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24th it is 6 15 and this meeting has been duly posted and

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we have a quorum

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present and I call the meeting to order at this time our

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first order of business

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on our work session is to receive a clarification of agenda

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items and I

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believe Julie Wyatt is going to present for us this evening

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. Good evening I'm

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Julie Wyatt senior planner with the City of Denton. For FP

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16 18 staff is

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requesting that this be tabled there's a development

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agreement associated with

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this plat. It was not completed yesterday at City Council

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so we're asking this be

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tabled until the next P&Z meeting I believe it's September

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14th. Okay and looks

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like the other item and the other item the applicant has

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actually withdrawn

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this final replat so short meeting. All right well is there

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any other items we

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have before I close our work session tonight then? Okay

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well at 6 17 we'll

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close our work session and we may have a couple other items

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to talk about before

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we come back at 6 30 thank you.

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Good evening and welcome to the City of Denton Planning and

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Zoning Commission

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meeting for August the 24th it is 6 32 this meeting has

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been duly posted and a

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quorum is present and I call our meeting to order at this

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time our first order of

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business will be to stand and give the pledge to the US and

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the Texas flag.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation

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under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one

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state under God one and

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indivisible.

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The next item on our agenda this evening will be to

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consider the approval of our

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meeting minutes for July the 27th.

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Commissioner Bribble. I motion yes let's approve those

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minutes. Okay I have a first

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motion. Commissioner Dotto is. Okay we have a first and a

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second for approval of the

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minutes any discussion? Seeing none I'll call for a vote on

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the board.

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Motion carries 7-0. At our work session both of the items

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that we have this

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evening we have got changes to so I'm going to announce on

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our consent agenda

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our item FP 16 - 0 0 1 8 that has been continued to yeah I

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'm going to it's it

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would you need a motion for it okay so I'm going to request

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a motion for that

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to be continued to date certain of September the 14th.

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Commissioner Rizzo. I

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motion to move that item to date certain since our 14th.

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Thank you.

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Commissioner Beck. I take an emotion. Okay the first and a

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second any discussion?

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Seeing none we'll call for a vote on the board.

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Motion carries 7-0. That moves us to our public hearing

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section. This item our

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item FR 16 - 0 0 1 1 has been withdrawn by the applicant so

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that will move us

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to our final item this evening which will be our project

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matrix and any

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concluding items.

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Commissioner Bruegel. Thank you chair. I know this is my

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last meeting but y'all

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know me well enough to know that I don't give up very

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easily so there are a list

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of things that I want to make sure that y'all are still

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aware of in the coming

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weeks and months and years because I'll be watching make

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sure you're taking care

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of this stuff the first thing was tiny houses I brought

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this up before we have

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a affordable housing crisis and shortage in this community

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to the point where our

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nonprofits are losing funding as a result tiny houses might

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open that up a

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bit more to more affordable housing they're currently there

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's no current

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zoning regulation that will allow for tiny houses to be

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built in our

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community so I would like for the planning and zoning

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Commission and

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eventually for City Council to address this issue and make

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sure that they can

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be zoned appropriately to open up the housing market the

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next thing is the

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bike plan you may recall and not too long ago this chambers

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these chambers

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are packed with cyclists we have made a commitment to our

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citizens five or six

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years ago when we had a bike plan that was approved by City

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Council by planning

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zoning and then by City Council that this was something

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that was important to

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us it's in part of the 2030 plan in addition we are a bike

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friendly

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community and I want to make sure that as we move forward

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with any future

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engineering projects any developments that we keep the bike

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plan in the

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forefront of our minds there are a lot of people just

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because I may not ride my

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bike everywhere across town that doesn't mean that other

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people don't and if we

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build it they they will ride so I want to make sure that we

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're keeping a focus

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on bike accommodations next Commissioner Dudowitz and I

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requested

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probably a year ago to just look at the number of bars on

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the squares on the

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square I'll admit some of my favorite places on the square

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are the bars so

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this is certainly not to single them out but there has been

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concern raised by

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other citizens about the number of bars that are coming up

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downtown so I just

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want us to once again just look at that what are other

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cities doing I know we

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can say you know the market will you know even itself out

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but I just want to

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make sure like are there other cities that kind of have a

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sort of like a quota

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for like what kinds of businesses making sure that we have

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a diversity of

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businesses on the square so it's not all bars in addition

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looking at noise

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ordinances especially on the square there are some again I

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love I love the

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live music scene in Denton some people are concerned about

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the noise especially

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on the square in the evening so just looking at that next

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the tree ordinance

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y'all the longer we wait on this the more trees we are

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losing we have to get

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this tree ordinance done people have been asking for this

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for years so I want

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to make sure that we get it done and we get it done quickly

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possibly creating a

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preservation plan is the next thing I was speaking with our

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preservation

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officer recently and and I think he's got a good idea he

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was saying that he

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has some support from staff but I really would like

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planning and zoning to kind

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of work push this forward we you know I've in my three

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years on PNC it seems

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like we're addressing things a little bit piecemeal this

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neighborhood needs

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this and this neighborhood needs this and how are we gonna

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you know preserve

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our greens our green space and how are we gonna make sure

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we have a bike plan

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and I think if we could have some sort of like cohesive

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document to tie it all

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together that we'd like pull out of the 2030 plan to make

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sure that we have even

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more guidance as we're protecting these neighborhoods I

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think that would be a

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good idea so I would encourage PNC to to work with our

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preservation officer to

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create a preservation plan zero escaping I've asked for

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this before I think

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Bermuda grass is probably an inappropriate thing to be

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putting in our

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our landscape requirements because it is so water intensive

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we may not be in a

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drought now but that's not to say that next year you know

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we couldn't be so I

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don't think Bermuda grass ought to be included in our in

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our landscape

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requirements I think we ought to encourage multifamily and

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commercial

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developments to use more zero escaping additionally when a

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business in

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particular has a hard time maybe meeting their landscape

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requirements or their

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tree canopy I'm thinking specifically about like the CVS

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that was just built

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on oak and hickory in that area they had a hard time

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meeting their their tree

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canopy wouldn't it have been cool if we had something to

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encourage them to do

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like a rooftop garden or solar panels right we just kind of

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like let it slide

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and we got what we got but I think we could have gotten

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more so I'd like to

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encourage that let's like the really get creative with some

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of the stuff and

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that's a that's about it but before I wrap it up I just I

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would like to thank

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the Commission for this opportunity to serve for the last

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three years I'll be

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honest when I found out that this seat was open I had

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encouraged Councilman

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Engelbrecht to nominate my husband for this position

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because I thought my

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husband was much more qualified for this than I was and and

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the more that

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Councilman Engelbrecht and Adam talked about this the less

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and less Adam was

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interested in the more and more I got interested in all of

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this it took a lot

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of discernment because I didn't think I was smart enough

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and I didn't think I

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was ambitious enough and I think a lot of women in

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particular probably have the

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sort of like imposter syndrome which is probably why when I

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first signed up for

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PNZ there was only one other woman it was Jean Schake who

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was our chair at

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that time she was term limited off a year later and for a

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solid year I was the

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only woman up here there were no other women on City

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Council and now we have

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three women on City Council I'm still the only woman on PNZ

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next week we'll

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have another woman on PNZ but there was only be one let's

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be honest so I just I

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would like to thank Councilman Engelbrecht for appointing

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me to this

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position like to thank the Planning and Zoning Commission

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for treating me as

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your equal and I think a lot of the hang-ups that I had

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about this probably

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came more from me than it came from you and I learned a lot

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about this city in

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the last three years but I also learned a lot about myself

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so I just I just want

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to thank you and I may not be here in this seat but y'all

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know me I ain't going

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away so I'll be out there keeping an eye on you and that's

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it I'm gonna drop the

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mic thanks thank you anybody else no okay well thank you

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both for your years of

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service and our next meeting we'll have a celebration to

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thank you for all the

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time that you've given I know when you sit on this

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Commission from out there in

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the public you don't know what goes into preparing for

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meetings and the calls that

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are brought in and the questions and can we bend your ear

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and that is behind the

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scenes that nobody sees certainly in the public and so both

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of you all are fully

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aware of that and I want to thank you for your time not

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only here but all the

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things that go on outside of sitting on the dais to go into

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serving on the

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Planning and Zoning Commission I think both of you all have

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done a fantastic

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job and you'll be sorely missed so look forward to a

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fitting celebration in a

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couple weeks and thank you again with that nothing else

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this evening and I'm

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going to close our meeting tonight at 645 thank you