24th it is 6 15 and this meeting has been duly posted and
we have a quorum
present and I call the meeting to order at this time our
first order of business
on our work session is to receive a clarification of agenda
items and I
believe Julie Wyatt is going to present for us this evening
. Good evening I'm
Julie Wyatt senior planner with the City of Denton. For FP
16 18 staff is
requesting that this be tabled there's a development
agreement associated with
this plat. It was not completed yesterday at City Council
so we're asking this be
tabled until the next P&Z meeting I believe it's September
14th. Okay and looks
like the other item and the other item the applicant has
actually withdrawn
this final replat so short meeting. All right well is there
any other items we
have before I close our work session tonight then? Okay
well at 6 17 we'll
close our work session and we may have a couple other items
to talk about before
we come back at 6 30 thank you.
Good evening and welcome to the City of Denton Planning and
Zoning Commission
meeting for August the 24th it is 6 32 this meeting has
been duly posted and a
quorum is present and I call our meeting to order at this
time our first order of
business will be to stand and give the pledge to the US and
the Texas flag.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one
state under God one and
indivisible.
The next item on our agenda this evening will be to
consider the approval of our
meeting minutes for July the 27th.
Commissioner Bribble. I motion yes let's approve those
minutes. Okay I have a first
motion. Commissioner Dotto is. Okay we have a first and a
second for approval of the
minutes any discussion? Seeing none I'll call for a vote on
the board.
Motion carries 7-0. At our work session both of the items
that we have this
evening we have got changes to so I'm going to announce on
our consent agenda
our item FP 16 - 0 0 1 8 that has been continued to yeah I
'm going to it's it
would you need a motion for it okay so I'm going to request
a motion for that
to be continued to date certain of September the 14th.
Commissioner Rizzo. I
motion to move that item to date certain since our 14th.
Thank you.
Commissioner Beck. I take an emotion. Okay the first and a
second any discussion?
Seeing none we'll call for a vote on the board.
Motion carries 7-0. That moves us to our public hearing
section. This item our
item FR 16 - 0 0 1 1 has been withdrawn by the applicant so
that will move us
to our final item this evening which will be our project
matrix and any
concluding items.
Commissioner Bruegel. Thank you chair. I know this is my
last meeting but y'all
know me well enough to know that I don't give up very
easily so there are a list
of things that I want to make sure that y'all are still
aware of in the coming
weeks and months and years because I'll be watching make
sure you're taking care
of this stuff the first thing was tiny houses I brought
this up before we have
a affordable housing crisis and shortage in this community
to the point where our
nonprofits are losing funding as a result tiny houses might
open that up a
bit more to more affordable housing they're currently there
's no current
zoning regulation that will allow for tiny houses to be
built in our
community so I would like for the planning and zoning
Commission and
eventually for City Council to address this issue and make
sure that they can
be zoned appropriately to open up the housing market the
next thing is the
bike plan you may recall and not too long ago this chambers
these chambers
are packed with cyclists we have made a commitment to our
citizens five or six
years ago when we had a bike plan that was approved by City
Council by planning
zoning and then by City Council that this was something
that was important to
us it's in part of the 2030 plan in addition we are a bike
friendly
community and I want to make sure that as we move forward
with any future
engineering projects any developments that we keep the bike
plan in the
forefront of our minds there are a lot of people just
because I may not ride my
bike everywhere across town that doesn't mean that other
people don't and if we
build it they they will ride so I want to make sure that we
're keeping a focus
on bike accommodations next Commissioner Dudowitz and I
requested
probably a year ago to just look at the number of bars on
the squares on the
square I'll admit some of my favorite places on the square
are the bars so
this is certainly not to single them out but there has been
concern raised by
other citizens about the number of bars that are coming up
downtown so I just
want us to once again just look at that what are other
cities doing I know we
can say you know the market will you know even itself out
but I just want to
make sure like are there other cities that kind of have a
sort of like a quota
for like what kinds of businesses making sure that we have
a diversity of
businesses on the square so it's not all bars in addition
looking at noise
ordinances especially on the square there are some again I
love I love the
live music scene in Denton some people are concerned about
the noise especially
on the square in the evening so just looking at that next
the tree ordinance
y'all the longer we wait on this the more trees we are
losing we have to get
this tree ordinance done people have been asking for this
for years so I want
to make sure that we get it done and we get it done quickly
possibly creating a
preservation plan is the next thing I was speaking with our
preservation
officer recently and and I think he's got a good idea he
was saying that he
has some support from staff but I really would like
planning and zoning to kind
of work push this forward we you know I've in my three
years on PNC it seems
like we're addressing things a little bit piecemeal this
neighborhood needs
this and this neighborhood needs this and how are we gonna
you know preserve
our greens our green space and how are we gonna make sure
we have a bike plan
and I think if we could have some sort of like cohesive
document to tie it all
together that we'd like pull out of the 2030 plan to make
sure that we have even
more guidance as we're protecting these neighborhoods I
think that would be a
good idea so I would encourage PNC to to work with our
preservation officer to
create a preservation plan zero escaping I've asked for
this before I think
Bermuda grass is probably an inappropriate thing to be
putting in our
our landscape requirements because it is so water intensive
we may not be in a
drought now but that's not to say that next year you know
we couldn't be so I
don't think Bermuda grass ought to be included in our in
our landscape
requirements I think we ought to encourage multifamily and
commercial
developments to use more zero escaping additionally when a
business in
particular has a hard time maybe meeting their landscape
requirements or their
tree canopy I'm thinking specifically about like the CVS
that was just built
on oak and hickory in that area they had a hard time
meeting their their tree
canopy wouldn't it have been cool if we had something to
encourage them to do
like a rooftop garden or solar panels right we just kind of
like let it slide
and we got what we got but I think we could have gotten
more so I'd like to
encourage that let's like the really get creative with some
of the stuff and
that's a that's about it but before I wrap it up I just I
would like to thank
the Commission for this opportunity to serve for the last
three years I'll be
honest when I found out that this seat was open I had
encouraged Councilman
Engelbrecht to nominate my husband for this position
because I thought my
husband was much more qualified for this than I was and and
the more that
Councilman Engelbrecht and Adam talked about this the less
and less Adam was
interested in the more and more I got interested in all of
this it took a lot
of discernment because I didn't think I was smart enough
and I didn't think I
was ambitious enough and I think a lot of women in
particular probably have the
sort of like imposter syndrome which is probably why when I
first signed up for
PNZ there was only one other woman it was Jean Schake who
was our chair at
that time she was term limited off a year later and for a
solid year I was the
only woman up here there were no other women on City
Council and now we have
three women on City Council I'm still the only woman on PNZ
next week we'll
have another woman on PNZ but there was only be one let's
be honest so I just I
would like to thank Councilman Engelbrecht for appointing
me to this
position like to thank the Planning and Zoning Commission
for treating me as
your equal and I think a lot of the hang-ups that I had
about this probably
came more from me than it came from you and I learned a lot
about this city in
the last three years but I also learned a lot about myself
so I just I just want
to thank you and I may not be here in this seat but y'all
know me I ain't going
away so I'll be out there keeping an eye on you and that's
it I'm gonna drop the
mic thanks thank you anybody else no okay well thank you
both for your years of
service and our next meeting we'll have a celebration to
thank you for all the
time that you've given I know when you sit on this
Commission from out there in
the public you don't know what goes into preparing for
meetings and the calls that
are brought in and the questions and can we bend your ear
and that is behind the
scenes that nobody sees certainly in the public and so both
of you all are fully
aware of that and I want to thank you for your time not
only here but all the
things that go on outside of sitting on the dais to go into
serving on the
Planning and Zoning Commission I think both of you all have
done a fantastic
job and you'll be sorely missed so look forward to a
fitting celebration in a
couple weeks and thank you again with that nothing else
this evening and I'm
going to close our meeting tonight at 645 thank you