Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the plan and zoning commission session work session
for August 21st 2019. I'll call this meeting to order at 434. We do have a quorum but with that we
do have the following commissioners absent at the start of the meeting. Commissioner Cole,
Commissioner Sanchez, and Commissioner Prunetta. This evening for the way the workflow is going to
go with the agenda is we're going to skip to 2a first. That will be the report from Roman McAllen.
After 2a we'll jump into the clarification of agenda items item one and then after one we'll
jump back to 2b. So for the first item for this evening I'll invite Roman McAllen for presentation
for the 2019 historic preservation plan. Thank you commissioners. I'm Roman McAllen, the historic
preservation officer for the city of Denton. This work session is about the draft historic
preservation plan that's been worked on since about October of last year and with us we have
visiting from Chicago Nick and I'll let you let him tell you his last name and Siraj are here
and really I'm just here to introduce them and let them go through the parts of the plans of Nick right here.
Good evening. Well thank you Roman. He has tried to pronounce my name a couple of times this past week.
It's Kallo Jerisus and I'm with the Lakota group and I'm here with my colleague Siraj Asfahani.
As Roman has mentioned we've been working with him and members of the community to
prepare a historic preservation plan and today we'll give you an overview of that plan and what's
inside it. It's been our pleasure to work with the community on this. This Denton has had a great
history in preservation. He's done quite a lot of great work and we'll talk about that in a moment.
So it's been a really interesting process as we've gone through. As Roman said we've been
working on this since last October and first of all a historic preservation plan it's like
a comprehensive plan or a downtown plan. It's a policy document. Basically it provides some
strategic directions for the community in terms of how to improve and enhance the historic
preservation program. There are many communities out there that have a municipal historic preservation
program and they develop historic preservation plans in order to give them some guidance.
Just to give you some background, many communities have started their preservation
program back in the 70s. The reason for that is in 1966 the U.S. Congress established
the National Register of Historic Places which is the nation's official list of buildings,
sites, structures worthy of preservation and so that began kind of the modern preservation
movement although there are many communities around the country that have done preservation
for a heck of a lot longer than the 60s. But the National Register gave impetus for communities to
look at their architecture, look at their neighborhoods and find out what's significant
architecturally and historically and to designate those as districts or landmarks.
So to give you a little bit more background some of you I'm sure are familiar the National Register
it's a federal level designation it's an honorary one there are no restrictions to that. Probably
the primary benefit of having a National Register district is that income producing and commercial
properties are eligible for federal tax credits also state tax credits as well so it provides an
incentive for those types of properties for to encourage rehabilitation and reinvestment in those
buildings but primarily it's it's honorary. Local communities however can establish local historic
districts and that's where you can have the latitude to regulate what happens to curate what
happens in those areas to manage them to maintain their integrity and authenticity over the long term.
So Denton has both of those you do have National Register districts and you have local historic
districts. So just to give you a background so really kind of officially the preservation movement
started here in Denton with the county when the Denton County Courthouse was the first property
in the community listed in the National Register of Historic Places so back in 1977 and then in 1980
the the city followed up with adopting a historic preservation ordinance which I'm sure you're
familiar with that is the tool that communities use to establish local districts is to have a
local preservation ordinance. In 1985 is when the last historic preservation plan was adopted
here in the community so it is a little bit overdue for a look and re-examine re-examination.
Many communities during the 70s and 80s adopted historic preservation plans and they really kind
of looked at their very significant buildings like a courthouse or a famous mansion associated with
a famous merchant so you looked at those real high style properties and so that's what we looked back
in the 70s and 80s. So back then we were looking at properties mainly developed before 1930 or 1940
because the National Register of Historic Places is its baseline evaluation criteria any property
over 50 years old is considered historic so that's kind of a baseline evaluation criteria.
So now that time has moved on and it's almost 2020 and I myself I'm National Register eligible
myself time has moved on so now we're looking at the 1950s and 60s and what's significant during
that time period so as I present we'll talk about that those types of resources here and then.
So then moving on from 1985-1986 the very first local historic district was established the Oak
Hickory Local Historic District. In 1989 the the city became a certified local government
and that is a designation that's given by the Texas Historical Commission and the National Park
Service. It's a designation for communities that have adopted a local historic preservation ordinance
have done surveying established districts but the primary benefit of that is it allows you to
access grants to do preservation projects and this preservation plan is partially funded through a
certified local government grant from the Texas Historical Commission. So and then in 2000 the
the downtown it's called the Denton County Courthouse on the square but it's basically the
the entire square area was listed in the National Register of Historic Places and then the in 2008
the West Oak Local Area Historic District was designated. I do like to point out in 2014 your
mainstream your mainstream program reached 25 years in operation. I point that out because
not many communities have had mainstream programs that lasted that long so that's quite an
accomplishment for this city to have a real successful program that's that's been around
and doing good things and then last but not least your latest historic district is the
Bella Avenue Historic District obviously that originally was a conservation district and now
it's a historic district. So overall over you know since 1980 you've designated 62 local landmarks
you have three local historic districts you have two districts listed in the National Register and
then you have four buildings individually listed in the National Register. So it's been a good
amount of work for the community and I think a very successful good program so this plan hopes
to build on that success overall. I do also I forgot to mention that this preservation plan was
also recommended in your Denton 2030 plan as an implementation measure. It was a specific
recommendation to update your historic preservation plan so you are achieving a part of your comprehensive
plan. So what is a historic preservation plan? As I said it's a policy document. We are doing
several things with the plan one is obviously to look at future historic districts where they may be
where there are future landmarks as well. How do we continue the strong work of your your mainstream
program and look at how to do preservation based economic development because historic preservation
does generate new jobs and you reinvest in existing buildings. It is probably in my opinion the most
effective sustainability strategy you could have because you're not demolishing buildings and
putting it into a landfill. You're saving and reusing them so it's the ultimate recycling program
in my opinion. Commissioner Beck has a question. Thank you Chair. Can you distinguish for us the
difference between historic and conservation districts? What's what's the difference is there?
There is there is a difference. There is a difference in level of design review
that the Historic Landmark Commission does. Typically in many Texas communities a conservation
district may be an area that not necessarily qualifies as a national register or local
historic district because it may not have the fabric the authenticity there the level of
integrity that needs to be there but you want to be able to sort of maintain and sort of manage
that area and encourage good design. There may be a need for infill development to happen and you
want to make sure that that infill development is is appropriate well scaled to that neighborhood.
So it's it's certainly for areas that may not meet that threshold as a historic district but it may
be an area where you want to manage to make sure it maintains some design quality. There may be some
relationship there to historical events or buildings nearby or something like that. Exactly. Okay okay
thank you. For clarification and this might be for a moment we have converted all of our
conservations to historic and we've phased out the conservation kind of designation in town.
Well let me just clarify we did you know we had the Bell Avenue Conservation was now a historic
district but what's important too is we went back to the code with that recent revision
and we changed the level of review that you would have so we can now still create districts
but if the way we've worded it if you have a demolition in that district or new construction
then you would go to the Landmark Commission but anything else at all would be reviewed by staff.
So it's a tool that could be used you know for example and I think this is something we need to
get clarification on but that new bill that came through this last legislative session about
materials regulation some I think that bill allows you to create a conservation district anywhere you
want and then regulate materials but that's been there's some people see it the other way in fact
we needed to get an opinion from the AG's office at some point but for us locally it's nice because
we didn't have that before. The historic district language and the conservation district language
were virtually identical. Gotcha thanks for that clarification. Sure thank you. Any other questions?
So just to continue on in a preservation plan we also look at how your programs managed and
ministered and so a lot of the questions we have right now in terms of design review and
how conservation districts work. We want to evaluate make sure that that's working for the
community and it's effective and then last but not least it's about education and advocacy it's
always about trying to educate the community about the benefits of historic preservation and what it
can do so that's always an ongoing need and so we look at other partners that could help us do that
so it could be you know the Denton County Office of History and Culture it could be other partners
we could bring in to help us educate those additional stakeholders about the benefits.
So the the plan itself this is how it's organized. Actually the plan part of it is at the very
beginning. We have a series of goals and policy statements. There's actually just four major
goals in the document and about 32 recommendations in there so it's at the very front. We also have an
implementation section about which party is responsible to implement what and time frames.
We also have a funding section in there so there's other funding opportunities beyond just
certified local government grants and then we also have a section in there about the different
historic resources that are here in Denton just to give a description of what's significant here
locally and then we have a section on city planning policies you know we did review some
of your prior plans and to see where preservation fits in and then we have a section in there on
community engagement and I'll talk more about that and then there's a series of appendices
that are just background information. So that's basically the structure of the historic preservation
plan. There were just two phases to this project. We started back in October. We had a series of
listening sessions with stakeholders to find out their concerns and their ideas about historic
preservation locally. We also had a community workshop and then we produced sort of a state
of the city report which gave a summary of existing conditions last March and then we're
here now we're finishing up the the second phase which is providing this draft historic preservation
plan. We did have a second community meeting back in June to present some of these ideas to the
broader community. We also had an online survey a couple of online surveys and I'll talk about that
in a moment. I'm not going to go into too great detail of the slide but generally when we prepare
preservation plans there are kind of three standards that we follow and these standards
were prepared by the US Department of the Interior and these are preservation standards that we try
to follow in developing our work. The first standard is preservation plans are based on
historic context and what that means is that a historic context is generally periods of history
in the community's development and so I mentioned a moment ago we're now looking at the 1950s and
60s as areas to look at. In many communities the 50s and 60s were important because that was a
period right after World War II when servicemen were coming back the GI Bill was in place but
there was also a period in there was a housing shortage generally but that's the period where
the first modern developers came about and built big large-scale subdivisions and so that's a
period of history we need to look at so that's a historic context. So we develop the plan includes
a description of different historic contexts the development of the universities another one the
African-American community experience here in Dent and so those are historic contexts and once
we identify those we try to find out what properties and and buildings are out there that kind of
represent those those context periods and then we develop a set of goals and priorities around
around those resources and so that's really kind of the the first two standards. The third standard
is to integrate historic preservation or broader planning operations here at the city so when we
look at city planning we're trying to make sure that we incorporate historic preservation as much
as possible. Going back to the community engagement as I mentioned we had a series of meetings and
workshops we had two community workshops during this process the stakeholder interview sessions
we had 45 participants in that representing a wide range of stakeholders from downtown property
owners to neighborhood residents and then we had two online surveys and we had 400 plus people
respond to the online surveys so it was a really good response and we asked questions basically
what do you think's important here to preserve what tools should be put in place so those were the
those were the big things that came out. I already went over much of this but like I said the plan
includes four goal statements 32 recommendations and they revolve around four areas surveying
documentation education advocacy community development sustainability and then program
administration so I'm just going to give you the the big highlights out of the plan.
To have an effective community preservation program we kind of think that there's these are the four
key areas you need to really work on and if you do these four areas well you have a really well
functioning program. The first thing is survey and documentation so this goes back to the discussion
of historic context so once you identify historic context you got to find out what areas of the
community does that context represent and we need to identify resources that are important so you
have to do a series of surveys to be able to identify those properties so in the past I know
15 years or so there's been three three main surveys done since 96 so three surveys that have
been done or that have identified buildings and some of those have become landmarks and districts
but we need to continue to do that survey work so we can identify those areas so in a moment I'll
show you a map where we think some future survey areas could be. The second part is having incentives
in place because you want to encourage the private sector to participate in preservation
if you want to encourage them to rehab the building it's always good to have an incentive
in place to make that happen so there are a number of incentives that are available here in Denton
I'll talk about a couple of them in a moment but it's really important to have that that care to
encourage reinvestment. The third part is administration so having the city being able
to administer the whole process of landmarking identifying landmarking buildings and things
and then last the education and advocacy part. So for the first thing on survey survey and
documentation our plan we did identify seven future survey areas and so on the map here
in blue are potential survey areas now we're not telling you to go out tomorrow to do all seven of
them these are areas to look at down the road you can secure additional certified local government
grants to probably undertake these surveys as have done and have been done recently but we
think these are areas that are worth looking at because you might be able to find additional
landmarks or districts and as you know it on the map there are probably there are several areas
that were built in the 50s and 60s and we think these are areas worth looking at they could be
districts there they could be conservation districts so we don't know but it's really
important to go out and be able to identify those so our plan does prioritize these survey areas and
we think some should be done first versus others. The areas in red are what we think are potential
national register historic districts two of them are two of your existing local districts the oak
hickory and the west oak historic districts we think that they can become national register
districts and then recently the idiots hill neighborhood was surveyed that survey identified
five i think four or five national registered districts but we think you could probably just
get one in that neighborhood you don't need to do probably do five different ones but just one big
one so the areas in red are potential national registered districts we do recommend an expansion
of the oak hickory local historic district to the south one half block to the south of that
district to capture some properties we believe kind of belong in the district and we're not sure
why they were left out but we think they're they're worth taking a look at including them we do
identify five potential historic conservation districts these are areas where previous surveys
have identified them as conservation districts so we kind of reaffirmed some of those past
recommendations and last but not least there's another level of designation out there i'm sure
you're familiar with it's the texas recorded landmarks this is a designation by the state
and there are several recorded texas landmarks already in den we do recommend eight more of those
one of them we're standing in right now city hall we think is probably eligible to be a texas
landmark so so those are things to look at and i've already mentioned many of these and again
this goes to post world war ii development there are areas and it's kind of hard to sell mid-century
and ranch development sometimes is historic but they are and there are a number of cities here
in texas that have already designated mid-century neighborhoods as national register districts so
it's happening already in houston and in tyler and i think in dallas as well so these are areas to
look at so the post world war ii the styled ranches mid-century building types there are
probably two or three o'neill four buildings that are probably should be city landmarks out there so
we do identify those as well there are also some smaller scale industrial buildings but there's
one big industrial building that we think should be a local landmark so there's some smaller scale
industrial buildings to look at then the african-american experience in denton one of our
recommendations in the plan is to develop a complete context statement for the african-american
experience or locally there's a lot of research and writings already about the history here but
we think that that probably should be gathered a little bit more into one definitive context
statement and then we do recommending do recommend surveying the southeast side to be able to identify
more buildings and landmarks that relate to that context and then we do talk about the historic
signs we did notice there's a few historic signs here in denton that are worthy of maybe some
protection and again that relates the morrison milling building company so that might be a good
one to start with so we do in the plan we do talk about community development we do have a few
recommendations and incentives additional centers for the city to look at one of them is to
potentially expand the tax abatement program to all contributing buildings in local districts
because right now only city landmarks are eligible to use that that incentive program
and it's something to look at it may be able to encourage more investment into your into your
residential areas or encourage more people to to do improvement so we think that's
worth taking a look at we also recommend taking a look at some targeted adaptive use opportunities
and it really kind of relates to your downtown there are probably just a handful of buildings
where we think you could probably target some some incentives to encourage some building
rehabilitations to happen so there are a number of communities that have adapted i mean not adapted
but have adopted adaptive use ordinances and that allows for sometimes for expedited development
review or permit fee waivers or things like that in order to encourage some of that rehab activity
to happen and then last but not least we do we do talk about disaster mitigation for historical
resources being able to provide some information pieces to property owners about disaster mitigation
we also have recommendations in there about heritage tourism about trying to
encourage your cvb and other partners to do a little bit more in the marketing end of that
to market your heritage resources a bit more and then to promote the the adoption of a cultural
district in your downtown as well commissioner smith major oh i'm sorry what kind of partnerships
do you see with other cities doing this when you get involved when you say partnerships what does
that look like you flush that out for me a little bit in terms of uh well i think um i think uh you
know in terms of the heritage tourism aspect i think there could be more collaboration between
the city the cvb maybe the denton county office of history and culture in your main shoe program to
try to do maybe market the heritage assets a bit more i think there's probably a little bit more
that could happen in that in that regard gotcha so thanks yeah thank you okay moving on um in terms
of program administration again this this relates to what the city does now administers its program
we do recommend a development of a city-wide design manual or city-wide design guidelines manual
and it's mainly meant to be an educational resource for local property owners if they
want to undertake a rehab project in their house that they could have a publication they could go
to and get some uh information about how to do things it would be really helpful um that they
could have this information as they plan their projects out and then when they go and go to
enrollment in front of the historic landmarks commission they uh can have a project that's
ready and meets the requirements for the design review so we think that that would be a very
helpful publication to have um our the draft plan also has a section in there on sustainability
guidelines for historic buildings um that is an increasing interest nationwide how do you incorporate
energy efficiency alternative energy systems in historic buildings and so we included a section
in there in the hopes that someday when you do develop a design guidelines or a design manual
that you can incorporate that information in there um we also recommend an additional tool in the
historic preservation ordinance once it's called a demolition delay ordinance um or a demolition
delay provision uh there uh dallas fort worth many other communities in texas have this in their
ordinance and it allows you to delay a demolition of a property that may be may have been identified
as significant through a survey but it's not designated as a local landmark or or it's not
included in the local district so it's just an additional tool to have so if a property is in
danger or it's being scheduled for demolition you could have some time to work with a property owner
on devising an alternative solution to demolition yes commissioner smith hey chair what are those
ordinances look like when there's a building those demolition delays is it a is it a citizen
petition referendum submitted to the city council is it a something that the city has power to go
in there and use what have you seen your path in the past for those types of ordinances how they're
formed sure it's usually incorporated within your historic preservation code within within the code
within your dentin development code it's included within the historic preservation section and
basically it all you would state and this is this would be up to the community how you would
structure it you would it would only apply to buildings that have been surveyed so those areas
that we've we've mapped out there i guess that's what i was gonna say is what what communities have
you seen who has it in their have it in there now what kind of procedures do they have currently in
that ordinance well in fort worth they uh in fort worth they have different levels of demolition
delay so for fort worth that they have gone into an area and they've surveyed it it's for all the
properties you've surveyed so in those surveys if you identified highly significant property it's
eligible for the national register it's eligible for local landmark and they're subject to maybe a
90 day delay so if a property owner wanted or somebody wanted to come in and take that building
out that demolition would be delayed for 90 days and so that would have no matter what there's not
a citizen citizens don't have to step in and say something they automatically gets delayed correct
and then the the delay time period goes down by significance so if you have a survey and it
only identifies as a property is potentially contributing to a district then it may be a 30
day delay okay cool thank you sure and then uh the other recommended major recommendation we have
is any future clg grants that you secure it would be good to try to use those to designate more
districts national register districts and we think that would be a good use of that money um now that
you've done a plan you don't need to do another one so we'd rather see you use those monies to get
more districts and nominated um and then education and advocacy we have many different recommendations
on that and this is where there could be more potential collaboration for between different
partners one recommendation we have is to develop an online portal a digital portal for survey
information so if i was a property owner and i bought a building somewhere in dentin i want to
find it find out if it's been surveyed or if it has any information on the history of the building
i can go online click on a map click my property and what would pop up would be an information
sheet the survey information sheet so we see many communities putting that online as just an
information resource for property owners we do recommend expanding partnerships with the county
they have a number of programs we did have a nice interview session with them they have a number of
programs we think that you can partner with and then providing some more hands-on preservation
learning workshops an opportunity for property owners to understand what what they can or cannot
do to their buildings in san antonio texas for instance they have twice a year a hands-on workshop
on how to restore historic windows so it's just it's just an opportunity for people to learn more
about what they can do with their buildings and last but not least there is an implementation
section in the plan we have a chart near that gives timelines for for certain activities who
could be potential partners and then what are the other funding sources that are out there to do
things and then last but not least there are many benefits to preservation you know it's it's
certainly preservation has had a significant impact here in the community we think it could
it could have more but i think the plan really kind of stresses preservation as a sustainability
strategy that that did come out in your dentin 2030 plan and we wanted sort of to continue that
that emphasis so so that's it and then i guess the next steps uh if you want to comment on next steps
we had done a little bit of a delay and we meant for this plan to be an attachment in this
agenda but we'll have it i believe we determined by next friday in the friday report it'll go out
if not sooner to y'all directly we can do that and then we're going to come back here in this
order hlc september 9th that'll be myself and i'll be here on that final presentation asking
for your recommendation to city council where you guys will be these guys will be back to
present it to city council mr beck thank you chair thanks roman and thank you sir
because i have a hard time with your name too um we we seem to talk mainly about buildings but
nothing was mentioned about things like landmarks just maybe a wall a stone wall or something like
that is that incorporated into what we're trying to preserve here those type of things well not
that i can think of any offhand but no there are the you know there's there's the landmarks and
there's the trees issue which we have the current code that we have the current code says that we'll
use our landmark designation process to designate trees but we haven't actually refined that down
because when we do a landmark we landmark a plot of land and with the trees how do you do it and
i think you probably come up with the same kind of challenge on how to do a land a specific
there's one do you think i want specifically well in a way i guess it is kind of a building i went
out with jason cole on his property a couple weeks back and there is an old building out there that's
gutted that was part of his family turn of the century type stuff where they kept things and
it's got some stone walls the building itself and just that general area has some historical
significance we're fixing to develop well not fixing to but you know that that's the area that's
going to be developed over the next 20 years so that's something we didn't cover that much
you talk a little bit about that the easement you recommend in there yeah you know i just gave
the kind of the highlights of the plan but we do have a few other things in there uh that we
recommend one other tool to think about is um you know beyond landmarking you could ask for easements
you know as a tool uh there are communities out there and it's sometimes this is mainly tied to
downtowns or commercial districts where you're providing an incentive um to rehab the building
some cities will will require uh not so much if it's not eligible for landmarking you could be
eligible for landmarking but in return to get a grant you have to submit an easement to the
building so that no future property owner can do any other alterations to it you can't apply
easements to so you know districts or special or infrastructure elements that you feel like are
important to a historic district that are worth maintaining um so the other thing too is you can't
put in your eligibility uh because you have to have eligibility requirements to be a local landmark
and you can make make it more specific where if there are landscape elements or even you know
archaeological ruins or partial buildings if they are significant in some way that they they could
be eligible for landmarking down the road when you talked about we'll use idiot field as a specific
area so are you looking at that area as a designation or all the houses individually
going to be considered uh part of a historical it'd be part of a district okay yeah part of a
larger district one thing that came to mind and i've talked to ron about this i used to
used to live in a house that i thought had some historical significance the guy who built it
there's still the old frame house next door where he lived and he owned about 35 acres which just
sits just opposite of sherman drive where idiot steel was and i'll want to talk to roman later
about still getting over there and trying to uh hold that but um i guess my concern is when i
sold the house the guy went in and just there was a lot of nice old stuff there there was
a trim that uh you don't see anymore there was the old broom sweep texture and so if we
is there any way we can know if some of these older houses in these uh potential areas uh have
traded hands or getting sold that the city can kind of learn them about you know hey you got
a potential for being a historical landmark you know so consider about what you're going to do
as far as changing stuff like that is there any not that we could stop them but at least we could
you know be alerted and alert them to the fact that am i making sense there yeah okay uh you
know that's why i think um a design a design manual would be really helpful because you you
can't you i mean even though you're not going to regulate the interior you can't put stuff in there
to talk about finishes that buyer is going to be aware of it though yes that's what i was asking
how do we make that buyer aware that yeah you can you can you can talk about typical finishes of a
mid-century ranch house that you probably don't want to touch or destroy you know it's good to
it's you know you have wide flexibility to put that type of information in a design manual even
though you're not may not work regulated right okay i would add to that that i think that that
i can't stress enough that i think the new conservation district language that we have
now in the code um should be utilized i mean the idiots hill like said they recommended five
national districts in there um and local districts and what have you there are some really um
top-notch respected architects who did work in um their um the comes of mind is the fellow that
worked on datco and laney roland laney um but and many others but the end course fairhaven is there
is o'neill ford is right nearby but the conservation district which we could do think about is just
putting a conservation district around the whole area and i think the support is there in my
experience from people i've talked to all around there's there's not any opposition it's just a
matter of getting it done um and with the conservation district around it again you
won't you don't stress the hlc it's only they're only going to see a total demolition or a new
construction otherwise it's just a staff look at it but then when those can be marked in the county
you know at least they'll have some designation hd or something will be in there as there is today
you know for look for historic districts in the landmark so i think that would be one way to to
accomplish it to help i don't see any other questions appreciate you very much being here
and presenting to us thank you thank you uh so as stated earlier we're going to jump back into item
one on the agenda for this evening and go through the agenda items i just want to let the records
show that commissioner pernetta and commissioner sanchez have joined us uh commissioner cole is
still absent um first item on the agenda is the minutes and we had an update that was distributed
in terms of the who's absent who's present is there any other updates that need to happen to the
minutes great the next item of business is the consent agenda and i'll certainly open to questions
any item first we did get an update on the first item 3a so i do want hayley to update us on the
new draft we got yeah just one quick cleanup item on the plat there was a previous note four that
referenced um there was a reference to actually an older plat that this company had done and
they realized that was an error being left on this plat so they just removed that and sent over a new
draft um i don't know if any of you noticed that it was a note referencing cross access to an adjoining
property to the north that doesn't actually exist so they cleaned that up um and provided this new
copy for you all this evening great any questions about this item or really item 3b while hayley's
up here great thank you hayley is there any other questions on 3cd or 3e seeing none we'll move into
the items for individual consideration that is item 4a 80p 18-0006 and i'll invite cindy jackson
for presentation on this item thank you chair commission let me go ahead and bring up my
presentation okay i'm hearing before you tonight with a request for an alternate development plan
adp number 18-0006 the applicant is requesting to deviate from sections 35 13 13 for non-residential
and mixed use buildings and section 35 13 10 access parking and circulation requirements
the um i should note that 35 13 oops 10 uh staff worked with the applicant and that issue was
resolved so that is not part of this request tonight the site is uh consists of 3.42 acres
located in the nrmu district and the applicant is proposing professional office park the future
land use designation of the site is neighborhood mixed use which does correspond with the nrmu
district this is applied to neighborhoods or districts where the predominant use is residential
however they want to have a neighborhood service office type component in it and this one of the
requirements in this is to ensure that buildings are of appropriate scale and intensity to complement
the surrounding neighborhood the proposed deviations as listed section 35 i can read all
of these different section numbers if you want or i can just go through the deviations i think
going through the deviations will be adequate okay thanks um the requirements that buildings have
their primary orientation towards the street rather than the parking area and the primary
entrance to each building must be readily apparent as a prominent architectural component and visible
from the street the proposed deviation is that all buildings are set back a minimum of 20 feet along
teesley lane the setback distance is required requested both to preserve existing trees and
due to the location of a 20 foot utility easement along teesley lane and that also applies to the
next deviation which requires at least 60 percent of the street frontage to have buildings within
10 feet of the front property line again that 20 foot required easement along teesley lane prevents
the buildings from getting that close to the property to the property line developments shall
have a minimum floor area of 0.4 plazas and pedestrian areas shall count as floor area for
the purpose of meeting the minimum far the site is shown has an far of 0.23 excluding the pedestrian
areas and plazas if you add them in they have an far of 0.27 the um purpose for the deviation as
you'll see in my nest exhibit is the uh easements that are on the property there are so many easements
on the property it would be difficult to bring that the site up to the full far without going very tall
the next one is parking area shall be located behind buildings or on one or both sides
what the way the applicant has designed this has the site design is that you we have one row of
parking in front of each building and um this also will provide a pedestrian access into the area the
site as you can see the site is pretty deep it's deeper than it is wide and with having the one
row of parking along the um the front of the buildings it also provides sidewalk access
all from cheesely all the way back to the back of the site enabling the pedestrian yes sir
thank you chair could you show us where the walkways are the walkways are right here
okay and here and here you'll see it better on another slide that doesn't have all the easements
okay and while i'm on it too we we talk about this being a pedestrian oriented bill so can we
address the is there a sidewalk out for sidewalks all along here along here along oh yes definitely
okay okay couldn't quite pull that out myself thank you and the final deviation is uh the
building shall be set back not more than 15 feet of the right of way and we already talked about
that this is an exhibit showing the all the easements that um encumber the site there is
the 20-foot utility easement which i spoke of there is a tp and l easement along the the front
portion of the site this is a court ordered access easement to this site this lot right over here
this is a 30-foot access easement and this is a 35-foot drainage easement so there there there are
a lot of easements on the site which uh the applicant had to work around in order to develop
the site kister smith what exactly is a court ordered access easement well from my understanding
is the former property owner of this site would not give access to the property owner here and
this is a landlocked um lot the south the southern lot is a landlocked lot yes yes it is the the
southern the southwestern lot and uh from my understanding is the court ordered this this um
the previous property owner to provide access so does that mean that the so it's got to carry
over obviously for an easement but does that mean that the within that can the southern lot owner
then come back and say well according to your site plan it bends back around it comes back around
the road everything comes back around this other side on the south uh east corner of the buildings
down there that's exactly the configuration of this so the southern the southern plot owner
plotter come back and say well we need you to stub that out for us now and do that is that
there if the aerial already shows that it connects with their driveway
okay so well let's wait for that so and there is this access easement right here as well
that they can access the site from as well if the site ever develops right now there's a house on it
if but if it ever develops in the nrmu district or in uh to more single family there is access
through this and this the applicant tried to work with the um property owner to change the
configuration of this but they wouldn't work with them does the looking at the site plan right now
or that site plan i'm sorry the location i guess i never realized that the reason why that driveway
was there but is that the only driveway for that person to get to their house uh my understand
from what i can tell yes interesting so whenever they develop this this could possibly make it
to where that that homeowner would be very hard for them to get to their house during the construction
times or i'm assuming the quarter access easement probably has regulations within there that that
road has to stay open for them to get to and from their home exactly even during construction they
have to keep that open okay that's weird thanks okay the site plan um proposes seven buildings
there are all office buildings comprising of general office and medical office and for a
total of 33,800 square feet there are 122 parking spaces on the site the lot coverage is required
to be a minimum uh excuse me a maximum of 80 percent and the lot coverage proposed is 73
percent and the landscaping a minimum of 27 percent uh 20 percent and they're providing 27
percent and the same with the tree canopy 20 percent minimum and they're providing 27 percent
so they are providing more open space and trees for the site than what is required
maximum building height permitted is 65 feet and in keeping with the character of the neighborhood
the applicant is going as high as 30 feet the far as we discussed uh 0.04 is the maximum required
and um 0.027 is what they are providing the key site features that the applicant is proposing
a pedestrian plaza with a primary area of tree preservation along teesley you can see this right
here the provision the provision of a significant 32 inch post oak located between building three
and teesley lane in this area here uh enhanced tree preservation they are preserving 100 percent
of the protected trees 100 is required however if um they remove any that we have requirements
for them to uh mitigate that the applicant's preserving all of them 77 percent of quality
trees are preserved only 25 percent is required 85 percent of secondary trees are preferred
preserved only 12.5 percent of preservation is required there is sidewalk connectivity from
teesley you can see the sidewalk along teesley here and they've got sidewalk connectivity all
the way along to the back on both sides kister beck thank you chair cindy is there currently
sidewalk on both sides of that property where it would connect to is that the the road is
partially under construction okay so um i i i'm not sure at this time because it's been torn up
as it widens as the state comes in and widens that would they be putting the sidewalks in it
okay thanks now section 35.13.5 a of the dent development cove gives us criteria for approval
of uh alternate development plans the first is to preserve existing neighborhoods the proposed
office park is similar in nature to the office park located to the east of the side across
teesley lane neighborhood scale commercial developments provide effective buffers between
single family districts and commercial corridors the site is surrounded by single family and it
does provide a buffer the applicant will be excuse me ensure quality development the applicant will
be required to adhere to all develop all requirements of the dent development code with the exception
of those regulations noted that the applicant is requesting to deviate from the site is designated
as a pedestrian oriented neighborhood and the amenities provided on the site such as the
increased tree preservation pedestrian connectivity into the site and the provision of a pedestrian
plaza in front of the site enhance the pedestrian character of the area
focus new development to activity centers to curb strip development and urban sprawl
the proposed office park development is located within an area designated for neighborhood mixed
use on the future land use map commercial development of the scale proposed for this
site is the type of the development expected in these locations it provides neighborhood
scale development with enhanced pedestrian amenities that will help provide a sense of
place to the area proposal meets the criteria for approval i'm sorry ensure the infrastructure
is capable of accommodating development prior to the development occurring development around the
subject site have already brought water and sewer connections to the area traffic along
teesley road can be problematic however text dot has plans for the improvement of the road in the
future it had already started however there were problems with the contractor and text dot is in
the process of hiring a new contractor because teesley lane is a text dot road driveway connections
and drainage onto teesley will be reviewed and approved by text dot prior to construction the
drainage is a new thing that they are reviewing now it should be noted that if text dot review
requires revisions to the site which would affect this site plan or require key drainage features
such as a detention pond that they will have to come back to you for a revised adp site plan approval
results in high quality development meeting the intent of the standards the key site features
proposed by the applicant will achieve an enhanced pedestrian oriented development as noted before
there is enhanced pedestrian connectivity that ties into text dot sidewalks along teesley lane
or they will once the sidewalks are constructed a pedestrian plaza within a primary area of tree
preservation along teesley lane the preservation of a significant 32 inch post oak between building
three and teesley and the enhanced tree protection that i i mentioned earlier and there is sidewalk
connectivity from teesley lane throughout the entire site so that the people can actually just
walk to the site and safely walk to whatever building they're going to instead of trying to
reverse the park the parking lots staff recommends approval of this request as it meets the established
requirements for approval of an adp in the ddc section 35 13 5a and that concludes my presentation
christopher thank you chair i wish uh richard was here today but maybe you can answer this and
correct so correct me if i'm wrong on this wasn't there some breakdown between the state and the
contractor on widening teesley that that's come to a halt right now is that a little off topic
pardon me it's off topic for the agenda well what the reason i'm bringing it up is if that
thing is stalled if teesley widening installed how that impact is developed can they move forward
completely even though the teesley widening or are they going to be restricted some the applicant
has accounted for the the widening of teesley on their site plan they've already they are not
encroaching into any of the variety of way that will be constructed with the widening okay so if
teesley the widening of teesley to the lead that shouldn't impact them okay thank you commissioner smith
cool things i guess i'll get the i'll have my questions out of the way then i'll get something
logistically out of the way on the there's a there's a pond behind the the lot behind yes
completely separate yes is that a retention pond or is that a yes that's a drainage easement back
okay so cool they'll be they'll be where they'll they'll retain all their water from building the
parking lot um there is no connection when i was asking that question but there's a driveway to
that house now and that looks like that's the only way in and out for that home their site plan one
we're only improving adp so the site plan that's in the adp yes there'll be there'll be a review
of that correct so to make sure that that if that's the only way in and out for that person we
shouldn't construct a road that doesn't let them have access to their house we are going to ensure
that that that that property owner will have access to their property gotcha okay that's what
i wanted to make sure of uh and then logistically because we're no longer discussing the parking
uh do we need to whenever we make a motion do we need to remove because the noticed item has that
section in there for you know we're looking at parking do we need to have our motion
remove that from the noticed item or can we just approve a staff recommendation so we're fine
because i'm not following there was no notice for this oh i'm sorry this is an individual
right consideration okay never mind thank you any other question would make it easier i could
just take that off of my presentation when i make it in the chamber i guess it was more of a question
of it's it's not so much notice as it was it was in the agenda which is publicly posted so to make
sure that we know if we put up there so yeah that item was approved it's like oh what what changes
with parking did you guys approve well we actually didn't do anything to it they actually complied
with the parking requirements actually if we need to make it's not really a big issue i'm not picking
a bone here it's making sure there's nothing we need to say to denote that that we actually
didn't vote on that piece whatsoever even though it was on the agenda you certainly could there's
certainly no harm in it okay any other questions
okay thank you very much cindy thank you the next item of business is agenda item 5a it is the
continuing delay of this item the aesa 19-1c it is already opened so as we go to public
session i'll just ask for a vote to postpone this to a date certain of september 18th but
we won't open the public hearing since it's already opened we'll just look for a vote there
next is item 5b fr 18-0013 it's a replat presented by hayley
this request is for a replat of a single parcel it's located just off of i-35 where avenue a and
mccormick street currently intersect um you all may remember about a year ago we had a rezoning
request for this site for the expansion of the fire station so it's currently zoned dcg
the fire station today exists on this portion of the property that was previously unplatted
this lot also takes in a portion of the mccormick street right of way that council elected to
permanently close back in 2018 and then this is the former royal in addition lot a portion of which
was taken by tex dot so all three of those pieces are now being combined into one lot with the
intent of developing a new larger fire station on the western side of the property happy to
answer any questions christia ellis thank you chair hayley it's just with regard to the the response
that was uh given regarding um underwood was that ever addressed for them it's my understanding that
there's no intent at all to close underwood street um i haven't heard from that person any further
since their their response that was given okay christia beck thank you chair looking at the
outline on the uh notification map uh it looks like it's incorporated part of avenue a into that
is that just uh i believe that's just an error mapping how are they going to get up that way
looking for an alleyway or something thank you any other questions thank you very much hayley
next item of business is item 5c fr 19-10 and this is julie wyatt's item presentation
you're probably familiar with this site this property is located adjacent to i-35 near the
unt campus um it was the carriage square shopping center that has since been been demolished they
are they're replatting the property subdividing it into two lots to facilitate a mixed use
development on lot one which is the northern piece it's going to be a a combination retail
restaurant and multi-family with a wrapped parking garage
any questions for julie christia sanchez when you say multi-family is is this going to be
geared towards students is that do we know it just out of curiosity i don't know who their
perspective um i would imagine it would it would have a lot of students just because it's near the
campus any other questions for julie thank you very much julie that concludes our uh walkthrough
the agenda for this evening we have one more concluding item and that is item 2b uh and so
with that i'll say it's um just a couple things about commissioner sanchez as this is his last
evening uh serving with us this uh tonight so before we break i just wanted to uh thank you
for all that you've done for planning zoning i know just by accepting the position as a city
commissioner there's a commitment and an involvement uh that is baseline but you didn't just show up you
came engaged studied and asked a lot of questions and helped all of our commissioners and so i
appreciate that you didn't just have it as a checkbox every other wednesday that you came uh
ready to help and serve and i think you've shaped the conversation of our city in a unique way and
so i know specifically for me a lot of the environmental issues with trees and drainage
and all those things you brought a great perspective from your background and history and so
over the past two years and hundreds of unpaid service to the city i just wanted to personally
thank you on behalf of the commissioner the commissioners and the city of denton for all
your work we just want to recognize you for your service and say thank you very much for all you've
done and and hopefully through the past two years you've seen the inner workings and you're not
going to be a stranger in the meetings you'll come and speak to us and help us continue as
your schedule permits helping us try our best to plan and zone the city but with that we have a
certificate for you i'll have richard hand to you and i just wanted to say thank you
i'd like to say thank you and uh i tell you i learned a lot in these two years i know it's
opened my eyes on as to what's going on in the city as far as planning and zoning so
uh all i can say is i appreciate it if it wasn't uh and the reason why we're we're uh
i'm separating is my wife and i have decided we just bought us an rv and and brought us a truck
we plan on doing some traveling at my age i figured you know i better do it while i'm healthy
and so that's primarily what we plan on doing the next you know for the next couple years
and that's why i decided we decided to separate well all right enjoy your travels and be safe out
there all right thank you with that we'll close the oh yeah commissioner beck let me add something
here and i don't want to take uh commissioner sanchez thunder away and i thank you for your
great comments about i totally agree with it just so there's a little understanding in my situation
here and i'm sorry i'm throwing monkey wrench into this but i'm kind of on hold right now and i'm
going to keep everybody updated month to month it seems like but after talking with uh councilwoman
uh keely briggs until she feels comfortable with somebody i've agreed to stick around
as long as i possibly can until the circumstances that motivated me to consider resigning become
overwhelming or what so i may be here maybe only one more month i could be here several more months
and i apologize for any confusion that may cause anybody so but i wish uh commissioner sanchez all
the uh great fortune in the world and enjoy the travel man i wish i could be there with you
thank you thank you sir beck for that update uh any other words
with that we'll close the work session at 5 37 we'll meet back in council chambers at 6 30
good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the planning and zoning commission
meeting for august 21st 2019 seeing that we have a quorum i will call this meeting to order at 6
30 the first item of business is to stand and give a pledge of allegiance to the us and texas flag of able
pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic from which
it stands one nation under god indivisible liberty and justice for all
to be
the next item of business is to consider approval of the planning and zoning commission minutes and
just for the record i wanted to state that the public meeting correction should mimic the
work session correction in terms of the attendance it was corrected for the work session minutes but
i wanted to make sure for the record we had the um public session minutes reflect the same changes
as the work session specifically that's uh commissioner pratt was present and absent was
commissioner beck and commissioner smith any are any discussion or motion for the minutes
commissioner smith move to approve the minutes for august 7th and for august 14th commissioner beck
all right
i can do it for the seventh but i can't do it for the 14th i forgot i wasn't there
i didn't mean to second that so i second for the seventh i wasn't here on the 14th
so can we take these in two different votes let's recuse your second do we have a second for the
august 7th yes yeah motion for the seven you're here for the seven you weren't here for the 14th
yes correct okay let's uh we have first and a second for the august 7th meeting we'll call
for vote on the board motion carries six zero commissioner smith uh move to approve the minutes
for august 14th commissioner pernetta second the motion we have a first and a second any discussion
seeing none i call for a vote on the board
motion carries five zero wonder cues all right thanks for helping me through that one
next item of business is the consent agenda
christian alice move approval we have a first for approval christian beck second we have a second
with the first and second any discussion scene nine i'll call for a vote on the board
motion carries six zero the next item of business is the items for individual consideration we have
one it's item 4a adp 18-0006 i'll invite cindy jackson for presentation
missioners adp 19 18-0006 is a request for approval of an alternate development plan to
deviate from section 35 13 13 4 non-residential mixed use buildings and section 35 13 10 access
parking and circulation requirements i would like to note that the second portion act 35 13 10 access
parking and circulation requirements is is no longer a requested deviation because the applicant
now um worked with staff i worked with the applicant and they now meet the requirement
the site is 3.42 acres and as you can see the site right here it is zoned in rmu the use proposed
for the site is professional office park the site is designated uh future on the future land use map
as neighborhood mixed use this is applied to neighborhoods or districts where the predominant
use is residential however it encourages neighborhood scale non-residential uses such as
neighborhood services and offices this designation also requires that we ensure that the buildings
are of appropriate scale and intensity to complement the surrounding neighborhood
the proposed deviations are as follows one is buildings shall have their primary orientation
towards the street rather than the parking area and the primary entrance must be readily apparent
as a prominent architectural component and visible from the street and at least 60 percent of the
street frontage shall have buildings within 10 feet of the property area and buildings
shall be set back no more than 15 feet from the right of way unless the area is used for pedestrian
activities such as plazas or outdoor eating areas all buildings will be set back a minimum of 20
feet along teesley lane due to the 20 foot utility easement that is located along teesley lane
the um next deviation would be development shall have a minimum floor area ratio of 0.04
the plazas and pedestrian areas shall count as floor area for the purpose of meeting the minimum
far the site is shown has an far of 0.23 and when you include the plazas and pedestrian areas it is
0.27 parking areas shall be located between the buildings or on one or both sides one row of
parking is provided in front of each building to facilitate pedestrian access to the buildings at
the rear of the site this exhibit shows the location of the easements on the site the site
is encumbered by quite a few easements as you can see which is what is preventing the applicant from
fully complying with the requested deviations this is the 20 foot utility easement which is preventing
the the front setback from moving more than 20 feet this is also a tp and l easement there is a 35
foot wide drainage easement along the western property line a 30 foot access easement along
the southern property line and then a court ordered access easement that bisects the site
site plan is shown shows seven buildings on the site and a total of 33,800 square feet of office
space is proposed they also have 122 parking spaces when looking at the requirements for the
nrmu district there is a maximum of 80 percent lot coverage required and the applicant only has 73
provided landscaping a minimum of 20 percent is required and the applicant is providing 27 percent
which exceeds the minimum tree canopy required is at 20 percent minimum and the applicant is
providing 27 percent which also exceeds the minimum the height of the buildings as proposed
is 30 feet when the maximum is 65 feet this is to keep it more in scale with the neighborhood
the far is um required is 0.4 and they're providing 0.27
key site features on the property include a pedestrian plaza with a primary area of tree
preservation pedestrian plaza is right in this location the preservation of a significant 32
inch post oak located between building number three and teesley lane enhanced tree preservation
100 percent of protected trees preserved um 77 percent of quality trees preserved on the site
when only 25 percent preservation is required 85 percent of secondary trees are preserved when
only 12.5 percent preservation is required the applicant is providing sidewalk connectivity from
teesley lane through the entire site to enhance the pedestrian aspect section 35 13 5a provides the
criteria on that means to be met for approval of an alternate development plan the first one is to
observe for just existing neighborhoods the proposed office park is similar to the office park located
to the east of the site across teesley lane neighborhood scale and commercial development
commercial developments provide effective buffers between the single family districts and commercial
corridors and and there is single family all around this site and it is providing a buffer
for the single family to the west ensure quality development the applicant will be required to
adhere to all requirements of the dent in development code with the exception of those regulations
deviated from with this development as noted previously this this site is designated as a
pedestrian oriented neighborhood and the amenities provided on the site that i mentioned with the
previous slide slide um enhance the pedestrian character of the neighborhood focus new development
on activity centers to curb strip development and urban sprawl the proposed office park development
is located in an area designated for neighborhood mixed use on the future land use map commercial
development of the scale proposed for this site is the type of development expected in these locations
this is not a strip development it is an office park it provides neighborhood scale development
and enhanced pedestrian amenities ensure the infrastructure is capable of accommodating
development prior to the development occurring the site all around the site areas all around
the site have already been developed they have already brought water and sewer to the area
traffic along teesley can be problematic however the tex dot has plans for the improvement of the
road in the future which will alleviate the congestion that issues because teesley lane
is a tax dot road driveway connections and drainage onto teesley will be reviewed and
approved by tex dot prior to construction should be noted that if the tax dot review
requires any site changes which affect the site plan elements that are the subject of this adp
as noted in the key in the proposed deviation table or the key site features previously noted
a revised adp will be required results in a high quality development meeting the intent of the
standards the key site features proposed by the applicant will achieve enhanced pedestrian
orientation and oriented development and i've already mentioned them several times
staff recommends approval of this request as it meets established requirements for the approval
of an adp in ddc 3513 5a that concludes my presentation and the applicant is present if
you have any questions thank you very much much cindy any questions i do not see anything thank
you the applicant is here and i believe you have a presentation
if you just state your name and address for the record you'll be provided 10 minutes for
the presentation good evening commissioners i'm not going to go through and repeat what cindy just
said i do want to address a couple of questions that came up during the work session very briefly
and then i want to give you an example of a recent office park development that the same property
owner and developer just completed just so you can see some pictures of what something similar
that we're going to do so the easement by right that cuts through the middle of our property was
a topic of discussion during the work session and just want to clarify that that arose it was a
court-ordered easement and it's it was written as an easement by right rather than an easement by
necessity it was a dispute between the neighbor and the previous property owner and the way the
court order was written it established an easement that we have absolutely no way to remove
and the property owner to our south who who was granted the easement would would have to agree to
move it and my client did meet with her several times and she's just not willing to relocate that
easement so the peculiarity of our site plan is partially due to maintaining that easement for her
and we do intend all through construction to make sure that she has access within her easement we'll
do one lane at a time whatever it takes to make sure that she has access when we construct the
south drive she will have an alternate access that she is welcome to use it will be another public
access easement but we we have no way to remove the easement as it exists today and in terms of
text dot timing as it relates to the construction of our project and the latest update from text
dot was issued on july 17th and at that point in time they were still in the bidding process to
select a new contractor and we do still think that they will be coming in ahead of us and
constructing the sidewalk and we still have to go through platting text dot access permits and you
know civil plans and building permits so it's going to take us some time and we do understand
that the burden is on us to construct those improvements if we get there first and then
lastly there was a question in regarding drainage and cindy showed you a 35 foot drainage easement
on our western property line and that is actually an existing concrete flume that the property owner
constructed in conjunction with request by the city's engineering department to alleviate some
drainage concerns with the bent oaks neighborhood to our north and it was designed and constructed
to handle all drainage at fully developed conditions of course we'll have to demonstrate
that when we come in with our civil plans but we do anticipate that it will handle everything that we
bring in and then with that i just want to show you quickly this is emory office park which you guys
saw a replat on relatively recently i think that's the only thing that had to come to you
but this is six professional office buildings located on bonnie bray and emory near razor
ranch that we just completed the the construction of the sixth building it's going to be the same
contractor same architect same developer and same property owner so just wanted to give you an
example of it will be residential style single story construction that is compatible with the
neighborhood and that's all i have but i'm happy happy to answer any questions
thank you for the presentation and giving us those contacts i don't see any questions at this time
this is an item for individual consideration so at any time we can discuss or make a motion if
there's someone out in the public they would like to speak certainly provide that opportunity to do
so but the chair would entertain a motion or discussion on the item to mr smith motion to
approve we have a first for approval commissioner pernetta second the motion we have a first and a
second for approval any discussion seeing none i'll call for vote on the board
motion carries six zero next item of business is item uh five a it's the first of our public
hearings it's a esa 19-0001c this item has been previously opened and postponed to this date
and staff is looking for us to consider a motion to move this to a date certain of september 18th
commissioner smith motion to uh to uh postpone till september 18th date certain we have a first
commissioner pernetta second the motion to postpone we have a first and a second to postpone to a date
certain of september 18th any discussion seeing none i'll call for a vote on the board
the motion carries five zero
next item of business is five b and that is the final replat 18-0013
can you pull those results
were you refusing christian pernetta no i get uh
yeah can we vote by show of hands just so we can address the record for the previous item
five a to postpone to a date certain all those in favor can you raise your hand
okay so motion carries six zero let the record state that all commissioners voted for
minus jason cole who is absent that now brings us item 5b fr 18-0013
and i'll invite hayley for presentation good evening this is a replat of lot one r block a
of fire station number three edition um this replat is combining um currently unplotted property
where the existing fire station is located on the east side of the property with the mccormick street
right of way that's been permanently closed by city ordinance south of underwood street along with
the remainder of the old royal n edition lot one part of which was taken by tex dot the intent of
the replat is just to consolidate the site for the redevelopment of a larger fire station on the
property i'm happy to answer any questions i did not see thank you if i did not this is a public
hearing i want to make sure that that's open and uh the public can certainly speak to this
replat if they would like seeing none i'll close the public hearing christopher netta motion to
approve we have a first for approval christopher smith second we have first and second for approval
any discussion seeing none i'll call for a vote on the board motion carries six zero the next item
of business is item 5c fr 19-0010 i will open the public here and invite julie for presentation
good evening i'm julie wyatt senior planner with the city of denton
and this replat is for the carriage square edition the intent of the the replat is to
subdivide a previously platted piece of property for redevelopment they intend to develop the
the northern lot lot one with a mixed use development which includes um retail space
restaurant space and um and a multi-family development with it with a structured parking
garage i'll stand for any questions commissioner ellis thank you jim julie there's nothing planned
right now for lot two is that correct correct okay i do not see any other questions all right thank
you so much this is a public hearing anyone wishing to speak may certainly do so
seeing none i will close public hearing and turn to the dance for a discussion our motion
commissioner smith motion to approve we have a first for approval christopher netta second
we have first and second for approval any discussion seeing none i'll call for a vote on the board
motion carries six zero that brings us to our final item for this evening which is the plan
zoning commission project matrix i will turn it over to richard for an update and then open
to the commissioners for discussion briefly i have excuse me um no real updates on the on the matrix
i just wanted to provide a a quick update on last night's city council meeting they did approve the
the two ordinances um relative to the house bills uh with the uh i think it was the 2439 the building
materials that did include the the additional whereas clause that was requested by by the
commission so that was incorporated uh they also heard the fireside uh item the rezoned the overlay
conditions that were requested to be modified council did not take action but deferred or
postponed that item until september 10th and so there were some questions with respect to
obviously the fence and and the trees and how that would how that would work and coordinate with the
electric lines so i'll update you after after that and if you saw in the work session in the paper
this morning there was also a a work session item on sort of development fees so we'll be bringing
that back um very shortly with those the actual fee ordinance as part of the budget and with that
i have nothing more to add any discussion for the matrix
christopher sanchez this is your last evening would you like to add anything just to put
work on the plate of city staff as a going away president not really well as we mentioned early
in work session i just wanted to thank you again for your service uh and wish you the best in your
travels and enjoy the rb trips be safe out there thank you with that i will close our
our meeting for this evening at 6 52.