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 Good afternoon and welcome to the City of Denton's Planning and Zoning Commission

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 meeting for Wednesday March 9th 2022. This is our work session and with the

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 quorum present I will call us to order at 5 o 3 p.m. We don't have any work

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 session reports. Our first item on the agenda is citizen comments on consent. I

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 don't see anyone here. Do we have anyone on the phone waiting? No we don't have

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 anyone on the phone. Very good thank you. All right then we'll go right into the

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 clarification of agenda items. Let's see any discussion on the minutes? There were

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 yeah two days of minutes. No okay. How about consent? Nothing on consent? Okay.

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 Items for individual consideration. For A okay and that one is recommended for

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 approval. Okay then for B I believe that is an extension request. Jordan did you

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 have your hand up? No? Okay okay. For C and I believe that is also an extension

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 request. Okay for D same extension request to date certain 323. Okay then

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 for E recommended for approval. Any questions? For F that is a requested

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 extension. Is that correct? Okay to 323. We have 4G it was a very late email on 4G

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 but they have worked through staff comments on that and it is recommended

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 for approval now. Has everyone had a chance to see that in email and if not I

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 can have Julie bring it up now. Okay we're good. Okay that's going to be the

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 same thing with 4H. There's a late approval on that as well. Any questions on

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 that? Okay and that one's now recommended for approval. Well all right then we'll

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 go right on to our public hearings for the night. The first one 5A there was a

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 notice error so staff is requesting that to be postponed to 323 so I will be

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 asking for a motion just for an extension on that item so we can clear

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 that. Okay any questions on that? Okay and then a 5B is hold a public hearing

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 consider making a recommendation to council on the comprehensive plan update.

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 Do we want to have a short presentation on that now or do we just want to wait

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 for questions? If there are any top of mind. Hi Tina. Hi Tina Fergens deputy

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 director of development services. I'm happy to answer any questions right now.

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 We were planning on reserving the presentation for the public hearing just

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 to not duplicate but if there's anything that the Commission needs clarification

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 on I'm happy to address that. Okay thank you. Okay sorry about the technical

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 difficulty in the pause. I'll call us back to order at 5 0 8 p.m. Tina I will

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 let you finish. Tina Fergens deputy director of development services. Chairman

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 Ellison response to your question. Staff was not anticipating doing a

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 presentation for the work session. We were planning on preserving our

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 presentation for the public hearing. Happy to address any questions that the

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 Commission may have at this time as it relates to the comprehensive plan and

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 also we were going to take a similar approach with mobility plan if that's

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 acceptable. Okay thank you very much. Thank you. Any questions for the comp plan

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 update or the mobility plan before the public hearing? Okay thank you much. I

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 appreciate that. So then that will take us to 5 D which is hold a public hearing

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 consider making recommendation to counsel of an ordinance amending the

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 development code in section 7 4 7 a. Christy I'll have you come down I don't

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 know if we are we approaching this the same with a presentation at the public

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 hearing. Answering any questions now? Okay all right. Okay sounds good. Commission

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 any questions for Christy before the public hearing that you want her to

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 address here at the work session? Sure Commissioner Pruitt. Thank you. I guess

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 I'll just mention a couple things that that I'll be interested in hearing about

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 and if it takes some some time to reference that we can cover it in the

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 public hearing but I'll be interested to understand what requirements are in

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 place from a managing how trails would be handled in these riparian areas as

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 far as is it ice swim regulations you know how does that how are we covered

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 from a make sure that that we don't do something harmful essentially just

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 because from the text I don't I don't see where that's referenced and then the

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 second thing is I'll I'll be interested to understand how this applies to alt

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 ESA applications both in the case where the applicant applies for an alt ESA on

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 their land and then it stays their land is there an ability in the future if it

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 makes sense for a trail to go through that area as well as in the case where

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 they apply for an alt ESA but they also do a dedication of land to the parks

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 department for instance but the the piece of the parcel that gets dedicated

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 is still within the alt ESA area how does that work does that make sense so

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 from what I understand you're asking is if if someone is required to apply for

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 and seek an alternative ESA plan then and and the trail happens to be a part

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 of that how does that all come into play yes also if say for instance they apply

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 for an alt ESA but then five years later the parks department decides to try to

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 bring a trail through that corridor what's what's the process for how we

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 handle that if that makes sense okay yeah those are great questions okay yeah

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 okay I'll be prepared to answer those questions at the public hearing thanks

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 one of late clarification was brought to my attention just a moment ago that item

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 for C is going to be is being withdrawn by the applicant so we will be I'll

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 announce at the public hearing but we won't need an extension request granted

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 on that okay with nothing else to clarify on our agenda I will call our

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 work session closed at 512 we'll meet back here at 630 for the public meeting

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 thank you good evening and welcome to the city of Denton's planning and zoning

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 Commission meeting for Wednesday March 9th 2022 with a quorum present I will

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 call us to order at 630 p.m. before we get into our agenda I'm gonna turn the

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 mic over to Haley real quick good evening we just wanted to officially

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 welcome our newest planner Mia Hinds to the team she's in the back row joining

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 us from the city of Glen Heights and she is our newest associate planner so

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 welcome her to the evening welcome Mia okay our first item on the agenda is the

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 Pledge of Allegiance to the US and Texas Flags

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 and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with

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 liberty and justice for all

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 thank you our next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for January

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 26th and February 9th meetings chair can entertain a motion or any questions on

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 that Commissioner Smith make a motion approve Commissioner Villarreal second

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 okay we've got a first and a second for approval is there any discussion okay we

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 will have to do a vote via roll call Commissioner Pruitt all right

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 Commissioner Smith all right Commissioner McDade all right Commissioner

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 Cole Commissioner Villarreal all right Commissioner Anderson all right and the

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 chairs and I that motion carries seven zero that will move us to our consent

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 agenda Commissioner Smith make a motion to approve we have a motion to approve

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 the consent agenda Commissioner Cole second we've got a first and a second to

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 approve the consent agenda is there any question or discussion okay let's take a

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 vote via roll call Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I Commissioner

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 McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner

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 Anderson I shares also an I that motion carries seven zero that takes us to our

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 items for individual consideration and just for clarification 4c has been

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 withdrawn by the applicant so we will not be taking action on 4c so I will

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 call up for a FP 2100 for 1a and invite Shawn Jacobson up hello Shawn hello I am

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 opening this for Haley very good thank you Shawn I believe it's slide three

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 Shawn okay yes so good evening this is the Primoros edition final plat y'all

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 may recognize this property as it's recently been rezoned to allow for a

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 corporate headquarters to be relocated here subject properties just north of

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 Barthold on I 35 and as of yesterday staff is able to recommend approval of

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 this plat as the associated engineering plans have now been approved I'm happy

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 to answer any questions excellent thank you Haley and Shawn any questions for

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 staff okay seeing none Commissioner Smith make a motion to approve we've got

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 a first Commissioner Anderson second we've got a first and a second for

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 approval of this item any discussion okay let's take a vote via roll call

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 Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I Commissioner McDade I Commissioner

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 Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner Anderson I and chair is an

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 I that motion carries seven zero taking us to 4b FP 220007 and Shawn I believe

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 you will be presenting this item yes ma'am thank you good evening chair and

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 members of the Commission let me just pull up the plots again

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 all right so tonight I'm presenting FP 220007 this is the perch

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 Denton edition and staff is recommending denial this request is it does not meet

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 the criteria for approval as outlined however staff has no objection to the

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 request extension which could be granted to March 23rd 2022 I do not see any

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 thank you Commissioner Smith make a motion to

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 prove the extension of date certain of March 23rd 2022 okay we've got a first

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 to approve the extension request Commissioner Villarreal second we've got

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 a first and a second to approve that extension request any discussion seeing

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 one let's vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I Commissioner McDade

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 I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner Anderson I

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 chair is an I so that motion carries the seven zero as I stated earlier 4c has

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 been withdrawn we will move to 4d FP 2020 I'm sorry FP 220006 hi Karina

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 sure this has been a while

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 good to see you in person it's nice to see you all right all right this is a

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 final plaque for the pebble brook Parkside edition this is located on the

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 east side of loop 288 just south of East McKinney Street staff is recommending

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 denial as there's still a couple of items they still need to address so it

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 does not meet the criteria for approval however the applicant has requested an

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 extension to March 23rd and staff has no objection to this request thank you

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 any questions I don't see any thank you Karina Commissioner Pruitt move to

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 approve the extension to a date certain emerged 23rd Commissioner Smith second

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 we've got a first and a second for approval of the extension request any

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 discussion seeing none let's evoke Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith

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 Commissioner McDade Commissioner Cole Commissioner Villarreal Commissioner

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 Anderson chair is also an I that motion carries seven zero for EPP 220001 and

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 that would be Julie Wyatt's presentation hi Julie good evening

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 all right this is PP 21 - 0001 a it is for a preliminary plat for a horizontal

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 multifamily use that you might remember that went forward it's been in the last

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 year and was approved they did they were able to work through all of the issues

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 related to it so staff does recommend approval and I'll be happy to answer any

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 questions thanks Julie any questions for Julie I don't see any Julie thank you

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 Commissioner Villarreal I move to approve the plan Commissioner Anderson a

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 second the motion we've got a first and a second for approval any discussion

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 seeing none let's vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I

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 Commissioner McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I

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 Commissioner Anderson I chair is also an I that motion carries seven is zero for

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 FPP 220004 is also Julie's okay this is a preliminary plat for the vintage ranch

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 it's a multifamily development that went through the the PD amendment approval

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 process recently they do have some comments they need to address so staff

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 does recommend denial however we have no objection to their requested extension

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 to the March 23rd meeting and I'll be happy to answer any questions thanks

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 Julie any questions for Julie okay Commissioner Smith make a motion to

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 approve the extension of date certain March 23rd 2022 okay we've got a first

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 for the extension request approval Commissioner Pruitt a second got a first

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 and a second to approve the extension request to a date certain March 23rd any

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 discussion okay Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I Commissioner

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 McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner

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 Anderson I share is also an I that motion carries seven is zero taking us

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 to 4g PP 21 0020 be Julie okay this one is for a preliminary plot within the

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 ropes and ranch development on this is unit 27 it's a single-family development

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 they did get through work through all of the outstanding comments and so while

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 the the agenda when the agenda posted staff did recommend denial they they

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 have we are able to recommend approval excellent thank you Julie any questions

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 for Julie on this item

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 chair can entertain a motion or discussion

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 Commissioner Pruitt I'll move to approve the plot you've got a first for

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 approval Commissioner McDade second got a first and a second for approval any

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 discussion seeing none let's vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner

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 Smith I Commissioner McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal

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 I Commissioner Anderson I share is also an I that carries seven zero taking us

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 to 4h PP 21 0029 see Julie you are very busy this evening

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 hello again I think this is my last one this is PP 21 - 0029 see the Holland

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 edition the subject property is is located at just east of loop 288 it's a

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 mixed density development and this is a preliminary plot they have worked through

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 all the remaining comments and so staff recommends approval of this preliminary

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 plot great thank you Julie any questions for Julie do not see any Commissioner

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 Smith make a motion to approve we've got a first for approval Commissioner

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 McDade second got a first and a second for approval of this plat any discussion

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 seeing none let's vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I

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 Commissioner McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I

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 Commissioner Anderson I share is also an I that motion carries seven zero that

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 will take us to our public hearing items for the evening first a 5a there was a

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 notice error so a staff is requesting that this item be postponed Commissioner

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 Smith make a motion to approve postponement to date certain in March

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 23rd 2022 thank you we've got a first to approve staff's request for the

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 extension Commissioner Villarreal second we've got a first and a second to

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 postpone this item to a date certain of March 23rd 2022 any questions discussion

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 okay let's vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner Smith I Commissioner

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 McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner

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 Anderson I share is also an I that motion carries seven zero taking us to

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 5b p7 I'm sorry PZ 21 249 hold a public hearing consider making recommendation

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 to City Council regarding the 2040 comp plan update and I'm not sure who is

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 presenting this item it's Tina I will bring up Tina and I will open the public

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 hearing hi Tina hi there just one moment

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 okay excellent good evening Tina Fergens deputy director development services and

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 the planning director so it's my pleasure to introduce this agenda item to

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 you and it's probably my entire team's pleasure to be able to introduce this

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 item to you before you this evening is consideration of the comprehensive plan

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 update the Denton 2040 comprehensive plan as you know we've been working very

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 diligently on getting this document to you and in this format in order for you

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 to take consideration and action of it I'm happy to have here with me Ed and of

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 course I'm drawn a blank on Ed's last name as I think of this right now but

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 nonetheless Ed is with us from matrix design group our consultant teams all

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 let him introduce himself as well but but nonetheless this has been a

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 collective effort with not only matrix design group as our as our partner but

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 with all of your feedback and effort we've had quite a bit of discussion as

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 it relates to this document so it's our pleasure to present it to you I'm gonna

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 invite Ed up here to walk you through the the presentation here as we move

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 forward I'll come back up here and wrap it up with next steps but we look forward

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 to receiving the planning and zoning Commission's recommendation this evening

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 staff respectfully requests that the Commission recommend approval of the

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 proposed Denton 2040 comprehensive plan thank you hi Ed hello hi chair members

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 of the Commission my name is Ed Boyk I'm with matrix design group and so it's

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 Boyk you won't forget that next time we'll eat and I'm and as Tina said I'm

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 happy to be here I'm as well since this is a huge accomplishment to get these

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 updates done for a very important plan for the community and so we're gonna run

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 through a couple different slides describing the characteristics of the

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 plan some of the process we took to get there and then also to reaffirms the

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 feedback that we heard from the planning and zoning Commission and City

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 Council and affirm that that is incorporated and has been addressed as

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 part of this comprehensive plan update so the 2040 plan is an is an update to

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 the 2030 plan and it reflects those current conditions in this in the

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 community as well as the anticipated conditions into the future so that would

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 be things like the changes in growth rate the new housing the new employment

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 that might be coming along and with that there's new challenges and they need to

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 be addressed and so this plan addresses those new challenges and also identifies

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 those opportunities that could be pursued by the community moving forward

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 importantly it confirms the community vision it verified that the vision that

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 was present when the 2030 plan was adopted is still present it's still

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 accurate it's still representative of Denton's future moving forward and to

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 that it confirmed the key goals and policies and actions other policies and

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 actions were examined as well and I'll talk about that another slide to be

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 refined and updated and new ones were established as well to move to implement

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 on those new opportunities and address those challenges and lastly the plan is

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 updated to incorporate references to the plans that are currently under

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 consideration or have been recently adopted such as the economic development

00:24:27.120 --> 00:24:32.800
 strategic plan the mobility plan update parks and rec transportation plan sorry

00:24:32.800 --> 00:24:35.760
 parks and recreation master plan and several other plans that are in the works

00:24:35.760 --> 00:24:43.960
 in the near term so the approach this plans approach was to do an update not a

00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:48.000
 rewrite so a large percentage of this plan was intended to be still valid it

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:53.400
 remained valid was verified to be valid and then it was updated accordingly to

00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:58.720
 reflect the current day and the new future envisioned by Denton it's

00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:03.480
 building upon accomplishments the 2030 plan was a good plan it was able to be

00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:06.480
 implemented there have been some successes such as the downtown develop

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:10.520
 the Denton Development Code and this is going to build upon that it's created

00:25:10.520 --> 00:25:14.840
 new strategies and new implementation tasks to build upon that that

00:25:14.840 --> 00:25:19.440
 implementation the action items has been refined it's been reviewed thoroughly

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:25.200
 by city staff by the consultants by community and then made sure to be

00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:29.160
 representative of the projects that could be accomplished into through the

00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:34.280
 year 2040 along with that was a policy and goal analysis that was move forward

00:25:34.280 --> 00:25:39.000
 on updated the key points as I mentioned before such as the key policies and

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:44.080
 actions new actions were established new policies and this is again carrying

00:25:44.080 --> 00:25:50.160
 that vision forward and some things that were put into place to help create some

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:56.320
 more connective tissue between the different you know opportunities that

00:25:56.320 --> 00:26:02.960
 are identified in a plan the the land use plan is connected and represented in

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.160
 the in the comp plan with the preferred land preservation plan which illustrates

00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.680
 those areas that could be or are environmentally sensitive or areas that

00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:15.560
 could be preserved for community benefit wildlife benefit native spaces

00:26:15.560 --> 00:26:20.640
 recreation as well as the preferred growth concept map which was reviewed by

00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.280
 the community and determined to still be applicable it's been updated a little

00:26:24.280 --> 00:26:27.920
 bit there's some enhancements to it to identify those areas of more intense

00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:32.240
 development but all these plans are in concert with each other they all support

00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:37.200
 each other so the public engagement was extensive and I'm not I don't know if I

00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.840
 go through every bullet point on this slide but the important thing is is

00:26:39.840 --> 00:26:45.000
 that we did have stakeholder interviews early on last year there was a website

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.000
 that was available materials all the time for the community they could fill

00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:53.240
 out comments questionnaires on the website as well as participate in some

00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.480
 other tools that were available on it there was three virtual public open

00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:03.480
 houses we had an in-person one that was also had a companion 3d virtual

00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:08.080
 environment open house that was open for two weeks and last at late last year I

00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:11.280
 think in the fall of last year where the community could continue to provide

00:27:11.280 --> 00:27:15.800
 comment if they felt uncomfortable being in an in-person event or didn't have the

00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:19.480
 opportunity to make it to the in-person event there's been numerous presentations

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:24.320
 to boards committees and commissions by myself and Ron and the other people on

00:27:24.320 --> 00:27:29.080
 staff at the city and we had a series of workshops which and work sessions that

00:27:29.080 --> 00:27:32.760
 Tina had just referred to that was really brought it all together and

00:27:32.760 --> 00:27:35.960
 ensured that this plan was something that reflected not only the community's

00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:39.760
 wants and needs but the decision-makers wants and needs and also to support

00:27:39.760 --> 00:27:45.560
 staff in their decision-making so we are really great comments for being an

00:27:45.560 --> 00:27:51.520
 update through this plan this community is incredibly engaged very really cares

00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:55.880
 about the community and it was reflected in the comments we received several I

00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:58.600
 mean well over a thousand fifteen hundred comments received through all

00:27:58.600 --> 00:28:02.720
 the different mechanisms and media that we had almost two thousand actually

00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:06.880
 between the questionnaires and vision statements and everything else and some

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:11.040
 of those in an interactive or online tools are represented on the bottom of

00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:14.280
 the slide as well we had that ID places which was an interactive mapping

00:28:14.280 --> 00:28:18.400
 exercise that gave us a lot of spatial comments which were very valuable to

00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:23.960
 formulating and proving up those actions policies goals and implementation tasks

00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:29.040
 as well as the virtual open house I had just spoke to in the slide previous so so

00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:32.600
 these two slides there's three two slides that really are identifying those key

00:28:32.600 --> 00:28:36.280
 discussion changes and these are items that were identified by both the

00:28:36.280 --> 00:28:40.120
 planning planning and zoning Commission and City Council is being something we

00:28:40.120 --> 00:28:43.360
 should consider make sure it's addressed properly or addressed clearly in the

00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:47.320
 plan as we move forward so this is just representing that all of those different

00:28:47.320 --> 00:28:51.240
 statements whether it was for the vision statement how we handle the ETJ with

00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:56.480
 land use policy how do we handle the future land use plan area plans infill

00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:03.640
 etc all of those have been represented in this plan and it's been addressed not

00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.880
 only in policies and actions and goals but also in through the implementation

00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.960
 tasks items like the wildlife quarters specifically where become became an

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:17.160
 action item in the implementation table protecting green spaces was important

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:20.720
 for that as well connectivity things that could be implemented in the near

00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:23.960
 term because those plans and the more refined planning such as through the

00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:28.720
 parks plan has taken place so this plan is really an umbrella that supports all

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:34.960
 that activity and guides all the functions of implementation forward

00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:39.560
 finally there was a comment about making sure that this plan continued to be

00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:43.520
 implementable and relevant moving forward into the future and there is a

00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:48.400
 portion of the plan through the implementation and actions that indicates

00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:53.160
 the city will actively monitor and evaluate this plan first performance and

00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.560
 then establish metrics for that so that you can make sure that the plans doing

00:29:57.560 --> 00:30:02.240
 what it needs to do and is if it's not then you have some more direction and

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:06.040
 information to help you move forward into the future but with all the

00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:10.000
 outreach and all the review and all the technical expertise has gone into this

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.920
 plan I'm sure this is going to be a great plan for dent moving far into the

00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.520
 future there's 271 action items so you got a little bit of work to do in front

00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:21.960
 of you but I believe in you guys this is a great plan in a great community so

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:26.840
 what that might turn it back over to Tina and she's going to go through the

00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:33.200
 next steps so this slide should look very familiar to the Commission as it

00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:36.640
 illustrates all the progress that we've made on it since the beginning of January

00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:41.320
 of this year and so this evening we do need to conduct a public hearing as it

00:30:41.320 --> 00:30:45.240
 relates to the proposed plan and receive your recommendation then we will move

00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.440
 forward with the proposed plan to the March 22nd City Council meeting

00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.360
 obviously as you are well aware we were hoping to get a recommendation from you

00:30:53.360 --> 00:30:56.680
 back on February 23rd and get this to council on March 1st but Mother Nature

00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:01.680
 had some other ideas for us despite our best efforts so but following following

00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:07.240
 the council's consideration of presuming that we get approval on March 22nd we do

00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.880
 have slated for the Commission for March 23rd a discussion on area plans and I

00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.640
 know we've had lots of discussion about this is where we want to be in starting

00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.520
 taking that next step and working on the implementation and have a discussion

00:31:19.520 --> 00:31:22.720
 about prioritizing different areas within the community as it relates to

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.880
 that but hopefully we'll have that discussion on March 23rd and good it

00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.840
 shows up on your slides will cover it over here but and then we will have that

00:31:29.840 --> 00:31:33.440
 similar discussion with City Council on April 5th and be able to share with

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.760
 council the Commission's proposed recommendations of where we spend our

00:31:36.760 --> 00:31:43.840
 areas on area plans so with that I'd actually like to invite Ron Mingida up

00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:49.720
 here to present this slide so he this is his prize for him so I'd just like to

00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:57.800
 take a moment Ron has been tremendous throughout this whole effort and if it

00:31:57.800 --> 00:32:02.160
 wasn't for Ron's leadership and guidance we would not be here where we are today

00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:07.360
 this man has invested so much of his time as well as others on our team but I

00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:11.480
 think they would all say that Ron has been the true champion and the spirit

00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:15.560
 behind this plan and getting this updated so to me it's only befitting

00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:22.880
 that Ron present this last slide. Thank You Tina. Ron Mingida principal planner with

00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.080
 Development Services. I was not expecting that but I'm gonna go ahead and ask the

00:32:27.080 --> 00:32:31.960
 Commission for your recommendation and staffs recommending hopefully approval

00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:37.840
 of this item which is obviously hard done 20/40 comprehensive plan appreciate it.

00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:43.560
 Thank you Ron and I agree with Tina you are quite an asset to your team in this

00:32:43.560 --> 00:32:51.680
 city so thank you for all your efforts in this. Thank you. That concludes our

00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:57.440
 presentation. So with that we recommend that you open the public hearing but

00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:00.240
 we're also happy to take any questions or comments that you have so thank you.

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:11.120
 Thank you everyone. Do we have questions? Commissioner Smith? We're asking

00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:18.360
 questions. Sorry Tina quick question so of the 271 action items that you guys

00:33:18.360 --> 00:33:21.680
 have out there one question we haven't asked her in all the different work

00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:25.440
 sessions and conversations we've had about this is is what is what city

00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.240
 staffs direction on prioritizing those action items obviously I know from some

00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.440
 pressure if some people on the Commission trying to get small area

00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:35.640
 plans in I won't name what jerk try to get that going forward as fast as

00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:41.000
 possible but the on those other 271 action items how are you guys

00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.240
 prioritizing how you guys delegating do you have something on the back end you

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.200
 can share with us a little bit after we do this you don't want to just obviously

00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.080
 go through and prove something but we want to make sure that we do that that

00:33:51.080 --> 00:33:54.160
 there's some sort of workflow on the back end you guys give us an insight on

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.900
 that. Yes so in I wish I had the the previous slide from a discussion we had

00:33:58.900 --> 00:34:04.420
 a couple of weeks ago but moving forward our focus and efforts truly on the area

00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:08.040
 plans we've also talked about infill development and what that looks like for

00:34:08.040 --> 00:34:11.880
 the community and and how we move forward with evaluating any of our codes

00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:14.760
 and and if there's any special refinements that need to be made to any

00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:19.960
 policies that relates to those areas as well but we really see our focus on also

00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:23.080
 with Council's direction you know concern regarding our land preservation

00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:27.600
 and moving forth with evaluating any codes that we might need to be modified

00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:31.140
 to be consistent with the plan update process as well but the other thing I

00:34:31.140 --> 00:34:35.400
 will add is included within I believe it's chapter 10 or element 10 of the

00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:39.360
 Conference of Plan obviously is the consolidated version of all 271 action

00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.400
 items and it also has a level of prioritization associated with that

00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:47.600
 whether that is a short term item midterm long term or continuous so we

00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:51.140
 would also consult that also on a regular basis on the short-term action

00:34:51.140 --> 00:34:55.000
 items to determine where we really need to invest our time and efforts and that

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.760
 could be some additional conversations with the Planning and Zoning Commission

00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.360
 as well as council as we work on prioritizing those efforts but I go back

00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.840
 to really it's the area plans it's working on the infill development in and

00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:08.520
 what that looks like and then also whether or not we need to make any

00:35:08.520 --> 00:35:12.360
 modifications to code but then also concerns amongst council about

00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:17.280
 preservation of land and making sure that we have appropriate policies in

00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.560
 place that be able to balance that with also the development and growth that's

00:35:20.560 --> 00:35:28.240
 happening within the community well and yes and I think I mentioned that

00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:32.080
 previously but we'll have the area plans discussion on on April 5th and start

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:35.080
 that getting that direction from council I'll probably just whenever we get to

00:35:35.080 --> 00:35:38.480
 matrix tonight I'll probably just include maybe possibly that we have a

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.760
 standing item on the on our P&Z matrix to be able to just talk about where you

00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:45.560
 guys are towards those we don't need a super in-depth detail but just to make

00:35:45.560 --> 00:35:48.720
 sure there's been times in the past where we've seen actions created

00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:53.200
 leadership and people are involved or lost in communication within there and

00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:56.720
 things aren't followed up on so maybe just putting on our matrix to say hey

00:35:56.720 --> 00:36:00.160
 we're working through the items here and it might take a year or two before us to

00:36:00.160 --> 00:36:03.000
 get that off the off the matrix but I think it probably good just to have a

00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:08.680
 check and balance and conversation about it absolutely so thanks thanks for your

00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:13.520
 hard work any other question okay thank you madam chair if you could go back to

00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:34.040
 the public engagement it's not wanting to move oh wait there it goes this

00:36:34.040 --> 00:36:39.920
 particular slide hey I don't know the the the graphic next one yeah I'm

00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:46.920
 looking all together you only had 1972 comments and my question is how does the

00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:50.960
 city does the city actually go out to the people or you want the people to

00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:56.200
 actually come to the city to find out what's going on because I mean do you go

00:36:56.200 --> 00:37:02.120
 to this is does the city hold meetings with area areas of town to let them know

00:37:02.120 --> 00:37:08.360
 what's going on I mean how do you really get the information out about the 2040

00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.520
 plan so in this case when we worked on this project we said we used a variety

00:37:13.520 --> 00:37:18.200
 of different resources available to us we used a means of a communication means

00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:22.400
 that the city has a certain publishing information inviting people to be part

00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:26.200
 of the effort and providing the feedback we actually hosted some public meetings

00:37:26.200 --> 00:37:30.560
 and did the open house I know I was here at least for the open house that we did

00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:34.360
 in September where we invited the public to come and be part of the process with

00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:38.740
 us but but also still working through the pandemic hence why we we did but

00:37:38.740 --> 00:37:42.040
 really a social media push if you will and working with our public affairs team

00:37:42.040 --> 00:37:46.280
 on getting the word out as it related to us getting feedback on this you know

00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:49.780
 moving forward as we you know if we're successful and being able to kick off

00:37:49.780 --> 00:37:54.880
 and working on area plans as we work on those I would anticipate a much more

00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.440
 targeted approach with respect to getting public feedback in the past when

00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:02.800
 I've worked on projects of that nature we send invitations out to folks we you

00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.200
 know we use the good old u.s. postal service and sending information out

00:38:06.200 --> 00:38:09.760
 there we rely upon social media as well we use whatever other channels whether

00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:13.120
 it's advertising on our social media or excuse me on our website pages in

00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:16.920
 addition to social media but we take a much more targeted approach because

00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.040
 we're really interested in getting that public feedback and engagement and I see

00:38:20.040 --> 00:38:24.080
 you stand it off to my right so yeah and I'll just add the stress of the

00:38:24.080 --> 00:38:27.760
 pandemic really pushed and changed the direction that we had to take this

00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:32.360
 ultimately the original plan when we contracted with matrix was to to truly

00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:35.640
 go to each part of the community so we were going to use schools community

00:38:35.640 --> 00:38:42.200
 centers churches and and we were gonna go right to the areas as seen indicated

00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:46.120
 we'll do that with the area plans so it'll be a much more targeted focus

00:38:46.120 --> 00:38:49.640
 it'll be much more beneficial I think but overall for the process that we did

00:38:49.640 --> 00:38:58.240
 here we used every available means to get all the input we could I wasn't I'm

00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:03.800
 still not I wasn't a big fan of it and I hate to say it but I'm still not but I

00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:08.840
 will hold off until the exit you are finished with meeting meeting with the

00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.640
 neighborhoods I don't know if we if we if they approve it now I mean will that

00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:16.240
 change are you still going to get with the neighborhoods to get there I get

00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:21.960
 their input and well that's and that's an important part of what this will do

00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:26.200
 and some of the steps that that really those implementation practices that will

00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:32.160
 be implemented as we walk through this is those area plans as we see what's

00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:36.120
 going to occur with those area plans get that guidance we have a process built

00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:39.400
 into the development code so we can come back and amend the comprehensive plan

00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:44.520
 and or the ability plan as we as we see fit so that would come before this body

00:39:44.520 --> 00:39:51.240
 and City Council so absolutely you'll be engaged in the process already thank you

00:39:51.240 --> 00:39:57.480
 any other questions we'll wait for the screen to pop up to see if anybody on

00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:02.480
 the zoom well that's happening Tina I have a question with regarding to the

00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.200
 monitoring of that is there a timeline created for that is is it going to be

00:40:07.200 --> 00:40:13.160
 looked at on a six month basis on a yearly basis has that even been discussed

00:40:13.160 --> 00:40:18.200
 out so what we anticipate right now what we currently have in the plan in it was

00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:22.000
 sure screen here

00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:33.280
 so we have this principle five that's included in the plan and this really

00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:36.480
 spoke to the metrics and the monitoring associated with our efforts as we move

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:41.440
 forward on implementation so right now the plan recommends actually I think it

00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:47.480
 was annually that that we evaluate what progress we've made one of the

00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:51.400
 challenges that we have with the metrics aspect is we need to know what we're

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.960
 measuring right so we can do annual updates to the planning and zoning

00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:57.560
 Commission and council to let you all know what progress we've made on the

00:40:57.560 --> 00:41:01.360
 implementation but if we're looking to measure let's say we're looking to

00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:05.360
 measure a specific area of town and so we need to make sure we put whatever

00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.920
 appropriate metrics are in place related to the action item and what we're trying

00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:12.640
 to measure for that so some of that might take a little bit longer but our

00:41:12.640 --> 00:41:15.440
 goal is to at least give you annual updates so you know where we stand yeah

00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.600
 I think that's great okay excellent here comes Scott just to add one more piece

00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:25.280
 to it so you don't feel that mr. mengita is left out ultimately for the last

00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:29.400
 whatever it is four years five years has been working on the development code and

00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:34.160
 the update to the comp plan with those successfully completed he won't be doing

00:41:34.160 --> 00:41:39.040
 the work on all of the area plans will be dispersing that work his task will be

00:41:39.040 --> 00:41:43.280
 really the implementation so managing monitoring and as we come forward and

00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:48.840
 again we can do it and you know at the end of the meetings great thank you maybe

00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:57.880
 thank you any other questions for staff okay I do not see any at this time this

00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.640
 is a public hearing I don't have any cards is there anyone here wishing to

00:42:01.640 --> 00:42:09.680
 speak at this public hearing staff do we have anyone on the phones to speak on

00:42:09.680 --> 00:42:18.320
 this item no we don't have anyone on phone okay thank you all right I am in

00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:24.600
 that case going to head go ahead and close the public hearing and open the

00:42:24.600 --> 00:42:28.720
 floor for discussion or motion Commissioner Pruitt thank you chair I'd

00:42:28.720 --> 00:42:35.960
 like to move recommendation of adoption of the 2040 plan commissioner Smith

00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:41.920
 second got a first and a second for approval of the comprehensive plan

00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:46.000
 update as presented any discussion

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:54.440
 commissioner Pruitt thank you chair I'll just offer three three things one in my

00:42:54.440 --> 00:43:00.360
 view staff has been amazingly responsive to all of the questions all of the

00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.340
 public feedback all the discussions and work sessions that we've had and I've

00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:10.640
 really appreciated that secondly I guess I'm I'm really looking forward to some

00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:16.000
 of those near-term actions that I think have been well identified right one of

00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.960
 them being sort of the focus on connectivity and how that relates to the

00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:25.880
 mobility plan that we're about to discuss as well as sort of the metrics

00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:30.320
 of monitoring that we've we've talked about earlier tonight so thank you for

00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:39.080
 for all those things yeah and I will just add a big thank you again for all

00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:42.320
 the work in this and I do think the collaboration was great I know it was

00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:47.480
 challenging with the pandemic but I do think that we've got really really good

00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:52.120
 public feedback and comments and it helped to to shape this and and we've

00:43:52.120 --> 00:43:56.960
 had great meetings and discussion and collaboration between us and other focus

00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:02.840
 groups and obviously City Council so thank you for all of that any other

00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:08.680
 discussion let's go ahead and vote then Commissioner Pruitt aye Commissioner

00:44:08.680 --> 00:44:13.640
 Smith aye Commissioner McDade aye Commissioner Cole aye Commissioner Villarreal

00:44:13.640 --> 00:44:21.280
 aye Commissioner Anderson aye and the chair is an aye that motion carries seven

00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:29.720
 zero that will move us to our next public hearing item which is 5 C PZ 22

00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:40.760
 0 0 3 I will open the public hearing and call Becky up for presentation

00:44:51.280 --> 00:45:05.840
 hi hello how are y'all today Becky Divini city engineer director of capital

00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:09.160
 projects thank you so much for allowing me to be here today to talk to you about

00:45:09.160 --> 00:45:19.120
 the 2022 mobility plan adoption first off I want to remind everyone that I

00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:24.440
 feel like the team has taken an effort with obviously Nathan George our senior

00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:28.560
 planner bicycle ADA pedestrian coordinator to make sure that this plan

00:45:28.560 --> 00:45:33.600
 was a multimodal plan I think that this is the first time that I've seen and

00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:37.660
 I've been with the city for a number of years back and forth that I've seen that

00:45:37.660 --> 00:45:43.120
 we've actually taken that full effort to incorporate those much-needed modes of

00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:46.320
 transportation not only just the thoroughfare plan which we seem to

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:51.280
 always concentrate on but that bicycle and pedestrian and I have a lot of

00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.600
 kudos to give to many of you and others in the council who are the ones who have

00:45:55.600 --> 00:46:00.860
 really asked for us to include these things and made sure that that actually

00:46:00.860 --> 00:46:06.360
 happened this year so just reminder and next thing I wanted to talk about a

00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:11.640
 little bit is the community input I will tell you from July of 2019 through

00:46:11.640 --> 00:46:18.840
 September of 2020 even into December of 2019 to March 2020 I was not with the

00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:23.200
 department but I know that these were the in-person public meetings and City

00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:27.880
 Council work sessions that were held after that time I was in the department

00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:32.580
 in September of 2020 when I moved over from the utility department of which we

00:46:32.580 --> 00:46:39.040
 held those five virtual public meetings similar to like Tina and Ron and Scott

00:46:39.040 --> 00:46:43.520
 went through the pandemic did change the way we made those presentations but

00:46:43.520 --> 00:46:48.160
 those five virtual public meetings were on the different areas northern western

00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:54.400
 downtown eastern and also the southern I will mention that during that 2019

00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.880
 timeframe I do understand there was a bicycle pedestrian focus group meeting

00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:02.760
 that was an in-person meeting in September of 2019 so I feel like we've

00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.360
 taken that time to really listen and go through that process to get as much

00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:13.720
 community input as we can through those virtual and in-person meetings we also

00:47:13.720 --> 00:47:18.000
 held surveys that were work through our process you've probably seen this data

00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:23.440
 before and we received 384 responses during that first phase and then during

00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:29.040
 that second phase we received additional 287 responses you've all seen the map

00:47:29.040 --> 00:47:32.560
 that is on the right that shows the little yellow flag that you can point to

00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:37.600
 where we got that actual comment obviously we looked at specific areas

00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:41.800
 where there were multiple comments and some of those are the focus areas that

00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:44.920
 you yourselves also had similar questions and concerns and so did the

00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:48.960
 council so that was giving us that ability to understand where everyone

00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:55.480
 really wanted to focus their efforts including additional community input

00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:59.480
 obviously we did have that open house I heard that I mentioned just a few

00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:04.360
 minutes ago and we did work with a comprehensive plan and that parks and

00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:08.920
 trails master plan to keep those comments open and obviously even though

00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:13.360
 those comment periods may have ended or started you know we still continuously

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:17.680
 received comment you can see the number of planning and zoning presentations and

00:48:17.680 --> 00:48:22.840
 City Council presentations that have been made similar to Tina obviously we

00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.920
 all were sad that we weren't able to present to you the night of the the

00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:32.520
 crazy weather but it's Texas and so that's just what happens but we're happy

00:48:32.520 --> 00:48:37.960
 to be here today and talk about the mobility plan I just wanted to remind

00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:41.120
 you all of really kind of those common themes that we heard throughout the the

00:48:41.120 --> 00:48:45.400
 overall plan I'm in the comments that we received that multimodal approach of

00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.480
 course that's what I started with that complete streets bicycle pedestrian and

00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:53.440
 obviously the thoroughfare plan really working to accommodate those bicycle and

00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.080
 pedestrian safety and access points we addressed many things many of the

00:48:58.080 --> 00:49:00.400
 comments were received you'll be surprised where maintenance and

00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.200
 operation items that really could be handled through our streets department

00:49:03.200 --> 00:49:07.120
 and so we took the time to send that message out to them whether it be

00:49:07.120 --> 00:49:11.760
 signage that needed to be done or sometimes it was striping that needed to

00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.360
 be improved or replaced so that was a great opportunity to receive some of

00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.240
 those comments although it came through the mobility plan I was happy to share

00:49:20.240 --> 00:49:25.040
 that that future consideration for development you know one of the things

00:49:25.040 --> 00:49:29.120
 that was a comment we received just to make sure that we were focusing in on

00:49:29.120 --> 00:49:33.600
 the land use map and that's where we worked very strongly with obviously the

00:49:33.600 --> 00:49:38.240
 planning department coordinating with those future text dot roads you'll know

00:49:38.240 --> 00:49:42.280
 right up until the bitter end we were changing roadways that were text dot

00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.560
 roadways on the mobility plan based on what text dot was doing I do feel like

00:49:46.560 --> 00:49:50.200
 we have an excellent relationship with text dot and have a great opportunity to

00:49:50.200 --> 00:49:54.400
 work together so we've taken that opportunity to share those the goal of

00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:58.200
 the city is to have the same thoroughfare plan shown that the county

00:49:58.200 --> 00:50:02.740
 shows and also text dot shows so upon adoption of the document we will be

00:50:02.740 --> 00:50:08.360
 sharing that with the county and with text dot we did confirm and look at the

00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.700
 appropriate roadway classifications between arterial collector vice versa

00:50:12.700 --> 00:50:18.160
 and then of course that consistency we we call it and you'll hear me say it

00:50:18.160 --> 00:50:22.440
 again that holistic approach to make sure that we have that you know parks

00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:26.120
 component with Gary in the back the parks Charles master plan and then of

00:50:26.120 --> 00:50:31.560
 course that didn't plan 2040 looking at sustainability plan any plan that we

00:50:31.560 --> 00:50:35.680
 needed to evaluate but really working consistently with the two plans you see

00:50:35.680 --> 00:50:42.400
 on the screen today to summarize I really wanted to make sure that everyone

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:46.720
 understand the real key focus of the mobility plan was one that multimodal

00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:52.120
 approach to that context sensitive design really looking at although we may

00:50:52.120 --> 00:50:57.560
 ask for it to be an arterial with 110 feet of right away there are ways and we

00:50:57.560 --> 00:51:00.880
 showed you this in the previous presentation where certain designs can

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:05.560
 be made for the existing conditions today giving us that opportunity to to

00:51:05.560 --> 00:51:09.560
 widen or expand that road or actually come to the inside which is another way

00:51:09.560 --> 00:51:13.880
 that you can do redway improvements but looking at what's happening in that area

00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:19.280
 and making sure that you're obviously being responsive to the to the

00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:24.080
 surrounding areas and then of course you know the number one thing we heard was

00:51:24.080 --> 00:51:28.920
 safety safety first really that vision zero plan and so that was goal number

00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:32.360
 seven that we moved to goal number one although they weren't in a hierarchy

00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:37.060
 order and we did go ahead and put that first and changed out a little bit to

00:51:37.060 --> 00:51:40.680
 have that language I think you probably remember me mentioning that we made that

00:51:40.680 --> 00:51:46.320
 very much more proactive than reactive language so we have made those updates

00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:51.160
 and what I would like to do tonight with a smile on my face because there's been

00:51:51.160 --> 00:51:54.160
 a lot of hard work behind the scenes between Nathan George that you see in

00:51:54.160 --> 00:51:59.040
 the back pre Tim Dishman is also in the the audience today and that of course

00:51:59.040 --> 00:52:02.440
 our planning team we really worked strongly on this together I think that's

00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:05.720
 one of the things I'm most proud of is the collaboration between the different

00:52:05.720 --> 00:52:08.920
 departments we sit right across from each other we do totally different

00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:12.920
 things sometimes on a day-to-day basis but we took the time and the effort to

00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:16.280
 work together in a collaborative nature to make sure that we were being

00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.080
 sensitive to each other's needs and listening to those lane use assumptions

00:52:20.080 --> 00:52:24.120
 that were so important to the city of Denton so I would like to ask and

00:52:24.120 --> 00:52:30.840
 recommend approval of the Denton 2022 mobility plan as presented and for

00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:36.640
 recommendation to send to City Council on March 22nd and of course we will stand

00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:44.200
 for comments thank you any questions Commissioner Perrett thank you chair

00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:51.880
 just one do we know yet what our proposed scheduling of the next update

00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:58.120
 of the transportation criteria manual will be absolutely so the transportation

00:52:58.120 --> 00:53:02.520
 criteria manual is something we're going to be updating annually and last year

00:53:02.520 --> 00:53:06.160
 during that date I know yourself and several others had several comments

00:53:06.160 --> 00:53:11.200
 that were very specific to safety concerns and speeding concerns and what

00:53:11.200 --> 00:53:16.600
 staff had chosen to do at the time is wait for that city-wide speed study

00:53:16.600 --> 00:53:22.640
 that's a mouthful and also wait till we get the vision zero action plan really

00:53:22.640 --> 00:53:26.440
 kicked off and then of course you know we have that signal re-timing project

00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:30.760
 there are several different things that we have that we're working through but

00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:35.560
 that is something that we do annually we typically start mid to late summer and

00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:40.040
 coordinate because at this point we've made sure the criteria manual the

00:53:40.040 --> 00:53:44.640
 specifications and the standard details are all in concert we've also now made

00:53:44.640 --> 00:53:48.600
 sure that the mobility plan is in concert also but take it to the next step

00:53:48.600 --> 00:53:52.000
 with incorporating many of the comments we received from that safety perspective

00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:57.360
 so our anticipation is to bring that back this year at more than likely the

00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:02.880
 last council meeting of the year okay thank you I think that to me that

00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:08.240
 transportation criteria manual is really sort of the manifestation and the main

00:54:08.240 --> 00:54:12.520
 implementation of this plan when the rubber hits the road so to speak so I'm

00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:15.580
 looking forward to that thank you absolutely and I will tell you

00:54:15.580 --> 00:54:18.320
 Commissioner Prout we would like to spend some time with you to go through

00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:22.360
 your comments and review the criteria manual I know you have quite a few that

00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:28.360
 we want to take into consideration and make sure we understand so beef be ready

00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:33.240
 for us to reach out to you and spend some quality time with you sir thanks

00:54:33.240 --> 00:54:43.400
 Becky Commissioner Anderson thank you chair I do have a couple questions is the

00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:48.520
 city going to take away the road lane space for bike paths I'm still kind of

00:54:48.520 --> 00:54:54.200
 confused on some of that stuff or are they going to build bike paths along the

00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:59.800
 side of the roads it depends specifically upon the actual roadway

00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:03.440
 classification that we're going to be looking at and then what that standard

00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:09.160
 detail is we're going to use the right away that we anticipate to acquire in

00:55:09.160 --> 00:55:13.960
 those different roadway classifications and evaluate that I can have Nathan come

00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:18.840
 and specifically answer your question in a little bit more detail but I will tell

00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:22.040
 you that he's going to give you a very generic answer because it's going to be

00:55:22.040 --> 00:55:27.680
 dependent upon really the entire design of that specific area and what the

00:55:27.680 --> 00:55:33.520
 right-of-way width is okay who's the person I mean is the citizens coming

00:55:33.520 --> 00:55:37.400
 forward saying they want bike paths because you've made you know one of your

00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:44.080
 slides said 384 people commented between July 18th or 2019 to October 11th 2019

00:55:44.080 --> 00:55:50.160
 and 287 people commented between March 1st of 2020 and October 30th of 2020

00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:56.080
 well if that's the people that are wanting this I'm not sure what those

00:55:56.080 --> 00:56:01.000
 comments were about but that's only a point zero zero two nine and a point zero

00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:06.600
 zero two two percent that want bike paths that's going to take up traffic

00:56:06.600 --> 00:56:10.920
 lanes and I'm not really I'm not saying bike paths should be there I'm just

00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:15.640
 saying I know some business owners that have that are a long bike paths that are

00:56:15.640 --> 00:56:21.440
 already existing and they say they see more confusion on drivers and less bikes

00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:26.160
 they've seen maybe two or three bike or bike riders a year but they see more

00:56:26.160 --> 00:56:31.120
 confusions from traffic I mean from traffic issues so that's I'm not a big

00:56:31.120 --> 00:56:34.840
 big fan of all these bike lanes trying to take up bike lanes for people that

00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:39.560
 we don't see a lot of bike riders I'm just being honest I don't see I mean I

00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:44.040
 drive through town all the time I mean I lived here close to downtown and I'm

00:56:44.040 --> 00:56:47.400
 driving around all the time I hardly ever see bike riders but we're pushing

00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:53.440
 for all these bike lanes sure and I'll let Nathan describe that I do understand

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.000
 what you're saying sir and I would tell you that a lot of that depends on the

00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:01.600
 actual design the actual location and I would tell you that some of the bike

00:57:01.600 --> 00:57:05.400
 lanes that we have existing on the ground today will not follow the same

00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:08.920
 pattern of which we're looking to move forward with so I'm gonna step aside and

00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:16.000
 let Nathan describe that in greater detail for you Nathan George with capital

00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:22.120
 projects engineering division missionary Anderson I'll I guess provide more of a

00:57:22.120 --> 00:57:26.200
 high-level response to your question because I want to make sure it's clear

00:57:26.200 --> 00:57:30.760
 the mobility plan and the bike element of the mobility plan and specific our

00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:35.860
 focus is to provide safe and comfortable places for people to ride their bike the

00:57:35.860 --> 00:57:40.160
 so you know you're asking questions about some specific facility types and

00:57:40.160 --> 00:57:44.320
 that's not really the intent of the plan the idea is that we're showing how these

00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:48.240
 facilities will be connected what you know in general what facility types would

00:57:48.240 --> 00:57:51.920
 be providing so that might be it might be a bike lane it might be a bike path

00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:55.920
 that really depends on the nature of a project when we get to that stage when

00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:59.800
 we're ready to start design but the goal of this plan is really to show how that

00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:03.400
 network would be built out to show where those low stress connections the

00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:09.840
 priority connections would be occurring which is you know primarily along along

00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:13.760
 our major streets that are most connected within the community as our

00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.760
 thoroughfare streets primarily are going to form the backbone of this

00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:22.480
 network the in terms of our people going to be riding in a bike lane in the

00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:28.360
 street where it would directly impact vehicles the the big shift in this plan

00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:33.360
 is that tech stop has adopted policy and we're following suit that we're going to

00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:37.640
 accommodate folks outside the roadway when we can when that's the safest

00:58:37.640 --> 00:58:42.000
 option possible there may be in road facilities that may be something that we

00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:46.720
 do as an outcome of a specific project but in general that's not going to be

00:58:46.720 --> 00:58:52.760
 our approach so there there really will be this this approach with our projects

00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:57.600
 to separate users to provide you know more space for bicyclists outside the

00:58:57.600 --> 00:59:02.080
 roadway that's the goal of the mobility plan update that we're presenting to you

00:59:02.080 --> 00:59:07.840
 this evening it should not inhibit folks who are trying to travel by car or you

00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:11.640
 know they shouldn't be interacting with bicyclists a lot and the goal is really

00:59:11.640 --> 00:59:17.440
 to provide the safer and more connected and better quality of environment not

00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:21.960
 just for bicyclists and pedestrians but also for cars because as we deliver

00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:26.640
 these projects they're going to work better for everybody across the board no

00:59:26.640 --> 00:59:29.880
 matter how you travel around the city I hope that answers your question if you

00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:37.000
 have any follow-ups I'll be happy to stand for that well thank you for your

00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:46.520
 answer but yeah I'll just leave it at that thank you thanks thanks any other

00:59:46.520 --> 00:59:50.680
 questions for staff Commissioner Anderson I would like to add to that one of the

00:59:50.680 --> 00:59:55.040
 things that I think Nathan wants to make sure that everyone understands is we

00:59:55.040 --> 00:59:59.000
 still want to provide the same capacity and level of service within the roadway

00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:03.800
 regardless of whether there's a bike lane in the roadway or not so just want

01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:08.160
 to make sure you know that's also explained

01:00:08.160 --> 01:00:16.760
 Commissioner Anderson did you have any follow-up to that or no are you are you

01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:20.880
 finished okay okay yeah I think what we have to make clear which I think you've

01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:25.480
 made clear is I mean the plan is a multimodal plan and so it's to be

01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:29.720
 efficient on all levels of transportation on whether we're in a

01:00:29.720 --> 01:00:35.520
 vehicle or on a bike or walking the plan is is to encompass all of that and one

01:00:35.520 --> 01:00:41.040
 doesn't take away from the other it's all it's it's to make all of the modal

01:00:41.040 --> 01:00:51.440
 modals efficient so I yes Commissioner Anderson I agree with that but I'm just

01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:59.680
 my point is I don't want to waste taxpayers money and funds just for two

01:00:59.680 --> 01:01:03.560
 bicyclists a year and we're gonna spend millions of dollars to make all these

01:01:03.560 --> 01:01:08.800
 paths and lanes all this stuff for two bicyclists a year that you know these

01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:12.560
 business owners see it just I'm looking out for the taxpayers money that's all I

01:01:12.560 --> 01:01:23.280
 mean that's all okay thank you any other questions for self I don't see

01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:26.880
 anything right now Becky thank you this is a public hearing I don't have any

01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:34.120
 cards here but is there anyone who wishes to speak on this do we have anyone

01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:43.040
 on the phones no no it's on the phone okay thank you all right with that I

01:01:43.040 --> 01:01:47.320
 will go ahead and close the public hearing and open the floor for further

01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:52.680
 discussion questions or a motion Commissioner Cole I move for approval

01:01:52.680 --> 01:01:57.880
 okay we've got a first for recommendation of approval of the 2022

01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:03.680
 mobility plan Commissioner Smith saying we've got a first and a second for the

01:02:03.680 --> 01:02:12.480
 approval of the mobility plan as presented any discussion okay seeing

01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:16.120
 none let's go ahead and vote Commissioner Pruitt I Commissioner

01:02:16.120 --> 01:02:22.120
 Smith I Commissioner McDade I Commissioner Cole I Commissioner Villarreal

01:02:22.120 --> 01:02:32.880
 I Commissioner Anderson I chair is also an I that motion carries 7-0 thank you

01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:37.440
 and thank you Becky and Nathan and all of your team for your hard work on this

01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:45.720
 absolutely our pleasure thank you our final public hearing is let's see 5d DCA

01:02:45.720 --> 01:02:53.160
 22 0001 hold a public hearing consider recommendation to City Council regarding

01:02:53.160 --> 01:02:57.240
 the adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton to amend the Denton

01:02:57.240 --> 01:03:03.580
 development code to provide for pathways and trails in section 7.4.7 a and

01:03:03.580 --> 01:03:09.880
 Christy Upton will give us presentation I will open the public hearing

01:03:27.240 --> 01:03:45.600
 I forget where is it sorry where's the side chip okay sorry I always forget

01:03:45.600 --> 01:03:55.520
 that okay sorry Christy Upton and I am with environmental services and today

01:03:55.520 --> 01:04:06.260
 I'll be you might have to put that more in front of you okay today I'll be

01:04:06.260 --> 01:04:16.500
 presenting a ordinance revision to permit for trails and environmentally

01:04:16.500 --> 01:04:23.420
 sensitive areas a little bit of background the City of Denton has has

01:04:23.420 --> 01:04:29.740
 had a particular set of code to protect and preserve environmentally sensitive

01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:35.460
 areas on the books since 2002 and 2018 there were some revisions that were

01:04:35.460 --> 01:04:42.940
 proposed to update that code and both the older version of the code and in the

01:04:42.940 --> 01:04:51.460
 updates the the trail construction remained the same where there is

01:04:51.460 --> 01:04:55.740
 allowances for trail construction in undeveloped flood plains but is

01:04:55.740 --> 01:05:00.740
 currently not permitted in repairing buffers and water related habitats nor

01:05:00.740 --> 01:05:04.140
 in Crest Timbers upland habitats

01:05:04.140 --> 01:05:18.300
 the parks and recreation trails and system master plan was recently updated

01:05:18.300 --> 01:05:24.460
 and that update was adopted and with that new plan there's a promotion of the

01:05:24.460 --> 01:05:29.620
 use of spaces and corridors to that are created by those environmentally sensitive

01:05:29.620 --> 01:05:38.500
 areas so with that concept of using those green spaces for for the trails we

01:05:38.500 --> 01:05:46.340
 identify that the current development code is and semi conflicting with with

01:05:46.340 --> 01:05:52.180
 that that overarching goal of using those green spaces so the city has

01:05:52.180 --> 01:05:57.380
 initiated a code amendment to allow for the trail construction we are trying to

01:05:57.380 --> 01:06:02.100
 limit that that trail construction under certain certain circumstances to kind of

01:06:02.100 --> 01:06:09.620
 create some guidelines on the continue and by creating those guidelines

01:06:09.620 --> 01:06:14.940
 continuing to promote the protection and preservation and maximizing on that

01:06:14.940 --> 01:06:18.740
 protection and preservation of those environmentally sensitive areas and that

01:06:18.740 --> 01:06:25.220
 would be to restrict the construction of the trails that are within that will be

01:06:25.220 --> 01:06:31.760
 either owned and or operate owned and operated by the city or an agreement

01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:39.940
 that the city will be operating those trails within that property the second

01:06:39.940 --> 01:06:44.700
 circumstance would be that those trails be constructed under standards that

01:06:44.700 --> 01:06:48.340
 promote the protection of those environmentally sensitive areas as they're

01:06:48.340 --> 01:06:56.700
 being constructed and this information was in your backup material and this is

01:06:56.700 --> 01:07:02.780
 the specific language that we would be asking to amend through sections to add

01:07:02.780 --> 01:07:08.540
 the language to permit the trail construction and staff recommends the

01:07:08.540 --> 01:07:14.180
 proposal of those code amendments and with that I will conclude my

01:07:14.180 --> 01:07:20.540
 presentation and answer any questions you may have thanks Christy for the

01:07:20.540 --> 01:07:30.700
 screen to come up questions for Christy mr. Perot thank you chair I guess when

01:07:30.700 --> 01:07:36.820
 when we talk about developing the trails in a way that preserves the ESA's is

01:07:36.820 --> 01:07:43.740
 there any what what standards do we look to to ensure that that's that there are

01:07:43.740 --> 01:07:47.420
 some some rigor behind that as opposed to an intention that may or may not be

01:07:47.420 --> 01:07:52.780
 followed depending on the the particular desires at the time sure and staff has

01:07:52.780 --> 01:07:58.900
 been thinking about this a lot and we will be the parks department parks and

01:07:58.900 --> 01:08:03.220
 Recreation Department has put together the parks and Recreation design and

01:08:03.220 --> 01:08:10.380
 construction manual and we are proposing to add some elements to that

01:08:10.380 --> 01:08:18.860
 construction manual that would identify you know some of those points you know of

01:08:18.860 --> 01:08:24.660
 concern that could cause for you know greater damage of the environmentally

01:08:24.660 --> 01:08:29.140
 sensitive areas obviously this is what we're trying to avoid right so

01:08:29.140 --> 01:08:33.980
 maximizing that preservation and protection so the parks department and

01:08:33.980 --> 01:08:37.980
 the environmental services and engineering services will all be

01:08:37.980 --> 01:08:45.940
 working together to come up with those standards to put in that plan okay thank

01:08:45.940 --> 01:08:52.380
 you and one more if I may I understand these two amendments govern the

01:08:52.380 --> 01:09:01.300
 allowable activities in ESA's under the the normal requirements of the DDC can

01:09:01.300 --> 01:09:06.420
 you explain a little bit about what the what the process and limitations would

01:09:06.420 --> 01:09:15.260
 be about trails in similar ESA's if an applicant applied for an alternative ESA

01:09:15.260 --> 01:09:21.780
 so by putting this code amendment into the code let me give you a scenario

01:09:21.780 --> 01:09:31.100
 there's a development who is proposing to dedicate parkland on a portion of the

01:09:31.100 --> 01:09:36.820
 development and the part of that parkland dedication will include some

01:09:36.820 --> 01:09:41.700
 environmental sensitive areas and in order to maximize the use of that parkland

01:09:41.700 --> 01:09:49.480
 some trails will be constructed so in that that scenario the developer will

01:09:49.480 --> 01:09:56.180
 construct the trails then dedicate the parkland to the city so that that trail

01:09:56.180 --> 01:10:01.300
 will be constructed right in the case of an environmentally and alternative

01:10:01.300 --> 01:10:06.900
 environmentally sensitive area plan under the current code they would have had the

01:10:06.900 --> 01:10:12.940
 developer would have to come in and seek for an alternative plan in order to

01:10:12.940 --> 01:10:16.700
 construct that trail so what we're trying to do is we're trying to create

01:10:16.700 --> 01:10:23.500
 the path of to allow for these trail construction without having to seek that

01:10:23.500 --> 01:10:31.500
 specialized permission from the city and I think I think that addresses your

01:10:31.500 --> 01:10:35.420
 question are there other components to that question no I think that that helps

01:10:35.420 --> 01:10:42.220
 thank you I I think this is a very good move you know of trying to balance the

01:10:42.220 --> 01:10:51.540
 community's desires of preservation but to some extent the more that you can

01:10:51.540 --> 01:10:57.700
 make assets community assets available to the community and give them that

01:10:57.700 --> 01:11:03.780
 experience of enjoying it the more benefit we get from that and the more

01:11:03.780 --> 01:11:09.980
 you know cyclical building upon itself sort of appreciation of that

01:11:09.980 --> 01:11:16.140
 preservation that we're trying to do so I appreciate the the effort here and I

01:11:16.140 --> 01:11:21.660
 would just say you know as as this goes forward let's let's make sure that we

01:11:21.660 --> 01:11:28.500
 clearly communicate what you know how how this amendment is actually going to

01:11:28.500 --> 01:11:33.620
 put perhaps more focus on sort of the engineering design of these riparian

01:11:33.620 --> 01:11:38.300
 Issa's so that maybe they get even extra eyes on them then they just naturally

01:11:38.300 --> 01:11:42.700
 would if we weren't taking these steps to really be careful about those areas

01:11:42.700 --> 01:11:47.700
 and I think that's a good good move so thank you thanks Commissioner for it

01:11:47.700 --> 01:11:53.100
 well so any other questions discussion

01:11:53.100 --> 01:11:59.500
 thanks Christine thank you this is a public hearing I don't have any cards is

01:11:59.500 --> 01:12:06.700
 there anyone wishing to speak on this item do we have anyone on the phone for

01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:15.260
 this item no we don't have anyone on phone thank you okay with that I will go

01:12:15.260 --> 01:12:19.340
 ahead and close the public hearing and open the floor for discussion or a

01:12:19.340 --> 01:12:25.980
 motion Commissioner Anderson make a motion to approve Commissioner Villarreal

01:12:25.980 --> 01:12:35.420
 second we've got a first and a second for approval any discussion seeing none

01:12:35.420 --> 01:12:40.460
 let's go ahead and vote Commissioner Pruitt Commissioner Smith Commissioner

01:12:40.460 --> 01:12:48.460
 McDade Commissioner Cole Commissioner Villarreal I Commissioner Anderson hi

01:12:48.460 --> 01:12:56.860
 chair is also an I that motion carries a 7-0 that will take us to our Planning and

01:12:56.860 --> 01:13:05.600
 Zoning Commission matrix and I will turn the floor over to Tina thank you

01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:11.060
 chairman Ellis Tina Fergens planning director so the matrix just a couple of

01:13:11.060 --> 01:13:14.860
 quick items I had to think back to I updated this previously for our meeting

01:13:14.860 --> 01:13:18.600
 on the 23rd a couple areas where I made some additional refinements to the

01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:23.500
 matrix just to add some time associated with it with respect to the fiscal

01:13:23.500 --> 01:13:26.460
 analysis tool and I believe Commissioner Pruitt I know you've been interested in

01:13:26.460 --> 01:13:30.300
 this particular item so we are anticipating bringing that back to the

01:13:30.300 --> 01:13:34.880
 Commission for discussion either in late March or early April as we work with the

01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:38.660
 consultant on getting that prepared for for your consideration and then also

01:13:38.660 --> 01:13:42.460
 we've already talked earlier this evening about the area plans and so we'll be

01:13:42.460 --> 01:13:46.820
 bringing that back at your next meeting for discussion otherwise everything else

01:13:46.820 --> 01:13:50.740
 on the matrix pretty much remains the same in terms of projects that council

01:13:50.740 --> 01:13:55.980
 took action on in since your last meeting the only zoning case that we've

01:13:55.980 --> 01:14:01.180
 had in which council considered was the Kingsway proposed PD amendment council

01:14:01.180 --> 01:14:06.580
 in the end ended up not moving forward with that and so the developer will have

01:14:06.580 --> 01:14:10.180
 the option to build in accordance with their approved preliminary plat for that

01:14:10.180 --> 01:14:14.380
 particular property and then also I know Commissioner Ellis had sent me an email

01:14:14.380 --> 01:14:17.500
 and was interested in knowing what happened with the plats that were

01:14:17.500 --> 01:14:24.100
 slated for the Commission's agenda on February 23rd and and so we went back

01:14:24.100 --> 01:14:28.660
 and looked at the list we were able to get one of the plats to actually an

01:14:28.660 --> 01:14:34.980
 approval status and that was the DC or the Denton ICC edition so that plot has

01:14:34.980 --> 01:14:39.060
 been approved the other plots we were able to get them to successfully withdraw

01:14:39.060 --> 01:14:44.080
 and so that way we did not have any plots getting approved that we were not

01:14:44.080 --> 01:14:47.980
 interested in having approved in my apologies I know there were some

01:14:47.980 --> 01:14:51.180
 inquiries as to whether or not we were going to have that February 23rd meeting

01:14:51.180 --> 01:14:54.740
 and as the weather was approaching we were actually in the process of working

01:14:54.740 --> 01:14:58.460
 with our applicants and in trying to get them to withdraw plats particularly

01:14:58.460 --> 01:15:02.140
 those that were of concern and working with them on how we could get them back

01:15:02.140 --> 01:15:04.860
 before the planning and zoning Commission and get them in a much more

01:15:04.860 --> 01:15:08.980
 desirable status for approval so our apologies for getting the word out on

01:15:08.980 --> 01:15:12.060
 canceling the meeting late that afternoon but know that we were

01:15:12.060 --> 01:15:15.500
 frantically working on that of course we also wanted to have a recommendation on

01:15:15.500 --> 01:15:19.060
 the on the comprehensive plan and mobility plan but of most concern for us

01:15:19.060 --> 01:15:23.500
 was any plats and what their status was related to that but that's all I have as

01:15:23.500 --> 01:15:26.420
 it relates to the matrix I know Commissioner Smith you alluded to earlier

01:15:26.420 --> 01:15:29.220
 and might be interested in adding something related to that but happy

01:15:29.220 --> 01:15:32.200
 answer any other questions as well yeah the only thing I just wanted to have on

01:15:32.200 --> 01:15:35.820
 there with those those action items having something on the matrix that would

01:15:35.820 --> 01:15:39.260
 address where we are towards those action items as we go through and if it

01:15:39.260 --> 01:15:42.700
 goes to council and gets approved for the 2040 plan that give us an update

01:15:42.700 --> 01:15:47.260
 nothing nothing super in-depth more than just we've knocked out this item this

01:15:47.260 --> 01:15:49.860
 item this item something along those lines just so we know they're getting

01:15:49.860 --> 01:15:54.300
 done and then whenever just in the event that you know we don't want Tina or

01:15:54.300 --> 01:15:58.420
 anybody else to go anywhere anytime soon but people change jobs and if it takes a

01:15:58.420 --> 01:16:01.220
 long time to get those action items implemented in the works we want to make

01:16:01.220 --> 01:16:04.980
 sure that there's some homogeneity between those as we get this done okay

01:16:04.980 --> 01:16:09.420
 absolutely we can do that thanks anything else for the matrix Commissioner

01:16:09.420 --> 01:16:15.580
 Prudt thank you chair I think on tonight's agenda we had one sort of

01:16:15.580 --> 01:16:22.740
 postponement due to a problem with noticing and we've had several similar

01:16:22.740 --> 01:16:27.540
 cases within the last call it six to nine months I don't really have context

01:16:27.540 --> 01:16:33.180
 for whether the occurrence of those has been about normal or excessive I also

01:16:33.180 --> 01:16:37.660
 don't even know which ones of those are our city noticed versus developer

01:16:37.660 --> 01:16:43.020
 noticed so we don't have to have anything big but just kind of how we're

01:16:43.020 --> 01:16:47.580
 doing how we're tracking are there any things that we need to implement to make

01:16:47.580 --> 01:16:53.140
 sure that we don't confuse the community before these public hearings absolutely

01:16:53.140 --> 01:17:00.540
 we can bring that back and have a conversation on that anything else for

01:17:00.540 --> 01:17:06.940
 the matrix okay any concluding items

01:17:07.580 --> 01:17:13.460
 Commissioner Cole I just want to say thank you to all your hard work I know

01:17:13.460 --> 01:17:19.260
 y'all just been really burning the midnight oil and all this and just we're

01:17:19.260 --> 01:17:23.620
 we're just lucky to have you guys the city didn't is lucky to have y'all thank

01:17:23.620 --> 01:17:28.860
 y'all for everything you are doing and all the hard work put in thank you I'm

01:17:28.860 --> 01:17:32.300
 I'm just the one standing up here but really it's my team working diligently

01:17:32.300 --> 01:17:36.700
 behind the scenes so it's all in due credit to them because they're the ones

01:17:36.700 --> 01:17:40.980
 that are working the hardest so thank you but we appreciate the recognition I

01:17:40.980 --> 01:17:45.460
 agree Commissioner Cole I will second all of that that he said thank you for

01:17:45.460 --> 01:17:50.700
 all of your hard work anything else concluding items I'll just say

01:17:50.700 --> 01:17:57.140
 congratulations to our city manager being taken out of interim status so

01:17:57.140 --> 01:18:03.460
 congratulations to city manager Hensley it's nice that she's on board working

01:18:03.460 --> 01:18:08.380
 hard as she always has okay with that I will conclude our meeting at some 41 p.m.

01:18:08.380 --> 01:18:10.980
 thank you