, NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BUT IN PART BECAUSE OF THAT DICHOTOMY OF HOUSING TYPES, THEY AREN'T FREEING UP THE HOUSING STOCK THAT IS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR, UH, SAY MIDDLE STAGE FAMILIES.
UM, AND SO THOSE NEW MIDDLE STAGE FAMILIES HAVE, DON'T HAVE THE INVENTORY TO MOVE INTO, TO KEEP AT LEAST OUR AVERAGE AGE, UH, STEADY, MAYBE DEC UH, INCREASING MORE SLOWLY.
UM, SO TO HELP ALLEVIATE THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT, UM, RESTRICTING THE AREAS OF THE CITY IN WHICH WE CAN ENTERTAIN INDEPENDENT LIVING DEVELOPMENT IS REALLY GOING TO, UM, CHANGE THAT EQUATION FOR THE BETTER OR WORSE.
BUT IT DOES, AS WAS JUST BROUGHT UP, UM, WITH SOME OF THESE CHANGES MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER TO, UH, PROVIDE MORE HOUSING STOCK.
AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE MUCH UNDEVELOPED LAND, BUT IN THE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, ADDITIONAL HOUSING STOCK THAT, UH, THROUGH THE SMALLER FOOTPRINT SING, UH, OWNERSHIP OPTIONS, TOWNHOMES, ET CETERA, UM, TO PROVIDE FOR HOUSING STOCK AT THE DIFFERENT LIFE STAGES SO THAT WE DO INCREASE OUR HOUSING MOBILITY AND, UH, MAYBE THEREBY, UM, REDUCE, AT LEAST REDUCE THE INCREASE IN OUR AVERAGE AGE, UH, OVER TIME AND, UH, PROVIDE GREATER HOUSING MOBILITY.
ANDERS HAVE, UM, UH, MORE OPTIONS TO MOVE INTO BECAUSE SOME CERTAINLY WANTED TO MOVE INTO INDEPENDENT LIVING COMMUNITIES, UH, A LOT.
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UM, THEY'RE HAPPY TO GIVE UP THEIR SINGLE FAMILY HOME AS LONG AS THAT'S FOR A SMALLER SINGLE FAMILY HOME WHERE WITHOUT THE STAIRS THAT THEY HAVE TO UH, NAVIGATE AND MAYBE WITHOUT THE POOL THAT THEY HAVE TO KEEP, UH, SINKING MONEY INTO.BUT, UH, WITH THAT I SUPPORT THIS.
I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO, UH, APPROVE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO, PLEASE VOTE.
AND, UH, MR. MAYOR, IF I MAY, I KNOW WE ONLY HAVE ONE UH, ZONING CASE LEFT.
I WAS GONNA REQUEST A TWO MINUTE RECESS TO, UH, QUICKLY, UH, MAKE A RUN DOWN THE HALL IF, UH,
COUNSEL, YOU CONVENE ITEM THREE, ITEM NUMBER THREE,
[(3) Public Hearing and consideration of an Ordinance as requested in Zoning Case 2022-017 to amend Article 9 (Residential Districts), Article 10 (Nonresidential Districts), and Article 14 (Allowed Uses and Use Classifications) of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City, Ordinance No. 2015-5-2, as heretofore amended, to improve alignment of the Residential Community Design and Neighborhood Business Design districts with the comprehensive plan; and providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a savings clause, a severability clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Petitioner: City of Plano (Tabled at the February 13, 2023, City Council meeting.)]
PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AS REQUESTED IN ZONING CASE 2022 DASH 17 TO AMEND ARTICLE NINE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.ARTICLE 10 NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS IN ARTICLE 14 ALLOWED USES AND USE CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2015 DASH FIVE DASH TWO AS HERE TO FOUR AMENDED TO IMPROVE ALIGNMENT OF THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY DESIGN AND NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DESIGN DISTRICTS WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE, A REPEAL OR CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PUBLICATION CLAUSE, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
THIS ITEM WAS TABLED AT THE FEBRUARY 13TH MEETING.
ALL RIGHT, ZONING CASE 20 22 17 ALSO HAS A HISTORY.
UM, ITS HISTORY IS PERHAPS A LITTLE LONGER.
UM,
UM, COUNCIL TABLED THE DISTRICTS IN AUGUST OF 2020 BECAUSE WE WERE IN THE C P R C PROCESS AND THEY WANTED TO SEE THAT YOU ALL WANTED TO SEE THE OUTCOME OF THAT PROCESS.
SO, UH, IN JANUARY OF 2021, COUNSEL APPROVED THE DISTRICTS WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS LIMITED TO THE PLANO EVENT CENTER SITE.
UM, BECAUSE THE C P R C PROCESS STILL WASN'T, UH, FINISHED AT THE TIME, BUT YOU DIRECTED US TO BRING IT BACK ONCE THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS WAS COMPLETE SO WE COULD LOOK AT IF THE DISTRICTS COULD BE APPLICABLE UNDER THE NEW COMP PLAN.
SO AS WE STATED PREVIOUSLY, THE NEW COMP PLAN WAS ADOPTED AND SO WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING WHETHER OR NOT THESE DISTRICTS ALIGN WITH THE NEW PLAN.
AND SO WE'VE DRAFTED AMENDMENTS THAT UH, HOPEFULLY MAKE THEM FIT QUITE NICELY WITH THE NEW PLAN.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOT FOR YOU THIS EVENING.
SO A LITTLE REFRESHER ON THESE SINCE IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU'VE SEEN THEM.
THERE ARE TWO DISTRICTS THAT ARE COMPANION DISTRICTS, NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DESIGN AND RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY DESIGN.
THEY, UM, RELATE NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BUT UM, ARE DESIGNED TO HELP, UH, IMPLEMENT THE ENVISION OAK POINT PLAN.
UM, THEY HAVE A NUMBER OF UNIQUE ELEMENTS, INCLUDING THEY HAVE TRANSITION IN HEIGHTS FROM NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY'RE LOW RISE, THEY'RE LESS INTENSE MIXED USE DISTRICTS.
SO REALLY INTENDED TO BE A SUBURBAN STYLE MIX OF USES.
THEY HAVE WALKABLE TREE LINE STREETS, THEY REQUIRE OPEN SPACE.
UM, THERE'S ON STREET PARKING, UH, THEY WORK TOGETHER.
SO YOU COULD EITHER DO COMMERCIAL OR A MIX OF COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL OR RESIDENTIAL.
THEY'RE MEANT TO BE VERY FLEXIBLE.
UM, PROVIDE A MIX OF HOUSING AND RETAIL.
SO THEY ARE INTENDED TO MEET US WHERE OUR ZONING HAS A GAP WITH THE MARKET.
SO WE HAVE KIND OF INTENSE, UH, SOME INTENSE HOUSING TYPES, SOME LESS INTENSE HOUSING TYPES.
AND THEN THERE'S SOME PIECES OF OUR, SOME TOOLS THAT WE'RE MISSING ESSENTIALLY.
SO THIS GIVES US SOME OF THESE TOOLS.
SO THIS IS INTENDED TO SUM THIS UP, THAT, UM, IT'S MARKET RESPONSIVE RIGHT NOW WE'RE ESSENTIALLY USING PDS TO CREATE THESE THINGS AND UM, OFTENTIMES THINGS ARE EITHER TOO INTENSE OR NOT INTENSE ENOUGH.
SO WE HAVE TO TRY TO MAKE THINGS FIT AND WE'RE HOPING THAT N B D AND RC D CAN BE AN OPTION FOR US TO, UH, APPLY THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND MEET MARKET STANDARDS IN A MORE EFFICIENT WAY.
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HOW DOES THIS WORK? WELL, YOU'RE PROBABLY SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR WITH IT CUZ IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE A UMU DISTRICT, UM, WHICH HELPS US HAVE SOME PREDICTABILITY.IT'S GOT AN ADOPTED DEVELOPMENT PLAN, SO YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
IT'S GOT A GOVERNANCE ASSOCIATION, SO LIKE A GIANT HOA.
UM, IT'S GOT STREET AND SIDEWALK STANDARDS, MINIMUM OPEN SPACE STANDARDS.
UM, AND SO MOVING ON FROM HERE, ONE OF THE REALLY UNIQUE ELEMENTS IS BECAUSE WE THINK THESE, OUR CITY IS SO DEVELOPED AT THIS POINT, WE KNOW IT'S LIKELY TO BE NEAR EXISTING RESIDENTIAL.
SO WE'VE GOT THIS TWO TO ONE HEIGHT SETBACK RATIO TRANSITION, UM, THAT WE GAVE PEOPLE OPTIONS ON AND THIS WAS THE PREFERRED OPTION.
UM, THE, THERE IS A MIX OF USE REQUIREMENT WHERE YOU HAVE TO THREE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT USES.
UM, WE HAVE THESE LIVE WORK BUSINESS STYLE BUSINESS LOCK USES THAT REQUIRE SOMEONE TO LIVE UPSTAIRS FROM THE BUSINESS.
SO IT'S NOT AN EITHER OR BUSINESS OR RESIDENTIAL.
IT'S ACTUALLY BUSINESS PLUS RESIDENTIAL.
AND THEN THE HOUSING TYPES, THERE ARE EIGHT DIFFERENT HOUSING TYPES.
UM, THEY'RE DONE IN TIER TO INCLUDE A MIX.
AND THAT MIX, UM, LAYS OUT HERE WITH TIER ONE IS THE LEAST INTENSE MIX WITH UM, SMALL LOT SINGLE FAMILY, SOME SORT OF COTTAGE BUNGALOW TYPE HOUSING.
AGAIN, THESE ARE CONCEPTUAL TYPE UH, PHOTOS.
TIER TWO ARE KIND OF THE MID-RANGE OF HOUSING TODAY.
AND TIER THREE ARE THE MORE INTENSE LIKE HIGHER DENSITY STYLE OF HOUSING, BUT THEY'RE LIMITED TO 25% OF THE DISTRICT AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE A HUNDRED UNITS MINIMUM TO EVEN CONTEMPLATE DOING TIER THREE.
SO HOW DOES THAT FIT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? UM, I GUESS WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE, BUT THIS IS HOW THINGS PLAY OUT.
YOU HAVE, IF YOU'RE DOING 50 UNITS OR LESS, YOU NEED TO STICK IN KIND OF TIER ONE.
UM, YOU COULD DO TIER TWO, UM, 51 TO A HUNDRED UNITS AND THEN OVER A HUNDRED UNITS YOU CAN START ADDING TIER THREE.
SO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ALIGNMENT.
WE LOOKED AT ACTION RGM FIVE, SO THAT'S REDEVELOPMENT GROWTH MANAGEMENT FIVE.
SO WE ARE PROPOSING TO ADD A STANDARD THAT LIMITS THE N V D DISTRICT WITH HOUSING TO NO MORE THAN 50% RESIDENTIAL SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO THAT WOULD ALIGN WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT GROWTH MANAGEMENT STANDARD.
UM, THE SAME STANDARD B HAS PHASING REQUIREMENTS.
SO WE'RE PROPOSING TO ADD A PHASING REQUIREMENT THAT WILL HELP MEET THE STANDARD WITHIN, UH, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO FOR EVERY TWO ACRES OR FEET OF RESIDENTIAL USES, YOU HAVE TO HAVE ONE ACRE OR FOOT OF NON-RESIDENTIAL USE IN THE DEVELOPMENT.
AND THEN ITEM C WITHIN THAT SAME ACTION IS THE KEY DESIGN FEATURES ARE REQUIRED CONCURRENT WITH RESIDENTIAL.
SO THE PROPOSED CHANGE IS TO REQUIRE USABLE OPEN SPACE AND PLAN TRAILS DURING THE FIRST PHASE.
CURRENTLY WE REQUIRE STREET ENHANCEMENTS AND SIDEWALKS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT.
UH, ACTION RGM NINE UM, IS LIMITING SMALL SCALE MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS, UH, TO THAT ARE AT LEAST 10 ACRES IN SIZE TO HAVE NO MORE THAN 25% MULTI-FAMILY UNITS AND CONTROLLED BY A GOVERNANCE ASSOCIATION.
WE ALREADY HAVE THE GOVERNANCE ASSOCIATION REQUIREMENT, SO THAT WAS ALREADY COMPLETE, BUT WE HAD TO MIX UP THE, UH, UNIT, UH, CATEGORIZATION IN ORDER TO MEET THIS.
SO MANOR HOMES, AS YOU SEE, THE SECOND TIER FAR RIGHT ARE A MULTI-FAMILY TYPE AND STACKED FLATS ON THE LAST ROW ARE NOT, OR ALSO THOSE TWO ARE MULTI-FAMILY TYPES.
SO WE JUST COMBINED THOSE IN TIER TWO.
I'M SORRY, IN TIER THREE IS WHAT I'M MEANING TO SAY.
SO TIER THREE HAS NOW ALL THE MULTI-FAMILY TYPES, THEY'RE LIMITED TO 25%.
YOU CAN ONLY DO IT IF IT'S OVER A HUNDRED UNITS.
SO THAT SHOULD FIT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GUIDANCE.
IT WAS KIND OF CONVENIENT THAT WE ALREADY HAD THAT 25%
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STANDARD IN THERE.UM, WE REVIEWED THE, UH, DASHBOARDS TO SEE ALIGNMENT.
I DON'T EXPECT THAT ANYONE CAN SEE THIS
I'M JUST SHOWING YOU THAT WE ACTUALLY LOOKED IN DETAIL AT THE ZONING DISTRICTS, THE TIERS, THE VARIOUS DIFFERENT LAND, FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORIES IN DETAIL AND WHAT'S THE DENSITY, WHAT'S THE INTENSITY, WHAT'S THE SCALE, WHAT'S THE OPEN SPACE PARKING, ALL THIS STUFF.
AND DID A COMPARISON OF WHERE THEY ALIGNED AND WHERE THEY DIDN'T TO SEE WHAT CHANGES MIGHT BE NEEDED.
AND THE GREAT THING ABOUT THIS DIS THESE DISTRICTS IS UM, WE NEEDED TO AMEND SOME PURPOSE STATEMENTS, UM, TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE COMPATIBLE.
UH, SO WE SAID LOCATIONS NEED TO BE COMPATIBLE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS AND DEVELOP AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENT ALIGNS WITH THE COMP PLAN CUZ THESE ARE ALL GONNA BE DISCRETIONARY CUZ THEY'RE ALL REZONING, RIGHT? UM, SO AT THE TIME OF THE REQUEST, P AND Z AND COUNCIL BOTH ARE GONNA GET TO JUDGE ARE THE DASHBOARD REQUIREMENTS BEING MET.
UM, YOU CONSIDER THEM INDIVIDUALLY.
SO EACH OF THOSE IN THE REQUIREMENTS, IF SOMETHING IS NOT QUITE, YOU NEED TO TWEAK IT, YOU NEED TO MOVE IT DOWN.
UM, WE CAN ALL DO THAT AS PART OF EACH SPECIFIC DISTRICT'S STANDARD REQUIREMENTS.
SO WE FEEL LIKE THAT FLEXIBILITY'S REALLY GONNA HELP US IMPLEMENT THIS FOR EACH.
THERE WERE, THERE WAS A LOT OF ALIGNMENT, BUT WHERE THERE'S A SLIGHT DIFFERENTIAL, WE FEEL LIKE WE CAN MAKE THAT UP WITH, UH, AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT BECAUSE OF THAT FLEXIBILITY THAT'S BUILT IN.
SO AGAIN, WE CAN ADD AMENDMENTS WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS AND THAT WILL, OUR PROPOSAL IS TO ALLOW MORE APPLICABILITY RATHER THAN CREATING MORE ZONING.
DISTRICTS ALLOW SOME FLEXIBILITY WITH THE MINIMUM MAXIMUM DENSITIES.
SO YOU ALL CAN USE THESE MORE TO IMPLEMENT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO YOU COULD USE IT IN AN URBAN ACTIVITY CENTER OR IN AN EXPRESSWAY CORRIDOR.
IT MAY NOT MEET IT PERFECTLY, BUT IT GIVES YOU ALL MORE FLEXIBILITY TO MEET THE COMP PLAN WITHOUT CREATING ADDITIONAL ZONING DISTRICTS.
SO FREE-STANDING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS, THIS WAS THE LAST CHANGE.
UM, P AND Z WANTED TO TAKE OUT THIS LIMITATION FOR 5,000 SQUARE FEET ON FREE-STANDING BUILDINGS.
WE THINK THERE ARE OTHER PRACTICAL THINGS IN THE ZONING DISTRICT THAT MAKE IT OKAY.
YOU'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY STREETS, PARKING IN FRONT OF THE BUILDINGS, YOU DON'T HAVE DRIVE UP WINDOWS.
SO I THINK THAT FLEXIBILITY IS FINE.
IT'S GOT A LOT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CONFORMANCE AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.
AND WE'VE HAD NO FEEDBACK ON THIS.
I, UH, EITHER AT PZ, UH, AT P AND Z, WE DID HAVE A COUPLE OF SPEAKERS, UM, HOWEVER, SO IF YOU NOTICE ON THE FOLLOW UP MEMO THAT THERE WAS, UH, THERE WAS COMMENT, UM, FROM A COUPLE OF INDIVIDUALS AT P N Z, BUT P N Z DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL SEVEN TO ZERO.
AND WITH THAT I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.
UH, THE SPEAKERS AT P AND Z WERE BOTH IN SUPPORT, SO OKAY.
AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
THANK YOU MAYOR PROTO, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE SLIDE WHERE YOU SHOWED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DIFFERENT HOUSING TYPES? I THINK YOU SHOWED IT TWICE.
YES, I THINK IT'S THAT ONE, BUT THE, YEAH.
CAN YOU CLARIFY FOR ME, BECAUSE THE WAY I'M READING THIS, IT SAYS MINIMUM HOUSING TYPES REQUIRED THREE IF YOU HAVE OVER A HUNDRED UNITS.
SO ARE WE SAYING THAT IF SOMEBODY HAD OVER A HUNDRED UNITS, WE'RE GONNA REQUIRE THEM TO HAVE ONE FROM EVERY TIER? IT IT MEANS THAT THEY J THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE ONE FROM EVERY TIER.
IT JUST MEANS OF THE EIGHT HOUSING TYPES, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THREE.
THEY COULD HAVE ALL FROM TIER ONE IF THEY WANTED TO, BUT THEY HAVE TO HAVE THREE DISTINCT HOUSING TYPES.
AND SO WHAT IS THE PURPOSE IN REQUIRING THEM TO HAVE THREE DIFFERENT, JUST TO HELP INCREASE OUR DIVERSITY OF HOUSING TYPES? CORRECT.
AND TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD NOT LOOK COOKIE CUTTER.
THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM.
I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, FIND THE COMMENTS TO THE COUNCIL.
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I'LL SECOND.I HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND TO APPROVE.
ITEM NUMBER THREE, PLEASE VOTE.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS.