Aug 01, 2023 City Council on 2023-08-01 11:00 AM (Joint with Planning & Zoning Comm. and NE Denton Area Plan Steering Cmte.)

and begin so if you can call you your respective meetings to order okay uh today is tuesday august first 2023 it is 11.09 a.m and we have a forum so i'll call the city council portion of the meeting order and with the forum present on the planning and zoning commission i will call our meetings okay so we only have one thing on our agenda today uh just to set the staff will do it as well but it's a gather input from all parties then we will uh the council will make a recommendation but want to make sure we have a good conversation around that decisions so with that first items item a id 231193 receive report hold discussion give staff direction regarding draft scenarios for the northeast end area plan thank you mayor tina fergens i'm the deputy director of development services so again as the mayor mentioned the goal for today is to have a collective discussion amongst the commission and the steering committee and council but ultimately we do need to receive policy direction from city council since they requested us to be able to do this project and they customarily provide policy direction for the city um ultimately our goal coming out of the meeting today is to receive direction regarding one of the two scenarios that is being presented and hence where we need your feedback we do request that um so shy ruse with hdr is on the consultant team that the city has retained to assist us with this project so i do ask that the group um allow her to get through the various sections of her presentation we've got some breaks programmed in to allow for some opportunities for question and clarification but really our goal is to get to the proposed scenarios um so that we can have the discussion there and receive that feedback if we start to go down a rabbit trail on a particular item let's make note of what that is we can always come back at the end of the meeting time permitting and with that uh mayor chair ellis if you do not have any questions of our team i'm going to go ahead and turn it over to shy yeah i would like predicate though and so if it's a question that you can't note without a question and to the presenter by all means otherwise just note your question we'll come back to it but if it's something that is absolutely critical that hey i can't formulate my question and else i know that please get my attention let's address those but other than that we're going to try to it just be impossible the questions will take over so all right thank you yes thank you so thank you tina and um good morning everyone and again thank you all so much for your time today we'll move on to our slide here i'd especially like to thank the council appointed 15 members steering committee that has been instrumental in guiding the project team to get the project to this stage so jumping to the project overview part the background part here the northeast denton area plan is a result of the 2040 comprehensive plan recommendation to study this area in further detail in april of 2022 the city council directed staff to proceed with preparation of a community community-based vision for the northeast denton area the key purpose of this area plan was to respond effectively and efficiently to the developments that are being proposed in this area and the resulting concerns raised by the community related to land use traffic open space and the lack of environmental protection in the area so this area is bounded by clear creek to the east us 380 to the south loop 288 and fm 428 to the west and to the north by e sherman or the future the future outer loop so the one one thing to know about this area though is out of this 8500 acre study area only about 47 percent is in the city limits and the majority which is over 53 percent is in the outside and not outside the city's jurisdiction so the biggest challenge for any planning effort in this area is that the city can only influence development on 47 percent of this study area unless the property owners choose to annex into the city so this plan shows in the slides in the next you'll see that this plan shows recommendations for future land use in the etj area which is in the county sphere of influence only so that the city will be prepared in case these property owners or developers choose to annex into the city in the future therefore when you see land use or policy ideas that are outside city limits please keep in mind that at this time the city cannot ensure that these ideas or proposed uses will happen so in addition to addressing the development the purpose of this plan is also to ensure an inclusive community dialogue to develop a collective vision for the future of the area to identify areas of change or areas of preservation and to develop some ideas for future improvements and to make recommendations about the capital improvements to meet this collective vision of the community here's a quick look at the timeline for the planning process we spent january through april in the area collecting data researching and engaging the community we presented our findings it doesn't point my apologies we presented these findings to the steering committee in may and also worked with the steering committee to finalize a draft of the vision statement at this meeting and we spent the summer developing two scenarios their options and both of which reflect the vision statement once we have direction from you on which scenario to use we will incorporate your feedback into our recommendations and then spend the next three months getting community input in various settings like an open house online and public public hearings the anticipated adoption date for this plan is november of 2023 so as mentioned we engaged the community for four months the goal was to involve and to understand the vision the desires the challenges of all stakeholders of the northeast area the current residents as well as the stakeholders like business owners property owners that don't reside in the area visitors workforce and even future residents of this area with this in mind we started with stakeholder interviews with 25 people then for the community at large we conducted two in-person visioning workshops and an online survey 265 people attended the in-person workshop 44 people took the online survey we then conducted a strategic foresight workshop with 39 participants that ranged across all age groups professional backgrounds and interests in northeast denton and so on a detailed description of the community engagement events and the results are posted online on discuss denton under the project link so if the participants total participants 201 provided their addresses we've mapped these here for you of these 201 overall 89 were city residents 112 were county residents out of those 201 participants 140 people lived in the northeast denton area plan study area and of those part of our participants living in the study area 43 live within the city limits and 97 live in the county so in summary in the stakeholder interviews we heard that elected officials wanted this plan to manage expectations residents wanted to keep the zoning as is meaning five acre minimum lots preserve green space preserve small town rural environment and developers wanted some higher density with in to allow the preservation of open space or to be allowed to build according to market demand everyone agreed that respecting and preserving the natural environment of northeast denton is important here we see what some of the summary of what we the themes that we saw coming out of the visioning workshop and these themes are preserving natural field preserving green spaces maintaining rural area limiting construction keeping the area affordable enhancing outdoor activities and making the area walkable we also held the strategic foresight workshop where we asked the participants to consider future trends and imagine potential scenarios for the year 2050 so during the workshop again the consensus was on preserving and celebrating the natural environment the majority asked for no more apartments but not all stakeholders were against apartments in fact a diversity of housing and live work environment but in a rural setting were popular among the majority of the participants and the scenarios we we took the vision statement generated at this workshop and conducted an online voting we received 123 responses of these 69 responses voted for the vision statement developed by the friends of northeast denton we presented this to the steering committee and the committee modified some of the words and phrases what you see here is the steering committee recommendation i won't read the whole statement but as you can see we've highlighted the central themes of this vision statement environmental preservation rural character conservation development and an area that is valued and enjoyed by all of dentin so keeping these main themes in mind we started our existing conditions analysis with natural systems so the purpose of the map to the left shows you the existing floodplain on the map to the right you can see that there are creeks and channels in the area that are not fema designated however these still function like the land in the floodplain in our environmentally fragile areas that should be cared for similar to the land designated in the floodplain as we've seen in the northeast denton area itself any development whether it's agriculture or five acre lots or higher density it all requires repairing restoring preservation and or enhancement strategies if we want to preserve a natural environment or natural systems so we studied these five types of environmentally sensitive areas designated by the city of denton and the existing ecosystems to understand areas needing repair and restoration due to the impacts of existing development and lack of maintenance and the areas needing preservation and the areas where enhanced interventions could mitigate the impacts of future developments we wanted to determine the strategies that would be needed depending upon the type of development so we then also analyze conditions that may impact the future of this area as you can see on this map growth is moving not just towards dentin but also towards northeast dentin specifically the thoroughfare plan here shows northeast dentin study area bounded on all sides by major existing or proposed regional thoroughfares making it easily accessible to the rest of the region with two major universities a lively downtown eclectic music and art scene and a unique vibe denton's popularity as a place to live is only going to increase and thereby bring more development to the northeast dentin area large parcel developments large parcels of undeveloped land under single ownership in the study area will be instrumental in shaping the future of this area but as you can see on this map only only properties labeled one five six and seven are in the city limits with property labeled five being city owned parkland all the rest of the large properties are in the etj and outside city's ability to influence any future development on this land unless these property owners or developers choose to annex into the city in the future a summary of the developable land analysis shows 3,300 acres or 45 percent of the land area is protected flood zone and parkland but there is still 3,000 acres or 30 percent of the study area that is undeveloped surrounded by well-connected existing future transportation network directly in the path of development especially coming west along us 380 from mckinney to aubrey to denton there is also 24 percent of developed land that can always be redeveloped and again all of this the city can only influence development on about 47 percent of this area next we'll uh i'm sorry yeah next we looked at the demographics that will influence the future development the largest population as you can see on this slide especially in the study area is gen gen z which is people aged between eight six and 25 in the northeast denton study area 57 population is under the age of 40 and citywide over 60 of the population is under the age of 40 we also looked at workforce in the area as you can see 1361 people come into this area daily and that is before counting the employment that will be created from the new warehouse and industrial developments along mingle road these workers are also people who might look to move to northeast denton to be closer to their jobs these are some of the factors to consider address and balance alongside the community input to choose the future scenario for the northeast denton for the project team to develop further so before we continue um we'll open it up for any questions up until this point if you all have um okay question of clarification to make sure you yeah i'm sorry so shea sorry vicki mcgovern i'm a part of the steering committee i'm part of the etj so shea you had mentioned that the city has no um say if you will in anything in the etj and i just want to clarify the question is there not a collaboration at all between the county and the city that's that's point one number two i will say that i recently as being part of the etj replatted my land of seven acres and i was oversaw seen if you will by the city so there is some level of influence because i had to go through the city to get that replat done so i just want for the broader spectrum to know that there is some level and i'd like clarity on the collaboration of that sure and that's a that's a question we'll come back to certainly thank you uh i've noted it staff's noted it we will councilman watts yeah just just a couple of data questions um i'll try to go backwards so that i remember on the slide that shows the develop area i think it's slide 24 to 30 percent and all that we can go back to that i just want to understand for my own it's got the little high graph i'm sorry i'm trying to go back circle a little right there uh is that just the acreage within the city limit boundaries of the plan is that the total plan i'm sorry could you repeat that sure are the acreage uh numbers represented on this slide based upon the 8500 acres of the plan or the just the city portion 8500 acres sir do you know what the breakdown is for the city land that's in the plan for that slide not off the top of my head but i can definitely calculate it by the end sure uh there's just a couple more mayor sorry um let's see uh on the floodplain on the slide that shows the floodplain and the acreage associated with it you said there's so many acres in the floodplain and now i'm okay just so that i understand any acreage calculations moving forward in the presentation are based upon the 8500 there's nothing that says hey here's what's in the city floodplain here's what's in the etj or county floodplain is that okay so then on the floodplain so if i could get that as well that breakdown if we could on what floodplain is in the city and what designated floodplain by fema and so then total not when you say the total number of acres in the floodplain is that representing the acreage that's designated by fema plus the acreage you say quote unquote functions as a floodplain no only the acreage designated by fema is calculated in the floodplain okay all right uh let's see uh i think that i've got other questions but they're more substantive questions or not okay so then my understanding is the the acreage of the largest landowners is in the city portion where those four landowners yes one five six one five six seven and that totaled up 1538 acres when you add those up and then you're saying how much of the plan is in the city is was it 4,000 or 3,800 or 47 percent of 8,500 approximately here or there okay all right thank you mayor appreciate it yeah and i'm sorry i can't see you that's that march yeah i just got also equal kind of clarification on data so when you said the average home is low three hundreds are those new homes in the area or those existing homes in the area i heard the number new cost cost on homes is low three hundreds yeah i'm just asking this because i can't find a home of under three hundred and ninety thousand dollars in the area anyway in the area in that area so i'm just kind of qualifying when we talk about affordability on homes and you say low 300 i'm not finding anything under 390 in that area that's new i'm writing we're talking about new development here i'm sorry one second let me find out where the 300,000 numbers come from oh okay that was from stakeholder interviews my apologies so in the stakeholder interviews that is what the developers had presented is what the starter home is at okay i did they qualify where they were looking at in i was told in denton a starter home is considered 300,000 is what the ideal is that not really narrowed down to and then secondly um i think there's some just just disconnect between how many people voted for the options other than the seven proposed vision statements um if i i recall correctly there were 189 other votes aside from the seven proposed vision statements i just want to kind of clarify because you said that there were 70 or whatever it was that were specifically copy and paste it from what we proposed but i understand there was a significant other amount that modified that i just want to make sure that we're aware that it was substantially larger amount of people that voted for anything other than the seven i will need to go back and double check how many because my data that i did look at for this presentation i had 123 total people that responded to it so i will double check where the 189 numbers come from and i'll get back to you that's it okay okay go right ahead yes at the end that that i've noted it but i don't i don't know that there's an answer we can give you that would then inform other questions it's just a question generally uh for the for the group but in summary and i've noted all of them and noticed i didn't answer any of them because we're going to let her finish but i i hope that the information provided helps people jot down their questions for the end of presentation that's my goal okay so looking at both scenarios that are being presented today meet the vision statement they both prioritize environmental preservation they both honor the rural character of the area and both recommend conservation development that protects open space and greenways and both strive to establish northeast denton as a special area for all of denton to enjoy so without further ado the two scenarios are business as usual and balancing act the business as usual scenario is based on just the community desire without accounting for the development the balancing act scenario is based on community desire while accounting for the future developments we developed a set of character areas and roadway cross sections that would be compatible with the vision statement as well as serve the needs of the proposed and anticipated types of future developments as again as i mentioned previously an important point to keep in mind is that while we show land uses and roadway recommendations in the etj outside the city limits this is just aspirational and in case property owners wish to annex otherwise the city has no jurisdiction to ensure that these land uses and densities are in fact followed i'll describe the character areas and then come back so you can relate the colors on the map to the character areas better so the green on the maps is meant for the conservation or the natural areas for environmental protection as well as for recreation areas and then the yellow is rural residential two to five acre lots the orange is residential transition an area about three to five dwelling units per acre overall density but with some neighborhood retail and large public open spaces to transition the high intensity uses into the rural residential and then the dark lime which you'll see at the intersection of mingo and collins road is a rural village center this area is envisioned as a mix of residential and commercial uses in one or two story buildings with a rural village feel main main street style setting and this land use we want to let you know we've shown it in this area but it could be used as a transition between residential and residential transition in other areas as appropriate these three character areas gateway town center and industrial were developed to respond to some of the existing and anticipated future developments based on regional transportation improvements in the area the purpose of these character areas is to provide development guidelines to ensure preservation and enhancement of natural areas while accommodating the grocery stores and retail the community wanted as you can see in this town center image at the bottom providing higher density on a smaller land area can allow for preservation of larger open spaces so coming back to the scenarios first business as usual under business as usual most of the study area is designated as rural residential this is regardless of the future plans for expansion of 428 or into a six lane thoroughfare and the construction of outer loop north along Sherman in addition to the rural residential business as usual provides for residential transition and industrial on the southern edges to us 380 and loop 288 next looking at the balancing act the balancing act scenario considers market impact of these regional thoroughfares yeah the second to the right is the balancing act and this one considers in addition to the regional thoroughfares it does consider current and future younger demographics in this study area and citywide so north of bottom circle you can see on the map here and adjacent to the outer loop and fm428 these areas have been designated for gateway and town center uses residential transition is proposed just south of these higher intensity uses with rural residential and conservation areas to protect the natural environment in this scenario the area between fm428 loop 288 and ferrish road the orange area to the west of sorry the rural residential this has been designated as residential transition in this scenario this reflects some of the existing developments in this area and it also is a means to balance the development and preservation by allowing for more density but with larger public open spaces we hope that this will both protect the rural residential and the natural environment in the to the east in addition this also keeps the cost of infrastructure cost of new infrastructure lower by allowing for new development to happen where the existing infrastructure is the next few slides are just examples to help everyone envision what residential transition areas and the rural residential could look like and how these character areas relate to the vision statement so the red shows you where this site plan has been considered or some ideas of this site plan if you stand in on collins there's a little directional map up there showing where the person standing and the view looking out towards rural residential again there's a little map showing where the view is looking towards the park you can see these are all one or two story buildings this one is standing at the edge looking towards the industrial and then on this one it's up on the north where on one side you're looking out into rural residential seeing some of the residential transition and then looking into your more mixed use type from one location so going forward we assume densities for each scenario and calculated rough estimates of the traffic counts these are definitely not traffic impact analysis level trip generation but have only been developed to give us an idea about the cross section street cross sections that would be needed for both people and cars to navigate the area safely in the future the one thing i'd like to point out in this is that while the land use shown in the etj south of heartley field is the same in both scenarios if you can see the 3460 and on the other it is 27750 so this is because in the balancing act scenario we counted existing lots and houses and then assume market densities similar to the current development applications that the city's been receiving from the developers for the rest of the area so we added the two and the thought here was that while the city can deny these applications in the city limits in the etj the developers can just move these proposals to the county area as the demand for housing in this area increases so using these densities and traffic counts we develop the roadway infrastructure for each scenario a key difference from the existing thoroughfare plan that we'd shown earlier to this one is that the proposed east west primary arterial has been downgraded to a secondary arterial and it does not go past the green belt anymore also while we kept the classification names the secondary arterial commercial collector these names are the same as they exist in the current city thoroughfare plan we are proposing cross sections that will be more compatible with the vision for the area so here's some examples of the cross section for secondary arterial which is rural section section of heartley field road between collins road and chorus these are two options you can use them in that section then here is a secondary arterial cross section for the residential transition area which would be west of heartley field so you can see we're trying to make sure that the cross sections in this area do match the vision and the character of the area so we also studied so and we we performed an environmental and fiscal impact for both the scenarios for environmental impact we considered land in both city limits and outside the city limits but for fiscal impact we only considered land within the city limits in business as usual scenario we assume needing restoration and preservation strategies one of the main environmental mitigation challenges in this scenario is the large land set asides that will be needed to offset the lower density development sprawl which becomes difficult with privately owned properties and open space for for balancing act we assumed repair and enhance strategies in addition to the restoration and preservation strategies while in this scenario targeted development areas allow for more publicly accessible land to incorporate the restoration and preservation lack of certainty about specific development configurations makes it difficult to plan improvements without major public investment so in summary both scenarios have their own challenges in implementing the environmental strategies and they both have similar costs the balancing scenario cost estimates are 25 to 50 million higher however the balancing act scenario also includes strategies for repair and enhancement of the natural systems and it also allows for considerable cost burden to be shifted from public sector to private sector we use city's fiscal impact model to conduct a high level analysis of property but as mentioned earlier we only applied this model to within the city limits to each of the scenario we use this model to calculate the revenues and the expenditures that is to get the net city fiscal impact for each of the scenarios over 40 years let's start with business yeah let's start with business as usual scenario in this scenario we used assumptions that you see on the slide here the rural residential has five acre lots and residential transition is a blend of small lots we assume that the areas south of hardly feel are similar on both the business as usual and the balancing act scenario and this is because in this scenario it's likely that the county areas may develop high with higher densities and the traffic generated from this higher development will leave the etj and travel onto the city roads when planning for infrastructure costs the city will want to be prepared to build infrastructure to accommodate these higher traffic counts in the balancing act scenario we use densities you see here on the slide for for example was modeled with development clustered together in open spaces i am obviously reading from the wrong thing so let me go back to the slide here my apologies so we did look at both the we had some assumptions for these business as usual as well as the balancing act and the only difference is in the business as usual south of heartley field we considered it exactly the same as we did for the balancing act and like i said earlier the reason for this was that we don't know how it will develop and the city will want to be prepared in case there is a higher density development that goes in there that you all can't control because that traffic will come on to your city streets in addition the way we looked at the assumptions was for business as usual we had it laid out as the entire area divided into lots five acre lots and basically what that did was it passed on the maintenance and restoration of natural environment the cost of it to the private property owner in our balancing act we we assumed that the development would occur on a smaller pocket with higher amount of land publicly accessible land at which time the costs of environmental protection or maintenance went away or the private property owner was relieved of that cost so looking at the two estimates what we got was for business as usual your net impact is 2.3 billion and for balancing act it's 6.3 billion the additional open space you get for business as usual is 442 acres and for balancing act is 627 acres so summarizing this the difference is that the main difference is that we basically have a fiscal impact on the city's general fund with the balancing act scenario results in four billion dollars more in revenue and almost 200 acres more in publicly available open space the cost estimates for mitigating environmental impacts at about 25 to 50 million less in business as usual than in the balancing act scenario with most of the restoration left to individual property owners but the main difference in these scenarios is that the balancing act scenario prepares the city for future infrastructure needs and also allows for sharing of infrastructure and environmental mitigation costs with private development so these are quick summary takeaways now we'd like to ask you all for direction on today the direction on one of these two scenarios business as usual or the balancing act yes sir yeah um that concludes your presentation okay great do you have the answers to those other questions before we dig in so questions yeah the questions one was around uh collaboration with county i know we have to answer that because i already asked it and so it's on the sheet if someone wants to just read it with respect to how the city and county collaborate um on so in terms of the city and county collaboration i'll be uh i don't know which number you're referring to because i just received this but normally we do have good strong partnership in collaboration with denton county that's why we have stephen belknap here that is serving on the steering committee as well so and the bottom line is platting authority in our etj area etj one we had an interlocal agreement with denton county in etj one the city provides platting etj two the county provides platting so in denton county someone that does not live in a corporate limit will plat their property and have to follow subdivision regulations it does not address the number of buildings the size of buildings the use of buildings or the mass of buildings and the only regulation then with the city is an etj one and it relates to the platting authority and sorry may i just add so when we said that city has no jurisdiction or cannot influence development we're talking about land use authority so you can divide subdivide a property you have to subdivide it well the city has to say yes as long as all the utilities are provided to the property but the city cannot say no to land use right bear with me let me give you your first rate uh and then um land amount of land in the city in the plan did you have a chance to look at that so that was councilmember watts's question you can come back to it if you hadn't we'll have to follow up with that we're calculating very good and same within the floodplain still calculate got it okay and then um how many people voted that you you have you still calculating looking at that right 123 versus 189 yeah i just need to go back to the okay yeah no problem just wanted to touch on them okay uh councilmember melts so thank you very much for your indulgence yeah thank you um i want to track a little bit of the sequence of events and and add a very important piece uh attended a okay i want to track a little bit of the sequence of events and add a very important piece i attended some of the community input and i think a very telling exercise that's reflected in everything here was the the visual one where people placed red dots by images of various types of development and and uh by and large if the rectangle was predominantly green correct me if i'm wrong that's where the red dots were anything vertical construction pavement not uh and that's uh that's reflected in the vision statement that came out from the steering committee i think we're talking about early may uh that talks about prioritizing environmental preservation and healthy recreation honoring rural character protecting open space and greenways and establishing northeast dentin is a special place for all of dentin to enjoy now we also heard that the city only influences 40 some odd percent because it's etj but as i get to this last event i ask you well who does influence in the city and out of the city i'm going to answer that question in late may after our meetings after these two uh visions were kind of crafted governor greg abbott signs legislation authorizing a billion dollar fund to buy land for new parks and expand existing ones now you might say well what would they notice our little part of the world even though we're one of the fastest growing parts of texas well tell you who the author of the bill and the resolution was in the house who's tan parker tan parker from flower mound uh so when i look at the the bipartisan acknowledgement that texas is under parked when i look at the fact that our population is growing and our parks per park acreage per capita is shrinking and the fact that this area has a variety of ecosystems it has already planned accessibility and that uh this direction could provide a fair return to landowners and achieve the preservation goals that the neighborhood so clearly requires uh i i ask that that be uh investigated seriously as an option i've mentioned it to staff and the response has been interesting we'll monitor with all due respect i don't think that's how you get it done i think it requires putting together a proposal and a plan that speaks to the ecosystems the accessibility the population growth the unique features and the fact that it could be adjacent to clear creek reminds me of how big ben's got a state park adjacent to a big national park you could have a big contiguous area so uh uh submitted for your consideration all right um so i'm going to thank you appreciate it we only have an hour if you want to hear from them speaking then then we'll have to be uh a little more efficient so thank you very much i appreciate your support for the comments um that being said any anyone asked a question hadn't asked question first time around let's get those uh this goes suzy and then uh did i see your hand councilman bird oh no okay and then mayor pro tem suzy and the mayor i was curious if the fiscal analysis included i was curious if the fiscal analysis included um anything beyond when we actually replace the infrastructure because 40 is a little around the time we might start to replace or a little before we start to replace infrastructure i know we've got the next bond that's going to come up is going to be road heavy a lot of that is road replacement reconstruction that kind of thing so i'm curious if we're accounting for that when we're comparing the option a option b the replacement part all right sorry i've got a big voice anyway i work first i am a senior commiss with uh in north texas area the particular model that we were using which is the one that is developed by okay which is the one that it has been development is being used by the city of denton i understand does take into account some of the um replacement costs especially what you're doing with roads especially since uh this particular physical impact model went out 40 years so yes that's something i did notice a lot of them uh physical impact models go from about 20 to 30 but this one does go out and did take into account um the replacement of particular types of roads thank you all um so i'm going to follow up with that with another a couple of economic questions for the model which i was unclear on um if we're it seems like the the correct me if i'm wrong that the the fiscal impact was just the region just the 8,500 acres less than 8,500 acres the fiscal impact was only that property that's in city limits because outside there's no tax revenue coming in so the the 39.95 or 4,000 acres that's about 4,000 yes sir um okay so um when we're doing this sort of analysis we have to take into account i think um the a couple of environmental factors and and economic factors that i'm not sure i want to ask about um when in general a lot of the factors uh for economics both in the region and in the detton region writ large will be determined by uh vmt vehicle miles traveled and so if if you're looking at the the number of vehicle miles traveled it'll it'll impact the environmental costs and the roadway installation costs and the roadway replacement costs and so i i'm curious if you have an assessment on the sort of level of vmt that changes between the two models and if you consider um the city as a whole uh because that that's a destination point for the city it's envisioned as a destination point for the city and so what are the what are the roadway impacts and both in terms of installation replacement and then when we're doing stormwater runoff um lower levels of miles and different types of road installation will and the vmt's on those different types of roads say etj roads where they might be bar ditch or something else will will impact environmental costs and remediation costs so i know that was a lot but it all circles around what are the vmt's and what are the associated costs environmental and economic of the vmt's so i was gonna try to answer the environmental side so with the environmental costs we did consider what you've just talked about the vehicle miles travel the impact of it and doing that whole stormwater infrastructure that will be needed and now i'll let um on the physical impact portion um yes it was separated from the the environmental and they did a a separate portion to uh put that into the overall analysis so with the physical impact yes the um not specifically vmt but essentially the road uh ways were uh impacted as far as the lane miles and so the for the various scenarios that went on we adjusted the lane miles which then adjusted that and took into account the vmt and the road in the traffic and it also not only is just the lane miles that are increased but the type of road whether it's going to be asphalt or concrete so those two combinations had an impact on that particular uh model used by the city in order to uh bring in a lot of the issues that you're talking about as far as vmt as far as traffic and those are portions that go into that particular impact model okay first time questions anyone else before we go back around seeing none okay um i think travis you had it succinctly as possible and then um vicki and councilor watson yeah i guess i got two questions so the first one is kind of relating to uh mr brian back here said um so when we talk about this movement of vehicle vehicles and stuff we has anybody studied the impact that this is going to have on the inner city of denton in terms of we've got all these allocated money that's going to be going to this area granted i as a as a neighbor of northeast denton when i go wanting the village type feel i go into downtown right because that's exactly what it is when i talk to people about this the question becomes why even go downtown anymore if there's a village place right there so has anybody studied the impact of not infilling downtown but rather moving that stuff that makes downtown unique outward toward us what impact is that going to have on downtown that's my first question but all wait yeah i don't well i'll take i'll take staff so it's outside it's a question about outside the area right uh and so i'll however you want to address that well as population grows so too will be those those centers that we need to have so we reduce traffic by virtue of having different city centers if you will um where those where those people can congregate or go do what it is that they're doing so i i think it's i think it's somewhat in the equation shia and we are collaborating with the consultant who's doing your downtown redevelopment plan anyways so some of these ideas we're going to make sure that we're not recommending something in one part of your city that the other part of the city is going to get damaged by so we are collaborating and downtown will have a very distinct special vibe it definitely will not be the rural village center it will probably end up being more vibrant and more intense okay shy can you please put up slide 31 do i need the mic yes so i just want to this is a clarifying comment no sorry it was one of the other ones that showed the um the higher density the orange and the yellow but you had the numbers listed in the traffic analysis so i want to just point out south first off heartley field road is a county maintained road except for at the very end down here that's number one number two this is existing i'm sorry this is existing neighborhood in here anything west of ferris is existing neighborhood i happen to be as i mentioned i'm on a was on a seven acre parcel and i replatted and my restrictions because we were on septic and a well means one house per two acres all of that this neighborhood anything west of ferris is all under those restrictions so when you talk about raising the count west of ferris to 13 000 trips by the way calculated at the rates that the city has come up with that's seven thousand additional homes outside of the existing neighborhoods so unless you're going to mow those down i don't know how we're fitting seven thousand homes and in this little area but no there are restrictions because we're on septics and wells so may i answer that one sir so what we've done is in business as usual we actually didn't take into account the houses that are existing in that area south of heartley we assumed five acres only five acres one lot per five acres kind of as you can see that's the existing homes plus one lot for five acres that is all we did in the balancing act we actually counted the homes that were already there looked at the undeveloped property for example there is reed property that is completely vacant undeveloped on the other side of cooper but there is a empty property so what we did was we took into account we counted those lots that are existing the homes that are existing then we counted the acreage that was blank and then we put the density we're talking about on that acreage so that's together that's what we got but you're putting a ton of houses on a small the reeds area is not that big okay so i'm assuming they're they're mapped it's a standard equation you can by all means so if you can write down or jot down a follow-up with the size of the acreage in the in the algorithm or the formula and then you can you can punch that number those numbers okay so councilman watts yeah and i think for clarification on the acreage for a septic or a water well i think that's a county and a state red the city doesn't regulate that so i just have a question of clarification these are the two plans right the business as usual options and so i want to make sure that i'm looking at this right the only difference that i see in these two are primarily right here everything else looks about the same if you if you were to make these colors orange so this right here is the same this area this area is the same this area is not so but this area is the same am i so we're really talking about as far as the plan either as usual or with a balancing taking in development into consideration we're talking about this area here and then these areas up here is that am i reading that right yes sir okay do you know how many acres these comprise yes we actually have it somewhere we do i don't have it off the top but i have it on my spreadsheet i can okay and as a follow-up are all of these areas in the city or some of them in the county so north of heartley field is in the city are you talking about where it says 12 110 or one yes 12 110 and 1162 okay so this is in the city the 13 328 and 27 750 is in the county and as i talked about before the reason those numbers are higher is because the city has no influence on the density that goes there so we assumed that people would build according to what the market demand is very important point because on the city council and well funding zoning doesn't have to deal with it on city council we are approached all the time with muds and with mnds that are in the county and i think it's pretty clear to say we have very little if zero folks zero regulation ability over those areas so it doesn't matter what we do here it doesn't matter what we do here on this plan because it's gonna that's not going to affect this right here because we have no say this area right here because this is in the county so this is in the city what about the 14 185 i'm assuming that's in the county because the number is so high no that one is in this this is right around it hot well what number is it yes okay so this is in the county which is this line here okay and what about up here how many acreage here in the city the seven three one one twelve three seven seven and sixteen thousand that's in the city limits so these three along the highway yes along 428 yes all right so i'm just going to say this isn't ready for city council vote we we spent a year on six thousand acres off i-35 talking about physical impact talking about things such as that there is no way i'm not voting on either one of these because there's no way there's enough information to understand what's going on here i mean it's just it's crazy so i think we need to we need to this is the first time the city council has seen this and i know a couple council members have been involved in this process which is disappointing because i would think that given the the importance of this item to the community both the people in the city and the people in the county we are asked as policymakers in a two-hour meeting yes to decide this that's that's nothing because because if i had to vote if i had to vote today i would vote on the balancing act because that's what i can control and in fact if these people really i mean i don't i'm telling you all you got to do is look out 380 heading west we've got 7 000 homes going out there in the etj we cannot control at all and you know where they're going to come start looking next so we've got to figure out a way to do this right and this isn't it and paul maybe you know having some time to petition to see hey if there's some property owners in here and folks i would say i'm number one on private property rights and to say that this body is going to make a decision in two hours on something that's affecting now we're only saying we got 3,400 acres or 3,900 acres in the city i bet you when you consider this acreage it's probably not a whole lot of that this the differences in the plan i'm talking about we're all getting all been out of shape and trying to figure all this out for these small areas when everything else is the same and unfortunately the people who are in the county that have the most at stake that want this to see us this go through even if we voted for the businesses you guess what somebody could come in and plop down a mud two or three muds with about 7,000 homes or 8,000 homes right in this area this is for you all it's a county issue and a state legislative issue because not only did the mayor did the governor sign in a billion dollars for wildlife the governor also signed that people in the etj a lot of y'all out there can vote to opt out of the city etj so this isn't ready folks and i think if we move forward on this this is irresponsible because we do not have enough information because if we have to vote well if i have to vote i'm going with the balancing act because isn't that what we try to do is balance interest because we can do nothing about the 13 328 and all these the the other ones so this this isn't ready and so i just that's my input any other questions before i go back to you for a third time give me a second anyone else i have a quick question about the roads just one second let him bring you the microphone and your name i'm sorry uh yeah those that are online are not able to hear unless we use the microphone i'm ben hocamp i'm on the steering committee on slide 40 i believe uh the roads quick question in the plan so the only difference looking at the southern portion is the connector between collins and cooper creek but are we to understand that hartley field road would be redesigned in the same way regardless of the plan or would that also be affected so currently on the city's uh existing thoroughfare plan uh what hardly field road shows it's gonna stay that way because it is a county road what we are doing here and i've been trying to hit it from the beginning is we are showing it in case the property owners in the county want to annex that's the only reason the areas in the county are colored or the streets that our county owned are shown or we're showing streets in the county is if they want to annex if it the land comes into the city limit then the city would have an idea and a plan and they will be prepared to know that this is what they're gonna have to spend today none of this in the county area is getting designed or is getting built or nothing is happening or can happen whether people ask for it or not yes sir oh i'm a mayor thank you very much thank you mayor pro tem and then uh council member gee all right so i had two questions um on the sort of i'm trying to understand the the way we we designed the the model and looked at the impacts um the business impacts from the model the so i'm could i get a little more clarity on how the open space calculations were were done if you if you have a parcel in a residential parcel is the entire parcel taken off off of the model as is not an open space even though the vertical structures would be some 20 or whatever of a five acre parcel um i mean so that's i'm confused on this how is the open space calculation done and and then maybe i'll take that and then ask my second question so the way we looked at it is not parcel by parcel we we didn't that's not there's not enough time to do that what we did was took an area and on that area we laid out like we did the probably okay let me go back here you know how we created a little rough layout so that's what we did is we looked at bigger areas we looked at what the layout would be we looked at the acres that we would keep open and how many units ended up fitting in there we had we looked at lane miles that would be needed to build that type of development and it's all assumptions so it is logical assumptions but they're all based on assumptions but but just to follow up the assumption on a residential region is is that that no longer counts as open space yes sir so if we were going to do five acre lots we took the whole area laid it out in five acre lots and looked at the street that would be needed to get to how many lots that would be the street calculation and rest of it all becomes private property no opens yeah i think that's not a good model going forward because somebody on a five acre parcel is not building five acres of vertical structure so and in fact some of our highest conservation properties are represented in the room with lots of tree canopy and they have a little house one one when we say open space we're talking publicly accessible open space so if it is a private lot it is not public open space so city will have no control over it whereas when we laid it out we're counting publicly accessible open space that's that's that's fair i think that's a probably a different consideration than the environmental impact but anyway on on the the business model side when we did the fiscal impact and tried to assess the difference in the in the various models did we take into account the types of business practices that would go on so like if we've got the new rodeo and and new facilities supporting the new rodeo and equestrian and agricultural areas that are related to sort of a more rural type business agribusiness model environment versus the the kind of mn small model retail i mean how how fine grain was the business model did you take a differential impact when you looked at the the the change in one versus the other go ahead and stay there again but they can't hear you online we can hear you in the room but yeah thank you very much my apologies for those online to answer your question yes sir there are differentiations made for the various types of business types to include agricultural there's a great deal of breakout as far as if it is going to be some type of retail and within the model there was a way to kind of designate if it was going to be a mixed use and to put in there the combination of retail and multifamily and some offices if need be so to answer your question yes there are differentiations made in the in the background of the model it was a pull down device we would say this portion is going to be retail this portion is going to be such and such there's even if you look down at the bottom that's along uh us 380 we even included those portions that were going to be industrial and designated them for kind of the industrial that's there that's more warehouse okay real brief follow-up but again that was that was just the model for the 4,000 out of the 8,500 acres it wasn't the the regional impact of these different business models for someone going out to a restaurant from downtown or from the region or someone going to an equestrian park from another nearby region it was just the 8,500 acres right correct it was a fiscal impact which is the model is saying if we put this type of business here this is going to be the impact to the municipality what they expect to get into um various revenues and how much more cost is going to that i believe and correct me if i'm wrong what you're actually talking about is an economic impact so if we put this business here what are going to be the secondary and tertiary effects in order to build more businesses and additional revenues and if we put a plant out here if you go down the load well the cleaners get additional money and i just speak out of cleaners because that's my dad's job my dad's business real quick yes that's that's i'm asking that sort of economic model and the larger impact on the entire community this particular study sir we did not do the economic impact model okay thank you mr mayor um first off uh madam city manager i want to thank you for doing the work to bring all the stakeholders and various groups together um i just want to say publicly just as this body has now begun more regular meetings with our partners like disd i would encourage us this is the time where we should be reaching out to our county partners and try to have a joint meeting setup between us and our county commission our county judge given that they meet on the same day it might be an opportunity for us to have some collaboration because i'm going to agree with councilmember watts um i really don't want to have to make this decision today only because i would really like to know what the county's thoughts are while we don't it is true we don't have any say of course an etj1 it would be helpful for us just to know the general direction that they are thinking things might want to go so just uh just a plug for more collaboration between a different body so much as time will allow and they would be permitting to do it with us thank you sir uh just a quick clarification for everybody around the table today we're not asking you to vote on anything at all we're just asking for direction on which which scenario would you do you seem to like that we should go develop some recommendations and uh implementation and go look into in more detail then y'all asked for council member you mentioned you need a lot more detail we just need to know which scenario would you like us to look more into detail about and i'll and i'll piggyback on that um scott mcdonald director of development services hdr has put in roughly 500 hours into this project already staff has put equally as much time in a variety of ways and if we're going to go further or longer we're going to need additional funds to carry this forward most importantly we're looking for a path we're not looking for a vote today we're looking for a path from our policymakers if they have a preference on a path to go and as we go through this process we can address what needs to occur or if we need to modify either of these paths so i.e. we're looking for additional information so council can send us on path a or path b we'd like to go down whichever path and we'd like some additional information brought back to us in the next couple of weeks via work session or through an isr or some other function to provide that information as far as including the county we have a county representative my counterpart steven belknap is is in regular communication with with his his folks at the county not to say that we couldn't put together another joint meeting or something similar if they're even amenable i don't know but truly all we're looking for from city council today is do we have a path to continue down and if not then ultimately i'm looking for whether we're going to continue this process i'm going to have to have some funding to be able to do that thank you mayor well just make it easy councilman burke and then i i'll take it thank you for the opportunity and i also want to thank all the players involved in this it's just such a it's a wonderful thing to see that we are grasping our growth i'll pretty much consider the city of bitten like a teenager trying to figure it out and so we've come to a crossroads now this is a very big project uh but keeping that in mind i it i i would like to see us take the uh the balancing act uh and work with that uh i know that there's a lot of opposition to that but i also want to comment to say that we are talking about the future we're talking about 10 15 20 30 years from now and there's a good chance i probably won't be around about 30 years from now but i know that we will have to leave a legacy for the people that are coming up behind us we did recognize that a number of these people there was a chart that showed us the age gap of the folks that we are going to have to make this work for and i need to think we need to keep that in mind we like what we like i don't want anybody living behind me i don't want richards on the either side of me i don't want my neighbors to move away i want to keep everything just the same but i know that that is not going to be my future because that's what happened to me my neighborhood doesn't look like the way that they used to and i had to grasp that so i want us to be mindful of that that we're not talking about ourselves we're talking about the future of us probably a generation and another generation behind that so um i for one if i were to say that we were to go which is what you all are asking for right now i would just definitely point us towards the balancing act thank you okay thank you uh so i have uh my questions are these uh and staff provided these in the answers so i'll just kind of glance over them for for speed sake so uh line so that those tracking along and forgive me uh 21 ish i might be off my eyes uh so average how home cost staff analysis staff analysis based on association realtors 460 000 average amount deposit that you need is is 20 000 that makes a down payment if my math is wrong forgive me 92 000 uh and so my my just a comment is this my concern is and i've heard the the neighborhood and and i in the in those that are interested and i take note of it but i do want to note the the consequences of those discussions if if we don't want multi-family in this area then you end up with an area of people that have one hundred thousand dollars to put down on the deposit and they can afford a half million dollar home uh and and so that's just what we're we're talking about however many hundreds of acres of people that only have one hundred thousand dollars and only can afford half million dollar homes at least uh because that's the it gets later and staff talks about the cost of land and for um they estimate 90 000 to 120 000 dollars per acre so if you're going to buy five acres that's a little over half million dollars so half million dollars in the land half million dollar home let's say you pay to build it it's less than that it's not full uh market rate but a million dollars um is what we're talking about we want in the north part of town million dollar homeowners only uh and so that's that's just the results of the request and so as i that will i process through that information there's there's nothing to that that's the the numbers are the numbers um but i when it comes to questions staff do you have the slides can since someone pulls up from the pictures i i sent in okay i i purposely picked these out for those that don't know this is west lake area that's fidelity investment it's a corporate office um one is google maps one i took myself but that's a parking garage absolutely surrounded by trees that's a corporate headquarters one of the largest finance institutions in in the world absolutely surrounded by trees and water so i absolutely believe that these can things can be done well and they can be planned appropriately and they can be sensitive to their environment you i mean you tell me the engineering to drop that that parking space in between those trees seamlessly not one disturbed it is absolutely impressive and i and i that's what inspires me that we can do things well in this area and preserve all those uh requirements and another thing that i noted and i asked staff to look at and i forget what number it's number 41 on your spreadsheet is they i asked them about the gay lord texan and just rough math dallas there you go thank you very much dallas business journal notes that gay lord texan makes 10.24 million dollars a year for uh the city of grapevine their their um conventions generate a little more than 21 million dollars per year dropped in right on the lake environmentally sensitive area uh and you can't see it from the state highway again another example of how things can be done well and we can balance uh the approach of development you won't find another convention center hotel that's busier and you absolutely don't know what's there if you're driving by uh and you don't even know what if you're driving halfway down the um driveway and it's next to one of our critical lakes in the area so obviously they had to be diligent about their their planning that sort of thing so thank you very much for those so i i believe it can be done well and the just real quick to touch on um a couple of things i want to i want to note as i go into the 2040 plan because i we received a lot of communication about that so i want to make sure i understand that well uh and that'll inform my decision i want to make sure we're from the same basis everyone's seen south ridge area here in denton are familiar understand those houses in that area is zoned r2 or r3 so great larger lots than most of the city it's not five acres it's not one acre some of them are but by and large it's zoned r2 r3 and it is one of the most scenic areas in the city of denton and built out so um and there's million dollar homes in there as well but it's it's also uh there's homes in the in the half million dollar range but i just say for a static again just another example of how we can do this right so if i don't know scott maybe it's you that answers um questions about the 2040 plan who answers those is that you a number of us can absolutely okay so so here's here's one so low res as i looked on the on the 2040 plan because people said follow the plan i look under the low res definition that's two dash 19 i don't know what i forget what page it's on but at the very bottom it says density up to five dwelling units per acre is that that's in the plan i can pull up the page if is it so yeah low res is that exactly up to five dwelling units per acre that's an accurate statement yes and that's in the 2040 plan that's correct so i got an email that said follow the 2040 plan and i recommended five houses per acre i'm in line with the plan under that future land use designation yes okay thank you very much and then uh also the who can speak to the state highways i asked that question as well but i want the entire room to kind of that's number 29 can you speak to the the planned state highways have our transportation expert here if you could go over the plan like the planned expansions in this general area so that would be 428 the loop etc so as right now there was a public meeting i believe last week for state loop 288 in a connection from 288 to three and as well as 380 so right now they're looking at doing it what's called a limited access facility along 288 and making a high speed connection to 380 that basically bisects that industrial section as shown here on the map as far as the outer loop that you know that's a joint partnership between the county and tex dot looking at doing a limited access facility that basically connects the outer ring and that's part of a larger regional project as far as called the outer loop and then as far as 428 as of today as far as utp in the step the improvement plans there are no improvements on that corridor and that's currently funded or identified as funding but i think through this mobility plan we recognize that it likely needs to be a primary arterial with six lanes okay so six lanes just on the that would be the western border of this plan okay got it and then back to the 2040 plan what number seven of the 10 principles of the building of healthy places as follows again 2040 plan and our and i quote mix it up is the title and it says a variety of land uses building types public spaces can improve both physically active and social interaction with with the necessitates update updating and regulation of the standards and that's what we're having that's what we're talking about today updating the standards and regulations so that we can and that's in line with the 2040 plan am i right yes sir okay great um and then i don't know i have the quote here but i don't have it earmarked so i'll just say also in the 2040 plan it talks about spreading out and and someone can correct me if i'm wrong it talks about spreading out the open spaces throughout the city and advises against what's the word grouping too many open spaces in one area but talks about dividing it across the city am i right that's right you want to balance you know the lane uses in one of those land uses open space okay right thank you very much uh so that's what i mean i'll continue to listen i'm i'm happy to have more information i'm happy to give uh direction uh once we're done as far as where i fall uh but i i i just wanted to touch on those things that i i received the emails i did not have time to reply to all of them but they it did direct me to the 2040 plan and i researched the 2040 plan to make sure uh my suggestions are in line with the request and it just happens to work out that way and based on examples i gave i i don't think it's a zero sum game i think we can treat this area with the sensitivity it deserves and deliver an outstanding product uh for our community that then uh helps our our our uh residents and it helps us have a diverse housing stock so that people that don't can't afford one million dollars can live in north denton i i don't want to do that to the exclusion of 90 of the city of denton all right thank you mayor um i know we don't have a vote in direction but i'll just kind of say i guess a few opinions that i have for you policymakers who are going to um send this a direction um not taking development into consideration is exactly the reason you need an area plan in my opinion um so by trying to do business as usual this seems like a catastrophic waste of time um so i would urge you to there's a lot of holes here as as councilman watts pointed out there's so much we don't know there's so much i'm not even sure we can do the area plan as i think a lot of us envision because of the fact that a majority of this land is not city-owned land and we have very little to say about its development but what i would say again is if we're going to go forward with trying to make an area plan i think you have to take development pressure into account and and directionally in my opinion would be we've got to fill in a lot of these questions that we don't have on on the maps that you provided is what is city land where exactly is that what is county line just better better staged on a map than it looks right now um at any rate my two cents would be is you do have to consider development pressures that's the whole reason that we want an area plan because it's here it's on the back door it's coming it's knocking if we don't set a plan in place we're going to get what we just are constantly fighting so um commissioners commissioner smith did have um his hand up earlier so i'm going to pass the mic that way thank you yeah i want to echo uh commissioner alice and council member watts's points on the fact that the county pressure that we do have here is one of the key reasons why even from the work day that we had uh that the discussion was along the lines of that's great great plans uh and some some really good input from the community but there's only so much we can do with that county land there the only point i would have uh with giving no voted direction whatsoever to council but the only thing i would ask for is as presentations come back and the future path is to specifically identify the zoning levels that would be within rural residential or in the uh the the residential transitional areas within there even in just in the balancing act for two versus the business as usual you have a wide disparity between one acre per one unit per five acres all the way down to in the balancing act it was one unit per two acres or three units per acre and there was some wide varying between those so having some more homogeneity some standards relating it back to what we would see in our in our zoning laws as this continues and gets to get more refined and i don't think that that was omitted uh or or forgotten about i think just that this is a 30 000 full level view and as we continue to move from 30 000 down to 15 start getting more specific start incorporating the ddc that we see on planning and zoning the city council sees more into the plan as this comes in uh and then i want to echo commissioner alice's point that i would love to be able to see a very clear map that has city county differentiated between there so so if you look on the screens here that that dotted line is showing you where the city and the county is with the layout but i can make it darker and send it to you all so i for sure on top of this map without the roadways we just to say in a plan that the level of zoning information you're asking what we usually do is recommend that this area can have a certain type of density very generally it's it's not gonna what you're asking for is a complete different project and i would love to do it if but it's not at this time yes current zoning is what the request is for is what areas have current zoning today so we can address yes we can we can definitely we've considered it thank you mayor uh i'm gonna try to learn from chair alice as well although that i've been trying to for two years and not a bunch has soaked in um and just offer some general comments um not really direction but things to think about as we move forward with either of these plans um as denton doubles in population over the next 20 years or however long it's going to be you know we will become fiscally solvent if most of that development activity occurs near our core where we already have existing infrastructure services etc so you know in general for that reason i i kind of like that model and i think the the comp plan supports that however we will expand and when that happens we also must make sure that everything is fiscally solvent as we develop it but that solvency can be achieved either by increasing the development intensity to meet the infrastructure we plan to put in or by looking at other types of infrastructure that can be sustained by that development right it's it's not true that i want everything to be dense i just want everything to pay for itself um you know i i really kind of like the this rural village concept um i think it gives a diversity of housing options um that that you know people of different means can afford to live uh in in an area near the fringe where you have close buy access to these assets that we're talking about that everybody loves um there are some specific problems i think that could be solved in implementation and that's primarily um you know collins road right now doesn't cross over i don't know if we have any friendly upr people here or not um and um you know whatever plan happens for that wherever it is if it's incorporated would need to be able to be realized in a in a development method that's not your typical oh one person is amassing 230 acres and they're going to build it all at once because there's just too much partialization here so there's some detail that needs to be go there as we go for the further north right uh near the um future outer loop and that sort of thing does does that type of thing make sense um i i guess it makes more sense from a environmental and fiscal perspective than 50 acre parking lots and huge nebraska furniture marts um but to be honest it it also kind of looks like hey tex dot is going to subsidize us by building this two billion dollar road and so this is what we're going to put up and we're sort of letting them determine our land use so it's it's a rock and a hard place on that one and then finally the um the one thing that i'm really nervous about is on the south southwestern area of the plan really just because i haven't seen a proposal to uh explain how we're going to phase the infrastructure to be consistent with the built environment's ability to to sustain it long term i'm nervous about adding additional transitional areas because typically when that's done we we don't phase the infrastructure we we put in top class curb and gutter and everything so hope that helps thank you okay anyone else okay we'll go um travis then uh councilman melzer and mayor pro tem and it is we we do have a hard stock because we have a regular council meeting starts at two uh so i'm willing to go a little over one but we have we have to have time to get across sure i just wanted to reiterate one thing that we've kind of talked about a lot is that business as usual was never our plan it was never our term it was never anything that we advocated for we have always advocated for keeping the 2040 plan there's always been what the neighborhood with the large vast majority of the committee has advocated for so i just want to say that that's a bit of a misnomer that that is something that we've ever advocated for on top of that um just so we're understanding we've talked about all these emails that came in that were talking about 2040 plan and then so we talked about having five homes per acre so my understanding that this committee that the city council is going to recommend and hold to that five houses an acre because that is not what's being planned north of harley field road right so that i mean if we if we want to hold ourselves to that 2040 and i know it seems like you are we is that what we're recommending five homes an acre right that's what the 2040 plan is so are we going to hold people to that if we're going to say that that is not what it's currently so but but but but i have other things to say real quick because i've got a lot ned's not here so i have to talk for him i think my other question is in the 2040 plan there's a lot of talk about conservation it's rural conservation is mentioned in here 61 times out of the land that is not watershed area that we would be very difficult to build on financially difficult how much of that land are you guys advocating for conserving more not not not not not i'm going to put a parking lot and trees around it right can anybody name some any of the endangered species that visited this area can you name one just one so well and is there a plan to conserve land for that there are bald eagles that come here there are freshwater otters and i understand um this is just so just your question right so i want to i want to use this time to get you the answers but i gotta have your question all right so my question is are we willing one question are we willing to hold people to five houses an acre as you said within the 2040 plan that that's the discussion we're going to have today yes okay so that's one question second question how much land developable land are we committing to conserving so at this point this is just a concept once you tell us which direction you want to go then we're going to work on those details for either either scenario you we have to do that calculation it's going to be different depending on what development types you're putting on that property what land you're going to preserve or how much land you're going to preserve those calculations to do that we need to know which direction you want us to go in so that's why we're here asking would you say that business is beautiful as business as usual with modifications or balancing act with modifications or whatever which one of those in your mind would conserve more land she she she they don't have they'll have to do the calculations that was our answer the first time so and then we'll go to council member melzer thank you okay um a couple of uh in the in the way of giving direction a couple points of clarification i was actually in the group during the i think it was called the visioning session that sat about this part of the room that introduced the idea of village but it was understood to be a way to create more preserved open space and more five acre zoning the intention wasn't you know yeah have traditional tract housing and village and consider that you know more preservation that's not the case so you know i perceive balancing act to be saying do the most vertical construction of the varying types which was not the intention so you know i would be i'd be very interested in a view that had that rural center as a trade-off for the maximum percentage of conservation we haven't heard what the acreage is that having been said i perceive a bit of creeping conviction we put 500 hours into this we've involved so many people we're so far down the path but that can't keep you from going to a better answer if it's presented so i'm interested in developing also with slides so it will seem as real to you as these two what heartley field state park will look like maybe maybe it can happen maybe someday you'll say you know gee there are only a few of us who expressed anything about it but now we're taking our families to enjoy it now in 20 and 30 years that's our heritage that we that we have heartley field state park so let's shape that up thank you and then uh mayor pro tem sorry one more point just one more point on that if that comes to pass that becomes state administered state land it doesn't decrease the ability of the city to spread open space on city-owned property it increases it because it doesn't require our funding to do it okay but bear with me i just need to track along and then mayor pro tem with your indulgence she she wants to speak so right next to her and then we'll run it up to you what land are you talking about who owns the land that you're talking about that you would you've identified for a state park who owns it i don't think it's entirely up to me to do all the work of the planning right no doubt but you've spoken about uh you you have this idea i just want to know what what so some of it's etj that's why that's why the virtue of going to state you know becomes relevant because you know we look at a land at a map where you know a lot of what we would like to be open space is not under city control so that's the whole point of going to state but it's it's basically the maximum amount of the undeveloped land you know a year ago i learned but i'm just i don't want to i don't want to lengthen the comment i'm just asking because they had the landowners up there and so i'm just asking you who owns the property that you're referring to so that i can i just want to note that so i can track along with you okay orion thank you okay that's fine but i will point out that a year ago i learned that the amount of land that's come under development plans in the prior six years is greater than the amount of undeveloped land that's left so this is a disappearing heritage so if we don't act to preserve land like this we're going to be out of options very soon okay right it was uh yeah and then we'll come back to mayor portu hello i'm susan smith on the steering committee as a city resident and i just have one comment to make to reiterate what chris said and i think what paul's saying is that i don't really feel like we're ready to decide on either one of these options today because i don't really agree with either one of them i think the business as usual is a misnomer we never indicated that we want no development in our neighborhood group we absolutely expect some development but just the right kind of development that follows the 2040 plan and the vision statement however we may interpret that and i think that's what people are trying to come up with good solutions for and keep everybody happy we know there will be development the balancing act as it stands to me looks a little heavy in areas like heartley field road i i would like to keep that as a county road i also think it seems a little heavy up by the elm bottom circle area in in some of the um density that's there so i really think that we need modifications on either side whatever we decide but i'm very pro keeping to the 2040 plan and the vision statement that we developed i think everybody put a lot of work into that and i agree with it so however we come up with that i just really don't think we're there yet thank you and while you're walking around scott i do have i need an understanding uh county county road who decides when that's developed um it's it's a county road so i right so does the city have a if the developer is developing and it's going to require something in addition to that then yes but is that a county in a developer conversation or is a city invited to that conversation it may be a county and city it may be a county and the developer it may be the city and the developer if again if the if the property's in the county it's it's a county developer got it okay thank you mayor pertin thank you all um yeah i think the naming of our options has set a tone that i think is very very unfortunate um i think oh over two years ago the neighborhood came to the region with development concepts that were developmental um they they were not um leave it in place uh change nothing they were this is this is what the neighborhood has sort of collaboratively worked on and the task that we gave them was community developed community based the words community were first and foremost first and foremost in um in the mission and goals that we gave them uh and the by and large uh the leaders of the of the steering committee um have you know communicated with us both through the steering committee as an individuals the neighborhood has communicated there that there is a room and desire and and understanding of the growth potential of this region um and so i think again it's it's unfortunate that we chose business as usual versus balancing act um you know those those names are you're not going to be able to convince me that that doesn't bias the conversation that we had today so i find those those names uh unfortunate um a couple of things that you you heard from from members of the the stakeholder uh community is is um a way to increase usage of and main but while preserving which is in our 2040 plan the newest edition the the preferred land map preservation uh and so you know that there is development with preservation that that that that is what the community came to the area is and and i agree with those who have said that what we have here is sort of an incomplete product of two disparate uh strategies where there it's not balancing act versus business as usual it is it is two viewpoints that don't even represent the viewpoints of the the primary proponents of those viewpoints so we have not gotten to a place of consensus um and we don't we have not even gotten to a place of consensus with our regional partners as well there is um the the the the the where i'm going with this is the the mobility plans are are coming through and they will absolutely change and so that's going to have to be incorporated and yet they really weren't nothing we really presented with today addressed the those mobility plan changes and and i'm particularly not talking about the fact that there will be uh 428 and the outer loop and the 380 expansion across 288 but the fact that all those proposed changes will require right of way changes that there is currently not space for at least close to the city and definitely out as you get towards core of engineer lands there's simply not right of way space and if you do you're taking it out of these landowners properties for what finally the final point i want to bring in is in our comp plan we try really hard to get away from what we did decades ago just strip zoning and leapfrog zoning and the balancing act is a leapfrog zoning approach where we're leaping over an area now is it the fault that there's a donut hole in in an etj donut hole yes it is the fault that we have sort of a pseudo leapfrog happening there where we've left a big use gap and then we're trying to leap into other usages that don't really transitionally align but then also i will point out as my final comment and and the reason i'm giving direction of business as usual with modifications is is that that donut hole itself if it was so easy to drop a mud in there or an mmd or develop that as a 50-story high rise or a cement batch plant it would be there and there is one cement batch plant and otherwise there's homes if it was that easy if the economic pressures were there to make that happen it would have happened already all right so i my direction is is uh is not for the balancing act but for the other now this is for staff though i would ask you to what what how would you summarize that though if you have to put it in one line in one word or a summary or a phrase you don't like balancing act or business as usual what do you like you you you mean for my direction or the name of yeah i'm just saying if staff's going to come back with something and you don't you take issue with what they write your right to do so but i think if you ever you're going to have a challenge or something you should have a solution that that's very fair and so but it's it's easy to come up with a solution where you say something like uh you know lower density in development or something like that where you are expressing a characteristic of the feature of the development and not assessing um so lower density development and what else um balancing act which which would be uh i don't know something more like on the realm of you're forcing me to yeah and i'm saying you know staff have the same challenge right so i want to be fair to them and and and just i understand you don't like the terminology but i just can't choose a similar characteristic i'm not going to you know i'm going to say something like you could say um um high density mixed use or something like that thank you wanted to compare them thank you uh is there anyone else seeing none i i guess mayor just again i don't know that we have clear direction so i'm just looking for what it is staff is to do going forward yeah no we we um we don't and we're gonna we're gonna have to go because we have a two two o'clock and so we have to have time to transition everyone and so um i i mean i can't i'll open the floor for comments you asked the last couple no i i have not not yet but uh we'll go we'll go to uh commissioner villaral and then we'll we'll wrap up and we'll roll call council members is that yes thank you and i'm okay if we call it a and b right thank you so uh just going back to the conversation that council member watts brought up earlier i was wondering if we were going to do a more thorough process what differences would you like to see us do in that in that process what changes would you like to see what are you looking for in a more thorough thorough plan and and i will say that we can take that guidance that's given to us uh it can get put into writing and then we can submit it to the committee mayor okay yeah so what do you want to see is the in the in the plan in the future or more detailed that's the that's just a general question we'll put it out there i have council member bird that expressed an interest in in the balanced approach as staffs name it option a and b right so let's let's not yeah so a is a is on the left right is on the is b simple thing so um council member bird has expressed an interest for item b uh mayor pardon me pardon me thank you uh council and then mayor pro tem has an option for a preference for uh option a and i need to hear from the others i'm happy to call you our own councilman melter is is expressed a pro uh preference for option a uh councilman holla option b b b no oh no well well no no no no i understand i just i the woods before says a or b i'll just put you as undecided that's great no no wait let's keep it moving uh okay uh and then uh i think my questions can get answered in the process so i'm going to go with the b okay uh councilor mcgee option b okay mayor hudspeth is is here's my i'm a b with modifications i don't want to i don't want to discuss the upper part i think that i take uh mayor pro tem's point and i take the conversations we've had and that's too far for projection and we're not going to do anything up there any anytime soon so it's b with the exception of we're going to zero in on uh the right up to the green space there one and then two it with the caveat that that it are whatever that is r4 is by plan uh or r6 with different shapes and different uses if you have commercial uses i think you can get to uh r6 um and it looked like r4 on the ground and meet the expectations and so suffice to say 2040 plan low density allows for five houses per acre however that's calculated no no no no that's not is it wrong is it so remember low densities up to five dwelling units per acre actually net whatever that total acreage is no low density not rural low density the den 2040 okay all right yeah the other thing that that were mentioned by some of the committee members that we want to make sure we're very clear on is a very clean and clear map to delineate between city land and county land map out the development authority on each so you know which one's county which one's city and then show current zoning and zoning levels so that you can show very clearly county land zoning levels city land zoning level what is currently zoned as not necessarily what it could be and and then the development authority a little note to say here's the development authority under the county here's the development authority under the city and it's important to note scott correct me if i'm wrong nothing is going to be developed here without intense conversations and meetings and all those things so nothing happens but for everyone having an opportunity to be heard correct this was an opportunity for everyone to be heard to get some general direction from council on which direction for us to go and we'll continue to work through this and and ultimately i hear in this is is really the option b with some modification so there are any number of things that we'll be bringing back to council to ask for their direction and we'll just start drilling down or distilling this more each time we visit right but there's no plan that's in in queue that's some stage of that's benefited by this conversation nothing no nothing absolutely not perfect okay uh right here the zoning maps that everyone's asking uh they are in a powerpoint for student committee number two meeting it's on the website and all these detailed plans are in that uh powerpoint can we get it out to the council members as well we will we will we will make the new new drawings better but before that if someone wanted to go home and see it i just wanted everyone to know and give that to me again it's the steering committee meeting two yes may 30th meeting got it and it's in it's um undiscussed and got it thank you take a look okay very good uh so at uh well i'll let you conclude and i'll conclude uh thank you everyone for time um thanks commissioners for showing up this afternoon i appreciate it i'll adjourn our joint meeting at 108 and i would conclude the city council's meeting at 108 as well thank you thank you all thank all of you that came here today