Mar 21, 2018 Planning and Zoning Commission on 2018-03-21 5:30 PM

Commission meeting for March 21st 2018. This meeting has been duly posted and we do have a quorum present and I will call us to order at 532 . Our first order of business will be to receive clarification of agenda items. So I'll start with does anybody have any corrections on the minutes ? Mr. Sanchez? Yeah. Okay. I'll move us to our consent agenda. Any questions on the consent agenda? Commissioner Beck. Thank you Chair. I do have just one quick question. It's the same... Which item? I'm sorry. PP 17.02A the fireside addition and that... Okay. Okay. That's... We dealt with that a couple years ago. So evidently the preliminary plat expired. I was just curious, is this the same applicant or is this a different applicant? They decided not to proceed with the previous prelim and final because they wanted to redesign the subdivision layout. Okay. So that's what this is coming to be. That's all I have. I just thought maybe they got to have it all together and somebody knew it was coming. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Andrea. Any other questions on the consent agenda? Okay. I will move us to items for individual consideration and I'll call on Haley for presentation of FP 17-0028. All right. Good evening. This is the final plat for Creeks ide. So we saw the preliminary plat for this a few weeks ago. So same layout as we saw with the preliminary, the final plat containing 137 residential lots and the four HOA lots. If you remember, Creekside is the subdivision on south side of Ryan Road that's part of a pre-annexation development agreement. So pending approval of the final plat, they will then voluntarily annex into the city and proceed with their development. And this is an item for individual consideration because we do have one condition on the approval. That being that the civil engineering construction plans for all public infrastructure necessary to serve the development must be approved before the plat is filed. If any utility easements or other minor changes need to occur as a result of that final CEP review, we would ask that that be approval by staff rather than having to bring the plat back forward to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Okay. Commissioner Rozelle. Thank you, Chair. The condition, I take it that's done because of the annexation into the city? No, it is actually a standard procedure that CEPs are typically approved prior to a final plat being approved. In this case, they were kind of running neck-and-neck. The CEPs just weren't quite there yet and the applicant asked that we go ahead and move the final plat forward and let them continue working on those civil plans. So those will now just be approved before the plat is filed. Is there any other processes that the city goes through to make sure that what once was County land or ETJ is now city? Is there any other requirements that they have to abide by? I don't know if that question makes sense. I'm just curious about what changes to their requirements in a city? Do they have to file anything additional to come up to speed with city rules? This one's kind of unique because it does have that pre-annexation development agreement. So their entire process, they've essentially been following the city rules while in the county. The plat is what will ultimately trigger their annexation and so from that point forward they'll go through the standard city processes for permitting and everything else with their development. Gotcha, so they were following basic? Yes. Okay, thank you. Any question I'd have is on the CEP, have they done at least one or two reviews on that ? Yes, in this case the CEP it's at the very tail end. It's been through three reviews with staff and is ultimately approvable. Just a few minor tweaks. I know how that works. Great, thank you. Any other questions on this item? Commissioner Beck. I do have some questions, just some concerns and again just some curios ities here if I may. Sure. Thank you, Chair. The dirt road that's coming off Orion currently runs behind that first house on Andrew. So looking at this obviously that entrance to that dirt road that's there now is gonna go away and it'll be part of that HOA area? Yes, the dirt road that they're currently is the access for the gas well pad site. The gas well has been plugged and ever all the equipment removed from the site so that road will be integrated into the development and should fall within this HOA lot. Okay, okay. Also the plat also shows what looks like a right-of-way where Thistle Ridge down there from the development to the east whatever that whatever that is will connect eventually to Mallard Avenue. It looks like in the Creekside development. Yes, yeah, see is that what that is? Thistle Ridge will not actually be a through street in this case. This this is an HOA lot they are tying in here for a waterline extension. Okay. But Thistle Ridge Road won't continue. It'll stay a dead end there. Okay and block A1 which is the HOA area. What limitations will be established for this track that separates Creekside from its neighbors? Will it remain kind of a green space or will there be any construction allowed on it? So the HOA lot is designed to be a it's mostly their tree preservation area. It will have a walking trail that meanders through the trees. Okay. But that is going to primarily be landscaped area with most of those trees left in place the trail kind of winding through them. I guess what I'm asking though is sometime down the future down the road will that can that change where they can do things beyond this? That is their approved tree preservation area so it would it would be unlikely that they would ever. Would they have to come before us or some other Commissioner Board? Since it's planted as an HOA lot if they ever tried to subdivide yet that would would come back. Okay. The eastern edge of this track it's running along an established ESA is that correct? From Ryan Road to Creekdale? Yes there is ESA floodplain and riparian buffer. And as it stands now we're not going to be encro aching in that area. There's a very minimal overlap kind of up here. This is where the amenity center will eventually be. There is some overlap here. Their pre annexation development agreement allowed 10% of that area to be encro ached upon to allow for some retaining walls to be put in for the amenity center but that will primarily be left intact. Okay no ESA will be required then ? No. Okay. And lastly there's two means of egresses into Creekside. There's the Creekside Drive on the north end south north end yeah and then on the south end. Creekdale I'm sorry let me read my notes here. Creekside Drive off of Ryan Road and the new road meandering way that will connect to Creekdale Drive on the south. Is that correct? Yes. Okay now Creekdale dead ends at Th istle Way on the west and dead ends into the ESA that area on the east. So any plans on I mean do we have any idea if that's gonna be the Creekdale is gonna be extended one way or the other because it seems like we talked about at one time where that would reach out the country club road. Is that something you can address here? I'm not familiar with any specific plans to extend Creek dale at this time. None of it would be done as a part of this subdivision so if you know if another subdivision comes in in this area I suspect they would be requested to to tie into Creekdale and extend that. So people coming down the entering way can hit Creekdale and then go back out Andrew if they wanted to but I believe so. Okay that's it thank you. I'll have one follow-up question and Commissioner Beck's comment about the HOA. Who actually owns that property the HOA property? Is there a mechanism with the city as to when that interest transfers over because I know that's been some issues in the past? The current owner for all of it would be this DD Creekside partnership as to when the HOA would take that over I'm not sure that would be written into their restrictions and covenants for the subdivision as to when the HOA would actually take over ownership versus the developer. I mean it's usually once a certain percentage of homes have been developed but I'm not sure what that specific would be in this case. Okay thank you. Any other questions on this item? Okay Haley I think you've got the next one too. This will be FP 17-0026. Yes so this is the final plat for CarMax off of I-35. I think you've seen this a couple of times before you now with their detailed plan for the PD amendment and then the preliminary plat. So this is a 34 acre tract roughly a large portion of it as you see here in the hatched area is various degree of floodplain and ESA. They're actually only developing approximately seven acres here on the northern or I'm sorry yeah that'd be the north end of the property along I-35 for the CarMax and once again in this case we have a similar condition where civil engineering plans will need to be approved prior to the plat being filed and then if any minor changes such as utility easements arise from that review we would ask that those be approval by staff rather than coming back before the PNC for approval. I can answer any other questions on this one. Commissioner Beck. Thank you Chair. Yeah I was concerned that are they buying the whole 34 acres? Is that going to technically be their property? Yes yeah it will it will all be under the same ownership because of the confines with the floodplain and everything there's really about seven acres that they're seeking to use for for their car lot at this point. So they're gonna be confined pretty much at seven acres and they really can't extend any further unless they get special permission from... Yeah it would take some work at that point you're working through FEMA and potentially with our team for alternative ESAs to be able to do any work in the floodplain area. Very good thank you. Any other questions on this item? Okay thank you Haley. We'll move us to our public hearing section for this evening. We'll call on Chandrian for presentation of FR 17- 0026A. Okay this item is the Owens Ranch replat. It's a residential replat for about two acres located at the corner of Lake You and Rodeo Drive. The applicant is intending to replat two lots into three lots for residential purposes. It meets all of the established criteria and if you remember this was posted for the February 21st agenda and it's been continued to this meeting. Any questions? That's an easy one for you. Yeah. You got the next one too. We'll move on to item B Z 18-0005 and Chandrian will present this as well. Okay this is a rez oning request for the property the Denton Baptist Temple property located off of 35 just west of sorry just west of Fort Worth. So the request is to rezone approximately five acres from DR 1 to DR from DR 1 and DR 2 to a DCG district. The property here, let me just give you some context. This is the subject property . I-35 is on the south here. Bernard Street is the border on the west and then Lindsay's to the north. The property currently is divided into three zoning districts and so the applicant is intending to rezone into one district to allow for a more cohesive development in the future. And this property was also... Commissioner back. Thank you Chair. With that in mind do they have something particular in mind or is this just to so it all be one thing when it comes to them? There 's nothing in the works right now as far as... Correct. As far as I know and as far as they've communicated to the city they don't have any plans just yet to develop the property. But when they do they want this nice neat little page. Correct. Okay thanks. And then I will note that this property was subject to some tech start right away acquisition and so they lost about almost two acres along the frontage. So. Other parking. I won't go into everything because we'll have the presentation in regular session. But when we do the future land use analysis we find that the subject property is designated as community mixed use. The intent of that zoning, that land use category is to promote a mix of uses which include commercial residential and service uses. And so when you look at this area this zoning ... this the requested zoning designation matches what's on the ground already. You have the church property here. There's some single-family here along just west of Bernard. And then to the north there's some multi-family uses here. And then along Fort Worth Drive and then as you get closer to Fort Worth there's some more commercial uses. The Motel 6 is here. Water Burger, gas stations. So what we found was that the request is consistent with the future land use plan. And in terms of public facilities water and wastewater would be available pretty much along all of the street frontages. Bernard here, Lindsay to the north. There's an easement here but I'm not sure if that serves the properties that front Fort Worth but that analysis will be done when we get into planning and site development. I don't anticipate any other dedications or street improvements just because the property is already served. According to... in accordance with the local government code we issued 11 notices to properties within 200 feet of the subject property. We haven't received any letters of opposition or in favor basically no responses yet. We issued 68 courtesy notices to the property within 500 feet and then the neighbor... the applicant opted not to do the neighborhood meeting. He just went and contacted the six homeowners that are in that little enc lave here. So with that because this is consistent with the future land use plan and it's compatible with the existing area staff is recommending approval. Commissioner Roseau. You mentioned that he went directly to the six houses to the west. Yeah this neighborhood here. Do we know what that feedback was from those six? I don't have that in my notes but I can ask before we get to regular session. And if I understand it correctly those are the only single detached family within the 500 feet right? Correct. Well within the 200 feet and 500. Right. Most of everything is either commercial or it's multifamily. Okay thank you. Commissioner Beck. Thank you chair. It seems odd to me that looking at the future land use map it's set up to be CMG yet he decided to go with DCG. What kind of was... do you have any idea why he chose that particular zoning district as opposed to something that's obviously you know the city has future plans for? Okay. I mean would it not meet his needs or did he point out why DCG is opposed to CMG? Yes. DCG was the logical choice just because there's already existing DCG zoning to the east and so they would extend that into the property. Anything else with it could possibly meet the future land use plan but I think it 's just it was just safer to go with what was adjacent so that it doesn't create the case of spot zoning. Okay. Thanks. Any other questions on this item? Okay. Thank you, Shandrin . Okay. Well we got through that pretty quick so there are no work session reports so at 550 we'll close our work session and we'll reconvene in council chambers at 630. Good evening and welcome to the City of Denton Planning and Zoning Commission meeting for March the 21st 2018. This meeting has been duly posted and we do have a quorum present. We'll call us to order at 637. Our first order of business will be to stand and give the pledge the US and Texas flag. 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. Next item on our agenda will be to consider our minutes for our March 7th meeting. Commissioner Roselle. I move for approval. Commissioner Beck. Second. Okay. We have a first and a second for approval. Any discussion? Seeing none, call for a vote on the board. Motion is going to carry five to zero. That will move us to our consent agenda. Commissioner Beck. I move to approve the consent agenda. Okay. Commissioner Smith. I second this motion. Okay. We have a first and a second for approval. Any discussion? Seeing none, I will call for a vote on the board. The motion will carry five to zero. We'll move us to our items for individual consideration. This time I will call on Haley for presentation of FP 17-002. Good evening. This is the final plat for the Creekside addition. It's approximately 47 acres on the south side of Ryan Road. The plat is for 137 residential lots and three common area lots. This is being brought forward as an item for individual consideration because staff has requested a condition on the approval. That condition would be that civil engineering construction plans for all public infrastructure necessary to serve the proposed development must be approved before the plat is filed. If any utility easement locations need to be modified as a result of the final civil engineering construction plans, the development review committee approval would be required for those prior to filing. And with that I could stand for any questions. I think you did a great job in the presentation at work session. It doesn't look like we have any questions. And the applicant is here if you had any questions of him as well. Okay. I do have a request to speak on this item. Thomas Fletcher. Good evening Commissioners. My name is Thomas F letcher, 5750 Genesis Court, Frisco, Texas 75034. I am the applicant for the owner and developer of this tract. Just wanted to say a brief word and then be available to answer any questions you may have. At the preliminary plat hearing I know one of the questions one of the Commissioners had asked was regarding the tree preservation. At that time I made the comment that I believe it was 60 to 65% was going to be the estimated tree preservation. We've done the the construction plans, the tree survey, we're actually preserving 81.9% of trees, 76.3% based off caliper inches. So we've well exceeded what we had estimated for the tree preservation. So going through the construction drawing process we've been very conscious of preservation of trees to make this a really special development and just wanted to mention that and I'll be glad to answer any questions that you may have. Do you have one so far? Commissioner Smith. Thank you Chair. Since we went through approve the preliminary plat, have you had any more conversations with the citizens over in Thistle Hills development? The evening, yes sir, the evening after the preliminary plat or that same evening we met with the owner and I met with several of the residents afterwards and just talked in general about the project and the feedback we got from them is that really they just wanted to know more about the project . They didn't have because it was under a pre-annexation development agreement , they really didn't have a good idea of what was what was being proposed but when they came to the the hearing on the preliminary plat, learned about the buffer, learned about the tree preservation, that set their mind at ease and they were actually excited for the project because they they knew that something other than what we're doing could have come in that would have taken out a lot much larger percentage of the trees. Great, thank you. Commissioner Beck. Thank you Chair. Mr. Fletcher, thank you for that bit of good news and to the owner too for the preservation of trees. I usually fuss about that more than others but that is important. I'm glad you're taking steps you are to preserve that extra bit so thank you so much. You're welcome, thank you. Any other questions for the applicant? Thank you. This item is on our individual consideration. It's not a public hearing but if anybody would like to speak on this item you're welcome to do so. Okay seeing none we will continue on. Commissioner Rozelle. I motion for approval with the staff recommendation of the CEP being finalized. Okay. Commissioner Smith. Second that motion. Okay we have a first and a second for approval. Any further discussion? With that I'll call for a vote on the board. That motion is going to carry five to zero. We'll move us to our next item for individual consideration which will be FP 17-0026. We'll call for on Haley for that presentation. Okay this is the final plat for the Carmax site. It will be located on the that would be the southeast or southwest side of Interstate 35 on the south side of town. The total area of the plat is approximately 34 acres. As you can see here in the gray hatched area there is a substantial amount of floodplain on the property so the developable portion which does have an approved detail plan within the PD is for about seven acres that would be located here on the north corner of the property. Similarly to the last plat this is an item for individual consideration because of a condition that staff is recommending that the civil engineering construction plans for all infrastructure to serve the proposed development be submitted and approved prior to the filing of the plat. If any utility easement locations need to be modified as a result of these final civil engineering plans DRC approval shall be required prior to filing. However more extensive changes required as a result of the civil plan review may consider or may require the final plat come back before the Planning and Zoning Commission. And with that I'd be happy to answer any questions about this. Any questions for Haley? Thank you. See none. I don't know if the applicants here if they would like to speak. You don't have to but you're welcome to. Good evening Chris Biggers with Dunaway Associates 550 Bailey in Fort Worth. Don't have anything to add but we'd be happy to answer any questions should there be any. Okay any questions for the applicant? Thank you sir. Chair I'll open the floor for discussion or motion on this item. Commissioner Smith. Motion to approve with the condition of the CEP be approved before this is approved. Okay Commissioner Rossell . I second. Okay we have a first and a second for approval with the one condition as presented in the backup. Any further discussion? Seeing none we'll call for a vote on board. Motion is going to carry five to zero. That will move us to our public hearings for this evening. I'm going to open the public hearing for FR 17-0026A. We'll call on Chandrian for presentation. Good evening. Good evening. Chandrian Jarvis with the development services department. The first item is FR 17-26 . This is a replat request for the Owens Ranch subdivision. This is a two acre site located at the southeast corner of Owens Ranch in Lake view Boulevard. The request is to go from two lots to three lots. The plat meets all of the established criteria. There is a public hearing requirement for replats which we've just opened. When we issued the staff report we had received four letters of support and tonight six more letters of opposition have come in. I just wanted to state that for the record and I will stand for any questions. Commissioner Smith. Do the opposition notices that came in, does that, do we have a percentage yet that doesn't bump us into needing supermajor ity? And we're not even doing supermajority. This is a final replat. Correct. And since there is no variance associated with the case it doesn't do anything. With that plat on there we were talking between what's actually now. What is the current platting right now? Or is the current plat not a current replatting? What division is being made within the current property? That is a good question and I didn't bring that in my, I didn't include that in my backup. Okay. Could you? I can. Is the applicant here ? If I could possibly? Okay. We'll get to that in a minute. I'll ask that question when we get to that point. Okay. I can probably get to it on GIS but it'll take a second. We 'll ask the applicant when it comes up here. Okay. Thanks, Adrian. I see no other questions. Thank you. This is a public hearing and if the applicants here, if you would like, please come forward at this time. Please give us your name and address and then we'll have 10 minutes. David Snow with Snow Investments addresses 325 North Trinity Road, 76208. Okay. Thank you. Do you have any presentation or just to stand for questions ? I didn't actually, I didn't know it was going to be put on the spot but I'll answer any questions I can. Okay. I'll call on Commissioner Smith. I think he had a question of how the plat is currently. Sure. Thank you, Chair. So you live at the house that's right there on Trinity? That's the? Yes, sir. To the east, directly to the east. So what's being divided off and why? To, the zoning is NR2, two houses per acre. Sure. So there was a dogleg parcel of land that was bought off the neighbor. Okay. To expand the footage to make a single lot. Okay. I guess I'm looking at your property on an aerial view. Is that new line that's being drawn? Are you just, are you drawing a line in your backyard? What exactly are you? The new line is further to the east which will make 325 a smaller lot but still within a half acre. If that answers your question. Not quite. Give me one second here. Maybe Shandrian can help. We have it up on the board for you now and you can maybe show where the current lot lines are. Sometimes there's a pointer there with. Yeah, Shandrian, we might need to see the GIS then or if we can. Okay. It just, the reason why I'm asking is because we've had small positions come in between work session and now that we thought this was going to be the easy one tonight. Right. Okay. [inaudible] I'm trying to find the intersection. Yeah. There we go. See what we have. Lakeview. Yeah. Perfect. All right. There we go. So you guys are, you and your neighbor, so the neighbor that's there in the corner of Rodeo and Lakeview, you guys are, you're combining basically two pieces of your property into one new track, one new plat there I should say. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to repeat that. So you're see what you're doing right now. There's two, right? And your neighbor has that little dog leg that drops down behind your property. You're shaving off a part of your property. Shaving off his property, buying a purchase of the dog leg and then the property line will get some shifted further to the east. Okay. But there's still, but you're still creating a new line there, the difference between your, basically your land is going to stop at your fence and then there's going to be a new lot behind it. Yes sir. Okay. What are your intentions with that? Just put a single family residence. So you are going to build a single family residence there. Yes sir. Okay. That's what I was trying to get to. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. I think we've got a, hold on just a second. I think we've got a better exhibit now to kind of show what it is currently and what it's being proposed. Okay. Mr. Pryce, that help? Yeah, that does. I think just knowing what it currently is and then knowing that you're going to build a single family there is, that's all I needed to know. Thank you. Thank you very much. I think we have a couple more questions for you. Commissioner Beck. Thank you, Chair. Mr. Snow, thank you for coming tonight. Access to this new track where you're going to build a new home, is that going to be off Lakeview or is it coming? It will be off Lakeview. Okay. And there'll be no reverse onto Lakeview. It'll be a Hamma driveway. Okay. So your property, which will be behind it or to the west, I believe it is. That has access through, through, on Trinity. Okay. Okay. You've got Lakeview and then Rodeo. Where's Trinity at? It's where Trinity is to the east. This is Trinity Road right there. That's the front of his property. Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay. I don't have any other questions. Thank you, sir, for coming up. Thank you very much. This is a public hearing. I don't have any cards. I do have a number of letters that were given to us. This is a public hearing. So anyone who would like to speak on this item is welcome to come forward at this time. And then I'll, at the end, I will read these comments into the record. Anyone else? Okay. With that, I will close the public hearing. And we've got a letter in opposition from Ronald Basher, 11 08 Lakeview Drive. We have a letter in favor from Dan Cody, 8201 Rodeo Drive. We have opposed is Gary Mann's 7608 Rodeo Drive. We have opposed Norman Glower, 8017 Stallion Street. And then we have in favor is Jerry Istep at 1300 Lakeview Boulevard. And one more opposed, Hubert Gramling, 1309 Lakeview Boule vard. And those are all of the comments that we have that we received in our backup here right before the meeting to read into the record. So with that, I will call on Commissioner Beck. Thank you, Chair. I'm curious why nobody's come down who's in opposition to speak because I don't really understand what the opposition is here. Based on what I've seen, I'm not sure it poses any problem. So is anybody willing that's in the audience that is opposed to this can come down and clarify this for me? No. Okay. We don't have anybody. Okay. They're here for another reason. Thank you. Another item. I did close the public hearing. And public hearing is closed. And Commissioner Smith. Motion to approve. Commissioner Roselle. Second. Okay. We have a first and a second for approval. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll call for a vote on the board. That motion is going to carry five to zero. We'll move us to item B. We'll open the public hearing for Z18-0005. And I will call on Shandrian for presentation. Okay. Okay. This item is a rezoning request for the Denton Baptist Temple site. It's located at 610 I-35E. The subject property, just to give you a point of reference, is located here. I-35E is on the south. Bernard Street is here on the west. And then Lindsay is the border to the north. The applicant has requested to rezone this property, which is about five acres, from a downtown residential one district and downtown residential two, to a DCN or downtown commercial general district. The intent of the rezoning request is to basically allow for more cohesive development in the future. Currently the property is divided into three different zoning districts. And so, but they're wanting to just go ahead and package that in a more cohesive manner for future development. Just another point of note. This property was subject to the text dot acquisition, right away acquisition . And so they ended up giving about two acres of frontage for the I-35 expansion project. When we consider rezoning requests, we have two criteria that we tend to look at. The first is, does it meet the future land use plan, or the Denton 2030 plan? And then two, would there be adequate provision of transportation, water, sewer, public infrastructure, and public services, if the request is granted? So looking at the future land use plan, the subject property is designated as commercial community mixed use. And the intent of community mixed use is to promote a mix of uses, including residential, commercial, and service uses. As you look at the existing zoning and development around this site, we find that it is consistent with the future land use plan. To the east, we have some single family residential, well to the west, I keep saying my other east. To the west, there's some single family homes here. To the north, there's some multifamily development. The church property is here. And then along Fort Worth Drive, there's some commercial uses, hotel, restaurants, some auto body shops. So just to sum up, I guess, the requested zoning district, DCN, DCG, is consistent with the future land use plan. And it will be a logical extension of the DCG that's located here along Fort Worth Drive. When we look at public facilities, this is an existing site . So it's adequately served with water and wastewater. There's extensions of lines available on Bernard Street and then Lindsay. And then the site would still have access to Bernard, Lindsay, and the I-35 East Runners Road for transportation. So in accordance with the local government code, we issued, or we sent out 11 notices to properties within 200 feet of the subject property. And then we haven't received any responses back. And then we sent 68 notices to the properties within 500 feet. And the applicant opted not to do the neighborhood meeting. And I did follow up with him. He hasn't received any responses. And so that, well, almost. In summary, DCG is consistent with the future land use plan and is compatible with the surrounding properties. And therefore, we recommend approval. Any questions? Great job. No questions. Thank you. This is a public hearing. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please come forward at this time. And I do have one card, Rick Bariam, in support. Thank you. I'm the applicant. And I do have a five slide presentation. If I can find it. Let's see. Escape. All right. And then, let's see. Close this one. Oh, there it is. Right there. Okay. They were nice enough to provide that for me. I think it's, ah, there we go. Well, naturally, we know why we're here. I just put that as a formality. But I want to thank staff for the work they did. That was a really nice report. And I definitely like the conclusion. Hope you do too. In the Highway 35 expansion, most of us benefited. You know , more lanes, we can go faster. And we were real happy about that. And it didn't really cost us much, we figure. But some people sacrificed quite a bit more than others. And even if you make a sacrifice and you are given monetary compensation, that doesn't really provide for everything that you're now missing. Especially if you lost two buildings. Churches need more than just a sanctuary. All the programs that they have, it's hard to have a volleyball game if you don't have a volleyball court. Or if you want to give a seminar on financial planning or something like that. It's difficult to do that. This is a little graphic that I put together. The bright pink line, of course, shows the extent of the text dot taking and the buildings with the stripes. They're no longer there. This is, of course, the zoning. That's what was there. And you can see that the one little DR1 is kind of small. If you were wanting to develop the property, you would have to go through this. And some people who might look at it would prefer not to. So we're asking for an all green. All green for DCG. And basically this is all about better possibilities. Better possibilities for the church in the future. And definitely better possibilities for the city because it could become a productive use if it was sold and the church moved elsewhere. So please vote for approval. And I guess that's all I want to say unless you have questions, which I don't stand for. >> We're going to go light on you. No questions. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Rick. This is a public hearing. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, you're welcome to come down at this time. Okay. Seeing no one else, we will close the public hearing and open the floor for discussion or a motion. Commissioner Smith. >> Thank you, Chair. I didn't know that building was lost. I was an Eagle Scout for a true 366 that met in there for all those years. So that's sad. That top floor room had a lot of memories for me. So I'm really sorry to hear it but I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys can do out there at the DBT. So a motion for approval. >> Commissioner Beck. >> Yeah, I want to echo Commissioner Smith's feelings too and thank you for your sacrifice. So I second his motion. >> Okay. We have a first and second for approval. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll call for a vote on the board. Motion is going to carry 5 to 0. You're welcome. Congratulations and good luck. That will move us on to our project matrix this evening. No request? >> I have one. >> Commissioner Sanchez. >> I was wondering, one of the things that concerns me is when we look at these glimmering flats and final flats, I always see this kind of building. Is there any way of having a discussion on that kind of thing as opposed to what we had in the past on the streets of both north, south, east, west ? It seems like we're losing a lot of alternatives to get from one side of town to the other. I mean, I lived on the north side of town and I had a discussion with a person the other day about the way they're building these new subdivisions. And I believe that we used to be able to cut through a neighborhood and get to the other side. Now you can't cut through these neighborhoods. So it puts all the traffic onto these main arterials. And long term, I think if we continue doing that, we're going to see a lot more traffic problems. We need to visit that and see is that the best way to continue developing our neighborhoods. And so I'd like to see us have a discussion on that. >> Okay. Got it down. Any other items to add to the project matrix? Any updates? >> We have the meetings coming up next week on the DDC. I think everyone got the notification. So we're getting ready to get the full gear here for the next month or so. >> Okay. We'll prepare. >> All right. With that, I will close our meeting this evening at 7.08. Thank you, everyone. [ Applause ]