Nov 17, 2025 Zoning Board of Adjustment on 2025-11-17 5:30 PM

We will call the meeting at 5.30 sharp because we're so on top of it. After determining that the quorum is present, I hereby call this meeting of the City of Denton Zoning Board of Adjustment into session. The Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City of Denton, Texas will convene its regular meeting at 5.30 p.m. Item one on our agenda is the U.S. and Texas Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one, indivisible. Prior to commencing this meeting, I'd like to review our meeting format for the benefit of those in attendance. The board consists of seven regular members and three alternates. The members of the Zoning Board of Adjustment are residents of the City of Denton. We serve voluntarily and have been appointed to our positions by the City Council. It takes six votes to authorize a variance from the city's zoning or sign ordinances. If there are any members of the public who wish to speak on an item, please fill out a blue card and hand it to Carlin. We will now commence with our regularly scheduled agenda. Item 2A is ZBA 25-015 to consider the approval of the June 23rd, 2025 minutes. Each member of the board has been provided with a copy of these minutes. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions to these minutes? Seeing none, I would entertain a motion. I make a motion to approve the minutes. I second it. Thank you very much. Any discussion? Any questions? Call the vote. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstain? I might, because I wasn't here. I'll abstain, because that wasn't good for that meeting. All right, so then the motion was made by Byron and seconded by me. Okay. Thank you. Guys, I'm looking for anything that would happen. Thank you very much. Thank you for your patience. Can we get that? Results of the vote are six people here, right? Five in favor and one abstain. There's nobody against. I'll just press it off on testing. The minutes are approved. Item 2B is ZBA 24-013 to consider approval of the 2026 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting calendar. Can we go back one item? There was a slight minute shilling in again, so I just want to note that these will be coming back at the next meeting, because the backup posted minutes for different boards meeting internally. So this is something to notice. Unless you want to print them out? Unless we were reviewing them. It has to be passed through its legislation. So the public can see them? Yeah. Okay, sure. So you'll see it handwritten in December. That's just a note to self-printing. I'm sorry. Okay, thank you. All right, so then let's take a look at the calendar. Yes, so the 2026 calendar, much like the one for this year, generally places meetings on the fourth Monday of the month. There are a few exceptions around holidays, like you've seen with this year's calendar. We are happy to consider any adjustments you all might like to make to it. Can you go back and we'll start with January? Yes. Just December, which would be the last Monday of that month. Yes, most months, the fourth and the last Monday, are the same. There are several exceptions. Yeah, there's a few exceptions, mostly related to holidays. And like, yeah, holidays, like we have May. May, because you don't do it on Memorial Day. Correct. Yeah, June has five Mondays. So again, we went with the fourth, because that's our typical pattern that we follow. July, the last one. August was also a five-Monday month. Same with March. And then you can see, in November and December, we adjusted, just to make sure we weren't following up on it. I'll entertain a motion. I motion for approval. Sure, let's get a second and then we can do discussion and questions. Is there a second? I'll do a second. Okay. Any discussion, any questions? Am I missing, is there not a holiday in February that gets out of Monday? It's President's Day. Although it doesn't, I don't think it impacts the CBA date, but I was just wondering. If we marked in blue any of the city holidays where the city offices are closed. Okay, so that was not a city holiday. Yes, great. Yes, like we did in March with the King Day in January. What about October? That's a really good question. The 12th is usually. Yeah, the city doesn't close for that one. Okay. All right. Any more questions or concerns? Thank you for that. That's been helpful. No more discussion? We have another meeting to change it. Yes, please bring it up now. We can fix it now. All right, then with there no further discussion, please vote on the motion. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? This says the minutes of motion. I should say motion. Guys, what's going on? All right, next we have item 3A, ZBA 25-013. Receive a report and hold discussion regarding the Zoning Board of Adjustment Composition Procedures, Powers, and Duties. And here I'm going to suggest that since most of us have had this training, are there a couple of people who have not? Anybody else? It's only one person. Ken, would you be all right with getting with staff if they will send you one that you can review online? They just would want you to do it ahead of the December case. That's all right. Do we need any voting on that or just? No, so that's just a work session, I think. So just great. Thank you very much. That's great. And then the next item on the agenda. So this would be, just so you know, Zoning Board of Adjustment Composition Procedures, Powers, and Duties. And maybe you want to just give a little tiny speech about the ZBA. Sure. So the training is more just a cursory review of the board, how you all are abled by state law, and then your primary functions, and hearing zoning variants, assigned variances, and appeals of staff decisions. So it offers an overview of each of those, what the board's options are in considering each case. And if you would like, staff is happy to meet with you and run through that as well. And then it's quasi-judicial. Yes. So we don't make recommendations that then go to counsel. We make decisions. Yes. Any decision you want to make here can be appealed to the court. Yes, it goes there as opposed to that. All right. In that case, are there any concluding items? Anybody have anything they'd like to announce? I think coming up. Just say welcome to our new member. Oh, you're new. That's great. Welcome. Thank you. Scott. Scott. So you are representing which? Mr. Grant. Mr. Grant? Great. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Thank you. Am I still an option? You're welcome. Yes. You're going to be needed next week too. You're our saving grace. I am. And she knows the drill. I know the drill. I know mine. All right. Then I guess I get to adjourn the meeting. I don't have to take a motion. I get to do it. That's at 539 record time. That's the last time we've had a high forum. Ten minutes. Whoa. That's great. Thank you.