* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [1. Call meeting to order.] [00:00:06] GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. TODAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2026. THIS IS THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING WITH THE CITY OF COUNCIL. WE DO HAVE A FULL QUORUM OF CITY COUNCIL PRESENT. THIS IS AN OPEN MEETING. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. THOSE OF YOU JOINING US VIRTUALLY, WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL. UH, I WANNA REMIND EVERYONE THAT OPEN CARRY OF FIREARMS IS PROHIBITED WITHIN THESE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. AND WITH THAT, I WANT TO OFFICIALLY CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. I HAVE 7:12 PM NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS INVOCATION, WILL BE PRESENTED BY PASTOR GLENN JONES, HILLCREST BAPTIST CHURCH, UM, OF CEDAR HILL, AND THEN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. WE WILL HAVE, UH, OUR VERY OWN COUNCIL MEMBER MCCURDY TO LEAD US WITH THAT. IF EVERYONE WILL PLEASE STAND AND WELCOME THE INVOCATION, FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. GOOD EVENING, SIR. ALRIGHT, IF Y'ALL JOIN ME IN PRAYER. UM, DEAR FATHER, GOD, I JUST WANNA START BY REMEMBERING WHO YOU ARE, THAT YOU'RE HOLY, THAT YOU'RE SOVEREIGN, THAT YOU CREATED EVERYTHING, UM, THAT YOU HOLD US IN YOUR HAND, YET YOU STILL CARE INSTANTLY ABOUT EACH ONE OF US, THAT YOU INVITE US TO PRAY, JUST TO TALK TO YOU, UM, THAT YOU DESIRE THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH US. UM, I JUST THANK YOU, UH, AND WANNA LIFT UP THESE COUNCIL MEMBERS, THESE MEN AND WOMEN, UM, WHO ARE SERVING OUR CITY. I JUST PRAY OVER THEM, UH, WHAT YOU TOLD JOSHUA, JUST TO BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, KNOWING THAT YOU WERE WALKING WITH HIM. I PRAY THAT OVER THESE, THESE MEMBERS AS THEY'RE MAKING HARD DECISIONS FOR OUR CITY, UM, AS THEY'RE HAVING TO DECIDE WHAT'S BEST FOR US, HOW TO HELP US THE BEST AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH STRUGGLES THAT OUR CITY IS FACING. I JUST PRAY THAT THEY'LL BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, AND THAT THEY'LL FEEL YOUR PRESENCE, THAT THEY'LL FEEL YOUR WISDOM, THAT THEY'LL FEEL YOU WALKING WITH THEM AND GUIDING THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. UM, I JUST ALSO WANNA PRAY FOR PEACE IN OUR CITY. YOU CALL US AS BELIEVERS TO PURSUE PEACE, UM, AND PROSPERITY OVER THE CITY. AND THAT'S WHAT I PRAY FOR CEDAR HILL, THAT IT WILL BE A CITY THAT LOVES OUR NEIGHBOR AS WE LOVE OURSELVES, THAT WILL SACRIFICE FOR ONE ANOTHER, THAT WILL LIFT EACH OTHER UP, THAT WILL WALK WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THE HARD TIMES. UM, THAT WILL JUST GIVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. UM, THAT WILL BE A CITY THAT LOOKS DIFFERENT AND IS MARKED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF YOU. UM, AND JUST BECAUSE OF THE LOVE WE HAVE THIS WEEK, I KNOW IS A HARD WEEK FOR MANY PEOPLE. UM, IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS, BUT JUST LOOKING BACK AT NINE 11, UM, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT STILL ARE GOING THROUGH PAIN AND SUFFERING THIS WEEK. SO I ALSO WANT TO JUST LIFT UP THOSE FAMILIES THAT ARE STILL HURTING. WE PRAY FOR COMFORT FOR THEM. UM, WE PRAY FOR HEALING. UM, AND ALSO JUST LIFTING UP OUR FIRST RESPONDERS HERE ALL OVER AMERICA, BUT ESPECIALLY HERE IN CEDAR HILL, THE PEOPLE WHO EVERY DAY, UH, GIVE THEIR LIVES, UM, PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR US, SACRIFICE FOR US. WE JUST PRAY FOR PROTECTION OVER THEM. WE PRAY THAT YOU GIVE THEM PEACE AND PROTECTION, UM, AND THAT THEY JUST FEEL, FEEL YOUR CLOSENESS AND NEARNESS. UM, AND WE'RE JUST SO THANKFUL. UM, AND THEN MOSTLY I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR LOVING US SO MUCH. UM, YOU LOVED US SO MUCH THAT YOU GAVE US YOUR SON, THAT HE CAME, UH, WHEN WE HAD NO HOPE. AND HE OFFERED US HOPE THAT HE LIVED A PERFECT LIFE AND DIED FOR US, FOR OUR SONS. UM, HE DIED AND THAT HE DEFEATED DEATH SO THAT WE COULD HAVE NEW LIFE IN HIM. AND I JUST PRAY, UM, PRAY OVER EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM, THAT THEY'LL DRAW CLOSE TO YOU AND KNOW YOU IN A PERSONAL WAY. UM, I LOVE YOU, UH, AND IT IS YOUR NAME, I PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. THANK YOU. PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF THE AMERICAN FLAG, FOLLOWED BY THE TEXAS FLAG PLEDGE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY, JUSTICE, FRAUD, THE TEXAS FLAG, HONOR OF THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD. ONE AN INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU. AND YOU ALL MAY BE SEATED. NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA [a. Recognition of Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center’s 15th Anniversary.] IS PRESENTATION, RECOGNITION OF DOGWOOD CANYON AUDUBON CENTER. 15TH ANNIVERSARY. I THINK THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY JULIE COLLINS. GOOD EVENING. 15 YEARS. 15 YEARS ALREADY. GOOD EVENING. YOU LOOK FAMILIAR. I THINK JULIE HAVE A FEW WORDS SHE WANTS TO PRESENT. ALRIGHT. THIS MADAM SECRETARY IS ABOUT TO GET INTO LARGE ENOUGH PRINT WHERE I CAN READ. NO, TAKE YOUR TIME. NO PROBLEM. [00:05:07] ALL RIGHT. FIRST, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL IN CITY STAFF AND ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED AND HONORED TO BE ASKED TO COME AND CELEBRATE OUR 15TH ANNIVERSARY. ON BEHALF OF AUDUBON AND OUR STAFF AT DOGWOOD CANYON AUDUBON CENTER, THANK YOU FOR THIS RECOGNITION AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP IN SUPPORT OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS. DOGWOOD CANYON IS TRULY A SPECIAL PLACE. IT IS ONE OF ONLY 32 AUDUBON CENTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND ONE OF JUST THREE IN TEXAS. BUT WHAT MAKES IT EXTRAORDINARY? IT'S NOT SIMPLY IT'S AUDUBON DESIGNATION. IT IS THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY BEHIND IT. WHILE WE ARE CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF THE CENTER, THE STORY OF DOGWOOD CANYON REALLY BEGAN MUCH EARLIER, NEARLY THREE DECADES AGO, LOCAL CONSERVATION LEADERS, INCLUDING OUR OWN DAVID HURT, HAD THE VISION TO PROTECT THIS REMARKABLE LANDSCAPE IN CEDAR HILL. THROUGH THE COMMITMENT OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, AUDUBON, AND MANY DEDICATED PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS, THAT VISION BECAME A REALITY. SINCE THEN, DOGWOOD CANYON HAS WELCOMED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS, CONNECTED GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES AND STUDENTS TO NATURE, AND INSPIRED A DEEPER APPRECIATION FOR BIRDS AND THE PLACES THEY NEED TO THRIVE. FOR MANY PEOPLE, THIS IS WHERE THEY TOOK THEIR FIRST HIKE, SAW THEIR FIRST PAINTED BUNTING, OR DISCOVERED A LIFELONG CONNECTION TO THE NATURAL WORLD. AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE, WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO WORKING ALONGSIDE THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL AND OUR MANY CONSERVATION PARTNERS. TO STEWARD THIS PLACE AND ADVANCE PROJECTS LIKE THE GREAT GREENWAY AND CONTINUE STRENGTHENING CEDAR HILL'S, WELL-EARNED REPUTATION AS THE NATURAL HEART OF THE METROPLEX. MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE DOGWOOD CANYON BELONGS TO ALL OF US. THANK YOU FOR HELPING MAKE THIS PLACE POSSIBLE AND FOR ENSURING THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE ITS BEAUTY, WONDER, AND WILDLIFE. THANK YOU, JULIE. ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, PRESENTED TO DOGWOOD CANYON AUDUBON CENTER, AND RECOGNITION OF 15 YEARS OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WITH APPRECIATION FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO PRESERVING NATURE AND ENRICHING OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. TWO. ALL RIGHT. AND, UH, JULIE, BEFORE YOU, JULIE, BEFORE YOU LEAVE, I THINK YOU SENT SOME INVITES I KNOW, TO COUNCIL. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC. UH, THE 26TH IS PRIVATE. OKAY. FOR SPECIAL. OKAY. AND THEN SATURDAY IS PUBLIC THIS SATURDAY. SATURDAY, OKAY. IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVERYBODY'S WELCOME TO COME THIS SATURDAY, 10 TO TWO. WE HAVE A SPECIAL CELEBRATION AT DOGWOOD CANYON WITH ACTIVITIES. SO JOIN US. IT'S FREE. ALL RIGHT. PERFECT. THANK YOU. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO, UH, YOU KNOW, DOGWOOD CANYON, PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT. IT IS A JEWEL. IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS IN OUR REGION AND IT'S HARD TO FIND IT ANYWHERE ELSE THROUGHOUT THE STATE. UM, SO IF YOU HAVEN'T VISITED DOGWOOD CANYON, PLEASE DO. [b. Present a Proclamation designating the month of September 2026 as National Library Card Sign-up Month in Cedar Hill.] UM, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA WAS STILL UNDER PRESENTATION IS ITEM B AND THE PRESENTER PROCLAMATION DESK DESIGNATED THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 2026 AS NATIONAL LIBRARY CARD SIGNUP MONTH IN CEDAR HILL. AND THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY COUNCILWOMAN . WE WOO, WHOA. WE GOT OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND. WOO. [00:10:02] WE GOT OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND. WOO. WERE THOSE, WE HAVE FANS IN HERE. THE LIBRARY BOOTS ON THE FOR LIBRARY CARD. SIGN UP. COME. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. UH, I HAVE A PROCLAMATION FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR. WHEREAS LIBRARIES ARE FOUNDATIONAL TO EDUCATION, IMAGINATION, AND OPPORTUNITY OFFERING EVERYTHING FROM EARLY LITERACY PROGRAMS TO DIGITAL TOOLS THAT SUPPORT LIFELONG LEARNING AND PERSONAL GROWTH. AND WHEREAS LIBRARIES WELCOME ALL PEOPLE SERVING AS INCLUSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY HUBS THAT CONNECT INDIVIDUALS ACROSS CULTURES, GENERATIONS, AND EXPERIENCES. AND WHEREAS LIBRARIES, LIBRARIES CURATE COLLECTIONS AND DESIGN PROGRAMS THAT REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF THE POPULATIONS THEY SERVE ENSURING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE FOR ALL. AND WHEREAS LIBRARIES HELP INDIVIDUALS NAVIGATE LIFE'S CHALLENGES BY PROVIDING TRUSTED INFORMATION, DIGITAL ACCESS, JOB SEARCH, SUPPORT, AND CONNECTIONS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES. AND WHEREAS LIBRARIES CONTRIBUTE TO THRIVING LOCAL COMMUNITIES BY EQUIPPING JOB SEEKERS, ENTREPRENEURS, STUDENTS, AND CREATORS WITH TOOLS AND TRAINING TO SUCCEED. AND WHEREAS IN TIMES OF BOTH CRISES AND CALM LIBRARIES AND THEIR STAFF REMAIN STEADFAST IN SUPPORTING AND STRENGTHENING OUR COMMUNITIES. AND WHEREAS LIBRARY RESOURCES HELP HOUSEHOLDS SAVE MONEY, REDUCE WASTE, AND MAKE SUSTAINABLE CHOICES, ALL THROUGH THE SIMPLE POWER OF SHARED PUBLIC GOOD. AND WHEREAS A LIBRARY CARD OFFERS A FRONT ROW SEAT TO EVERYTHING THE LIBRARY OFFERS FROM BOOKS AND TECHNOLOGY TO LIFELONG LEARNING AND IMAGINATION. AND WHEREAS LIBRARIES, LIBRARIANS, AND LIBRARY WORKERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE JOINING TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE LIBRARY CARDS, SIGN UP MONTH UNDER THE THEME, A LIBRARY CARD HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES. AND NOW, THE THEREFORE, I STEVEN MASON, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS DO HEREBY PROCLAIM SEPTEMBER, 2026 AS LIBRARY CARD SIGNUP MONTH IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, AND ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO VISIT OUR AWARD-WINNING TINE HICKMAN LIBRARY, AND TO SIGN UP FOR A LIBRARY CARD AND EXPLORE THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES IT OFFERS IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HERETO SET MY HAND AND HAVE CAUSED A SEAL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS TO BE AFFIXED THIS EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER. SIGNED MAYOR STEVEN MASON. MAYOR, THANK, THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. WE DID WANT TO INVITE EVERYONE TO COME AND GET YOUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND, GET A LIBRARY CARD, BECAUSE AS COUNCILWOMAN DEN SAID, IT DOES HIT ALL OF THE RIGHT NOTES. WE LOVE SERVING OUR COMMUNITY, AND WE INVITE ANYONE WHO LIVES ANYWHERE TO GET A FREE LIBRARY CARD. YES, I DID SAY FREE. SO IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE ONE, INVITE THEM. IN FACT, BRING THEM WITH YOU TO THE TRAFFICKING HICKMAN LIBRARY AND GET YOUR LIBRARY CARD. AND VERY SOON. SO STAY TUNED. WE HAVE A BRAND NEW DESIGN, WHICH YOU SEE ON THE FANS, UM, THAT WE'RE DEBUTING. AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE HAVE A HARDCORE COMMUNITY. WE ARE THE HEARTBEAT OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WE INVITE YOU TO COME AND CONNECT WITH US AT THE LIBRARY. IT'S THE MOST VALUABLE CARD YOU'LL EVER OWN IN YOUR PURSE OR WALLET, I PROMISE YOU. UM, IT IS PRICELESS. SO COME OUT AND JOIN US, AND THANKS FOR CELEBRATING NATIONAL LIBRARY CARD. SIGN THAT MONTH WITH US. THANK YOU. UH, LIBRARY DIRECTOR. UM, THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. NEXT, [c. Present a Proclamation designating September 15 - October 15, 2026 as Hispanic Heritage Month in Cedar Hill.] WE'RE STILL IN PRESENTATION. NEXT ITEM IS PRESENTED PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING SEPTEMBER 15TH THROUGH OCTOBER 15TH, 2026, AS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN CEDAR HILL. THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY MAYOR PRO TIM GLOVER, PRO. TIM, BEFORE YOU GET STARTED, [00:15:01] UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KICK A, A A SHOUT OUT TO RAY LA FUENTE. RAY, CAN YOU, CAN YOU RAISE YOUR HAND TO THE AUDIENCE? UM, YOU KNOW, I, I, I MET RAY JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. UH, I SAW HIM IN, IN GRAND PRAIRIE AT ANOTHER EVENT. UH, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, HE'S A, A BUSINESS HERE IN CEDAR HILL CONTRACTOR, AND HE DONATED $20,000 TOWARDS OUR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH. SO CAN YOU GIVE IT TO ME? SO, THANK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION, NOT JUST FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE, BUT WHAT YOU DO HERE IN CEDAR HILL PRO TWO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I KNOW IF I'M SPEAKING, I'M TYPICALLY SPEAKING BEHIND DIRECTOR BELL FROM THE LIBRARY. I THOUGHT WE HAD CHANGED THE DECAF, BUT APPARENTLY WE HAVE NOT . BUT, UM, I'M HONORED TO PRESENT THIS PROCLAMATION. I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK THING TO SAY. UM, THIS PROCLAMATION MEANS A LOT TO ME, UM, IN MY OWN HOME. HISPANIC COURAGE IS, ISN'T JUST A THEME, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S CELEBRATED EVERY DAY. I AM A AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE, MARRIED TO A PROUD LATINA, AND WE HAVE FIVE BIRACIAL CHILDREN WHO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF HAVING BOTH HERITAGES IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD. AS A FATHER, I WANT THAT FOR NOT JUST MY KIDS, BUT EVERY KID IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TO GROW UP KNOWING THAT THEIR ROOTS, THEIR HISTORY, AND THEIR IDENTITY IS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF. EVEN AT A DAY WHEN DIVERSITY IS, SEEMS TO BE A, A WORD THAT IS NO LONGER HAS A POSITIVE MEANING TO IT, DIVERSITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER AS THIS COUNTRY. WHEN WE STAND STRONG IN THAT TRUTH, AND WE SHOW OUR CHILDREN THAT THEY BELONG HERE, THEY ARE SEEN, THEY ARE HEARD. AND THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN AMERICA. AND WITH THAT, I HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO READ THIS PROCLAMATION. IT IS A PROCLAMATION FROM OUR MAYOR, STEPHEN MASON. WHEREAS EACH YEAR, HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, WE CELEBRATE THE HISTORY RICH CULTURES AND THE MEASURABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THOSE ANCESTORS WHO CAME FROM SPAIN, MEXICO, THE CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA. AND WHEREAS FORMAL NATIONWIDE RECOGNITION FOR THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF HISPANIC AMERICANS BEGAN IN 1968 AS HISPANIC HERITAGE WEEK, AND WAS EXPANDED TO HISPANIC HERDS THIS MONTH IN 1988. AND WHEREAS WE HONOR THE 2026 NATIONAL THEME PIONEERS OF CHANGE SHAPING THE FUTURE TOGETHER. HISPANIC AMERICANS ARE THE LARGEST MINORITY GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES, AND REPRESENTS THE LARGEST ETHNIC POPULATION IN TEXAS. 24% OF CEDAR HILL RESIDENTS ARE HISPANIC. THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY THAT CELEBRATES DIVERSITY, CREATES OPPORTUNITIES AND HONORS THE IMPACT OF HISPANIC AMERICANS IN OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STATE, OUR COUNTRY, AND OUR WORLD. AND WHEREAS HISPANIC AMERICANS ARE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, SERVING IN VARIOUS LEADERSHIP CAPACITIES, INCLUDING AS NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS, BUSINESS LEADERS, AND MEMBERS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, THEIR IMPACT CAN BE SEEN IN POLICY DECISIONS, DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECT PROJECTS, AND CULTURAL ENRICHMENT THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF CEDAR HILLS SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO FOSTER A MORE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY THROUGH VARIOUS INITIATIVES, INCLUDING, INCLUDING HOSTING MINORITY AND WOMEN OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, MWBE, INFORMATIONAL EVENTS, ENGAGING THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY, SHARING RESOURCES AND LITERATURE IN SPANISH, AND HOSTING CULTURAL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THAT CELEBRATE AND HONOR THE RICH, DIVERSE CULTURE OF THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY. AND WHEREAS THE BEST SOUTHWEST CITIES WILL COME TOGETHER THIS YEAR TO CELEBRATE THE RICH AND DIVERSE CULTURES OF LATIN AMERICAN AMERICA. IN THE ANNUAL BEST SOUTHWEST HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL, HOSTED BY OUR CITY, THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2026, FROM FIVE TO 10:00 PM AT THE VALLEY RIDGE PARK, WE INVITE ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO JOIN US IN CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH. AND WHEREAS CEDAR HILL CONTINUE, CONTINUES TO SERVE ALL CITIZENS REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, CREED, OR BACKGROUND, WITH GREAT HONOR AND WITH DE RESPECT, DURING THIS MONTH, WE CELEBRATE THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF HISPANIC AMERICANS THROUGHOUT OUR GREAT CITY. NOW, THEREFORE, I STEVEN MASON, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM SEPTEMBER 15TH, MY WIFE'S BIRTHDAY, THROUGH OCTOBER 15TH, 2026, AS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS. AND WE URGE ALL CITIZENS OF CEDAR HILL TO JOIN ME IN THE SPECIAL OBSERVANCE. A WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEARING TO SET MY HAND, HAVE CAUSED THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS TO BE AFFIXED THIS DAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2026. [00:20:01] AND IS SIGNED OUR MAYOR BY OUR MAYOR, STEPHEN MASON. ALL RIGHT. UH, NAME'S JOHN. THANK YOU. FIRST AND FOREMOST, YOU WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY, THE COUNCIL, THE MAYOR, EVERYBODY, FIRST RESPONDERS IN CEDAR HILL FOR KEEPING IT STRAIGHT. AND WE CHOSE CEDAR HILL, AND WE COULDN'T BE HAPPIER WITH THAT TO PUT OUR COMPANY THERE. WE NOW EMPLOY OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE AREA WE'RE CURRENTLY EXPANDING, AND WE, WE'VE ENJOYED EVERYTHING ABOUT CEDAR HILL. WE LOVE IT. SO THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH, MAN. IT'S A PLEASURE. YEAH, I KNOW. THEY SAID, RAY, WE OPERATE, UH, TEXAS TRUST CONNECTION IN CEDAR HILL DOWN THE STREET. JOHN, MY BROTHER'S, THE OWNER AND I OPERATE TEXAS TRUST CONNECTION. AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO CEDAR HILL. THEY'VE, THEY'VE OPENED THE DOORS FOR US. WHEN WE LOOKED TO HAVE A MANUFACTURING PLANT, UH, IN TEXAS, WE LOOKED AT A LOT OF DIFFERENT CITIES. CEDAR HILL WAS, UH, WAS THE ONE THAT WANTED TO WORK WITH US AND HELP US, UH, DO THAT. BRINGING, LIKE MY BROTHER SAID, HUNDREDS OF DIRECT JOBS TO CEDAR HILL AND THOUSANDS OF JOBS TO TEXAS, UH, WITH THIS MANUFACTURING PLANT. WE MAKE TRUST FOR, UH, MULTIFAMILY. SOME PEOPLE LIKE MULTIFAMILY, SOME PEOPLE DON'T. BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS IF SOMEONE'S GOTTA BUILD IT. AND WE'RE JUST PROUD TO DO IT IN CEDAR HILL. SO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. REAL QUICK, BEFORE I GET OFF STAGE, UM, THANK YOU RAY. THANK YOU GUYS FOR, FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT. UM, AND ALSO I WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR BEST OF SOUTHWEST, UH, PARTNERS THAT MADE THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL A REALITY. SO SHOUT OUT TO THEM, AND AGAIN, THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THIS GREAT HONOR. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND ONE MORE THING, ONE MORE THING, VERY BRIEF, PLEASE COME OUT, PLEASE COME OUT. GOOD MUSIC, GOOD FOOD, GOOD PEOPLE. SO WE'LL HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THAT. [d. Presentation of Awards to the Cedar Hill Police Department's Police and Community Team (PACT).] ONE MORE ITEM ON PRESENTATION, PRESENTATION OF AWARDS TO THE CEDAR HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT, I'M SORRY, POLICE DEPARTMENT POLICE AND COMMUNITY TEAM PACT. AND THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY OUR POLICE CHIEF S STAGNER. GOOD EVENING, SIR. HEY, GOOD EVENING. UM, FIRST I WANT TO MENTION THAT I DID A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH AND I FOUND SOME POLICE TRAINING IN FIJI. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S AVAILABLE. UM, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN, I MEAN, THE PLANE CAN FIT A BUNCH OF US. UM, SO I, I, I'M AVAILABLE. I'M AVAILABLE TO, TO DOCUMENT CHIEF. UM, UH, WELL LISTEN IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THIS IS, UM, THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH FOR BEING, UH, SO SUPPORTIVE OF ME OVER THE PAST FEW, FEW WEEKS. UM, BEING HERE FOR A MONTH NOW. THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT I'VE, I'VE CERTAINLY OBSERVED DURING MY SHORT TENURE HERE. AND ONE OF 'EM IS THE PAC TEAM. UH, THE POLICE AND COMMUNITY TEAM. THE, THE LIVES THAT THEY'VE TOUCHED JUST IN THE MONTH THAT I'VE BEEN HERE HAS TRULY BEEN EXTRAORDINARY. UM, THEY ARE, THEY'RE OUT THERE WHEN I'M NOT. THEY'RE OUT THERE ANSWERING CALLS. THEY'RE OUT THERE, UM, BUILDING COMPLAINTS. HEY, THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. AND, AND THEY'RE VERY QUICK TO RESPOND. SO I WILL TELL YOU THIS, UM, AS A CHIEF, UM, THE SUPERVISORS, UH, SHOULD PRESENT THESE AWARDS TO THEIR PERSONNEL. UM, THEY, THEY SEE IT A LOT. A LOT OF THIS STUFF WAS CERTAINLY BEFORE I CAME HERE. UH, BUT I'M EXTREMELY PROUD OF, OF EVERYBODY IN THE PAC TEAM. AND I'M CERTAIN THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HERE HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE PAC TEAM ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIME HERE IN SYRIA, HOPEFULLY MORE THAN THAT. UM, BUT I'M GONNA BRING UP SERGEANT NOIAN. UH, SHE'LL PRESENT THE FIRST TWO AWARDS, UM, I BELIEVE, AND THEN LIEUTENANT SANDIFER, WHO COMMANDS. SO SERGEANT NOIAN SUPERVISES THE PAC UNIT AND LIEUTENANT SANDIFER'S THE, UH, ULTIMATELY THE COMMANDER OF THE UNIT. SO SERGEANT NOIAN. SO WE WERE GONNA BRING OUR FLATS, STAGNER, AND WAVE 'EM, BUT THE LIBRARY STOLE OUR IDEA. SO THERE'S THAT. UM, THE FOLLOWING AWARDS WERE SELECTED BY MEMBERS OF THE STATE'S CRIME PREVENTION BOARD. THEY HAD HUNDREDS OF APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED FOR THESE AWARDS, [00:25:01] AND TWO OF OUR OFFICERS IN ONE OF OUR BUSINESSES WERE SELECTED OUT OF THE ENTIRE STATE. SO IT IS A GREAT HONOR FOR ME TO WORK WITH THIS BUSINESS SIDE BY SIDE AND TO WORK FOR AND SERVE THESE OFFICERS. SO OUR FIRST AWARD IS GONNA RECOGNIZE HBL TOWING AND RECOVERY, IF Y'ALL WILL COME UP HERE. YES, YOU. THIS AWARD IS FOR OUTSTANDING CORPORATE OR BUSINESS AWARD. IT RECOGNIZES A BUSINESS THAT HAS MADE EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT THROUGH ITS SUPPORT OF CRIME PREVENTION AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY OF CEDAR HILL. THIS YEAR'S RECIPIENT IS A COMPANY THAT HAS REPEATEDLY DEMONSTRATED THAT BEING A GOOD BUSINESS MEANS BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR, EVEN WITHOUT HOLDING THE CITY'S TOWING CONTRACT. AT THE TIME, HBL TOWING AND RECOVERY HAS CONSISTENTLY STEPPED UP TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE WHO CALL OUR COMMUNITY HOME. AS A FAMILY OWNED BUSINESS, THEY HAVE DONATED TRUCKLOADS OF FOOD, BABY FORMULA, FRESH PRODUCE, BOTTLED WATER, AND COUNTLESS OTHER NECESSITIES TO LOCAL FAMILIES, CHURCHES, FOOD PANTRIES, DAYCARES, AND CITY EMPLOYEES. BUT THEIR GENEROSITY DOES NOT STOP WITH DONATIONS. THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO SUPPORT OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND CREATED SPECIAL MOMENTS AND SMILES FOR CHILDREN THAT MADE SURE EVERY CHILD PARTICIPATING IN LAST YEAR'S HOLIDAY GIFT PROGRAM RECEIVED A PRESENT. WHAT MAKES HBL TRULY SPECIAL IS THEY DON'T WAIT TO BE ASKED. THEY ACTIVELY LOOK FOR WAYS TO HELP. THEY TEXT, THEY CALL AND SEE HOW THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN CEDAR HILL. THEY IDENTIFY NEEDS WITH OUR, IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEY FIND WAYS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THEIR GENEROSITY, COMPASSION, AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO HELPING THIS COMMUNITY EXEMPLIFIES WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IS ALL ABOUT. PLEASE JOIN ME IN RECOGNIZING HBL TOWING AND RECOVERY AS A RECIPIENT OF THIS AWARD. THEY ALREADY HAVE IT. THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR AWARD . ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP, THIS AWARD IS GOING TO BE RECOGNIZING THE OUTSTANDING CRIME PREVENTION SPECIALIST, OFFICER BRITTANY GRIFFIN. WOO. THIS AWARD RECOGNIZES AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS MADE AN EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO CRIME PREVENTION AND TO THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE. IN JUST HER FIRST YEAR AS A CRIME PREVENTION SPECIALIST, OFFICER GRIFFIN HAS MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT. SHE STEPPED INTO ONE OF THE UNIT'S BUSIEST BEATS, AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN BUILDING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS AND RESIDENTS, WHILE REPRESENTING CEDAR HILL WITH PROFESSIONALISM, COMPASSION, AND GRACE. SHE ALSO TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO RESTORE THE CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY GRANT AND EDUCATION PROGRAM. SHE ORGANIZED COMMUNITY CAR SCENE EVENTS AND MAINTAIN TRAINING COMPLIANCE. SHE BROUGHT THIS IMPORTANT RESOURCE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE FAMILIES IN CEDAR HILL. SHE CONSISTENTLY VOLUNTEERED TO SUPPORT IMPORTANT INITIATIVES, INCLUDING THE DEA DRUG TAKEBACK PROGRAM, AND NUMEROUS OTHER COMMUNITY PROJECTS. THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OFFICER GRIFFIN BRINGS TO THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL. SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT CRIME PREVENTION ISN'T JUST ABOUT RESPONDING TO CRIME. IT'S ABOUT BUILDING TRUST, EDUCATING PEOPLE, CREATING PARTNERSHIPS, AND GIVING RESIDENTS THE TOOLS AND RESOURCES THEY NEED TO KEEP THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFE. HER WILLINGNESS TO STEP UP, HER DEDICATION TO EDUCATING AND SERVING OTHERS, AND HER GENUINE COMMITMENT TO MAKING CEDAR HILL SAFER IS COMMENDABLE. SHE HAS EMBRACED THIS ROLE WITH ENTHUSIASM AND IS A VALUABLE PART OF THIS TEAM FOR HER LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE, COMPASSION AND COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE SHE SERVES, WE ARE PROUD TO RECOGNIZE HER TONIGHT. PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING OFFICER GRIFFIN AS A RECIPIENT OF THE OUTSTANDING CRIME PREVENTION SPECIALIST AWARD. OKAY, MY FINAL AWARD IS FOR CORPORAL DONNIE BRECKENRIDGE. WOO. THIS AWARD IS THE ABOVE AND BEYOND AWARD . IT RECOGNIZES A MEMBER WHO SERVICE, LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT TO CRIME PREVENTION CONSISTENTLY GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT'S EXPECTED. CORPORAL BRECKENRIDGE HAS DEDICATED MORE THAN 27 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIME PREVENTION. AND HIS EXPERIENCE HAS BECOME [00:30:01] AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE TO ALL OF US AROUND HIM. HE PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN KEEPING THIS DEPARTMENT AT THE FOREFRONT OF SED PRACTICES, ENSURING THAT TRAINING AND RESOURCES REMAIN CURRENT AND PROVIDING NEW INSTRUCTION WHENEVER IS NEEDED. HIS WORK IN DEVELOPING PROACTIVE CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGIES HAS MADE A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE IN STRENGTHENING CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. BUT WHAT TRULY SETS HIM APART IS HIS LEADERSHIP. HE HAS A UNIQUE ABILITY TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL MOTIVATED, SUPPORTED AND CONFIDENT IN THE WORK THEY DO. HE LEADS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE, BUT ALSO WITH HUMILITY AND A GENUINE CARE FOR OTHERS. ALONGSIDE HIS DEPARTMENT'S CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS, HE ALSO OVERSEES THE CITIZENS ON PATROL AND THE CP AA. SHOUT OUT TO THE PEOPLE IN BLUE. HE PROVIDES LEADERSHIP TO A VOLUNTEER FORCE OF MORE THAN 50 MEMBERS. FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, HE HAS CONTINUED TO GIVE HIS TIME, KNOWLEDGE, AND ENERGY TO MAKING COMMUNITY SAFER. NOT BECAUSE HE'S LOOKING FOR RECOGNITION, BUT BECAUSE HE TRULY BELIEVES IN THE WORK HE DOES. HIS LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION, DEDICATION, AND WILLINGNESS TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND REPRESENT EVERYTHING THIS AWARD STANDS FOR. PLEASE JOIN ME IN RECOGNIZING CORPORAL DONALD BRECKENRIDGE AS A RECIPIENT OF THE ABOVE AND BEYOND AWARD. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ROY RODRIGUEZ. WHEN I WENT TO THE PAC UNIT, HE TAUGHT ME SO MUCH. AND, UH, I APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. YOU NEED THIS HERE? YES. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL CITY MANAGER. FEELS LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN Y'ALL SINCE MAYBE LAST WEEK, SO IT'S BEEN MOSTLY PROFESSIONAL UP UNTIL THIS POINT. MAYBE NOT THE LIBRARY, BUT IT'S OKAY. WE'RE GONNA TRY TO KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL. . SO THIS AWARD, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND BRING HER UP HERE. Y'ALL SAW HER. SHE LOVES TO BE UP FRONT. GET UP HERE. COME WITH ME, SERGEANT ASHLEY NOVI HODGSON. SO WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW I WOULD, UH, TALK ABOUT THE AWARD THAT SHE GOT WHEN I PULLED IT UP, I'M, I'M JUST GONNA READ Y'ALL A COUPLE SENTENCES. THIS IS FROM THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND IT'S THE STATE OF TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. IT SAYS THE PERSON NOMINATED FOR THIS POSITION HAS TO HAVE TAKEN CHARGE. THE PERSON DIDN'T WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS. THEY SAW A NEED IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEY DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEMSELVES. THEY'VE BEEN ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED. SO ONCE THEY STARTED WORKING ON THEIR PROJECT, THEY STUCK TO IT. UH, NO MATTER WHAT. THEY HAD A FIRM BELIEF IN WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND SAW IT, UH, THROUGH TO THE END. AND THEY MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE FOR THE PUBLIC. THEY DID A PROGRAM OR A SYSTEM THAT THEY DEVELOPED THAT HAS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. AND THEY'VE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND. THEIR ACTIONS WEREN'T JUST PART OF THEIR JOB DUTIES. THEY FAR EXCEEDED WHAT IS NORMALLY EXPECTED, SHOWING EXCEPTIONAL EFFORT, ACHIEVING OUTSTANDING RESULTS FOR THE COMMUNITY. SO WHEN I TALK TONIGHT, IT'S NOT JUST THE COMMUNITY AND IT'S NOT JUST THE CITY EMPLOYEES, AND IT'S NOT JUST HER BROTHERS IN BLUE, UH, THAT SHE AFFECTED. IT'S THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. AND IT'S EVEN GONE BEYOND THAT TO REGIONALLY. SO WHEN I TYPED UP THIS AWARD, THERE WERE SEVERAL THINGS THAT WE FOCUSED ON. I FELT LIKE FOR A WHILE, ME, ROY, DONNIE AND, UH, LIEUTENANT ADAMS OVER THERE WERE TRYING TO HOLD PACT TOGETHER DURING COVI AND, UM, PROTESTS AND ALL THIS. AND IT'S SOMETIMES IT CAN BE HARD REACHING OUT TO A COMMUNITY WHEN THE COMMUNITY IS LOOKING AT YOU KIND OF SUSPICIOUSLY BECAUSE OF THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN OTHER PLACES. WHEN WE GOT FULLY STAFFED, UH, AND SERGEANT NOIAN HODGSON CAME ON BOARD, SHE LITERALLY JUST KINDA RAN WITH THIS STUFF. SHE TOOK OFF. SO THE FIRST THING WAS YOUTH SUMMIT. SHE KIND OF GOT THROWN INTO IT. SHE GOT THERE A MONTH IN ADVANCE AND I TOLD HER KIND OF A GUIDELINE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND SHE TOOK OFF AND GOT ALL KINDS OF VENDORS IN. VENDORS MEANS MONEY, RIGHT? IT'S KIND OF HARD FOR US TO OPERATE ANYBODY OUT HERE WITHOUT DOLLAR BILLS. AND SHE BROUGHT, SHE BROUGHT 'EM FROM TARGET TO WALMART TO, UH, PEOPLE THAT HAD GIVEN BEFORE, REALLY JUST KIND OF OPENED THE POCKETBOOK. UM, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT. SHE CHANGED UP. SHE MADE IT WHERE THE COMMUNITIES THAT COULDN'T CELEBRATE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT WITH THE COPS BECAUSE THEY HAD NO PLACE TO BE. SHE SAID, HEY, LET'S DO A EVENT AT THE LIBRARY. AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHAWN RAISED AT, BUT [00:35:01] I THINK THE LAST ONE THAT WE SAW, IT WAS A COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE. IT WAS OVER 2000 PEOPLE CAME TO OUR LIBRARY SO THAT THEY COULD, UH, FELLOWSHIP AND MEET WITH THE COPS. TO ME, THAT'S KIND OF EXTRAORDINARY. UH, ELF AND FRIENDS, SHE VOLUNTEERED TO GET BACK ON THAT. ANOTHER THING THAT'S NOT PART OF HER JOB DUTY. WHEN SHE WENT TO A CONFERENCE, SHE STARTED TELLING THEM ABOUT OUR YOUTH SUMMIT. SHE DID IT IN A WAY, AND I'VE TALKED AT CONFERENCES AND I NEVER GOT THIS INVITE. SHE DID IT IN A WAY WHERE THEY ACTUALLY SAID, HEY, WE WANT TO INVITE YOU OUT TO PERF, WHICH IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT BASICALLY WANTS TO IMPROVE HOW WE POLICE. THEY FLEW HER OUT TO MARYLAND TO GIVE A SPEECH ABOUT HOW WE DO THINGS IN LITTLE OLD CEDAR HILL. RIGHT? THAT'S IMPRESSIVE. OKAY. AND THAT'S NOT PART OF THE JOB. SHE JUST DID IT. UH, SOME OTHER THINGS, PTAS WITH THE POLICE, WHICH IS MY FAVORITE. 'CAUSE I LIKE THOSE COCONUT PTAS. AND I MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE ABOUT 17 OR 18 OF 'EM. SHE DOES ME RIGHT ON THAT. UM, BUT SHE GOT A PTA CART, LITERALLY TAKES IT OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY WITH HER GUYS, AND, UH, CONNECTS WITH THE KIDS LIKE WHEN SCHOOL'S LETTING OUT OR LAST DAY OF SCHOOL, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND NOW I THINK THE CITY EVEN BORROWS IT TO DO SOME STUFF. UM, AND, AND THIS IS A GROUP EFFORT, BUT I SEE HER WORKING LONG HOURS AND UH, REALLY, REALLY TRYING TO GET IN THERE AND DO THIS TEEN POLICE ACADEMY. SHE STARTED THAT BACK UP. THAT IS A, A PAIN. NOT A PAIN. THAT SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT THAT IS A LOT OF WORK. AND HER AND, UH, OFFICER WILLIAMS, UH, THEY DEDICATE A LOT OF TIME. EACH ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS IS VERY TIME CONSUMING. UH, THEY THOUGHT UP AS SENIOR SCAMS. SO THERE IS A EPIDEMIC OF OUR ELDERLY POPULATION GETTING SCAMMED OUT OF THEIR MONEY. AND SO THEY PUT TOGETHER A PROGRAM AND LITERALLY GO INTO THE NURSING HOMES TO, UM, TO TRY TO EDUCATE THAT POPULATION. SO IT'S NOT JUST THE JOB FUNCTION. THERE'S THINGS THAT SHE WAS DOING BEFOREHAND. LIKE, I'M GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE PEER SUPPORT TEAM. SHE WAS PART OF THAT, WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE WHEN I WAS THE DEFENSIVE TACTICS INSTRUCTOR 10 YEARS AGO, AND HER AND MORRISON CAME, I HAD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNEW HOW WE DO THINGS. AND SO THERE WAS SOME FIGHTING AND WE WERE ROLLING AROUND AND I SAID, HEY, DO WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO LIKE ON THE STREET IF YOU WERE, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEONE WAS ATTACKING YOU. AND IT WAS ME. AND I GOT A BLACK EYE. I GOT A TOOTH KNOCKED OUT. THERE WAS A RIB, THERE WAS SOME OTHER INJURIES I CAN'T EVEN MENTION. BUT IT WAS GOOD 'CAUSE SHE'S PART OF THE PEER SUPPORT AND I'M STILL USING IT EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY. SO SHE'S PART OF THE DRONE UNIT. THE, THE, UH, POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT. SHE DOES THE FOOD INITIATIVES. HBL, WHERE ARE YOU AT? SHE LITERALLY PARTNERED WITH THEM. AND WE HAVE TAKEN FOOD TO NURSERY. UH, UM, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? DAYCARES? DAYCARES, UM, JUST EVEN JUST OUT REGIONALLY. SHE'S JUST DONE PHENOMENAL. SO SHE'S GOT TWO OF HER KIDS HERE, KENNEDY AND STACY. UH, THE OTHER THREE ARE AT THE HOUSE. IT'S ASHER AND MADDOX AND ZACH. WAIT, ZACH'S THE HU. ZACH'S HER HUSBAND. SHE ROBBED THE CRADLE. . IT'S OKAY. IT, UM, OKAY, HERE WE GO. JUST, WE'RE GONNA DO SOME, I'M ALMOST DONE GUYS. UM, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, AN OFFICER THAT WAS IN NEED THAT CAN'T MOVE AROUND AS GOOD AS HE USED TO, CALLED ME AND HE GOES, HEY, I NEED SOME HELP. I WAS WORKING PATROL. I CALLED HER WITHIN 15 MINUTES, SHE HAD A CREW READY TO GO HELP THIS GUY. SO I'VE SEEN HER RALLY THE TROOPS TO BRING FORMULA AND DIAPERS TO SINGLE MOMS IN NEED. I'VE SEEN HER DO THAT FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR FAMILIES THAT DIDN'T HAVE PRESENTS FOR THEIR KIDS. SO WHEN YOU SAY ABOVE AND BEYOND, SHE JUST NEVER STOPS. I MEAN, SHE REALLY BRINGS IT. UH, THERE'S A SAYING, AND I'M GONNA WRAP THIS UP. CHIEF, YOU'VE BEEN TALKING SO MUCH ALL THE TIME. I JUST, YOU'RE RUBBING OFF ON ME. THERE'S A SAYING, A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS. OKAY? IT DOESN'T LIFT THE BLACK ONES OR THE WHITE ONES, OR THE DEMOCRAT BOATS OR THE BOATS FROM DUNCANVILLE. WHEN THAT TIDE, WHEN THAT TIDE ROLLS IN, ALL THE BOATS AROUND GET LIFTED. FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS, I'VE SEEN THIS SERGEANT DO EVERYTHING THAT SHE CAN TO BE A RISING TIDE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. AND SO THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME HONORED TO PRESENT HER WITH THE STATE OF TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. CONGRATULATIONS, [00:40:04] SANDERFORD TOOK ALL MY TIME, BUT, UM, EVERYTHING HE SAID IS TRUE ABOUT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN PAC. SO IF Y'ALL WILL TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT OFFICER RODRIGUEZ, RAISE YOUR HAND, OFFICER LAZANO, OFFICER WILLIAMS, OFFICER GRIFFIN, AND CORPORAL BRECKENRIDGE. EVERY SINGLE THING WE DO IS A TEAM EFFORT. WHEN I FALL SHORT, THEY STAND UP FOR ME. SO EVEN THOUGH MY NAME'S ON THIS AWARD, EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF PAC DESERVES THE, THE ACCOMMODATION AND THE ROUND OF APPLAUSE, YOU'RE ABOUT TO GIVE THEM MUCH PRESIDENT. SO AWKWARD. AWESOME. AWESOME. THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, YOU KNOW, IT IS AWESOME FOR US TO BE ABLE TO HAVE, UM, THE POLICE AND COMMUNITY TEAM, UM, THEY'VE BEEN PART OF THIS FOR 20 YEARS NOW, I THINK. I THINK IT'S BEEN ABOUT 20 YEARS SINCE WE HAD THE PACT TEAM IN CEDAR HILL. AWESOME. AMAZING WORK. [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. ] UH, CONTINUE ON WITH THE AGENDA. UH, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS CITIZENS FORUM. THIS GIVES OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, ANY CITIZEN TO COME TALK TO COUNCIL ABOUT WHATEVER THEY WANNA TALK ABOUT. WE DO HAVE TWO, UH, CITIZENS THAT WISH TO SPEAK WITH US TODAY. AND ONE I WOULD LIKE TO BRING UP IS AL HERNANDEZ. THE TOPIC IS INTRODUCE NEW AT ENERGY REPRESENTATIVE AL, WHAT'S GOING ON, PARTNER? GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. EVENING. GOOD EVENING, YOU. SORRY ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME THIS EVENING. UH, THIS IS, UH, I'M GONNA GET A LITTLE TISSUE HERE, A LITTLE BIT BITTERSWEET, UH, NEWS I HAVE HERE, UM, GERALD, PATTY, ALLEN, STEVE, CHAD, GREG, MIRANDA, FIRST NAMES. I KNOW IT'S INAPPROPRIATE BECAUSE YOU'RE STANDING, SITTING BEHIND THE COUNCIL DESK, BUT YOU'RE MY FRIENDS FIRST AND FOREMOST. THAT'S WHY SPIT ME COME UP HERE AND LET YOU KNOW THAT AL HERNANDEZ IS MOVING OUT OF THE AREA. AND, UH, IT'S BEEN A, IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS, TREMENDOUS TIME. I'VE HAD HERE 10 YEARS, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, AS YOU KNOW, A PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU GUYS AND GALS BEHIND US. AND I'VE, I'VE SEEN SOME, SEEN SOME MIGHTY GOOD TIMES. UH, AND WE'VE EXPERIENCED SOME, SOME, SOME LOWS AND SOME SOME MIGHTY HIGHS. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS. SO FOR THAT, I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR FRIENDSHIP, FIRST AND FOREMOST, AND THEN YOUR PARTNERSHIP. UH, I KNOW AT SYNERGY IS A, IS A UTILITY COMPANY A PRETTY BIG ONE, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS ARE MY FRIENDS. SO I, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY I SAY IT'S KIND OF BITTERSWEET THAT I WILL NO LONGER HAVE CEDAR HILL AS PART OF MY TERRITORY. BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WANT TO INTRODUCE, UH, TO YOU A VERY COMPETENT AND CAPABLE YOUNG LADY. MS. RA MCNEELY, SHE'S A VETERAN, 15 YEARS OF ATMOS ENERGY, UH, WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE. WEALTH OF ENERGY. UH, SHE SAID NO. SHE SAID SHE'S NOT GONNA SPEAK. RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT SHE TOLD ME. SHE, SHE'S NOT GONNA SPEAK TO, SHE STILL GOTTA COME UP FRONT. SHE SITTING OVER THERE. RIGHT. YOU STILL GOTTA COME UP FRONT. COME ON. YOU STILL GOTTA COME UP FRONT. YOU AIN'T GOTTA SPEAK THOUGH. YOU JUST COME. STILL GOTTA COME UP FRONT. SHE'S HAVE TO COME UP HERE, RIGHT? , THAT'S THE MAYOR SPEAK. SO, UH, I DO WANT TO INTRODUCE NIRA TO, TO THIS TEAM. UM, YOU KNOW, I, I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER FOR, FOR THE PERSON THAT WAS SELECTED TO, TO COME IN TO CEDAR HILL. SHE'S GOT A HEART OF GOLD. I THINK YOU'LL EXPERIENCE THAT. YOU'LL SEE THAT AS SHE GETS TO ACTION INSIDE CEDAR HILL. SO THAT'S WHAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP. AND IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT GONE FOREVER. I'M GONNA BE IN AND OUT. I'LL BE AT THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL, KICKING UP SOME DUSTS FOR SURE. SO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING Y'ALL LATER ON. NO PROBLEM. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE IN CEDAR HILL. YES, SIR. YOU CAN SAY A LOT ON, YEAH. ARE YOU, UM, ARE YOU, ARE YOU HANGING AROUND NOW? THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING WE HAVE SO OH, THE AGENDA. OH, OKAY. ALL WELL, I MIGHT PULL IT THEN. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I MIGHT PULL IT FROM CONSENT SO YOU CAN'T GO HOME EARLY. OKAY. UH, YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANNA SAY? GOOD EVENING, MAYOR CITY, CITY COUNCIL. ALRIGHT. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME AND PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME, ADDRESS FOR FOR THE RECORD. YES. AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. NAME IS NIRA MCNEELY. MY ADDRESS IS 1730 CALGARY DRIVE IN DESOTO, TEXAS. I AM JUST HONORED TO BE HERE. I KNOW I HAVE SOME HUGE SHOES TO STEP INTO AND WALK IN, UM, FOLLOWING AL HER WORK IN THE GREAT CITY OF CEDAR HILL, BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. AWESOME. THANK, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I DO GET CALLS FROM [00:45:01] CITIZENS AT ONE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING BECAUSE THEY'RE GA OKAY. CALL YOU ALL RIGHT AT THIS ONE, JUST WHAT YOU KNOW. ALL RIGHT. I GOT, I DO HAVE ONE MORE COUNSEL, UM, UH, BABA ALVAREZ AM I HOPE I'M SAYING THAT CORRECTLY. UH, TOPIC IS MASS SURVEILLANCE FLOCK CAMERAS. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME, ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND YOU THREE MINUTES NAME'S BABA ALVAREZ. ADDRESS IS 2 0 1 SOUTH CLARK ROAD, CEDAR HILL, TEXAS. I'M HERE AGAIN TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE FLOCK CAMERAS AND ENCOURAGE THE CEDAR HILL CITY COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION TO REMOVE THE FLOCK CAMERAS. MANY CITIES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THE UNITED STATES ARE TAKING ACTIONS TO REMOVE THE FLOCK CAMERAS AND CANCEL THE CONTRACT WITH FLOCK. HOOD COUNTY HAS VOTED TO REMOVE THREE OF ITS FOG CAMERAS LAST MONTH IN AUGUST, AND A SOCIAL MEDIA POST BY HOOD COUNTY, CONSTABLE JOHN SHIRLEY. HE SAYS, THESE CAMERAS WERE CONSTANTLY SCANNING AND RECORDING REGULAR FOLKS JUST GOING ABOUT THEIR DAY. THAT KIND OF PERMANENT WARRANTLESS TRACKING DOESN'T BELONG IN THE FREE SOCIETY. CITY OF DALLAS WILL BE CANCELING OVER 300 FLOCK CAMERAS THIS MONTH. EVEN THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS IS ORDERING STATE AGENCIES TO SEIZE FUNDING FOR THE FLOCK CAMERAS. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACROSS THE STATE AND COUNTRY ARE GROWING INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT THEM. MOST PEOPLE WITHIN THE STATE AND COUNTRY ARE AGAINST THE FLOCK CAMERAS. I SINCERELY HOPE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF CEDAR HILL IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE MATTERS. AND I REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND GET RID OF THE FLOCK CAMERAS AND TO CANCEL THE CONTRACT WITH FLOCK. AND DO NOT START ANY CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES LIKE AXON OR OTHER COMPANIES WHO HAVE SIMILAR CAPABILITIES. WE CAN BE TOUGH ON CRIME AND KEEP OUR CITY A SAFE PLACE WHILE MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T DO MASS SURVEILLANCE ON THE CITIZENS OR BY USING CORPORATIONS LIKE FLOCK OR SIMILAR COMPANIES THAT VIOLATE THEIR PRIVACY. IF THE GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE CAMERAS AND HAS CHOSEN TO TAKE ACTION BY CEASING STATE FUNDING FOR THEM, THEN SURELY THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL CAN PAY ATTENTION TO THESE CONCERNS AND OBEY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE BY TAKING ACTION AGAINST FLOCK LIKE THE SO MANY CITIES ACROSS THE STATE AND COUNTRY ARE ALREADY DOING. THANKS FOR LISTENING. ALRIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. [a. Case No. PD-715-2025 – Conduct a public hearing and consider an application for a change in zoning from Local Retail (LR) District to a Planned Development (PD) District for Townhome-style Multi-Family on a property generally located on the northeast corner of N. Joe Wilson Road and E. Pleasant Run Road, with the address being 803 E. Pleasant Run. Applicant: Saima Makhani, MBI Company Inc. Representative: Norman Patten, Norman Patten & Associates Property Owner: Southwest Region Conference of Seventh-day Adventist] NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC HEARING CASE NUMBER PD SEVEN 15 2025. CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER AN APPLICATION FOR A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM LOCAL RETAIL LR DISTRICT TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PD DISTRICT FOR TOWN HOME STYLE MULTIFAMILY ON A PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF NORTH JOEL WILSON ROAD AND EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD WITH THE ADDRESS BEING 8 0 3 EAST PLEASANT RUN APPLICANT SAMAD NEY, MBI COMPANY, INCORPORATED. REPRESENTATIVE NORMAN PATTON, NORMAN PATTON AND ASSU AND ASSOCIATES PROPERTY OWNERS SOUTHWEST REGION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST, MEADOW SOUTH. HOW ARE YOU? I'M DOING WELL, MAYOR. I HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL. IT'S DOING WELL ALSO. UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UH, TONIGHT'S ZONING CASE IS PD 7 1 15 20 25, AND THE REQUEST IS A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM LOCAL RETAIL TO A PD DISTRICT FROM MULTIFAMILY THAT IS IN THE TOWNHOUSE STYLE. SO THE SITE IS SHOWN IN THE TOP MAP IN PURPLE, UM, AND ALSO IN THE AERIAL MAP SHOWN IN YELLOW, UM, WHERE ZOOMED IN IT IS GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE SOUTH, ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF NORTH JOE WILSON ROAD AND EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD, WITH THE ADDRESS BEING 8 0 3 EAST PLEASANT RUN, RUN. AGAIN, THE REQUEST IS FOR PD AND IT IS FOR MULTIFAMILY THAT IS DISPLAYED IN A TOWNHOUSE STYLE. SO THESE IMAGES SHOW THE SITE IN A VIEW FROM THE SOUTH, A BIRD'S EYE VIEW, AND THEN ALSO A VIEW FROM THE NORTH. AND JUST TO WALK THROUGH A SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT, THE SUBJECT PROJECT PROJECT CONSISTS OF 4.889 ACRES AND IS UNDEVELOPED. THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN ZONED LOCAL RETAIL OR LOCAL RETAIL WITH, UH, R ONE DISTRICTS, WHICH IS RESIDENTIAL SINCE 1985, WHERE A MULTIFAMILY IS NOT PERMITTED IN OCTOBER, 2020. ALSO, AS A REMINDER, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A SITE PLAN FOR A TWO STORY 42,850 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING, INCLUDING PLANS FOR AN INDOOR, UH, BASKETBALL COURT TO SERVE AS A CHURCH OR A PLACE OF WORSHIP. THAT PROPOSAL SEATED 818 THAT UNFORTUNATELY, THAT PROJECT DID NOT MOVE FORWARD. SO TODAY'S APPLICANT REQUESTS TO REZONE THE SUBJECT PROPERTY TO THE PD. UH, THE BASE ZONING FOR THAT PD IS MULTIFAMILY. IT WOULD ESTABLISH MULTIFAMILY IS THE ONLY PERMITTED USE ON THE PROPERTY, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES A, A CONCEPT PLAN THAT WE'LL WALK THROUGH THAT LAYS OUT THE DEVELOPMENT. THE PROJECT INCLUDES 60 RENTAL UNITS THAT ARE, AGAIN, DESIGNED AS TOWNHOUSE STYLE, AND ALL UNITS WOULD [00:50:01] HAVE TWO STORIES, TWO BEDROOMS AND PRIVATE GROUND LEVEL ENTRANCES. 40 OF THE UNITS WOULD HAVE A MINIMUM CONDITIONED AREA OF 1,684 SQUARE FEET, AND 20 UNITS WOULD HAVE A MINIMUM CONDITIONED AREA OF 1,456 SQUARE FEET. OF THE 150 PARKING SPACES PROVIDED 80 WOULD BE PROVIDED AS A TWO CAR ATTACHED GARAGE. AND SO IT WOULD AGAIN, UM, MIMIC THE STYLE OF A TOWNHOUSE AND THE REMAINDER WOULD BE SURFACE PARKED ON THE INTERIOR OF THE SITE. THE DEVELOPMENT WOULD INCLUDE OPEN SPACE WITH AMENITIES SUCH AS DOG PARK, A POCKET PARK, PICKLEBALL COURT, A BASKETBALL, HALF COURT, PLAYGROUND AREA, AND A COMMUNITY BUILDING. AND SO JUST TO SHARE WITH YOU THE SURROUNDING ZONING, UM, GENERALLY MULTI-FAMILY WOULD BE PERMITTED BY WRIGHT AND THE MF DISTRICT, AND ALSO BY A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT IN THE OLD TOWN DISTRICT. THE USE OF THE PD AS A TOOL ALLOWS THE PROPERTY TO, UM, BE REVIEWED BY THE CITY FOR ENHANCED DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS THAT ARE BEYOND THE STANDARD CODE, AND THAT COULD NOT BE ASSURED BY THE STANDARD ZONING DISTRICTS. SO THE NEXT SET OF TABLES WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WITH A COMPARISON TO MULTI-FAMILY. AND SO I'LL ONLY TOUCH ON THE HIGHLIGHTED AREAS, UH, THAT HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE UNIQUE, UM, REQUIREMENTS, UH, FOR, FOR MF AS WELL AS THE STANDARDS PROPOSED BY THE APPLICANT. AND SO FOR MINIMUM LOT DIMENSION REQUIREMENTS, THE MAXIMUM DENSITY FOR MULTIFAMILY IS 18 UNITS PER ACRE. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING 12.5 UNITS PER ACRE, AGAIN, FOR A TOTAL OF 60 UNITS FOR THE YEAR REAR YARD SETBACK FOR MULTIFAMILY, THAT WOULD BE 150 FEET TO THE SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT, UH, TWO STORIES OR ABOVE. AND SO IN THIS CASE, UH, THE SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT WOULD BE TO THE NORTH. AND SO WE'LL, WE'LL HIGHLIGHT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. UH, TO, TO THE EAST. THE ADJACENT, UM, ZONING DISTRICT IS ALSO LOCAL RETAIL. IT IS ALONG THE GAS EASEMENT. SO THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING ALONG THE EAST PROPERTY LINE 15 FEET AND ALONG THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE 17 FEET, THAT ALIGNS WITH STANDARDS FOR TOWNHOUSE DISTRICTS. SO THE TOWNHOUSE DISTRICT ALLOWS 15 FEET AS A SETBACK. AND SO, UH, THE APPLICANT HAS TAKEN THAT STANDARD, UM, THAT ALIGNS WITH THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, UH, STYLE THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING FOR STRUCTURE STANDARDS. UM, IN A MF DISTRICT, YOU WOULD TYPICALLY REQUIRE, UH, OR ALLOWS THREE STORIES EXCEPT ONE STORY FROM ANY BUILDING THAT'S WITHIN 150 FEET OF A SINGLE FAMILY DISTRICT AND A MINIMUM LIVING AREA OF 800 SQUARE FEET FOR ONE BEDROOM WITH AN ADDITIONAL 150 SQUARE FEET FOR ANY ADDITIONAL BEDROOM. FOR THE PROPOSAL, THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF TWO STORIES AND A MINIMUM DWELLING UNIT. UM, AS I'VE SHARED IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE FOR BUILDING DESIGN, UM, MF DISTRICT LOOKS AT WALL ARTICULATION, BUILDING COLORS, ROOF LINE VARIATION AS A PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR ZONING ORDINANCE FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROPOSAL, AGAIN, BECAUSE IT SAYS A PART OF A PD, WE DO HAVE A VARIETY OF, UH, ELEVATIONS THAT ARE PROVIDED, AND I'LL GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE FOR VARIOUS BUILDING TYPES. SO INCLUDING A BUILDING TYPE A, BUILDING TYPE B AND A COMMUNITY BUILDING, UH, THAT WOULD INCORPORATE THE ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS LISTED IN THE PROPOSED PD STANDARDS. AND SO WE'LL WALK THROUGH THAT AGAIN, AGAIN, THE PD ALLOWS FOR A HIGHER, UH, LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT FOR PARKING. UH, THE MF DISTRICT PROPOSES TWO SPACES PER DWELLING UNIT, OF WHICH 30% MUST BE ENCLOSED. THE PD INCREASES THAT, UM, PARKING REQUIREMENT TO 2.5, BUT IT ALSO PROVIDES THAT 53% OR 80 SPACES WOULD BE PROVIDED AS TWO CAR ATTACHED GARAGES WITH THE REMAINDER AS SURFACE PARKING. FOR SCREENING REQUIREMENTS, MF DISTRICT REQUIRES SIX TO EIGHT FEET, EXCUSE ME, SIX TO EIGHT FEET TALL WALL CONSTRUCTED OF MASONRY MATERIAL THAT MIMICS OR SIMILAR TO THE MASONRY OF THE MAIN BUILDING OR A 50 FOOT WIDE CONSERVATION BUFFER, UH, CONSISTING OF D DENSE FOLIAGE. FOR THE PD STANDARD, THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING AN EIGHT FOOT TALL MASONRY SCREENING WALL ALONG THE EAST PROPERTY LINE, WHICH IS THE, UH, PROPERTY LINE THAT IS ADJACENT TO THE EASEMENT. UH, THAT'S LOCAL RETAIL AND A COMBINED, UM, SCREENING OF SCREENING TREES AND SHADE TREES ALONG THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE OF THESE WITH EIGHT FOOT MASONRY WALLS. SO, UH, IN SUMMARY, IT WOULD BE AN EIGHT FOOT MASONRY WALL, ALONG WITH SOME ADDITIONAL ENHANCED SCREENING ON THE OPEN SPACE AND AMENITIES. THE, UH, MF DISTRICT, UH, HAS A CALCULATION THAT TRANSLATES TO 25 POINT 25% OF THE PROPERTY VIA DEDICATED IS OPEN SPACE. [00:55:01] AGAIN, WE FIND THAT EACH U EACH SITE IS U UNIQUE. AND IN THIS CASE, UH, THE APPLICANT IS ABLE TO PROPOSE 9.8% OF THE GROSS LAND AREA. AND SO THAT OPEN SPACE AND AMENITY MIX WOULD BE, UM, A CENTRAL RECREATION COMMUNITY AREA WITH THE AMENITIES THAT WE'VE DESCRIBED LIKE PICKLEBALL, COURTS AND BASKETBALL, HALF COURTS, UH, A DOG PARK AND A POCKET PARK. AND SO I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THE CONCEPT SITE PLAN. UH, AGAIN, THE SITE IS 4.889 ACRES. IT IS PROPOSED AS MULTIFAMILY, UH, DESIGNED AS A TOWNHOUSE STYLE WITH 60 UNITS. THE RED ARROWS SHOW THE ENTRANCES AND EXITS ALONG JOE WILSON ROAD AND EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD. AGAIN, ALL THE UNITS WOULD HAVE TWO STORIES, TWO BEDROOMS, AND A PRIVATE GROUND LEVEL ENTRANCE. AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THE ELEVATIONS FOR EACH. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE MINIMUM LIVING CONDITION AREA AND THE PARKING SPACES, WHICH YOU CAN SEE FOR THE, UM, BUILDING UNIT B, UH, THAT YOU SEE ALONG NORTH JOE WILSON ROAD AND ALONG, UH, EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD. THOSE, UH, ALONG THE, THE PERIMETER HAVE THE GARAGES WHERE THOSE THAT ARE IN THE INTERIOR ARE SHOWN AS BUILDING A TYPES. THOSE HAVE THE SURFACE PARKING, PARKING. THERE IS A DETENTION AREA THAT IS IDENTIFIED ALONG NORTH JOE WILSON ROAD. AND AGAIN FOR THE AMENITIES AND OPEN SPACE, THOSE ARE SHOWN IN GREEN. AND THEY INCLUDE THE DOCK, THE DOG PARK TO THE NORTH OUTLINED IN GREEN, UH, POCKET PARK, UH, TO THE SOUTH AT THE INTERSECTION OF NORTH JOE WILSON ROAD AND EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD, AS WELL AS A VARIETY OF AMENITIES IN THE CENTER. THIS IS NOT A GATED COMMUNITY. UM, UM, AND SO, UH, THAT'S JUST SOMETHING ELSE TO NOTE. WHAT'S ON THE TOP RIGHT CORNER? OH, I'M SORRY. UM, IS THAT, THAT'S THE POCKET PARK? YES. WELL ACTUALLY THE, UH, GREEN OUTLINE TOP RIGHT IS THE TOP RIGHT CORNER. DOG PARK, THE GREEN. YES, SIR. THAT'S DOG PARK IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER. TOP RIGHT CORNER. THE, AND THE BOTTOM IS THE, UH, POCKET PARK. YES, SIR. YES, SIR. OKAY. SO FOR THE CONCEPT LANDSCAPE PLAN, JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, HERE IN THE PURPLE, LET ME GO BACK. WE HAVE A SIX FOOT TALL ORNAMENTAL METAL PICKET FENCE WITH STONE COLUMNS. AND THEN ALONG THE REAR PROPERTY LINES, WE HAVE THE EIGHT FOOT MASONRY SCREENING WALLS WITH A COMBINATION OF SCREENING TREES AND SHADE TREES ON THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE OF THE WALL. AND SO THAT WOULD BE INTERIOR TO THE SITE. SO JUST TO WALK YOU THROUGH A FEW OF THE CONCEPT ELEVATIONS, THIS IS BUILDING A AND SO, UM, THE GOAL IS NOT TO HAVE MONOTONY WITH THE DESIGN. UH, EACH, UH, UNIT WOULD HAVE ITS OWN, UH, FACADE WITH A MIX OF BRICK AND STONE AT ABOUT 70 TO 72% AND WITH, UH, SIDING FOR OUR STUCCO FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE ELEVATION. AND SO THIS SHOWS THE FRONT ELEVATION AS WELL AS THE REAR. SO BOTH SIDES HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED. AND THEN ALSO ON THE SIZE, THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN CONSIDERED WITH, UM, BRICK AND STONE AT 74 TO 76% AND SIDING OR STUCCO AT 26 TO 24%, OR 24 TO 26%. THIS IS BUILDING TYPE B. AND SO THIS IS THE BUILDING TYPE THAT WOULD FACE THE MAIN ROADS. AND SO AGAIN, IT SHOWS A SIMILAR MIX OF MATERIAL FOR ALL ELEVATIONS. AND FOR, UH, THE FRONT ELEVATION THAT IS MORE OF A PORCH AT THE, UH, ENTRY POINT. AND THEN THE ENTRYWAY IS TUCKED IN, UM, INTO THE, UH, WALKWAY. AND SO THAT'S WHERE THAT WOULD BE LOCATED. WITH THE GARAGES TO THE REAR, THESE ARE THE SIDE ELEVATIONS, AND THESE SHOW UP TO 83% OF BRICK AND STONE AND UP TO 20% OF SIDING AND STUCCO. AND FINALLY, THE COMMUNITY BUILDING. SO THIS WOULD BE THE COMMUNITY BUILDING IN THE CENTER OF THE PROJECT. AND IT ALSO HAS THE SAME TREATMENT AS THE BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT. SO, SO THE FOLLOWING FACTORS SHALL BE CONSIDERED A RENDERING DECISION ON A ZONING CHANGE APPLICATION. SO WE LOOK AT THESE FIVE FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION. FACTOR NUMBER ONE, WHETHER THE USE IS PERMITTED BY THE PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE WILL BE APPROPRIATE IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA CONCERN IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE GENERAL AREA AND THE CITY AS A WHOLE. AND SO WE FIND THAT IN THE GENERAL AREA TO THE NORTH, WE HAVE SINGLE FAMILY, UM, WOODED CREEK ESTATES TO THE EAST. WE HAVE, UH, LOCAL RETAIL AND SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL, WHICH INCLUDES A 50 FOOT GAS EASEMENT AND THE, UM, ALSO WOODED CREEK ESTATES. AND JUST TO NOTE IF YOU'LL SEE THE YELLOW THAT OUTLINES THE SUBJECT SITE, UH, THE NEXT ADJACENT ZONING [01:00:01] DISTRICT IS THAT GAS EASEMENT, WHICH IS ZONED LOCAL RETAIL. TO THE SOUTH WE HAVE LOCAL RETAIL UNDEVELOPED, AND TO THE WEST WE ALSO HAVE LOCAL RETAIL WITH SOME COMMERCIAL MULTI-TENANT BUILDINGS OR, UM, LAND THAT IS UNDEVELOPED. AND SO STAFF FINDINGS FIND THAT PER THE ZONING ORDINANCE, THE DISTRICT ZONE FOR MULTIFAMILY OR A DISTRICT ZONE FOR MULTIFAMILIES INTENDED TO PROVIDE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH DENSITY OR ATTACHED RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES IS INTENDED TO BE A TRANSITIONAL BUFFER BETWEEN LOW MEDIUM DENSITY HOUSING AND INTENSIVE NON-RESIDENTIAL USES. OR, UM, IT'S PROPOSED TO ACHIEVE THIS BY REQUIRING THAT THESE DISTRICTS BE LOCATED ADJACENT TO MAJOR THOROUGHFARES OR COLLECTOR STREETS WITH DIRECT ACCESS OR FRONTAGE ONTO THEM AND ALLOW AVOIDING ANY PRINCIPAL ACCESS ONTO RESIDENTIAL STREETS, WHICH IS PROJECT ACHIEVES. UM, THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE LOCATED ADJACENT TO EAST PLEASANT RUN IN NORTH JOE, UH, JOE WILSON ROAD, UH, WHICH ARE CLASSIFIED AS PRINCIPAL ARTERIALS WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF TWO STORIES AND A MAXIMUM DENSITY OF 12.5 UNITS PER ACRE. NO MORE THAN 60 UNITS AT THIS LOCATION. THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE TRANSITIONAL BUFFER BETWEEN THE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION AND ANY CURRENT OR FUTURE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON PROPERTIES ZONE LOCAL RETAIL AT THAT INTERSECTION. FACTOR NUMBER TWO, WHETHER THE PROPOSED CHANGE IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY EXISTING OR PROPOSED PLANS FOR PROVIDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STREETS, WATER SUPPLIES, SANITARY SEWERS, OR OTHER UTILITIES TO THE AREA. STAFF FINDS THAT IN REVIEWING ALL OF THE MASTER PLANS FOR THE CITY, THAT UH, THERE IS PUBLIC WATER AND SANITARY SEWER SERVICES ALONG THE MAJOR ROADS IN THE AREA THAT THE SUBJECT PROPERTY HAS FRONTAGE. UH, THE THOROUGH FAIR PLAN AGAIN, DESIGNATES BOTH ROADS AS PRINCIPAL ARTERIALS AND THAT THE PROPOSED INGRESS AND EGRESS WOULD BE ALONG BOTH OF THOSE ROADS AND THAT THE ESTIMATED TRIPS PER DAY IS APPROXIMATELY 400 TRIPS AND PER PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WAIVER, A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS IS NOT REQUIRED. FACTOR NUMBER THREE, THE AMOUNT OF VACANT LAND CURRENTLY CLASSIFIED FOR SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT IN THE VICINITY AND ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY. AND ANY SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MAY MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF SUCH VACANT LAND UNAVAILABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT CITYWIDE, A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE PERMITTED BY WRIGHT IN THE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT WITH AN APPROVED CUP IN THE OLD TOWN DISTRICT AND OUTSIDE OF THE OLD TOWN DISTRICT, THERE ARE VERY FEW SITES ZONED FOR MULTIFAMILY. MOST OF THESE SITES ARE ALREADY DEVELOPED AND THE ONES CURRENTLY UNDEVELOPED OR ZONED, UH, PD PENDING DEVELOPMENT IF THERE ARE ANY SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MAKE ANY UNDEVELOPED SITE WITHIN THE OLD TOWN DISTRICT OR OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY UNAVAILABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT, THEY'RE UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. FACTOR NUMBER FOUR, THE RECENT RATE AT WHICH LAND IS BEING DEVELOPED IN THE SAME ZONING CLASSIFICATION AS THE REQUEST, PARTICULARLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE PROPOSED CHANGE. AT THIS TIME, THIS IS THE ONLY ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION WE HAVE TO REZO TO PD THAT WOULD ALLOW MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT FACTOR. NUMBER FIVE, HOW ARE OTHER AREAS DESIGNATED FOR SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT, UH, HOW THEY WILL OR WILL, UH, OR UNLIKELY TO BE UNAFFECTED IF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT IS APPROVED. IF APPROVED, THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT IS NOT ANTICIPATED TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON OTHER AREAS DESIGNATED FOR SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT. AND FACTOR NUMBER SIX, ANY OTHER FACTORS WHICH WILL SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, MORALS, OR GENERAL WELFARE. IT IS UNKNOWN IF REZONING THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WILL IMPACT ANY OF THESE FACTORS, UM, AT THIS TIME. SO CONSISTENCY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS ANOTHER FACTOR THAT WE LOOK AT. AND THIS AREA IS DESIGNATED AS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER. AND SO AS A PART OF THAT, IT IDENTIFIES, UH, WHAT THIS PARTICULAR SITE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENT OR HOW IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR DEVELOPMENT. AND SO THESE CENTERS CONTAIN OFFICE RETAIL OR INFILL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES. THIS EXCLUDES TRADITIONAL SUBURBAN STYLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES. UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ARE LOW, LOW INTENSITY UNOBTRUSIVE AND DESIGNED AT A SCALE TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH NEARBY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. AND SO IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE APPLICANT WOULD ADVANCE DIVISION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BY DEVELOPING MULTIFAMILY ON THE VACANT SITE WITHIN AN ESTABLISHED AREA, WHILE MAXIMIZING THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT AT THE SCALE AT WHICH IT IS BEING PROPOSED. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY WOULD PROVIDE THE HOUSING PIECE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER VISION AND WOULD PROVIDE A DESIRED AND FAVORABLE TRANSITION FROM THE SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED HOMES AT WOOD CREEK ESTATES TO THE EXISTING AND FUTURE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS AT THE INTERSECTION. BASED ON INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE WOOD CREEK ESTATES HOA TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ON FEBRUARY 11TH, 2026, THE APPLICANT VIA EMAIL PROVIDED INFORMATION REGARDING THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT TO THE HOA. THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION WAS NOTIFIED PER [01:05:01] TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE AND WAS PUBLISHED IN THE TEXAS RAM IN THE RAMBLER TEXAS MEDIA ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 2026. WE NOTIFIED 24 PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 200 FEET VIA LETTER AND AS OF 5:00 PM TODAY. UM, I ALSO WILL NOTE THAT THE WOODARD CREEK ESTATES, HOA, AGAIN, WAS NOTIFIED ALSO AS A COURTESY AND AS AT 5:00 PM TODAY, WE RECEIVED ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT AND, UH, I'LL UPDATE THE LETTERS OF OPPOSITION TO REFLECT 26 LETTERS THAT WERE RECEIVED. SIX WORK WITHIN THE NOTIFICATION AREA, AND SO THAT IS WHAT WE RECEIVED. AS OF 5:00 PM STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL SUBJECT TO THE ATTACHED DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND EXHIBITS PLAN COMMISSION, ALSO RECOMMENDED APPROVAL BY A PHOTO FIVE TO TWO TO ZERO SUBJECT TO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION. AND FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION, UH, WE RECOMMEND APPROVAL PER PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION. WITH THAT, I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. UM, I THINK WE'LL GO TO THE PUBLIC HEARING FIRST, AND THEN IF COUNSEL HAVE ANY QUESTION, WE MAY ASK YOU TO COME BACK UP. THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. AND, AND I GUESS TO CLARIFY, UH, YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL IS JUST STRICTLY JUST BASED UPON THE STANDARDS. UM, NOTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A A, A, YOU KNOW, A, A RELATIONSHIP OR A PRIOR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEVELOPER OR TALKING TO COUNSEL. IT'S JUST STRICTLY BASED ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE STANDARDS. WE ONLY CONSIDER THE ZONING FACTOR FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION FROM OUR DECISIONS. THANK, THANK YOU FOR THAT. MM-HMM . ALRIGHT. UM, COUNSEL, IF YOU DON'T MIND, UH, I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE INTO THE PUBLIC HEARING. UM, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK, UM, IN FAVOR OF CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 15 2025. ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN FAVOR TO CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2005? I'LL MAKE ONE FINAL CALL. OH, I APOLOGIZE. UM, GIMME ONE SECOND. NORM, CAN YOU STEP BACK FOR A SECOND? YEAH. ALRIGHT. UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY REPRESENTATIVES, NORM, DO YOU HAVE ANY REPRESENTATIVES? WANNA SPEAK IN FAVOR? UH, OKAY. ONE, ONE FINAL CALL. ANYONE WANNA SPEAK IN FAVOR TO CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2025? ALRIGHT, I'M GONNA CLOSE THAT PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. UH, I'M GONNA PAUSE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR JUST ONE QUICK SECOND, AND I WOULD ALLOW TO BE ABLE TO HEAR FROM, UH, THE APPLICANT OR THE REPRESENTATIVE. NORM, PLEASE GIVE US YOUR NAME AND THAT, JUST FOR THE RECORD. THANK YOU. NORMAN PATTON, FOUR 13 CEDAR STREET, CEDAR, TEXAS. I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY AND ALSO THE DEVELOPER. UM, WE APPROACHED THIS, UH, SITE, UH, OVER A YEAR AGO, UH, LOOKING AT SOMETHING THAT, UH, COULD BE DEVELOPED HERE THAT WOULD BE NICE FOR THE COMMUNITY, REALIZING THAT WE HAD NEIGHBORS THAT WOULD BE CONCERNED. UM, AS YOU KNOW, HOUSING IS A, A TRICKY THING RIGHT NOW. I'M TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING THAT'S AFFORDABLE AND SOMETHING THAT, THAT PEOPLE CAN, UH, BE SATISFIED WITH LIVING IN IS A CHALLENGE. AND SO, UH, THIS PRODUCT THAT WE CREATED, ALTHOUGH IT'S IN A DESIGNATION AS MULTIFAMILY, WAS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO BE A TOWNHOUSE PRODUCT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE PRESENTED AS A, A PRODUCT THAT IS NOT, UH, A TYPICAL APARTMENT WHERE YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR ABOVE YOU AND BESIDE YOU AND, AND, UH, THAT SORT OF THING. AND, UH, ALL THE ENTRANCES TO THESE UNITS ARE INDIVIDUAL. UM, THOSE THAT HAVE GARAGES HAVE DIRECT ACCESS FROM THAT GARAGE INTO THE HOUSE, WHICH YOU DON'T FIND THAT VERY OFTEN WITH APARTMENTS. SO THERE ARE SOME VERY DISTINCT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS PRODUCT AND, UH, AND THE TYPICAL MULTIFAMILY. AND THAT'S BY DESIGN BECAUSE WE WERE TRYING TO CREATE A PRODUCT THAT, UH, PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO COME AND LIVE IN WITHOUT BEING IN AN APARTMENT. AND THIS PROVIDES THAT WITH THE SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT WE HAVE FOR THESE UNITS. THEY'RE IN THE 16 TO 1700 FOOT RANGE FOR THE LARGER ONES IN 14 TO 1500 IN THE SMALLER VERSION. AND, UH, SO THOSE ARE NICE SIZE UNITS AND, AND CERTAINLY, UH, FOR A YOUNG COUPLE OR A SMALL FAMILY, UH, THESE WORK REAL WELL. UH, PLUS THEY GIVE THE PRIVACY THAT YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET IN THE TYPICAL MULTI-FAMILY TYPE PRODUCT. UM, WE INTENTIONALLY, UH, SET ASIDE AS MUCH GREEN AREA AS WE COULD. UH, NOT ONLY THE, THE DOG PARK AND THE POCKET PARK AND THE COMMUNITY AREA [01:10:01] IN THE CENTER, BUT ALL OF THE BUILDINGS IN RELATIONSHIP TO WHAT'S REQUIRED IN TOWNHOUSES. THE SEPARATION IS 30 FEET, WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN YOU GET WITH MULTIFAMILY. SO, UH, THE SEPARATION OF BUILDINGS, UH, PROVIDES EXTRA GREEN SPACE AND IT CUTS DOWN ON THE DENSITY, UH, OF THE PROJECT TOO. SO THOSE ARE SOME CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE ALSO INCORPORATED INTO THIS. UM, WE, WE GOT A GIFT IN THE FACT OF HAVING A SEWER EASEMENT ON JOE WILSON ROAD, WHICH ALLOWED US TO PUSH THE BUILDINGS FURTHER FROM THE STREET THERE, GIVING MORE GREEN SPACE IN THE FRONT OF THOSE UNITS AND, UH, AND ALSO, UH, PROVIDING A LITTLE MORE PRIVACY AND, AND EVERYTHING FROM THE ROAD ITSELF. SO, UH, I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE TRIED TO, UH, PUT FORTH A, A GOOD EFFORT HERE TO PROVIDE SOMETHING THAT, THAT WOULD MAKE A TRANSITION FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN WITH THE NEIGHBORS THERE, UM, ABOUT HOW THIS INTERACTS WITH THEIR PROPERTY AND EVERYTHING. AND, UH, WE JUST WANT TO PRESENT THIS AS A, AS A GOOD OPTION THAT WE THINK. SO I'D BE OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. SURE. UM, AGAIN, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE MAY PULL YOU BACK. THANK, THANK YOU FOR, UH, GIVING US A MOMENT TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT TO COUNSEL. UH, COUNSEL, I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE WITH THE PUBLIC HEARING. UM, SO I'D LIKE TO OPEN UP FOR ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD SEVEN 15 2025. ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION? PLEASE COME ON UP. GIVE US YOUR NAME, ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. MY NAME IS LAURA PHY. I RESIDE AT 10 10 WOODED CREEK DRIVE IN CEDAR HILL, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING. I AM HERE TONIGHT TO RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO DENY CASE PD 7 1 5 2 0 2 5, THE REQUEST TO REZONE APPROXIMATELY 4.889 ACRES AT JOE WILSON IN PLEASANT RUN FROM LOCAL RETAIL TO A PLAN DEVELOPMENT FOR 62 STORY MULTI-FAMILY UNITS. I WANT TO BEGIN BY ACKNOWLEDGING SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT. I UNDERSTAND THIS IS PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY. THE OWNER AND DEVELOPER HAVE A RIGHT TO DEVELOP THEIR PROPERTY WITHIN THE RULES AND GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY. I RESPECT THAT, RIGHT? BUT PROPERTY RIGHTS DO NOT MEAN THAT EVERY PROPOSED USE IS APPROPRIATE FOR EVERY LOCATION. THAT IS WHY ZONING EXISTS, AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE TONIGHT. MY FIRST CONCERN IS TRAFFIC AND SAFETY. THOSE OF US WHO TRAVELED, JOE WILSON AND PLEASANT RUN, KNOW THE TRAFFIC CONCERNS AT THIS INTERSECTION AND THE NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THIS AREA. ADDING 60 RESIDENTS MEANS MORE VEHICLES ENTERING AND LEAVING THE PROPERTY EVERY DAY, DURING MORNING AND EVENING RUSH HOURS, AS WELL AS VISITORS, DELIVERIES, RIDE SHARES AND SERVICE VEHICLES BEFORE INCREASING RESIDENTIAL DENSITY. AT THIS INTERSECTION, I ASK THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER THE ACCIDENT HISTORY, THE TRAFFIC VOLUME, THE INGRESS AND EGRESS, AND WHETHER ADDING THIS MANY RESIDENTIAL TRIPS IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY. SECOND, PLEASE CONSIDER THE IMPACT ON THE SURROUNDING SUBDIVISION. THE RESIDENTS SURROUNDING THIS PROPERTY HAVE INVESTED NOT ONLY IN THEIR HOMES, BUT IN THE LONG-TERM CHARACTER STABILITY AND PROPERTY VALUES OF THE COMMUNITY. 62 STORY RENTAL UNITS ON FEWER THAN FIVE ACRES REPRESENT A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN DENSITY AND LAND USE BECAUSE THESE UNITS ARE RENTALS. I ALSO ASK THE COUNCIL TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER LONG-TERM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT MAINTENANCE, TENANT TURNOVER, PARKING CODE ENFORCEMENT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY. HOMEOWNERS HAVE A DIRECT FINANCIAL INVESTMENT IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL PROPERTIES AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH RENTAL DEVELOPMENTS, MUCH OF THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER OR MANAGEMENT COMPANY THAT MAY CHANGE OVER TIME. THERE ARE ALSO LEGITIMATE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS. WE HAVE SEEN PROBLEMS AT SOME SURROUNDING MULTI-FAMILY COMPLEXES. I ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL TO REVIEW ACTUAL POLICE CALLS AND CRIME STATISTICS FROM COMPARABLE DEVELOPMENTS AND CONSIDER WHETHER THIS PROPOSAL COULD CREATE ADDITIONAL DEMANDS ON POLICE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES. FINALLY, I'M NOT ASKING THAT THIS PROPERTY REMAIN . OH, SORRY. THAT IS TIME. THANK YOU. [01:15:02] EXCUSE ME. ANYONE WISH ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK BEFORE COUNSEL IN OPPOSITION OF CASE NUMBER PD SEVEN 15 2025? PLEASE COME DOWN, GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, NEIGHBORS, AND EVERYONE ELSE. OKAY. MY NAME IS JUANITA GREEN. I RESIDE AT NINE 14 WITH A CREEK ESTATES. I'M A PROUD RESIDENT OF WATER CREEK ESTATES, AND I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT ACCOMPANIED BY MY NEIGHBORS TO EXPRESS TO MY STRONG CONCERNS REGARDING THE PROPOSED MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT AT 8 0 3 EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD. CEDAR HILL IS KNOWN FOR ITS THOUGHTFUL AND CAREFUL PLANNING YET TO PLAN TO CONSTRUCT A HIGH DENSITY 60 UNIT TOWN HOME COMPLEX ON THIS 4.89 ACRE SITE GOES AGAINST THAT VERY PRINCIPLE. THIS VIOLATES BASIC PLANNING PRINCIPLES REGARDING NEIGHBORHOOD CONSISTENCY AND THE PRESERVATION OF CHARACTER. THIS ISSUE ISN'T SIMPLY ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY'S DESIRE TO RESIST APARTMENTS OR TOWNHOUSES NEAR OUR HOMES. EXCUSE, EXCUSE ME, JUANITA. HUH? YOU YOU'RE ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL. OH, I'M SORRY. IT'S ALL RIGHT. I, I'M SORRY. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME. THAT'S ALRIGHT. APOLOGIES. , UH, THIS ISSUE ISN'T SIMPLY ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY'S DESIRE TO RESIST APARTMENTS AND TOWNHOUSES, HOUSE HOMES NEAR OUR HOMES. IT IS ROOTED IN SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES, AND THAT EXPERTS HAVE ALREADY IDENTIFIED CITY STAFF LED BY SENIOR PLANNER DELA VEGA. I'M SORRY IF I PRONOUNCED THAT WRONG. MR. DELA VEGA PREVIOUSLY RECOMMENDED DENYING A SIMILAR PROPOSAL FOR THIS SITE. DUE TO COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AND CRITICAL INSIGHTS, WE URGE THE CITY TO CONSIDER THREE IMPORTANT POINTS, ZONE CONFLICTS. OUR WOODED CREEK ESTATES COMMUNITY IS DESIGNATED AS SF 10, WHICH REQUIRES SINGLE FAMILY LOTS TO BE AT LEAST 10,000 SQUARE FEET. THIS ZONING CREATES A NECESSARY BUFFER THAT PROTECTS THE INTEGRITY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. A DENSE TOWN HOME DEVELOPMENT FAILS TO PROVIDE THAT VITAL TRANSITION, JEOPARDIZING THE STABILITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. SECOND, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK. THE PROPERTY AT 8 0 3 PLEASANT RUN ROAD IS LOCATED WITHIN FLOOD ZONES B AND X. DEVELOPING THIS AREA WITH CONCRETE AND BUILDINGS WILL LIMIT THE SOIL'S ABILITY TO ABSORB RAINWATER, INCREASING THE RISK OF RUNOFF AND FLOODING, WHICH THREATENS OUR WOODY CREEK AREA. WHILE THIS LAND IS ATTRACTIVE TO DEVELOPERS, PART OF THE LAND IS IN MODERATE FLOOD HAZARD ZONES. IF ZONING AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS ARE APPROVED, STRUCTURAL FREE BOARDING REQUIREMENTS WILL APPLY. THIS MEANS FOUNDATIONS AND THE LOWEST FINISHED FLOORS MUST BE BUILT AT LEAST ONE TO THREE FEET ABOVE THE MINIMAL FLOOD LEVEL, CREATING AN INCREASE IN THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILD. THREE. TRAFFIC CONGESTION PLEASANT RUN ROAD IS ALREADY A HEAVILY USED QUARTER FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND SCHOOL TRAFFIC. ADDING A SURGE OF NEW VEHICLES DURING PEAK HOURS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS BOTTLENECKS, ENDANGERING BOTH DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS AS THEY NAVIGATE CROWDED STREETS. IN CLOSING, WE ASK THE CITY TO HEED TO THE PRIOR RECOMME RECOMMENDATION OF ITS OWN PLANNING STAFF. LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY'S VOICE, RESPECT THE INTEGRITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. JUANITA. UH, ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2025. ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION? PLEASE COME ON DOWN. GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING, WHI CREEK DRIVE. I'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF WHI CREEK SINCE 2006, SO GOING ON 20 YEARS THERE. UM, WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE FROM SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, I MOVED TO OAK CLIFF, THEN ADDISON CARROLLTON DECIDED ON CEDAR HILL BECAUSE IT WAS NOT AS DEVELOPED. IT WAS RIGHT NOW, UM, THE CURRENT PROPERTY OWNERS, I'VE REACHED OUT TO THEM SEVERAL TIMES OF THE PROPERTY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN QUESTION ABOUT DIFFERENT FINES I RECEIVED FROM HOA AS FAR AS MY FENCE MAN DESTROYED FROM BRUSH TREES, YOU KNOW, THE NECESSARY THINGS TO, UH, COME ALONG WITH IT RIGHT NOW. AND NOBODY'S REACHED BACK. THE GUY WHO GOES BACK TO, TO CUT THE GRASS, I'VE REACHED OUT TO HIM TO GET A COMMUNICATION TO ESTABLISH, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY I CAN TALK TO ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING DESTROYING MY PROPERTY AS IS NOW. NO FEEDBACK. SO I CAN'T SEE MOVING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE THAT WE HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS OR ANYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, DIRECTLY AFFECT MY HOME. I'M RIGHT THERE AT NINE 14. I'M RIGHT THERE ON THE FRONT LINE WHERE THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPING. UH, ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SIX FOOT PRIVACY FENCE. SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A TWO STORY DEVELOPMENT LOOKING DIRECTLY DOWN OVER MY PROPERTY WITH ONGOING SITUATIONS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN REMY RECTIFIED YET. SO I CAN'T SEE HOW THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY NEIGHBORHOOD. [01:20:01] I CAN'T SEE HOW THIS DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT WILL BENEFIT MY FAMILY. MY SON IS 26 YEARS OLD, GETTING HIS DOCTORATE THIS YEAR, BUT I, HE'S LONG AGO, BUT ME AND MY WIFE HAVE STEPPED IN AND RAISED TWO OF MY NEPHEWS. YOU KNOW, I WANT, HE GOES TO SCHOOL RIGHT THERE AT COLEMAN. EVEN WITH THE TRAFFIC AND THE WAY IT IS RIGHT NOW, I'M NERVOUS ABOUT HIM WALKING TO SCHOOL BY ITSELF. 12 YEARS OLD. WE STILL GET UP, TAKE 'EM EVERY DAY. SO INCREASING THAT RISK WITH TRAFFIC, HIGH DENSITY AND, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL MORE ELEMENTS THAT WE ARE NOT USED TO IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, I, I DON'T SEE IT BENEFITING US AND EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PRIVACY OF CHILDREN. WHAT ABOUT OUR PRIVACY? IT'LL BE GONE AT THAT POINT, AND I'VE BEEN THERE TOO LONG TO JUST GIVE IT UP LIKE THAT. THANK YOU. HEY, UH, UM, SEAN, UM, YOU WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY HOW I USED TO DUNK ON YOU BACK IN THE DAY? I MEAN, I JUST, I CAN REMEMBER EVERYBODY GOT A THREE POINT DOCTOR BLOCK BACK IN THE DAY. . ALL RIGHT, GOOD TO SEE YOU, FRIEND. ALL RIGHT. UH, ANYONE ELSE WANNA SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2025? ANYONE ELSE WANNA SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2025? FINAL CALL. ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO CASE NUMBER PD SEVEN 15 2025? NOT SEEING ANYONE APPROACH? I WILL CLOSE THAT PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNSEL, IF YOU WOULD MIND INDULGING ME, I DO HAVE SOME ONLINE, UM, COMMENTS THAT CAME IN ON TIME. I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE, UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR NAME AND THEIR STANCE. I HAVE JONATHAN, UM, I THINK IT'S EZ, RIES. UH, HE IS IN OPPOSITION, SO PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR THE RECORD. MADAM UH, SECRETARY, UM, MICHAEL SIMMONS IS ALSO IN OPPOSITION AND HE RESIDES, I'M SORRY, UH, I GUESS JONATHAN REESE RESIDES AT 9 0 6 WOODED CREEK. UH, MICHAEL SIM SIMON IS AT 9 6 2 WOODED CREEK. I ALSO HAVE, I DON'T HAVE A NAME HERE, OPPOSITION FROM ADDRESS 10 42. MAYBE IT'S MICHELLE WILLIS. SORRY. MICHELLE WILLIS. ADDRESS, 10 42 HOLLOW CREEK DRIVE. UM, LET'S SEE. EDGES REED, AND I DON'T THINK I HAVE AN ADDRESS. YES, NINE 10 . NINE 10. OKAY. ALRIGHT. IS THIS, IS THIS YOU? YES. OKAY, PERFECT. PERFECT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UM, OKAY. I READ THAT ONE ALREADY. AND SEAN GREEN AT NINE 14. WOODED CREEK IS ALSO IN OPPOSITION. AND I DO HAVE ONE MORE COUNSEL, UH, HANNAH RES AND IS ALSO IN OPPOSITION. I WAS ASKED TO, UM, TO READ THE COMMENTS. IT IS VERY DETAILED. SO JUST BRIEFLY, I'LL JUST DO A FEW POINTS. UM, THE NORTHEAST, THE NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE CITY IS UNDERSERVED BY EMERGENCY SERVICES NUMBER TWO. THIS IS LOW DENSITY AREA, AND THE CITY PROPOSAL PROVIDES ONLY 9% OPEN SPACE. NUMBER THREE, CONSIDER COMMUTATIVE GROWTH, UH, FOR 300 NEARBY HOMES. AND THIS GROWTH CREATES A GREATER NEED FOR RETAIL SHOPPING AND GROCERY OPENS. NUMBER FOUR, THE PARKING IS INADEQUATE GARAGE APPEAR SUITABLE FOR MAINLY COMPACT CARS AND MAY BECOME, UH, STORAGE. NUMBER FIVE. UH, THE PROPOSALS SET BACK FOR TWO STORY, UH, DEVELOPMENT FROM ONE 50 TO ONLY 15 FEET WITH BALCONY WINDOWS HAVING DIRECT SIGHT LINE INTO THE EXISTING HOMES AND BACKYARD. AND THEN IF, IF APPROVED, THEN UM, HANNAH RE UM, GAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT, UM, SOME ALTERNATIVES THAT COUNSEL SHOULD CONSIDER. SO THOSE, I BELIEVE, ARE SEVEN OPPOSITIONS THAT WAS SUBMITTED, UM, IN ADVANCE OF TODAY'S MEETING. SO, UH, COUNSEL WITH THAT, UM, ARE THERE ANY, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMENTS RIGHT NOW? NOT, NOT QUESTIONS, JUST ANYTHING, I GUESS DELIBERATE TOWARDS ONE [01:25:01] ANOTHER ABOUT THIS ITEM. UM, COUNCILWOMAN INE, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, A COUPLE THINGS. FIRST, I WANT TO, UM, THANK THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR COMING OUT. UM, IT SPEAKS VOLUMES, BUT IT'S ALSO HOW, UM, WE GET FEEDBACK, UM, AND DOING OUR JOB. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT. I KNOW IF THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU COULD BE DOING TONIGHT. UM, I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THROUGH THIS PROCESS, I'VE REALLY HAD TO LEAN ON OUR STAFF FOR, UH, QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATION. AND IT'S QUITE A PROCESS. SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR STAFF BECAUSE WHAT WE SEE HERE IS A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION PART, BUT THERE IS SO MUCH WORK THAT THEY HAVE PUT INTO IT. UM, AND THERE'S SO MUCH BACK AND FORTH THAT HAS GONE ON JUST FOR US TO GET TO THIS POINT. SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE, THE WORK, UM, THAT THEY'VE DONE. UM, I THINK I WANT, ARE WE GONNA HAVE A CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS OF THE DEVELOPER? UH, YEAH. UM, I THINK WE COULD. AND, UM, IF, IF YOU, IF YOU READ, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS IN GENERAL? I HAVE, I HAVE, HUH? I HAVE OTHER COMMENTS, BUT I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS. OH, YES, YES. YEAH. RIGHT NOW I JUST, JUST CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN US. COUNSEL, THEN WE CAN DO THAT. YES, THAT'D BE FINE. OKAY. YEAH, SO YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, JUST DIDN'T WANNA LOSE THAT OPPORTUNITY. NO, MA'AM. UM, UM, SO A COUPLE OF THE, THE CITIZENS IN WRITING THE NOTES TALKED ABOUT, UH, TRANSITION BUFFER. UM, AND I WANT TO TRY MY BEST TO EXPLAIN A PART OF, UM, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR THE STAFF 'CAUSE THAT'S NOT MY, THAT'S NOT MY MY DUTY, BUT JUST TO SHOW THE CARE THAT THEY PUT IN INTO MAKING THESE DECISIONS. SO WHEN YOU'RE IN, IN THE PLANNING WORLD, WHEN YOU ARE TRANSITIONING FROM A WHATEVER, FROM ONE USE TO ANOTHER, ONE, LAND USE TO ANOTHER. SO FROM A SINGLE FAMILY HOME TO RETAIL OR FROM A SINGLE FAMILY HOME TO MULTI-FAMILY, THERE IS GREAT THOUGHT THAT IS PUT INTO THAT SO THAT THE TRANSITION, THEY, THEY TRY TO CHOOSE THE LEAST INTRUSIVE TRANSITION. SO A PART OF THE THINKING THAT HAS GONE BEHIND THIS IS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, UM, EVEN IF IT'S A DEVELOPED, UH, WELL-DEVELOPED NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT IT IS MOSTLY CONSIDERED LESS INTRUSIVE, SORT OF A STEP DOWN TO WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO THIS IS LIKE A TRANSITION BUFFER FROM A REGULAR HOMES TO, UM, UH, MORE DENSE, UM, TOWN HOMES. UM, BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR THAT WHAT WHAT IS ZONED THERE NOW IS LOCAL RETAIL. SO BY RIGHT, DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS HERE BY RIGHT, SOMEONE COULD COME AND BUILD LOCAL RETAIL. AND SINCE IT IS THEIRS BY RIGHT, WE HAVE NO SAY. THERE'S, THERE ARE A FEW GUIDELINES THAT WE CAN ENFORCE AND CODES THAT ARE THERE. WE HAVE NO SAY ON WHAT THAT RETAIL WILL BE. SO, FIRST THING I WANNA MAKE SURE IS THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE CLEAR ON THAT, THAT FACT, WITH THAT SAID, UM, THE TRANSITION, UM, IS, IS CONSIDERED AN INDUSTRY STANDARD GOOD TRANSITION OPTION FROM RESIDENTIAL OR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES TO THIS TYPE OF PRODUCT. SO I WANNA BE TO, TO BE CLEAR ON THAT, UM, I'VE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH 'CAUSE I WANTED DEFUNCT. A COUPLE OF THE THINGS, UM, THAT I'VE HEARD MOSTLY IN OUR, UM, THE LETTERS THAT WE RECEIVED, THERE IS NO VERIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT WHEN APARTMENTS OR, UH, THIS IS NOT EVEN CONSIDERED HIGH DENSITY. IT'S KIND OF A LOWER MIDDLE DENSITY WHEN THAT GOES NEXT TO A NEIGHBORHOOD, WHEN IT'S THIS LOW OF A DENSITY THAT THERE ARE ANY, UM, NEGATIVE IMPACTS. IN FACT, THE IMPACT RANGE IS FROM ZERO TO POSITIVE. SO THAT IS THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE, WHICH IS THE PREMIER, UM, LAND USE, UM, ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONALLY. UM, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT TRAFFIC STUDIES BECAUSE OF THE, THE TRAFFIC. I TOO, UM, DEAL WITH THE TRAFFIC AT THAT CORNER. UM, THE REASON THAT THE CITY, UH, THAT WE DIDN'T DO A TRAFFIC STUDY IS BECAUSE, UM, ADDING 60 HOMES, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT REQUIRED. IT'S NOT ENOUGH OF A CHANGE TO HAVE THE REQUIREMENT OF A TRAFFIC STUDY. [01:30:01] I WANT IT TO, UM, TO BRING THAT OUT. UM, SO I DON'T THINK, MY THOUGHTS AREN'T THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HARMFUL TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING ISN'T HARMFUL DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S GOOD FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT'S TWO DIFF TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. UM, SO AS I MENTIONED, UM, I, I RELIED HEAVILY ON STAFF. THIS HAS ALREADY GONE BEFORE P AND Z. THEY'VE ALREADY, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE, THEY'VE ALREADY APPROVED THIS AND GIVEN THEIR RECOMMENDATION AND WE RELY SO HEAVILY ON IT. SO WHEN WE SIT HERE AND WE MAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE TO GUIDE US ALONG THE WAY. UM, BUT WITH THAT SAID, UM, HERE ARE MY ISSUES. FIRST, THERE ARE A PLETHORA OF MULTIFAMILY. WHEN YOU GO FROM ONE END OF JOE WILSON, EVEN WHEN YOU CROSS OVER 67 FROM ONE END OF JOE WILSON TO THE OTHER END OF JOE WILSON, WITHIN A THREE MILE RADIUS, THERE ARE FIVE OR SIX APARTMENT COMPLEXES. THERE'S, THERE'S ALREADY A PLETHORA OF MULTI MULTIFAMILY IN A VERY SHORT AREA. UM, I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS AN IMBALANCE OF MULTIFAMILY ON THE EAST SIDE, UH, COMPARED TO WHAT'S ON THE WEST SIDE. AND, UH, I THINK MORE THAN ANYTHING, UH, I'M AGAINST THE THOUGHT THAT THESE ARE, THIS IS OF RENTAL PRODUCT. UM, I WOULD PROBABLY THINK DIFFERENTLY IF THIS WAS A SMALLER SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT OR IF THIS PRODUCT WAS AVAILABLE FOR PER, FOR PURCHASE. UM, BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT'S INCONSISTENT, UM, WITH WHAT IS THERE. UM, AND SO THE FACT THAT IT, THAT FACT ALONE THAT IT'S A RENTAL PRODUCT IS SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T, UM, I CAN'T GET BEHIND AT THIS MOMENT. AND, UM, I WILL SAY WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE CASES, MY LAST THING, MAYOR, IS WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE CASES, WE, WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE, I GUESS, THE LATITUDE TO LOOK AT EACH CASE IN A SILO. THERE, THERE ARE THESE THINGS GOING ON ALL OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE HERE AND WE'RE CONCERNED TONIGHT ABOUT THIS ONE CASE, BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW IS IT AFFECTING THE REST OF THE CITY. SO THE CITY HAS A DENSITY ISSUE. THAT MEANS WE HAVE, WE'RE GROWING AT A RATE WHERE WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE, THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH. SO THIS IS WHY WE'RE FOCUSED ON HIGHER DENSITY, BECAUSE WE NEED MORE HOMES. BUT, UM, FOR ME, I CAN'T SETTLE ON A PROJECT THAT REALLY ISN'T A NEEDLE MOVER. UM, IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T SIT, IT DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH ME TO MAKE THIS INTRUSION ON THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A RENTAL PRO OF PRODUCT THAT DOESN'T REALLY MOVE THE NEEDLE IN GETTING US CLOSER TO OUR GOAL OF DENSITY. SO THAT'S, UM, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS UNTIL WE GET TO QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPER. ALRIGHT. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO THERE'S A, A COUPLE THINGS THAT I, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS AWARE. AND, UH, OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR MENTIONED THIS. UM, SHE MENTIONED THAT THIS AREA, THIS CORNER, WAS ZONED LOCAL RETAIL SINCE 1985. IT'S BEEN ZONED LOCAL RETAIL SINCE 1985, AND I'VE BEEN HERE 26 YEARS. AND BEFORE, I REMEMBER WHEN WATER CREEK WAS DEVELOPED, UM, IT BROKE MY HEART BECAUSE IT WAS A HEAVILY WOODED NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY MOVED OUT ALL THE TREES, UH, TO BUILD THE HOUSES. BUT I'VE BEEN HERE A LITTLE WHILE AND IT'S BEEN BEFORE THERE WAS A HOUSE BUILT, THIS CORNER WAS ZONED LOCAL RETAIL. SO, UM, THERE CAN BE SOMETHING COME IN AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THIS, BUT THERE COULD BE SOMETHING COME IN THAT'S WORSE THAN THIS. UH, AND THAT'S, EVERYONE NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND 'CAUSE IT'S OWN LOCAL RETAIL, AND THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BUILD THERE. I JUST WANT THING I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT. I HEARD SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT IT'S UNDERSERVED BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND, AND I KNOW OUR FIRE CHIEF IS HERE. AND, AND, UH, CHIEF FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, HOW MANY, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR CALLS ARE EMS CALLS REAL QUICK? YEAH, THANKS FOR THAT QUESTION. UM, IT'S ABOUT 70%, 70% I'VE HEARD SOMETIMES AS MUCH AS 75 TO 80. IT, IT CAN FLUCTUATE, BUT THAT, THAT'S EMS. WELL, FOR THE RECORD, AND WE ARE ABOUT TO, [01:35:01] AFTER THIS, HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT BUDGET, BUT THIS YEAR, THIS CITY COUNCIL IS ADDING A, A FULL AMBULANCE UNIT DEDICATED TO THE EAST SIDE THAT WILL ADDRESS THAT IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY. AM I, AM I CORRECT? YES. IT'LL ADDRESS 70% OF THAT WORKLOAD ON THAT SIDE. SO FOR THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCERN, YOUR CALL, 70% OF IT IS BEING ADDRESSED. UH, IF THE COUNCIL MOVES FORWARD WITH THE BUDGET THAT'S FORCED TONIGHT. UM, AND I WILL SAY THIS, HAVING BEEN HERE A LITTLE WHILE, THE ADDITIONAL FOUR PARAMEDICS IS THE LARGEST PUBLIC SAFETY FIRE PUBLIC SAFETY EXPENDITURE IN 17 YEARS. SO THIS COUNCIL HAS MOVED TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE IN A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAY BECAUSE IN 17 YEARS, WE HAVEN'T HAD THIS KIND OF EXPENDITURE IN THE FIRE. AM I CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY, THANK YOU. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE SOMEBODY SAYS IT'S NOT BEING SERVED. WE ARE TAKING CARE OF THAT ISSUE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS. COUNCILMAN MCCURDY? YES. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. SO COUNCIL AZI AND COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS BOTH REFERENCED, YOU KNOW, WHAT ELSE COULD BE, COULD BE BUILT HERE ON THIS, ON THIS PROPERTY, BUT JUST FOR, FOR, FOR REFERENCE. BUT WHAT'S THE, WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF A BUILDING THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, UH, UM, IF WE COULD GET SOME WELL, WE COULD, I, I, I WANNA JUST, YOU KNOW, I'LL BRING THEM UP WHENEVER WE ALL HAVE QUESTIONS. WELL, BUT IF YOU COULD TALK TO YOUR OTHER COMMENTS. YEAH. SO I MEAN, MY, MY POINT IS, I BELIEVE THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF A BUILDING THAT COULD BE CONSTRUCTED BY W RIGHT ON THIS SPACE TODAY THAT ZONED LOCAL RETAIL IS SIX STORIES. SO THAT IS, YOU KNOW, THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE CURRENT ZONING, YES, THE, THE CURRENT ZONING. IT, IT COULD BE BUILT BY W RIGHT? AND SO THERE WOULD BE NOTHING THAT THE COUNCIL COULD DO TO SAY, NO, YOU CAN'T BUILD THAT CONSTRUCT, THAT BUILDING HERE. THEY, THEY COULD CONSTRUCT A SIX STORY BUILDING ON THAT PROPERTY BY RIGHT TODAY. AND, AND WE WOULD BE POWERLESS TO, TO, UH, TO STOP THAT CONSTRUCTION. UM, THERE, THERE'S A NUMBER O OF THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I HAVE CONCERNS WITH ON, ON THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT. THE, THE AMOUNT OF SPACING ON, ON THE BACK. I'M NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE SPACING TO JOE WILSON ROAD AS I AM ABOUT THE IMPACT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BEHIND IT. UM, AND, AND WHAT THE SPACING IS BETWEEN THE, YOU KNOW, THE REAR OF THE STRUCTURES AND, AND THE PROPERTIES BEHIND THERE. UM, I, I WOULD PREFER THAT THE, THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS GATED VERSUS, VERSUS UNGATED AND THAT IT WAS SECURED. UH, BUT, UH, I, YOU KNOW, I WOULD ALSO HAVE A HEAVY PREFERENCE THAT, THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY, UH, BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR, FOR OWNED PROPERTIES AND, AND NOT FOR RENTAL AS WELL. UM, AND SO, UH, THOSE, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS ABOUT THE PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT THIS TIME. UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MCCURDY, AND AGAIN, WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS TO THE APPLICANT OR PLANNING. UH, NEXT, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM GLOVER. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, WHEN I THINK OF THIS, WHAT COMES TO MIND, THIS BALANCE AND APPLYING A BALANCE TO THIS SECTION OF OUR, OF OUR CITY, UM, I DO HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT MULTIFAMILY IN THIS CORRIDOR. JUST DOWN THE ROAD ON PLEASANT RUN, THERE'S 700 AVAILABLE, THERE'S 700 UNITS. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE AVAILABILITY IS. UM, GOING FURTHER UP THE ROAD, WE HAVE THE COV HOMES, WHICH WE JUST APPROVED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. SO MY, MY CONCERN IS THE BALANCE, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO PROVIDE A BALANCE TO OUR COMMUNITY? UM, DO WE SEEM IN THIS AREA TO HAVE A PLETHORA OF MULTIFAMILY ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN THE AREA AND NOT KNOWING THE OCCUPANCY OF ALL OF THOSE? I STILL BELIEVE THAT THERE'S AVAILABILITY FOR 60 UNITS OF MULTIFAMILY CURRENTLY WITHOUT HAVING TO ABSORB ANY ADDITIONAL ONES. UM, I ALSO HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THE TRAFFIC STUDY. I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CALCULATIONS OF ADDING THIS MANY HOMES AND THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF CARS. I'M JUST CONCERNED THAT THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED BY A TRAFFIC STUDY TRAVELING THAT ROAD EVERY DAY. OUR MORNINGS AND OUR EVENINGS ARE VERY CHALLENGING. CROSSING THAT INTERSECTION AND LOOKING AT THE DESIGN, [01:40:01] THERE'S NOT A WAY FOR ANYONE EXITING THAT PROPERTY TO GO SOUTH ON JOE WILSON WITHOUT CROSSING OVER JOE WILSON. AND THERE'S NOT A WAY FOR ANYONE TO GO EAST ON PLEASANT RUN WITHOUT GOING UP AND AROUND. AND THAT MAY CREATE ITS OWN SET OF CHALLENGES WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO GO EAST AND WHEN SOMEONE WANTS TO GO SOUTH. AND I'M JUST, UH, I UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE OF NOT HAVING A TRAFFIC STUDY, BUT I THINK THAT LEAVES THAT CORNER VULNERABLE TO THE ACTUALITIES OF WHAT DRIVING THAT, EXITING THAT COMMUNITY AND ENTERING THAT COMMUNITY ARE. UM, SO FOR ME, THE KEY WORD IS BALANCE, AND I'M NOT SURE WE'RE AT THAT POINT RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN I'LL OPEN IT UP TO COUNSEL TO, TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS OR CONTINUE DELIBERATING, UM, YOU KNOW, TO, TO GET TO THE SCENARIO. UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A INFIELD THAT HAS A CURRENT PROPERTY OWNER WHO'S PAYING TAXES AND IS, YOU KNOW, LOOKING TO OFFLOAD THIS PROPERTY, UM, THROUGHOUT OUR WHOLE CITY. UM, TALKING ABOUT IT COMPREHENSIVELY, UH, THIS COUNCIL HAS, UH, WELL, NOT NECESSARILY THIS COUNCIL, BUT YOU KNOW, I WAS ON THE COUNCIL, UH, WITHIN THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW, SIX, SIX TO EIGHT YEARS WHERE WE ADOPTED A POLICY THAT WE WILL RETAIN 25% OF OPEN SPACE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CITY, RIGHT? UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RESIDENTS LIVE HERE ARE JUST PASSING BY LOVE WHAT WE GOT GOING ON HERE IN CEDAR HILL. WHY, WHY DO WE ASK? WE ASK THEM. UM, THEY SAY SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY LOVE, YOU KNOW, OUR ORGANIC NATURE OF OUR CITY. UM, THEY JUST LOVE THE GREEN SPACE. THEY JUST LOVE OUR NATURAL BEAUTY, UH, IN CEDAR HILL. SO WE RETAIN OUR, UH, 25% OF OUR OPEN SPACE. ONCE WE ARE FULLY BUILT OUT. WE WILL STILL HAVE OPEN SPACE AND GREEN SPACE, OUR ROLLING TREE LINE THAT IS PROTECTED, UM, BY ORDINANCE, BY, BY A LAW THAT COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED. I SAY THAT TO SAY THIS IS AN INFA LOT, BUT WE'RE ONLY 45% BUILT OUT. UM, SO WE GOT A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT THAT'S GONNA BE GOING ON ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN. UM, YOU KNOW, JUST AS YOU KNOW, OUR, YOU KNOW, BE FULLY TRANSPARENT WITH YOU, AS SOON AS LOOP NINE COMES, THERE'S GONNA BE A WHOLE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT, UH, OR HIS FOCUS THAT'S GONNA BE DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED. BUT AS IT RELATES TOWARDS THIS PARTICULAR CORRIDOR, UM, THIS IS ZONE LOCAL RETAIL. AND I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, UM, YOU KNOW, MCDONALD'S IS LOOKING FOR A SECOND LOCATION IN CEDAR HILL. I, YOU KNOW, I, I'M JUST KEEPING IT REAL. UH, I, I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT THEY'LL BE AT THIS SITE, BUT LET'S JUST USE THAT ONE. FOR EXAMPLE, IF MCDONALD'S WAS TO BE ABLE TO COME AT THAT LOCATION, THAT APPLICATION WILL NOT COME TO COUNCIL. IT'S ALREADY APPROVED. IT'S LOCAL RETAIL. THEY CAN COME TO COUNCIL, THEY COULD COME TO STAFF, SUBMIT APPLICATION. IT'S ALREADY ZONED. THEY CAN PRETTY MUCH GO THROUGH THE, UH, FAST LANE AND HAVE A MCDONALD'S RIGHT THERE IN THAT CORNER. AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS MENTIONED THAT THIS WAS ZONE, UH, LOCAL RETAIL BACK IN 1985, BUT WE JUST ADOPTED A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. UM, IN 2000 AND 2022, 2022, WE JUST ADOPTED OUR LATEST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND WE HAVE ADOPTED THAT THIS AREA WOULD BE MORE RESIDENTIAL FOCUS. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE ADOPTED, BE MORE RESIDENTIAL FOCUSED. THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WOODY CREEK CAME ABOUT A YEAR AGO, I THINK IT'S A YEAR AGO, BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING ADJACENT ON THE OTHER CORNER OF A GAS STATION, I BELIEVE A C-SUITE GAS STATION. AND YOU CAME OUT AND YOU SAID NO. AND WE TOLD THAT APPLICANT NO, I AGREE WITH WOODY CREEK. WE HAVE MORE OF A RESIDENTIAL FOCUS THAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO PUT ALONG THIS CORRIDOR. UM, WELL HERE WE ARE. UM, WELL BEFORE THAT, THIS INFIELD, THERE WAS A CHURCH THAT WANTED TO GO IN AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS WOODY CREEK THAT SAID, HEY, WE DON'T WANT NO CHURCH. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, COUNCIL CANNOT DENY CHURCH OR SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND THOSE ARE TWO, [01:45:01] UM, I'M GONNA SAY ASSET BASES THAT ARE, THAT HAS NOT COME BEFORE COUNCIL. THEY CAN COME TO COUNCIL TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SITE PLANS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT AS FAR AS DENIED APPROVAL, COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE A SAY TO THOSE NON-TAX BASED, UH, ASSET CLASSES. BUT I GUESS, YOU KNOW, THE CHURCH IS NOT GETTING DEVELOPED. SO HERE WE ARE TODAY, UM, AS IT RELATES TO MULTIFAMILY, UM, THIS IS PROBABLY NOW PEOPLE COME KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR ALL THE TIME, KNOCKING ON OUR DOOR ALL THE TIME, WANNA PROPOSE DIFFERENT THINGS. STAFF KNOWS IT'S A NON-STARTER FOR THE MOST PART, ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, UM, AS IT RELATES TOWARDS MULTIFAMILY. IT'S REALLY GONNA HAVE TO BE HIGHLY AMENITIZED FOR COUNCIL TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO CONSIDER THAT APPLICANT. SO THAT'S THE TOOL THAT I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT. RIGHT NOW, THE TOOL IS PLAN DEVELOPMENT. SO WE AIN'T JUST CHANGING ZONING, BUT PLAN DEVELOPMENT GIVES US A TOOL AND A TOOL CHEST TO SAY, IF YOU DO THIS, I'M GONNA CUSTOMIZE IT AND I'M GOING TO CUSTOMIZE IT AS MUCH AS I CAN FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO TRY TO ADDRESS SOME OF YOUR CONCERNS. UM, AND OR, YOU KNOW, I WANT STREETS SCAPE, I WANT LANDSCAPE, I WANT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ENHANCEMENTS ON A PROPERTY. THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE CAN DO WITH PLAN DEVELOPMENT. UM, COUNCIL, WE, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME CHOICES HERE. UH, PLANNING AND ZONING DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL, BUT I WANT TO COMMUNICATE TO THE RESIDENTS HERE. PLANNING AND ZONING HAD A, HAS A CHARGE. THEIR CHARGE IS ONLY TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT DOES THIS MEET THE ZONING STANDARDS? THAT'S IT. ALRIGHT. THAT'S IT. THEY CAN'T TALK ABOUT HOW THE IMPACTS THE INTANGIBLES TANGIBLES TOWARDS THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT'S NOT THEIR CHARGE. THAT IS MORE OF THE COUNCIL'S CHARGE. SO WE CAN A CONCUR WITH PLANNING AND ZONING RECOMMENDATION, CONCUR AND OR SUBJECT TO ADD SOME MORE, YOU KNOW, THINGS TOWARDS THE APPLICANT TO BE ABLE TO DO OR SIMPLY JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, DENY THIS, UM, THIS APPLICATION. BUT I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO UNDERSTAND IT'S ZONE LOCAL RETAIL. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S ZONED COMMERCIAL. IT IS NOT ZONE RESIDENTIAL. AND IF A MID-RISE BUILDING WANTS TO BE ABLE TO COME IN THAT AREA THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY BY RIGHT. HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. IF A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT, UH, A RETAIL STRIP, IT WILL NOT COME TO COUNCIL AND WE CANNOT AMENITIZE IT IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MEET OUR NEEDS. SO I, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE THAT WE DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY. WE CAN'T SAY NO, BUT WE DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SAY IF WE DO PROCEED TO MOVE FORWARD, WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE WANNA BE ABLE TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MINIMIZE OR MITIGATE ANY IMPACT TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS. UM, WE TALKED ABOUT TRAFFIC AND SAFETY. UM, I THINK, UM, I THINK COUNCILWOMAN THAT AND COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS ADJUST THAT, UM, THERE IS SOME TALK ABOUT PROPERTY OWNER. UM, WELL, I GUESS I, THAT'S A QUESTION I HAVE. I I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S GONNA BE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON SITE AS IT RELATES TO FLOOD CONTROL. UM, OBVIOUSLY ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WILL DO, WE WILL TRY TO FORCE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, I GUESS THE ANGLE OF, YOU KNOW, RAINWATER OR ANY TYPE OF, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WATER PREVENTION, YOU KNOW, IT WILL GO TOWARDS, I THINK THERE IS A DETENTION AREA THAT'S ON SITE OF THIS PROPERTY. UM, ANYWAY, I, I THO THOSE ARE KIND OF MY POINT. I JUST WANNA KIND OF JUST WANNA POINT OUT THE SCENARIO. A, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND ADD MORE TO IT OR B, IF WE DO DENY IT, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE OUT OF OUR CONTROL. SO DO WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, RISK RISK, WHICH, WHICH ONE'S THE BIGGER RISK? I, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL KIND OF ON THE SAME PAGE WITH, WITH HOW I'M GONNA BE WRESTLING WITH THIS. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN IT UP TO COUNCIL IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT OR STAFF. AND I'LL BEGIN WITH COUNCILWOMAN AZI. UM, THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, I AGREE WITH SO MANY OF YOUR POINTS AND THANK YOU FOR THOSE CLARIFICATIONS. UH, I THINK THAT THEY'RE, UM, VERY IMPORTANT. UM, I ORIGINALLY, UM, WANTED TO, I, I NEGLECTED TO SAY, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT I'M A WOODY CREEK RESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, JUST, JUST HAPPENED TO LEAVE THAT PART OUT THAT WAS ON THE FOR THAT. SO THAT WAS ON THE RECORD. UM, BUT I DO HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPER, [01:50:01] UM, AND THE DEVELOPER, I GUESS THE DEVELOPER RE REPRESENTATIVE. HOW ARE YOU, MR. PATTON? GOOD. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. UM, I AM HONESTLY NOT SURE IF YOU CAN ANSWER, UH, MY QUESTIONS, BUT I WILL, I WILL ASK THEM. I'LL GIVE IT A SHOT. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, WE WERE GIVEN A LIST, UH, PRIOR TO THE MEETING WITH PROPERTIES. UM, UM, A PART OF MY PROCESS IS UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE DEVELOPER, UM, AND THEIR, THEIR HISTORY AND BACKGROUND. AND WE WERE GIVING A LIST, UM, I THINK OF MAYBE DEVELOPMENTS THAT THIS DEVELOPER HAS DONE MAYBE IN THE LAST OVER 10 YEARS. AND, UM, I APPRECIATE THE LIST BECAUSE WHEN I WENT TO LOOK UP THE DEVELOPER, I HAD TROUBLE FINDING THEM. THERE WASN'T A WEBSITE OR ANYTHING WHERE I COULD GO AND GET VERIFIABLE INFORMATION. SO WHEN I GOT THE LIST AND DID A LITTLE RESEARCH, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS LIST THAT IS PROVIDED SOUNDS RIGHT, UM, TO YOU. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SPEAK ON? AS FAR AS I KNOW, THAT LIST IS ACCURATE. IT CAME FROM THEM. OKAY. UH, I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN ANY OF THOSE PROJECTS, SO I'M NOT THAT FAMILIAR WITH THEM, BUT THAT'S FROM THEM AND, AND, UH, THEY STAND ON THOSE, SO. OKAY. WELL, UM, I WON'T GO THROUGH THE WHOLE LIST, BUT, UM, FROM MY RESEARCH THERE ARE, UM, A FEW CONVENIENCE STORES, A ONE SINGLE FAMILY HOME, SEVERAL STRIPS AND, UH, A GAS STATION. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AS I TRY TO FIND THE COMPATIBILITY WITH THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, I WASN'T ABLE TO KIND OF FIND THAT ALIGNMENT. UM, THERE WAS ONE, UM, PROJECT IN NACODOCHES YEAH. UM, THAT SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT BE, UH, OF SIMILAR. UM, SO I WANTED TO HEAR A BIT ABOUT THAT AND TO, UM, I KNOW THAT IT'S, I THINK COMING ONLINE MAYBE MID NEXT YEAR TO HEAR ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE STAGE OF THAT. I'M TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT'S THE BACKGROUND AND, AND WHAT'S THE EXPERIENCE LEVEL TO BRING A DEVELOPMENT INTO OUR TOWN. I, I'LL LET THE MAN HIMSELF ANSWER THAT. HI, MY NAME IS LY NEY AND, UH, I LIVE IN PLANO 5 7 2 180 LANE PLANO, TEXAS. UH, THIS, THIS PROJECT CALLED ZARA SQUARE. WE ARE MAKING 84 TOWN HOMES OVER THERE. I SEND ALL THE VIDEOS, THREE DS. THE CONSTRUCTION IS UNDER, UH, RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S GONNA BE FINISHING IN, UH, MAY OR JUNE OF NEXT YEAR. SO, UH, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION, I CAN GLAD TO ANSWER THAT. UM, I GUESS WHEN, WHEN WAS THE PROJECT, UH, APPROVED AND IS THIS YOUR FIRST, UH, DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TYPE OF PRODUCT? TOWN HOME PROJECT? YES. THIS IS MY FIRST DEVELOPMENT FOR MULTI TOWN HOMES. IT'S NOT MULTIFAMILY BECAUSE MULTIFAMILY IS LIKE APARTMENTS. MM-HMM . THIS IS NOT APARTMENTS, THIS IS LIKE A, FEEL LIKE A HOUSE, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S A TOWN HOMES, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, UH, THIS IS LIKE OUR FIRST PROJECT IN NATOS. OKAY. ARE THEY ATTACHED OR DETACHED? YES, THEY ARE. THEY ARE ATTACHED, YES. DWELLINGS. IT'S A SEVEN UNITS BUILDING TYPE FOUR, WHICH IS HAVE A SEVEN UNIT. WE HAVE A BUILDING TYPE ONE, WHICH IS HAVE THREE UNITS BUILDING TYPE, LIKE DIFFERENT TYPE OF UNITS. MM-HMM . BUT IT'S SAME BUT DIFFERENT, UH, SIZES. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT FIRM. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UM, ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? UM, PRO TIM, I'M GONNA PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU TURN YOUR MIC ON? I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. ALL RIGHT. BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK, RIGHT? YES. I'M, UH, I ASSUME YOU'RE A KNICKS FAN? YES, I AM. OKAY. DID THEY WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP? UH, I, I DON'T, UH, MEAN OKAY. AS OF RIGHT NOW, PHILADELPHIA IS LOOKING LIKE, UH, I DIGRESS. UM, MY, MY QUESTION TO YOU, UM, COUNCILMAN, AND I'VE ONLY DROVE BY, BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS AND I'M ASK YOU, AND I MAY GO AND ASK YOU, BUT WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TOWN HOME AND A BROWNSTONE? I, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. I'M NOT SITTING UP, BUT I'M JUST, JUST ASKING THAT QUESTION. 'CAUSE TO ME, WHEN I SEE THE ELEVATION, IT KIND OF REMINDS ME OF A BROWNSTONE, BUT IT MAY BE SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, BUT YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU CAN KIND OF GIVE ME A DIFFERENT, A CONTRAST THERE. SURE. OR, OR SIMILARITY BASED, BASED ON A NEW YORK CITY PERSPECTIVE. UM, BROWNSTONES ARE ATTACHED SIDE BY SIDE, AND THEY CAN RUN THE LENGTH OF THE STREET. SO FROM [01:55:02] HUNDRED 12TH STREET ALL THE WAY TO 111TH STREET, THOSE ARE BROWNSTONES THAT ARE ATTACHED. UM, THEY CAN BE WALK-UPS, MULTI-UNITS WITHIN THE, EACH BROWNSTONE. UH, KEY ELEMENT IS THAT THEY'RE ALL MADE OF STONE, UM, MADE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, TYPICALLY THE PREVIOUS CENTURY, AND, UM, HAVE BEEN RENOVATED OR MAYBE DISTILLED THE EXISTING FLOOR PLAN, UM, STRAIGHT THROUGH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BROWNSTONE AND A TOWNHOME. I THINK A TOWNHOME, AND I'M NOT A REAL ESTATE, UH, EXPERT, TOWNHOME IS A, A NEWER CONCEPT. UM, IN MY MIND, TOWN HOMES CAN BE STONE, BUT ARE TYPICALLY SOME TYPE OF COMBINATION. AND I THINK THE KEY ELEMENT THERE IS, UM, SEMI ATTACHED BROWNSTONES CAN BE FOUR STORIES TALL. THEY CAN BE TWO STORIES TALL. UM, AND WHEN I THINK OF TOWN HOMES, I THINK OF A CONDO OR A CO-OP TYPE OF, UM, DEVELOPMENT. I GUESS, I GUESS WHERE I'M REALLY GOING IS, UM, IS WHEN, WHEN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE OF A MULTIFAMILY, IS IT SIMILAR OR IT, YOU KNOW, BROWNSTONE TOWN HOME IS IN A DIFFERENT CLASS THAN A MULTIFAMILY? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS SURE. IS THERE SOME SIMILARITIES THERE OR, OR, I, I CAN ASK DEVELOPER, BUT HE GONNA TRY TO SELL HIS PRODUCT, BUT I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO ASK YOU SO IT, IT, IT VARIES. IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT A CLASSIC TOWN, UM, BROWNSTONE, I LIVED IN A BROWNSTONE IN BROOKLYN AND IT WAS A TWO FAMILY BROWNSTONE. WE WERE ON THE SEC, UH, SECOND FLOOR, WE WERE RENTING, THE OWNERS WERE ON THE FIRST FLOOR. UM, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING OF LIKE A, WE CALL THEM TENEMENT, WHERE THEY WERE MAYBE FOUR STORIES AND MAYBE FOUR APARTMENTS ON EACH FLOOR. UH, JUST A BIGGER TOWN, A BIGGER BROWNSTONE. UM, AND TYPICALLY THE NOT AN OWNERSHIP TYPE OF, OF, UM, CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT. IT'S A RENTAL AGREEMENT. SO FOR ME, THERE'S A DEFINITIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BROWNSTONE AND A TOWN HOME. UM, AND I THINK PROBABLY THE NEAREST SIMILARITY MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN DALLAS, IN THE UPTOWN AREA WHERE YOU SEE A SINGLE FAMILY OWNED IN TWO OR THREE STORIES GOING UP. UH, NORM, I, I, I, I'LL THROW MY QUESTION TO YOU OR IF YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, YIELD, BUT, UM, I UNDERSTAND THIS MAY BE HIGH DENSITY, MAYBE IT'S AN ALTERNATIVE TO A, A MULTI-FAMILY. BUT KE IS THERE A DISTINCTION OR CLEAR DIS DISTINCTION OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRADITIONAL MULTIFAMILY AND WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING TODAY AS A TOWN HOME? WELL, TYPICALLY THE TOWN HOME THAT, UH, YOU SEE, UH, IN A, UH, IN AN ORDINANCE IS A SINGLE PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT WITH A, A SINGLE PROPERTY OWNER, IN THIS CASE WHERE WE ARE DEVELOPING, WE DON'T HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL LOT. SO THESE ARE NOT SELLABLE. AND THAT'S THE, THE REASON FOR THE RENTAL. IT WOULD BE MORE AKIN TO A CONDOMINIUM. UM, AND EVEN SOME OF THE BROWNSTONES THAT, UH, BROTHER GLOVER WAS TALKING ABOUT THERE, UH, THOSE COULD BE IN A CONDOMINIUM CONCEPT BECAUSE YOU HAVE MULTIPLE UNITS WITHIN ONE BUILDING. AND SO I, I THINK THE DISTINCTION THAT, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE HERE ON THIS PROPERTY IS AN INDIVIDUAL UNIT. IT'S NOT SELLABLE BECAUSE WE DON'T MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPERTY. UH, WHEN YOU GET INTO THE TOWN HOME REQUIREMENTS IN OUR ORDINANCE, THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF, OF LAND, THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF, UH, MINIMUM WIDTH AND DEPTH AND THAT SORT OF THING THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE ON THIS PROPERTY. UH, SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU GET INTO, UH, IN THE LAYOUT OF TOWN HOMES IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SPACE FOR GARAGES. UH, INITIALLY THE COUNCIL, I MEAN, UH, THE STAFF WANTED THE DRIVEWAYS ON THESE UNITS TO BE 20 FEET FROM THE GARAGE DOOR TO THE STREET. WELL, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM ON THIS PROPERTY TO DO THAT, UM, AND, AND COME OUT WITH ENOUGH UNITS THAT MAKES IT, UH, VIABLE FOR A DEVELOPER. UH, SAME THING IS TRUE WITH SINGLE FAMILY ON THIS, THIS PROPERTY FOR ACRES, WHEN YOU START PUTTING THE SIZE OF, OF HOUSES THAT YOU HAVE IN THE WOODED CREEK AREA, YOU'RE NOT GONNA FIND A DEVELOPER [02:00:01] WHO WANTS TO PUT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY INTO THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FOUR OR FIVE HOUSES OR SIX HOUSES. THEY CAN'T MAKE ANY MONEY ON THAT. SO THIS PROPERTY, IF IT'S GONNA BE ANY KINDA RESIDENTIAL, HAS GOT TO BREAK INTO A DIFFERENT NORM IN ORDER TO FIND A, THAT NICHE THAT IT CAN DEVELOP AND PROVIDE SINGLE FAMILY TYPE LIVING AND BE AFFORDABLE AND ALSO AGREEABLE WITH A DEVELOPER THAT WANTS TO, TO DO IT. SO THAT'S THE REAL ISSUE, IS WHAT CAN BE DONE HERE FROM A RESIDENTIAL STANDPOINT. AND IT'S A VERY MINIMAL, UH, PRODUCT. THERE'S JUST NOT A HUGE AMOUNT OF OPTIONS WITHOUT GOING TO FULL MULTIFAMILY, WHICH IS NOT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WERE INTERESTED IN DOING. SO, UM, BUT I, I THINK THE NEAREST THING THAT I COULD COMPARE THIS TO WOULD BE A CONDOMINIUM UNDERSTOOD. WHICH, WHICH COULD BE MULTI-STORY, UM, YOU KNOW, OR IT COULD BE ONE LEVEL EITHER WAY. OKAY. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, COUNSEL? UM, THERE WAS, UM, A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, I GUESS ON THE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD CALL IT, SOUTH, NO, NORTH NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, OF THE PROPERTY THAT'S ADJOINING TO THE ACTUAL WOODY CREEK, NOT THE GAS LINE SIDE, BUT THE, I GUESS THE NORTHERN SIDE. UM, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN, HOW CAN WE CREATE A BUFFER? UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO LINE SIGHT TO THE PROPERTY. IS THERE, IS THERE A, UH, SOLUTION FOR THAT? WE, WE DID, UM, TALK WITH THE OWNERS OF THOSE, UH, LOTS THERE. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, UH, THAT EAST, UH, I MEAN, UH, THE NORTH SIDE, THERE'S ONLY THREE PROPERTIES THAT BACK UP TO THIS DEVELOPMENT. SO THERE'S THREE HOMEOWNERS THERE THAT ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THAT, THAT VISIBILITY. ALL OF THE OTHER, UH, LOTS ON THE EAST SIDE AND EVEN IN THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER ARE FURTHER THAN 50 FEET FROM WHERE THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE. SO WE VOLUNTARILY, AFTER MEETING WITH THEM AND THEY CAN VOICE THESE CONCERNS ABOUT THE VISIBILITY AND THE PRIVACY OF THEIR BACKYARDS AND EVERYTHING. WE, WE SAID WE WOULD INCREASE THE HEIGHT OF THE WALL. SO WE ORIGINALLY HAD SIX FEET AND WE RAISED IT TO, TO EIGHT FEET. THEY SUGGESTED 10 FEET. WELL PLANTING SAID, NO, NO, 10 FOOT WALLS, IT HAS TO BE EIGHT AT THE MAXIMUM. SO WE SETTLED AT EIGHT, BUT THEN WE ALSO ADDED EVERGREEN SHRUBBERY, UH, ACTUALLY, I SAY SHRUBBERY, IT'S ACTUALLY SMALL TREES, BUT THEY GROW TO 16 FEET IN HEIGHT. SO THAT 16 FOOT OF EVERGREEN, UH, LANDSCAPE IS GONNA BE ALL ALONG THAT WALL ON BOTH THE EAST AND THE NORTH SIDE, EVEN THOUGH THE EAST SIDE REALLY IS NOT GONNA BE IMPACTED FROM THAT AS MUCH AS THE NORTH SIDE. UH, BOTH, BOTH WALLS HAVE THAT EVERGREEN SCREENING. I KNOW ONE OF THE OTHER CONCERNS THAT THE NEIGHBORS HAD WAS THE HEIGHT. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROPERTY, WHEN YOU DRIVE BY, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S WAY UP ON A HILL AND IT IS, BUT THE, THE DESIGN OF THE DEVELOPMENT IS TO STAIR STEP THAT HILL DOWN. SO ALL OF THESE LIVING UNITS ARE GONNA ESSENTIALLY BE THE SAME, UH, LEVEL AS THOSE HOUSES. AND ALL OF THOSE HOUSES ARE TWO STORY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT BASICALLY THE SAME TYPE OF, OF LIVING DEVELOPMENT HERE AND THE, THE 16 FEET OF EVERGREEN IS GONNA PROVIDE THE SCREENING NEEDED FROM THOSE HOMES TO THIS DEVELOPMENT AND VICE VERSA. UM, SO THE, THE CURRENT GRADE RIGHT NOW, UH, IT WILL BE CUT DOWN. YES. UM, OKAY. THERE'S 16 FEET OF ELEVATION DIFFERENCE FROM THE UPPER PART OF THE HILL DOWN TO, UH, ABOUT THE SIDEWALK LEVEL, WILSON ALONG JOE WILSON ROAD. OKAY. 16 FEET. SO THE, THE UNITS THAT ARE AT THE VERY TOP OF THE HILL WILL BE BASICALLY AT GROUND LEVEL. AND FROM THERE WE'LL BEGIN TEARING DOWN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO JOE WILSON IN ABOUT FOUR TO FIVE FOOT INCREMENTS. AND THAT, THAT EVENS UP THE ELEVATIONS ALONG THAT NORTH PROPERTY [02:05:01] LINE TO PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE HOUSES ARE OVER THERE. SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA BE ABOUT THE SAME LEVEL. SO THE HIGHEST ELEVATION WOULD BE ON THE EAST SIDE OR THE NORTH SIDE. THE EAST SIDE IS WHERE THE HIGHEST ELEVATION WOULD BE, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE THE 50 FOOT GAS LINE EASEMENT. AND THE, THE SEPARATION THERE IS LIKE 85 FEET FROM WALL TO WALL OF OF HOMES. UM, THERE'S ONLY ON THAT NORTH SIDE, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S, THERE'S TWO PROPERTIES THAT ARE AFFECTED BY THE, UH, SETBACK, THE 17 FOOT SETBACK. UM, AND THAT 17 FEET ONLY OCCURS IN THREE UNITS. UH, NO FOUR UNITS. THERE'S FOUR UNITS THAT ARE AT 17 FEET. ALL OF THE OTHERS ARE AT, AT 19 TO 20 FEET. AND THAT, AND THAT ONLY AFFECTS TWO PROPERTIES OVER THERE. SO THAT'S, THAT'S A SMALL AMOUNT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT, UH, THAT THAT'S AFFECTING, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY IN, IN A, IN A BIGGER IMPACT, I GUESS. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COUNSEL? I, I WANT TO JUST ADD, I KNOW THERE WAS A MENTION ABOUT THE FLOOD ZONE. YES, SIR. UM, THE FLOOD ZONE THAT IN THIS AREA IS, IS NOWHERE NEAR, UH, WHAT IT WOULD, WOULD BE IN A, A FLAT OR LOWER, UH, REGION. UH, THERE'S NO ISSUE WITH FLOODING ON THIS PROPERTY AT ALL. OKAY. THERE IS A, THERE IS A LARGE DETENTION AREA ALONG JOE WILSON THAT RUNS FROM THE CORNER GOING BACK NORTH. UM, AND IT'S EVEN PREVALENT NOW WHEN YOU DRIVE BY THERE, YOU CAN LOOK AND YOU SEE THERE'S A PRETTY BIG DIP THERE AND THERE'S A SEWER LINE THAT RUNS THROUGH THAT AREA. AND THAT SEWER EASEMENT PREVENTS US FROM DOING ANY DEVELOPMENT CLOSE TO THAT, BUT DOES ALLOW US TO USE THAT FOR DETENTION. SO IT'S A, A LOW AREA. THEY'LL, THERE'LL NEVER BE A PROBLEM WITH FLOODING ON THAT SITE. OKAY. UM, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, IT'S 60 UNITS. DOES THAT REQUIRE FULL-TIME PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON SITE? HOW DOES THAT WORK? YES, IT WOULD. AND UM, AND THIS IS GONNA BE OWNED BY MR. MCCONNEY, HE'S, HE'S NOT DEVELOPING THIS TO TURN AROUND AND, AND SELL IT OFF AS SOON AS HE GETS IT BUILT, HE'S GONNA BE . SO HE'S, HE'S NOT A MERCHANT BUILDER? NO. HE'LL BE, HE'LL BE MANAGING, THAT'S THE TECHNICAL TERM FOR IT. YEAH. OKAY. SO, SO HE PLAN ON HOLDING THE PROPERTY? YES. OKAY. BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, CAN, CAN I, I DO TRUST YOU KNOWING HIM, BUT CAN I GET AN AFFIRMATION FROM HIM? SURE. UM, IS THERE GONNA BE FULL-TIME PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ON SITE? YES. YES. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO FULL-TIME MEANS NINE TO FIVE OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, SO YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UH, COUNCILOR MCCURDY. YES. SO, UM, IS THERE A PARTICULAR REASON WHY YOU DECIDED TO PROPOSE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AS A RENTAL NEIGHBORHOOD VERSUS, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTING 'EM AS, AS SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED AND, AND MOVING FORWARD TO, TO SELL 'EM AS INDIVIDUAL TOWN HOMES? UH, WELL, SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED WOULD MEAN THE UNITS WOULD HAVE TO BE TWO UNITS, UH, TOGETHER. UM, AND THAT CREATES MORE SEPARATION, WHICH, UH, REDUCES THE DENSITY. UM, THE OTHER REASON FOR, UH, GOING WITH THE RENTAL INSTEAD OF A REGULAR TOWN HOME AGAIN, IS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SIZE OF THE LOT AND THE AREA THAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR THAT WOULD REDUCE THE DENSITY TO A POINT WHERE IT WOULDN'T BE VIABLE. SO IT WAS MORE THE, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FULL BLOWN TOWNHOUSES AS OPPOSED TO ANOTHER OPTION. I MEAN, I I, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT FROM MY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE, IF, IF, IF YOU WERE ASKING FOR VARIATIONS TO ALLOW YOU TO BUILD THIS AS TOWN HOMES THAT WERE GONNA BE HELD FOR SALE, THIS WOULD BE A LOT EASIER DECISION. UM, I, I'D BE, YOU KNOW, MUCH MORE INCLINED TO, TO SAY, OKAY, WELL LET'S WORK WITH THEM ON THIS, ON, ON THESE PARTICULAR ISSUES TO HELP THEM MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT VERSUS, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ALL RENTAL, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD, ESPECIALLY ON, ON THIS SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY AND, AND ON JOE WILSON ROAD HAS BEEN, HAS BEEN INDICATED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALREADY NUMEROUS MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES ON, YOU KNOW, ON, ON THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, YOU HAD SAID THAT, UH, YOU WEREN'T CON, YOU KNOW, THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE GATED. WOULD YOU CONSIDER GATING THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY AND, AND PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, A SECURITY FENCE AROUND AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD? WELL, UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULD CONSIDER [02:10:01] THAT, BUT I GET AN AWFUL LOT OF PUSHBACK FROM, UH, PLANNING AND, AND EVERYTHING ON GATED COMMUNITIES. UM, AND SO THAT'S REALLY PROBABLY WHY WE DIDN'T DO THAT WAS JUST, UH, WE GET PUSHBACK ON THAT A LOT THAT THEY DON'T LIKE THE GATED COMMUNITIES. SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GUYS FEEL ABOUT GATED COMMUNITIES, BUT THIS WOULD'VE BEEN A PRETTY IDEAL SITUATION TO DO THAT. I I LIVE IN A GATED COMMUNITY, SO I KIND OF LIKE 'EM. UM, AND I KNOW A COUPLE OF OUR OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS ALSO LIVE IN GATED COMMUNITIES, SO I'M, I'M GONNA GUESS THAT THEY PROBABLY LIKE THEM AS WELL. UH, I, I WOULD SAY THAT IT, IT, IT, IT'S AN OPTION THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED, BUT THAT WOULD BE UP TO THE OWNER ON THAT. OKAY. AND ALONG, ALONG THE BACK OF THE, THE PROPERTY HERE, GOING BACK TO THE MAYOR'S QUESTION JUST A MINUTE AGO, THE, THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE ABUTTING, YOU SAID THERE'S, THERE'S THREE HOMES THAT ARE BACK THERE, AND I SEE THERE'S, THERE'S ONE, UH, HOA LOT BACK THERE. SO WHAT WOULD BE THE DISTANCE FROM THE BACK OF THE STRUCTURE, UH, ON, ON THIS DEVELOPMENT TO THE BACK OF THE, THE ADJACENT LOT? HOW, HOW CLOSE ARE WE, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE AVERAGE IS 18, 18, 19 AND 20 FEET ALONG THAT NORTH PROPERTY LINE. MM-HMM . UM, MOST OF THOSE HOUSES HAVE LARGE BACKYARDS, SO IT'S ABOUT 40 TO 45 FEET FROM THE HOUSE TO THEIR PROPERTY LINE. SO FROM STRUCTURE TO STRUCTURE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UH, SOMEWHERE AROUND 60, 65 FEET. OKAY. I MEAN, TO ME, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT'S KIND OF SIX ONE HALF DOZEN OF THE OTHER BECAUSE YOU, YOU'RE BUILDING THESE MUCH CLOSER TO THEIR PROPERTY LINE THAN, THAN PROBABLY WHAT A RETAIL DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE BECAUSE OF THE SETBACK REQUIREMENTS. BUT IT, BUT YOU KNOW, A RETAIL DEVELOPMENT, YOU COULD HAVE A MID-RISE BUILDING THAT IT, IT MAY BE A HUNDRED FEET OFF THE PROPERTY LINE, BUT IF IT, IF IT'S SIX STORIES TALL, UM, IT, IT'S GONNA BE INTRUSIVE. UM, AND, AND THE, BUT THE, THE ACTUAL SIZE OF THE PROPERTY AND THE SETBACK REQUIREMENTS MIGHT RESTRICT THE HEIGHT THAT YOU COULD DO THAT AS WELL. I HAVEN'T DONE THOSE CALCULATIONS, SO. ALRIGHT. BUT, BUT THOSE ARE THE ONLY QUE THOSE ARE THE ONLY QUESTIONS I'VE GOT. THANK YOU. EVEN, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T DO A SIX STORY BUILDING THERE, THE CHANCES ARE THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE IS GONNA BE THE BACK OF THE BUILDING AND THERE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE DELIVERY TRUCKS AND 18 WHEELERS, UH, COMING UP AND DOWN THAT, THAT PROPERTY LINE. RIGHT. OH, I I DID HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION. I JUST, I MISSED IT ON MY LIST HERE. UM, SO THE, THE PROPERTY IS STILL HELD BY THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH? THAT'S CORRECT. THEY'RE THE PROPERTY OWNERS. UH, THE DEVELOPER IS, IS SEEKING ZONING IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO, UH, FINALIZE A PURCHASE. SO THE PURCHASE CONTRACT IS CONTINGENT UPON THE APPROVAL OF THE ZONING? THAT'S CORRECT, CORRECT. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COUNSEL? UM, I DID HAVE ONE MORE. OH. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU COULD ANSWER THIS ONE, BUT, UM, WOODED CREEK HAS AN HOA, IS THAT ACCURATE? HOA THEY DO. UM, I'M JUST CURIOUS IS, IS THE, UM, ARE, ARE THESE TENANTS GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON THEIR, ON THEIR, UH, UH, UH, PROPERTY? I KNOW THEY HAVE SOME TYPE OF LIKE, RENTAL DUES OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? I, I, I, I THINK IF THIS WAS TO BE ABLE TO, UH, MOVE FORWARD, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME TYPE OF SENSE OF OWNERSHIP. I, I'M THINKING THAT'S WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT'S GONNA SET THIS, UM, TARGETED, YOU KNOW, RENTER, UM, UH, APART FROM, YOU KNOW, JUST THAT APARTMENT RENTAL, UH, THAT I GUESS IS WHAT I'M ASKING. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, AN HOA AS IT SET UP, WOULD NOT BE LEGAL FOR THIS BECAUSE OF THE RENTAL SITUATION. BUT I'M ASKING, I'M NOT ASKING FOR HOA, I'M ASKING IS THERE SOME TYPE OF A RENTAL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT'S CALLED, BUT, UH, I'VE SEEN THAT THERE ARE SOME TYPE OF A RENTAL, UM, I DON'T KNOW, MEMBERSHIP OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, FOR RENTAL PROPERTIES. UH, I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST CURIOUS IF, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS GONNA BE PROVIDED THIS, UH, AT THIS LOCATION. I DON'T KNOW. THAT WOULD BE QUESTION FOR THE OWNER. YEAH. IT, IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A HOMEOWNER, IT'S RENTAL SOMETHING I JUST, I, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THAT. OKAY. I HAVE NO IDEA. OKAY. ALRIGHT. UM, WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT ANSWERS THAT. I THINK THE, I THINK THE MAIN CONCERN OBVIOUSLY IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE ADJACENT, YOU KNOW, PROPERTY OWNERS, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T WANT TO FEEL A CHANGE, YOU KNOW, ON THEIR PROPERTY, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHATEVER'S GONNA BE AT THIS SITE, YOU KNOW, THEY STILL WANT TO BE ABLE [02:15:01] TO CONTINUE ON. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WITH THEIR LIVES NOT HAVING NO IMPACTS AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, THAT NATURE. UM, YOU KNOW, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN THE BUSINESS TO BE SUCCESSFUL. THERE'S A, THERE'S A MARKET THERE, UH, BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE DON'T WANT THAT MARKET TO BE ABLE TO COME DOWN. WE WANT HIGHER LEVEL OF, OF, OF RENTALS TO BE ABLE TO BE AT THIS LOCATION. SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GIVE A SENSE OF SECURITY THERE. YEAH. IF YOU THINK ABOUT, JUST, YOU SAY THAT IF IT'S THE RETAIL COMES UP, IT'S GONNA BE MORE WORSE, RIGHT? YOU'RE GONNA SEE 18 WHEELER, YOU'RE GONNA SEE EVERYTHING IN THERE, AND THEY DON'T NEED TO COME TO CITY COUNCIL OR PD, WHICH I'M NOT GOING TO DEVELOP OVER THERE FOR RETAIL BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THAT BUSINESS ANYMORE. SO, SO I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THAT I THINK THIS IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IT FOR CITY. IF I'M NOT GONNA DO, I'M OKAY. IF YOU'RE GONNA REJECT ME, THAT'S FINE. YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOME NEW GUY COMES UP, MAYBE GOT A BETTER PRODUCT OR BETTER DEAL FOR YOU GUYS. WISH YOU GOOD LUCK. BUT I THINK THIS IS THE BEST, AS FOR MY SCENE, I THINK THIS IS THE BEST DEAL FOR THE TOWN. BUT, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. WELL, THANKS FOR BEING FLEXIBLE AND, AND TRYING TO PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF A PRODUCT. UM, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU CAN TRY TO MEET BOTH THE, UH, DENSITY DEMAND, BUT ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, TRY TO COMPLIMENT WHAT THE NEIGHBORS ARE. UM, COUNSEL, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I, YOU KNOW, GOT SOME QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, CLEARED OR, OR MADE IT MORE CHALLENGING OR NOT. BUT, UM, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? WE'VE PROBABLY BEEN ON THIS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR NOW, SO, UM, NOT SEEING ANYONE APPROACH. UM, I GUESS, I GUESS YOU'RE DONE NORM. SO, SO COUNSEL HERE WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF OPTIONS HERE. UM, ONE, YOU CAN, YOU CAN CONCUR WITH PLANNING, ZONING, RECOMMENDATION. UM, TWO, YOU CAN, UH, CONCUR WITH PLANNING, ZONING, RECOMMENDATION, ADD SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, YOU KNOW, SUBJECT TO MATTERS THAT, THAT WASN'T ADDRESSED THROUGH PLANNING AND ZONING. UM, OR THREE, YOU CAN JUST DENY, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS PUBLIC HEARING. UM, SO COUNSEL, I NEED TO HEAR SOME FEEDBACK. THE FLOOR IS OPEN. MAY I COUNCILWOMAN? UM, I, I, I DON'T WANT TO SORT OF, I RE-LITIGATE IS NOT THE WORD. I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK THROUGH MY WHOLE SPIEL, BUT JUST TO, UM, TO SHARE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BASIS OF OF MY DECISION HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT IT'S A RENTAL, THAT IT'S A, IT'S A RENTAL PRODUCT. UM, AND FOR ME, THAT'S JUST, UH, A NO GO. UM, HAPPY TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE ELSE. AND WHEN YOU'RE READY, I'M READY TO MAKE A, UM, I'M READY TO GO. . WELL, I MEAN, IF I COULD, I'M NOT DEBATING YOU, BUT I'M THINKING WHAT I'M HEARING IS, UM, BECAUSE IT'S IN FIELD BASED UPON THE ECONOMICS RIGHT NOW, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE CAN BE A, A FOR SALE MARKET AT THIS LOCATION. SO, UM, I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE IT'S A RENTAL, BUT I GUESS THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING A QUESTION. IF, IF, IF THE UNITS ARE, YOU KNOW, 1600 SQUARE FEET, IF WE'RE TALKING, UM, I DON'T KNOW, $2,000 A UNIT, UM, YOU KNOW, IS THAT GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE WE TARGETING A MARKET THAT WILL BE MORE OF SOMEONE TRYING TO TRANSITION TO WANTING TO BUY A HOME ONE DAY? UM, AND IF SO, THEY MAY NEED TO RENT FOR A WHILE, AND THEN IS THIS A GOOD PRODUCT FOR THAT TYPE OF TRANSITION? UM, AND, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF HOW I'M TRYING TO LOOK AT IT. IF IT'S A, IF IT'S A LOW MARKET MODEL, THEN TO ME THAT, THAT, THAT THAT'S, THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, COUNTS AGAINST, YOU KNOW, THE GOAL FOR ME. YEAH, I BELIEVE I UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPMENT, UM, PART OF IT AND WHY THIS FITS, WHY THIS PHYSICALLY FITS. UM, BUT THE PHYSICAL FIT ISN'T THE ONLY, UM, YOU KNOW, IT ISN'T THE ONLY CONSIDERATION FOR ME. UM, I AGREE. I I DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE PRODUCT, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY HISTORY ON THE DEVELOPER, UM, REGARDING THIS TYPE OF PRODUCT. BUT I HAVE, I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE PRODUCT. SO IT IS JUST, YOU KNOW, YES, IT PHYSICALLY FITS, PHYSICALLY IT MAKES SENSE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, ACCOMPLISH, ONE WITH DENSITY, UM, AND TWO WITH, YOU KNOW, MODERATING OUR RENTAL STOCK, IT DOESN'T MEET, IT DOESN'T EVEN MEET THOSE TWO STANDARDS. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, AND I KNOW YOU SAID YOU'RE READY TO, TO, TO TAKE ACTION, BUT I DO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER MALONE. I WANNA SAY A FEW WORDS. COUNCIL MEMBER MALONE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I, I DO WANNA MAKE A, JUST A, A BRIEF STATEMENT. 'CAUSE I REMEMBER, UM, WHEN WE WERE, WHEN [02:20:01] I WAS SERVING ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND WE HAD A LOT OF OUR YOUNG AND SINGLE CITIZENS THAT WERE PART OF THAT PARTICULAR COMMITTEE AT THE TIME, AND A LOT OF THEIR THOUGHTS WERE, YOU KNOW, HEY, I'M YOUNGER, I'M SINGLE, I DON'T REALLY WANT TO DEAL WITH THE WHOLE, I NEED A HOUSE AND HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE YARD AND CUT THE TREES. UM, BUT YET, AND STILL THEY WANTED TO HAVE, UM, SOME TYPE OF OWNERSHIP. NOW I LOOKED AT THE NADOS, UH, PRODUCT THAT YOU HAD. IT WAS A VERY NICE PRODUCT. I LIKED THAT PRODUCT. UM, AND I WAS THINKING, YOU KNOW, THAT PRODUCT WOULD PROBABLY BE GREAT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE STARTING TO GET, UM, QUITE A FEW PROJECTS THAT ARE TRYING TO COME THAT, TO ME, THE PLATFORM COULD ACTUALLY BE A GREAT, UH, PLATFORM FOR SOMEONE TO ACTUALLY BUY AND OWN THAT PROPERTY. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE JUST STARTING TO CONSTANTLY GET THIS CONSISTENT. I WANNA PUT THIS PRODUCT UP, BUT I JUST WANT TO USE IT AS A RENTAL. AND I THINK WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO MOVE TO CEDAR HILL AND SOME OF OUR PEOPLE THAT MAY WANT TO DOWNSIZE IN CEDAR HILL FROM THEIR HOUSE TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, BECAUSE THEY LOVE THE CITY AND STILL WANNA BE AROUND CEDAR HILL. AND I THINK FOR ME, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST KIND OF ONE OF THE THINGS FOR ME, IT IS A RENTAL, UH, PRODUCT. AND I'M JUST ONE TO SEE, OR KIND OF HOPING THAT WE CAN KIND OF GET AWAY FROM THIS AND START GETTING TO THE POINT OF WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY BRINGING SOMETHING IN FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DOWNSIZE, OR THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT DO NOT WANT TO GO MOVE INTO AN APARTMENT, BUT ACTUALLY START HAVING OWNERSHIP IN CEDAR HILL. AND ALSO FOR OUR RESIDENTS THAT WE WANT TO COME INTO OUR CITY AND ACTUALLY STAY AND NOT SO MUCH HAVE A TURNAROUND OR TURNOVER OF RESIDENTS COMING IN FOR THE TIME OF THEIR LEASE. AND THEN NEXT THING YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MOVING SOMEWHERE ELSE. ALL RIGHT. WELL, UM, WELL COUNSEL, WE'VE KIND OF BEEN RUNNING THROUGH THIS. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO INFLUENCE COUNSEL OR, OR NOTHING AND, AND I HEARD FROM, FROM EVERYONE, BUT, UH, MY STANCE IS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, WOODY CREEK, YOU CAME OUT, YOU REPRESENTED, UH, I HEARD YOUR CONCERNS. UM, YOU KNOW, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT NECESSARILY THE DEVELOPER, BUT I THINK AS FAR AS THE INFIELD, US TRYING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, LIFESTYLE TO BE ABLE TO MEET OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS COULD BE A PRODUCT THAT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT. NOT TRYING TO PUT THAT OFF ON, ON COUNCIL. UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD, YOU KNOW, AND GET AND, AND, AND MOVE ON FROM THIS ITEM. UH, COUNCIL MCCURDY? YES. UH, MR. MAYOR, UH, THANK YOU. UM, A AS I SAID BEFORE, IF THIS, IF THIS WAS BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR CELL, IT TO ME, IT WOULD BE AN EASY, IT WOULD BE AN EASY APPROVAL IF YOU WERE, IF YOU WERE ASKING FOR VARIATIONS TO, YOU KNOW, TO THE ZONING ORDINANCES TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. UM, BUT AS THE PROJECT IS BEING PRESENTED AND THE ZONING CASES IS BEING PRESENTED, UM, I, I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS. AND SO I MAKE A MOTION TO DENY CASE NUMBER PD 7 1 5 2 0 2 5. SECOND, WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR DENIAL OF CASE NUMBER PD SEVEN 15 2025 AND SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN INE. UH, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? ALL IN FAVOR? PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. ANY OPPOSITION? YOUR OPPOSITION, YOUR OPPOSED, OKAY. SO IT DOES MOVE FORWARD FOR DENIAL. AND IT'S, UH, FOUR THREE. SO, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR, YOU KNOW, COMING OUT. I KNOW YOU TRIED YOUR BEST, UH, BUT, UH, UH, WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP LOOKING FOR THE NEXT ONE. FIVE, TWO. UM, UH, I THINK PATTY OPPOSED? FIVE. FIVE. I'M SORRY, FOUR. FOUR, THREE. WHO IS THE THIRD? PATTY, SIMS AND MASON? WELL, I, I VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION. OH, I'M SORRY. SO I GUESS FIVE TWO. SORRY, SORRY, SIMS. ALRIGHT, FIVE TWO. ALRIGHT, THANK, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR COMING OUT. UH, NEXT [a. Conduct a public hearing for the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 proposed tax rate of $0.638999 per $100 of taxable value.] ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS BUDGET AND TAX MATTERS. CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING FOR PHYSICAL YEAR 2020 6, 12 27, 2 MINUTES, NO PROBLEM. PROPOSED TAX RATE OF 0.6 3 8 9 9 9 PER $100 OF TAXABLE VALUE. I'D LIKE TO OPEN UP FOR PUBLIC HEARING, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF OPPOSITION, OR JUST HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE PROPOSED TAX RATE AS 0.6 3 8 9 9 9. ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF OPPOSITION OR HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT 0.6 3 8 9 9 9 LAST, UH, CALL, ANYONE WANTS YOU TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OR JUST HAVE A COMMENT OR [02:25:01] OPPOSITION TO 0.6 3 8 9 9 9. NOT SEEING ANYONE APPROACH, I WILL CLOSE THAT PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. NEXT [b. Consider adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-882, which approves and adopts a budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026, and ending September 30, 2027.] ITEM ON THE AGENDA, CONSIDER ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 82, WHICH APPROVES AND ADOPTS A BUDGET FOR THE PHYSICAL YEAR, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2026, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027. UM, COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? CITY MANAGER? ARE WE GOOD? ALL RIGHT. UH, THE FLOOR IS OPEN. COUNSEL PRO. THANK YOU MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 0 2 6 DASH 8 82, ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR FY 2027. WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND MADAM SECRETARY. THIS IS ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 82, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, APPROVING AND ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE CITY, FOR THE CITY FOR FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2026, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027. PROVIDING THAT EXPENDITURES FOR SAID FISCAL YEARS SHALL BE MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID BUDGET APPROPRIATING AND SETTING ASIDE THE NECESSARY FUNDS OUT OF THE GENERAL AND OTHER REVENUES FOR SAID FISCAL YEAR FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND FOR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CITY, PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU, MADAM SECRETARY. WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. WE DO HAVE A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND MOVES FORWARD. 6 0 1. OKAY. UH, [c. Consider adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-883 establishing the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Budget.] NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, CONSIDER ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 83, ESTABLISHING THE PHYSICAL YEAR, 2026 DASH 2027, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, CIP BUDGET. I THINK THAT WAS A RECORD ROLL CALL. OH, I GUESS WE CAN DO IT OVER. I NEED TO DO A ROLL CALL. VOTE, HUH? OKAY. LET'S GO BACK TO THE, UH, ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 82. THANK YOU PRO TIM. UH, MALONE. I'M GONNA START WITH YOU. UH, YAY OR NAY? YAY. UH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BUS. SORRY. YAY OR NAY. YAY. COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS, YAY OR NAY? YAY. MAYOR MASON. YAY. COUNCIL MEMBER MCCURDY, YAY OR NAY, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THIS IS ITEM SEVEN B. THIS IS ITEM SEVEN B. YAY. UM, IF IT WAS ITEM SEVEN C, YOU WOULD'VE BEEN NAY. OH GOD. WE, WE, WE'LL GET TO THAT, UH, PRO TIM GLOVER. UH, YAY OR NAY. YAY. UH, COUNCILWOMAN AZI. YAY OR NAY? YAY. ALRIGHT, UH, MOVES FORWARD UNANIMOUSLY. SEVEN OH. NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS SEVEN C. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 8 3, ESTABLISHING THE PHYSICAL YEAR 2026 2027, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, CIP. BUDGET COUNSEL, THE FLOOR IS OPEN PRO. YES. THANK YOU, MA'AM. I MOVED TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 0 2 6 DASH 8 8 3, ADOPTING A CIP BUDGET FOR FY 2027. SECOND, WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. AND SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS MADAM SECRETARY, THIS IS ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 83, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, ADOPTING A 2026 DASH 2027 CAPITAL BUDGET, AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES AS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED IN SUCH BUDGET, PROVIDING FOR A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR A SEVERANCE CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT. THANK YOU. UH, UM, MAD SECRETARY, WE DO HAVE MOTION FOR APPROVAL AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. MOVE UNANIMOUSLY. SEVEN. OH, THANK YOU. NEXT [d. Consider adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-884, levying the ad valorem taxes for the tax year 2026 (Fiscal Year 2026-2027) at a rate of $0.638999 per one hundred dollars ($100) assessed valuation on all taxable property within the corporate limits of the City of Cedar Hill as of January 1, 2026. ] ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS SEVEN D. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 84, LIVING THE AD VALOR TEXAS OF, I'M SORRY, FOR THE TAX YEAR 2026, FISCAL YEAR 2026 DASH 2027 AT A RATE OF 0.6 3 8 9 9 9 PER $100. $100. UH, ASSESSED VA UH, VALUATION ON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CITY HILL AS OF JANUARY 1ST, 2026. UM, ARE THERE ANYONE MAKE, TAKE ACTION ON THIS ITEM. OH, GO AHEAD. PRO TWO, YES. OH, YOU, YOUR LIGHTS IS GREEN, BUT, OH, THERE YOU ARE. YOU, YOU'RE ON, YOU'RE LIVE. SORRY ABOUT THAT. I MOVE THAT THE PROPERTY TAX RATE BE INCREASED BY THE ADOPTION OF A TAX RATE OF 0.6 3 8 9 9 9, WHICH IS EFFECTIVELY A 3.17% INCREASE IN THE TAX RATE AS SO STATED IN ORDINANCE NUMBER [02:30:01] 2 0 2 6 DASH 8 84. ALRIGHT, WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. DO WE HAVE SECOND? SECOND, SECOND. COUNCILWOMAN AZI, MADAM SECRETARY, THIS IS ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 84. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS. LEVI, A TAX RATE FOR FOR A VALOREM, TAXES FOR THE USE AND SUPPORT OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT FOR 2026 DASH 2027 FISCAL YEAR, PROVIDING FOR REVENUES FOR THE PAYMENT OF CURRENT EXPENSES AND INTEREST IN SINKING FUND REQUIREMENTS, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT. THANK YOU. MAD SECRETARY, WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND. UH, WE'RE GONNA DO A ROLL CALL. I'LL BEGIN WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MALONE. YAY OR NAY. YAY. COUNCILWOMAN BAHAR. YAY OR NAY. YAY. COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS, YAY OR NAY? YAY. MAYOR MASON. YAY. COUNCIL MEMBER MCCURDY. YAY OR NAY. YAY. COUNCIL, UH, PROTE GLOVER. YAY OR NAY. YAY. COUNCILWOMAN AZI. YAY OR NAY MO UNANIMOUSLY. SEVEN ZERO. NEXT [e. Consider adoption of Ordinance No. 2026-885, which ratifies the property tax revenues in the fiscal year 2026-2027 Budget.] ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS CONSIDER ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 85, WHICH RATIFIES THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUES IN THE PHYSICAL YEAR 2026 2027. BUDGET MAYOR PROM GLOVER. THANK YOU MAYOR. I MOVE TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 0 2 6 8 85. RATIFYING THE INCREASE IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE IN THE FY 2 0 2 7 BUDGET. WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, SECOND. COUNCILWOMAN AZI, MADAM SECRETARY, THIS IS ORDINANCE NUMBER 2026 DASH 8 85. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CEDAR HILL, TEXAS RATIFYING THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE INCREASE IN THE 2026 DASH 2027 BUDGET AS A RESULT OF THE CITY RECEIVING MORE REVENUES FROM PROPERTY TAXES IN THE 2026 DASH 2027 BUDGET THAN IN THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR AND PROVIDING FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT. THANK YOU MADAM SECRETARY. WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND MOVES UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. THAT, UM, CONCLUDES THAT PORTION OF THE AGENDA. NEXT ITEM [8. 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 THE CONSENT AGENDA. CONSENT AGENDA INCLUDES ROUTINE ITEMS THAT MAY BE ACTED UPON WITH ONE SINGLE VOTE. ANY COUNCIL MEMBER MAY REMOVE ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR A SEPARATE DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION. COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS ON THE CONSENT TO BE PULLED FOR ANY, UH, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? OH, LET'S SEE. WE HAVE COUNCILMAN MCCURDY. DO YOU WANNA SAY A FEW WORDS? ALRIGHT, MR. MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO PULL CONSENT. AGENDA ITEM EI MEAN, THEY WAITED THIS LOAN, THEY MAY AS WELL GO AHEAD AND TALK TO US. UH, WE DO HAVE ONE ITEM TO BE PULLED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS TO BE PULLED FROM CONSENT? ALL RIGHT, UH, COUNSEL, I'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS, CONSENT AGENDA ITEM A, CONSIDER APPROVING THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 25TH, 2026, REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING. ITEM B, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES D-C-H-H-S TO PROVIDE CERTAIN PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO CEDAR HILL RESIDENTS FOR PHYSICAL YEAR 2027. ITEM C, CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE OPTION AGREEMENT WITH SOUTHWEST CEDAR HILL, LLC. ITEM D. CONSIDER APPROVING RESOLUTION NUMBER R 26 DASH 7 99, DECLARING EXPECTATION TO REIMBURSE EXPENDITURES WITH PROCEEDS FOR FUTURE DEBT AND RESOLVING OTHER MATTERS INCIDENTS AND RELATED HERE, UH, THERETO. ITEM F, CONSIDER ADOPTING RESOLUTION NUMBER R 26 DASH 8 0 1, WHICH APPROVES AND AUTHORIZES THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A PROJECT SPECIFIC AGREEMENT PSA WITH DALLAS COUNTY FOR STREETS STRIPING SERVICES. ITEM G, CONSIDER APPROVING THE RESOLUTION NUMBER R 26 DASH 8 0 2, WHICH AMENDS THE CITY FUND BALANCE POLICY, AND ITEM H, CONSIDER APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF MICROSOFT LICENSING AND SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SERVICES FROM CIVIC TECH LLC FOR AN ADDITIONAL, FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED. 200 6266, I'M SORRY, $260,266. COUNSEL, THOSE ARE YOUR AGENDA ITEMS. READ MAYOR PROTE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS A, B, C, D, F, G, AND H AS READ. WE DO HAVE APPROVAL. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND WE DO HAVE, UH, AN APPROVAL AND WE DO HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCILWOMAN BUS HART. UH, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. MOVE UNANIMOUS. SEVEN. OH. UM, [e. Consider adoption of Resolution No. R26-800 approving a negotiated settlement with Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Division regarding the 2026 Rate Review Mechanism (RRM) filing.] NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS CONSENT AGENDA. ITEM E, CONSIDER ADOPTION, UH, RESOLUTION NUMBER R 2 6 8 0 0 APPROVING AND NEGOTIATING SETTLEMENT WITH ATMOS ENERGY CORP. MID TEXT DIVISION [02:35:01] REGARDING THE 2026 RATE REVIEW MECHANISM, RRM FILING. UM, IS THERE ANYBODY HERE FROM ATMOS? CAN MCCURDY? YES, UH, MR. MAYOR, I, I, YOU KNOW, WOULD JUST LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, TO SAY I, I I HOPE THAT, UH, WE CAN DEPEND ON MR. GONZALEZ TO, TO STILL BE PRESENT IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY. WHO'S, WHO'S MR. GONZALEZ? I DON'T KNOW. HUH? THAT'S, I DON'T KNOW OF MR. GONZALEZ. I KNOW HERNANDEZ. HERNANDEZ. OH, OKAY. IT'S LATE. IT'S 10 O'CLOCK. IT'S OKAY. IT'S OKAY. SO I APOLOGIZE, AL I'M SORRY. I HOPE WE'RE STILL GONNA SEE YOU AROUND CEDAR HILL. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYMORE. . AND, AND, AND I, AND, AND MY ONLY QUESTION IS WHY CAN'T I GET NATURAL GAS IN LAKE RIDGE? OH, YOU KNOW, THAT GOES BACK TO THE OTXU DAYS. SO, UH, YEAH. LOTS OF ROCK OVER THERE. LOTS OF ROCK. SO LOTS OF ROCK. BUT, UH, YES. I, I KNOW WE HAVE, UH, TRUST ME, I KNOW I'VE GOT A LOT OF ROCK UP THERE. OKAY. UM, BUT, UH, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF, OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. UM, I, I'VE ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT, UH, ORGANIZATIONS AND, AND I'M HOPING THAT I'M STILL GONNA SEE YOU IN, IN, IN ALL OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. YES, SIR. UM, AND, AND STILL SEE YOU AROUND, UH, AROUND THE COMMUNITY. I KNOW WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOT ONE COMING UP HERE IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. I DO. I'LL, I'LL BE LOOKING FOR YOU. . I'LL BE THERE. . UM, YEAH. UM, AL UM, I, I GUESS WE CAN GO VACATION TOGETHER NOW. YEAH, YEAH, WE CAN. ALRIGHT. , I SEE THE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS GOING TO MEXICO AND POLICE WHAT? TALKING ABOUT FIJI POLICE NOW WANNA GO TO FIJI OR SOMETHING? SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ING. UM, YEAH, I, MAYOR, I JUST WANTED TO SAY SIMILAR TO, TO, UH, COUNCILMAN MCCURDY THAT I'VE ENJOYED SO MUCH WORKING WITH AL THROUGH THE YEARS. UM, I FIRST, UM, I, I KNEW OF HIM, BUT I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH HIM VERY CLOSELY, UM, AS I SORT OF MATRICULATED THROUGH BEST SOUTHWEST PARTNERSHIP AND EVENTUALLY ENDED UP BEING THE CHAIR, UH, OF THAT. AND I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS COMING IN CLOSE, RIGHT? RIGHT BEHIND ME IS CHAIR. UM, BUT I'VE JUST ENJOYED IT. AND, UM, SO VERY MUCH ALIGNED WITH COUNCILWOMAN CURDY, EXCEPT FOR I CAN PROUDLY SAY THAT HE'S ALSO A CONCORDIAN. AND SO THAT'S RIGHT. UH, THAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL. SO, UM, WE WILL MISS YOU AL WE THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. UM, I CAN SAY THAT WE KNEW THAT YOU CARED. DIDN'T ALWAYS LOVE THOSE RATES. THAT'S TRUE. BUT I KNOW THAT YOU CARED AND SO WE APPRECIATE THAT AND WELCOME TO YOU. THANK YOU. AND YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME NUMBER. AL, SAME NUMBER. OKAY. SAME NUMBER. COUNCIL MEMBER SIMS. SO, MAN, I'M, I'M NOT THRILLED ABOUT THIS, BUT I, I, I BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT YOU LEFT US IN GOOD HANDS, BUT YES. YES. UM, YOU KNOW, I AL HAS ALWAYS FELT LIKE FAMILY, YOU KNOW, JUST AT HOME HERE AND I WHERE ARE YOU GOING MAN? WELL, I'M JUST RIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHWAY. UH, WELL, THE HIGHWAY I'M GONNA BE IN ARLINGTON. ARLINGTON ARLINGTON'S MY NEW OFFICE. SO MY, MY NEW AREA'S ARLINGTON, GRAND PRAIRIE, IRVING, MANSFIELD, YOU KNOW THOSE FOLKS OVER THERE? YEAH. WELL IT'S NOT HOME, BUT YEAH. WELL, IT'S A PLACE TO GO. THIS IS YOUR HOME. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME HARRY. YOU KNOW THAT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GLOVER. I'M SORRY. PROAM GLOVER. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I KNOW YOU'RE LEAVING US INCAPABLE HANDS. YES. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE. I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITY ALWAYS RECOGNIZES HOW MUCH PEOPLE WORK IN THE BACKGROUND. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR DOING THOSE THINGS THAT, UH, OUR RESIDENTS DON'T ALWAYS SEE. THEY SEE THE RESULTS, BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THAT WE HAD SOMEONE TO CALL TO GET THESE THINGS DONE. AND I'M SURE THAT, THAT THAT SERVICE IS GOING TO CONTINUE. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR LEVEL OF THE WAY YOU'RE GOING TO DO THINGS AND YOUR SPEND AND TAKING OWNERSHIP OF OUR CITY. AND I KNOW WE'RE GONNA BE INCAPABLE HANDS AND I'M SURE WE'RE STILL GOING TO SEE YOU. YES, YOU MA'AM. AND, UH, SO THIS IS NOT GOODBYE. THIS IS JUST SEE YOU LATER. SEE YOU LATER. I AGREE. AL, I, I, I THINK I TEXT HER. I DON'T THINK SHE TEXT ME BACK. IS THAT RIGHT? DID YOU TEXT ME BACK? WE ALREADY . YEAH. I TEXT YOU. YOU KNOW, YOU CAME TO ME AT THE BED SOUTHWEST BREAKFAST. YES. AND I ENTERED IT IN MY PHONE. HUH? WANT ME TO TEXT YOU BACK? OKAY. YES, SIR. I NICE. STARTED OFF. GOOD. AL YOU KNOW WHEN I'M CALLING, YOU KNOW, YOU THOUGHT I WAS JOKING. I ALREADY DID TEXT YOU BACK. I, I'M OVER HERE TRYING TO BE RESPONSIBLE MAYOR, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO TRY TO WELCOME [02:40:01] HER TO CEDAR HILL. UH, COUNCILWOMAN , UH, AL I TOO LIKED, UH, EVERYONE ELSE HERE ON THE COUNCIL. I'M GONNA MISS YOU TERRIBLY. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS MAN GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND, UH, ON HAS ON MANY OCCASION AS AN EMPLOYEE WHEN WE WERE, UH, HAVING AN ISSUE DOWNTOWN DURING OUR HOLIDAY EVENT. HE ACTUALLY CALLED ME ON THE PHONE TO GIVE ME A HEADS UP AND WE WERE ABLE TO PIVOT AND MAKE THAT THING WORK FOR US. AND HE ALSO ANSWERS HIS PHONE ON SATURDAYS. YEP. HE DOES. I DO APPRECIATE IT. YOU'RE GONNA MISS YOU. UH, AND UH, I THINK LASTLY IS COUNCIL MEMBER MALONE. AND, YOU KNOW, I, I I HOPE WE'RE NOT BREAKING ANY LAWS, UH, MADAM CITY MANAGER. 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE AGENDA, BUT, UM, , BUT COUNCILMAN MALONE, GO AHEAD. I WANNA FIRST SAY THANK YOU AND WELCOME TO OUR, UM, TO OUR CITY AS OUR NEW REPRESENTATIVE. AND ALSO AL I DEFINITELY WANNA THANK YOU. 'CAUSE I REMEMBER AS I FIRST BECAME A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AND, AND BEFORE ON THE BOARD THAT I WAS ON THE BEST BOARD IN PLANNING ZONE. I WOULD SEE YOU AROUND, BUT WE NEVER REALLY CONNECTED. BUT I WANNA APPRE, I WANNA TELL YOU, I THANK YOU AND APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU WERE SO SUPPORTIVE. YES, SIR. AND WELCOMING AND ALWAYS SAYING, IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, LET ME KNOW. I'M AROUND, I'M AVAILABLE. SO THAT DEFINITELY MADE MY TRANSITION FROM ONE, UH, UH, BOARD TO THE CITY COUNCIL. A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND DEFINITELY, UH, WISH WE HAD MORE TIME, BUT LIKE YOU TOLD EVERYBODY, YOU WILL BE AROUND. WE WILL SEE YOU. SO THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK ON YOUR NEXT, UH, LOCATION. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WELL, UM, I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT MORE TO SAY, UH, COUNCILLOR MCCURDY, I GUESS THE ONLY THING LEFT TO SAY IS I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT RESOLUTION NUMBER R 26 DASH 800, APPROVING A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT WITH THAT MS. ENERGY COURT. ALRIGHT, WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL AND A SECOND. SECOND, YES. SECOND. COUNCIL MEMBER MALONE? YES. ALRIGHT. ALL IN FAVORS. RAISED RIGHT HERE. MOTION UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU, COUNSEL. THANK YOU AL. WELCOME, MS. CEDAR HILL. ALL RIGHT. AL HERNANDEZ . ALL RIGHT, COUNSEL. UH, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO ADJOURN. MOTION TO ADJOURN. I DO HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SECOND FROM COUNCIL WOMAN . UH, THAT'S NONE. DEBATEABLE. MOTION ALL IN FAVOR? ALL IN FAVOR. PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. I HAVE 9 55. WE ARE ADJOURNED. GREAT WORK COUNSEL. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.