1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,720 Good afternoon and welcome to the City of Denton Planning and Zoning Commission work 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:09,720 session. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:18,640 We'll call us to order at 5.03 p.m. February 26, 2025. 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:29,120 The first item that we have on the work session agenda is any comments for the regular session 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,960 consent agenda. 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:39,160 I do not see any members of the public present to comment, so we'll move on. 7 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:47,880 The next item is our clarification of agenda items listed for this meeting. 8 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,760 So we have a lot of consent agenda items. 9 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,720 Any questions about the consent agenda? 10 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,460 No, okay. 11 00:00:57,460 --> 00:01:07,200 There was one updated item within that consent agenda that was emailed to you, and then we 12 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:14,900 do have some items for individual consideration this evening. 13 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:43,200 Next one is FP25006. 14 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:52,760 Good evening, Commission. 15 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,520 This is a request for a final plot in the ETJ of the City of Denton. 16 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,080 It is a final plot that will create three residential lots. 17 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:13,760 It's located about 1,000 feet east of FM2164 on a private road, and about 5,450 feet north 18 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,460 of loop 288. 19 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:19,680 It does not meet our criteria for approval at this time, so we're recommending denial. 20 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:26,400 However, we have no objection to their first extension request to a date certain of March 21 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:27,400 19th. 22 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,400 Okay. 23 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,120 I'm not here to answer any questions. 24 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,360 Any questions on this item? 25 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,360 No? 26 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:34,360 Okay. 27 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:35,360 Thank you, Matt. 28 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,360 Next item, V24. 29 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:45,240 I think this is the first time I've seen a V before one of these items, 0137, Julie. 30 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:50,040 Yes, so this one's a little unique. 31 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:58,000 All right, I'm Julie Wyatt, principal planner, and I'm presenting tonight V24137 to you. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 This is for an alternative development plan. 33 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,360 Just a quick summary, I could go over all the slides if you want to, or I could just 34 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,280 do a summary during work session. 35 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:14,760 So Commissioner Pruitt, you may remember, but under our 2002 Denton Development Code, 36 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:19,800 and that was the development code before the code that we have now, we had a process called 37 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,280 an alternative development plan. 38 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:30,240 And it allowed for a flexible process for P and Z to approve deviations from site development 39 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:36,240 standards, things like number of parking spaces, or where the parking was going to be installed, 40 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,120 maybe building orientation, landscaping. 41 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:44,240 If the applicant couldn't necessarily meet those requirements, they could request planning 42 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,360 and zoning commission approval of a site plan. 43 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,560 So that was an old process that we had. 44 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:58,040 We just have a few remaining in the city of Denton, but this is a request to modify an 45 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,540 approved alternative development plan that the applicant received in 2020. 46 00:04:03,540 --> 00:04:06,360 So it's been going on for a while. 47 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,740 It's for the Agave Ranch project. 48 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:16,040 It is a single-family residential neighborhood that is currently under development on the 49 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,240 east side of FM 428. 50 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,700 So platting has been done, and really it's now they're installing the streets and going 51 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:27,500 to start building the houses soon. 52 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:34,480 The original alternative development plan had to do with a variety of things like architecture 53 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,800 on the structures and percentages of windows and doors and garage doors. 54 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:48,560 The specifically related to garage doors are the setbacks and then also the percentage 55 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,840 that a garage door could occupy in the front of a home. 56 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:57,200 So they did receive that alternative development plan approval in 2020. 57 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:01,560 They would like to tweak those provisions, and so that is the request. 58 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:08,560 So just ultimately the request is to allow the garages to be set back three feet from 59 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:16,720 the building frontage and then allow the two car garages to occupy 45 percent of the frontage 60 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:23,500 instead of 40, and then the three car garages 50 percent of the frontage instead of 40. 61 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:25,280 That's really the request. 62 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,800 We're going to have to get through this together. 63 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,160 It's going to be a little challenging to go through all of what was previously approved 64 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:36,280 and what's on the table now, but I'll be happy to answer any questions. 65 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:39,400 Any questions at this time? 66 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:40,400 Commissioner Riggs? 67 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:48,520 Yeah, so I was looking at it and one of the questions I had was, staff recommended a tweak 68 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:49,520 to it. 69 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,280 Can you kind of explain the tweak that you recommended? 70 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:53,280 Sure. 71 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:58,720 So I'll just skip ahead. 72 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,360 For the garage width, let me see which one would be best. 73 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:03,680 We'll look at this one. 74 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:12,920 So for the garage width, the original approval for the ADP allowed the two car garages to 75 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:20,520 occupy 45 percent of the frontage and three car garages to occupy 55 percent of the frontage, 76 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:27,800 but it limited the number of houses that could take advantage of that to 45 percent. 77 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,240 Given that that's kind of arbitrary, it's going to be kind of difficult maybe to apply 78 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:38,800 in terms of not only city staff, but also think about the sales staff for the builder 79 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,140 as well as buyers for those homes. 80 00:06:42,140 --> 00:06:51,480 We felt like the better approach would be to just allow that small expansion of 45 percent 81 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:58,560 for any of the two car garages in Agave Ranch, but limit the three car garages to lots that 82 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,800 are 62 feet and wider. 83 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,560 So it would only be allowed on larger lots. 84 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,280 It seems to be a little more straightforward way to approach it instead of, well, the neighbor 85 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:17,240 got the 45 percent, but we hit 45 percent of the units with that one, so no more can 86 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:18,240 be done. 87 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,720 So we felt like it was probably just a fair way to approach it. 88 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,200 Did that make any sense? 89 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,200 No that did. 90 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,760 So does the number of lots that that could go on, is that kind of aligned with the 45 91 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:29,760 percent? 92 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:30,760 You know, I don't know. 93 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:31,760 I can look at it. 94 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,040 I would say it might be fewer than that. 95 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,320 Most of the lots in Agave Ranch are probably 50 feet wide. 96 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:46,200 They do have some larger lots that are 60 to 80 feet wide, but I could take a look at 97 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,440 that and see if we've got just a ballpark idea. 98 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,440 I think that's good enough. 99 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:57,800 Any other questions? 100 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,760 Okay. 101 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:01,760 Commissioner Dyer. 102 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,720 Okay, so I have a question. 103 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:05,720 Sure. 104 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:12,960 And I know I'm new, first night on the job, but when I'm hearing these differences in 105 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,960 the frontage, is it because they want to make the garages bigger or they kind of want to 106 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:25,640 shrink the living space on the house, like what's the actual reason for the differences? 107 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,600 I prepared a slide just for this question, so I'm excited. 108 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:30,680 All right. 109 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,800 So standard two-car garages are 16 feet wide. 110 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,060 So each car bay is eight feet wide. 111 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:41,380 So a three-car garage would then be 24 feet wide. 112 00:08:41,380 --> 00:08:47,920 When we look at that 40% width regulation, it really is based upon a 50-foot-wide lot 113 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,520 with five-foot setbacks, which leaves you a 40-foot building pad. 114 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:59,480 And then that 16 feet is 40% of 40 feet. 115 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:07,600 Their product, the Builder Now, has a few models that are 39 feet wide. 116 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:15,920 So the garage door doesn't get bigger, but the house pad is slightly smaller. 117 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:23,760 And so it now ups that percentage of the area that the garage door, that that 16 feet would 118 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,560 accommodate. 119 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:31,960 So then if they're going from a 40-foot pad to a 39, now you've just got, I mean, it's 120 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,120 only a foot, but you've got a little bit extra in between the houses, as I said, on these 121 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,120 lots. 122 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,320 It'd be a larger setback on the side. 123 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,320 Okay. 124 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:44,320 Yeah. 125 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:45,320 Okay. 126 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:49,320 My only question, we don't have to answer it now if you already have it in the presentation, 127 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,460 but I actually haven't seen one of these yet. 128 00:09:53,460 --> 00:09:58,320 So this is brand new to me, well, 2020 was before I was here. 129 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:10,760 But the, we're somewhat familiar with the considerations that we make for zoning changes 130 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:16,800 versus for plats, and I'm not sure exactly what the list is for these alternative development 131 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,360 plans because they were in the 2002 code, which we don't see very often. 132 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,880 So it looks like we'll see it in the... 133 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:34,120 Yeah, there's a list of criteria that they needed to meet in order to, you know, get 134 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,120 staff's recommendation. 135 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Ultimately, it's something you all would consider. 136 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:38,960 Okay. 137 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,480 Thank you. 138 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,320 All right. 139 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,240 And we have two public hearings tonight. 140 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:51,040 First one is PD 23-0006. 141 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,280 And I see Julie is up for this one as well. 142 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,280 Okay. 143 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,280 Let me find it. 144 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,360 Ah, there it is. 145 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:03,360 Okay. 146 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:04,360 All right. 147 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,360 All right. 148 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,800 So this is a plan development for the Family Justice Center. 149 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,320 So just a quick summary of this proposal. 150 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:20,200 The site is located in the north side of the city on the east side of Bonnie Bray, just 151 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,040 south of Riney Road north, kind of between Windsor and Riney. 152 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,240 It's that box in yellow. 153 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:32,360 They are proposing to rezone the property from R7 to really a PD with that same base 154 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:33,900 zoning of R7. 155 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:39,560 And the purpose of this is to create or develop a mixed-use community facility. 156 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:48,680 And it would have a range of services, including residential component, office component, counseling 157 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:49,680 component. 158 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:57,200 But it really is intended to be sort of comprehensive to serve families within Denton County. 159 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,520 The proposal is consistent with the with the vision statement within our comprehensive 160 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,080 plan, as well as the future land use map. 161 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,600 And so staff recommends approval of the request. 162 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:08,880 I've got the site plan here. 163 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:10,440 It's a little, little difficult to see. 164 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:20,440 But I'll be happy to answer any questions and that's it. 165 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,640 Any questions? 166 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:24,640 I think we'll. 167 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,640 Yeah. 168 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,280 One from Commissioner Riggs. 169 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,840 So they're kind of sharing access, though, right? 170 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,960 Is that kind of what I read? 171 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,380 Well, that yes, that is that is a good question. 172 00:12:37,380 --> 00:12:39,360 So there are three access points. 173 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,160 They actually don't have an access point to Bonnie Bray. 174 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,300 Their access comes from the north and the south. 175 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,440 So there is an emergency access only to the north. 176 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,180 Some might remember that that that access driveway to the north is actually related 177 00:12:55,180 --> 00:12:58,480 to the Reeves Elementary School that's under construction right now. 178 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,680 They have coordinated with Denton ISD and gotten the necessary permissions for that 179 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:04,080 access point. 180 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,200 So that would be emergency only access. 181 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,040 It's that elementary school's bus loop. 182 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,080 Their main access is going to come from the south. 183 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:18,760 And that is is this it's it's a public right of way to that park property. 184 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,020 But then that would connect on to to Bonnie Bray. 185 00:13:23,020 --> 00:13:26,600 We also worked with them to make sure that there was adequate pedestrian connectivity 186 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,240 because there is an elementary school right next door. 187 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,440 It'd be really great to make sure that that there are those connections for students. 188 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,320 And so there is a pedestrian connection along that southern property boundary. 189 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:43,640 It's going to connect to a planned trail in the park, which will then connect on to Reeves 190 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:44,640 Elementary. 191 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:45,640 Anything else? 192 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:46,640 All right. 193 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:52,540 We'll see you at the public hearing. 194 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:57,560 And the last public hearing tonight is Z250001. 195 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:02,440 Welcome Erin. 196 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:12,560 OK. 197 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:17,840 This is Sequoia Park rezoning from Residential 3 to Residential 6. 198 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,160 So I also just have a summary slide I'll go over and then I'll have a longer presentation 199 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,700 with the main session unless you guys have any questions. 200 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:29,760 So this is a request to rezone approximately eight point nine three acres from Residential 201 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,960 3 to Residential 6. 202 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:41,160 This is generally located north of Mingo Road, east or west of Nottingham Drive, generally 203 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,720 at the corner there and west of the Denton Bible College for reference. 204 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,560 The subject site is undeveloped currently and has been undeveloped since at least the early 205 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:52,560 1900s. 206 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,160 That was as far back as we could pin it on the aerials. 207 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,360 And the purpose of this rezoning is to facilitate future residential development in accordance 208 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,320 with our six standards. 209 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,720 The proposal is consistent with the overall goals and policies of the comprehensive plan 210 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,240 and staff is recommending approval. 211 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:15,840 I'm happy to answer any questions. 212 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,120 Seeing none, we'll see you at the public hearing. 213 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,800 Thank you. 214 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,120 All right. 215 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,040 We do have a couple of work session reports this evening. 216 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:33,600 First one is PZ25056, receive a report and hold a discussion regarding the fiscal year 217 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,160 planning work plan. 218 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:48,120 Good evening Chair and Commission, I'm Keisha Siriano, Assistant Plaint Director. 219 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:53,880 So the last couple of years, maybe a couple of you have been here when we've been giving 220 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:59,040 you updates on the two area plans, Southeast Denton and Design Downtown Denton. 221 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:04,320 Well we've started implementing both of those plans and Chair Pruitt challenged us last 222 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,640 year to hit the ground running and we've been. 223 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:12,160 So we're here tonight to give you some updates, not only on those plans, but what we've been 224 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,640 doing with the comp plan as well as some regulatory needs, historic preservation and neighborhood 225 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:17,720 engagement. 226 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,160 If you see a star on the slide, it's just to let you know that that item is also a City 227 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,040 Council strategic initiative. 228 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:29,800 And also want to let you know the city has a program called Invisio that we use to track 229 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:35,480 progress and all of our plans have been inputted and are now being tracked in that particular 230 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:36,480 program. 231 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,880 So if you go on our website, in between us giving you updates and you want to see what's 232 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:46,640 going on with a particular item, feel free to check out our dashboard. 233 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:52,440 So last summer, if you remember, Julie came in August and gave you an update for the comp 234 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:56,840 plan updates for that previous fiscal year and at that time she mentioned we were going 235 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,480 to have a road show and at this road show we were going to invite all the city departments 236 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,920 to come out and just have a conversation about what the comp plan is. 237 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:06,920 Why do we have it? 238 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:07,920 What does it do? 239 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:08,920 What's the purpose? 240 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:13,060 Go over a little bit their particular action items within their departments and then do 241 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:14,400 some follow ups. 242 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,880 So we did that back in November, right now in December we started meeting with each department 243 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:24,600 to go over their specific items, how they can use those items and policy recommendations 244 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,640 to put forth their projects and initiatives they want to do. 245 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,320 Also doing some checking, there's some things that we've realized some departments may be 246 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,960 lead and it really should be a different department so we're also checking those things, sitting 247 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,600 with them to see if the items that are proposed, is it still feasible? 248 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,560 The time frame, are those still feasible? 249 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:46,240 And so we've started in December, we're still working through each department, it's taking 250 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:51,200 a little bit just due to staff plates sometimes, it goes up and down but we're working and 251 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,260 so we'll continue to give updates on that as well. 252 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:59,960 And then we added to our work plan this year to do some quarter planning along I-35 so 253 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:03,400 staff has gone out and looked at their corridor, you know corridors are very important, they're 254 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:08,200 gateways to the city, you want your corridors to be welcoming and engaging and invite people 255 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,520 to stop in and check out dentists so we're working on that and checking our codes and 256 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,040 everything to see if they think they need to change or shift just based on how things 257 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,160 are looking right now. 258 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:26,800 So you challenged us, we had 30, I believe 30 actions Chair Pruitt for the Southeast 259 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:31,200 Dent plan for the first two years and you challenged us to get 15 done this year so 260 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,140 we're steadily working, we've hit the ground running. 261 00:18:34,140 --> 00:18:39,460 So we started with establishing the overlay districts, we're working on residential and 262 00:18:39,460 --> 00:18:43,660 the live work, residential staff has gone out in a windshield survey community, we really 263 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:47,420 want to make sure they preserve the character of the community so we're steadily working 264 00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:52,320 on that and live work, remember Prairie Street used to be a black main street and they want 265 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,720 more of a live work feel in that area so we're also working on that. 266 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,960 So we put out a people economic development survey, we went to the MLK event, got some 267 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:05,680 surveys there, it's on the Discuss Denton, we also have a block party coming up in March 268 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:11,240 where we'll be having some visual preference surveys as well as pushing the live work survey 269 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,800 as well for the community and we're having a block party to hopefully encourage people 270 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,560 to come out and this thought it may be a fun way for them to socialize, engage with their 271 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:25,560 neighbors as well as give us the feedback that we need to prepare these items. 272 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:30,520 We've also in November helped partner with economic development and community services 273 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:36,000 to hold a small business boot camp, it was taken to Southeast Denton, we didn't get as 274 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,600 much participation from there as we wanted but we did get nice participation across the 275 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:41,600 city. 276 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,680 We're trying to do some more, the purpose of this people with economic development survey 277 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,360 is to really help us figure out what is it they need, what workshops they need, some 278 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:53,440 people may, maybe it's not, they're not ready to buy a home or not ready to start a business 279 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,600 but maybe it's more how do I manage my money so we have questions like that on that survey 280 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,920 to help inform some of these other items. 281 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:04,400 We also have a partnership right now, community services is doing that, we're in support of 282 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:11,280 with Stoke to provide mentoring at Project HOPE as well as some space for three months 283 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:16,380 for those that need small business assistance in space at actual Stoke so we're excited 284 00:20:16,380 --> 00:20:21,040 about that and see how that goes and then I'm happy to report last summer we applied 285 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:27,960 for a grant for $75,000 to do a historic resource survey in Southeast Denton. 286 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:33,880 We saw a press release that we were awarded but we haven't had an official notification 287 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:34,880 so we're not sure. 288 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,840 That is a federal grant, everyone knows what's going on there so we'll keep you updated if 289 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:46,720 and when we receive that official notification and then lastly the plan asked for us to start 290 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,680 working on neighborhood empowerment zone just establish that initial program statement so 291 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,240 we've partnered with ED and community services as well and we've been talking to several 292 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,320 cities and so we'll keep you updated on their projects as well. 293 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,600 Design downtown Denton, so one of the first items was to adopt a new branding and advertising 294 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:08,600 strategy. 295 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,960 I'm not sure if you know the city is actually going through its own process, own branding 296 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:17,160 project should be wrapping up soon so we put this project on hold we do have funding set 297 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:21,800 aside for we put it on hold until the city's branding was done just to make sure everything 298 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:27,280 is cohesive and runs smoothly and then we have some regulatory changes that we're working 299 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:28,400 on. 300 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:32,520 You saw Julie's presentation those that you were here a couple weeks ago with the town 301 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:38,360 home development so that definitely touches this particular plan as well as working on 302 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:42,560 permitting and licensing to allow for balcony overhangs and sidewalk dining in the downtown 303 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:48,320 area as well as starting those initial stages for modifying the MN and MD districts and 304 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:54,040 downtown and you will probably have a presentation on that coming up soon and then lastly I just 305 00:21:54,040 --> 00:22:00,760 want to mention both plans we have started trying to collaborate and communicate more 306 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:01,760 with CIP. 307 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,920 We've had at least two meetings the last meeting we had a couple weeks ago we did a deep deep 308 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:13,240 dive into both plans excuse me showing them those street cross sections just really want 309 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:18,160 them to be aware gave them a handout that when they receive a project within our two 310 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:27,520 plan areas that they're aware of what the plan recommends as far as the streets go. 311 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:33,080 Neighborhood engagement so we know this is something that is you all encourage city council 312 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:38,160 to encourage we all want more of this so we are on our work excuse me on our work plan 313 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,200 we really want to encourage and do more neighborhood engagement this year this is the base year 314 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,560 so we're just trying to establish what is that we have so we have a map here right already 315 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,960 on our website that shows some existing neighborhoods but we have no idea if those neighborhoods 316 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,680 are still operating so we want to deep dive and try to check in and see who those contacts 317 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:03,960 are also encourage later on in the year other groups to form and then at the block part 318 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,680 if you see that who was my neighbor that's a magnet and so you see you got your home 319 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,800 in the middle and then the ideal is to go around and get the contact information of 320 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,440 those around you and put on your refrigerator. 321 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:20,160 Just trying to do more outreach and more engagement and get our neighborhoods more engaged and 322 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,440 connected with each not only with each other but also learn more about the city and resources 323 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,760 and services that we have plan to do something electronically you see national they national 324 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:35,560 good neighbor day is September 28th so we're hoping to do something for that as well historic 325 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,960 preservation so the city does have a historic preservation plan and one of the recommendations 326 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:46,320 the plan is to broaden the tax exemption eligibility so we have a tax exemption program for properties 327 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,560 that are locally designated if they spend up to ten thousand dollars I believe over 328 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:56,440 two to three period they can submit and request for 50% tax break on their taxes and so we've 329 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:02,160 been working with our historic landmark commission to see if we want to expand expand that to 330 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:07,720 not only include the his those are designated but those are contributed so if you have a 331 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:12,520 historic district you have some properties in there that may not be designated but they 332 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,440 still contribute to the look and feel and character of the neighborhood so that meeting 333 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,560 it won't be next meeting it'll be a future meeting but we're working with them to figure 334 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:27,080 out on what options they would like to put forward so here's a couple of regulatory needs 335 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,680 I believe this is my last slide so we look at been looking at the tree preservation code 336 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:36,000 is doing assessment to see if there's any things we need to shift any areas of improvement 337 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,560 any things that's in there that's difficult to enforce we did have a meeting in January 338 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:45,560 with some landscape design professionals they gave us some great feedback so we're looking 339 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,840 at that information and then also looking to see like what design downtown didn't are 340 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:55,400 there any barriers within our tree code that's going to be a prohibit any infield development 341 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:00,280 coming in downtown we're also working teams been working collaboratively so there's another 342 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,880 team working on the landscape regulations I've been working together with the tree code 343 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,600 just make sure it's an alignment with that assessment as well as an alignment with the 344 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,960 city's water efficiency plan update and then if you all heard of a decision which may or 345 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,880 may not be a challenge depending on what happens with this legislative but look we're already 346 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,240 trying to be proactive with our notification requirements see what we may could do just 347 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,640 make sure we're on track with that and maintaining and updating the DDC whenever we have to do 348 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:34,600 a notification for that and then lastly like I just mentioned we are monitoring those legislators 349 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:45,800 changes and will definitely give you updates as needed moving forward any questions have 350 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:53,680 one there's more of a comment I'm excited to see the live work action in the southeast 351 00:25:53,680 --> 00:26:01,440 and plan I would suggest that staff look at the provision that we have in the DDC I believe 352 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:11,560 it actually is opposite of the building code and banking requirements for what's designed 353 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,480 as the live work building type that may have just been an oversight when we had the 2019 354 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,880 code but be good to get that cleaned up so that we don't do all this work and then have 355 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:33,520 nobody use it because they can't yeah yes Commissioner Padron thank you Keisha a couple 356 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:39,720 questions with the southeast end engagement what types of engagement do you feel have 357 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,840 been more successful with engaging like our residents to get more involved or what types 358 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,640 of engagement methods have been applied to try to connect with our residents in the area 359 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,160 so the the southeast didn't team from what after a lot of engaging with them before I 360 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:01,560 came but from my understanding it was the the one-offs that just walking into restaurants 361 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:09,880 or shops or just catching people out in the park doing just conversations so we've we've 362 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,960 connected with southeast the neighborhood association we did at this week and we have 363 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,480 brought in this time with the as far as promoting the block party one thing we're going to try 364 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:24,240 this time is actually doing door hangers at each part we've done postcard we're gonna 365 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,280 try the door hanger and see how that works in addition to all the other flyers posters 366 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:35,980 large signs in the community so and hopefully we'll get a better idea of what works one 367 00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:39,960 plan we have is on the day of is to really track and ask people how did you find out 368 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:48,340 about the event but yeah more grassroots speaking of that thank you I tried to look up more 369 00:27:48,340 --> 00:27:53,120 information about the block party online is there a specific location to direct people 370 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:57,200 to find the information it will be on the disgusted and we've been working with more 371 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,960 com they just and everything the printers either yesterday or today okay that's probably 372 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:08,960 why you haven't seen anything yet okay thank you 373 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,120 commissioner riggs let's have more of a comment too I think all this is great thank you yeah 374 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:19,960 it's exciting to see so thank you one other thing you mentioned the Akuna decision just 375 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:26,560 because that's somewhat new to us could you explain what that is and what the impacts 376 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,400 that that might have I know there's still some pending things but I'm just aware of 377 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,560 what's going on 378 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:43,360 so it boils down to let's see I've slept since I've read it last but it boils down 379 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,160 to whether 380 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:54,880 citywide notice is required before development code changes that aren't zoning code changes 381 00:28:54,880 --> 00:29:00,880 or that aren't pardon me that aren't discrete zoning changes because the state statute as 382 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:07,120 you all know has that 200 foot radius requirement and so there's been for a while an open question 383 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:13,720 of like when you're doing something that affects the whole study what is the 200 foot radius 384 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:22,040 and the default has been to do newspaper notice and the Akuna decision which is not yet binding 385 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:30,120 on the city of Denton basically says no that's insufficient direct notice to everyone in 386 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:40,920 the city is required yeah do we know how much it costs to do direct mailing notice to everybody 387 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,880 in the city just ballpark 388 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,320 this number I came up with I believe was short-term rentals and that may not have even been completely 389 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,280 citywide but I think we should have had 16,000 on each round of notifications for short-term 390 00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:01,160 rentals and that was believed to our residential districts looking to the experts and them 391 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:06,520 in so less than or slightly probably more than half the city received those and that 392 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:15,200 was 16,000 so okay yeah we'll see what happens there I I know some of the short-term rental 393 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,400 notification I think that was a good example of how to inform our residents sometimes because 394 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:27,920 of the postcard format and everything the the 200 and 500 foot notifications can can 395 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:35,000 scare more than inform so as we do go through that that process and see where that lands 396 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:42,360 yeah it's it's always hard to boil down a 400 page document into something that people 397 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:48,680 can understand what's actually changing but we just need to be sensitive to that so thank 398 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:59,000 you very much thank you okay and with that that concludes our work session for this afternoon 399 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:09,400 we will reconvene at 630 oh we do I'm sorry I my brain thought we had done to one more 400 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:17,600 work section report item 3b pz 25072 receive a report and hold a discussion regarding the 401 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,680 development process and comprehensive planning we can conclude it if you don't if you don't 402 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:30,280 wanna we don't have to do this today if you don't want to okay good evening chair members 403 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,960 of the Commission I'm Mia Hahn senior planner and this is the planning one-on-one boot camp 404 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,840 we're going to talk a little bit about the development process as well as the comprehensive 405 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,400 planning process what's what goes into the comprehensive plan and things of that nature 406 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,080 this is a bit of a little layout of the the various topics that we're planning on bringing 407 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,680 to you all over the next few months for some of you Commissioner Pruitt or Chair Pruitt 408 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,200 I know that this will be a refresher for some of you newer Commission chairs some of this 409 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:04,720 information might be new these further topics at later dates will get more into the details 410 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,760 of like zoning and PDs annexations SUPs this presentation today will basically cover where 411 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,880 those kind of exist within the development review process so where we're getting from 412 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:21,920 a feasibility stage all the way to certificate of occupancy and businesses opening and then 413 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:27,120 like I said the later presentations will go more into detail on those so if you have questions 414 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,960 about specific details it might be covering in later topics but I'm gonna try to give 415 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:39,200 you a broad overview of some stuff today so the Denton Development Code and overview the 416 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,640 purpose of the Denton Development Code is to promote the health safety and welfare of 417 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,840 the residents it's to implement the comprehensive plan preserve and protect the natural environment 418 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,160 improve the city appearance so we have landscape standards and things of that nature within 419 00:32:53,160 --> 00:33:01,000 their screening standards improve mobility so there's a items for or requirements for 420 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:08,000 a bike biking bike parking as well as transportation services and things of that nature facilitate 421 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:14,560 adequate public infrastructure encourage appropriate use of land we have the table of allowed land 422 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:19,960 uses that takes you through what uses are committed within each zoning district and 423 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:28,040 then establish procedures within planning to get to from like I said the feasibility 424 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,840 stage to ultimate construction and businesses opening within that planning or within the 425 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:39,160 DDC we have several planning tools zoning platting is one platting I think this body 426 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,880 sees the most of we've had a lot of plats on the consent agenda tonight for approval 427 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:49,080 zoning also we have a few of those cases Aaron presented to you a zoning case development 428 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:56,120 standards those are range from environmental requirements parking tree preservation lighting 429 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:04,960 landscaping things of that nature criteria manuals are published with our utility departments 430 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:11,300 that let us know or let developers know specifically what specs engineering specs and things to 431 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:19,160 put to install when they're doing public utilities and then process the ensuring fair treatment 432 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:26,000 consistent with predictable timelines and outcomes really just ensuring that we have 433 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:36,800 a written process for people to follow for zoning and planning purposes the 2019 development 434 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,080 code is the code that we are currently adhering to it's our current development code it does 435 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,560 have nine sub chapters originally when we adopted this code it had four hundred and 436 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,840 eighty pages we're now up to about five hundred and sixty five so just to give you an idea 437 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:56,280 of the things that we add it's a it's a living sort of document that we we bring code amendments 438 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:03,760 to this body and they're passed by council in order for them to be put into the development 439 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:09,320 code and it does include seventeen zoning districts and the regulations and requirements 440 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:14,720 for those zoning districts so a broad overview of the development review or development process 441 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:19,680 we start applicants off with the feasibility stage which is essentially where they get 442 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:27,580 to talk to the city and learn is their project actually feasible will there be zoning changes 443 00:35:27,580 --> 00:35:33,640 needed is the use permitted by right what is the process for actually getting from empty 444 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:39,640 ground all the way to construction step two is the application phase that's where once 445 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,960 we figured out what it's gonna take we actually start to review applications for entitlement 446 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:49,560 civil engineering plans final planning all that stuff is established that's usually the 447 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,400 long longer process I think it requires a lot of back and forth sometimes there's several 448 00:35:54,400 --> 00:36:00,000 applications that are required within there where applicants and contractors will submit 449 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,640 to the city for review city staff will check that against or for compliance with other 450 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:10,700 codes and criteria manuals and then will will again work with them will provide comments 451 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:15,000 and work with them on revisions and things of that nature once all that is done and all 452 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,680 the plans and stuff are submitted and approved we move on to pre-construction where we get 453 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:26,640 development contracts we host pre-construction meetings and give a notice to proceed that's 454 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:31,280 essentially where the contractors and the people that will be building the things meet 455 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:40,160 with the people in the city that will be inspecting the things and talk about what that process 456 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:45,080 looks like as the for the for the building of things next we're in construction so this 457 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,080 is when construction is happening permanent is happening inspections are happening and 458 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:55,320 then final stage is project completion where we're closed out and then there's a typically 459 00:36:55,320 --> 00:37:01,920 a 24 month maintenance period so who's involved in this process as I was mentioning earlier 460 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:09,640 the reviewers usually they're wrangled together by our development facilitators and that is 461 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:16,560 Michelle Lexi and Miranda they are wonderful individuals who sort of stand in the way or 462 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:22,320 standing between the the planning team the engineering team and the development community 463 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,600 and really field all of our emails filter all the things through all the questions and 464 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:32,360 requests for meetings and stuff like that through to help facilitate this whole process 465 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:37,220 there this whole thing that is the development review process so we have our facilitators 466 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:42,040 and then also included in that we have the engineering team the planning team the building 467 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:47,200 safety team public works inspections and depending on the project we pull in or depending on 468 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,880 the application review we pull in several subject matters like the fire department watershed 469 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:57,800 parks DME and our consultant engineers as well. 470 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:03,760 So stage one and feasibility I covered this a little bit with that broad overview so during 471 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:08,320 our stage one feasibility what we have and didn't that I love about us is the pre application 472 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:14,640 conference tool which is a it allows for people to submit anything from like a paper napkin 473 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:21,180 drawing all the way to like detailed site plan for free they submitted to the city we 474 00:38:21,180 --> 00:38:26,920 put together a development assistant review team of planners engineers all those people 475 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,800 that you saw involved in that they we provide sort of preliminary comments we do let them 476 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,680 know that they should not substitute them to review the development code they to still 477 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,880 familiarize themselves with the code and criteria manuals throughout their review process but 478 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,760 we give them comments provide them with comments at this phase on their preliminary drawing 479 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:54,280 so this lets them know if we notice that you know they're proposing a a industrial warehouse 480 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,800 on something that zone rule residential where you're going to have to go through a zoning 481 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,320 process you're going to have to do a zoning compliance plan this is where we tell all 482 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:06,640 of them all of those applications and those requirements that would be needed. 483 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:11,560 Once we've gotten through that phase we have stage two which is where we actually they 484 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,260 actually apply with those major applications so in that example that I just used they would 485 00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:22,020 apply at this stage for a zoning change most likely that would come before this body they 486 00:39:22,020 --> 00:39:27,160 would apply for a zoning compliance plan that would not depending on where you are would 487 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:32,220 not necessarily come before this body that's typically administrative approved and then 488 00:39:32,220 --> 00:39:38,360 following that most likely civil engineering plans to establish any public facilities. 489 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,600 Some of the other application types that we have are alternative environmentally sensitive 490 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:48,520 area plans those do typically have to be approved by this body traffic impact analysis again 491 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:54,740 depending on the type of development the volume of traffic that's being brought in by the 492 00:39:54,740 --> 00:40:00,640 development variances drainage studies textile permits easements right of way abandonments 493 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:08,200 are all sort of supplementary things that we take into account we assess a project see 494 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:16,240 if those are needed and then they would support them or apply for them at this at this time. 495 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:23,200 So again a little broad overview of some of those applications annexations that is when 496 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,840 a property is within the city's ECJ or outside of the city's limits and they want to be brought 497 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,680 in to the city's limits they will apply for that this body does not see those applications 498 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:37,640 those go straight to council and it does require some public hearings comprehensive plan amendment 499 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:44,280 is another one that we don't see quite often but this is a case where we have usually it's 500 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,920 the future land use map that they want to amend within the comprehensive plan to maybe 501 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,920 meet some changing conditions some change conditions since we have initially established 502 00:40:53,920 --> 00:41:00,320 that future land use map and they have usually there's a project that that is that's following 503 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,640 behind this they have a reason for wanting to amend the comprehensive plan and an idea 504 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:10,760 that doesn't directly align with something that is the comprehensive plan currently shows 505 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:16,880 this body does review that make a recommendation and then council has the final say on that. 506 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,680 So this map and just these are images for the applications that we just talked about 507 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:32,840 before the ETJ properties excuse me properties within the the ETJ are shown here or ETJ one 508 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,640 are shown here in light blue properties within ETJ two are shown within the purple area so 509 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:43,000 for annexations it would be properties that are within those areas that want to come into 510 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,960 the core city of didn't limits and then this is the the future land use map of the comprehensive 511 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:55,580 plan that's usually the the the subject of a comprehensive plan amendment zoning compliance 512 00:41:55,580 --> 00:42:01,080 plan is another application that they would go through during that process again this body 513 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,040 doesn't typically see them in the rare the rare occasion that you do it's because it's 514 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:12,840 come from the razor ranch area off of university and I 35 that area specifically has an overlay 515 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,940 that requires that applications be approved by the planning and zoning commission and certain 516 00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:25,160 for certain areas so you'll see that one and usually it's a standard I provide you with 517 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,080 the site plan I give you the basic you know details of the site plan they include elevations 518 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:35,100 and landscape plan and essentially if it meets the requirements of the razor ranch overlay 519 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:41,000 we approve it another application type are civil engineering plans that doesn't come 520 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000 before this body at all I don't think there's been a case where that's had to come before 521 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:50,600 this body but that is essentially the plans for public improvement so it includes drainage 522 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:56,680 sewer water traffic road if there's any roadway improvements and things of that nature that 523 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:02,840 needs to be included zoning amendments so those are the zoning changes those are the 524 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:10,440 z application types that you all see for zoning amendments those do come before this body 525 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:18,240 for recommendation and then final approval is made by the city council and usually those 526 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:22,640 are zoning straight zoning changes are wanting to go from one zoning district so we have 527 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,820 our zoning district shown here in the table of allowed uses one zoning district to another 528 00:43:26,820 --> 00:43:34,640 basically another application type we have our plan developments we do have two different 529 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:40,440 types of plan developments we have standard plan developments that includes a basic a 530 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:46,520 site plan or a zoning compliance plan with landscape plans usually and a building footprint 531 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:51,240 or envelope sometimes building elevations I believe are included in there also and a 532 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:56,280 development is essentially oh and PD development standards is included in the standard plan 533 00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:03,280 development and these are essentially districts or zonings within forward like specific for 534 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:08,800 a specific area so if a area is under a plan development most likely it does refer to the 535 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,140 code in some capacity or form but it usually has either additional restrictions or additional 536 00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:21,400 flexibility within the PD that that the code doesn't allow for by right I mean the point 537 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:26,960 of a plan development is it's supposed to be a tool to allow for unique types of developments 538 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:33,960 within the within the city and one example that comes to mind is one that I worked on 539 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:39,340 I believe last year maybe over the past couple of years actually that had a mix of uses a 540 00:44:39,340 --> 00:44:44,600 commercial and a residential component as well as identified a street layout it had 541 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:49,520 preliminary drainage or utilities in there including drainage water sewer and electrical 542 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:56,040 and the reason or one of the reasons that it came as a as a PD was because the community 543 00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:01,240 surrounding residents wanted some additional protections put in place that otherwise would 544 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:06,040 have would have not had to be the case if it was just under a straight zoning district 545 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:12,760 another application type is a specific use permit this people apply for when the code 546 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:18,600 has a use that essentially we feel might be appropriate within that zoning district but 547 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,560 we may want to assess on a case by case basis that's what a specific use permit allows for 548 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:31,880 us to do and usually those do come with site plans and landscape plans and elevations also 549 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:36,760 they also come to this body for recommendation and City Council for final approval and then 550 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,840 here's an example I believe this this specific use permit was yeah related to building height 551 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:49,040 so we have in some areas where your building can't exceed a certain height based on what's 552 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:53,600 next to it or based on the zoning that's next to it and so this gave us the opportunity 553 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:58,520 to again assess the building and the use on the sort of case by case basis see how it 554 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:04,440 was oriented on the site and see if it was appropriate in fact for this site another 555 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:09,320 application that does come before this body is the environmental or alternate alternative 556 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,760 environmentally sensitive plan that becomes comes before this body for recommendation 557 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:24,560 and council for final decision essentially this application type allows for we have existing 558 00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:33,760 environmentally sensitive areas it allows for it's a engineered solution to provide 559 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:38,220 for better treatment of the environmentally sensitive areas what it's what it's intended 560 00:46:38,220 --> 00:46:47,040 to do so if a developer has a plan for development and it's supposed to happen over or on within 561 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:52,980 some environmentally sensitive area the alternative ESA plan is supposed to have a better solution 562 00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:58,080 for allowing that development to sort of coexist within that area and then better treatment 563 00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:07,240 for the environmentally sensitive areas that are there and this is a map showing that that 564 00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:11,360 environmentally sensitive those environmentally sensitive areas across the city we do identify 565 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:16,380 across timber upland habitats water related habitats riparian buffers as well as flood 566 00:47:16,380 --> 00:47:22,880 plain buffers with that okay so subdivision application types those were all all the application 567 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:27,040 types that I've gone over so far were more entitlement it's it's getting the property 568 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:32,440 into the city and then figuring out from a zoning perspective what land uses and developments 569 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:37,960 are allowed there one of the other application or types of I guess classes of applications 570 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:44,040 that we have is subdivisions that includes preliminary platting final platting replating 571 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:51,320 and vacating plats the preliminary plat is not a is no longer a tool that is required 572 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:58,600 it is an option for a lot of developments I believe it's required for is it ropes what's 573 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,920 one of those master plan community hunter it's hunter it's required for hunter so you 574 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:10,360 will see a preliminary plat before you required from from that development one of these days 575 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:16,200 but typically it's those are few apart between no one really uses that tool anymore final 576 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:21,400 plats you all see all the time this body has final approval of that of those we do have 577 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,280 minor plat application types that are administratively approved and those are typically if someone 578 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:32,120 is like drawing property lines with with very minor changes or something like that it's 579 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:41,420 one I believe it's one less than I should have noted it less than three lots and no 580 00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:46,840 public utilities we have less than four lots of someone if someone is divide subdividing 581 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:53,180 an area or creating less than four plotted lots and they that that plat would not require 582 00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:58,560 the extension of public utilities then it can be administratively approved otherwise 583 00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:03,860 it does have to come before the playing is only Commission and this is just an example 584 00:49:03,860 --> 00:49:09,940 of a plat you've seen them by now many times we have it typically includes the the face 585 00:49:09,940 --> 00:49:16,200 of the plat the plat graphic of vicinity map showing where north is in a scale a legend 586 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:21,600 development notes are typically included in their meets and bounds description owner signature 587 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:26,820 and the title block and then the approval block is down here and for plots that that 588 00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:33,660 come before this body there is a place for the chair to sign on these plots okay so those 589 00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:39,180 are that's step one and two I guess yes I see questions I can stop at this point to 590 00:49:39,180 --> 00:49:43,540 answer any okay since I'm a newbie I'm going to ask this question because you said something 591 00:49:43,540 --> 00:49:50,580 that like piqued my interest so when you were talking about the plan developments for subdivisions 592 00:49:50,580 --> 00:49:56,440 did I hear you correctly that our Commission they approve or deny we don't like recommend 593 00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,400 in the City Council it moves on that's only if there's an issue and they have to appeal 594 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:08,260 it so for plan developments in this this application type it was it was the last one you just oh 595 00:50:08,260 --> 00:50:16,300 for plats for subdivisions yes yes so that's for plat so okay developments are the zoning 596 00:50:16,300 --> 00:50:21,660 piece of late like laying out the development for the land the plat is the official property 597 00:50:21,660 --> 00:50:26,440 boundaries yes this body approves what can what those official property boundaries are 598 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:32,820 and for the most part is ministerial so it's if it meets the requirements of the code and 599 00:50:32,820 --> 00:50:48,220 our checklist we we kind of have to approve it okay yeah just one the in in step two where 600 00:50:48,220 --> 00:50:58,020 you talked about all the entitlements can you give us like a general average of understanding 601 00:50:58,020 --> 00:51:02,700 what what the different timeline is for someone who needs entitlements versus for someone 602 00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:08,980 who's doing a by right development project sure that's a good question so I think it 603 00:51:08,980 --> 00:51:12,820 definitely depends on the entitlement because like a plan development has standard plan 604 00:51:12,820 --> 00:51:18,100 development includes a complete detailed site plan and PD regulations that we have to review 605 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:24,860 and make sure that we're all okay with before we bring to this body those I would give a 606 00:51:24,860 --> 00:51:29,180 lot of four to six months for for plan development and honestly I'm pulling these we when we 607 00:51:29,180 --> 00:51:34,520 do the feasibility the pre-application conferences we usually give people a timeline so I'm giving 608 00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,740 you the timeline that we usually give developers but it varies it depends on it depends on 609 00:51:38,740 --> 00:51:42,820 how they submit it depends on how responsive developers are it depends on if we run into 610 00:51:42,820 --> 00:51:47,820 issues with the neighborhood meeting it depends you know so it varies but I think for plan 611 00:51:47,820 --> 00:51:52,420 developments it's probably about four to six months zoning amendments about three to four 612 00:51:52,420 --> 00:51:57,140 months I think the the big hold up on that one is the fact that we have to give notices 613 00:51:57,140 --> 00:52:01,860 for public hearings usually zoning amendments are straightforward if they you know are meeting 614 00:52:01,860 --> 00:52:08,020 our criteria for approval planning is a we're easy it's easier for us to come to a recommendation 615 00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:12,080 and therefore it's not a lot of the back and forth specific use permits are probably along 616 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:20,220 the same lines of plan developments four to six months let's see what else and then alternative 617 00:52:20,220 --> 00:52:27,100 essays do you have I would think four to six months also yeah and I think that one PD the 618 00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:31,900 you showed the example of 380 took over a year that one took a while and that is one 619 00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:39,160 of those those outlier examples because of we really wanted to make sure we had the because 620 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,700 this one started off as a zone straight zoning case and we got a lot of feedback from the 621 00:52:42,700 --> 00:52:46,540 community we really wanted to make sure that there was and the applicants wanted to make 622 00:52:46,540 --> 00:52:51,460 sure that there was buying an agreement with the community before even coming before the 623 00:52:51,460 --> 00:52:58,340 planning and zoning Commission again so that one took a second thank you on to number three 624 00:52:58,340 --> 00:53:03,620 I think unless sorry Commissioner Riggs I have one question and maybe you'll get to 625 00:53:03,620 --> 00:53:09,300 it or but kind of like Commissioner Dyer I'm new to got three meetings or so now but at 626 00:53:09,300 --> 00:53:15,460 what point do we do we look at developer agreements DA's yeah okay yeah that I will get to that 627 00:53:15,460 --> 00:53:25,860 that is usually in step before I want to you step three oh well okay development agreements 628 00:53:25,860 --> 00:53:34,380 for so for like municipal utility districts and things like that we will establish those 629 00:53:34,380 --> 00:53:41,740 well before I guess during the app during the feasibility phase for several projects 630 00:53:41,740 --> 00:53:47,180 and then maybe during the application phase for other I think it depends on and Haley 631 00:53:47,180 --> 00:53:50,300 you may have something to add here I think it depends on what the development agreement 632 00:53:50,300 --> 00:54:02,500 is for so if your question was would PNC see those applications that would be no like Mia 633 00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:07,220 mentioned sometimes most often for something like a municipal utility district we may enter 634 00:54:07,220 --> 00:54:11,980 into a development agreement and those go straight to council once staff kind of negotiates 635 00:54:11,980 --> 00:54:15,700 and gets a draft of it work with our city attorney's office make sure everything is 636 00:54:15,700 --> 00:54:21,620 up to our legal standard and form and then those go to council for approval thank you 637 00:54:21,620 --> 00:54:33,900 okay thank you all right ready for stage three stage three all right yeah okay pre-construction 638 00:54:33,900 --> 00:54:38,740 so once we've gotten all the applications out of the way we've reviewed all the plans 639 00:54:38,740 --> 00:54:43,260 we've given them the the go-ahead we've recommended approval they've gotten every approval from 640 00:54:43,260 --> 00:54:46,420 the commission or the council whoever they need to get approval from and they're ready 641 00:54:46,420 --> 00:54:51,580 to start construction there are a few things that they have to submit to the city development 642 00:54:51,580 --> 00:54:55,740 contracts are one of them and exhibit a which gives us the estimated cost of construction 643 00:54:55,740 --> 00:55:00,860 for them because I think we have some fees that are based on that cost that we collect 644 00:55:00,860 --> 00:55:06,960 on our end during that point we get I thought you were referring to development contracts 645 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:12,620 commissioner rigs during that point is when we look at contracts for the development hold 646 00:55:12,620 --> 00:55:18,500 harmless agreements for any public improvements that they install and then we also host a 647 00:55:18,500 --> 00:55:23,480 pre-construction meeting is a meeting and that's a meeting with public works and the 648 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:29,420 subject matter experts on water lines and sewer lines and drainage and things like that 649 00:55:29,420 --> 00:55:36,420 payment of fees and then initial inspections for erosion control great and once the great 650 00:55:36,420 --> 00:55:42,840 grading is being done or for the grading to be done in tree protection fencing tree protection 651 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,900 tree preservation is a really big deal here and didn't so we take that a little we take 652 00:55:46,900 --> 00:55:53,900 that very seriously and ensure that that that that stuff is laid out before we clear for 653 00:55:53,900 --> 00:55:59,800 construction of buildings and projects going vertical and then we give a notice to proceed 654 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:06,700 which let's let's them begin construction stage four is construction so that's when 655 00:56:06,700 --> 00:56:13,100 they are contractors are out there building our team is or city side is doing on site 656 00:56:13,100 --> 00:56:17,420 inspection there's any follow-up questions or any change orders that happen I just got 657 00:56:17,420 --> 00:56:25,940 a call today there was a rail that's too close to a fire lane for retaining wall and these 658 00:56:25,940 --> 00:56:31,060 things happen on the field so it's it's once they get out there and they start construction 659 00:56:31,060 --> 00:56:36,140 if there's any change orders they would they would submit them during this stage of construction 660 00:56:36,140 --> 00:56:44,040 and then we final finalize it finalize the projects we do final walkthroughs final acceptance 661 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:50,420 of public infrastructure and then the contractors apply and we issue certificates of occupancy 662 00:56:50,420 --> 00:56:56,120 for businesses to open up and that is pretty much the construction or the development review 663 00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:03,140 process like I said the longest process is that stage to that application we tried our 664 00:57:03,140 --> 00:57:08,340 best to let people know ahead of time what that's going to look like what that timeline 665 00:57:08,340 --> 00:57:13,260 is going to look like so that they have that built into their budget and things but that 666 00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:17,460 pretty much concludes the the development process are there any overall questions on 667 00:57:17,460 --> 00:57:30,620 that end just just one I'm curious do we track the the number of by right projects that happen 668 00:57:30,620 --> 00:57:38,620 versus the the number of projects that seek entitlements we could maybe get it well I'm 669 00:57:38,620 --> 00:57:43,540 just curious it doesn't have to be a specific number I just don't know whether it's 50% 670 00:57:43,540 --> 00:57:50,660 or 5% we could probably deduce it by pulling like building permit numbers versus zoning 671 00:57:50,660 --> 00:57:55,020 cases maybe but I think even then you might get into a it might be a little weird because 672 00:57:55,020 --> 00:57:59,940 some zoning cases include a bunch of different building permits right I don't know we could 673 00:57:59,940 --> 00:58:04,780 see if we could get that that number for you it's nothing urgent maybe maybe when we do 674 00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:15,620 our next yearly review I'd find that interesting so okay seeing nothing else Mia I have I have 675 00:58:15,620 --> 00:58:20,620 a second part I'm sorry we're going to get into I just keep getting ahead of ourselves 676 00:58:20,620 --> 00:58:26,340 I apologize this will be shorter this is just an overview of what comprehensive planning 677 00:58:26,340 --> 00:58:33,620 is so the comprehensive plan sets policies and goals for the for the city it helps us 678 00:58:33,620 --> 00:58:38,220 manage growth it helps us promote reinvest investment and reinvestment into the city 679 00:58:38,220 --> 00:58:45,580 and in developments and improve the overall quality of life for the city of Denton it 680 00:58:45,580 --> 00:58:49,940 is a guiding document a policy document it is not the didn't development code which has 681 00:58:49,940 --> 00:58:56,620 the requirements and standards and things that we just discussed this document is really 682 00:58:56,620 --> 00:59:01,420 a policy document and it's one one thing to be considered amongst a lot of things a lot 683 00:59:01,420 --> 00:59:06,460 of goals and things within the city but it does try to be or it is it is as comprehensive 684 00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:18,580 as you can think of it includes ten elements which are not showing here well it includes 685 00:59:18,580 --> 00:59:30,140 mobility it includes land use it includes economic development it includes various various 686 00:59:30,140 --> 00:59:34,300 elements various components of of planning everything that you I think everything that 687 00:59:34,300 --> 00:59:40,220 you think of housing affordability there are quite a few things in there so we did update 688 00:59:40,220 --> 00:59:48,140 the didn't twenty or plan didn't comprehensive plan in March of twenty twenty two we had 689 00:59:48,140 --> 00:59:51,820 the didn't plan twenty thirty we now have the didn't plan twenty forty and we typically 690 00:59:51,820 --> 00:59:56,660 I think update comprehensive plans every five to seven years to reflect changes in the current 691 00:59:56,660 --> 01:00:03,140 and anticipated conditions address major local issues ensure compliance with you know changing 692 01:00:03,140 --> 01:00:08,860 state legislation we have to keep updated with that and accommodate changes for unforeseen 693 01:00:08,860 --> 01:00:13,980 circumstance like text that decides to randomly put a highway through your your city you got 694 01:00:13,980 --> 01:00:20,860 to have to update your comp plan for that typical comp plan update fate our schedule 695 01:00:20,860 --> 01:00:26,860 usually there's project initiation again feasibility where we try to assess what it's all going 696 01:00:26,860 --> 01:00:37,300 to take phase two is usually phase two three and four is usually what we do a lot of engagement 697 01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:42,140 and trying to assess where the community is what's happening what's going on in the community 698 01:00:42,140 --> 01:00:48,780 as well as what their goals and desires are step or phase five is usually the we're getting 699 01:00:48,780 --> 01:00:56,740 into adoption where we're talking to this body as well as council on the final document 700 01:00:56,740 --> 01:01:04,840 and then phase six is adoption of the actual plan so within the comprehensive plan we have 701 01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:10,900 implementation items their specific action items that we have established in the comprehensive 702 01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:16,100 plan it identifies areas where we need to focus and sort of do some area planning it 703 01:01:16,100 --> 01:01:23,420 also has elements of neighborhood planning population projections it also gives us planning 704 01:01:23,420 --> 01:01:28,800 department some projects to coordinate with other departments on and local and regional 705 01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:38,500 entities and then updates the plans and codes of the city or recommendations for updates 706 01:01:38,500 --> 01:01:44,900 to plans and codes of the city as well as annexation and special study focus areas like 707 01:01:44,900 --> 01:01:50,140 I mentioned earlier this is that element slide that I was looking for earlier so the plan 708 01:01:50,140 --> 01:01:56,220 includes a framework of the comprehensive plan it includes items related to land use 709 01:01:56,220 --> 01:02:04,420 it includes fiscal and economic vitality community character and urban design parks conservation 710 01:02:04,420 --> 01:02:10,460 environment mobility items housing and neighborhoods community health safety services infrastructure 711 01:02:10,460 --> 01:02:15,660 and utilities implementation and monitoring so it's a it's a it is what it is named it 712 01:02:15,660 --> 01:02:22,780 is a very comprehensive document a comprehensive plan and policy goal for the for the city 713 01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:26,460 and within the goal I just want to or within the comprehensive plan I wanted to give you 714 01:02:26,460 --> 01:02:33,700 a sort of idea of the the actions that that come out of that I think within the Denton 715 01:02:33,700 --> 01:02:38,880 2040 plan we have 272 actions and just two of them was to establish area plans which 716 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:45,660 also resulted in 53 actions for South East and then 23 specific actions for downtown 717 01:02:45,660 --> 01:02:51,960 so it's it is our really our guiding document as far for the planning department that lets 718 01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,500 us know the sort of things that we're supposed to be doing on a day-to-day and how we're 719 01:02:55,500 --> 01:03:01,940 supposed to be supporting the various application types that we just talked about so within 720 01:03:01,940 --> 01:03:07,620 the development review process the comprehensive plan like I said is one component that that 721 01:03:07,620 --> 01:03:13,220 sort of informs what our our thought and how our vision should should flow and in response 722 01:03:13,220 --> 01:03:18,820 to some of those applications we look at it when we are performing recommendations to 723 01:03:18,820 --> 01:03:24,920 prepare for this body if you look at your backup for any zoning cases we do assess how 724 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:31,180 those requests adhere or align with the comprehensive plan so it is a a policy document in that 725 01:03:31,180 --> 01:03:36,460 form and that is pretty much all I have for development review process and comprehensive 726 01:03:36,460 --> 01:03:55,580 planning are there any questions seeing none thank you any more parts thank you very much 727 01:03:55,580 --> 01:04:02,980 so with no objection and we'll bring our work session to a close and we will reconvene 728 01:04:02,980 --> 01:04:20,980 at 630 in council chambers for our regular meeting it's good evening at 633 p.m. I will 729 01:04:20,980 --> 01:04:28,260 call this regular meeting of the planning and zoning commission of Denton to order our 730 01:04:28,260 --> 01:04:35,940 first order of business is the pledge of allegiance to the u.s. and Texas flags 731 01:04:35,940 --> 01:04:58,700 to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one 732 01:04:58,700 --> 01:05:17,420 indivisible next item is PZ 25004 consider approving the minutes for both the capital 733 01:05:17,420 --> 01:05:25,320 improvement advisory committee and the planning and zoning meeting on February 12th a commissioner 734 01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:40,220 padrone move approval commissioner Riggs second and let's vote on the board 735 01:05:40,220 --> 01:05:52,300 that passes 4-0 next we have our consent agenda commissioner padrone move approval the consent 736 01:05:52,300 --> 01:06:05,580 agenda commissioner Riggs second any questions let's vote on the board then 737 01:06:05,580 --> 01:06:13,820 that also passes 4-0 next item that brings us to our items for individual consideration 738 01:06:13,820 --> 01:06:30,540 first item for a is FP 25006 welcome Matt 739 01:06:30,540 --> 01:06:35,820 good evening chair and commission Matt Bodine assistant planner here to present a request 740 01:06:35,820 --> 01:06:43,060 for approval of a final plot in the city of Denton's ETJ one this plot would create three 741 01:06:43,060 --> 01:06:49,700 residential lots the tract in question is located approximately 1200 feet east of FM 742 01:06:49,700 --> 01:06:57,460 2164 along the private road and about 5500 feet north of loop 288 at this time staff 743 01:06:57,460 --> 01:07:02,340 cannot recommend approval because it does not meet our criteria however we have no objection 744 01:07:02,340 --> 01:07:17,940 to their extension request to a date certain of March 19 2025 any questions or emotion 745 01:07:17,940 --> 01:07:28,100 commissioner padrone move to approve the extension request to a date certain of March 19th commissioner 746 01:07:28,100 --> 01:07:41,180 Riggs second and let's call for a vote on the board 747 01:07:41,180 --> 01:07:52,780 second item for that passes 4-0 next item for individual consideration for BV 24-0137 748 01:07:52,780 --> 01:08:00,380 take us through this fearless leader Julie why the March down history lane good evening 749 01:08:00,380 --> 01:08:10,260 Julie Wyatt principal planner and I'm presenting V 24-0137 agave ranch alternative development 750 01:08:10,260 --> 01:08:17,340 plan so before I get into this specific request I just wanted to take a brief moment to talk 751 01:08:17,340 --> 01:08:22,580 about alternative development plans generally so as we talked about in the work session 752 01:08:22,580 --> 01:08:28,140 these are a process that this was a process that we had in the 2002 didn't development 753 01:08:28,140 --> 01:08:33,580 code it is not something we carried forward to our current code so it's not something 754 01:08:33,580 --> 01:08:38,540 you're going to see very often it is very limited and it would just be related to projects 755 01:08:38,540 --> 01:08:43,940 that predated our current code and what it did is it authorized the planning zoning commission 756 01:08:43,940 --> 01:08:49,180 to approve an alternative design to allow for flexibility I just have just a sample 757 01:08:49,180 --> 01:08:56,180 on screen things like building orientation or maybe the number of parking spaces or buffers 758 01:08:56,180 --> 01:09:02,420 those are the kinds of things that were generally requested as part of an alternative development 759 01:09:02,420 --> 01:09:07,820 plan it's not included in the current code because we have other options for flexibility 760 01:09:07,820 --> 01:09:14,460 now so that's why we didn't take this forward and I did want to let you know ADP's did 761 01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:20,260 not include an expiration date so those approvals remain in effect to today and would control 762 01:09:20,260 --> 01:09:24,420 over any conflicting provisions within our current codes so now we're going to get to 763 01:09:24,420 --> 01:09:31,340 the the substance of this request so the agave ranch project is was a single-family residential 764 01:09:31,340 --> 01:09:39,440 development it was platted with 239 single-family detached lots and 18 common area lots it's 765 01:09:39,440 --> 01:09:45,780 located in the northeast part of town just east of 428 Sherman Drive the property is 766 01:09:45,780 --> 01:09:51,300 outlined in black it has gone through the plotting process so it's near its nearing 767 01:09:51,300 --> 01:09:57,220 going vertical in development I think they're working on public infrastructure right now 768 01:09:57,220 --> 01:10:03,300 there was an ADP that was approved in 2020 because this was developed under our 2002 769 01:10:03,300 --> 01:10:10,740 didn't development code and it was really to accommodate two specific builders plans 770 01:10:10,740 --> 01:10:15,540 and it was and specifically what we're talking about tonight is those front entry garages 771 01:10:15,540 --> 01:10:19,940 there were some other elements related to the ADP those are remaining in place it's 772 01:10:19,940 --> 01:10:24,580 really that front entry garage we're talking about under the 2002 didn't development code 773 01:10:24,580 --> 01:10:29,900 we had two provisions related to garages one is they could not be extend forward to the 774 01:10:29,900 --> 01:10:34,940 front building line and the other is that the garage door could not occupy more than 775 01:10:34,940 --> 01:10:42,460 40 percent of the building frontage that approved modification allowed the garages to move forward 776 01:10:42,460 --> 01:10:49,580 a little bit up to six feet from the building plane or or 11 feet from a from a recessed 777 01:10:49,580 --> 01:10:56,980 front door also allowed an eight-foot setback and then it also allowed a little larger width 778 01:10:56,980 --> 01:11:03,880 with 45 percent of the total building frontage for two car garages and then 55 percent for 779 01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:10,220 three car garages it did add a limitation on both of those that only 45 percent of the 780 01:11:10,220 --> 01:11:15,620 products in agave ranch could avail themselves of this of this alternative development plan 781 01:11:15,620 --> 01:11:21,020 and as I mentioned all other provisions related to the zoning the ADP all of those are in 782 01:11:21,020 --> 01:11:25,780 place tonight we're just talking about these two provisions so now we're going to talk 783 01:11:25,780 --> 01:11:33,420 about the request so the proposal is to revise that ADP to just simplify the language and 784 01:11:33,420 --> 01:11:38,260 require the front entry garages be set back a minimum of three feet from the front face 785 01:11:38,260 --> 01:11:42,820 of the building this is actually more consistent with the current standards our current standards 786 01:11:42,820 --> 01:11:48,140 require just a three-foot offset so whether it's forward or behind that building garages 787 01:11:48,140 --> 01:11:53,860 need to be offset has to allow some visual interest for the front of the homes and so 788 01:11:53,860 --> 01:11:58,300 this is just slightly different and that it would set the garages back three feet from 789 01:11:58,300 --> 01:12:03,300 the front building plane we feel like this is clear language it is more consistent with 790 01:12:03,300 --> 01:12:10,840 the current builder who is developing the agave range development it also sets the garages 791 01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:16,460 back just a little bit so it could potentially reduce the perceived size of the garage so 792 01:12:16,460 --> 01:12:22,140 you could see a site plan on your screen I've got the yellow that is where that that front 793 01:12:22,140 --> 01:12:27,060 plane of the house and you could see this garage is set back in this instance it's set 794 01:12:27,060 --> 01:12:31,500 back 12 feet and you could see how that would kind of a similar product would look in real 795 01:12:31,500 --> 01:12:38,700 life the second item I want to talk about is the front entry garage percentage so we're 796 01:12:38,700 --> 01:12:46,420 proposing to revise that ADP to keep that 45 percent maximum on the two car garages 797 01:12:46,420 --> 01:12:52,980 but remove that maximum number of dwelling units just for clarity for ease of use in 798 01:12:52,980 --> 01:12:57,880 terms of not only city staff reviewing that not not having to maintain a list of what 799 01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:03,260 percentage we're at but also for those in in consumers so it's just clear and understandable 800 01:13:03,260 --> 01:13:10,940 for to apply we're also their request also would reduce that maximum percentage for three 801 01:13:10,940 --> 01:13:18,180 car garages from 55 percent to 50 percent but limit the three car garages just to those 802 01:13:18,180 --> 01:13:23,760 lot widths that are 62 feet wide and larger and we feel like this is is just clearer more 803 01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:28,580 straightforward allows variation for building sizes and facades as we talked in the work 804 01:13:28,580 --> 01:13:35,540 session that garage door width is pretty standard at 16 feet just allows for some variability 805 01:13:35,540 --> 01:13:43,780 in the house size the width of the house giving that more diversity and design and it also 806 01:13:43,780 --> 01:13:48,260 kind of removes that limitation once again for that clarity so there is specific criteria 807 01:13:48,260 --> 01:13:53,700 for approval outlined in the 2002 Denton Development Code I won't read all this to you but we'll 808 01:13:53,700 --> 01:13:58,380 just kind of talk through it briefly first preserve existing neighborhoods this request 809 01:13:58,380 --> 01:14:02,740 is just specific to these this individual project it's not going to extend into other 810 01:14:02,740 --> 01:14:08,380 neighborhoods and any visual impacts associated with it would be internal to this development 811 01:14:08,380 --> 01:14:13,980 so it would be just contained within this development assure quality development that 812 01:14:13,980 --> 01:14:18,620 fits in with the character of Denton apart from those deviations requesting all other 813 01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:25,060 site design standards would apply for focus new development to activity centers to curb 814 01:14:25,060 --> 01:14:30,020 strip development at urban straw sprawl once again this is just specific to this to this 815 01:14:30,020 --> 01:14:35,260 development it's it's not going to extend out or increase the number of homes ensure 816 01:14:35,260 --> 01:14:38,980 infrastructure is capable of comedy development this has gone through the platting process 817 01:14:38,980 --> 01:14:43,540 so they've already demonstrated that the that the infrastructure is in place capacity 818 01:14:43,540 --> 01:14:50,100 is there and they're going to be building the roads and sewers and water lines and ensure 819 01:14:50,100 --> 01:14:54,060 that the developers alternative proposal results in a high quality development meeting the 820 01:14:54,060 --> 01:14:59,100 intent of the standards so why do we have this why do we have these limitations on front 821 01:14:59,100 --> 01:15:04,700 garages it's really to ensure that those garage doors don't overwhelm the front facade of 822 01:15:04,700 --> 01:15:09,020 the residential homes think about maybe some homes you've seen where there have been really 823 01:15:09,020 --> 01:15:15,220 large garages and it really is just to minimize that visual impact however some variations 824 01:15:15,220 --> 01:15:21,380 can be appropriate to allow that diverse housing type also diversity in design and this is 825 01:15:21,380 --> 01:15:26,260 really consistent with our comprehensive plan because our comprehensive plan encourages 826 01:15:26,260 --> 01:15:32,180 diversity not only in housing types throughout the city but within communities to to have 827 01:15:32,180 --> 01:15:38,180 dynamic places and diverse and diverse places with a variety of architectural styles and 828 01:15:38,180 --> 01:15:46,300 and facades the proposed garage door is it'll provide additional design options for for 829 01:15:46,300 --> 01:15:53,340 future residents and once again provide that diversity we are of course we want to make 830 01:15:53,340 --> 01:15:57,860 sure that the visual impacts are addressed so that's where that setback comes in as well 831 01:15:57,860 --> 01:16:03,500 as the as well as the reduced width of the of the three car garages and and the larger 832 01:16:03,500 --> 01:16:08,980 lot size for the three car garages and then once again just removing that 45 cap just 833 01:16:08,980 --> 01:16:14,780 to make sure it's real clear for for future buyers and and reviewers so with that staff 834 01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:24,220 recommends approval of the request I'll be happy to answer any questions any questions 835 01:16:24,220 --> 01:16:35,180 on this one okay so I just it kind of piggybacks on our questions in the work session so when 836 01:16:35,180 --> 01:16:41,380 you push back the garage three feet are they taking away from the square footage of the 837 01:16:41,380 --> 01:16:48,060 inside of the house number one number two will the square footage of the house still 838 01:16:48,060 --> 01:16:54,860 fall within the city's guidelines the recommendations the requirements for this development and 839 01:16:54,860 --> 01:17:00,140 then number three does that push back push the house back on the lot so you have you 840 01:17:00,140 --> 01:17:07,860 know that final between the back of the house and the fence line does that affect that footage 841 01:17:07,860 --> 01:17:14,380 there well I can answer so the city of Denton doesn't have a minimum lots or minimum single 842 01:17:14,380 --> 01:17:21,820 family dwelling unit size so so we it it doesn't run afoul of any of those regulations in terms 843 01:17:21,820 --> 01:17:29,660 of that setback this meets their their house designs so it is consistent with you know 844 01:17:29,660 --> 01:17:36,220 what what they feel is is appropriate for the for their their buyers so I'm I'm I don't 845 01:17:36,220 --> 01:17:41,100 know if it takes away from those individual homes but it is consistent with what they 846 01:17:41,100 --> 01:17:48,060 intend to build out there and then in terms of the rear of the of the rear so we do have 847 01:17:48,060 --> 01:17:55,940 a ten foot building line for rear lots in fact you could see it on this on this site 848 01:17:55,940 --> 01:18:00,180 plan that's really consistent with with our residential districts throughout the city 849 01:18:00,180 --> 01:18:06,800 and so any any property owner could build up to that ten foot building line I don't 850 01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:17,340 know how many do but it is a possibility so did I answer the question okay good anything 851 01:18:17,340 --> 01:18:30,700 else Commissioner Riggs so do I have to say the motion or can I just say make a motion 852 01:18:30,700 --> 01:18:37,500 to approve as staff recommended and with the changes staff recommended Commissioner 853 01:18:37,500 --> 01:18:53,340 for drone I second very well let's vote on the board and that passes for zero brings 854 01:18:53,340 --> 01:19:07,020 us to our first public hearing item 5a PD 23 - 0 0 0 6 and I will open the public hearing 855 01:19:07,020 --> 01:19:36,900 before we get carried away here how do we okay sorry all right here we go Julie Wyatt 856 01:19:36,900 --> 01:19:43,260 principal planner and I am presenting PD 23 6 Family Justice Center all right so the request 857 01:19:43,260 --> 01:19:49,340 before you is to rezone the property from our seven district to PD our seven district 858 01:19:49,340 --> 01:19:54,180 to develop the site with a mixed use community facility to serve Denton County with a range 859 01:19:54,180 --> 01:19:59,980 of services for persons and families experienced it experiencing domestic violence you could 860 01:19:59,980 --> 01:20:04,180 see I want to talk about a couple maps on your screen first of all we'll talk about 861 01:20:04,180 --> 01:20:10,880 the the large one so the property is located kind of on the north side of town on the east 862 01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:18,340 side of Bonnie Bray just south of loop 288 and north of Windsor so it's it's in that 863 01:20:18,340 --> 01:20:23,740 part of town there are a variety of uses surrounding it so we've got Denton High School across 864 01:20:23,740 --> 01:20:28,300 Bonnie Bray we've got an elementary school under construction just to the northeast of 865 01:20:28,300 --> 01:20:35,340 the south of the site there's a park just to the east and south of the property commercial 866 01:20:35,340 --> 01:20:41,420 development along to loop 288 it's about a mile from the site and then we have a variety 867 01:20:41,420 --> 01:20:46,260 of residential uses in the area we're ranging from single-family horizontal multifamily 868 01:20:46,260 --> 01:20:54,900 to traditional multifamily town home so variety of residential uses there is Bonnie Bray is 869 01:20:54,900 --> 01:20:59,860 a secondary arterial as well as Windsor is also a secondary arterial and then you've 870 01:20:59,860 --> 01:21:07,140 got highway 77 to the north which is a primary arterial and then and then as I said the property 871 01:21:07,140 --> 01:21:14,500 is zoned r7 and it's shown on your screen so we'll talk about the development plan that 872 01:21:14,500 --> 01:21:20,940 they're proposing so as as you know a plan development is something where they can create 873 01:21:20,940 --> 01:21:25,980 kind of that specialized zoning for the use especially if it's a unique use like the subject 874 01:21:25,980 --> 01:21:32,180 like the property and the project it includes not only development standards but also a 875 01:21:32,180 --> 01:21:38,620 development plan and these two things go hand-in-hand so as I mentioned the uses in work session 876 01:21:38,620 --> 01:21:44,500 that the uses include residential it's a transitional housing there's a daycare administrative and 877 01:21:44,500 --> 01:21:50,900 professional offices medical offices they have a pet kennel for residents on-site dining 878 01:21:50,900 --> 01:21:57,820 so it's it's pretty comprehensive and what is included in the building and is designed 879 01:21:57,820 --> 01:22:02,580 to the the building is designed to house all of these activities in this secure environment 880 01:22:02,580 --> 01:22:07,300 and you could see kind of on your screen it has a kind of a wagon wheel look to it the 881 01:22:07,300 --> 01:22:14,260 building is highlighted in yellow and it creates that that wheel with the with the the social 882 01:22:14,260 --> 01:22:21,660 space the plaza area in the center there are there's a security gating on a portion of 883 01:22:21,660 --> 01:22:28,420 the property and then as we talked about in in work session there are our three access 884 01:22:28,420 --> 01:22:34,580 points emergency access to the north connects to that bus loop for the elementary school 885 01:22:34,580 --> 01:22:40,540 and then two full access points to the south as well as you could see the the purple on 886 01:22:40,540 --> 01:22:45,420 your screen those are pedestrian walkways throughout the site also connecting to the 887 01:22:45,420 --> 01:22:49,820 to the park property to the east which will connect to a future trail and on to the elementary 888 01:22:49,820 --> 01:22:59,540 school to allow safe route for school for for any children who might be using this facility 889 01:22:59,540 --> 01:23:04,900 there's also a landscape plan associated with it right now the property is pretty flat there 890 01:23:04,900 --> 01:23:10,460 aren't any trees on the site if you're familiar with bonnie bray you know there's some pretty 891 01:23:10,460 --> 01:23:17,260 tall power lines running along the east side of bonnie bray so that kind of informed their 892 01:23:17,260 --> 01:23:22,580 landscape plan especially along bonnie bray and that we've got some berms and some naturalized 893 01:23:22,580 --> 01:23:27,860 prairie area along that we don't want any trees within that that utility line easement 894 01:23:27,860 --> 01:23:33,360 so it'll just provide that naturalized area as a gate as a kind of a front door trees 895 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:37,540 throughout the parking area street trees along the park access road which is on the south 896 01:23:37,540 --> 01:23:44,820 side they also have a dog yard and dogway station in the secure area for the residents 897 01:23:44,820 --> 01:23:49,940 so with any project we look at the comprehensive plan first to see what it says in this instance 898 01:23:49,940 --> 01:23:54,180 this proposal conforms to the vision and goals of the comprehensive plan to provide those 899 01:23:54,180 --> 01:23:59,460 community programs to meet the the needs of underserved groups in denton also provide 900 01:23:59,460 --> 01:24:05,060 needs for neighborhood and social services within the community it's also consistent 901 01:24:05,060 --> 01:24:09,460 with our moderate density residential future land use designation which is what the property 902 01:24:09,460 --> 01:24:14,300 is designated and it provides that community service to support residents in an appropriate 903 01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:19,380 location since this is on an arterial it really is that appropriate location for this this 904 01:24:19,380 --> 01:24:24,700 a little more intensive use that this institutional use bonnie bray being that arterial roadway 905 01:24:24,700 --> 01:24:32,300 it provides that adequate access as well as supports that scale of development we also 906 01:24:32,300 --> 01:24:38,700 analyze the use the design and location the proposed uses within this plan are intended 907 01:24:38,700 --> 01:24:45,740 to support the organization's mission i did want to point out that this is a plan development 908 01:24:45,740 --> 01:24:51,340 and so the plan development establishes the permitted use and development scale within 909 01:24:51,340 --> 01:24:57,260 it's not tied to necessarily the user it's tied to the land so any user could come in 910 01:24:57,260 --> 01:25:05,100 if this is approved and and and use these development standards for their for their 911 01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:09,860 development but i did want to let you know that we have an amendment process within the 912 01:25:09,860 --> 01:25:15,460 denton development code so any any substantial change to the mix of uses on the side or the 913 01:25:15,460 --> 01:25:21,020 scale of development or changes to substantial changes to the site plan would require that 914 01:25:21,020 --> 01:25:25,860 development to come back through the planning and zoning and city council approval processes 915 01:25:25,860 --> 01:25:33,340 all over again so that's part of that pd process the design of the site balances that safety 916 01:25:33,340 --> 01:25:39,540 with those with the aesthetics so that the as as a development it meets all of our development 917 01:25:39,540 --> 01:25:44,460 standards for commercial or institutional buildings so that it will it will it will be 918 01:25:44,460 --> 01:25:50,620 developed in in a manner in which we typically see for commercial and institutional buildings 919 01:25:50,620 --> 01:25:55,780 and it is nearby that residential commercial and institutional growth and so that proximity 920 01:25:55,780 --> 01:26:01,940 to schools and services and residential will be will provide those opportunities for residents 921 01:26:01,940 --> 01:26:08,820 within within the project providing things like employment shopping as well as residential 922 01:26:08,820 --> 01:26:15,820 opportunities if and when they move out of the facility and then there are upcoming improvements 923 01:26:15,820 --> 01:26:21,260 to north bonnie bray street which will improve the experience for all users especially those 924 01:26:21,260 --> 01:26:27,700 who are right now trying to get to denton high school on a daily basis so the improvements 925 01:26:27,700 --> 01:26:33,100 to bonnie bray are coming public outreach was sent out we've received one letter in 926 01:26:33,100 --> 01:26:38,860 support of the proposal it's just the property to the north and so based upon the criteria 927 01:26:38,860 --> 01:26:45,260 for approval staff recommends approval of the request we have an anticipated council 928 01:26:45,260 --> 01:26:48,420 date of march 25th if it moves forward from the planning and zoning commission i'll be 929 01:26:48,420 --> 01:26:52,500 happy to answer any questions and the applicant is here and i do believe they have a presentation 930 01:26:52,500 --> 01:27:05,460 as well any questions for staff okay thanks thank you i have a card from the applicant 931 01:27:05,460 --> 01:27:13,020 representative amy bissett good evening commissioners chair pruett nice to see you all i'll introduce 932 01:27:13,020 --> 01:27:19,980 myself while i open my slides amy bissett with 97 land company we are a local development 933 01:27:19,980 --> 01:27:25,060 consultant with those of you who are new and haven't seen us here yet before we're on the 934 01:27:25,060 --> 01:27:30,220 square next door to cartwrights and we're frequent flyers here so you'll see us on a 935 01:27:30,220 --> 01:27:38,500 regular basis and i just i want to open by saying that our client tony johnson simpson 936 01:27:38,500 --> 01:27:42,740 who is the executive director for denton county friends of the family is here and it's her 937 01:27:42,740 --> 01:27:48,180 birthday so be nice to her please she and i are going to tag team this a little bit and 938 01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:52,020 she's going to get up and speak as well i want to start with a little bit of um just 939 01:27:52,020 --> 01:27:57,860 context for for this proposal um we've been working on this plan development since 2023 940 01:27:57,860 --> 01:28:05,180 we've been through seven rounds of reviews with city staff and um the land has been donated 941 01:28:05,180 --> 01:28:10,780 to the non-profit organization by the razor family and just recently within the last 30 942 01:28:10,780 --> 01:28:16,420 days denton county um awarded a grant amount of eight million dollars to construct this 943 01:28:16,420 --> 01:28:22,980 facility so um it's getting a lot of traction quickly and i'm honored to be here representing 944 01:28:22,980 --> 01:28:30,940 it tonight and um appreciate your time i will not review the location map other than to 945 01:28:30,940 --> 01:28:37,020 re-emphasize um the proximity to north lakes park as well as denton high school and the 946 01:28:37,020 --> 01:28:41,300 elementary school that is under construction today that i'll talk a little bit more about 947 01:28:41,300 --> 01:28:48,940 in a little bit um we are maintaining the base zoning district of r7 and um proposing 948 01:28:48,940 --> 01:28:55,380 some plan development standards to layer on top of that to enhance um the the overall 949 01:28:55,380 --> 01:29:04,700 campus um and and to basically set a higher standard for for the development it is uh 950 01:29:04,700 --> 01:29:08,940 the future land use is moderate residential julie reviewed that and how this proposal 951 01:29:08,940 --> 01:29:14,940 is consistent with the future land use plan and we are proposing the plan development 952 01:29:14,940 --> 01:29:20,020 with the purpose to be facilitating a mixed use campus for comprehensive services for 953 01:29:20,020 --> 01:29:25,440 denton county friends of the family this does include both both residential and non-residential 954 01:29:25,440 --> 01:29:31,620 uses and and i will walk you through the site plan in a little more detail than julie did 955 01:29:31,620 --> 01:29:37,260 just so you can kind of see how it's going to function and lay out 956 01:29:37,260 --> 01:29:42,540 i i want to point this out first this is another view of the campus um i want to note a couple 957 01:29:42,540 --> 01:29:48,620 of things to note here um the buildings are designed um to be connected between each other 958 01:29:48,620 --> 01:29:56,300 to to create a security uh sense of security for the residents and the central courtyard 959 01:29:56,300 --> 01:30:02,860 is secured as well and will include a number of residential amenities so let me walk you 960 01:30:02,860 --> 01:30:07,260 through the details of the site plan here quickly um everything that you see highlighted 961 01:30:07,260 --> 01:30:13,500 in blue is a non-residential use we have um client services partner services training 962 01:30:13,500 --> 01:30:20,100 child care kitchen and admin offices an event hall and a pet kennel as um julie pointed 963 01:30:20,100 --> 01:30:25,620 out i do want to say something a little more about that um families that are in this situation 964 01:30:25,620 --> 01:30:31,900 and needing to seek help often will be reluctant to do so because of having to leave pets behind 965 01:30:31,900 --> 01:30:37,020 and so this is an important component of this development to have pet services available 966 01:30:37,020 --> 01:30:46,100 and a very um an amenitized and large dog park for for that um specific um need in the 967 01:30:46,100 --> 01:30:52,620 community i also want to point out here um everything outlined in red that you see is 968 01:30:52,620 --> 01:30:58,800 a security fence so essentially what happens is that um everything behind the security 969 01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:05,120 fence is is designed to be accessed by residents and staff only and then um and so the the 970 01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:11,100 back side of the parking lot is secured and fenced off and those those fencing connections 971 01:31:11,100 --> 01:31:17,660 connect to buildings to provide um fully secured site and then the the buildings that are closer 972 01:31:17,660 --> 01:31:24,820 to bonnie bray are those that um non-residents would come in to receive services or um there 973 01:31:24,820 --> 01:31:32,100 may be other types of meetings that are held there 974 01:31:32,100 --> 01:31:36,340 here's another version of this that's done by phasing um you'll see phase one to the 975 01:31:36,340 --> 01:31:42,360 bottom right is in blue and that is um residential services a small admin office and kitchen 976 01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:48,460 and dining um phase two is on the north side and that is all residential um phase three 977 01:31:48,460 --> 01:31:54,900 is the majority of the non-residential uses and then phase four is the um community recreation 978 01:31:54,900 --> 01:32:01,700 center or event center i i also want to point out two things that i think julie covered to 979 01:32:01,700 --> 01:32:08,140 an extent um on the north side the access point is emergency access only that was determined 980 01:32:08,140 --> 01:32:13,660 in multiple meetings and collaboration with the isd to make sure that their bus lane was 981 01:32:13,660 --> 01:32:19,220 free and clear and was not conflicting with any of our traffic and so we'll have a public 982 01:32:19,220 --> 01:32:24,820 access easement for fire and emergency personnel to access the site from that location but 983 01:32:24,820 --> 01:32:31,660 all other traffic will be directed to the park road that is um it is dedicated right 984 01:32:31,660 --> 01:32:36,100 of way on the south side and the development will be dedicating right of way as well to 985 01:32:36,100 --> 01:32:42,180 expand that park road fire access there is an emergency fire access that will be available 986 01:32:42,180 --> 01:32:46,540 to get to the interior courtyard if necessary on the south side of the building it will 987 01:32:46,540 --> 01:32:54,020 be gated and and have a knocks box lock on it as well 988 01:32:54,020 --> 01:32:57,420 back up just a minute i missed one of these i want to talk about the permitted land uses 989 01:32:57,420 --> 01:33:03,220 here um so the the planned development standards list out what land uses will be permitted 990 01:33:03,220 --> 01:33:08,100 and which will not be permitted and of the land uses that will be permitted housing child 991 01:33:08,100 --> 01:33:14,740 care admin offices dining hall recreation medical office kennel vet clinic laundry service 992 01:33:14,740 --> 01:33:18,700 the only things that are not permitted there by right today are your kennel and your vet 993 01:33:18,700 --> 01:33:24,500 clinic and these would be only for residential use and then the self-service laundry would 994 01:33:24,500 --> 01:33:30,080 if it was a standalone use would require a specific use permit all other land uses are 995 01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:37,220 prohibited within the within the pd standards and we do have a an extensive amenity plan 996 01:33:37,220 --> 01:33:42,260 that includes a dog park pollinator gardens uh two playgrounds one for the child care 997 01:33:42,260 --> 01:33:49,940 facility one for residential um area uh lawn and picnic area seating plaza splash pad and 998 01:33:49,940 --> 01:33:53,860 which is the only piece that will be built in phase two everything else will be built 999 01:33:53,860 --> 01:34:02,020 in phase one and a staff grilling area here's a rendering of an interior courtyard uh just 1000 01:34:02,020 --> 01:34:07,420 a couple of highlights on the pd standards there's a 52 foot maximum building height 1001 01:34:07,420 --> 01:34:13,540 this is um equates to three stories is essentially what we're proposing uh 25 minimum landscape 1002 01:34:13,540 --> 01:34:20,340 um 35 minimum tree canopy and we are proposing the alternative landscape um for bonnie bray 1003 01:34:20,340 --> 01:34:25,300 because we can't plant trees in that very large um transmission easement and then we 1004 01:34:25,300 --> 01:34:30,820 have an exemption to exterior lighting restrictions there's a provision in the code that that 1005 01:34:30,820 --> 01:34:36,260 with residential uses your parking lot lighting can't um can't illuminate the residences 1006 01:34:36,260 --> 01:34:42,660 and we have written that out of this code for additional security purposes we did attempt 1007 01:34:42,660 --> 01:34:47,020 neighborhood engagement we sent out invitations for four neighborhood meetings over the course 1008 01:34:47,020 --> 01:34:52,700 of a year but we did not receive any responses um we did meet in person with denton isd and 1009 01:34:52,700 --> 01:34:57,260 coordinated with them on the driveways traffic routes and civil plans and we've met with 1010 01:34:57,260 --> 01:35:01,620 the parks department to provide the trail connection um for the residents to be able 1011 01:35:01,620 --> 01:35:08,740 to access north lakes park directly um preliminary drainage plans i'm not going to go into any 1012 01:35:08,740 --> 01:35:13,420 detail on this or traffic study recommendations but if you have specific questions about it 1013 01:35:13,420 --> 01:35:17,460 then i will um i'll come back up for that but i'd like to have tony come up and speak 1014 01:35:17,460 --> 01:35:34,980 a little more broadly about the organization thank you 1015 01:35:34,980 --> 01:35:38,660 thank you commissioners my name is tony johnson simpson i've served as the executive director 1016 01:35:38,660 --> 01:35:42,900 of denton county friends of the family for 20 years um the agency has existed since uh 1017 01:35:42,900 --> 01:35:49,220 1980 we'll celebrate our 45th year in service this year we currently operate um a variety 1018 01:35:49,220 --> 01:35:52,860 of facilities in the community and what happens with the family justice center is it means 1019 01:35:52,860 --> 01:35:57,940 that all those locations will really come together under one location that provides 1020 01:35:57,940 --> 01:36:02,300 those people who are accessing our services the opportunity to come to one location receive 1021 01:36:02,300 --> 01:36:07,540 services but telling their story one time allows for partner um community agencies law 1022 01:36:07,540 --> 01:36:17,380 enforcement officers and different organizations to also be under the same collaborative campus 1023 01:36:17,380 --> 01:36:21,860 reduces uh as we said as i said reduces the number of times that a victim needs to tell 1024 01:36:21,860 --> 01:36:27,300 their story and really increases the uh access that they have um for those families that 1025 01:36:27,300 --> 01:36:32,420 are in need of our services so we talk about what is this what is the problem the problem 1026 01:36:32,420 --> 01:36:37,060 here in denton county of course we have our some uh traffic issues um we have a county 1027 01:36:37,060 --> 01:36:42,060 that's growing very much so this ease is that issue for those families that are accessing 1028 01:36:42,060 --> 01:36:49,740 our services um it allows for them to be able to have the the cope of location of other 1029 01:36:49,740 --> 01:36:54,580 organizations that can also be there do it prevents duplication of services because we 1030 01:36:54,580 --> 01:37:00,580 don't have to have families going around to different organizations for that and amy shared 1031 01:37:00,580 --> 01:37:05,980 with you a picture of the preview of the campus that's the artist rendering and it looks beautiful 1032 01:37:05,980 --> 01:37:10,520 we expect for it to look very similar to that as we uh move into it we've taken a lot of 1033 01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:15,060 uh i guess the artist running doesn't demonstrate some of the security precautions that we've 1034 01:37:15,060 --> 01:37:20,580 taken with the property as we think about that of course our the security and safety 1035 01:37:20,580 --> 01:37:27,580 of our families and of our staff and our volunteers is at the utmost importance to us and we will 1036 01:37:27,580 --> 01:37:32,420 take all those efforts and measures that are necessary to do so if you have any questions 1037 01:37:32,420 --> 01:37:46,580 for us we'd love to have them any questions commissioner padron yes hi thank you so much 1038 01:37:46,580 --> 01:37:50,500 for your presentation um for the transitional housing how many clients would you be able 1039 01:37:50,500 --> 01:37:56,740 to support we're really talking about um at any one time about 40 families is going to 1040 01:37:56,740 --> 01:38:01,180 max out and they could be there from different amounts of time some people may need to stay 1041 01:38:01,180 --> 01:38:05,500 for a month or three months and others may need to stay for longer periods of time but 1042 01:38:05,500 --> 01:38:10,140 we look at family households then we're talking about about 40 households at a time thank 1043 01:38:10,140 --> 01:38:20,060 you max yes any other questions uh i have one it may be more for amy you mentioned the 1044 01:38:20,060 --> 01:38:25,180 street trees along bonnie bray were not able to be planted because of the electricity easement 1045 01:38:25,180 --> 01:38:32,300 um i when i look at the site plan it looks like there's about 20 25 feet between the 1046 01:38:32,300 --> 01:38:38,240 property line and where that easement starts am i reading the the plan wrong or or is there 1047 01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:44,380 a larger distance required if you um look at the exhibit above everything that's in 1048 01:38:44,380 --> 01:38:49,540 yellow here is within an easement so even our first row of parking is within the easement 1049 01:38:49,540 --> 01:38:55,860 all the way out to the existing bonnie bray um we really explored a number of options 1050 01:38:55,860 --> 01:39:01,500 for how we could potentially accommodate that including with the widening of bonnie bray 1051 01:39:01,500 --> 01:39:07,220 would we might be able to add trees at that point in time but with with that not being 1052 01:39:07,220 --> 01:39:13,100 imminent or or known um there's just the provision for an alternative landscape plan home we just 1053 01:39:13,100 --> 01:39:19,900 simply can't plant those trees along the street and i want to say that that entire width is 1054 01:39:19,900 --> 01:39:25,980 about 75 feet um and then we've got the same issue on the the other side of the development 1055 01:39:25,980 --> 01:39:31,220 where that everything outside of the security fence is a water line easement as well okay 1056 01:39:31,220 --> 01:39:38,900 thank you i don't see any other questions uh this is you're completed you're finished 1057 01:39:38,900 --> 01:39:44,140 okay thank you this is a public hearing i don't have any cards uh registered to speak 1058 01:39:44,140 --> 01:39:51,300 on this item but uh you may certainly come down and speak fill out a card later if you 1059 01:39:51,300 --> 01:40:00,500 have any comments on this item seeing nobody making a mad rush i will close the public 1060 01:40:00,500 --> 01:40:10,220 hearing uh and open it up for discussion or questions uh from the commission or a motion 1061 01:40:10,220 --> 01:40:24,220 if if anybody's so inclined commissioner padrone i move approval commissioner riggs yeah i 1062 01:40:24,220 --> 01:40:29,500 move approval and i just want to make a stick or second that sorry i don't make move um 1063 01:40:29,500 --> 01:40:32,760 but i do want to make a statement when we're looking at pds you know i think it's always 1064 01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:38,780 important to think of what can go in there for some reason this this were to go you know 1065 01:40:38,780 --> 01:40:43,660 just not come to fruition so kind of what what rights are we granting with that and 1066 01:40:43,660 --> 01:40:49,060 i don't have any problem with the additional rights that are being asked for yeah that's 1067 01:40:49,060 --> 01:40:56,380 a good point to keep keep in mind right as we grant rights through zoning changes what 1068 01:40:56,380 --> 01:41:02,500 uh what could happen so i i i share your thoughts commissioner riggs and uh with that i'll call 1069 01:41:02,500 --> 01:41:11,980 for a vote on the board 1070 01:41:11,980 --> 01:41:17,900 that passes four zero uh that brings us to our second public hearing for the evening 1071 01:41:17,900 --> 01:41:34,860 item 5b z25-0001 welcome erin good evening 1072 01:41:34,860 --> 01:41:43,820 erin stanley assistant planner i'll be presenting z25-0001 sequoia park rezoning so this is 1073 01:41:43,820 --> 01:41:52,140 a request to rezone um approximately 8.93 acres from r3 to r6 district generally located 1074 01:41:52,140 --> 01:41:58,220 north of mingo road and west of nonningham drive um the property is undeveloped and has 1075 01:41:58,220 --> 01:42:03,100 been since the early 1900s and the purpose is to facilitate residential development consistent 1076 01:42:03,100 --> 01:42:08,740 with the r6 standards there has been previous action on this property so it was final plotted 1077 01:42:08,740 --> 01:42:15,980 um back in 1958 and we will get into that in the next slide so you can see the part 1078 01:42:15,980 --> 01:42:21,620 of the final plot on the left side of the screen um includes the subject property the 1079 01:42:21,620 --> 01:42:28,380 original final plot was for approximately 40 acres and included this part of the subject 1080 01:42:28,380 --> 01:42:38,260 property in 1980 um two replats were approved so shown in yellow and in red that were adjacent 1081 01:42:38,260 --> 01:42:46,980 to this subject tract these replats the yellow portion did replat um we did realign the single 1082 01:42:46,980 --> 01:42:52,900 family lots there to change access to the subject property originally access would have 1083 01:42:52,900 --> 01:42:58,380 been taken off of shawnee street um and today that is not possible due to those residences 1084 01:42:58,380 --> 01:43:02,740 residences there but the property still has sufficient access which today would just be 1085 01:43:02,740 --> 01:43:10,260 taken off of mingo road whenever they come in to develop the property is currently zoned 1086 01:43:10,260 --> 01:43:21,020 r3 district and they are proposing r6 and so with all rezoning requests staff reviews 1087 01:43:21,020 --> 01:43:26,660 the general criteria for approval as well as the specific rezoning criteria um with 1088 01:43:26,660 --> 01:43:32,820 this the subject property the proposed the purpose of the rezoning is consistent with 1089 01:43:32,820 --> 01:43:37,260 the r6 purpose statement the proposal is also generally consistent with the comprehensive 1090 01:43:37,260 --> 01:43:43,580 plan goals and policies and the future and land use map designation uh it will be required 1091 01:43:43,580 --> 01:43:47,900 to comply with all ddc standards when they do come forward for development that's not 1092 01:43:47,900 --> 01:43:53,180 something we evaluate really with just the rezoning and then it is not expected to generate 1093 01:43:53,180 --> 01:44:02,180 any significant adverse environmental infrastructure or fiscal impacts so to start with consistency 1094 01:44:02,180 --> 01:44:08,480 with the r6 purpose statement uh the proposed zoning will is intended to accommodate a variety 1095 01:44:08,480 --> 01:44:14,260 of housing types and share existing character is maintained uh and serve as a transition 1096 01:44:14,260 --> 01:44:19,420 between established single family neighborhoods and adjacent commercial uses mixed uses and 1097 01:44:19,420 --> 01:44:26,140 key corridors those are the goals of r6 um the allowed uses within r6 would be single 1098 01:44:26,140 --> 01:44:33,420 family as well as townhome duplex triplex and fourplex uses and with evaluating the 1099 01:44:33,420 --> 01:44:38,740 request staff looks at these uses and sees what um their requirements for development 1100 01:44:38,740 --> 01:44:44,660 would be so with the checked items here so these uses would all still be required the 1101 01:44:44,660 --> 01:44:51,180 same architectural design as any single family home would be um things like covered front 1102 01:44:51,180 --> 01:44:57,540 porches or stoops or recessed entries those would all be required for these other types 1103 01:44:57,540 --> 01:45:03,820 of residential uses these would also all see internal street networks providing that neighborhood 1104 01:45:03,820 --> 01:45:10,500 character design um and and network throughout the subdivision and r6 would also provide 1105 01:45:10,500 --> 01:45:16,020 a buffer from mingo as well as the multi-family to the south and the uh religious private 1106 01:45:16,020 --> 01:45:21,900 school use to the east um this would be an appropriate buffer from that more denser dense 1107 01:45:21,900 --> 01:45:32,300 use to the single family to the north and west so with the uh future land use map this 1108 01:45:32,300 --> 01:45:37,220 property is designated as low residential and this is intended to prime predominantly 1109 01:45:37,220 --> 01:45:42,380 be single family neighborhoods up to five units per acre and have a distinct subdivision 1110 01:45:42,380 --> 01:45:51,380 development style um while r6 does allow slightly denser than five units per acre staff did 1111 01:45:51,380 --> 01:45:57,700 look at their surrounding area and the properties to the directly to the north um do have a 1112 01:45:57,700 --> 01:46:04,860 slightly denser pattern already than r3 does um it's not quite as dense as what is proposed 1113 01:46:04,860 --> 01:46:10,180 for r6 but it is closer to that it doesn't meet that uh five units per acre density that 1114 01:46:10,180 --> 01:46:19,580 of low residential and see this is also a unique um location having two other future 1115 01:46:19,580 --> 01:46:25,540 land uses designations in proximity so the moderate residential designation just to the 1116 01:46:25,540 --> 01:46:32,060 south um is intended to be a transition area and between single family neighborhoods and 1117 01:46:32,060 --> 01:46:37,860 mixed use or commercial areas and the pink shaded color of mixed use community mixed use 1118 01:46:37,860 --> 01:46:42,620 is also intended to have those supporting uses for residential be a bit higher density 1119 01:46:42,620 --> 01:46:47,060 mixed housing types so these are important things to consider um in evaluating their 1120 01:46:47,060 --> 01:46:53,860 quest and rezonings do not have to comply a hundred percent with their lower their future 1121 01:46:53,860 --> 01:47:00,060 land use designation um as long as they still further overall goals of the comprehensive 1122 01:47:00,060 --> 01:47:06,580 plan this is looked at more holistically so some of those goals that we will get into 1123 01:47:06,580 --> 01:47:13,180 the first one um is to grow compactly with in coordination with transportation and infrastructure 1124 01:47:13,180 --> 01:47:18,540 so the subject property is located at the corner of mingo and noddingham and our comprehensive 1125 01:47:18,540 --> 01:47:24,340 plan designates both of these streets as arterial roadways so arterial roadways are intended 1126 01:47:24,340 --> 01:47:31,100 to serve as major routes into and throughout the city um making this more of a place that's 1127 01:47:31,100 --> 01:47:41,180 more appropriate for that higher density um mixed type uses and in the 2023 bond mingo 1128 01:47:41,180 --> 01:47:46,140 improvements were approved including what you see here to have a continuous left turn 1129 01:47:46,140 --> 01:47:53,620 lane as well as a 10 foot side path that would run along the southern boundary of this property 1130 01:47:53,620 --> 01:47:57,980 and then some distances i'd like to point out um this is in very close proximity to 1131 01:47:57,980 --> 01:48:03,900 texas women's university it's about a 1.2 mile walk along mingo to get to the center 1132 01:48:03,900 --> 01:48:11,060 of twu campus and it's about a third of a mile walk to get to sequoia park that's outlined 1133 01:48:11,060 --> 01:48:19,780 in the in the upper right hand map the property also already does have public water and sewer 1134 01:48:19,780 --> 01:48:28,140 that already runs along or through the property two other goals um these two touch on the 1135 01:48:28,140 --> 01:48:35,260 need for diverse housing stock in terms of type cost and location and the first goal 1136 01:48:35,260 --> 01:48:40,820 specifically calls out the uses that are allowed in r6 as potentially compatible with single 1137 01:48:40,820 --> 01:48:50,180 family neighborhoods staff did send out notifications and notification uh or the signs were posted 1138 01:48:50,180 --> 01:48:56,860 on the property um we have received four responses in opposition within the 200 foot buffer uh 1139 01:48:56,860 --> 01:49:02,580 totaling 8.72 percent and the applicant did have a neighborhood meeting um last week in 1140 01:49:02,580 --> 01:49:09,580 which five people attended and he is here to speak as well with that staff is recommending 1141 01:49:09,580 --> 01:49:13,900 approval of the zoning change as it complies with the criteria for approval and i will 1142 01:49:13,900 --> 01:49:25,700 be happy to answer any questions any questions just just one i think we had a um a written 1143 01:49:25,700 --> 01:49:31,100 comment uh from the public that talked about please know multifamily here is multifamily 1144 01:49:31,100 --> 01:49:37,700 a permitted use within r6 no okay it would not be permitted okay thank you i will open 1145 01:49:37,700 --> 01:49:46,900 the public hearing because i think i failed to do that earlier i have a card from uh miss 1146 01:49:46,900 --> 01:49:56,900 nancy sorrels oh i'm sorry is you said the applicant is here um does the applicant wish 1147 01:49:56,900 --> 01:50:06,260 to speak or not um it doesn't look like there are any questions at the time if uh if you'd 1148 01:50:06,260 --> 01:50:15,620 like to to come up after the the public has an opportunity i think that'd be fine um okay 1149 01:50:15,620 --> 01:50:21,620 nancy sorrels please come down state your name and address for the record and then you'll 1150 01:50:21,620 --> 01:50:30,140 have four minutes to speak hello commissioners i'm nancy sorrels i live at 3501 rose lawn 1151 01:50:30,140 --> 01:50:35,780 drive i'm actually the current owner of this property i've had it under contract a number 1152 01:50:35,780 --> 01:50:43,260 of times but no one can develop it due to the zoning that it's in now and due to some 1153 01:50:43,260 --> 01:50:48,780 of the issues with the property with houses built places where maybe they don't belong 1154 01:50:48,780 --> 01:50:55,220 etc so i'm very much for this change in zoning and i'm hopeful that we'll be able to get 1155 01:50:55,220 --> 01:51:01,940 this accomplished i also sent in responses um in support but apparently it didn't make 1156 01:51:01,940 --> 01:51:09,220 it through the mail so um i've sent those in as well thank you thank you any questions 1157 01:51:09,220 --> 01:51:18,500 okay this is a public hearing if anybody would like to speak i do have one uh card in opposition 1158 01:51:18,500 --> 01:51:25,220 to this item uh not wishing to speak so that will be entered into the record in addition 1159 01:51:25,220 --> 01:51:32,420 to the the four properties that you saw in the presentation but it is a public hearing 1160 01:51:32,420 --> 01:51:40,580 if anybody has any thoughts to offer or questions for staff or the applicant feel free to come 1161 01:51:40,580 --> 01:51:56,420 forward not seeing any i will close the public hearing um any questions for staff or comments 1162 01:51:56,420 --> 01:52:08,980 um i guess i have one erin um as i look at the the gis map i don't see any isa's mentioned 1163 01:52:08,980 --> 01:52:15,300 but there is a creek drainage creek that runs through it yes i'm trying to understand obviously 1164 01:52:15,300 --> 01:52:20,660 not you know we're talking about a straight zoning change but when i look at that it looks 1165 01:52:20,660 --> 01:52:26,100 to me like you would have to take two points of access off of mingo in order to serve the 1166 01:52:26,100 --> 01:52:33,700 entire property is that a a reasonable conjecture um the applicant has looked at some some conceptual 1167 01:52:33,700 --> 01:52:39,460 plans and in conceptual plans the area that is east of it's a drainage easement um this 1168 01:52:39,460 --> 01:52:45,700 kind of shown here it's a 30 foot wide drainage easement so it is not isa okay um but in conceptual 1169 01:52:45,700 --> 01:52:51,540 plans they are preserving everything east uh you are correct it would take some some engineering 1170 01:52:51,540 --> 01:52:56,900 to get across that necessarily um but it could be possible okay thank you 1171 01:52:59,620 --> 01:53:08,180 any questions from the commission or a motion i do have a question yes it's commissioner for 1172 01:53:08,180 --> 01:53:16,100 staff so uh looking at the permitted uses going from r3 to r6 looks like town homes duplexes 1173 01:53:16,100 --> 01:53:22,260 triplexes and fourplexes are permitted uses are those on the table is part of what the 1174 01:53:22,260 --> 01:53:28,580 development's going to look like or um i will let the applicant answer that if you would like 1175 01:53:28,580 --> 01:53:39,300 perfect primarily there's two reasons we're looking for a zone change the first one is 1176 01:53:39,300 --> 01:53:46,740 r3 versus r6 in typical lot width and lot depth as well as lot size is a lot of bigger of a lot 1177 01:53:46,740 --> 01:53:52,340 in r3 so what we're hoping with r6 is even if we do single family for example we can do a typical 1178 01:53:52,340 --> 01:53:58,020 50 by 110 lot which is what home developers are looking for in terms of duplex triplex fourplex 1179 01:53:58,020 --> 01:54:05,780 that's not what we would do we would either go single family or town homes by a deed restriction 1180 01:54:05,780 --> 01:54:10,660 as well we can only do single family so that's single family sales so even if we did town homes 1181 01:54:10,660 --> 01:54:15,540 we couldn't necessarily do a bill to rent unless someone wanted to go in and buy every single 1182 01:54:15,540 --> 01:54:19,220 individual home which we can't stop them but they would have to be a for sale product 1183 01:54:19,220 --> 01:54:25,780 so if i understand right you're saying like a duplex or triplex would be 1184 01:54:26,500 --> 01:54:31,380 we could do like a twin home okay but we wouldn't yeah we wouldn't we wouldn't do something like that 1185 01:54:31,380 --> 01:54:38,260 okay and that that's because of the deed restrictions on the property currently not 1186 01:54:38,260 --> 01:54:44,260 because of the zoning correct correct yeah um also there's not really a big demand here for that 1187 01:54:44,260 --> 01:54:50,340 so we're looking more of individual for sale product for the for consumer okay uh commissioner 1188 01:54:50,340 --> 01:54:57,700 dyer so when you're talking about the rezoning would allow you to do smaller lots about how many 1189 01:54:57,700 --> 01:55:04,340 home sites can you fit on this property today based on current zoning based on if this got approved 1190 01:55:04,340 --> 01:55:11,940 oh and the smaller lots about 36 to 38 would be probably the most as erin pointed out there is a 1191 01:55:11,940 --> 01:55:16,820 drainage easement on top of that there's tree preservation that would have to be considered 1192 01:55:17,380 --> 01:55:23,220 buffers we were also working currently with traffic uh here they would like us to dedicate 1193 01:55:23,220 --> 01:55:28,500 about a 35 foot easement in the front for that future mingo expansion so there's a lot of things 1194 01:55:28,500 --> 01:55:33,700 adversely affecting this that would would shrink our yield down significantly okay thank you 1195 01:55:33,700 --> 01:55:43,460 any other questions okay thank you thank you 1196 01:55:47,380 --> 01:55:51,460 discussion or emotion 1197 01:55:51,460 --> 01:56:01,940 i don't necessarily have an issue if this is essentially the only way that the 1198 01:56:01,940 --> 01:56:06,180 property is going to be developed if others have tried and can't can't make it work 1199 01:56:06,180 --> 01:56:11,460 i don't necessarily have an issue with that it still remains single family so kind of my thoughts 1200 01:56:13,220 --> 01:56:19,380 okay commissioner dire but there's no guarantee i mean there's no guarantee that it would remain 1201 01:56:19,380 --> 01:56:24,340 single family because they could put town homes essentially they could put any of those up there 1202 01:56:24,340 --> 01:56:32,260 but in the end you know as the current property owner states she's attempted multiple times to 1203 01:56:32,260 --> 01:56:37,380 sell this and this sounds like it's probably the only way that the deal is going to get done 1204 01:56:40,980 --> 01:56:45,780 can i ask a question to staff just for clarification for the nearby residents 1205 01:56:45,780 --> 01:56:52,340 i think we we kind of jumped over the terminology of of what the zoning allows versus what the deed 1206 01:56:52,340 --> 01:56:58,820 restriction allows can you explain the difference between those and also what the process if you're 1207 01:56:58,820 --> 01:57:04,900 aware would be to change or remove the deed restriction because it doesn't come before us 1208 01:57:04,900 --> 01:57:10,820 is my understanding no it would not um staff does not regulate those deed restrictions that's more 1209 01:57:10,820 --> 01:57:17,700 private agreements with with the property owner and it would just be up to anyone another resident 1210 01:57:17,700 --> 01:57:25,460 to enforce that essentially and just report i guess um the process of changing those i would 1211 01:57:25,460 --> 01:57:30,900 you they would need to consult like a land use eternity attorney so not not us not this body 1212 01:57:30,900 --> 01:57:35,220 okay thank you commissioner padron 1213 01:57:38,900 --> 01:57:44,100 i just wanted to say that i agree with commissioner riggs um on uh just the context of the of the 1214 01:57:44,100 --> 01:57:49,860 property um the limitations with being able to move forward with it and then finding a way to 1215 01:57:49,860 --> 01:58:00,100 move forward with this proposal yeah i'll just say that i um i'm happy to see uh however many 1216 01:58:00,100 --> 01:58:07,140 homes that it would be go here instead of uh you know three miles away outside the loop creating 1217 01:58:07,140 --> 01:58:11,620 more traffic for the rest of our residents as they as they get to stores and that sort of thing 1218 01:58:11,620 --> 01:58:21,780 i'll entertain a motion if anybody has one commissioner padron move approval 1219 01:58:21,780 --> 01:58:27,140 commissioner riggs second and i will call for a vote on the board 1220 01:58:35,060 --> 01:58:38,100 and that passes four to zero thank you 1221 01:58:38,100 --> 01:58:48,660 that is our last public hearing brings us to item six a the planning and zoning commission project 1222 01:58:48,660 --> 01:58:58,340 matrix hayley that's good evening um just in terms of updates since our last meeting um city council 1223 01:58:58,340 --> 01:59:03,460 did meet last week and the coal ranch master plan community amendments that you all had considered 1224 01:59:03,460 --> 01:59:08,260 uh were approved i believe that was the only action that they took that directly related to 1225 01:59:08,260 --> 01:59:13,380 anything this body has been working on um and i don't believe we had any significant changes 1226 01:59:13,380 --> 01:59:17,060 to your matrix but i'm happy to add anything that you all might be interested in 1227 01:59:25,460 --> 01:59:34,260 i don't think this is something specifically um to be reported on uh but uh as we were doing our work 1228 01:59:34,260 --> 01:59:41,780 session uh earlier today we we saw that that the planning and zoning commission doesn't see uh 1229 01:59:41,780 --> 01:59:52,900 applications for um um admission into the city why can i not think of this word right now 1230 01:59:52,900 --> 01:59:58,900 annexation thank you uh uh and so we don't see those but sometimes we see zoning requests 1231 01:59:58,900 --> 02:00:07,060 after that um it might help us just to get some preview in the future if uh the council actions 1232 02:00:07,060 --> 02:00:12,580 would include any annexations in addition to to final action that they took on items we've 1233 02:00:12,580 --> 02:00:17,380 already seen certainly we can do that okay um and in the spirit of that i will say if you're 1234 02:00:17,380 --> 02:00:22,900 interested the last council meeting there were three uh projects that were requesting resolutions 1235 02:00:22,900 --> 02:00:28,260 in support of low income housing tax credits i anticipate if those are awarded at least one 1236 02:00:28,260 --> 02:00:35,300 of those will come before this body for a specific use permit request okay good to know uh 1237 02:00:35,300 --> 02:00:42,660 that brings us to our final item concluding items anyone have anything 1238 02:00:45,060 --> 02:00:51,540 excited for denton oh actually i do have something so so last friday i had the opportunity of going 1239 02:00:51,540 --> 02:00:58,100 to focus north texas uh actually you know accompanied staff to that that was really 1240 02:00:58,100 --> 02:01:01,620 really eye-opening and i would encourage anyone who gets a chance to go next year 1241 02:01:01,620 --> 02:01:12,020 very good uh and and i have oh commissioner dire thank you all for being so welcoming um to me on 1242 02:01:12,020 --> 02:01:18,100 my very first meeting thank you for being here with us we uh we look forward to learning together 1243 02:01:18,100 --> 02:01:25,460 so thank you um i do have one and i'm looking up the date to make sure that i don't misstate it 1244 02:01:25,460 --> 02:01:33,540 um it is not this saturday but next saturday uh afternoon is the winter warmer 1245 02:01:33,540 --> 02:01:41,300 um have some some staff and others that are very involved in supporting this fundraiser for 1246 02:01:42,020 --> 02:01:49,540 our students here in town so look that up and please attend and and uh it's a great time so 1247 02:01:49,540 --> 02:01:56,180 with that with no objection i will uh 1248 02:01:56,180 --> 02:02:05,860 adjourn our meeting of the planning and zoning commission at 7 31 p.m thank you