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[1. Call meeting to order.]
EVERYONE.SORRY TO INTERRUPT THE FELLOWSHIP.
I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND OFFICIALLY CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
TODAY IS NOVEMBER, I'M SORRY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2023.
THIS IS THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
I WANNA REMIND EVERYONE THAT OPEN CARRY IS NOT PERMITTED WITHIN THESE COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
I DO HAVE A FULL QUORUM OF CITY COUNCIL WHO IS PRESENT.
I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, BRING UP PASTOR COOPER, UH, FROM ROCK OF FAITH FAMILY CHURCH TO DO, UH, TO LEAD US IN THE INVOCATION.
IS MR. COOPER HERE? MR. COOPER? HE'S NOT HERE.
WELL, UM, FOLLOWING THE INVOCATION, I WILL HAVE, UM, OUR VERY OWN COUNCILMAN MCCURDY TO, UH, TO ALL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
ANY VOLUNTEERS TO DO, TO DO THE INVOCATION? PLEASE COME ON UP.
YEAH, JUST GIVE IT UP FOR HIM.
IF EVERYONE WILL PLEASE STAND.
AND, UH, IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE US YOUR NAME AND I'M JOEL PORTER, PRESIDENT HERE IN CEDAR HILL.
AND I, I DO, DID GET MY DEGREE IN MINISTRY SO
YOU GET A PASS TODAY,
LORD, WE ASK YOU WATCH OVER THESE PROCEEDINGS HERE AND THAT YOU PRO BLESS US ALL WITH WISDOM.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OUR MAYOR AND OUR CITY SERVANTS.
WE THANK YOU FOR THEIR, UM, WILLINGNESS TO SERVE.
AND, UH, WE ASK THAT YOU'LL BLESS THEM WITH WISDOM AND COMPASSION.
AND, AND AGAIN, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENCE WITH US.
AND IT'S IN JESUS NAME THAT WE PRAY.
WOULD PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PEGGI? YES.
PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF THE AMERICAN FLAG, FOLLOWED BY THE TEXAS FLAG.
A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IS DUE FLAG IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
AND TWO REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITHIN
JUSTICE, STRONG HONOR, THE TEXAS ALLEGIANCE, TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE INDIVIDUALLY.
[a. Present a Proclamation designating September 28, 2023, as National Good Neighbor Day in Cedar Hill.]
IS PRESENTATIONS.UH, ITEM FOUR A IS PRESENT A PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2023 AS NATIONAL GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY IN CEDAR HILL.
THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY VERY OWN COUNCILWOMAN DANIELS AND, UH, MS. TIA TIA BREWER.
YES, YOU WILL PLEASE COME UP AND RECEIVE IT.
I THINK YOU HAVE SOME BOARD MEMBERS HERE WITH YOU PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS HAVING A NEIGHBOR YOU CAN COUNT ON NO MATTER WHAT LIFE THROWS YOUR WAY, IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.
AND WHEREAS NATIONAL GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1970S WHEN BECKY MATHSON, A RESIDENT OF LAKESIDE MONTANA, DECIDED THAT NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY NEEDED TO GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER ON A MORE INTIMATE LEVEL THAN A QUICK WAVE OR SIMPLE HELLER.
AND WHEREAS IN 2003, THE UNITED STATES SENATE FINALLY PASSED A RESOLUTION DECLARING SEPTEMBER THE 28TH AS THE OFFICIAL DAY TO CELEBRATE AND HONOR YOUR NEIGHBORS.
AND WHEREAS NEIGHBORHOODS U S A ENCOURAGES ALL THOSE WHO ARE COMMITTED TO BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, TO TAKE PART IN NATIONAL GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, STEPHEN MASON, MAYOR OF CEDAR HILL DO HEREBY PROCLAIM SEPTEMBER THE 28TH, 2023 AS NATIONAL GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY IN THE CITY OF CITY HILL, TEXAS.
FATHER, I ASK CITIZENS TO USE THE DAY TO ENCOURAGE NEIGHBORS TO GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER BETTER AND TO CELEBRATE FRIENDSHIP AND THE WORK WE DO EVERY DAY TO MAKE OUR NEIGHBORS NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE, PLACES TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY.
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SET MY HAND AND HAVE CALLED THE SEAL OF THE CITY, OF CITY HILL, TEXAS TO BE AFFIXED THIS 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2023.WANNA SAY THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR THE PROCLAMATION FOR GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY.
WE REALLY DO ENJOY WHAT WE GET TO DO.
WE WANNA ENCOURAGE EVERYONE HERE TO COME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SUMMIT THIS SATURDAY AND ALSO PARTICIPATE IN YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
THAT'S WHAT BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR IS.
THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
[b. Present a Proclamation recognizing the week of October 8-14, 2023, as Fire Prevention Week in Cedar Hill.]
THE AGENDA IS PRESENTED PROCLAMATION, RECOGNIZING THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 8TH THROUGH THE 14TH 2023 AS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK IN CEDAR HILL.THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER GLOVER.
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU SITTING UP HERE BY YOURSELF AND YOU CAN HEAR YOURSELF THINK.
AND NOW WE HAVE OUR FIRE FAMILY WITH US.
SO IT'S AN HONOR AND PLEASURE TO BE HERE THIS EVENING.
I HAVE A PRO PROCLAMATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, WHEREAS THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL IS COMMITTED TO ENSURING THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF ALL THOSE LIVING IN AND VISITING OUR CITY.
AND WHEREAS FIRE IS A SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN, BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY AND HOMES ARE THE LOCATIONS WHERE PEOPLE ARE AT THE GREATEST RISK FROM FIRE HOME FIRES KILLED MORE THAN 2,800 PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2021.
ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION, N F P A AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES RESPONDED TO 338,000 HOME FIRES.
AND WHEREAS COOKING IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF HOME FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED TO MORE THAN 164,400 ANNUALLY BETWEEN 2016 AND 2022 OUTTA EVERY HOME.
FIRES START IN THE KITCHEN WHERE 31% OF THESE FIRES RESULTING FROM UNATTENDED COOKING.
AND WHEREAS CITY CEDAR HILL RESIDENTS SHOULD TURN POT HANDLES TOWARDS THE BACK OF THE STOVE, ALWAYS KEEP THE A LID NEARBY WHEN COOKING, KEEP A THREE FOOT KID FRIENDLY FREE ZONE AROUND THE ZONE, AROUND THE STOVE OVEN AND OTHER THINGS THAT COULD GET HOT.
WATCH WHAT THEY HEAT AND SET A TIMER TO REMIND THEM THAT THEY THEY ARE COOKING.
AND WHEREAS RESIDENTS WHO WHO HAVE PLANNED AND PRACTICED A HOME FIRE ESCAPE PLAN ARE MORE PREPARED AND WILL THEREFORE BE MORE LIKELY TO SURVIVE A FIRE WORKING SMOKE ALARMS CUT THE WRIST OF DYING AND REPORTED HOME FIRES ALMOST IN HALF.
AND WHEREAS CEDAR HILL FIRST RESPONDERS ARE DEDICATED TO REDUCING THE OCCURRENCE OF HOME FIRES AND HOME FIRE INJURIES THROUGH PREVENTION AND PROTECTION EDUCATION.
AND WHEREAS CEDAR HILL RESIDENTS ARE RESPONSIVE TO PUBLIC EDUCATION, ME MEASURES, AND ARE ABLE TO TAKE PERSONAL STEPS TO INCREASE THEIR SAFETY FROM FIRE, ESPECIALLY IN THEIR HOMES.
AND WHEREAS THE 2023 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK THEME IS COOKING SAFETY STARTS WITH YOU PAY ATTENTION TO FIRE TO FIRE PREVENTION.
FIRE PREVENTION EFFECTIVELY SERVES TO REMIND US TO STAY ALERT AND USE CAUTION WHEN COOKING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE, OF KITCHEN FIRES.
THEREFORE, I, STEPHEN MASON, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HERE DO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER 8TH THROUGH 14TH 2023 AS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK THROUGHOUT THIS CITY.
AND I URGE ALL PEOPLE OF CEDAR HILL TO CHECK THEIR KITCHENS FOR FIRE HAZARDS AND USE SAFE COOKING PRACTICES DURING FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2023 AND TO SUPPORT THE MINDY PUBLIC SAFETY ACTIVITIES AND EFFORTS OF THE CEDAR OF THE CEDAR HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICES
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AND WITNESS WHEREOF, I HAVE HERE TWO SET MY HAND AND HAVE CAUSED THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS TO BE AFFIXED THIS 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2023.THANK YOU, UH, COUNCILMAN GLOVER, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION AND WE ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO, UH, PRACTICE GOOD SAFETY, COOKING, SAFETY TECHNIQUES.
COOKING, AS THE PROCLAMATION SAID, BEGINS WITH ALL OF US.
AND WE'D LIKE YOU ALL TO, UH, HELP US PROMOTE THAT IN THE CITY.
UH, AS A MEMENTO FOR THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, OUR CITIZENS FIRE ACADEMY, WE'D LIKE TO PRESENT YOU ALL WITH A MITT OVEN MITT, UH, OVEN STICK AND SOME FIRE SAFETY TIPS.
AND, UH, JUST TO LET EVERYONE ELSE KNOW THANK YOU DURING FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, UH, OCTOBER THE 10TH, WE WILL BE AT THE, UH, LIBRARY, I'M SORRY, AT THE REC CENTER FROM FIVE TO SEVEN WITH HOT DOGS.
AND YOU CAN GET YOUR MITT EITHER TODAY OR YOUR OVEN STICK TODAY, OR YOU CAN GET IT AT THE LIBRARY ON THE 10TH, OR I'M SORRY, ON THE 12TH REC CENTER ON THE 10TH.
PHOTO OFFICE PHOTO, PHOTO
PLEASE VISIT OUR TABLE OUTSIDE ON YOUR WAY OUT.
FIRE DEPARTMENT CITIZENS FIRE ACADEMY.
[c. Present a Proclamation designating the month of October 2023 as National Community Planning Month in Cedar Hill.]
AGENDA IS A PROCLAMATION, UH, DESIGNATED THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 2023 AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH IN CEDAR HILL.THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY MAYOR FOR TIM SIMS. THANK YOU, MAYOR.
IT'S AN ABSOLUTE PLEASURE FOR ME TO, UM, TO BE, TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION.
AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE AS A CITY ENJOY TODAY, BUT PEOPLE MAY NOT REALIZE.
BUT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE JOINED TODAY WERE PLANNED 20 YEARS AGO.
SO IT'S THE HALLMARK OF THIS CITY IS PLANNING AND IT'S MY PLEASURE TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION.
I'LL READ LOUD SO I CAN DROWN OUT SOME OF THE OTHER NOISE PROCLAMATION, OFFICE OF THE MAYOR.
WHEREAS CHANGE IS CONSTANT AND AFFECTS ALL CITIES, TOWNS, SUBURBS, COUNTIES, BOROUGHS, TOWNSHIPS, RURAL AREAS AND OTHER PLACES.
AND WHEREAS COMMUNITY PLANNING AND PLANS CAN HELP MANAGE THIS CHANGE IN A WAY THAT PROVIDES BETTER CHOICES FOR HOW PEOPLE WORK AND LIVE.
AND WHEREAS COMMUNITY PLANNING PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL RESIDENTS TO BE MEANINGFULLY INVOLVED IN MAKING CHOICES THAT DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS THE FULL BENEFITS OF PLANNING REQUIRES PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS WHO UNDERSTAND SUPPORT, DEMAND EXCELLENCE IN PLANNING AND PLAN IMPLEMENTATION.
AND WHEREAS THE MONTH OF OCTOBER IS DESIGNATED AS NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS TERRITORIES.
AND WHEREAS THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION ENDORSES NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT HOW PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL TO RECOVERY AND HOW PLANNERS CAN LEAD COMMUNITIES TO EQUITABLE, RESILIENT AND LONG-LASTING RECOVERY.
AND WHEREAS THE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH GIVES US, GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE THE PARTICIPATION AND DEDICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITIZEN PLANNERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS.
AND WHEREAS WE RECOGNIZE THE MANY VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNERS BY THE CITY OF CITY HILL, TEXAS, AND EXTEND OUR HEARTFELT THANKS TO THE CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SERVICE BY THESE PROFESSIONALS.
NOW, THEREFORE, I STEVEN MASON, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF
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OCTOBER, 2023 AS COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HEARING TO SET MY HAND AND HAVE CAUSED THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS TO BE AFFIXED THIS 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2023.THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THE PROCLAMATION.
I JUST WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK OUR AMAZING PLANNING STAFF, UH, DEBBIE
AND WE ALSO WANNA TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE OUR PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
UH, WE HAVE SOME OF THEM REPRESENTED HERE TONIGHT.
UH, OUR VICE CHAIR, UH, JAY PATTON, COMMISSIONER GERALD MALONE, AND COMMISSIONER ELENA ANDERSON.
SO WE JUST WANNA THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND DEDICATION TO THE CITIZENS OF, UH, CEDAR HILL AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE COMMISSION, UH, AND RECOGNITION OF, UH, COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH.
WE WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE CITY IN OCTOBER.
SO WE WILL HAVE A BOOTH, UH, AT COUNTRY DAY.
WE WILL ALSO HAVE A BOOTH AT SCARE ON THE SQUARE.
WE WILL BE PARTICIPATING NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND THEN ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 20TH, UM, FROM NINE UNTIL 11:00 AM HERE IN THE GOVERNMENT CENTER LOBBY, WE'LL HAVE COFFEE AND PASTRIES WITH THE CITY PLANNERS.
SO IT'S JUST A COME AND GO, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS, UH, PLANNING WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL AND HOW PLANNING AFFECTS, UM, THIS, THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE JUST THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS PROCLAMATION.
PLANNING DIRECTOR AND STAFF AND COMMISSIONERS.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, COUNSEL.
[b. Consider approving Resolution No. R23-697 which names the new library in honor of Traphene Hickman.]
UM, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND USE MY EXECUTIVE POWERS TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE UP, UH, ITEM EIGHT TO B.SO, UM, GO AHEAD AND READ THAT AGENDA ITEM, CONSIDER APPROVING RESOLUTION NUMBER R 23 DASH 6 97, WHICH NAMES THE NOON LIBRARY IN HONOR OF INE HICKMAN.
COUNSEL, WOULD YOU MIND JOINING ME DOWN, UH, IN FRONT OF THE DIOCESE? YOU KNOW, I CAN GIVE YOU, UM, A LOT, UH, TO SAY ABOUT THE PERSON WHO WE ARE HONORING HERE TODAY.
UM, BUT, UH, A LOT OF THAT'S KINDA WRITTEN IN THE RESOLUTION.
UM, BUT I WILL SAY OVER THE LAST MAYBE I GUESS 20 YEARS, UM, WE HAVE BEEN WANTING, UH, YOU KNOW, A NEW ASSET HERE, UH, IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH IS THE NEW LIBRARY.
AND, UH, THAT LIBRARY IS WITHIN THE BRINK OF, UH, OPENING UP ITS DOORS HERE PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE TO SIX MONTHS.
UM, THERE WAS A BIG CHEERLEADER, UH, WHO USED TO COME DOWN HERE TO OUR COUNCIL MEETING, UH, TO BE ABLE TO PROPOSE THAT WE NEED MORE SPACE, WE NEED MORE RESOURCES, AND, UH, THAT PERSON, YOU KNOW, WILL HOPEFULLY BE HONORED HERE TODAY.
SO I KNOW A LOT OF YOU ARE ARE HERE TO BE ABLE, UH, TO HEAR WHAT THIS RESOLUTION HAS TO SAY.
UH, SO I WOULD LOVE FOR MR. JR TO COME UP HERE AND JOIN ME IF YOU COULD.
SO I HAVE A RESOLUTION NUMBER R 23 DASH 6 97, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, NAMING THE CEDAR HILL LIBRARY IN HONOR OF TINE HICKMAN AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS TINE HICKMAN HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN DEVELOPING AND SHAPING OF THE CEDAR HILL LIBRARY, SERVING AS THE FIRST LIBRARY DIRECTOR FROM 1959 UNTIL 1976 AND LATER SERVING AS THE DIRECTOR OF DALLAS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM FROM 1976 UNTIL 1996.
AND RAF HICKMAN EPITOMIZED THE SPIRIT OF DEVOTED COMMUNITY INVOLVING BY I INVOLVEMENT BY SERVING THE CEDAR HILL LIBRARY IN DIFFERENT
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CAPACITIES FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS.HER PASSION FOR LITERACY AND CREATING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE WAS A DRIVING FORCE THAT HELPED TO LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR WHAT OUR LIBRARY IS TODAY.
A DOOR TO DISCOVERY CHAFIN IS CREDITED FOR CREATING AND EMBODYING A UNIQUE AND LASTING VISION OF THE LIBRARY AS THE HEARTBEAT OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND THE CITY HAS WITNESSED A TRANSFORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THAT VISION.
AND THE LIBRARY EXPEND EXPERIENCED TREMENDOUS GROWTH FROM 900 SQUARE FEET, UH, FOOT LIMITED SPACE IN THE FORMER CITY HALL TO A 10,800 SQUARE FEET, UH, UH, FOOT, UH, PLACE FOR LEARNING, GROWING AND DISCOVERY AND
AND OF THE TRI LEADERSHIP, THE LIBRARY INSPIRED THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND SENIOR CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN LIBRARY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND GET LIBRARY CARDS, BOOKS, AUDIO BOOKS.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER PAGE TO THIS.
CHUFFING WAS A MASTER STORYTELLER SERVING, TEACHING AND CULTIVATING THE ART OF STORYTELLING IN MANY WAYS.
SHE SHARED HER GIFT FOR STORYTELLING WITH CHILDREN AND PEOPLE OF ALL AGES.
CHAFE EXUDED THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, WHILE EMBODYING A GENUINE LOVE AND HEART FOR HELPING OTHERS.
AND TO KNOW ENE WAS TO LOVE HER.
SHE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FABRIC OF OUR DAILY LIVES IN CEDAR HILL.
THE NEW 42,000 SQUARE FEET PUBLIC CEDAR HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY THE LEGACY OF EDUCATION AND SERVICE AND SERVE AS A BEACON OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION FOR ALL WHO ENTER WELCOMING TO EVERYONE AS AN EXTENSION OF THE CELEBRATION OF OUR BEAUTIFUL DIVERSITY.
AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CITY HILL HAS CHOSEN TO HONOR THE SPIRIT OF TINE HICKMAN FOR HER LIFE-CHANGING, IMPACTFUL PUBLIC SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL AND ALL THAT KNEW HER.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS.
THAT SECTION ONE, THE NEW CEDAR HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY IS HEREBY NAMED IN HONOR OF INE HICKMAN.
THERE'S A SECTION TWO, DO YOU WANNA READ THE SECTION TWO? NO, YOU CAN.
SECTION TWO SAYS, THIS RESOLUTION IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
IT'S RESOLVED, PASSED, AND APPROVED ON THIS 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2023.
WHAT CAN I SAY? SHE DEDICATED HER LIFE TO LIBRARIES AND TO THE CITY OF CITY HILL.
I MISS HER AND EVERYBODY WILL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY OTHER THAN THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HONORING MY WIFE LIKE THIS.
I KNOW SHE'S STANDING BY RIGHT THERE LOOKING DOWN AND SMILING AT US RIGHT NOW AND LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER BECAUSE SHE'LL STILL BE DIRECTING YOU TO DO SOMETHING.
SO BEFORE YOU TAKE A PICTURE, MAYOR PRO TEM, I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THAT RESOLUTION.
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I DO HAVE A MOTION AND I DO HAVE A SECOND.ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
BEFORE I MOVE ON, COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? GOTCHA.
I JUST WANT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, REEMPHASIZE THE, THE, THE MEANINGFULNESS O OF THE CON NOT NAMING THE FACILITY.
YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS KIND OF THE, THE ICING I GUESS ON, ON THE CAKE.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE YEARS THAT SHE SPENT DEDICATED TO THIS COMMUNITY, UM, DEDICATED TO, UH, THE LIBRARY SERVICES, BUT DEDICATED TO THE, TO THE COMMUNITY OF CEDAR HILL.
UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, I THINK THE LEAST OF WHAT WE COULD, COULD DO TO ACKNOWLEDGE HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY.
UM, CITY MANAGER, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER.
WE, WE GOOD? ALRIGHT, PERFECT.
SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE BACK UP TO THE AGENDA AND, UH, TRY TO FOLLOW IN SEQUENCE.
[5. Citizens Forum/Public Comments. Citizens wishing to speak during this time should submit a Speaker Request Form to the City Secretary before the meeting begins. Public comments may also be submitted online at: cedarhilltx.com/publiccomment. All public comments submitted online by 3pm on City Council meeting dates will be distributed to the City Council and entered into record. ]
IS THE CITIZENS FORM AND, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.UH, WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ONLINE COUNCIL, BUT I THINK I DO HAVE ONE CITIZEN WHO FILLED OUT A FORM.
AND, UH, BETH FARRELL, ARE YOU STILL HERE WITH US? PLEASE COME ON DOWN.
PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, UH, FOR THE RECORD.
AND I BELIEVE YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
I'M AT FOUR 19 SWAN RIDGE DRIVE IN DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS.
I KNOW BETH, I'M TELLING, BUT I HAVE A BUSINESS HERE, SO, OKAY.
I JUST CAME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT AN EVENT THAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN CEDAR HILL THIS SATURDAY.
THERE'S A KEY CEREMONY FOR FROM HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS AND HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS MATES AND ADAPTIVE HOMES.
THEY BUILD ADAPTIVE HOMES AND GIVE THEM TO INJURED SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN.
AND THIS ONE IS RIGHT HERE IN CEDAR HILL.
UM, YOU NEED TO GO ON THE WEBSITE AND REGISTER SO I'LL KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING.
THEY SERVE REFRESHMENTS AFTER, AFTER THE CEREMONIAL SERVE REFRESHMENTS.
IT'S REALLY OUTSTANDING WHAT THIS GROUP DOES, AND I CAN READ YOU HIS STORY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIM, IF YOU'D LIKE.
ON JUNE 16TH, MARINE CORPORAL RAYMOND D HENNEGER THE THIRD WAS ON HIS SECOND DEPLOYMENT, SERVING AS A COMBAT ENGINEER WITH THE SECOND COMBAT ENGINEER BATTALION ATTACHED TO THE SECOND BATTALION SEVENTH MARINES IN ZION, IRAQ.
WHEN HE WAS SEVERELY INJURED IN AN I E D EXPLOSION, THE BLAST RESULTED IN LOSS OF BOTH HIS LEGS AND FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND.
RAYMOND UNDERWENT MORE THAN 50 SURGERIES WITHIN TWO MONTHS BEFORE LEARNING HOW TO WALK ON PROSTHETICS.
NOW MEDICALLY RETIRED, RAYMOND SPENDS MUCH OF HIS TIME PLAYING WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL.
HE WON THE SILVER MEDAL WITH THE US WHEELCHAIR RUGBY TEAM AT THE 2020 PARALYMPIC GAMES IN TOKYO, LA IN AUGUST OF 21.
CURRENTLY HE VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ARLINGTON LADY MOVING MAVS WOMEN'S WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND COMPETES WITH THE DOT DOE'S WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL CLUB IN GREECE.
RAYMOND WOULD LIKE TO GET BACK INTO WOODWORKING, BUT LACKS SPACE IN HIS CURRENT LIVING SITUATION, ESPECIALLY ADAPTED HOME.
CUSTOM HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS HOME WILL PROVIDE RAYMOND WITH AMPLE WHEEL SPACE FOR HIS WHEELCHAIR, GIVING HIM ROOM TO HAVE HIS OWN WORKSHOP.
ADDITIONALLY, THE HOME'S AUTOMATIC DOOR AND ACCESSIBLE KITCHEN WILL ALLOW RAYMOND TO EASILY CARRY IN GROCERIES AND PREPARE MEALS WITHOUT HAVING A DAILY STRESS OF NAVIGATING A NON ADAPTED HOME.
RAYMOND WILL HAVE TIME, MORE TIME AND ENERGY TO PUT INTO HIS FUTURE PLANS.
HE'S CURRENTLY GOING TO SCHOOL FOR VIDEO PRODUCTION AND AUDIO ENGINEERING.
HE HOPES TO FORM HIS OWN RECORD LABEL AND MAKE VIDEOS FOR LOCAL ARTISTS.
HE'S ORIGINALLY FROM NEW JERSEY, BUT HE IS CHOOSING TO BUILD HIS HOME HERE IN TEXAS IN CEDAR HILL.
RAYMOND SAYS HE'S GRATEFUL, EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR HOME, FOR OUR TROOPS, DONORS AND SUPPORTERS WHO WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE BUILDING OF HIS HOME.
IT IS SUPPORT LIKE THIS THAT TRULY SHOWS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN OUR WOUNDED SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN.
AND A SIDE NOTE, THE C E O HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS IS MY COUSIN, RETIRED BRIGADIER GENERAL TOM LANDER MEYER.
HE'S A 1972 GRADUATE OF DUNCANVILLE.
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I'VE GOT SOMETHING IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO INVITE ALL YOUR CONSTITUENTS, LIKE I SAID, REGISTERS, THEY'LL KNOW HOW MANY YOU'RE COMING.AND, AND, AND NOW CITY MANAGER GAVE US A BRIEFING EARLIER TODAY AND, UM, I'LL BE THERE.
BUT, UH, I DO HAVE A, UH, NINE O'CLOCK MEETING AS WELL.
SO I'LL TRY TO, I'LL TRY TO MAKE BOTH AND BE THERE PROMPTLY.
UH, THAT IS ALL FOR CITIZENS' FORUM.
SO I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THAT PORTION
[a. Case No. PD-569-2023 – Conduct a public hearing and consider an application to amend Planned Development District No. 95-210 [Lake Ridge], designated for “SF-E” (Single-Family Residential District with minimum 1- acre lots), to permit fencing from the front line of the house to the public right-of-way for Lot 169 of the Lake Ridge Addition, Section 3, generally located on the north side of South Lakeview Drive, northwest of Sonterra Drive, with the approximate address being 2853 South Lakeview Drive. Applicant/Property Owner: Peterick Fuller, The PF Family Trust.]
AND, UH, GO TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.AND THAT IS THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, CASE NUMBER PD 5 6 9 2023.
CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER AN APPLICATION TO AMEND PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT NUMBER NINE FIVE DASH 20 LAKE RIDGE DESIGNATED FOR SS F E SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT WITH MINIMUM ONE ACRE LOTS TO PERMIT FENCING FROM THE FRONT LINE OF THE HOUSE TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY FOR A LOT.
1 69 OF THE LAKE RIDGE EDITION.
SECTION THREE, GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SOUTH LAKEVIEW DRIVE, NORTHWEST OF ONTARIO DRIVE WITH THE APPROXIMATE ADDRESS BEING 2 8 5 3 SOUTH LAKEVIEW DRIVE.
APPLICANT PROPERTY OWNER, UH, PETRICK FULLER, THE PF FAMILY TRUST.
DO WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE WITH US TODAY? WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT TO THE COUNCIL? YES, SIR.
UM, I WILL HAVE EVAN BARDO, UH, PRESENT THIS TO YOU ALL FOR ME AS HE'S A LITTLE MORE STABLE TO DO IT.
COUNCILMAN, SIR, WOULD YOU MIND GIVING US YOUR NAME, ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE? SURE.
MY ADDRESS IS, UH, 10 40 LIGHTHOUSE COURT.
UH, SO, UH, GOOD EVENING AGAIN.
UH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE IN FRONT OF YOU.
UH, MR. FULLER FILED THIS, UH, PD AMENDMENT REQUEST, UH, ON BEHALF OF THE PF FAMILY TRUST.
UH, WITH REGARD TO HIS PROPERTY THAT IS LOCATED AT 28 53 SOUTH LAKEVIEW DRIVE.
UH, YOU'LL SEE ON THE SCREEN A PHOTO OF THE PROPERTY.
UH, WHAT YOU SEE IS A STREET VIEW PHOTO FROM LAKEVIEW DRIVE, UH, OF, OF THE PROPERTY LINE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE THE DRIVEWAY, UM, AND THEN THE EXTENSION, THOSE TALLER TREES IS THE END THERE.
UH, SO WHY ARE WE HERE? WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW IS, UH, MR. PHILLIP PURCHASED HIS HOUSE IN 2021.
UH, AFTER PURCHASING HIS HOUSE, HE STARTED TO NOTICE THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE CONSISTENTLY COMING ONTO HIS PROPERTY.
THEY DRIVE ONTO HIS PROPERTY, PARK IN HIS DRIVEWAY, TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR CARS IN FRONT OF HIS HOME, AND THEN LEAVE HIS PROPERTY.
THEY ALSO DECIDED TO GET OUT AND, UH, WALK ON HIS PROPERTY AND TAKE PHOTOS OF THEMSELVES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE PROPERTY.
UH, SO MR. FULL SOUGHT A SECURITY FENCE IN FRONT OF HIS HOME.
UH, HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WAS NOT ENTITLED TO THE PERMIT BECAUSE OF A, THE CURRENT ORDINANCE AND, AND, UH, PLANT PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT IS IN PLACE FOR THE LAKER AREA AND SOUGHT WAYS TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM.
HE WAS SUGGESTED TO HIM THAT HE FILE A PD AMENDMENT SPECIFIC TO HIS HOME, UH, AND THAT HE, THAT HE SEEK THE AMENDMENT, WHICH WAS HIS ONLY OPTION IN THIS WAY.
SO MR. FULLER FIRST, UH, HAD TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE P O A TO DO SO.
HE FILED HIS REQUEST FOR HIS FENCE WITH THE, UH, P O A OF LAKERIDGE AND WAS GRANTED THAT, UH, FENCE ON JUNE 1ST.
UH, THEREAFTER, HE, UH, HAD HIS PD AMENDMENT FILED AND THAT WAS SET FOR HEARING.
AND, UH, PRIOR TO THAT HEARING, A STAFF REPORT WAS ISSUED.
AND IN THAT STAFF REPORT IT WENT OVER THE DIFFERENT FACTORS FOR A ZONE CHANGE FACTOR ONE WAS FOUND, UH, TO HAVE NO PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE.
UM, AND IT WOULD ONLY REQUIRE RESULT IN AN AMENDMENT TO THE PD REGULATION OF THIS SUBJECT PROPERTY ONLY.
UH, FACTORS TWO THROUGH FOUR WERE FOUND TO NOT APPLY TO THE REQUEST AS THOUGH IT WAS BEING, UH, PROCESSED AS HIS OWN CHANGE AS PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE TEXAS LAW.
THE SCOPE IS LIMITED TO MR. FULLER'S ADDRESS ONLY AT THIS TIME, AS IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT HE DO THAT IN A MANNER TO ESTABLISH, UH, THE CRITERION FOR FUTURE HOMEOWNERS WHO MAY ALSO DESIRE TO HAVE A, UH, PD AMENDMENT FOR THERE IF THEY DESIRE A SECURITY FENCE IN THE LAKE RIDGE AREA AS WELL.
UH, FACTOR FIVE, UH, HOW OTHER AREAS DESIGNATED FOR SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE AFFECTED? UH, THE EFFECT HERE WOULD BE THAT OBVIOUSLY MR. FULLER'S HOME WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE, UH, THAT WOULD BE ALLOWED THE SECURITY FENCE IN THIS ZONING AREA AS A RESULT OF THIS AMENDMENT.
HOWEVER, THE OFFSET TO THAT CHANGE WOULD BE THAT IT WOULD ESTABLISH CRITERION FOR OTHER HOMEOWNERS TO REC, UH, TO REQUEST THE ABILITY TO HAVE A SECURITY FENCE IN THE FUTURE PURSUANT TO THE SAME CONDITIONS.
AND THEN FACTOR SIX, UH, THE, UM, AMENDING THE PD WOULD NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, MORALS, OR GENERAL WELFARE.
UH, THE STAFF REPORT INCLUDED A NOTIFICATION TO 15, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS AND 200 FOOT RADIUS.
YOU WILL SEE THERE WERE ZERO LETTERS OF OPPOSITION RECEIVED.
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THERE WAS HIGHLIGHTING ON THIS, I'M NOT SURE WHY IT'S NOT THERE, I APOLOGIZE.UM, THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION IN THE, UH, IN THE, UH, STAFF REPORT, UH, STATED THAT IF THE PD AMENDMENT REQUESTED AS APPROVED, IT SHOULD BE AT, WITH ATTACHED EXHIBITS AND THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS.
THOSE CONDITIONS ARE EXACTLY WHAT MR. FULLER IS REQUESTING.
THE REASON THAT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION GAVE THO THAT RECOMMENDATION IS THAT SINCE THE PD AMENDMENT IS FOR ONE LOT, IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA THAT COULD BE CARRIED OUT WITH FUTURE AMENDMENTS FOR OTHER PROPERTIES WITH SIMILAR REQUESTS.
THIS WILL AIM TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY OF FRONT YARD FENCING FOR, FOR ALL LOTS WITHIN THE PD BOUNDARY.
NOW, ONE THING THAT THE STAFF REPORT ALSO SAID WAS THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE, UH, EXCUSE ME, THERE WAS ONLY ONE LIKE PROPERTY IN THE CEDAR HILL AREA.
AND, UM, WE'LL SEE IN A, IN A MOMENT THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY TRUE.
UM, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS TO CONSIDER HERE.
SB 1588 DOES, UH, WHICH WAS PASSED OBVIOUSLY BY THE TEXAS SENATE, UH, DOES PROHIBIT A P O A FROM, UH, PROHIBITING SECURITY FENCES AND REQUIRES THEM TO APPROVE THEM, UH, SPECIFICALLY ON LOTS OF MORE THAN ONE ACRE.
UH, SO THERE, THERE IS THAT TO CONSIDER.
THERE'S ALSO HB 2127, WHICH IS MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE COURTS.
UM, THE ORDINANCE, THERE'S AN ORDINANCE AT ISSUE ALREADY IN CEDAR HILL THAT ALLOWS FOR SECURITY FENCES IN FRONT OF HOMES.
SO THIS RESTRICTION IS SPECIFIC TO JUST THIS PLAN DEVELOPMENT AREA AND IS NOT SPECIFIC TO THE ENTIRE CITY AND CAN BE CHANGED AND WOULD MAKE THIS LIKE THE OTHER AREAS IN CEDAR HILL.
AND THE CURRENT FENCE REGULATION IN PD 95 10, WHICH IS SOUGHT TO BE AMENDED, SPECIFICALLY STATES NO FENCING SHALL BE ALLOWED FROM THE FRONT LINE OF THE HOUSE TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
HOWEVER, AS WE'LL SEE, THAT DOES NOT PROHIBIT THE EXACT TYPE OF FENCE THAT MR. FULLER IS SEEKING FROM BEING ON THE, HIS STREET, NO LESS THAN SEVEN LOTS FROM HIS HOUSE.
SO PART OF MR. FULLER'S ISSUE HAS BEEN TRESPASSING ON HIS PROPERTY SINCE HE PURCHASED THE PROPERTY IN 2021.
WE'VE HAD ABOUT 104 WEEKS GO BY.
THERE HAVE BEEN OVER A HUNDRED INSTANCES THAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO DOCUMENT HIMSELF, EITHER SEEING OR OTHERWISE OF TRESPASSING ON HIS PROPERTY.
PEOPLE WHO ARE UNINVITED COMING ONTO HIS PROPERTY.
THESE PHOTOS SHOW YOU SEVERAL OF THOSE INSTANCES OF VEHICLES PARKED IN HIS DRIVEWAY, VEHICLES SLOWLY CREEPING UP TO HIS PROPERTY AND EVENTUALLY COMING ON AND THEN LEAVING HIS PROPERTY.
UH, THERE'S A LAST ONE WHERE PEOPLE ARE, YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE WALKING ON THE PROPERTY HERE.
UH, THEY WERE NOT INVITED GUESTS.
UH, THE OVERVIEW MAP YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE, YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND ALL OF THESE PROPERTIES ARE LOCATED IN THE LAKERIDGE AT JOE POOL LAKE COMMUNITY.
ALL OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED WITH SMALL HOUSE ICONS ARE PROPERTIES WITHIN THREE DRIVING MILES OF MR. FULLER'S PROPERTY.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE, AND I CANNOT MOVE A MOUSE 'CAUSE IT IS NOT ON THE SCREEN HERE FOR ME, BUT, UH, THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER, THERE'S A BLUE HOUSE THAT IS THE HOUSE THAT IS CALLED OUT IN THE STAFF REPORT.
THE, UH, ONE THAT SAYS CEDAR HILL FIRE STATION TWO 14 NEAR IT.
UH, THAT IS, UH, 1508 CYPRESS BEND DRIVE.
ALL OF THE OTHER HOMES THAT YOU'LL SEE ARE MUCH CLOSER TO MR. FULLER.
THEY EITHER HAVE FRONT FENCES OR THEY HAVE LONG SIDE YARD GATES THAT ARE APPROXIMATELY WHAT MR. FULLER'S ASKING FOR IN HIS PD AMENDMENT.
UM, THIS IS 29 21 EMERALD SOUND.
THIS IS IN LAKERIDGE OR JOE POOL LAKE.
IT HAS A FRONT FENCE WITH A, I DON'T KNOW, APPROXIMATELY FOOT AND A HALF TO TWO FOOT BRICK WALL IN FRONT OF IT.
THIS HAS A LONG STREET SIDE FENCE.
IT RUNS THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE PROPERTY LINE ON THE SIDE.
IT IS ABUTTING THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
AND AT THE VERY END IT HAS A VEHICULAR, UH, GATE SIMILAR TO WHAT MR. FULLER IS ASKING FOR.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE HERE IS THERE'S NO COLUMNS HERE ON MALLARD POINT AND 10 19 MALLARD POINT.
THEY HAVE A FRONT GATE, A FRONT FENCE IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME HERE ON MOONLIGHT BAY IN LAKE RIDGE OF JOE POOL LAKE.
THEY HAVE A LONG STREET SIDE GATE WITH COLUMNS AND ROD IRON AT 1103 MALLARD POINT FRONT FENCING AND FENCING RUNNING ALL ALONG THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE AT 91 0 4 CLIFF SIDE, FRONT STREET SIDE FENCING.
IT'S ACTUALLY BEING INSTALLED.
IF YOU SEE AT THIS MOMENT, THE POSTER IN AND THEY'RE PUTTING THE ROD IRON IN 10 39.
MALLARD POINT HAS LARGE EIGHT FOOT COLUMNS AND GATE AND VEHICULAR GATES.
1111 MALLARD POINT HAS LARGE COLUMNS.
AND RATHER THAN HAVING THE ACTUAL VIEWABLE, UH, THE, THE, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE, UH, ABILITY TO SEE THROUGH, AS YOU WOULD WITH ROD IRON AS IS REQUIRED BY THE P O A IN MOST SENSE, THEY'VE ACTUALLY GROWN TREES THAT GIVE YOU FAR LESS VISIBILITY THAN WAS OTHERWISE REQUIRED FOR FENCES.
UH, HERE AT 1508 CYBERS BEND, YOU WILL SEE THIS IS IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL.
THIS IS A FULL FRONT FENCE SURROUNDING THIS PROPERTY WITH LARGE COLUMNS.
IT IS RUNNING RIGHT AND ABUTTING OF EFFECTIVELY UP TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY HERE AT 1112 LAKE VISTA COURT.
THERE IS LARGE COLUMNS AND, UH, LARGE, UH, COLUMNS AND ROD IRON IN FRONT OF THIS HOME AND ALSO A VEHICULAR GATE, EXCUSE ME.
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THEN HERE, SEVEN OR SIX LOTS, EXCUSE ME, EAST OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AT 27 29 PRAIRIE ACRES.THEIR FENCE RUNS A LONG LAKEVIEW DRIVE.
THAT IS THE EXACT ROAD THAT MR. FULLER'S HOME IS ON.
IT HAS LARGE COLUMNS AND IT HAS ROD IRON.
IT ALSO HAS A VEHICULAR ACCESS GATE.
IT ABUTS THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
THIS IS SIX LOTS EAST OF MR. FULLER'S HOME.
THIS IS THE PROPERTY HE'S ASKING FOR THE EXACT SAME FENCE IN FRONT OF HIS HOME THAT IS ALREADY ON THE, ON, ON THE SAME STREET, JUST ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE, UH, VEHICLE GATE WOULD GO.
UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THE REQUESTED AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW THE PROPERTY TO INSTALL A FENCE SIMILAR TO THOSE FOUND ON OTHER LAKE PROPERTIES IN LAKE RIDGE.
UH, IT'S REASONABLE GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
MR. FULLER IS FACED WITH TRESPASSERS ON HIS PROPERTY.
CAN I GO BACK TO WHAT I WAS READING? YOU CAN GO.
UH, THE PROCESS USED HERE FOR THIS SUBJECT PROPERTY, WHICH WOULD BE AN INDIVIDUAL AMENDMENT ON A LOT BY LOT BASIS, WOULD SET A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER PROPERTY OWNERS IN THIS LAKERIDGE ZONING AREA, UH, AND NEIGHBORHOOD WHO DESIRE A SIMILAR MEASURE OF SECURITY FROM, UH, WHEN THEY SEEK THAT AND BE ABLE TO REQUEST IT FROM THE CITY.
THE APPROACH THAT MR. FULLER SOUGHT IS REASONABLE.
IT'S ONE THAT WAS RECOMMENDED, UH, BY THE CITY PLANNER AND MANAGER AS, AS A POTENTIAL FOR WHAT MR. FULLER WAS DESIRING.
AND THAT'S WHY HE HAS SOUGHT IT OUT.
AND IT WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THE CITY, UH, CEDAR HILL PORTION OF LAKERIDGE TO, UH, PROGRESS AND KEEP PACE WITH THE GRAND PRAIRIE SIDE IS THERE'S CLEARLY FRONT FENCES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY.
THEY'RE NOT JUST LIMITED TO THE ONE THAT'S AT 1508.
OH, ALSO, JUST AS AN ADDITION, AND I APOLOGIZE, UH, MR. FULLER HAS OBTAINED THE SIGNATURES OF NINE OF THE 15 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WITHIN 200 FOOT RESIDENT, UH, 200 FOOT RADIUS OF HIS PROPERTY.
OF THOSE, THERE WAS ONE PERSON WHO DECLINED TO SIGN.
THREE OF THE LOTS ARE VACANT AND ONE PERSON CANNOT BE REACHED.
UH, MS. STEVENS, UH, SIGNED ON THE WRONG LINE.
SHE'S ABOUT 90 YEARS OLD, BUT SHE DID INTEND TO SIGN ON THE SIGNATURE LINE UP THERE AT THE TOP.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN, UH, IF COUNSEL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE BRING IT BACK UP.
ANYONE WISHED TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OR OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD 5 6 9 2023? ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OR OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD 5 6 9 2023.
I'LL CLOSE THAT PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FOR THE APPLICANT OR IS THERE ANY COMMENTS AMONG THE STAFF? UH, MAYOR POTEL? YEAH, CAN I HAVE THE PLANNING DIRECTOR, UH, FOR COME, I'VE GOT A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
SO, UM, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PROPERTY UNDER CONSIDERATION IS IN A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
AND SO IT'S ALSO MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THOSE FRONT FENCES ARE PROHIBITED IN THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
SO HOW DID THE OTHER PROPERTIES THAT WERE IN THIS PRESENTATION, HOW WERE THEY ALLOWED TO INSTALL FENCES IN THE FRONT YARD WHEN THE PD SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS IT? SO THE MAJORITY OF THOSE FENCES ARE IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
UM, SO THAT STIPULATION I DID PULL THE, THE PD ORDINANCE FOR GRAND PRAIRIE AND IT IS IN THAT GRAND PRAIRIE ORDINANCE.
SO I'M NOT SURE IN TERMS OF THEIR PERMITTING OR IF THERE WERE ANY FURTHER AMENDMENTS IN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, OF THE PROPERTIES THAT WERE REFLECTED, UM, IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE SIDE FENCES.
SO EVEN THOUGH THE SIDE YARD IS ADJACENT TO A STREET, THE ORDINANCE DOESN'T PREVENT A SIDE YARD FENCE ADJACENT TO THE STREET.
IT PREVENTS A FENCE FROM THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO THE RIGHT OF WAY LINE.
SO THE EXAMPLES THAT WERE PROVIDED, UM, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UH, CYPRESS BIN, THE 1508 CYPRESS BIN, THAT IS THE ONE THAT STAFF IDENTIFIED IN THE STAFF REPORT THAT DID HAVE A FRONT YARD FENCE, UH, FROM THE FRONT PROPERTY LINE TO THE RIGHT OF WAY, UH, FROM THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO THE RIGHT OF WAY LINE.
UM, AND THAT FENCE FROM WE CAN TELL, WAS CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO FENCE PERMITS BEING REQUIRED IN CEDAR HILL, UH, WHICH WAS IN 2011.
AND SO, UM, IT WAS CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO THAT TIME FOR CITY, UH, REVIEW.
SO, SO LEMME MAKE SURE I, I UNDERSTOOD YOU CORRECTLY THAT THE, THE ONES THAT WERE REFERENCED, UH, EITHER THEY WERE IN GRAND PRAIRIE, WHICH IS A TOTALLY SEPARATE, TOTALLY A SEPARATE CITY THAT COULD HAVE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS OR THOSE ARE SIDE YARDS OR SOMEBODY, UH, DID THAT BEFORE WE REQUIRED DEFENSE PERMITS? THAT'S CORRECT.
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OKAY.IS THAT, I MEAN, I WANNA MAKE SURE I OKAY'S ALL I THAT'S, THANK YOU.
UH, ANY QUE ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE PLANNING DIRECTOR? ALL RIGHT.
HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE TO CALL YOU BACK UP.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD AN ISSUE WITH WHEN WE, WHEN IT COMES UP TO THE COUNCIL AND WE'RE GONNA APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE SOMETHING, IT'S A LOT OF IT'S BASED ON THE, THE H O A REQUIREMENT AND THE H O A, UH, ACTUALLY APPROVING THE, THE, THE REQUEST PRIOR TO COMING TO CITY COUNCIL.
SO AS I LOOKED IN THIS, IT SHOWS THAT THE, UH, ARCHITECTURAL, UM, ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEE FOR LAKERIDGE DID APPROVE THIS PARTICULAR, UH, UH, FENCE.
SO THE APPLICANT DID SUBMIT A LETTER WITH THEIR, UH, APPLICATION THAT INDICATED THAT THEY DID, UM, APPROVE THE FENCE, HOWEVER, DOES NOT ABSOLVE THE APPLICANT FOR MEETING THE CITY ORDINANCE.
SO THE CITY ORDINANCE, THE ZONING, THE PD ZONING ORDINANCE STILL HAS THAT STIPULATION WITH REGARD TO THE FRONT YARD FENCING.
DO YOU HAVE A QUESTIONS FOR THE PLANE DIRECTOR? OKAY.
UH, WAS THAT A LONG, INSTEAD OF A FENCE THAT WAS BUILT, LOOKED LIKE A WALL, A BRICK ON, ON THE PROPERTY, ON THE WALL, ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY? YES.
SO THERE IS A, UM, SO THE, THE, IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN PAST THAT SITE, IT'S A VERY UNIQUE MODERN, UM, HOME.
AND SO, UM, THERE IS A, UM, AN EXTENSION OF THE, UM, IT'S KIND OF A, A DESIGN FEATURE OF THE HOME THAT'S THERE.
UM, THAT WAS WHEN THE HOUSE WAS CONSTRUCTED.
YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE WHITE, UH, COLUMNS THAT WERE OH, SO THERE WASN'T A FENCE? NO.
NO, IT'S A PARKING 'CAUSE I'M LOOKING, I'M LIKE, IS THAT A WALL BEING BUILT? YEAH, THERE WAS A DESIGN FEATURE OF THE HOME INSTRUCTION.
UH, COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? COUNCILOR MCCURDY? YEAH, I THOUGHT IN THE, UM, IN THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION E DIDN'T IT, IT SHOWED THE A C C DENIED THE APPLICATION AND THEN THE BOARD OVER OVERRODE THE, THE A C C? YES, SIR.
AND, AND THE, THE STATE LEGISLATION, YOU, YOU MIND COMING UP? YOU CAN COME BACK UP HERE.
THE STATE LEGIS, WOULD YOU MIND, I DON'T KNOW IF, CAN WE PULL BACK UP THE STATE LEGISLATION THAT HE REFERENCED? JUST SO, 'CAUSE I I KNOW COUNCILMAN HAYDEN HAD SOME, HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THAT, SO NOT A PROBLEM.
SO, SO THE, THE, THE STATE LEGISLATION OVERRODE THE P O A CCNRS, SO THE C, THEY DID NOT CHANGE THEIR CCNRS.
THAT, THAT SAYS THAT YOU CAN'T HAVE A FENCE.
THE STATE LEGISLATION SAYS THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER ENFORCE THAT, THAT THAT'S CORRECT.
THAT, THAT'S STRICTLY AIMED AT THE ASSOCI.
SB 1588 IS STRICTLY AIMED AT THE ASSOCIATION, THOUGH.
I, I WOULD SAY ARGUABLY, AND THIS IS, THIS IS AN AREA OF LAW THAT IS GOING TO BE HEAVILY LITIGATED GIVEN, UH, HB 2127.
I WOULD, I, I WOULD POSIT THAT GIVEN THE SENATE HAS PASSED A LAW THAT SAYS THAT A P O A CANNOT PROHIBIT A SECURITY FENCE FOR A PROPERTY OWNER, I WOULD ARGUE THAT THE STATE IS GOING TO BELIE IS GOING TO, IS GOING TO HAVE THE POSITION THAT A CITY ALSO CANNOT PROHIBIT A PROPERTY OWNER FROM HAVING A FRONT SECURITY FENCE BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE LIMITS OF WHAT THE STATE LAW HAS IN THEIR PROPERTY CODE.
WHICH IS GOING TO REQUIRE, UNFORTUNATELY, FOR STATES OR FOR CITIES AND CITIZENS, CITIZENS TO START FILING LAWSUITS AGAINST, UH, AGAINST CITIES, UH, TO DETERMINE WHETHER HB 2127 APPLIES, WHICH, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY NOT IDEAL FOR ANYBODY.
UH, AND, AND LET ME PUT THIS ON RECORD.
YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, UM, I'M READING STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS SAYING YOU CAN'T HAVE A FENCE, IT'S JUST GOTTA BE SET BACK.
IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU CAN'T SET BACK, UH, FROM THE PROPERTY? SO THE, YEAH, THEY, THEY'RE SAYING YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALONG, UH, THE RIGHT OF WAY, BUT THERE IS A, UH, THERE IS A MINIMUM OF, OF 20 FEET SETBACK.
I I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR THAT IS FROM YOUR FRONT DOOR, BUT, SO IT'S A 20 FOOT SETBACK FROM THE STREET.
THE FENCE WILL BE MORE THAN 20 FEET FROM THE STREET WHEN IT IS PUT IN.
IT'S NOT GONNA BE 20 FEET FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, BUT IT, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE REQUIREMENT IS.
THE REQUIREMENT IS 20 FEET FROM THE STREET.
UH, IT SAYS STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS SET BACK FROM THE PROPERTY OR RIGHT AWAY, MINIMUM OF 20 FEET.
I THINK I ASKED IT THIS ONE IF I, IF I CAN GO AHEAD, PLEASE.
JUST, JUST FOR POINT OF CLARIFICATION.
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UM, STIPULATION IS THAT IT SHALL NOT EXTEND BEYOND THE FRONT FACE OF THE, UM, OF THE HOME TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY LINE.SO, UM, IF THEY WERE TO CONSTRUCT A FENCE NOW, IT COULD NOT EXTEND BEYOND THE FRONT FACE OF THE HOME.
UM, THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, IF THE PD AMENDMENT IS TO BE CONSIDERED, UM, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO INCLUDE STIPULATIONS RELATED TO THE VEHICULAR GATE TO ALLOW FOR THE GATE TO BE SET BACK FURTHER.
THE APPLICANT IS, IS REQUESTING THE AMENDMENT TO ALLOW THE FENCE ALL THE WAY TO THE PROPERTY LINE.
AND IF THE CONSIDERATION IS FOR APPROVAL, THE CONSIDERATION SHOULD INCLUDE SETTING BACK THAT GATE.
SO THAT'S, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT POINT.
AND, AND I SHOULD POINT OUT THAT IN THE ACTUAL REQUEST QUEST, THE, I I, I KNOW YOU CAN'T, IT SAYS AUTOMATIC GATE IN THE MIDDLE.
I, I DON'T HAVE, UH, I CAN'T USE THE CURSOR, BUT WELL, IN THE, WELL THE SIDE WITH THE YELLOW BOXES, UM, WHERE IT SAYS AUTOMATIC GATE, THAT IS 20 FEET FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
SO THE, THAT AUTOMATIC GATE IS SET BACK THE 20 FEET.
IT WOULD BE THE AC THE, THE COLUMNS AND THE WROUGHT IRON.
THAT WOULD BE AGAINST THE, UH, SIDEWALK.
IT WOULD BE ABOUT TWO FOOT SETBACK FROM THE SIDEWALK.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS THE, UM, THE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY ON THE PROPERTY? WHAT, WHAT IS THAT PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY? SO THERE, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF USE OF THE SIDEWALKS IN LAKERIDGE? NO, NO, NO.
I'M SAYING, YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S, THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T EXTEND ALL THE WAY TO ALL THE PROPERTIES.
SO MOST PEOPLE WALK ON THE STREET.
NO, I'M YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S PEOPLE ARE TRANS, TRANS TSING TRESPASSING.
I'M SAYING, WHAT ARE THEY DOING? ARE THEY SOLICITING? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING ON? NO, SO THEY, THEY COME ONTO THE PROPERTY, THEY GET OUTTA THEIR CARS AND THEY'LL HAVE PEOPLE TAKE, THEY'LL, THEY'LL TAKE SELFIES THEMSELVES.
THEY'LL TAKE PHOTOS OF THEMSELVES.
THEY'LL WALK AROUND THE PROPERTY TO FIND A, A GOOD, A GOOD SHOT PROBABLY SO THEY CAN POST 'EM ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
PEOPLE COME, THEY'LL PARK THEIR CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY, GET OUTTA THE CAR, TAKE A PHOTO OF THEIR CAR IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, AND THEN DRIVE AWAY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE HAVE BEEN INSTANCES I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN AT MR. FULLER'S HOUSE SITTING THERE AND WE'VE WATCHED A VEHICLE PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND WONDERED WHO THE HECK IT IS.
WATCHED HIM GET OUT AND GOTTEN VERY NERVOUS.
HAD 'EM TAKE A PICTURE OF THEIR VEHICLE, GET BACK IN AND DRIVE OUT.
LIKE IT WAS, LIKE, IT WAS COMPLETELY OKAY.
I I MEAN, PEOPLE HAVE A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT IN THIS, IN THIS WORLD RIGHT NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, MR. FULLER'S A DISABLED VET.
HE'S SIMPLY LOOKING FOR REASONABLE SECURITY FOR HIS HOME.
AND FRANKLY, IT, IT EXISTS IN, IN LAKERIDGE ALREADY.
AND WE BELIEVE THAT, THAT THERE ARE GONNA BE MORE REQUESTS COMING FOR THESE TYPES OF SECURITY FENCES.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE PD WAS WRITTEN I THINK IN 1985, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT 38 YEARS THAT IT'S BEEN IN EFFECT.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THINGS ARE, ARE RIGHT FOR CHANGE.
AND SO THIS, YOU KNOW, WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S TIME AND WE BELIEVE THAT MR. FULLER'S REQUEST IS REASONABLE AND WOULD SET A GOOD PRECEDENT IN TERMS OF THE CONDITIONS THAT HE'S SEEKING.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? MAY I JUST, I JUST, UH, OR THE PLANNING DIRECT THERE, I JUST WANT TO GET CLEAR IN MY MIND WHEN YOU WERE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE FRONT FENCE CAN EXCEED BEYOND THE FRONT FOUNDATIONS OF THE HOU OR THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE HOUSE.
SO HOW IS THIS, IS THIS SET UP TO WHERE IT'S EXPANDED BEYOND THAT OR THAT IS CORRECT.
SO THE, UM, THE FENCE IS EXTENDING BEYOND THE FRONT FACE OF THE HOUSE, SO WHERE THE, THE FRONT FACADE IS.
SO IT'S EXTENDING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE RIGHT OF WAY AS AS PROPOSED BY THE APPLICANT.
SO THAT WOULD BE AGAINST WHATEVER PD REQUIREMENTS.
BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, HAS THE APPLICANT EVER THOUGHT ABOUT JUST, UH, OR HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS WITH REGARDS TO MAYBE NARROWING THAT FRONT SECURITY FENCE? UH, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU COULD NARROW IT.
WE'RE, SO, SO THE, THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS ANGLED, SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU, SO IT, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T SIT LIKE A TRADITIONAL PROPERTY WOULD SIT, YOU KNOW, SORT OF WITH THE FRONT DOOR FACING THE STREET.
SO IF YOU ACTUALLY TAKE A LOOK, WHAT MR. FULLER'S REQUESTING IS REALLY A PORTION OF, OF, OF THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS RIGHT SIDE OF HIS PROPERTY, HE COULD TECHNICALLY FENCE FROM THE FRONT DOOR SIDE ALL THE WAY UP TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY AS A SIDE YARD.
IT'S REALLY THE PORTION THAT EXTENDS FROM THE CIRCLE TO THE CORNER OF, OF, OF, OF THE STREET SIDE.
THAT WOULD BE THE FRONT OF HIS HOUSE.
AND THEN BASICALLY GOING UP THE PROPERTY LINE ONTO THE, WHAT, WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY A SIDE YARD IS STILL TECHNICALLY CONSIDERED HIS FRONT YARD.
UH, SO IT, IT, IT HAS TO DO OBVIOUSLY WITH THE DESIGN OF THE HOUSE.
UM, AND THEN ALSO JUST FOR SAFETY PURPOSES, THERE'S ONE WAY IN ONE WAY OUT, MR. MR. FULLER'S GARAGE IS ACTUALLY SIT BELOW LEVEL.
SO IF SOMEONE COMES INTO THE DRIVEWAY WHILE HE'S COMING UP OUT OF HIS GARAGES, HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THAT.
AND IT, IT, IT'S ALSO A SAFETY HAZARD.
SO, YOU KNOW, WITH PEOPLE DECIDING THEY'RE JUST GONNA PULL INTO HIS PROPERTY WHEN THEY WANT TO, IT, IT'S, IT'S SOME UNFORTUNATELY POTENTIALLY BOUND TO HAPPEN.
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CHIEF, COULD, COULD I ASK YOU TO COME UP FOR A SECOND? YOU KNOW, UM, YOU, YOU, YOU GAVE US SOME STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS AND YOU SAID THERE'S NO, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, EFFECT TO PUBLIC HEALTH.I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE RESIDENTS HEALTH, RIGHT.
HOW, HOW DO WE GET, YOU KNOW, TO THE RESIDENT.
UM, BUT, UH, CHIEF, UH, YOU KNOW, BESIDES THAT, MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK IF, IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE COULD BE ABLE TO TRY TO HAVE A COMPROMISE, UH, IS THERE ANY SECURITY OPTIONS THAT YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE THAT UM, COULD, CAN, CAN HELP THIS RESIDENT? I DID THE, I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE HOUSE, I DROVE BY IT SO MANY TIMES.
IT IS KIND OF AT AN ANGLE AND I, I BELIEVE THE, UH, THE DRIVEWAY IS, UH, BELOW GRADE.
UH, BUT IS THERE ANY, ANYTHING THAT WE COULD DO FROM, I GUESS PEOPLE DRIVING ONTO HIS, ONTO HIS PROPERTY? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, THE FENCE WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT ANYBODY, ANYBODY FROM ON THE PERSPECTIVE THE PROPERTY SAY, IS THERE ANY SECURITY, UM, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES HERE? I DON'T KNOW.
YEAH, I MEAN, FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE PROPERTY.
I JUST SEEN THE PICTURES IN THE PRESENTATION RIGHT HERE.
BUT FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S A DRIVEWAY.
UH, THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT SOMEONE FROM GOING UP THAT DRIVEWAY IS TO HAVE A GATE AT THE DRIVEWAY.
YEAH, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS THINKING.
DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A PERIMETER AROUND THE PROPERTY? CAN WE JUST HAVE JUST THE GATE AT THE DRIVEWAY? WELL, I, I, I'D LOVE TO SAY YES.
THE PROBLEM IS, AND I'M GONNA TRY AND GIVE YOU A GOOD SHOT HERE.
SO, AND I KID YOU NOT, AND I COULD NOT GET THE VIDEO TO LOAD INTO THIS, UH, INTO THIS POWERPOINT, BUT THERE'S A VIDEO OF A GUY DRIVING HIS MOTORCYCLE UP ONTO THE SIDEWALK UP TO, IN FRONT OF THE, THE PROJECTION THAT COMES OFF OF THE HOUSE, RIGHT? THE, AND, AND PARKING THE, THE VEHICLE ON THE PROPERTY IN FRONT OF THERE AFTER DRIVING ON THE SIDEWALK.
SO IT, THE, THE HOUSE IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE STREET.
I MEAN, ANYBODY COULD DRIVE UP ON IT.
AND IF YOU HAVE GRASS, RIGHT, THERE'S NO WAY TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM, FROM COMING ON WITHOUT HAVING THE, THE, THE FENCE GO AROUND THE PROPERTY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SIMPLY UNFORTUNATE, BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DOING IT.
I, I, I WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT THAT SOMEONE WOULD TAKE A, THEIR MOTORCYCLE AND DECIDE TO DO THAT, BUT THEY CERTAINLY DID.
COUNCILOR MCG GLOVER, JUST LOOKING AT YOUR, THE DIAGRAM WITH THE YELLOW BOXES, THIS FENCE, WELL, IF YOU CAN STAY ON THAT PICTURE.
THE FENCE WOULD GO BEYOND THE SIDEWALK.
THE SIDEWALK WOULD BE INSIDE THE FENCE PROPERTY ON THE OUTSIDE THE FRONT? NO, SIR.
THE, THE, THE FENCE WOULD GO, AND AGAIN, IF I HAD A CURSOR, THE FENCE WOULD GO EFFECTIVELY IN BETWEEN EACH OF THOSE TREES THAT YOU SEE.
SO IT WOULD BE SET BACK OFF THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY OFF THE SIDEWALK, BACK ONTO THE PROPERTY LINE.
AND, AND THE FENCE WOULD BE RUNNING IN FRONT OF THOSE TREES, WHICH ARE, I THINK, SET BACK APPROXIMATELY TWO FEET MAYBE.
SO YOU, TERRY, COULD YOU 18 INCHES, CAN YOU TRY TO SORT THE MOUSE? SO IN FRONT OF THOSE TREES IS WHERE THE VAR ROD IRON WOULD GO.
AND THEN THERE WOULD BE A COLUMN EACH AS INDICATED BY THOSE YELLOW BOXES INSIDE OF THAT PLANTER AREA.
AND, AND THE ROUND, THE CEMENT COLUMN THAT IS RIGHT PER THE FENCE WOULD GO AROUND THAT OR, SO THE FENCE WOULD GO UP TO ABOUT THE END OF THAT PLANTER BED AND THEN WOULD COME DOWN THE SIDE OF THE PROPERTY LINE, UH, TO MEET THAT WOOD FENCE THAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE FAR LEFT CORNER.
SO THAT, THAT CEMENT STRUCTURE WOULD BE WITHIN THE PROPERTY, UH, WITHIN THE FENCE LINE, OR, YES, SIR.
IT'S, IT'S PART OF THE, IT'S PART OF THE HOUSE.
ALRIGHT, COUNCIL HAYDEN, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? NO.
I, I DID TALK TO PATRICK DALE, WHO'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE, OF THE P O A AND I ASKED HIM, SO YOU ALL APPROVED THIS FENCE? AND HIS RESPONSE WAS, WELL, WE HAD TO APPROVE IT BECAUSE OF STATE LAW.
WE DIDN'T APPROVE IT BECAUSE WE WANTED THE FENCE PUT IN THERE.
BUT, BUT WE, BUT STATE LAW SAYS THAT WE CAN NO LONGER RESTRICT FENCES IN, IN THAT AREA.
UM, I KNOW THE PD AND THE H O A HAS ALWAYS ALLOWED FENCES INSIDE THE GATED COMMUNITIES, JUST NOT IN THE UNGATED AREAS.
SO THE, THE, THE DIFFERENCE BEING BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, THEN VERSUS NOW IS JUST THE, THE CHANGES IN STATE LAW.
UM, COUNCILWOMAN DANIELS, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR ME? OH, OKAY.
SO I GUESS THE COMPROMISE HERE, AND, AND I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE HERE AND EVERYBODY'S UNHAPPY.
UM, THE PERIMETER IS THE, THE CHALLENGE FOR US, RIGHT? UM, SO THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME WAY THAT WE CAN BE ABLE TO LEAVE OUT HERE AS A COMPROMISE.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE A CONSENSUS OF THE PERIMETER.
SO IS THERE ANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT, UM, I, I MEAN, I WOULD POIT THE, THE VEHICLE GATE ITSELF DOESN'T REQUIRE A FENCE OR DOESN'T REQUIRE A PERMIT.
IT, IT REALLY IS JUST THE FENCE ITSELF.
SO MR. MR. FULLER COULD INSTALL HIS VEHICLE ACCESS GATE 20 FEET OFF OF THE, THE ROAD.
AND, AND HE, HE'S ALREADY GOT P O A APPROVAL FOR THAT, RIGHT? THE, THE PD SINCE FENCING, NOT VEHICLE ACCESS GATES.
SO IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FENCING, I MEAN, I, I I I DON'T
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KNOW WHAT OTHER, ARE YOU ASKING FOR A LOWER HEIGHT? I, I MEAN, I'M NOT SURE IN, IN TERMS OF THE PERIMETER.THAT'S, THAT'S HOW YOU I'M CAN SECURE THE PROPERTY.
I'M NOT TALKING, YEAH, I'M NOT TALKING, UH, P O A, YOU KNOW, ACCEPTANCE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT CITY, UH, ACCEPTANCE.
SO AS IT RELATES TOWARDS THE CITY ORDINANCES, THAT PERIMETER OF FENCING, YOU KNOW, THAT IS THE, THAT IS THE STRUGGLE THAT, THAT WE'RE HAVING UP HERE AS COUNCIL.
SO I'M SAYING, IS THERE SOME TYPE OF WAY FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, TRY TO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GET YOUR, UH, YOU KNOW, FEEL COMFORTABLE, FEEL SECURE IN YOUR HOME, UH, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, TRY TO KEEP PEOPLE OFF YOUR PROPERTY, THE PERIMETER FENCE.
YOU KNOW, I, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CONSENSUS IS, IS WHAT WE'RE KIND OF STRUGGLING WITH.
UH, SO I DON'T WANNA LEAVE OUTTA HERE, AND THEN YOU DON'T GET, YOU DON'T GET ANYTHING TONIGHT.
SO I JUST WANNA SEE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU CAN PROPOSE.
MR. MAYOR, I, I'M A PRETTY CREATIVE GUY.
UH, I, I'VE, I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS A LOT.
YOU KNOW, MR. FULLER AND I HAVE DISCUSSED IT.
I, AND, AND AS, AND AS, AS THE CHIEF SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S JUST NO WAY TO REALLY KEEP PEOPLE FROM ACCESSING YOUR PROPERTY WITHOUT HAVING A FRONT FENCE.
UH, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF THE COUNCIL HAD ANY IDEAS, UH, IF THEY HAD ANY RECOMMENDATIONS, I, I, I, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I THINK, I THINK SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND HERE IS THE PILLARS, YOU KNOW, THE COLUMNS THEMSELVES WOULD NOT BE ATIVE OF, OF THE ACTUAL PD AMENDMENT, THE COLUMNS, THE, THE VEHICLE GATE.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LEGITIMATELY THE FENCING, WHICH IS JUST THE PIECES OF WR IRON IN BETWEEN THE COLUMNS AND, AND SIMILAR GATES LIKE THIS ALREADY EXIST ON THE STREET.
NOW, I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE, THE FACT THAT IT COVERS THE FRONT OF A HOUSE, BUT AT THAT POINT, WE'RE REALLY DEALING WITH SEMANTICS, RIGHT? IT IS NO DIFFERENT FROM AN AESTHETIC STANDPOINT THAN THE FENCE THAT IS SIX LOTS AWAY, RUNNING ON THE EXACT RUNNING ON THE EXACT SAME STREET.
SO I GUESS YOU KNOW THAT, I GUESS THE THIRD OR FOURTH SLIDE BEFORE YOU GOT TO THE END WHEN I ASKED YOU TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT.
I MEAN, YOU AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE, IT'S NOT, IT DOES NOT RUN IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE AND THAT'S NOT THE REPRESENTATION THAT'S BEING MADE.
THE REPRESENTATION BEING MADE IS THAT FENCE RUNS ON LAKEVIEW.
SO THE HOUSE ITSELF, THE FRONT OF THAT HOUSE, THAT DOOR FACES PRAIRIE ACRES, BUT THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE IS ON LAKEVIEW DRIVE, WHICH IS THE SAME STREET THAT MR. FULLER'S HOUSE IS ON.
SO THAT LONG ROD IRON FENCE WITH TALL COLUMNS UP TO THE SIDEWALK, IT RUNS ON LAKEVIEW DRIVE.
FROM AN AESTHETIC STANDPOINT, THAT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN THE, THAN THE FENCE THAT MR. FULLER IS SEEKING.
MR. FULLER'S FENCE WOULD SIMPLY RUN IN FRONT OF HIS, HIS PROPERTY, AND IF A HOMEOWNER IS WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK THAT IT MIGHT BE A FEW EXTRA SECONDS THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS TO REACH THEM BEHIND A GATE.
IT'S THE SAME RISK THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GATED COMMUNITIES TAKE.
AND IT'S NOT A REASON TO PROHIBIT THEM FROM HAVING THEIR GATED COMMUNITY.
THE FRONT DOOR IS, IS, DOESN'T HAVE A GATE IN FRONT OF IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT STREET IT'S ON THE FRONT DOOR IS WHAT WE TALKING ABOUT.
SO IS HIS GOAL TO TRY TO KEEP PEOPLE OFF PROPERTY FROM DRIVING ONTO THE PROPERTY AND, AND FOCUS ON STILL HAVING ACCESS FROM THE FRONT DOOR? THE FRONT DOOR, SIR, FRONT DOOR? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION, MR. MAYOR.
SO RIGHT HERE, THIS PICTURE RIGHT HERE? YES, SIR.
YOU COULD STILL GO, YOU CAN STILL WALK FROM THE STREET TO THE FRONT DOOR.
I'M SAYING ON, ON, ON THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY, I'M SAYING IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO STILL HAVE A FENCE TO PROTECT HIS, UH, DRIVEWAY, BUT WE STILL HAVE ACCESS FROM THE FRONT DOOR, FROM THE PUBLIC STREET.
I, I, I DON'T THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE.
THERE'S ONLY ONE ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT OF THE PROPERTY.
I, I, I DON'T THINK
I DON'T KNOW HOW, I DON'T, I JUST, IF, IF THIS IS THE DRIVEWAY AND, AND HE PUTS GATES IN THAT PROHIBIT A VEHICLE FROM ENTERING HIS DRIVEWAY, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU ASKING? YOU SAYING HE CAN, WOULD HE ACCEPT JUST THAT AND NOT HAVE THE FENCING? PEOPLE CAN STILL PARK ON THE STREET AND WALK ONTO HIS PROPERTY AND DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING? YEAH.
UH, SO COUNCILWOMAN, I'M SORRY.
DID YOU CALL? I, I THINK, UM, I THINK I'M PRETTY CLEAR ON THE ISSUE HERE AND I REALLY WANNA SYM, I REALLY DO WANNA SYMPATHIZE BECAUSE, UM, ALTHOUGH, YOU KNOW, THE RESIDENT COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN THAT BY, YOU KNOW, PURCHASING THIS HOME THAT THESE TYPES OF THINGS WOULD HAPPEN.
UM, THERE ARE THINGS THAT HE COULD HAVE AND PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, ESPECIALLY IF HE RECEIVED THE H O A DOCUMENTS
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AND, UM, YOU KNOW, CITY CODE IS, IS THERE REGARDING THE FENCE.SO, ALTHOUGH HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN THAT PEOPLE WOULD COME ONTO HIS PROPERTY TO SEE THE BEAUTIFUL HOME, BUT, UM, HE COULD HAVE KNOWN THAT, UM, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS PROHIBITING THIS.
AND I JUST FEEL LIKE WALKING THIS, THIS IS THE SAME ISSUE AS, I DON'T KNOW, NOT LONG AGO I GOT A NEW GARAGE DOOR AND PEOPLE WERE STOPPING TAKING PICTURES OF THE GARAGE DOOR, AND I HAVE A REGULAR HOME.
SO I THINK IT'S JUST A PART OF IT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON.
IT'S JUST REALLY MITIGATING APART FROM THIS, UH, CODE OBSTACLE.
AND I DON'T WANT TO DIMINISH, UM, WHAT YOU ARE EXPERIENCING, BUT I WOULD WANT TO AT LEAST START BACK AT THE BASICS AND ASK WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU TRIED? UM, I SEE THAT THERE IS A SECURITY SYSTEM.
UM, IS THERE, YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU TRIED JUST SIGNS THAT SAY NO TRESPASSING? UM, WHAT, LIKE, WHAT HAVE YOU TRIED BEYOND JUST THE FENCE? SURE.
SO I, I'D HAVE TO DEFER TO MR. FULLER TO, FOR THAT I HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS AROUND MY PROPERTY.
I HAVE 24 CAMERAS ALL THE WAY AROUND MY PROPERTY.
I HAVE PUT NO TRESPASSING SIGNS.
THERE'S ONE THAT USED TO BE NEAR THAT WOOD FENCE, AND THERE'S ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
I'VE ALSO, TWO OF THOSE TREES HAVE A PURPLE MARKING, WHICH IS THE STATEWIDE, NO TRESPASSING MARK.
IT DOESN'T HELP BETWEEN THE, CAN YOU GO BACK A SLIDE? YEAH.
BETWEEN THE PALM TREES OR FORWARD ON THE HOUSE? NOPE.
NO SHOWED UP SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
IT'S ALL THE WAY AT THE FRONT.
BETWEEN THOSE TWO PALM TREES IN THE CENTER, THAT'S SEPARATING THE NEIGHBOR'S LOT AND MINE, I HAVE A VIDEO WHERE SOMEONE ACTUALLY DROVE FROM MY YARD ACROSS THE GRASS INTO THE NEIGHBOR'S DRIVEWAY AND LEFT.
SO WHEN I'M LISTENING FOR IDEAS THAT POSSIBLY COULD BE HAPPENING, YES, YOU GET AN ENTIRE PACKET WHEN YOU BUY A HOME.
I BOUGHT THE HOME IN SEPTEMBER, UH, ASHLEY, IT WAS AUGUST 30TH OF 21.
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1588 BECAME LAW.
AS INITIALLY, AS SOON AS I STARTED, UH, FINDING OUT ABOUT WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO MY HOME AND THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING, I CONTACTED MR. PORTER TO TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBLE OPTIONS OF WHAT, UH, MR. PORTER AND MR. LUXE.
UM, COLUMNS WOULD HELP AS THEY COULDN'T DIRECTLY ACCESS WITHOUT BEING ON FEED THERE.
BUT IF YOU'RE THINKING A CAR STOPPING THE CAR DOES NOT STOP THE INTRUDER FROM WALKING PAST THE COLUMNS.
NOW, I COULD LIKE DOWN THE STREET, POSSIBLY HAVE COLUMNS, ALL THE 24 COLUMNS WITHOUT THE FENCING, BUT IT PREVENTS THEM SLIGHTLY, I GUESS I COULD PLANT TREES OR SOMETHING TO DO LIKE THE HOMES DOWN THE STREET.
BUT IF I'M STEADILY DOWNGRADING THE AMOUNT OF SECURITY THAT I CAN HAVE FOR MY HOME, I, I I, I DON'T SEE ANY OPTIONS.
IT'S GONNA TAKE ON ESSENCE AN OFFICER, MAYBE FROM WHAT I'M HEARING EARLIER, EIGHT TO 15 MINUTES TO GET TO MY PROPERTY.
IF THERE'S AN INCIDENT, I'M FULLY DISABLED.
I HAVE TWO RODS, 18 SCREWS AND A PLATE IN MY NECK.
SOME DAYS I CAN BARELY LIFT A PENCIL.
THE DRAWING THAT YOU SAW OF THE SIDEWALK AND YOU WERE WONDERING IF IT WAS COMING OVER, THAT'S 'CAUSE MY HAND WAS SHAKEN.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AT THIS POINT.
I LOVE CEDAR HILL, AND I LOVE WHAT ALL OF YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR THE CITY.
BUT AT WHAT POINT IS MY SAFETY AS A RESIDENT, NOT AS IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT I'M LIVING IN, GO DOWN THE STREET.
THE GATED COMMUNITIES, THEY'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE FENCING GO THE OTHER WAY DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.
I'M SIX HOUSES AWAY FROM THE GRAND PRAIRIE LINE.
ONCE YOU GO PAST THAT, THEN YOU START IN A GETTING FENCES AND IN GRAND PRAIRIE.
SO YOU EITHER GOT 'EM BEFORE YOU GET TO ME, OR I'M SO FAR ON THE END, YOU GOT 'EM AFTER ME AND I'M STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.
ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS AROUND ME HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE FENCING.
NONE OF THEM, OF THE 200 FEET THAT YOU ALL MAILED IT TO, THEY ALL THAT, ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT ARE DIRECTLY NEXT TO ME, ACROSS FROM ME AND DOWN THE STREET, ALL APPROVED.
MY NEIGHBORS DIRECTLY BEHIND ME APPROVED IT.
NO ONE SEES A PROBLEM WITH IT.
THE PROBLEM COMES IN IS THE PD AMENDMENT, AND YES, IT'S OLD, IT'S BEEN THERE 38 YEARS.
BUT MOST PROPERTY OWNERS, WHEN THEY BUY A HOUSE, YOU DON'T LOOK ALL THROUGH THE PACKETS AND SEE WHAT PD AMENDMENTS.
AND IF YOU CAN HAVE A FRONT GATE, IT NEVER CROSSED MY MIND.
I'M THE FIRST HOMEOWNER IN MY FAMILY.
I'M DRIVING THROUGH CEDAR HILL AND ALL RIGHT, DOWN BELTLINE, YOU SEE FENCES OF ALL KINDS IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOMES.
SO AUTOMATICALLY, I ASSUME BECAUSE I LIVE IN A
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NICER COMMUNITY, MAYBE I CAN HAVE A FENCE AS WELL.UNDERSTAND, I HAVE A HOME THAT'S A WORK OF ART AND IT'S ONE OF ONE IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE DESIGNER FOR MY HOME, THAT'S THE ONLY HOME HE DESIGNED IN ALL OF AMERICA.
SO I UNDERSTAND, I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE AND I WANT THEM TO ENJOY IT.
BUT WHEN DO YOU WAKE UP AT TWO, THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND YOU SEE SOMEBODY WITHIN THE FIRST TWO MONTHS RUNNING TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, BREAKING INTO THEIR CAR WITH SKI MASK ON AND, AND, AND GLOVES AND YOU COME OUT THINKING SOMEBODY'S HAVING A CAR PROBLEM AND THEY RUN ACROSS YOUR YARD.
CHIEF SHOULD HAVE A RECORD OF THAT IN HIS REPORT.
SO DO I SAY, WELL, IT MAY NOT HAPPEN THIS TIME AND IT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT TIME.
UM, YOU KNOW, WANNA SEE IF WE CAN YOU USE SOME TECHNOLOGY HERE? UH, CITY MANAGER, I'M AWARE THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, FLOCK CAMERAS ALL THROUGHOUT THE, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, IS, IS THERE ANY INDIVIDUAL FLOCK CAMERAS THAT, UH, CAN BE USED INDIVIDUALS? CAN INDIVIDUALS PURCHASE, UH, FLOCK CAMERAS? THAT, THAT MIGHT BE A CHIEF QUESTION, BUT, OH, I'M NOT SURE THAT ANYTHING PREVENTS IT.
I'M NOT SURE THAT I HAVE SEEN IT USED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, LARGELY BECAUSE IT'S BUILT FOR ROADWAYS, ET CETERA.
IS THAT CORRECT? CHIEF, BUT FOR PUBLIC.
I, I, I WAS TRYING TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HAVING LICENSE PLATE READERS ON YOUR, ON YOUR PROPERTY.
SO WHEN SOMEONE TRESPASSED, THEN, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY RUN AWAY, YOU KNOW, YOU STILL CAPTURED THEM AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN BE HIT WITH, WITH TRESPASSING.
UM, SO THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I WAS GOING.
JUST TRYING TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN YES, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
BUT THEN WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, I SIT IN THE KITCHEN ALL THE TIME AND LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW WHEN I THINK OF THE AMOUNT THAT IT HAPPENS, OUR OFFICERS REALLY HAVE SO MUCH MORE THAT THEY COULD BE DOING THAN RUNNING AFTER LICENSE PLATES.
'CAUSE THE KID WANTS TO TAKE A PICTURE ON SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE THEY WANT TO APPRECIATE MY HOME.
THAT'S WHY THE FENCE IN THE SO WIDE, I DO BELIEVE THE COLUMNS WILL HELP EXTENSIVELY.
I DO BELIEVE THAT THE, UH, DRIVEWAY GATE WOULD HELP A LOT.
BUT IF THEY HAVE A DRIVEWAY GATE AND CAN GO THROUGH THE SIDES AND GET A ROUND BACK OF SOMETHING ELSE, WHAT AM I PREVENTING? SURE.
COUSIN MCCURDY, UM, I GUESS THIS IS A, A QUESTION FOR, UH, FOR A PLANNING DIRECTOR.
SO THIS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL THIS THING THAT COMES OUT FROM THE FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE, A BEAM OR A TRUSS? IT'S ART.
I MEAN, IS THAT CONSIDERED THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE? NO, THE, THE DETERMINATION WAS THE FRONT FACADE OF THE HOME.
SO FROM THE, THE WHERE THE, THE DOOR, THE PRIMARY STRUCTURE IS, THAT WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE FRONT FACADE OF THE HOME.
IT JUST THE HOUSE SITS AT A, AT A UNIQUE ANGLE.
UM, ALL RIGHT, COUNSEL, I THINK WE KIND OF WORKED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT.
COUNCILOR HAYDEN, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? YEAH, I'LL JUST, I'LL JUST MAKE A COUPLE OTHER COMMENTS SURE.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MY, MY MAIN CONCERN WAS SINCE THIS WAS REQUEST WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS PROJECT, FOR THIS, UH, THIS LOT.
BUT I'M ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING A PRECEDENT FOR ANYBODY ELSE WANTING TO COME IN.
IT DIDN'T SOUND LIKE THE, UH, THE LAKERIDGE, UH, HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION WAS EXCITED ABOUT HAVING IT DONE ANYWAY, BUT AS RESTRICTED, YOU KNOW, SO THOSE THINGS ARE IN MY MIND, BUT I GOTTA LOOK AT THIS AND SEE THAT THIS IS KIND OF AN UNUSUAL SHAPE AND IT SITS ON A LOT AND, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN MOST OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING AT.
IF I'M SEEING IT RIGHT, YOUR, YOUR MAIN ENTRANCE IS RIGHT THERE TO THE RIGHT ON THOSE TREES.
AND THAT'S THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE? OR AM I LOOKING AT THE, THE, THE FRONT, THE RIGHT HERE? THAT'S THE DOOR.
ON THE LEFT, ON THE LEFT WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE, THE GLASS, THAT'S THE KITCHEN AREA.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHERE, WHERE MR. FULLER WAS SAYING HE SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME, AND YOU CAN SEE OBVIOUSLY INTO THE DRIVEWAY FROM THAT KITCHEN AREA, BECAUSE I'M FACING FRONT RIGHT NOW, YOUR DRIVEWAY'S OFF TO THE RIGHT.
AND IN YOUR FENCE SECTION, UH, IF I'M LOOKING AT IT HERE, IT COULD GO STRAIGHT TO THE EDGE OF THAT HOUSE AND STILL BE NOT EXCEEDING OUTSIDE OF THE, UH, THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FRONT.
IS THAT CORRECT? YOU'RE ASKING FROM THE, IF I TAKE, SEE IF I'M COUNTING THOSE PALM TREES, 1, 2, 3.
SO THE THIRD ONE RIGHT THERE? YEAH.
NOW THE NEXT ONE OVER TO THE RIGHT.
THAT ONE, NO, ONE MORE, THE SMALL ONE.
SO JUST OFF TO THE FRONT OF THAT, THAT EDGE OF THAT HOUSE, ISN'T THAT THE EDGE OF THE HOUSE? OH BOY.
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NO.AND THEN THE, THE, UH, THAT SECOND OR THAT SECOND LEVEL UP THERE IN, AT THE EDGE OF THE HOUSE.
SO IF THE FENCE CAME FROM THERE AND THEN CAME TO THIS TREE HERE, AND THEN CAME ACROSS TO THE FRONT OF THE OTHER, AND, AND THEN TO THE OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE, WOULDN'T THAT ENCOMPASS, UH, JUST THE FRONT? NO, IT, SO HOW DO I DO THIS? I'M TRYING TO KEEP MAYBE IN COMPLIANCE WITH PART OF IT.
I I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE, I I, THE ONLY WAY I COULD HERE, SO WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING IS EFFECTIVELY FROM THE CORNER TO WHICH OF THE YELLOW TO ABOUT THE THIRD YELLOW DOT ON THE LEFT.
SO THE FRONT DOOR IS TO THE RIGHT AND UP.
YEAH, IT'S TO THE RIGHT OF THAT.
AND SO THAT DOES KEEP GOING TO THE RIGHT, YEAH, THERE'S THE FRONT DOOR.
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO, SO WHAT I WAS SAYING EARLIER IS IF YOU ACTUALLY GO FROM THAT FRONT DOOR AND YOU DRAW A LINE STRAIGHT TO, TO LAKEVIEW, MR. FULLER COULD PUT A LONG SIDE YARD FENCE RIGHT OVER TO THE RIGHT OF HIS PROPERTY.
EVERYTHING BASICALLY FROM THE, UH, THIRD OR FOURTH YELLOW DOT ON, ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DRIVEWAY TO THE RIGHT WOULD BE THE SIDE YARD.
WHAT HE'S REALLY JUST ASKING FOR IN TERMS OF, OF THE FRONT FENCE IT THAT HE WOULD NEED A PERMIT FOR WOULD BE THE LEFT PART OF THE DRIVEWAY.
AND THEN I GUESS TECHNICALLY THE PART GOING UP THE PROPERTY LINE, BECAUSE THAT, BASED ON HOW THE HOUSE SITS, AND IT'S NOT, BECAUSE IT'S NOT STREET FACING.
THE SIDE PROPERTY LINE ENCOMPASSES THE FRONT, THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
LIKE I SAID, IT'S KIND OF AN UNUSUAL SHAPE COMPARED.
BY THE WAY, IF YOU'RE RUNNING THE, UH, OKAY, I JUST MOUSE
ALRIGHT, COUNSEL, I THINK WE KIND OF MASSAGED THIS YEP.
UM, ARE THERE ANY, UM, YOU KNOW, STABS AT THIS OR WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? COUNCIL? UH, SO I WILL SAY THIS, UM, I DO EMPATHIZE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND SHARE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT, ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL.
AND, AND WE DO WANNA, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MAKE YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE IN YOUR HOME.
UH, YOU KNOW, OUT OF, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE RESIDENTS THAT WE HAVE IN LAKE RIDGE, UH, I HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED WITH US.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I EMPATHIZE AND, AND, UH, I WANT TO TRY TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, YOUR NEED HERE.
UM, COUNSEL, THIS WAS, UH, DENIED BY PLANNING AND ZONING.
UH, THEREFORE WE WILL NEED THREE FOURTHS OF VOTE FROM CITY COUNCIL, UH, TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FOR APPROVAL.
UM, SO THAT IS, UM, THAT IS THE, UM, THE CASE THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US TODAY.
SO, UM, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT COULD PUT A, UH, A GATE ON THE DRIVEWAY WITHOUT A PROBLEM, WITHOUT ANY VIOLATION.
SO TECHNICALLY THAT WOULD REQUIRE A FENCE PERMIT AND THEREFORE STILL WOULD BE IN VIOLATION OF THE, THE VERBIAGE OF THE, THE PD.
SO COULDN'T EVEN, HE COULDN'T, I THOUGHT I HEARD, MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD THAT THAT WAS THE APPLICANT'S, UM, EXPLANATION, BUT WE WOULD REQUIRE A FENCE PERMIT FOR THE VEHICULAR GATE AS WELL.
AND SO THE, THE FENCE REGULATION IN THE PD SAYS NO FENCING OKAY.
THAT WAS AN OPTION IS MAYBE WE DON'T DO AWAY WITH ALL OF IT, BUT JUST HAVE TO LOCK THE DRIVEWAY.
THAT WOULD STILL REQUIRE THE AMENDMENT, BUT THE STIPULATION WOULD NEED TO BE SPECIFIC TO LIMITED TO JUST THE GATE, IF THAT'S THE PLEASURE OF THE COUNCIL, THAT THAT VARIANCE HAS BEEN ALLOWED ON OTHER PROPERTIES.
AND, AND IT WAS PREVIOUSLY ALSO ALLOWED BY THE P O A, SO IF THEY, THEY DID, THEY DID ALLOW PEOPLE TO PUT UP GATES, UM, JUST NOT FENCES.
UM, SO, UM, MADAM SECRETARY, IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE SITE PLAN AND, AND PRO TEM, YOU HAVEN'T MADE A, A MOTION YET, BUT, UH, IF YOU CAN GO TO, I GUESS, UH, LEFT OF THE DRIVEWAY, THE, ON THE YELLOW DOT OF THE, I'M SORRY, THE, THE ENTRANCE FROM THE STREET FROM LAKEVIEW, THE DRIVEWAY FROM LAKE, YEAH.
DOWN A LITTLE BIT RIGHT THERE.
UH, SO ARE YOU SAYING FROM THAT POINT, UH, PRO TIM, ARE YOU SAYING FURTHER TO THE CORNER OF THE PROPERTY? NO, I'M, I'M SAYING WHERE,
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UH, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF A GATE.AND I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA STOP ALL YOUR PROPERTY HAVING PROBLEMS, PEOPLE, BUT IT WOULD STOP THE, THE, OF TRAFFIC.
I AGREE WITH YOU THAT THAT WOULD CUT DOWN A LOT OF THE DSU TRAFFIC, BUT ON THE THIRD OR FOURTH PALM TREE, WHEN YOU WERE JUST SHOWING THOSE, THE SECOND AND THIRD PALM TREE IS WHERE SOMEBODY HAD DRIVEN THROUGH TO THE OTHER NEIGHBOR'S YARD.
SO EVEN IF THE GATE WAS AMENDED, UH, TO WHERE I COULD HAVE THAT, AND IF I WERE ALLOWED WITHOUT FENCING TO GET MY COLUMNS BETWEEN EVERY TREE, I THINK THAT WOULD HELP AS WELL.
SO THE, THAT WAY I JUST HAVE MY COLUMNS.
SO THE ROD IRON, YOU, YOU WOULDN'T NEED, BUT JUST THE COLUMNS.
IF I'M ABLE TO HAVE JUST MY COLUMNS AND THE FRONT FENCE, THE DRIVEWAY FENCE, VEHICULAR GATE, THE VEHICULAR GATE, I THINK THAT WOULD ALLEVIATE A LOT OF THE PROBLEMS. AND THEN I'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE HOW IT GOES FROM THERE.
I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE THAT OVER TO THE LEFT ISN'T THAT A SIDE YARD IS NEXT TO THE DRIVEWAY? THAT IS A SIDE YARD, BUT THEY WENT FROM MY DRIVEWAY.
NO, BUT WHAT I'M SAYING, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO PUT UP A FENCE ON YOUR SIDE YARD, AREN'T YOU? NO, THAT'S THE FRONT DOOR.
TECHNICALLY IT'S THE FRONT HOUSE.
BECAUSE IF IT WERE BASED ON HOW THE LINE IS SHAPED.
I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE SIDES.
WE JUST PUT UP COLUMNS IN THE FRONT.
COUNSEL, IF Y'ALL CAN, COULD WE DO, COULD WE DO A, ON THE, WHICH WOULD BE SIDE OF HIS HOUSE GOING FROM THE DOOR WHERE THE FRONT DOOR HERE ON THIS SIDE? WELL, I, I THINK HE'S SAYING HE'S GOOD WITH THE, I GUESS THE WEST SIDE OF THIS PROPERTY LINE AND THEN THE GATE FOR THE DRIVEWAY.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.
I WASN'T, HE'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PUT UP ALL THE, PUT UP THE COLUMNS AND THEN HAVE THE VEHICULAR GATE.
OH, I WASN'T WITH NO ROD ON FENCE.
EXCEPT FOR ON THE VEHICULAR GATE.
THAT WAY AT LEAST NOBODY COULD DRIVE FROM ONE YARD, FROM ONE THE NEIGHBOR'S DRIVEWAY THROUGH TO MY DRIVEWAY OR WHAT HAS HAPPENED FROM MY DRIVEWAY BACK THERE.
AND THE VEHICULAR GATE, YOU'RE SAYING? YES, SIR.
IF I'M ALLOWED THE COLUMNS AND THE ULAR GATE, I WON'T WORRY ABOUT THE WR IRON DENSITY EXCEPT ANYWHERE PUT ON THE VE GATE.
IF I GOTTA PLANT SOMETHING LATER IN BETWEEN THE COLUMNS TILL SOMETHING ELSE IS FIGURED OUT LATER, I'LL DO THAT.
BUT AT LEAST THE COLUMNS WITH A TREE BETWEEN EACH COLUMN, IT DOESN'T BUILD A CONNECTED SOLID FENCE.
BUT AT LEAST IT'S A LITTLE SOMETHING MORE FOR TO, TO PREVENT OR STOP OR SOMETHING.
NOW YOUR, YOUR PLAN SAYS THAT YOU, THE COLUMNS WOULD BE EIGHT FEET.
WOULD YOU STILL CONSTRUCT 'EM EIGHT FEET IF IT, YOU'RE JUST GONNA DO THE COLUMNS WOULD BE EIGHT FOOT BY TWO FOOT BY TWO FOOT, OR TWO FOOT BY TWO FOOT BY EIGHT FOOT.
THE REASON THAT BEING IS BECAUSE THE INITIAL PLAN IS FOR DOWN THE SIZE TO GET AN EIGHT FOOT FENCE ACROSS THE TOP.
I WAS, UH, SIX TO EIGHT FOOT FENCE.
AND ACROSS THE FRONT I WAS OPEN TO A SIX TO EIGHT FOOT FENCE.
SO IT'S MORE ABOUT THE MEASURING OF THE, THE PRE-DO FENCE.
IT WAS HARDER FOR SOMEBODY TO JUMP OVER A SIX OR EIGHT FOOT FENCE THAN IT IS TO STEP OVER THREE FOOT FENCE.
IT ALSO KEEPS THE SCALE IN TERMS OF THE PROPERTY.
SO YOU'RE PROPOSING EIGHT, EIGHT FOOT FENCE, I'M SORRY, EIGHT FOOT COLUMNS.
UM, AND THE COLUMN MUCH MATCHED THE STRUCTURE, SO IS IT GONNA BE STUCK? YES, SIR.
SHOW YOU WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IF YOU GUYS LOOK LIKE NO, I, I THINK I GOT A, A PICTURE.
SO, SO MAYOR, AND BY HAVING THOSE COLUMNS, I GUESS IT'S OKAY TO BE ABLE TO PUT PLANT SHRUBS OR TREES IN BETWEEN THOSE COLUMNS.
AND THAT WOULD KIND OF HAVE YOUR OWN SCREENING WITHOUT HAVING A FENCE? UM, DO, I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT WANT YOUR, YOUR, YOUR SHRUBBERY TO BE EIGHT FOOT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, JUST AS TALL AS THE COLUMNS.
SO OF COURSE, BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE 50% FUEL, AND IF I'VE GOT SOME TREES THAT ARE EIGHT FOOTED COLUMNS THAT ARE EIGHT FOOT, AND IF SOMEBODY HAS GOTTEN PAST THAT LINE IS DOING SOMETHING, WHO'S GONNA SEE IT? OKAY.
THE PURPOSE OF THE FENCE WAS YOU CAN SEE THROUGH THE WR IRON FENCE.
UM, SO COUNSEL, THAT'S, THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION, BUT ULTIMATELY YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE, UH, THE MOTION.
SO, UM, WE DO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE, BUT, UH,
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SOMEONE HAS TO MAKE THE MOTION.SO I, I I JUST WANNA LEVEL SET.
THE ALTERNATIVE BEING PRESENTED BY THE APPLICANT IS THE COLUMNS, WHICH WOULD BE THOSE YELLOW SQUARE BOXES AROUND THE ENTIRE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDE AND THE FRONT WITH THE VEHICULAR GATE.
UM, IF THERE'S NOT A, A APPRO, UH, A MOTION FOR APPROVAL, THEN THERE IS OPPORTUNITY FOR MOTION FOR DENIED COUNSEL.
SO WE NEED SOMEBODY TO MAKE A MOTION.
I, I WAS SITTING THERE THINKING MORE WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE COLUMNS, BE A FEW OF THEM THERE ON THE, ON THE LEFT SIDE WHERE YOU WERE REFERRING TO FACT OF MAYBE SOME PEOPLE WERE WALKING, WALKING FROM THAT DIRECTION.
I WASN'T VISUALIZING ANYBODY ON THE, ON THE FARTHER SIDE WITH ALL OF THAT.
UM, AND HAVING ACCESS THROUGH THERE.
UM, MY, JUST TO CLARIFY THAT FAR RIGHT, HE COULD DO BY, RIGHT? YEP.
ISN'T THAT CORRECT? SO I ACTUALLY, UH, MAYOR, CAN I RESPECTFULLY, ONE, HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AS THAT'S PRESENTED OVER A MOTION FOR TRIAL? OR YOU CAN RE TABLE IT, REFER IT BACK WITH SOME OPTIONS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY INTO OKAY.
THAT WE CAN THEN MAKE SURE NEEDS THE REGULATION ET.
SO THOSE ARE THE, I THINK THE THREE OPTIONS THAT MAKES MORE SENSE.
THERE'S ALSO, AS FAR AS THE COLUMN, THINK, THERE ARE NO, THERE ARE NO CD NOR PD AMENDMENTS THAT ARE PREVENTING COLUMNS.
WHAT PREVENTED IS DEFENSIVE COLUMNS.
SO WE, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THIS AND WE ARE NOT TRYING TO DENY YOU, BUT I THINK COUNCIL PROBABLY NEEDS, UH, PROBABLY MORE OF A VISUAL.
SO, UH, IF YOU COULD, IF WE COULD TABLE THIS, YOU COME BACK, YOU GIVE US SOME SORT OF A VISUAL ABOUT WHAT, WHAT COLUMNS YOU'RE PROPOSING, WHAT'S GONNA BE IN BETWEEN THE COLUMNS, AND THEN HAVE COUNCIL BE ABLE TO MAKE A BETTER DEC UH, MORE EDUCATED DECISION BASED UPON THAT.
AND, UH, I THINK WE'LL PROBABLY TAKE ANOTHER, UH, CHANCE AT IT.
SO COUNCIL, SOMEBODY WANT TO MOTION TO, TO TABLE TO, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEING TABLED.
MR. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TABLE ITEM NUMBER
WE DO HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE, UH, FOR FUTURE, UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MEETING.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
UM, UH, CITY MANAGER, ARE THERE ANY RULES ABOUT, UH, HOW LONG IT NEEDS TO TAKE BEFORE IT COMES BACK TO US AGAIN? IT'S A ZONING CHANGE, SO I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S A, EXCUSE ME.
SO THE SOONER YOU CAN GET IT BACK TO US, WE'LL TRY TO PUT IT ON THE COUNCIL AND WE'LL RECONSIDER.
IT'S NOT DENIED, NOT APPROVED.
GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GIVE US ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE.
ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
SO THANK YOU FOR THAT TABLE, AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AND TRY TO FIND SOME SORT OF A COMPROMISE.
[7. Consent Agenda: The Consent Agenda includes routine items that may be acted upon with a single vote. Any council member may remove items from the Consent Agenda for separate discussion and consideration.]
ON THE AGENDA IS CONSENT AGENDA.THIS INCLUDES ROUTINE ITEM THAT MAY BE ACTED UPON WITH A SINGLE VOTE.
ANY COUNCIL MEMBER MAY REMOVE ITEMS, UH, FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR A SEPARATE DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION.
COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR, UH, TO BE PULLED? COUNCILOR HAY? NO, I DON'T.
SO THEREFORE NOT HEARING NONE, UH, I'LL CONTINUE, UH, UH, CONSENT AGENDA ITEM SEVEN A.
CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE IN ANY LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES D C H H S TO PROVIDE MOSQUITO GROUND CONTROL SERVICES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024.
ITEM B, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE WORK AUTHORIZATION NUMBER 23 DASH TWO IN THE AMOUNT OF 979,000 WITH TEAGUE, NALL AND PERKINS INCORPORATED FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES
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AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DOWNTOWN STREET IMPROVEMENT PHASE TWO, ITEM C, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH LAND WORKS FOR LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE IN THE HIGH POINT PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.ITEM D, CONSIDER ADOPTING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2023 DASH 7 93, WHICH APPROVES THE REVISED EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE NEW FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS, UH, ACRONYM FIRM AND FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY, UH, ACRONYM F I S, UH, DOCUMENTS FOR, UH, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FEMA FOR ELLIS COUNTY.
ITEM E, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE OF 11 ZERO TURN MOWERS FOR, UH, HUSTLER TURF FOR ANY AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $140,000.
ITEM F, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE OF LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION SUPPLIES FROM SITE ONE LANDSCAPE SUPPLY FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $88,000.
COUNSEL, THOSE ARE YOUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. MAYOR, I MOVE YOU APPROVE AGENDA I I ITEMS A THROUGH F IS READ.
WE, WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND MAYOR ORDINANCE, UH, 20 23 7 93.
AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIERRA, TEXAS AMENDING CHAPTER SEVEN, ARTICLE THREE, SECTION SEVEN THROUGH 37 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CEDAR, TEXAS, PROVIDING, UH, AMENDED BASIS FOR ESTABLISHING AREAS OF SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARDS, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR A SEVERANCE CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATION TO THE CEDAR CODE OF ORDINANCES, PROVIDING FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
MS. PORTER, I WASN'T FAST ENOUGH.
I'M A LITTLE, I'M A LITTLE RESTED.
WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR? YOU RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND MO.
[a. Case No. FP-579-2023 – Approve, in accordance with the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendation, an application for a final plat for the Porter Addition, Lot 1 and 2, Block A and a variance to Section 20-22(b), Chapter 20 – Subdivision Regulations on property zoned “SF-10” (Single-Family Residential – 10,000 square feet minimum lot size) District located on the east side of South Clark Road and south of Weaver Street with the approximate address being 622 South Clark Road. Applicants and Property Owners: Connie Furguson and Sabrina Porter. Representative: Eric Spooner, Spooner and Associates. ]
THE, UH, COUNCIL AGENDA.THAT IS ITEM EIGHT, A CASE NUMBER FP 5 7 9 2023.
APPROVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION AND APPLICATION FOR A FINAL PLA FOR THE PORTER EDITION LOT ONE AND TWO BLOCK A AND A VARIANCE TO SECTION 20 DASH 22 B.
SUBDIVISION REGULATION ON PROPERTY ZONE.
SSF TMM, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE, 10,000 SQUARE FEET MINIMUM LOTS SIZE DISTRICT LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF SOUTH CLARK ROAD AND SOUTH OF WEAVER STREET WITH THE APPROXIMATE ADDRESS BEING 6 22 SOUTH CLARK ROAD.
APPLICANTS ARE PROPERTY OWNERS.
CONNIE FERGUSON AND SABRINA PORTER.
UH, REPRESENTATIVE ERIC SPOONER, SPOONER AND ASSOCIATES.
DO WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE WITH US TODAY? YES, YOU LOOK FAMILIAR.
I LIVE AT 6 3 0 SOUTH CLARK ROAD, AND MY WIFE SABRINA PORTER IS HERE WITH ME.
UM, YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION OR ANYTHING, I JUST WANNA NOT ADD ANY COMMENTS FOR COUNSEL BEFORE WE DELIBERATE.
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS, UM, GET THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY REPLANTED.
WE BOUGHT IT FROM OUR NEIGHBOR, UH, CONNIE FERGUSON.
SHE'S NOT HERE TONIGHT, BUT, UM, A FEW YEARS AGO HER HUSBAND LEFT HER AND SHE WANTED TO STAY IN THE HOUSE AND, UH, WE AGREED TO PURCHASE THE BACK PART OF HER PROPERTY SO THAT SHE COULD STILL STAY THERE.
AND, UH, AND THEN WE USED IT, UH, FOR OUR HORSES AND STUFF.
AND, UM, WE DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND GET THIS OFFICIALLY PLOTTED PROPERLY AND FOUND OUT THAT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF HICCUPS ALONG THE WAY AND WE FINALLY GOT THOSE APPROVED FROM THE B A A B AND ALSO THE PLANNING AND ZONING AND ALL THOSE GOT APPROVED.
AND, AND, UH, NOW WE'RE MOVING TO COLORADO AND OUR SON MASON WAS A, UH, UH, IN THE ARMY, WENT TO AFGHANISTAN FOR NINE MONTHS WITH, UH, SPECIAL FORCES GROUP AND, UM, SAW A LOT OF COMBAT AND HE WAS WANTING TO MOVE TO COLORADO, UH, TO KIND OF JUST BE, BREATHE FRESH AIR AS HE SAYS, AND DRINK CLEAN WATER AND, AND, UH, NOT BE AROUND A LOT OF SIRENS AND, AND CROWDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND, UH, SO WE WENT TO LOOK FOR PROPERTY AND FOUND A PLACE AND, UH, HAPPENED TO HAVE A PROPERTY ALREADY BUILT AND, UH, DIDN'T PLAN ON IT, BUT, UH, WE'RE GONNA LIVE UP THERE WITH HIM AND, UH, IT'S NOT A MOVE THAT WE'RE, UM, WE DON'T WANNA MOVE FROM THE CITY.
WE'VE BEEN HERE 19 YEARS, BUT, UM, COLORADO'S PRETTY NICE, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE WITH OUR SON AND IT'S WHY WE'RE LOOKING TO, TO GET THIS PLANTED SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY SELL IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
BUT WE'RE GONNA HANG ON TO IT FOR A WHILE.
AND SINCE YOU DID THE INVOCATION TODAY, IT'D BE KIND OF HARD FOR US TO OTHERWISE, BUT MY SECRET PLAN WORKED.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU FOR, WELL, IF COUNSEL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE'LL BRING YOU BACK UP.
UH, COUNSEL, THE FLOOR IS OPEN.
MAYOR, I MOVE FOR APPROVAL OF CASE NUMBER FP.
WE HAVE A, A COUPLE QUESTIONS I GUESS.
COUNCILOR MCCURDY, I THINK GLOVES WAS BEFORE ME.
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THIS LINE I HAVE A OH YEAH, IT, I DIDN'T, I NEED IT.SO I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT HIT, JUST HIT MY BUTTON JUST NOW.
WELL WE MADE YOU WAIT TILL THE END, JOEL, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WANNA MOVE TO COLORADO.
SO, UM, I, I KNOW IT'S, I KNOW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY AND, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I, I KNOW THAT THIS IS PART OF A PROCESS OF YOU'RE TRYING TO SELL YOUR PROPERTY OFF SO THAT YOU CAN RELOCATE.
UM, I, I'M PERSONALLY GONNA MISS YOU.
SO, UH, I, I KNOW YOU'VE DONE A LOT FOR, FOR THE CITY AND, AND, AND, AND FOR YOUR, YOUR CHURCH BEING A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.
AND, UH, YOU, YOU HAVE MEANT A LOT TO THE CITY, SO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE, BUT I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND I'M GONNA DO IT.
SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR, FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE, UH, IN, IN THE CITY.
AND I THINK THAT, UH, APPROVING THIS IS PROBABLY A, A, AN EASY DECISION FOR US GIVEN WHAT YOU, GIVEN WHAT YOU MEAN TO, UH, HAVE MEANT TO THE CITY OVER THE YEARS.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, COUNCILMAN AZI.
UM, WELL I WAS, MY SENTIMENTS WERE VERY SIMILAR, UH, TO COUNCILMAN MCCURDY AND HONESTLY, I WISH THAT I HAD A GOOD REASON TO DENY, UH, SO THAT THE PORTERS, I WOULD NOT EVENTUALLY MOVE TO COLORADO.
UM, BUT I KNOW IT'S PART OF A, OF A, A HIGHER CALLING.
AND I ALSO JUST WANTED TO, UH, GIVE MY THANKS, UM, FOR, FOR YOUR SERVICE IN THE CITY, UM, FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE, UH, SORT OF GIVEN IN COURT INTO THE CITY.
UH, AND THEN, UM, JUST THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I'M HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THIS PROCESS.
YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANNA SAY? AZI, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANNA SAY? MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE WOULD APPROVE CASE NUMBER F P 5 7 9 2 0 2 3.
WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
WELL, COUNSEL THAT GO LEADS US TO THE FINAL ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WHICH IS TO ADJOURN.
UH, THAT IS A NON DEBATABLE MOTION.
UH, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.