* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. EXCUSE [00:00:01] ME. UM, [Call to Order ] GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26TH, 2026. I'M JOHN FEDORKO, THE VICE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, FILLING IN FOR CHERYL SMITH THIS EVENING. THIS MEETING OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IS HEREBY CALLED BACK TO ORDER AT 6:34 PM THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETS THE SECOND AND FOURTH TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH. ALL MEETINGS ARE VIDEO RECORDED. NO OFFICIAL ACTION CAN BE TAKEN UNLESS PROPER APPLICATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED THROUGH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION FOLLOWS A PRINTED AGENDA THAT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE PUBLIC HEARING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS ARE ROUTINE ITEMS WHICH CAN ALL BE APPROVED IN ONE MOTION. HOWEVER, ANY MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION MAY, MAY MAKE A MOTION TO INDIVIDUALLY CONSIDER AN ITEM FOR THE FROM THE PUBLIC HEARING CONSENT AGENDA. INDIVIDUALS MAY ADDRESS THE COMMISSION ON ANY ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA. TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM OR NOTE YOUR SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION WITHOUT SPEAKING, PLEASE FILL OUT A REQUEST SPEAKER CARD, WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN THE BACK. THESE CARDS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE COUNTER AND SHOULD BE RETURNED IN AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM PRIOR TO THE FIRST AGENDA ITEM BEING CALLED, I WILL NOW CONDUCT A ROLL CALL OF THE MEMBERS TO CONFIRM THE PRESENCE OF A QUORUM. AFTER I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE SAY, HERE, I'LL START WITH MYSELF. JOHN FEDORKO. HERE. KENNETH PRESLEY. HERE. VICTOR MEDINA. HERE. JANIE MENDEZ. AKARI. HERE. FRANK GONZALEZ. HERE. CHRISTOPHER OLEY. HERE. MALCOLM CHAY. TY CHAPMAN. HERE. CHERYL ANN SMITH. PLEASE LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT EXCEPT FOR MALCOLM CHAY AND CHERYL ANN SMITH. AND NOW FRANK GONZALEZ WILL GIVE THE, UH, INVOCATION. AND AFTERWARDS, UH, TY CHAPMAN WILL LEAVE THIS. I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. AND NOW TY CHAPMAN WILL GIVE THE INDICATION. AND FRANK GONZALEZ WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS AND US FLAGS. THANK YOU. BOW YOUR HEADS PLEASE. MOST GRACIOUS AND EVERLASTING, GOD, HERE WE ARE HUMBLY BEFORE YOU, ONCE AGAIN, GIVE US YOUR GLADNESS. LORD GOD, GIVE US YOUR PEACE, YOUR LOVE. LORD, TEACH US HOW TO LIVE EACH DAY WITH COURAGE AND FORTITUDE. FATHER GOD, IN EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY, LET US BE A BETTER PERSON FOR THE NEXT PERSON. LET US FIND LOVE AND PEACE WITH HUMANKIND. FATHER GOD, WE PRAY FOR YOUR PEOPLE AND ALL OF US ASSEMBLED HERE TODAY. LET EACH VESSEL GIVE THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS TO YOU. AND CONSECRATION TEACH US YOUR WAY. OH GOD, TEACH US HOW TO SERVE YOU IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. LET LOVE ABIDE IN OUR HEARTS. LORD GOD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT THAT YOUR ANOINTING WOULD FALL FRESH ON ALL OF THOSE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE. AND LORD GOD, WE LIFT YOU. WE WILL FOREVER SERVE YOU AND GIVE YOU ALL THE HONOR, THE GLORY AND THE PRAISE. IT IS IN YOUR DARLING SON JESUS' NAME WE PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. PLEASE STAND AS WE RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, OUR PLEDGE TO THE FLAG. THE UNITED, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. REPUBLIC STANDS NATION, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVIDUAL FOR LIBERTY, JUSTICE FOR ALL. ANOTHER TEXAS, TEXAS FLAG, HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG FLAG PLEDGE TO THE TEXAS SAY UNDER GOD ONE AND INDIVIDUAL. THANK YOU, FRANK. THANK YOU, TY. UM, IN AN EFFORT TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTIONS, THE FOLLOWING MEETING GUIDELINES WILL APPLY. UM, THE STAFF WILL PRESENT FIRST ON ANY AGENDA ITEM FOLLOWING A BRIEF PRESENTATION BY STAFF. APPLICANTS WILL HAVE A COMBINED TOTAL OF 30 MINUTES TO PRESENT. ONCE THE APPLICANT HAS SPOKEN. EACH MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WHO FILLS OUT A SPEAKER CARD WILL HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK ON THAT ITEM. ADDITIONAL SPEAKING TIME MAY BE ALLOWED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR BEFORE SPEAKING. SPEAKER SHOULD GIVE THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD ALONG WITH WHOM, WHOM YOU REPRESENT. IF APPLICABLE, AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON A TOPIC NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA SHOULD SPEAK UNDER THE HEADING OF CITIZEN COMMENTS. STAFF WILL BE ABLE TO, STAFF WILL BE AVAILABLE, EXCUSE ME, TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION OF EACH ITEM [CITIZEN COMMENTS ] IN THE CITIZEN COMMENT SECTION OF OUR MEETING. AT THIS TIME, CITIZENS MAY SPEAK FOR UP TO FIVE MINUTES ON ANY ITEM THAT'S NOT OTHERWISE ON THE AGENDA. UM, JULIE, DO WE HAVE ANYONE IN THIS? WE DO HAVE CITIZEN COMMENTS. UM, SO JUST AS A PREFACE, STAFF WAS, UH, MADE AWARE FROM [00:05:01] A CURRENT APPLICANT THAT THEY WANTED TO SPEAK. UH, IN REGARDS TO ITEM EIGHT, THE CPA, UH, OR THE COMP PLAN AMENDMENT. UH, THE PRESENTATION IS SPECIFIC TO A CERTAIN PROPERTY. AND SO WE'VE ASKED THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK DURING THE CITIZEN COMMENT PORTION OF, UH, OF THE MEETING SINCE, UH, PUBLIC NOTICE HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED SPECIFICALLY FOR ANYTHING TO CHANGE ON THAT SPECIFIC PROPERTY. UM, I DID WANT TO REITERATE WITH THE COMMISSION THAT DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION, THERE ARE SOME RESTRICTIONS OR SOME REQUIREMENTS, UM, PER THE OPEN MEETING, ACTS OPEN MEETING ACT AS TO WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T DO DURING PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION. UM, FIRST YOU CAN RESPOND WITH STATEMENTS OF FACT. SECOND, YOU CAN DIRECT THE PERSON TO MAKE ANY INQUIRY, UM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE WITH STAFF. UM, AND THIRD, UM, ANY DELIBERATION, UM, OF COURSE HAS TO BE PUT ON THE POSTED AGENDA SINCE THERE'S NO POSTING. UM, THERE IS NO BACK AND FORTH COMMUNICATION WITH THE, THE SPEAKER AT THIS TIME. UM, BUT WE HAVE ONE CARD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION THAT'S PRE JACOBSON WHO WISHES TO SPEAK. UM, TO MR. JACOBSON, PLEASE, UH, COME UP AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. AND YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME. CHAIR, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION. WE'RE TRYING TO GET UP. JUST USE THE ARROW KEYS TO ADVANCE. YEAH. OH, YOU EVEN HAVE CLICKER. WELL, THANK YOU CHAIR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. UM, GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AS COUNSEL EX EXPLAINED, UH, THE, THE CIRCUM. CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? YEAH. BUT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. YES. YEAH. FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS TREY JACOBSON. I'M A LAND USE CONSULTANT. I'M BASED IN SAN ANTONIO. MY ADDRESS THERE IS 1 2 4 EAST EDGEWOOD PLACE. I'VE TRAVELED HERE IN REGARDS TO THE EPICENTER PLAN, UH, WHICH WILL BECOME ONCE ADOPTED PART OF THE CITY'S FUTURE LAND USE PLAN. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ACTION THAT YOU'RE TAKING TONIGHT BECAUSE YOU ULTIMATELY, YOU'RE LEADING TO THE PATH OF HOW THE CITY EXPRESSES ITS ASPIRATIONS FOR HOW YOU WANT THE CITY TO GROW AND DEVELOP. AND NOW, UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES WHEN THEY GO THROUGH THESE EXERCISES, IT'S, IT'S NO FAULT OF ANYBODY THAT'S INVOLVED 'CAUSE IT'S PART OF THE PROCESS. SOMETIMES PARTICULAR AREAS OR SITES AREN'T REALLY STUDIED OR THEY'RE NOT GIVEN DUE CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN REALITIES. AND THAT SOMETIMES CAN CREATE WHAT I LIKE TO CALL PLANNING FANTASIES. AND WHEN THAT FANTASY ULTIMATELY GETS ADOPTED IN A REGULATING DOCUMENT LIKE THIS ONE THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO INHIBIT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. AND SPECIFICALLY, I WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FORUM NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, PORTION OF THE PLAN. AND I'M GONNA ZOOM IN FOR YOU ON, AND AGAIN, THIS IS PART OF THE REASON WE'RE DOING THIS IN CITIZENS IS A 74 ACRE TRACK THAT'S HERE OFF MAYFIELD ROAD, JUST SOUTH OF TRADERS VILLAGE, WHICH I'M SURE YOU'VE ALL DRIVEN BY HUNDREDS OF TIMES. YOU KNOW, I'VE NOTED FOR YOUR, OH, SORRY. NOTE FOR YOUR REFERENCE. WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT PARCELS OF ONE AND TWO. UM, THE SITE HAS BEEN ZONED FOR OFFICE RETAIL COMMERCIAL FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS. UH, HAS ALSO BEEN IN THIS, UH, CITY'S LAND USE PLAN FOR THAT. UH, YET IT'S NEVER DEVELOPED THAT WAY. UH, AND THE OWNERS WHO OWN IT NOW HAVE HAD IT FOR 30 YEARS, AND THEY'VE TRIED TO MARKET IT FROM TIME TO TIME AND, AND THEY'VE BEEN OPEN TO SELLING IT. THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIND SOMETHING TOWARD THIS. AND SO YOU HAVE TO ASK WHY. UM, I'VE STUDIED THIS SITE FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS FOR DIFFERENT CLIENTS, AND I LIKE TO SHARE MY OBSERVATIONS. SO THE AREA IN RED ARE THE CONCENTRATIONS OF RETAIL COMMERCIAL AREAS THAT ARE AROUND THIS AREA FOR THE FORUM. UM, YOU, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE CONCENTRATING AROUND MAJOR INTERSECTIONS AND HIGHWAYS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF TRAFFIC IS. THAT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR RETAILERS WHERE DEVELOPERS ARE INVESTING IN THAT. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAYFIELD SITE, YOU SEE IT'S, IT'S IN NO MAN'S LAND. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE SIZE OF IT COMPARED TO SOME OF THE OTHERS, YOU REALIZE HOW BIG IT IS. IT'S WAY TOO BIG FOR KIND OF YOUR STANDARD NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORTING RETAIL. AND THEN IF YOU FURTHER CONSIDER THAT THERE'S A GAS WELL SYSTEM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, AND THERE'S AIRPORT APPROACH LIMITATIONS AND THERE'S SITE LIMITATIONS, IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP FOR COMMERCIAL. AND IF THAT'S NOT EVIDENCE ENOUGH, I WILL JUST POINT OUT THAT ONE OF THE PREMIER NATION'S BROKERAGE COMPANIES, JOAN LANES LASALLE, WENT THROUGH A NATIONWIDE SOLICITATION FOR THIS SITE. THEY GOT SEVERAL DIFFERENT PROPOSALS, VERY CREDIBLE PROPOSALS FOR THE SITE. YOU KNOW, HOW MANY FOR COMMERCIAL RETAIL AND OFFICE ZERO. AND IT TURNS OUT THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE FOR THIS PROPERTY ARE, IN MY OPINION, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AND MEDIUM RESIDE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL. 'CAUSE THOSE ARE THE PROPOSALS THAT YOU'RE GETTING FOR [00:10:01] THIS. NOW, IT WAS MENTIONED BY COUNCIL, I AM A LAND USE CONSULTING SUPPORTING ONE OF THE PARCELS FOR, FOR TWO. UH, WELL, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS NOT AN ACTION YOU'RE CONSIDERING TODAY, BUT IDEALLY WE BELIEVE THAT THE, WE SHOULD BE WORKING TOWARD THIS TOWARD LIGHT INDUSTRIAL. AND THEN THIS SECTION HERE FOR MEDIUM RESIDENTIAL, UH, THERE IS A NEED FOR HOUSING. YOU ALL KNOW THIS AS PART OF THE HOUSING PLAN. UH, IN FACT, YOU KNOW, UH, HOLD ON THERE. AND THIS IS ACTUALLY A SECTION IN THE PLAN DOCUMENT BEFORE YOU TODAY. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE SECTION, THEY, THEY STRIVE FOR MORE MIDDLE, UH, MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING, WHICH IS THE TYPE OF PRODUCT THAT ARE BEING CONSIDERED INFILL RESIDENTIAL. AND AGAIN, NOTING THAT THERE'S AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE METROPLEX LOOKING OPTIONS FOR PEOPLE, FAMILIES WHO CANNOT AFFORD A HOME AND PROVIDING CHARACTER. SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK ARE NECESS OR IN YOUR PLAN. UH, I REALIZE THERE'S NO ACTION BEING TAKEN TODAY, BUT I WANTED TO BRING THIS TO ATTENTION BECAUSE, UH, WE FEEL THAT THIS MAY BE ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN MISSED IN THE PLANNING EXERCISE. AND WE JUST THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I'LL YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME BACK. THANK YOU. WE HAVE NO FURTHER PARTS. OKAY, GREAT. UM, THANK YOU MR. JACOBSON. UH, THE NEXT MATTER [PUBLIC HEARING CONSENT AGENDA ] FOR CONSIDERATION IS APPROVING OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. THERE IS ONE ITEM ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. UM, ITEM NUMBER ONE, APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM OUR MAY 12TH MEETING. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO ANYONE CAN SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. IS THERE ANYONE, JULIE, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR THIS ITEM? NOT FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA. UM, WE HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA, AND I'M ASSUMING NO MEMBERS WANNA SPEAK. CAN I HAVE A MOTION ON THAT MATTER? YES, MR. CHAIR, I MOVE TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, THE MEETING MINUTES ON MAY 12TH, 2026, PLANNING A ZONING MEETING. I SECOND. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE, THE MINUTES OF THE MAY 12TH MEETING BY, UH, COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER CHAPMAN. UM, ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? ALRIGHT, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL. ALL. OKAY. WE'RE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. THANK YOU. THERE ARE SEVEN ITEMS [2. SUP-26-03-0005 - Specific Use Permit - Wholesale Auto Sales at 200 MacArthur Blvd (City Council District 5). Specific Use Permit for a Wholesale Auto Sales dealer in a portion of the property designated for Suite A on 2.10 acres. Lots 314R, 331R, and 330R, Burbank Gardens REP Addition, City of Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas, zoned Commercial (C), and addressed as 200 MacArthur Blvd, 127 NE 31st St, and 125 NE 31st St ] ON THE AGENDA FOR PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT. UM, STAFF, PLEASE PRESENT ITEM NUMBER TWO OR SHUT OFF WITH ITEM NUMBER TWO. ALL RIGHT. UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. ITEM NUMBER TWO IS SUP DASH 26 DASH ZERO THREE DASH 0 0 5. IT IS A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST FOR WHOLESALE AUTO SALES. UM, LOCATION IS 200 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD AS WELL AS 125 AND 127 NORTHEAST 31ST STREET. THE PROPERTY IS ZONED COMMERCIAL, UM, AND WHOLESALE AUTO SALES REQUIRES SUP IN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. THERE IS THE AERIAL VIEW. YOU CAN SEE THE PROPERTY AND ITS SURROUNDING. UM, SO THE REQUEST IS CURRENTLY THERE IS AN EXISTING MINOR AUTO REPAIR FACILITY THAT DOES AUTO BREAK AND OIL CHANGE. UM, AT SUITE A, THEY WISH TO ADD WHOLESALE AUTO SALES, WHICH IS WHAT THE SGP REQUEST IS FOR. UM, THEIR BUSINESS HOURS ARE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM THE WHOLESALE SALES WILL ONLY TAKE PLACE BETWEEN LICENSED AUTO DEALERS AT LOCAL AUCTIONS, AND THAT MEANS NO PUBLIC AUTO SALES, NO ONSITE, UM, DISPLAY AREAS AND NO PAINT AND BODY WORK. THIS IS THE PARKING PLAN THAT THE APPLICANT HAS SUBMITTED. THERE ARE SEVEN EMPLOYEES, UM, AND FOUR SERVICE SPACE. THE INVENTORY FOR THE AUTO SALE PART OF THIS, UH, BUSINESS WILL TYPICALLY BE STORED OFFSITE. LIKE WE SAID, IT'S AUCTION TO AUCTION. HOWEVER, UM, THE APPLICANT WILL PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, SPACES, UH, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IN THE TABLE THERE. WE'VE KIND OF ALLOWED IT FOR SIX. SO THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE, UM, 19 FOR THE CURRENT BUSINESS, AND THEN SIX FOR THE ADDITIONAL AUTO SALE BUSINESS. BUT THE APPLICANT THEMSELVES ARE PROVIDING 47 SPACES, 10 OF WHICH ARE STACKED. AGAIN, THOSE ARE, UH, I THINK I CAN SHOW YOU, NO. OKAY. MAYBE NOT. OKAY. THERE, UM, SPACES 34 THROUGH, I CAN'T READ IT MYSELF ACTUALLY. 43. 43. THERE WE GO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING ONE OF THE VAR ONE VARIANCE. UM, THEY'RE REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO THE REQUIREMENT IN SECTION 10.7 0.1 OF THE UDC THAT ALL PARKING SPACES ARE TO BE [00:15:01] NON-ST STACKED TO ALLOW FOR THOSE 10 STACKED PARKING SPACES. THERE WERE 35 NOTICES SENT OUT, UM, TO SURROUNDING PROPERTIES. WE DID GET ONE LETTER OF SUPPORT AND ONE LETTER OF OPPOSITION. THOSE ARE HERE IF ANYONE WISHES TO SEE THEM. UH, THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS. NUMBER ONE, THAT ALL PARKING SPACES SHALL BE NON STACKED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENT IN SECTION 10.7 0.1 OF THE UDC. AND NUMBER TWO, THAT ALL OPERATIONS SHALL COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS FOUND IN CHAPTER 13, ARTICLE 20, UM, OF THE AUTOMOTIVE RELATED BUSINESS REGULATIONS IN THE GRAND PRAIRIE CODE OF ORDINANCES. THAT'S THE CONCLUSION. THANK YOU, HANNAH. YEAH. UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR HANNAH WHILE WE HAVE HER AT THE PODIUM? THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. JULIE. DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS ON THIS SIDE? WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER CARD. UM, I'M SORRY. WE HAVE TWO SPEAKER CARDS. UM, THE APPLICANT, ROMAN MORGAN WISHES TO NOTE HIS SUPPORT. HE'S AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVEN'T. OKAY. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. MORGAN ON THIS MATTER? OKAY. AND THE SECOND ONE, SECOND CARD IS VICKI MC MCALLY, WHICH IS TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION. THIS ITEM. OKAY, MS. MCAL HERE. CAN YOU, UH, COME UP TO THE PODIUM PLEASE? I'M SORRY IF I MIS IT'S OKAY. I CLOSE. IF I PUT YOUR NAME, I, I APOLOGIZE TOO. IT WAS MY FAULT. . MY NAME IS VICKI CEL. I RESIDE AT 1 26 NORTHEAST 31ST, WHICH IS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE 1 25 AND 1 27, UH, BUSINESS. UM, I AM HERE TO OPPOSE THE SITUATION. I BELIEVE THAT IT WILL CREATE, UH, TRAFFIC ON OUR STREET THAT, UM, WE DON'T NEED. AND MAYBE RIFFRAFF BECAUSE OF THE AUTOS AND STUFF BEING THERE, YOU KNOW, UM, IT'S NOT A REAL GOOD PART OF TOWN. AND I MEAN, JUST IN THE LAST WEEK I HEARD SOMEBODY EMPTY THEIR GUN. AND, UH, I JUST BASICALLY, I'M HERE TO SAY THAT . OKAY. UM, SO I DO HAVE QUESTIONS, UH, ABOUT, I, I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT ARE THEY ACTUALLY GONNA BE SELLING CARS AND STUFF OUT OF, OUT OF THAT LOCATION? AND IS IT GONNA BE FROM THE MACAU SIDE OR IS IT GONNA BE FROM THE NORTHEAST 31ST SIDE? I CAN'T SPEAK TO YOUR SECOND QUESTION, BUT IF, UH, IF I UNDERSTOOD THE PRESENTATION CORRECTLY, THIS IS SALES ONLY BETWEEN LICENSED AUTO DEALERS, SO IT'S NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE AN AUDI. WILL THE CARS BE PARKED THERE? THERE WILL BE SOME ON PROPERTY FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND. YES. YEAH. AND SEE THE MAJORITY OF THEIR PARKING LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE FROM THE 31ST SIDE. NO ACT. IT'S ON THE MACARTHUR SIDE. OKAY. YES. OKAY. THERE WERE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE PARKING ANY VEHICLES ON THE 31ST STREET. OKAY. WILL THERE BE TRAFFIC IN AND OUT OF 31ST? NO, AND I CAN, I CAN SHOW YOU ON THE MAP IF, OKAY. THANK YOU, HANNAH. SO JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, SO THIS IS THE MATER BOULEVARD, ALL OF THEIR, ALL OF THEIR BUSINESSES ON THIS SIDE WHERE SUITE A IS. MM-HMM . MOUSE DOESN'T POINT THERE, BUT SUITE A AND MACARTHUR'S SIDE, THERE'S NONE OF THE BUSINESSES ALONG THE NORTHEAST 31ST SIDE, WHICH IS THE REAR. THIS IS 31ST AND THIS IS MACARTHUR. OKAY. AND IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS, I THINK I'M, I THINK I MAY. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE, MS. MC? I BELIEVE THAT'S IT. YOU, YOU FOR COMING, MA'AM. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO CHANGE MY MIND. I MAYBE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE APPLICANT TO COME UP TO RESPOND TO HER. IT'S NOT MR. UH, ROMAN MORGAN. UH, WHAT ADDRESS IS THAT? 5 2 5 FARTER ROAD, COMBINE TEXAS 7 5 1 5 9, UH, TO SPEAK TO HER? YEAH, ALL THIS STUFF STILL IS ON MACARTHUR'S SIDE. THERE'S NOTHING UNUSUAL. NOTHING WILL AFFECT HER ON HER SIDE OF THE STREET AT ALL. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. MORGAN? YOU GOT ONE? YEAH, GO AHEAD. JANIE. MR. CHAIR. UM, I DO HAVE A QUESTION. I KNOW ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS THEY WERE SAYING NOT TO HAVE STACKED, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'D BE ABLE TO WORK WITH NOT HAVING STACKED PARKING? [00:20:01] YES, MA'AM. AND I GUESS, OR MY QUESTION, I GUESS MIGHT BE FOR HANNAH, SO THERE'S ALREADY OTHER BUILDING, OTHER TENANTS IN THOSE OTHER BUILDINGS, OR IS THIS CORRECT? AND HE'S JUST TAKEN ONE SUITE? YES. STILL GOT THE SAME SUITE, THE SAME PARKING, EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW. SO YOU, YOU CURRENTLY RESIDE IN IT, I MEAN, CURRENTLY EXIST IN THERE? YES, MA'AM. OH, SO YOU'RE JUST CHANGING IT TO AUTO SALES. ALL I'M TRYING TO DO IS HANG A SIGN THAT SAYS RO RAM MOTOR SPORTS THAT, YOU KNOW, ALLOWS WHOLESALE ONLY, AND THAT'S IT. YEAH. JEANNIE, I, I THINK YOU WEREN'T AT THE BRIEFING, BUT THEY HAVE A EXISTING BUSINESS MINOR AUTO REPAIR. OH. AND HE WANTS TO DO BROKER TO BROKER OR DEALER TO DEALER SALES. DEALER TO DEALER. THE STATE OF TEXAS REQUIRES ME, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE, GO THROUGH THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE AND MAKE SURE IT SAYS I CAN HAVE A WHOLESALE LICENSE ONLY, AND THAT'S IT. THE ONLY REASON, SO HE'S EXISTING. OKAY. NOTHING MORE. GOOD QUESTIONS. ANYTHING ELSE? GREAT. UM, SO I'D LIKE TO, ANY OPINIONS ON THIS MATTER BY COMMISSION MEMBERS? I MEAN, JUST THAT MS. VICKY, IF SHE'S FINE WITH, I MEAN HE, THE FACT THAT HE'S EXISTING, HE'S JUST CHANGING, WOULD, LIKE, HE'S AUGMENTING MM-HMM . HE'S, HE'S ADDING TO WHAT HE'S DOING. WELL, YES. YEAH. CORRECT. UM, JUST FOR HER CONCERN. I KNOW SHE WAS IN OPPOSITION, BUT IF THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT SHE COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, BE OKAY WITH SINCE HE'S ALREADY THERE. MM-HMM . OKAY, MS. VICKY, THAT WAS IT. SO, UM, CAN I, SHE'S OKAY. SHE SAID SHE WAS OKAY, BUT I DON'T THINK WE CAN, I THINK SHE NEEDS TO COME UP FRONT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN, UH, TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE, THE SEATS THERE, BUT CAN I GET A MOTION ON THIS MATTER UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER PUBLIC DISCUSSION? OKAY. UH, I MOVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE ITEM SUP DASH 26 DASH ZERO THREE DASH 0 0 0 5 PER DRC RECOMMENDATIONS. I SECOND THAT. OKAY. UM, I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE THIS ITEM FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER AKARI AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER. UH, GONZALEZ. UH, DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? NO. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. [3. SUP-26-04-0007 - Specific Use Permit - Auto Driving School at 615 Small Hill St (City Council District 5). Specific Use Permit for an auto driving school in an existing commercial lease space on 0.76 acres. Lot 1, Block 1, Garrett Addition, City of Grand Prairie, Dallas County, zoned Commercial (C) District, and addressed as 615 Small Hill St, Suite 112 ] ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT REQUEST, SUP 2 6 0 4 0 0 0 7. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT 6 1 5 SMALL HILL STREET, SUITE 1 1 2. THE REQUEST IS A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT FOR AN AUTO DRIVING SCHOOL, WHICH REQUIRES AN SUP IN THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. HERE IS AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY SHOWN IN YELLOW. YOU CAN SEE THAT ON THE NORTHWEST AND EAST SIDES IS COMMERCIAL ZONING. AND ON THE SOUTH SIDE IS A PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND CENTRAL AREA ZONING. YOU KNOW WHERE I'M AT. UM, ON YOUR SCREEN YOU CAN SEE THE, UH, PROPOSED LOCATION IS HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE. THAT'S GONNA BE THE SUITE THAT THIS BUSINESS OPERATES FROM. THEY DO HAVE PLENTY OF PARKING TO PROVIDE PER THE CODE. UH, JUST A QUICK NOTE, THE PARKING DOES, UH, PROVIDE PARKING FOR THE OTHER TENANTS IN THIS SPACE AS WELL. OKAY. SO THEIR OPERATIONAL PLAN, THEY'RE A STATE LICENSE NON-COMMERCIAL DRIVING SCHOOL PROVIDING STANDARD DRIVER EDUCATION COURSES. THIS INCLUDES ONLINE DRIVER EDUCATION COURSES BEHIND THE WHEEL TRAINING AND AUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY ROAD TESTING WITH ROUTES APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. UM, THERE WILL BE SOME IN-PERSON CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, HOWEVER, THAT WILL BE LIMITED TO SIX STUDENTS PER CLASS WITH CLASSES SCHEDULED AND STAGGERED SHIFTS. UM, MOST OF THE OPERATIONS FOR THIS LOCATION WILL OCCUR BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, AND THE BUSINESS HOURS ARE MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. 8:00 AM TO 8:00 PM A QUICK NOTE, THE ROAD TESTING AND DRIVER TRAINING VEHICLES WILL NOT BE STORED AT THIS LOCATION. THEY WILL BE AT THE APPLICANT'S COPPEL LOCATION. STAFF SENT 13 NOTICES TO SURROUNDING PROPERTIES. WE'VE RECEIVED ZERO LETTERS IN SUPPORT, ZERO LETTERS IN OPPOSITION, AND THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITION. PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY, THE APPLICANT SHALL PROVIDE A SIGNED TENANT [00:25:01] LANDLORD SOLID WASTE VERIFICATION FORM TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENT INDICATING THAT THE APPLICANT APPLICANT HAS PERMISSION FROM THE PROPERTY OWNER TO USE THE PROPERTY'S EXISTING ONSITE DUMPSTER. IF A TENANT LANDLORD SOLID WASTE VERIFICATION FORM IS NOT PROVIDED, THE APPLICANT SHALL BE REQUIRED TO ESTABLISH A SEPARATE SOLID WASTE ACCOUNT WITH THE CITY'S SOLID WASTE PROVIDER, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF A MINIMUM TWO CUBIC YARD DUMPSTER VICE CHAIR, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US? COMMISSION ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE NO QUESTIONS, BUT THAT'S A GREAT PRESENTATION, AARON. OKAY. EXCELLENT. JULIE, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS? WE DO. UH, ZARO HOOK OR HAWK, UH, WISHES TO NOTE HIS SUPPORT, BUT DOESN'T WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEMS. NOTHING ELSE? OKAY. UM, ANY DISCUSSION BY THE MEMBERS? SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY STRAIGHT CASE. YES. UH, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S, UM, MINE. I'LL GO AHEAD AND OKAY. MAKE A MOTION, MR. CHAIR, OR, UH, I MOVE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE ITEM THREE SUP DASH 26 DASH ZERO FOUR DASH 0 0 0 7. SECOND PER DRC RECOMMENDATIONS SECOND. OKAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JULIE. SO I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE ITEM THREE PER DRC RECOMMENDATIONS BY COMMISSIONER ARI AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER OLEY. DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? OH, CAN I GET A VOTE? UH, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. SEVEN ZERO. UM, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, I JUST HAVE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT I AM GOING TO TEMPORARILY RECUSE MYSELF AND TURN THE CHAIR OVER TO MR. GONZALEZ. 'CAUSE I HAVE A CONFLICT ON THIS MATTER, AND I'LL COME BACK AFTER THAT'S DONE. WELCOME TO THE END. AND MR. FEDORA, JUST FOR THE RECORD, THE CONFLICT IS A PERSONAL CONFLICT. I'M SORRY. IT'S A PERSONAL CONFLICT. NO, NO, NO. DO IT. I'LL DO, LET'S DO IT RIGHT NOW. ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS [4. SUP-26-04-0008 - Specific Use Permit Review - SUP Review for Palace Poker (City Council District 1). Review SUP No. 1170A, a Specific Use Permit for Private Card Room, for compliance with SUP conditions, and modify, renew, or revoke if deemed appropriate based upon the review. Tract 31, Michael Farrans Survey, Abstract, No. 469, City of Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas, zoned PD-452, within IH 30 Corridor Overlay District, and addressed as 401 E Palace Pkwy ] SUP DASH 26 DASH ZERO FOUR DASH 0 0 0 8. IT IS AN SUP REVIEW FOR PALACE POKER, WHICH IS LOCATED AT 4 0 1 EAST PALACE PARKWAY. UH, THE REASON FOR THIS REQUEST IS A REVIEW OF SUP NUMBER 1 1 7 0 A AUTHORIZING A PRIVATE CARD ROOM FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SUP CONDITIONS TO MODIFY, RENEW, OR REVOKE IF DEEMED APPROPRIATE BASED UPON THE REVIEW. UM, THERE'S THE LOCATION IN YELLOW. YOU GUYS ARE KIND OF FAMILIAR WITH IT. HERE ARE THE ORIGINAL FLOOR PLAN FLOOR PLANS. UM, SO SOME BACKGROUND. MAY 7TH, 2024 CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A PD AMENDMENT TO CREATE A DEFINITION FOR, FOR A PRIVATE CARD ROOM, UM, AND AMEND THE USES PERMITTED WITHIN PD TWO 17 TO ALLOW A PRIVATE CARD ROOM WITH CITY COUNCIL. APPROVAL OF A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT ON MAY 21ST, 2024. CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT FOR A PRIVATE CARD ROOM REQUIRING A ONE YEAR REVIEW. JULY 18TH, 2025, A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY WAS ISSUED FOR THE PRIVATE CARD ROOM LOCATED AT 4 0 1 EAST PARKWAY, UH, EAST PALACE PARKWAY. AND ON DECEMBER 16TH, 2025, CITY COUNCIL RENEWED SUP NUMBER 1170 WITH MODIFICATIONS TO THE OPERATIONAL PLAN FOR A PRIVATE CARD ROOM REQUIRING A REVIEW OF THE SUP IN SIX MONTHS AND ESTABLISHING OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS. SO HERE WE ARE WITH THAT REVIEW. UH, SOME. SO THERE WAS 21 ORIGINAL, UM, CONDITIONS IN SUP NUMBER 1178. I'VE KIND OF SUMMARIZED THEM, COLLECTED THEM TOGETHER AND SUMMARIZED THEM. BUT THEY ARE IN YOUR, UM, AGENDA PACKET, BUT HERE THEY ARE. UM, OPERATIONS MAY RUN 24 7, BUT MUST STRICTLY COMPLY WITH ALL LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL CODES. UM, THE APPROVED OPERATIONAL FLOOR PLANS THE TABC REGULATIONS WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT ANY LEGAL VIOLATIONS OR UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES ARE GROUNDS FOR CITY COUNCIL REVIEW OR SUP REVOCATION ENTRY IS STRICTLY RESTRICTED TO VERIFIED MEMBERS WHO ARE 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WITH IDENTIFICATION CHECKED AT THE ENTRANCE AND MEMBERSHIP SUBJECT TO A NON-TRANSFERABLE ONE WEEK MINIMUM DURATION, CONTINUOUS ONSITE SECURITY PERSONNEL. A HIDDEN MULTI BUTTON SILENT PANIC ALARM SYSTEM TIED TO A POLICE RESPONSE. VISIBLE SECURITY SIGNAGE AND MANDATORY ANNUAL GRAND PRAIRIE POLICE [00:30:01] C-P-T-E-D SURVEYS ARE REQUIRED. UH, CONTINUING THE CONDITIONS THE FACILITY MUST MINIMIZE ACCESS, ACCESSIBLE CASH THROUGH A FORMAL CASH ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY AND A BOLTED DOWNTIME DELAYED DROP SAFE. A 24 7 HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM SYSTEM MUST COVER THE INTERIOR AND PARKING LOT, SPECIFICALLY CAPTURING CLEAR FACIAL FRAMES AND EXITS AND LEGIBLE LICENSE PLATES AT GATES WITH FOOTAGE, UM, ARCHIVED FOR 30 DAYS AND SHARED WITH POLICE UPON REQUESTS. AND THE LAST ONE, INDOOR SMOKING AND SMOKING WITHIN 25 FEET OF THE FACILITY ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED UNLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESSFULLY OBTAINS A-T-A-B-C PRIVATE CLUB LICENSE AND COMPLIANCE WITH ALL CORRESPONDING ORDINANCES. THE OPERATIONS, UM, AND COMPLIANCE REVIEW. SO PALACE POKER OPERATES AGAIN AT 4 0 1 EAST PA PALACE PARKWAY. UM, AND HERE'S THE DEFINITION OF A PRIVATE CARD ROOM THAT WAS ESTABLISHED. A PRIVATE PLACE WHERE MEMBERS GATHER TO PLAY CARD GAMES INCLUDING POKER, BILLIARDS, CHESS, OR OTHER SIMILAR GAMES. THEY ARE OPERATING 24 HOURS SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND THEIR MEMBERSHIP MINIMUM LENGTH IS ONE WEEK. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS CONSULTED AS PART OF THIS SIX MONTH REVIEW. UM, AND THEY REPORTED NO OPERATIONAL ISSUES. THEY HAD A INVITED WALKTHROUGH OF THE ESTABLISHMENT, UM, AND THE DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED ZERO REPORTS OF CONCERNS OR PROBLEMS AT THE LOCATION. AND STAFF DID CONFIRM THAT ONGOING COMMUNICATION WITH THE PALACE POKER TEAM HAS BEEN CONSISTENT AND EFFECTIVE. THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITION THAT ALL OTHER EXISTING CONDITIONS FROM THE SUP APPROVED ON DECEMBER 16TH, 2025 SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT. THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. YES. QUESTIONS FOR MS. MR. GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU MS. DOER. ANY SPEAKER CARDS? UH, JONATHAN TOWNLEY WISHES TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM. HE ALSO NOTES THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, HE WILL SPEAK. SO, AND THIS IS THE APPLICANT TOOLEY? I, I BELIEVE SO, YES. OKAY. JONATHAN TULLE. SORRY, JONATHAN TULLEY, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. JONATHAN TOOLEY? I, NO. WE HAVE NO FURTHER CARDS FOR THIS ONE. EXCELLENT. LET ME SEE WHO THIS BELONGS TO. IT'S JOHN. I THINK IT'S JOHN. VERY GOOD. MAKE FOR A MOTION. JUST MAKE A MOTION. WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? MM-HMM . UH, I'D LIKE TO MOVE, UH, TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE ITEM NUMBER FOUR SUP DASH 26 DASH ZERO FOUR DASH 0 0 0 8. UH, PER DRC. RECOMMENDATIONS. I SECOND. THANK YOU. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE THERE FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER ARI. COMMISSIONER CHAPMAN. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION BEFORE WE TAKE A VOTE? GOOD. LET'S TAKE A VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS. OKAY, IT PASSES. MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. NEXT CASE. [5. ZON-26-04-0009 - Zoning Change - 1818 Mobile Road (City Council District 6). Zoning Change from Agricultural District to Single Family-Five Residential District on 0.43 acres. Tract 47, Matthew Rd MH EST, Thomas J Tone Survey, Abstract 1460, Page 225, City of Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas, zoned Agriculture District, and addressed as 1818 Mobile Road] SIX. AND CHAIRMAN FOR DCO. JUST FOR THE RECORD, YOUR PERSONAL CONFLICT WAS YOUR MEMBER OF THE CLUB, CORRECT? YES. YEAH. 'CAUSE YOU CAN'T EAT A HAMBURGER THERE WITHOUT BEING A MEMBER. THAT'S . JULIE, IS THAT CONSIDERED A SIX ONE? THAT'S THE TRUTH VERSUS, OR A SIX? OH, IT'S SIX. OH, OKAY. JUST CONFIRMING. THANK YOU. MR. GONZALEZ? YES, SIR. HEY, JUNE. THANK YOU. YES. GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. THE ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A ZONE CHANGE REQUEST, ZON 26 0 4 0 0 0 9. THIS IS A ZONE CHANGE FOR THE 1818 MOBILE ROAD. CURRENTLY, THE 1818 MOBILE ROAD IS ZONED AGRICULTURE. THE, UM, THE APPLICANT WISHES TO CONSTRUCT A SINGLE FAMILY HOME AND IT REQUESTING A ZONE CHANGE TO SINGLE FAMILY FIVE DISTRICT. AGAIN, LITTLE BACKGROUND. THIS GENERAL AREA, UM, WAS ANNEXED INTO THE CITY IN THE 19 SIX, UM, 1969. ALL THESE HOMES AT THAT TIME PRE-EXISTED AND WERE NOT CONNECTED TO CITY'S WATER AND SEW. SO JUST, WE JUST WANTED TO KNOW, UM, FOR THE RECORD THAT THE LOCATION IS LESS THAN 300 FEET FROM THE EXISTING WATER [00:35:01] AND SEWER LINES. UM, THE APPLICANT MAY BE REQUIRED TO EXTEND THE WATER AND WASTE WATER SERVICE TO SERVE THIS HOME. AND THIS DETERMINATION WILL BE MADE BY ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES DEPARTMENT. THE APPLICANT IS FULLY AWARE OF THIS REQUIREMENT. AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT IS LACKING IN THE AREA. THEY ARE LACKING SEWER AND WATER SOURCE AND THEY, UH, DO NOT HAVE ADEQUATE ACCESS AS THIS IS NOT PART OF THE CITY'S RIGHT OF WAY. IF THE ZONE CHANGES REQUESTED TO BE APPROVED, THE, UM, APPLICANT MUST COMPLY WITH THE SINGLE FAMILY FIVE STANDARD FOR BUILDING A HOME AND DOING A PLAT FOR THIS PROPERTY. AGAIN, THIS GENERAL AREA, WE HAVE HAD, UM, MULTIPLE REQUESTS IN THE PAST. SO FAR, CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED ABOUT 10 ZONE CHANGE REQUESTS IN THIS GENERAL AREA TO ALLOW A CONSTRUCTION, BUT A SINGLE FAMILY HOME. THERE'S NOT REALLY A, UH, SHORT TERM SOLUTION THAT THE STAFF HAS, BUT WE ARE CONTINUING TO, UH, MAKE OBSERVATION IN THIS AREA TO SEE WHAT THE LONG TERM SOLUTION COULD BE. THE STAFF, UM, SUPPORT THIS REQUEST, NOTING THE FOLLOWING. UH, ONE, THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP DESIGNATION OF THE LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL, AND TWO, THAT ANY DEVELOPMENT, UM, ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT WILL HELP PROVIDE NEW HOUSING AND MAY IMPROVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEFICIENCIES IN THE AREA. UM, SHOULD THE ZONE CHANGE BE APPROVED, THE STAFF RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS THAT ONE APPLICANT SHALL OBTAIN APPROVAL OF A PLA AND FILE THE SET PLAT WITH THE COUNTY BEFORE IT ISSUES ANY BUILDING PERMITS. UM, THE APPLICANT SHALL CONNECT TO THE CITY'S WATER AND SOURCE SERVICE IF REQUIRED BY THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEPARTMENT AT THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENT. THIS CONCLUDES THAT PRESENTATION. I BELIEVE THE APPLICANT IS HERE IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF AT THIS TIME, FOLKS? ANY QUESTIONS FOR JUNE? YEP. YES. THANK YOU. JUNE? YES? MM-HMM . JUST A QUICK QUESTION, SIR, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION. THIS PROPERTY SEEMS TO BE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS, YOU KNOW, UM, AND, UH, WHY WOULDN'T THE CITY AGAIN PROVIDE JUST A BASIC WATER AND SEWER? IS THAT JUST RIGHT? I BELIEVE THERE WAS A STUDY DONE ACTIVELY BY MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS A FEW YEARS AGO. WE ENDED UP CONCLUDING THAT IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT. UM, SO AGAIN, AS RASHAD HAS MENTIONED, I THINK, UM, RASHAD HAS MENTIONED THIS IN THE LAST YEAR, AROUND APRIL OR MARCH TIME WHEN WE'RE APPROVING 1822, THAT CITI IS EXPLORING THE OPTION OF MAYBE POSSIBLY APPLYING FOR A GRANT. HOWEVER, THERE'S NOT, IT'S JUST CAUSED A LOT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT DEVELOPED THAT WAY. AND WE MAY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE OPTION OF POSSIBLY APPLYING FOR GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE, UH, AREA IMPROVEMENT. HOWEVER, STAFF IS MAKING ACTIVE EFFORT TO LET WHOEVER IS TRYING TO BUY THE PROPERTY KNOW OF THESE CONDITIONS UPFRONT JUST SO THAT THEY DON'T GO BLINDSIDED. BUT AGAIN, UM, MOST OF THE HOMES HERE WERE SERVED ON, UH, WELL AND A PRIVATE SEPTIC SYSTEM. SO, UH, IF THEY'RE NOT REQUIRED TO CONNECT, THEY MAY CONTINUE TO APPLY AND RENEW THEIR LICENSE WITH THE STATE AND CONTINUE THAT. IT'S JUST THAT WHEN THEY'RE CLOSE TO AN EXISTING WATER SOURCE DUE TO CONTAMINATION, YOU KNOW, WE MAY REQUIRE THEM TO CONNECT TO THE CITY SYSTEM SO THAT THERE'S NO, UH, YOU KNOW, SIPPING OUT OF THE SEPTIC SYSTEM INTO OUR WATER SOURCE AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, IS MY UNDERSTANDING. SIR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. OF COURSE. FOR EXPLAINING OF ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF, FRANK? IT'S A, IT'S A PROBLEM THAT I HAVE TOO, AND I THINK IT JUST COMES DOWN TO THE, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT JUNE IS TALKING ABOUT TO DO THAT. MM-HMM . IS NEVER GONNA BE RECOUPED BY THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT WE WOULD COLLECT ON THAT IN TIME. IT'S, UH, IT'S A SHAME, BUT, UH, I'M GLAD THE APPLICANT'S HERE. YES. ANYTHING ELSE FOR JUNE BEFORE SHE STEPS DOWN? ALL RIGHT. YEAH. THANK YOU, JUNE. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. UM, SORRY. UM, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS? YES, ADRIAN. MONIQUE WISHES TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM, UH, ADRIAN? YES. MR. YEP. CAN YOU PLEASE GO UP TO THE PODIUM AND GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS? MY NAME IS, UH, ADRIAN MANRIQUEZ. MY ADDRESS IS 1128 BEACH VIEW STREET, UH, DALLAS, TEXAS 7 5 2 1 8. AND LIKE MRS. JUNE. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN. UH, AS WE DO, WE SEE THE GROWTH HERE IN GRAND PRAIRIE. UM, MY CLIENT AS WELL, IS HE TRYING TO DEVELOP THE AREA. THERE'S BEEN NEIGHBORS ON THE SAME STREET HAVE ASKED ME TOO, ABOUT THE PROCESS OF THEM TAPPING INTO THE WATER AND IN THE FUTURE IN THE SEWER SYSTEM. SO I TOLD 'EM ONCE WE, I GET THE APPROVAL, I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP. THEY CAN GO FROM THERE. I FEEL LIKE IT'S A DOMINO EFFECT IF ONCE WE GET THIS GOING AND THEY SEE A PROCESS GOING INTO PLACE [00:40:01] THAT I FEEL LIKE MAYBE THE NEIGHBORS WILL FOLLOW AND THEN BENEFITING Y'ALL FOR THE FUTURE, GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO GET ON THERE. I AGREE. I, I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING MYSELF THAT IF YOU DID BUILD WATER AND SEWER OUT TO THAT PARCEL MM-HMM . THE PERSON ON THE NEXT SIDE MIGHT SAY, IT'S NOT THAT EXPENSIVE FOR ME TO BE CONNECTED AND, AND DO THAT. AND MAYBE THIS WILL BE A, THIS HAS BEEN A EVER SINCE I, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS EXISTED UNTIL I STARTED SERVING ON THIS BOARD, BUT, UM, THAT THIS AREA OF GRAND PRAIRIE EXISTED, UH, WITHOUT WATER AND SEWER FROM THE CITY. SO I HOPE IF YOU DO, UH, BUILD THAT, I HOPE THAT DOES ENCOURAGE OTHER DEVELOPMENT. YEAH. AND I APPRECIATE YOU DOING THAT. ARE IS YOU, ARE YOU DOING THIS FOR THE CLIENT TO BUILD IT AND FLIP IT OR IS IT HE PLANNING ON LIVING THERE? NO, HE'S GONNA BE LIVING THERE. HE'S GONNA RETIRE THERE. OKAY. YEAH, HE ACTUALLY HAS A HOME IN THE SAME AREA, UM, IN GRAND PRAIRIE. SO HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE THERE, HIM AND HIS WIFE AND THEN THE OTHER HOUSE HE'S GONNA GIVE TO HIS KIDS. NICE. YEAH, SO HE'S A FORMER RESIDENT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THANK YOU FOR COMING, SIR. THANK YOU. NO FURTHER CARDS FOR THIS ITEM. THANKS. AS I STATED, I'VE, I'VE, THIS IS, UH, WAS ALWAYS A SURPRISE TO ME THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE WATER AND SEWER THERE, BUT I'M HAPPY THAT THIS GUY IS, AND HE KNOWS GOING IN THAT HE'S GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT. IT COULD BE A SPARK TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT DOWN THERE, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE A BOON FOR THE CITY AND ATTRACT EVEN MORE PEOPLE. BUT I, I THINK IT'S JUST A TESTAMENT AS TO HOW MUCH PEOPLE WANNA MOVE TO GRAND PRAIRIE TO FIND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. SO I WANNA, I'M GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS FOR, UH, FOR THOSE REASONS, BUT, UM, IS THIS ANYBODY'S, WHOSE DISTRICT IS THIS? SIX? KENNY, DO YOU WANNA, MR. PRESLEY, DO YOU MIND, DO, DO YOU HAVE ANY DISCUSSION, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? NO DISCUSSIONS WITH THAT. OKAY. DO YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION? YES, SIR. UM, MR. CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON, UM, ITEM NUMBER FIVE ZON 26 0 4 0 0 0 9 ZONING CHANGE AND MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE ACCORDING TO THE DRC RECOMMENDATIONS. SECONDED. THANK YOU. UH, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY COMMISSIONER PRESLEY TO APPROVE, UM, ITEM NUMBER FIVE PER DRC RECOMMENDATIONS. AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ. DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? ALL IN FAVOR. CAN YOU PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND? MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. GOOD EVENING AGAIN. [Items 6 & 7] UM, THE ITEM NUMBER SIX AND SEVEN ARE A JOINT ITEM AND I'LL PRESENT THEM TOGETHER. UH, BEFORE I START, I DID MENTION THAT UH, WE HAVE SENT OUT 130, UH, PROPERTY OWNER NOTIFICATION LETTERS. WE DID RECEIVE 13 LETTERS IN OPPOSITION, HOWEVER, ONLY SIX OF THEM WERE FROM UNIQUE ADDRESSES, MEANING THERE WERE SOME DUPLICATE ADDRESSES. UM, THE APPLICANT WANTED TO NOTE THAT THEY DID, UH, PROVIDE THREE LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS. HOWEVER, THOSE WERE NOT FROM THE, UH, NOTIFICATION AREA. ALL THOSE LETTERS THAT WERE SUBMITTED BY THE RESIDENT AND THE APPLICANT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE COUNCIL PACKET. TYPICALLY, SOME LETTERS COME AFTER THE PACKET'S POSTED, SO WE USUALLY NOTICE THAT, UM, INCLUDE THAT IN THE FINAL PACKET. HOWEVER, I JUST WANTED TO LIKE, YOU KNOW THAT, UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU GENERALLY LIKE TO READ PEOPLE'S COMMENTS. I HAVE, UM, COPIED LITERALLY THEIR ADDRESSES IN COMMENT JUST FOR YOUR CONVENIENCES. SO I'LL PASS THESE AROUND WHILE I START SO YOU CAN SHARE. SO MAYBE READ THEM PASS NEXT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. THANK YOU, JUNE. THANK YOU. SO IN SUMMARY, GENERALLY THEIR, UH, THEIR CONCERNS ARE FOR TRAFFIC INCREASE NOISE AND COMPATIBILITY WITH THE NEIGHBORING RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES. SO THE FIRST REQUEST IS A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT, THE CURRENT FUTURE LANE USE MAP DESIGNATION. NOTE THIS AREA AS COMMERCIAL OFFICE RETAIL. THE APPLICANT WISHES TO CHANGE THE FUTURE LANE USE MAP TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL TO, UH, ALIGN WITH THE ZONE CHANGE REQUEST. HERE'S THE FUTURE ZONING, UH, LANE USE MAP SHOWING THE COMMERCIAL RETAIL OFFICE DESIGNATION, WHICH THEY WISH TO CHANGE TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL. AS SHOWN, STEPH IS UNABLE TO SUPPORT THE REQUEST BECAUSE THE PROPOSED USE IS NOT ALIGNED WITH THE FUTURE LANE USE MAP. AND THE ITEM NUMBER SEVEN IS THE ZONE CHANGE CONCEPT PLAN REQUEST FOR THE FORUM INDUSTRIAL PARK. SO THE APPLICANT WISHES TO CHANGE THE ZONING OF PD 77, WHICH CURRENTLY HAS A COMMERCIAL BASE, UM, ZONING TO A PD FOUR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USES. HERE'S GENERALLY KIND OF THE AREA. YOU CAN SEE IT'S, THIS IS THE 360. THIS IS MAYFIELD, THIS IS NORTH ACTUALLY. SO THERE ARE SOUTH OF MAYFIELD, WEST OF GREAT SOUTH WEST PARKWAY. [00:45:01] UH, THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, UM, TREES AND BUFFERS BETWEEN THE PROPOSED LAND AND THE, I GUESS, EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE SOUTH. THIS KIND OF SHOWS A LITTLE BIT BETTER. UH, WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. THE APPLICANT WISHES TO PROPOSE, UH, MAINLY THREE OFFICE WAREHOUSE TYPE OF BUILDINGS, UH, WITH NO SPECIFIC TENANTS IDENTIFIED AT THIS TIME. UH, BUT THIS IS GENERALLY WHAT'S NEEDED IN THE INDUSTRY. THEY ARE SHOWING TRUCK DOCKS, UM, DUE TO SOME LIMITATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS ALLOWABLE IN THIS AREA BECAUSE OF THE FLIGHT PATH RESTRICTION ON THE BUILDING HEIGHTS AND TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT CAN BE LOCATED. THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED TO ALLOW A, UM, SMALLER SIZE WAREHOUSE WITH, UM, SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF OUTSIDE STORAGE. SO THIS WAS THE CONSEQUENCE THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROVIDED, WHICH, UM, INCLUDED A VARIANCE FOR OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENT. THE APPLICANT HAS WORKED WITH STAFF SINCE THEN AND HAS BEEN MAKING SOME REVISIONS, UM, TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VARIANCES FROM FOUR VARIANCE REQUESTS TO ONLY TWO, WHICH I'LL COVER LATER. THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE, WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON. THEY'RE WORKING ON, UH, ADDING SOME OF THE OPEN SPACES AND TRAILS AS, UM, REQUIRED BY THE APPENDIX X. I JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT THIS, UH, DRIVEWAY WAS APPROVED AND REVIEWED BY STAFF. AGAIN, UM, WE'RE JUST GENERALLY TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE POSSIBLE CHANGES BECAUSE THE APPLICANT IS WILLING TO COMPLY WITH THE, UH, APPENDIX X REQUIREMENTS. HERE ARE SOME CONCEPT ELEVATIONS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. UM, THEY WANT TO, UH, CLASSIFY THEMSELVES AS A CLASS, A BUSINESS PART. UM, THEY HAVE A MODERN STYLE LOOKING BUILDINGS. THIS COMPLIES WITH APPENDIX X REQUIREMENT. HERE ARE SOME ELEVATIONS, AGAIN, THE ORIGINAL REVIEW. UM, THAT STEP DETERMINED THAT HE ACTUALLY NEEDED FOUR VARIANCES. THE APPLICANT HAS, UM, REVISED THEIR CONCEPT PLAN HAS REQUESTED TO REDUCE THE, UH, AMOUNT OF VARIANCES. UM, ONE, THEY'RE GOING TO COMPLY WITH THE OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENT AND PROVIDE A TRAILS, UM, GARDENS AND OTHER WATER FEATURES AS REQUIRED. UM, THEY HAVE, UM, MEASURED THE DISTANCES AND CLARIFY THAT THEY DO NOT NEED THE SECOND VARIANCE BECAUSE THEY WILL BE, UM, MINIMUM 25 FEET, UH, FROM THE RIGHT OF WAY ALONG THE MAYFIELD ROAD. UM, THEY'LL HAVE A 30 FOR LANDSCAPE BUFFER. SO THEREFORE THEY DO NOT NEED THE SECOND VARIANCE. THE VARIANCE, UM, THEY ARE STILL REQUESTING IS A MAXIMUM PARKING. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE PARKING SHALL NOT EXCEED 115% OF THE REQUIRED PARKING TO ALLOW NO PARKING MAXIMUM. AGAIN, BECAUSE THEIR LAND USE IS BASED ON ASSUMPTION, UM, STAFF DOES NOT REALLY SEE A GREAT CONCERN ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR VARIANCE. REQUEST. NUMBER FOUR, THE NO LANDSCAPE ISLANDS. SO APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE TO THE REQUIREMENT FOR LANDSCAPING ISLAND IF TRUCK COURT IS CONVERTED TO AUTO PARKING TO ALLOW THE AREA TO BE CONVERTED INTO PARKING SPACES WITHOUT LANDSCAPE ISLANDS. WHAT THEY MEAN BY THAT, AGAIN, IS, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE PARKING AREAS TYPICALLY ARE BROKEN APART BY THESE ADDITIONAL TREE ISLANDS. AS YOU PROBABLY SEE IN A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, RETAIL CENTERS. WHEN YOU GO PARK, ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT AWAY, YOU SEE HOW IT'S BROKEN BY THESE PARKING ISLANDS. UM, WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS, LET'S SAY IF ONE OF THE TENANT, UH, CAME IN AND THEY SAID, WE DON'T REALLY NEED A TRUCK OP PART AS PART OF OUR OPERATION, BUT BECAUSE WE ARE MORE OF AN OFFICE, UH, TYPE OF USE, WE ACTUALLY NEED MORE PARKING TO MEET THE BUILDING CODE. UH, CAN WE STRIPE SOME PARKING SPACES HERE AND CONVERTED TO PARKING? SO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS, AT THAT POINT, TRYING TO, UM, CARVE OUT THE EXISTING PAVEMENT TO ADD LANDSCAPING MIGHT NOT BE AS EFFECTIVE AS WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY. SO THEY'RE SAYING, HEY, WOULD YOU MIND GIVING US THAT VARIANCE UPFRONT SO THAT IF THE CHANGES ARE NEEDED IN THE FUTURE, WE DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK IN, UM, DO ADDITIONAL WORK FOR THAT AREA. OKAY. SO WITH THIS SAID, STAFF IS UNABLE TO SUPPORT THE ZONE CHANGE BECAUSE THE PROPOSED USE DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE FUTURE LANE USE MAP. IF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION CHOOSE TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST, STEPH WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL. THERE ARE TOTAL OF EIGHT CONDITIONS, ONE THAT THE APPLICANT SHALL MEET THE APPENDIX X REQUIREMENT FOR OPEN SPACE WITH AMENITIES. THE OPEN SPACES, UH, OPEN SPACE AREA AND AMENITIES SHALL BE SHOWN ON THE SITE PLAN AND LANDSCAPE PLAN. DURING THE SITE PLAN OF PROTOCOL PROCESS. IF THE SITE PLAN IS PHASED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, THE OPEN SPACE AREA AND AMENITY SHALL BE SHOWN AND PROVIDED FOR, UH, WITH THE FIRST PHASE, A DRIVEWAY OFF OF FORUM DRIVE SHALL BE PROHIBITED AND SHALL BE REMOVED FROM THE PROPOSED CONCEPT PLAN TO PREVENT TRAFFIC INTO THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. NUMBER THREE, THE APPLICANT SHALL PROVIDE A NOISE STUDY FOR REVIEW AND APPROVE, UM, AND APPROVED BY THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL [00:50:01] QUALITIES DEPARTMENT PRIOR TO SITE PLAN BEING PRESENTED TO THE, UH, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. AGAIN, THE APPLICANT HAS PROVIDED A DOCUMENTATION ON THE NOISE STUDY. UH, SOMETIMES WE JUST LIKE TO HAVE THEM, UH, IDENTIFY MORE DETAILED TENANTS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH TO CLARIFY THAT. SO THIS JUST ALLOWS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH TO REVIEW ONE MORE TIME. FOR THE DUMPSTER ENCLOSURE, THE GIANT SHALL BE APPROVED BY THE SOLID WASTE AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENT PRIOR TO SITE PLAN BEING PRESENTED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. NUMBER FIVE, OUTSIDE STORAGE OR OUTSIDE STORAGE ACCESSORY USE SHALL REQUIRE A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT. NUMBER SIX, THE OUTSIDE STORAGE SHALL MEET THE SETBACK AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS PER ARTICLE EIGHT OF THE UDC. NUMBER SEVEN, ALL PARKING AREA SHALL MEET THE MINIMUM LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING INTERNAL PARKING LOT L SCHEMES BEING STANDARD NUMBER EIGHT, DEVELOPMENT SHALL COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE RESULTING FROM THE AIRPORT LOCATE NORTH OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. THE APPLICANT HAS REACHED OUT TO THE AIRPORT AND HAS PROVIDED A, A LETTER FROM THE AIRPORT SAYING, BECAUSE WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IS A NON-RESIDENTIAL USE, UH, AIRPORT DOES NOT NECESSARILY OPPOSE THIS DEVELOPMENT. THEY'RE IN SUPPORT OF NON-RESIDENTIAL USE BEING HERE. UM, THIS CONCLUDES THAT PRESENTATION. AGAIN, THE APPLICANT IS HERE AND HAS PREPARED HIS OWN PRESENTATION BEFORE I ALLOW HIM TO SPEAK. UM, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF AT THIS TIME? UH, I THINK COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ HAS A QUESTION. YES, YES. YES SIR. THANK YOU JENNY. MM-HMM . I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, CURIOUS ON THE SETBACK ON THE SOUTH SIDE, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY GREEN SPACE OR ARE THEY BUILDING RIGHT ONTO, I MEAN, I THINK THERE HAS TO BE SOME, THERE IS SOME BUFFER THAT'S CURRENTLY EXISTING. I COULD TELL YEAH, THAT EXACTLY ON THAT ONE. YEAH. BUT AGAIN, UM, THEY ARE ONLY REQUIRED TO PROVIDE, I BELIEVE A VERY SMALL BUFFER AT THE SOUTH. SO IT IS STILL FAIRLY CLOSE, BUT MAYBE THE APPLICANT HAS THE DIMENSIONS. I'LL TRY TO LOOK WHILE THE APPLICANT IS PRESENTING. MM-HMM . THANK YOU, JUNE. OF COURSE. YEP. PLEASE. UM, MS. JUNE, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'RE THE RIGHT PERSON I NEED TO ASK MM-HMM . BUT, UM, WITH THIS BEING RIGHT ACROSS FROM TRADER'S VILLAGE YES. HOW IS THE TRAFFIC THERE STILL ON THE WEEKEND? YES, SO I, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT TRAFFIC FLOW IS PRETTY HIGH ON MAYFIELD BECAUSE PEOPLE TEND TO USE JUST THAT ENTRANCES. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE OTHER ENTRANCES, PEOPLE JUST FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE . SO AGAIN, THERE IS DEFINITELY SOME WEEKEND TRAFFIC CONCERNS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PRESENT. UM, AS FAR AS THIS DEVELOPMENT, WE'RE NOT SURE IN TERMS OF OPERATIONAL IF THERE ARE MORE WEEK DAYS OR IF THERE'S A WEEKEND. SO I'M SURE THE APPLICANT, UH, CAN ADD ON TO THAT IF THERE'S SOME, UM, STATEMENTS THAT THEY CAN MAKE. MM-HMM. COMMISSIONER, LEMME CHIME IN ON THAT. UM, SO WE DID TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, UM, IN JUNE. THAT LAST POINT THAT SHE MADE, UM, IS CORRECT THAT THIS TYPE OF OPERATION IS TYPICALLY A MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WITH NOT A LOT OF TRAFFIC ON THE WEEKENDS. TRADER'S VILLAGE IS CENTERED AROUND FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY MORNINGS, UH, PRETTY HEAVILY. SO WE DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S GONNA BE ANY SIGNIFICANT INTERACTION BETWEEN THESE USES. SO WE FELT COMFORTABLE MOVING IT FORWARD, UM, WITH THAT IN MIND. OKAY. CAN I ASK MR. MR. HUNTSMAN, CAN I ASK, JUST ASK YOU A QUESTION THOUGH? SURE. BECAUSE I THOUGHT IN THE PRE-MEETING BRIEFING, UM, THE LANDLORD WANTED COMPLETE FLEXIBILITY AS TO WHEN PEOPLE COULD WORK. MM-HMM . WHY, WHY ARE YOU THINK, WHY ARE YOU ASSUMING THAT IT'S GONNA BE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NINE TO FIVE? SO TYPICALLY WITH THESE WAREHOUSING PROJECTS, THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT THEY'RE GENERATING IS NOT REALLY COMMISERATE WITH THE SIZE OF THE BUILDING ITSELF. SO IF THIS WAS LIKE A COMMERCIAL USE, WE'D BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONCERNED WITH HOW MUCH TRAFFIC'S GONNA BE GENERATING, UM, IF THEY WERE OPERATING ON THE WEEKENDS. BUT IN THIS CASE, THE OPERATIONS TYPICALLY SPREAD OUT MORE THROUGHOUT THE DAY, MORE THAN YOUR TYPICAL, UM, PPPK AND PPM. SO THERE MAY BE SOME INTERACTION THERE, BUT WE DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE A SIGNIFICANT INTERACTION. YEAH. BUT HE, HE WANTS COMPLETE UNFETTERED ABILITY TO RENT TO WHATEVER KIND OF TENANT HE WANTS. SURE. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT YOUR ASSUMPTION'S GONNA BE VALID? WE DON'T KNOW FOR, FOR CERTAIN, BUT IF WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT IT'S GENERATING COMPARED TO HOW MUCH TRADERS VILLAGE GENERATES, WHAT'S THE MARGINAL IMPACT THERE? WE FEEL LIKE IT'S GONNA BE LOW ENOUGH THAT THIS USE IS VIABLE USE FOR THIS PROPERTY AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING MORE INTENSE LIKE MULTIFAMILY COMMERCIAL AND, AND SO ON. THOSE WOULD HAVE A MUCH MORE SEVERE IMPACT THAT OVERALL TRADERS VILLAGE OPERATION. OKAY. I HAVE A JUNE, I HAVE A QUESTION. YES. EITHER FOR YOU OR RASHAD. SO THIS IS SIX AND SEVEN WOULD BE VOTED ON TOGETHER IF WE WANTED TO, CORRECT? YES, SIR. OR COULD BE AND WE WOULD BE CHANGING THE FLU AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO BE CHANGING THE ZONING. YES, SIR. WHAT'S THE CURRENT ZONING THERE? RIGHT NOW IT IS [00:55:01] PD 77. SO PD 77 ACTUALLY ORIGINALLY COVERED A LOT OF AREAS. HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR PARCEL, UH, HAD A LANGUAGE SHOWN COMMERCIAL. SO WE BELIEVE THAT THE INTENT WAS FOR COMMERCIAL USES AND WOULD BE ALLOWED UNDER THE COMMERCIAL, THE, UNDER THE CURRENT PD IF THEY WERE PROPOSING A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEP, OF COURSE. ANYTHING ELSE? OH, UH, YOU HAD A LOT OF MM-HMM . DRC RECOMMENDATIONS? YES. MM-HMM . UH, HAVE YOU, IS THE, UH, I'M NOT, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GONNA, HOW THIS IS GONNA SHAKE OUT, BUT HAS THE APPLICANT, ARE THEY COMFORTABLE WITH ALL OF YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS? SO THE ONLY ONE ITEM THAT THE APPLICANT WISHED TO REMOVE FROM STAFF RECOMMENDATION THAT I AM AWARE OF AT THIS, UH, THUS FAR BASED ON APPLICANT'S FEEDBACK, WHICH I APPRECIATE PROVIDED THIS MORNING, IS THAT THEY, UH, WISH TO REMOVE THE CONDITION FIVE, WHICH MEANS THAT THE, UH, FAR EASTERN SIDE WITH A SMALLER BUILDING WITH THE OUTSIDE STORAGE, INSTEAD OF GOING STRAIGHT INTO SITE PLAN, IF, UM, THEY WILL HAVE TO DO SUP SLASH SITE PLAN, SIMILAR TO OTHER INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS WHERE WE'VE SEEN WHEN THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, LARGE STORAGE AREAS OR AUTO AUTOMOTIVE RELATED USES THAT, UM, IT HAS TO GO THROUGH SUP AND SITE PLAN, WHICH IS ANOTHER ZONING TYPE OF REQUEST THAT CAN BE DISCRETIONARY FROM THE CITY COUNCIL. THE APPLICANT WISHES THAT USED TO BE ALLOWED BY RIGHT PER CONSENT PLAN SO THAT WHEN, IF THE PD IS APPROVED, THAT THEY CAN GO STRAIGHT INTO SITE PLAN. SO WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING IS, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO BE APPROVED WITH THE CON STAFF CONDITION FIVE REMOVED. OKAY. DOES THAT SUMMARIZE? YEAH, IT DOES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ONE MORE? YES, SIR. MS. MM-HMM . IN TERMS OF, IS THE APPLICANT AWARE OF THE PROHIBITIVE LAND USES, YOU KNOW, AND IS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT? I'M JUST, SO APPLICANT HAS PROVIDED A, THEIR OWN PROPOSED PD OF REMOVING CERTAIN LAND USES FROM THIS PD, WHICH WILL BE INCLUDING THE, UH, UH, CONSIDERATION. SO AGAIN, I THINK THEY'RE MAINLY FOCUSED ON, WITH EXCEPTION OF THE OUTSIDE STORAGE, ALL THE LAND USES THAT ARE ALLOWED BY RIGHT IN THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL, WHICH IS NOT CURRENTLY ALLOWED BY THE PD 77. OKAY. THANK YOU. JUNE? YES, SIR. THANK YOU. JUNE. MM-HMM . UH, JULIE, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS? WE HAVE SEVERAL SPEAKER CARDS. UH, RYAN WYRICK, WHICH IS TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM. THE APPLICANT. YEAH. MR. RI ICK. I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO SPEAK YET. UH, WE CAN GO AFTER THE PETITION. OKAY. WHO'S GIVING THE PRESENTATION? WHAT'S YOUR NAME? MILES TERRY AND MILES TERRY WISHES TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM. OKAY, MR. WYRICK, I'LL CALL YOU BACK UP AFTER. OKAY. OKAY, THANK YOU JUNIOR. OKAY, OF COURSE. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. UM, MILES TERRY ADDRESS IS 48 90 ALPHA ROAD, SUITE 100 IN DALLAS, TEXAS, 7 5 2 4 4. UH, I'M WITH JACKSON SHAW, THE DEVELOPER OF THIS PROPOSED PROJECT. I'D JUST FIRST LIKE TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US. I'LL, UH, KINDA WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROJECT AND THEN SOME OF THE OUTCOMES THAT WE'D EXPECT FROM IT. UM, SO AS A REAL QUICK HERE, SO WE, UH, AGAIN, JACKSON SHAW, WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR 54 YEARS BASED HERE IN DALLAS, PRIVATELY OWNED. WE HAVE THREE MAIN PRODUCT LINES THAT WE DO. THE BUSINESS PARKS IN. INDUSTRIAL IS ONE BIG PIECE OF THAT. THE OTHER IS HOSPITALITY AND THEN RESIDENTIAL LOT DEVELOPMENT. YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE HERE. ONE OF 'EM IS THE AC FORT WORTH AND DOWNTOWN, UH, FORT WORTH. UH, WE STILL OWN AND OPERATE THAT HOTEL. THANK YOU. JUNE. SO SORRY. OKAY. UM, YOU CAN SEE TWO OTHERS. OUR RECENT BUSINESS PARKS WE'VE DONE, AND I'LL TOUCH ON THOSE LATER IN THE PROJECT, BUT WE'VE, WE'VE BUILT ALMOST 70 MILLION SQUARE FEET, DEPLOYED ALMOST $4 BILLION OF CAPITAL OVER THE LAST 54 YEARS. AND I JUST POINT THOSE THINGS OUT. WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. IF YOU WERE TO ASK THE MARKET THE TYPE OF PRODUCTS THAT WE DO, REALLY THOUGHTFUL, WE LIKE ENHANCED PRODUCTS, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN BE REALLY PROUD ABOUT AND WE WANNA KEEP DOING THIS. WE'VE DONE, THIS WILL BE MY EIGHT THIRD, NINTH ZONING CASE IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. AND SO I HAVE TO POINT TO THE PROJECTS THAT WE CAME BEFORE YOU AND OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS AND SAY, HEY, WE BUILT A REALLY NICE PROJECT. SO WE'RE REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THAT ON THE FRONT END. AND I'LL TOUCH ON SOME PROJECTS WHERE WE'VE DONE THAT. WE DO, UH, WE DO ALL OF OUR DEVELOPMENT KIND OF IN THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THIS, THE, THE, THE COUNTRY. YOU CAN SEE THOSE LOCATIONS. I WON'T GO TOO MUCH INTO THIS. HERE'S SOME EXAMPLE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE. AND ALL OF THESE ARE BUSINESS PARKS IN TEXAS. I'LL TOUCH ON JUST A, A FEW HERE. ONE OF 'EM IS PARK 20, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. IT'S A REALLY SIMILAR PROJECT TO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING HERE. IT'S IN ARLINGTON. IT'S IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE EAST OF THE ARLINGTON AIRPORT ON COLLINS. WE REZONED THAT, UM, IN 2020. WE BROKE GROUND ON THAT PROJECT PROJECT IN 2021. SO AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY CLOSE BY, YOU'RE WELCOME TO GO DRIVE IT. IT HAS RESIDENTIAL ADJACENCY, VERY SIMILAR TO THIS. A LOT OF THE SAME QUESTIONS CAME UP ABOUT TRAFFIC NOISE, SIMILAR [01:00:01] THINGS THAT I HOPE WE CAN TALK ABOUT TODAY. AND, UM, IT'S A TWO BUILDING PROJECT, ROUGHLY 160,000 SQUARE FEET. VERY SIMILAR PRODUCT TYPE, TYPE OF TENANTS LOOK AND FEEL AS YOU'RE GONNA SEE HERE. EXCEPT FOR, WE'RE ACTUALLY MORE THOUGHTFUL ON THE SITE PLAN WHERE WE ABLE TO ORIENT THE BUILDING. SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE DOCK DOORS FACING RESIDENCE. AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT AS WELL. IN THE UPPER LEFT IS ONE CALLED CHISHOLM 20. UH, WE DELIVERED THAT ROUGHLY TWO YEARS AGO. IT'S ALL LEASED UP NOW WITH SOME REALLY SOLID TENANTS. IT'S IN BENBROOK AND SOUTHWEST FORT WORTH ON 20 IN WINCOTT. UH, FOUR BUILDING PROJECT, ROUGHLY 900,000 SQUARE FEET. COUPLE TENANTS THAT I THINK WOULD BE VERY SIMILAR THAT WE COULD SEE HERE. ONE IS TANDY LEATHER, A HUNDRED YEAR OLD, THE FORT WORTH COMPANY. THEY COMBINED THEIR HEADQUARTER OPERATIONS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION IN THAT FACILITY. ANOTHER ONE WAS ERGO MEDICAL, BUILT OUT A LAB MANUFACTURING FACILITY. UM, ANOTHER ONE IS MOORING, USA THAT ACTUALLY CAME OUTTA GRAND PRAIRIE. AND UH, SO THEY BUILT THEIR HEADQUARTERS IN A DISTRIBUTION FACILITY ALL IN ONE. SO YOU'RE ACTUALLY GETTING A LOT OF THIS KIND OF MIGRATION TO HAVING ONE FACILITY WHERE THEY'RE GONNA HAVE HR EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS, FINANCE FUNCTIONS ALONG WITH THEIR KIND OF WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION OPERATIONS. I THINK WE'LL SEE THAT HERE AS WELL. AND THEN, UH, I'LL TOUCH ON JUST THE BOTTOM LEFT PROJECT. THAT'S THE MOST RECENT ONE WE'VE DONE IN DFW. THAT'S IN ETTE, TEXAS. SO NORTHEAST PART OF TOWN. IT'S RIGHT ON GEORGE BUSH. REALLY STRONG VISIBILITY. UM, WE BUILT SIX BUILDINGS, ROUGHLY 1.3 MILLION SQUARE FEET THERE AND DELIVERED THAT ABOUT A YEAR AGO. IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT LEASED. UH, CORRECT ME, IT'S 97% LEASED WITH FOUR MANUFACTURERS, AN ADVANCED PRINTING GROUP AND A TRADE SCHOOL CALLED LINCOLN TECH, WHICH IS ON GRAND PRI TODAY. SO THEY'VE MOVED, THAT'S GONNA BE THEIR, UH, SECOND LOCATION IN DFW. THEY'RE LAUNCHING KIND OF THE EAST HALF OF THE METROPLEX. SO REALLY NEAT PROJECT. WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF ONSHORING A LOT OF MANUFACTURING GROWTH IN TEXAS, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL SEE HERE. I KNOW WE'VE TALKED THIS AS A SPECULATIVE DEVELOPMENT, SO I CAN'T PROMISE WHAT THE TENANTS ARE GONNA BE, BUT THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF TENANTS THAT WE'RE GONNA GO AFTER. YOU'RE GONNA SEE MORE OFFICE FINISH, YOU'RE GONNA SEE HIGHER WAGES, UH, LESS DISTRIBUTION, TYPICALLY LESS TRUCKS, UM, ADVANCED PRINTING R AND D, BUT THERE ALWAYS GENERALLY IS SOME LEVEL OF DISTRIBUTION OR WAREHOUSING. SO I DON'T WANNA HIDE THAT FACT. SO THAT'S JUST SOME EXAMPLE PROJECTS. UM, I'VE INCLUDED THIS HERE AND, AND ADMITTEDLY I NEED TO UPDATE THIS WITH SOME RECENT DATA, BUT ONE THING THAT WE ALWAYS REALLY TRY HARD TO DO WHEN WE COME TO A COMMUNITY, WE'RE MORE THAN A DEVELOPER. WE'RE GONNA FIND A CAUSE THAT WE CAN LATCH ONTO, WHETHER IT'S ONE PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TARRANT COUNTY. WE'RE GONNA TRY AND LATCH ON THAT TO BE MORE OF A COMMUNITY PARTNER AND DO THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO GIVE BACK. SO SOME EXAMPLES THERE, I WON'T SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS, BUT THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO US. WHEN WE COME INTO A NEW DEVELOPMENT, THIS WILL BE OUR FIRST PROJECT IN GRAND PRAIRIE. WE'VE KIND OF WORKED, WORKED UP AND DOWN THE 1 61 CORRIDOR AND DONE OTHER PROJECTS IN IRVING AND ARLINGTON AND ALL THOSE CASES WE CAN POINT TO A CAUSE THAT WE GENERALLY, YOU KNOW, STAND BEHIND. SO HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES AGAIN ON THE KIND OF THE 1 61 CORRIDOR, UM, PART 20 I TALKED ABOUT IN THE BOTTOM LEFT. MAYFIELD BUSINESS PARK. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CALLING THIS TODAY IS KIND OF TOP OR MIDDLE, LEFT IN THE GREEN. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THESE HERE. EXCUSE ME. HAPPY TO PROVIDE ADDRESSES SO YOU CAN GO GET THE LOOK AND THE FEEL OF THE TYPE OF PROJECTS WE DO. THIS IS JUST FIVE THAT ARE ON THE GROUND TODAY. OBVIOUSLY ONE PROPOSED IN PRETTY CLOSE VICINITY, BUT WE'VE DONE DOZENS MORE OVER OUR TIME IN DFW TALKING ABOUT OUR PROJECT TEAM. AGAIN, I'M WITH JACKSON SHAW, I'M VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT. I RUN OUR NORTH TEXAS DIVISION. UH, THE LAND LOADER LAND HOLDER OWNER IS TRADERS VILLAGE. SAME GROUP THAT OWNS THE LAND ACROSS THE STREET. KIMLEY HORNE IS OUR CIVIL ENGINEER AND OUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, OUR LAND PLANNER ARCHITECT IS GSAR AND ADE. THEY ALSO DESIGN THE PROJECT THAT'S IN ARLINGTON THAT I TOUCHED ON. WE HAVE A FEW CONSULTANTS. WE ALWAYS LOOK AT ECONOMIC IMPACT. I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE COMING IN TO BUILD, DEVELOP A NEW PROJECT, HOW MANY JOBS IS IT GONNA CREATE, AND THEN WHAT'S THE TAX BASE THAT'S GONNA CREATE? SO WE HIRED, UH, PETIT CONSULTING. IT'S A WELL KNOWN GROUP THAT DOES A LOT IN DFW AND ACROSS THE TEXAS TO ANALYZE THAT AND WE'LL TOUCH ON THAT. WE DID CONSULTANTS WITH A MURRAY AND LIGHTING KIMLEY HORN, LOOKED AT THE TRAFFIC AND THAT'S PROVIDED TO THE CITY. WE PROVIDED SOUND STUDIES AGAIN BY A GROUP THAT'S, UH, APPROVED BY THE CITY AS WELL. AND THEN ZONING, MMA AS HELPING US JUST WITH ZONING COORDINATION AS WELL. SO, AND RYAN IS WITH KIMLEY HORN, SO HE'S HERE TO, TO TALK AS WELL AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. AND THEN, UM, NATALIE MOORE WITH MMA IS HERE AS WELL. WE TOUCHED ON THE SITE. SO JUST REAL, I MEAN, I WANT TO, I WANNA TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY THOUGHTFUL ON THE FRONT END HERE. THE FIRST BEING THAT THE OBVIOUS ONE, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO REALLY BE IN, YOU KNOW, TO FOCUS ON GIVING A WHALE, WELL, IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PROJECT, IT IS AN ACT OF GAS. WELL, KIND OF MAKES ANY SORT OF RESIDENTIAL PRETTY TOUGH. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT RESIDENTS ARE REALLY EXCITED TO LIVE BY, UH, TYPICALLY AND, UM, AS I THINK TREY WAS HIS NAME SPOKE ON EARLIER, THE SITE'S BEEN ADVERTISED FOR COMMERCIAL RETAIL FOR 30 TO 50 YEARS. IT'S BEEN MARKETED MULTIPLE TIMES, SO THERE REALLY HAS NEVER BEEN THAT TYPE OF USER. USUALLY THEY'RE LOOKING FOR HIGHWAY FRONTAGE. UH, THIS IS KIND OF A SE I THINK HE USED THE TERM NO MAN'S LAND. IT MAY BE NO MAN'S LAND. IT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD LOCATION FOR THE TYPE OF PRODUCT THAT [01:05:01] WE'RE, WE'RE PROPOSING. SANDWICH BETWEEN 1 61 360, YOU'VE GOT THE ARLINGTON AIRPORT DIRECTLY TO THE NORTHWEST. SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT NOISE, THERE ALREADY IS CONSIDERABLE NOISE FROM AIRPLANES PRETTY CONSISTENTLY. AND YOU'VE GOT THIS GAS WELL IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. I MENTIONED IT EARLIER, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, ALL THE DOCK DOORS ARE KIND OF ENTERED TO THE SITE. WE DON'T HAVE ANY THAT ARE FACING THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE SOUTH. UM, YOU KNOW, THE FRONTAGE OF ALL THIS IS GONNA LOOK AND FEEL MORE LIKE AN OFFICE BUILDING, A TRUE BUSINESS PARK, AS YOU SAW FROM THE ELEVATIONS, WE'RE ALWAYS REALLY THOUGHTFUL IN THE DESIGN. WE'RE GONNA SPEND MORE MONEY ON CREATING MORE GLASS, MORE ARTICULATION, COLOR CHANGES TO MAKE IT LOOK AND FEEL INTERESTING AND CREATE A PRESENCE THAN MAYBE SOME OTHER DEVELOPMENTS THAT YOU'VE SEEN. SO I HOPE THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE SHOWN WITH SOME OF THE PICTURES. AND WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY, THAT'S A REALLY BIG FOCUS FOR US. BUT ON FORUM, YOU DO HAVE, AGAIN, FRONTAGE. YOU'RE GONNA ALWAYS HAVE KIND OF FAR FRONT PARKING FOR AUTO. SAME THING ON MAYFIELD. ALL YOUR TRUCK TRAFFIC IS GONNA BE COMING ON MAYFIELD. YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY OF THAT ENTERING FORUM TO MESS WITH ANY AUTO TRAFFIC OR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. WE DID HAVE THIS DRIVE PROPOSED HERE THAT ALIGNED WITH THE MEDIAN BREAK. WE ARE PROPOSING TO MOVE THAT NORTH, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD NEED TO ADJUST IN THE VARIANCES. IT SAYS NO ACCESS ON FORUM. WE ARE REQUESTING AN ACCESS POINT. IT'S REALLY GOOD FOR THE AUTO TRAFFIC. OTHERWISE, YOUR ONLY ACCESS POINT FOR THE AUTO TRAFFIC IS THIS KIND OF POINT HERE ON THE NORTH SIDE. AND THAT'S MIXING MORE WITH, YOU KNOW, CARS AND TRUCKS. WE WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE THAT MOVES FURTHER NORTH. AND I THINK JUNE SHOWED AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE THAT WOULD BE. BUT AGAIN, NO TRUCKS WOULD GO THERE. WE'RE EVEN HAPPY TO INSTALL WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST WHERE THERE'S BEEN CONCERN THAT MAYBE A TRUCK WOULD DRIVE IN THAT ENTRANCE. WE CAN PUT WHAT'S CALLED A HEADACHE BAR, WHICH IS BASICALLY A BAR THAT GOES OVER THE TOP THAT'S AT, CALL IT 10 FEET OR SO. A TRUCK CAN NEVER FIT UNDERNEATH IT. YOU PUT NO SIGNS FOR TRUCKS, BUT THERE'S REALLY NO REASON FOR A TRUCK TO COME DOWN FOR 'EM. THEY'RE GONNA BE COMING FROM 360 ON THE WEST, 1 61 ON THE EAST, AND THEY'RE COMING DOWN BAYFIELD DRIVE. UM, AND AGAIN, THEY'RE COMING IN ON THESE KIND OF NORTH ACCESS POINTS HERE. AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE FLIGHT PATH WITH JUNE. THANK YOU. YOU TOUCHED ON THAT LIMITS THIS SITE CONSIDERABLY. UH, THIS BUILDING, SINCE OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE AIRPORT AND THE FAA, WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD TO SHIFT THAT BACK FURTHER SOUTH TO MAKE IT WORK. AND THAT'S WHY JUNE SHOWED AN ALTERNATE SITE PLAN. AND APOLOGIES, THIS WAS FROM OUR APRIL 28TH PRESENTATION. SO WE NEED TO GET THIS UPDATED, BUT THE, THE BUILDING IS SHIFTED FURTHER SOUTH. UH, AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GET A BUILDING THERE. UH, IT'S GONNA BE ROUGHLY 18 FOOT CLEAR. THAT'S AS TALL AS WE CAN GET. IF IT WAS WHERE IT WAS HERE, YOU REALLY CAN'T GET A BUILDING OVER 10 FEET. SO YOU'RE REALLY IN THE LIMITED ON THE TYPE OF BUILDING YOU HEAR YOU CAN PUT HERE. OBVIOUSLY DON'T WANT RESIDENTIAL AND A FLIGHT PATH. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WITH COMMERCIAL AND THEN SOMETHING I KNOW, UM, COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ, I BELIEVE YOU TOUCHED ON ASKING ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER. SO WE WERE PROACTIVE ON THAT FROM THE BEGINNING. UH, I BELIEVE, UH, AS JUNE TOUCHED ON, IT HAS TO BE SIX FEET BY CODE. WE VOLUNTEERED TO MAKE IT SIX FEET. WE WANT IT TO BE MASONRY. AND WE DID TALK TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY HAD SOME PREFERENCES ON TYPE OF MASONRY SO IT COULD BLEND IN, AND WE WERE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ACCOMMODATE THAT. BUT THAT WOULD BE AN EIGHT FOOT MASONRY WALL RIGHT ON THE PROPERTY LINE ALL THE WAY DOWN THE SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY. AND THEN WHAT WE SAW IN ARLINGTON, AND WE THINK WE'D SEE HERE, AND WE'VE SEEN IT SOME OTHER PLACES, NEIGHBORHOOD, SEVERAL OF THOSE HOUSES HAVE DILAPIDATED FENCES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, NEED TO BE REPLACED OR FALLING DOWN. THOSE END UP COMING DOWN, WE'LL OFFER TO TAKE 'EM DOWN FOR 'EM AND THEY JUST HAVE TO EXTEND THEIR FENCE, FENCE, MAYBE ONE OR TWO FEET, AND THEY PICK UP A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE. BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE THIS NICE MASONRY WALL AS THEIR NEW FENCE AT THE BACK OF THEIR PROPERTY. SO I THINK THAT'S AN ADDED BENEFIT TO THOSE ROUGHLY 10 OR 15 HOMES THERE. ON THE SOUTH SIDE, THAT'S A MINIMUM OF 30 FEET LANDSCAPE BUFFER ALONG THE ENTIRE SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY. AND THEN IT'S ROUGHLY, DEPENDING ON WHERE THE BUILDING SITS, 30 TO 40 FEET, IT'S ACTUALLY A BIT MORE THAN THAT 50 FEET TO THE ACTUAL BUILDING FROM THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER. SO OUR BUILDINGS ARE, I'LL GET YOU AN EXACT NUMBER, 60 TO 70 FEET PROBABLY FROM THE ACTUAL PROPERTY LINE, BUT WITH AT LEAST 30 FEET OF LANDSCAPE BUFFER ALL THE WAY DOWN. AND WE PLAN ON PLANTING EVERGREEN TREES THE ENTIRE WAY. UM, AGAIN, DOCK DOORS ARE, ENTER THE BUILDING. SO AGAIN, THESE ARE JUST KINDA OFFICE BUILDINGS FROM THE, FROM THE FRONT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE MODERN FUNCTIONALITY OF THE DOCK DOORS IN THE BACKSIDE AERIAL RENDERING. AGAIN, SAME LOOK AND FEEL WE'RE SUBMITTING THESE ELEVATIONS. THIS IS THE EXACT PRODUCT THAT WE PLAN TO BUILD, LOOK AND FEEL OF IT. AND A FEW MORE IMAGES HERE. THIS IS SOME OF THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH THAT WE'VE DONE. UH, WE PROACTIVELY IN ADVANCE OF THE CITY, UH, SENDING THEIR LETTERS, WE, I BELIEVE, WHICH IS 200 FEET, JUNE, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE MAILED THE 500 FEET. YOU CAN SEE AN, UH, AN IMAGE OF THE TWO PAGE LETTER THAT WE SENT OUT ON OUR OWN ON THE RIGHT THERE. SO ANYBODY WITHIN 500 FEET OF THE SITE. UH, WE PROACTIVELY MAILED THAT TOWARDS THE END OF MARCH. AND WE HOSTED A TOWN HALL, I BELIEVE IT WAS ON APRIL 10TH. UH, WE ONLY HAD ONE ATTENDEE THAT ONE ATTENDEE PROVIDED US. THE NAME AND NUMBER OF SOMEONE THAT WAS KIND OF THE ORGANIZER OF THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO, UH, CHANDRA, I FORGET CHANDRA'S NAME, BUT I LEFT HER A COUPLE VOICEMAILS AND THEN SHE HAD A GUY NAMED JOHN, UH, [01:10:01] SITA REACH OUT TO ME. AND SO WE'VE HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS. HE INVITED ME TO SPEAK AT THE PID FORM OF STATE, UH, BOARD ON MAY 6TH, WHICH ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE. I WAS THERE. I PRESENTED A VERY SIMILAR PRESENTATION. THERE WAS ROUGHLY MAYBE 20 NEIGHBORS AND BOARD MEMBERS THERE. REALLY GOOD DISCUSSION. UH, WE ALSO HAVE SPOKE TO THE AIRPORT MANAGER TWICE. OBVIOUSLY THE SIGNS HAVE POSTED IN THE CITY HAS MADE THEIR POSTS AS WELL. SO REACHED OUT. MY, MY PHONE NUMBER'S ON THERE, MY EMAIL'S ON THERE. UM, AND OUTSIDE OF JOHN CALLING ME BACK, I HAVEN'T HAD ONE NEIGHBOR REACH OUT TO ME WITH QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS TO THIS POINT, ACTUALLY IN THE FORM OF STATES MEETING, IT WAS REALLY POSITIVE. UM, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY THAT SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE CONCERNED OR WAS AN OPPOSITION. THERE WAS A FORMER PNZ MEMBER, UH, GENTLEMAN THERE THAT WAS, UH, ON THE BOARD OF THE PIT. GOOD QUESTIONS, GOOD DIALOGUE. AND ONE, UH, ONE RESIDENT AND GOES, I LIVE BY AN AIRPORT. THIS ISN'T GONNA CREATE ANY MORE NOISE THAN I ALREADY HAVE. SO I WOULD GENERALLY AGREE AND WE'VE DONE A SOUND STUDY WITH IT WOULD SUPPORT THAT. THESE ARE JUST COMMON CONCERNS. I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MENTIONED HERE FROM A TRAFFIC STANDPOINT. WE'VE DONE THE TIA THAT'S PROVIDED. ONE THING I THINK TO NOTE HERE IS IF IT WENT STRAIGHT COMMERCIAL ZONING, WHICH IT COULD ALREADY TODAY, YOU COULD SEE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE TRAFFIC THAN WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. I MEAN, OUR, OUR STUDIES, DEPENDING ON THE USE OF COMMERCIAL, WOULD SHOW UPWARDS OF SIX TIMES THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC. UH, AGAIN, THAT'S BEING REVIEWED BY THE, BY THE CITY AS WELL. UM, AND TOUCHED ON TIMING, COMMISSIONER, UM, WE ARE ASKING FOR FLEXIBILITY FOR THE TENANTS, BUT GENERALLY FROM DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME, 70 MILLION SQUARE FEET, MOST OF OUR TENANTS ARE GONNA BE DURING THE DAY, SEVEN 30 TO FIVE 30. UH, VERY LIMITED WEEKEND TRAFFIC. AND THAT'S PREDOMINANTLY ACROSS ALL OUR PROJECT PROJECTS ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS. BUT WE ARE ASKING FOR THAT FLEXIBILITY IN THE EVENT THAT THEY DID HAVE A TRUCK THAT NEEDED TO BE DELIVERED OVER THE WEEKEND. UH, FROM THE NOISE STANDPOINT, WE TALKED ABOUT THE WALL, THE VEGETATION WE'RE MEETING OR EXCEEDING SETBACK REQUIREMENTS. UH, WE ALWAYS GET QUESTIONS ABOUT IDLING TRUCK. THERE IS A CITY ORDINANCE THAT SAYS IF YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T IDLE A TRUCK MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES. AND THEN LIGHTING IS PARAMOUNT. UH, OBVIOUSLY IF I LIVE THERE, IF ANYBODY ELSE LIVES THERE, YOU DON'T WANT A LIGHT SHINING INTO YOUR BACKYARD WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO GO TO SLEEP. SO EVERYTHING IS CONTROLLED BY WALL PACKS ON THE BUILDING. THERE'S NO LIGHTS SPILLAGE ONTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PROPERTIES. AND, UH, THERE ARE A FEW LIGHT POLES, BUT THOSE ARE, UM, LIMITED TO THE TRUCK CORD ONLY. AND AGAIN, THEY'VE GOT SHIELDS THAT CAN KIND OF DIRECT THE LIGHTING. AND, UH, WE'VE PROVIDED THE LIGHTING STUDY TO SHOW THAT THERE WOULD NO BE NO LIGHTS SPILLAGE ONTO THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES. UH, I MENTIONED THE ECONOMIC IMPACT HERE. JUST GIVES YOU A LITTLE KINDA SUMMARY OF WHAT THE, THE GROUP PETIT CONSULTING CAME UP WITH. THE TAXABLE VALUE TODAY IS $4,100 WE WOULD EXPECT BASED ON COMPS IN THE AREA AT NORTH OF 50 MILLION, WITHIN THREE YEARS, I CAN ASSURE YOU WE'RE GONNA SPEND WAY NORTH OF 50 MILLION ON THE PROJECT. THAT'S JUST WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT FROM THE COMPS OF OTHER SIMILAR PROJECTS. UM, WE WOULD EXPECT OVER $6 MILLION DIRECTLY TO THE CITY IN THE FIRST 10 YEARS. AND, UM, ROUGHLY 332 JOBS, AN ANNUAL WAGE OF 61,000. SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT THAT TOTAL WAGES IS OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME. WE USUALLY GET ASKED ABOUT TYPE OF TENANTS THAT WE HAVE. AND SO HERE'S JUST AN EXAMPLE. THESE ARE ALL TENANTS THAT WE'VE HAD ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS. I TOUCHED ON A COUPLE, WHICH WAS TANDY LEATHER OVER HERE. UM, MOORING IS AT THE CHISHOLM 20 PROJECT. SA OF HOLLAND IS AT THE ONE I MENTIONED IN ROULETTE. THAT WAS AN AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURER THAT CREATED A SECOND HQ, ROUGHLY 250 JOBS WITH AN AVERAGE PAY OVER A HUNDRED GRAND. SO THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUALITY TENANT. UM, WE'RE BUILDING OUT ANOTHER FACILITY FOR A GROUP CALLED TREIN INTERNATIONAL, WHICH I DON'T THINK WE HAVE UP HERE, MANUFACTURER THAT'S DOING, UH, A LOT OF WORK IN THE DATA CENTER SPACE. AND THAT'S ONE OF THREE DEALS WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING. THE DATA CENTER SPACE HAS EXPLODED ALONG THE 35 CORRIDOR NORTH TEXAS. AND SO WE'RE SEEING THE NEW TERM THAT EVERYBODY USES, DATA CENTER ADJACENCY. WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF DEMAND FROM THOSE TYPE OF TENANTS. NOT NECESSARILY DATA CENTER, BUT THEY'RE MANUFACTURING COMPONENTS SOMEWHERE IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF DOING DATA CENTERS. UM, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL, I'LL KIND OF WRAP IT THERE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. YEAH, THANK YOU. WHAT WAS YOUR LAST NAME AGAIN? UH, TERRY, T-E-R-R-Y MILES. TERRY. SO MR. TWO FIRST NAMES, TWO LAST NAMES. SO MR. TERRY. SO, UM, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU DID HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH. HOW MUCH NOTICE DID YOU GIVE BETWEEN THE TOWN HALL DATE AND WHEN YOU SENT THE NOTICES OUT THAT WE, WE MAILED IT ON MARCH 27TH. MM-HMM . AND THE, THE TOWN HALL WAS APRIL 10TH. UM, ABOUT TWO WEEKS. YEAH, ABOUT TWO WEEKS. UH, WE DID HEAR THAT THERE WAS A FEW THAT SAID THEY HAD JUST RECEIVED IT THAT DAY OR THE DAY BEFORE. SO WISH WE'D HAVE PROVIDED A BIT MORE TIME THERE, BUT ROUGHLY TWO WEEKS. OKAY. AND, UM, BUT WE DID SAY TO WHEN I REACHED OUT TO CHANDRA, A COUPLE VOICEMAILS AND THEN JOHN, I WAS LIKE, PLEASE GIVE MY CELL, HERE'S MY CELL PHONE. YOU KNOW, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, I'LL MEET WITH HIM ONE-ON-ONE. I I SPOKE AT THE, HE, HE HAD THREE OR FOUR WEEKS NOTICE I WAS GONNA SPEAK AT THE FORM OF STATE'S PIT. AND THERE WERE, AGAIN, ROUGHLY 20 PEOPLE AT THAT. OKAY. WHO WAS THE PRIOR COMMISSIONER THAT WAS THERE? DO YOU REMEMBER HIS NAME? UM, I CAN GET USED [01:15:01] NAME. HE'S ON THE BOARD. I JUST DON'T HAVE IT ON THE TOP OF MY OKAY. SO, UH, I FOUND STAFF TYPICALLY TO BE PRETTY REASONABLE. UM, AND THEY'VE PUT SOME REQUIREMENTS THAT I GUESS YOU'RE PUSHING BACK ON SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE SUP. YES SIR. DO YOU WANT TO JUSTIFY THAT PUSHBACK? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THAT'S IN REALITY, WE KNOW WHAT'S ALREADY GONNA BE THERE AND, UM, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY GONNA INVEST CONSIDERABLE DOLLARS IN BUYING THE LAND DUE DILIGENCE. AND IF WE HAVE A RISK THAT ULTIMATELY IS AN UNKNOWN, THAT THAT COULD GET TURNED DOWN IN THE FUTURE, THAT'S JUST UNFORTUNATELY, UM, IT'S NOT FEASIBLE FOR OUR PARTNERS AND LENDERS. WE'VE GOTTA KNOW WHEN WE GO PURCHASE A SITE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH IT. AND IF WE HAVE TO COME BACK TO GET AN SUP FOR WHAT WE'RE TELLING YOU TODAY, IT'S GONNA BE, UM, IT PRODUCES A RISK WHERE THAT POTENTIALLY HAS NO VALUE. 'CAUSE I COULD COME BACK BEFORE CITY COUNCIL AND THEY COULD SAY, YOU KNOW, TODAY WE, WE DON'T WANT OUTSIDE STORAGE THERE, UH, AND IT'S NOT APPROVED AND THEN WE OWN SIX OR SEVEN ACRES THAT WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH. SO IT'S JUST, IT'S REALLY FOR THE VIABILITY THAT PROJECT. AND THERE WAS ANOTHER VARIANCE THAT YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT. UH, I THINK THEY'RE CALLED LANDSCAPING ISLANDS. YES, YOU ARE. YOU YOU WANT THAT AS WELL. THAT'S RIGHT. SO ON THE TRUCK COURT, I'LL GO BACK THERE REAL QUICK. UM, SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS, AGAIN, WE, WE, WE ATTRACT A HEAVY PARKING, AUTO PARKING USER THAT HAS A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, WHICH IS GENERALLY WHAT I THINK MOST OF US WANT, RIGHT? WE WANT HIGHER OFFICE, HIGHER PAYING JOBS, UM, AND THEY'RE GONNA REQUIRE MORE PARKING THAN WE CAN PROVIDE WITH THE AUTO STALLS. AND SO WE'LL GO AS, AS JUNE TOUCHED ON, WE'LL GO ADD ADDITIONAL AUTO PARKING IN HERE. THE WAY THAT CODE IS WRITTEN IS WE THEN HAVE TO GO CREATE LANDSCAPE ISLANDS IN A MIDDLE OF A TRUCK COURT, WHICH REQUIRES RIPPING UP CONCRETE, ADDING ISLANDS, ADDING TREES, ADDING, ADDING IRRIGATION. THINGS THAT ARE REALLY COSTLY AND GENERALLY DON'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE IT MAY GO BACK TO BEING AN ACTUAL TRUCK COURT. AND SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO AVOID COMING BACK IN THE FUTURE AND SAYING, HEY, THIS IS AN AUTO PARKING, IT'S A GOOD USE, IT'S A GOOD TENANT THAT WE'D ASK FOR. AND IT JUST REALLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO GO ADD, WE'RE, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY ADDING THE LANDSCAPE ISLANDS WHERE THERE'S AUTO PARKING ALREADY TODAY. WE JUST WOULDN'T ADD THOSE IN THE ACTUAL TRUCK COURT IF WE'RE STRIPING 'EM IN THE FUTURE. OKAY. AND SO LET'S ALSO THEN TALK ABOUT THE HOURS. SURE. SO YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT, IT'S VERY UNLIKELY. RIGHT. THEN WHY DON'T YOU JUST COMMIT, BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW YOU TALKED ABOUT THE LENDERS NOT BEING ABLE TO DO WITH RIGHT. SIX ACRES, YOU GOT HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE BEHIND YOU THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE THIS POCKET ABILITY TO RENT PEOPLE OUT TO WORK 24 7 ON THAT SITE. YEAH. AND AGAIN, IT'S, I DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC DATA TO SAY WHAT PERCENTAGE, BUT IT'S VERY RARE WHERE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE OVERNIGHT TRAFFIC ON THIS TYPE OF TENANT. BUT THERE IS THE CHANCE THAT THEY DO HAVE A DELIVERY AT NIGHT OR THEY HAVE SOME EMPLOYEES THAT WANT TO COME IN AND WORK ON THE WEEKENDS OR A TRUCK DELIVERED. AND IF YOU RESTRICT THAT, THEN WE'RE RESTRICTING POTENTIALLY A TYPE OF TENANT THAT WE MAY WANT IN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE. AND SO IT, IT IS JUST A RESTRICT THAT IT'S OFTEN COME BACK, IT'LL COME BACK AND BITE A DEVELOPER. 'CAUSE THEY THINK IT RESTRICTS THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE BUSINESS. THEY WOULD NEED TO DO IT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU OPEN A, YOU THIS, THIS, UH, THING FOR THE EXCEPTION OR FOR A ONE-OFF DELIVERY IN THE NIGHT OPENS THE DOOR TO 24 7 OPERATIONS. YES SIR. IT DOES. SO LOOK, THE, YOU HAVE ONE THING GOING FOR IN MY MIND. YOU HAVE ONE THING GOING FOR YOU ON THIS PROJECT, WHICH IS THIS DIRT HAS BEEN EMPTY FOR 50 YEARS AND NOBODY'S BEEN DONE IN ANYTHING. SURE. BECAUSE NOBODY, VERY FEW PEOPLE IN GRAND PRAIRIE SAID SAY, I WISH GRAND PRAIRIE JUST HAD ONE MORE WAREHOUSE AND WE'D BE PERFECT. YOU'VE GOT A, A SNAKEBIT SITE HERE THAT'S GOT PARTIAL AIRPORT OVERRUN AND A WELL IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. YES, SIR. UM, I, I'D LIKE TO BE SUPPORTIVE. I JUST, THE YOU'RE SO YOU'RE CON LITERALLY CONTIGUOUS TO A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU WON'T RESTRICT THE HOURS. YEAH, I I THAT'S CORRECT. YES, SIR. UM, AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN, AND, AND I THINK THE NOISE STUDY POINTS TO THAT WE RUN, YOU KNOW, BEEPING SOUNDS, WELL, YOU KNOW, HV CS. SO EVEN IF THERE WERE A TRUCK DELIVERY, AND AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE LIGHTING OVER SPILLING, YOU'RE NOT GONNA HEAR IT RIGHT. IS WHAT WE FOUND AND THAT'S WHAT THE SOUND STUDY HELPS SUPPORT. SO I GUESS I WOULD FLIP IT BACK IS IF THERE WAS A DELIVERY AT NIGHT, WHAT IS THE DISTURBANCE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT? AND AS IT RELATES TO THE WEEKEND, THERE'S ALREADY SO MUCH TRAFFIC ON THE WEEKEND THERE AND IT, AS THE CITY MENTIONED, WE'RE GONNA HAVE VERY MINIMAL, IF ANY IMPACT ON THAT. UM, SO I GUESS WHERE, WHERE IS THE RUB WITH THAT POTENTIAL WEEKEND WHEN WE'RE SAYING, HEY, THERE'S NO LIGHTING, THERE'S VERY LIMITED SOUND, AND WE, WE PUT METERS AROUND AND THEN WE MODEL IT TO SHOW THAT THIS, THIS SHOULDN'T REALLY BE AN IMPACT IF THERE WAS ANY ACTIVITY AT NIGHT OR OVER THE WEEKEND. WELL, MY THOUGHT IS IS THAT THE TRADER'S VILLAGE TRAFFIC IS TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, SEDANS. SUV SURE. OH, SORRY, YEAH. SUVS. IT'S NOT 18 WHEELERS REVVING AND MOVING [01:20:01] AROUND AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT. RIGHT, SIR. THAT'S WHAT, SIR, YOU'RE ASKING FOR THAT FLEXIBILITY. YES, SIR. I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION. SOMEBODY HELP ME. COME ON. GOOD. UM, MR. TERRY, THANK YOU FIRST OF ALL. 'CAUSE I AGREE WITH MY, MY COLLEAGUE, THE VICE CHAIR THAT, UM, WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR US. UM, IT DOES CONCERN ME GREATLY, UM, ABOUT THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY BEING BEHIND THERE. AND IF IT WAS, AS MY COLLEAGUE SAID, 24 HOURS, I WOULD, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY YOU'RE, YOU'RE BUILDING A LOVELY WALL RIGHT THERE TOO THAT I CAN HEAR RIGHT OVER AS WELL. UM, SO I GUESS MY QUESTION TO YOU WOULD BE WHERE HAS JACKSON SHAW FACED THIS KIND OF RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY? RIGHT. BUDDING TO A DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY? THE MO THE CLOSEST EXAMPLE WAS PART 20, THE, IN ARLINGTON ON COLLINS. IT ALSO HAS, UH, ADJACENCY IN, IN A VERY SIMILAR FASHION TO THIS. IT'S DIRECTLY TO THE EAST, IT ABUTS TO IT, AND YOU HAVE DOCK DOORS FACING THE RESIDENCE MM-HMM . AND WE HAD THE SAME QUESTIONS AND WE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WORKED THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS. AND THEN IT ALSO WRAPS AROUND TO THE NORTH. SO I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN PULL IT UP. YEP. WHAT'S THE OPERATIONAL PERIOD FOR THAT PARTICULAR? THERE'S NO RESTRICTIONS. NO RESTRICTIONS. SO IT OPERATES 24 HOURS. IT, IT DOESN'T, I MEAN, THEY MIGHT GET THE EARLY AM DELIVERY OCCASIONALLY IT'S, IT'S FOUR TENANTS, BUT THEY'RE ALL, 97% OF THEIR WORK IS DONE KIND OF SEVEN 30 TO SIX 30. RIGHT. ROUGHLY NO WEEKENDS. UH, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THERE'S NO WEEKEND TRAFFIC. MM-HMM . AGAIN, THERE'S PROBABLY A, AN EMPLOYEE THAT COMES IN ON THE WEEKEND, IT MIGHT WORK AND THEY MIGHT GET THE, THE ODD TRUCK, YOU KNOW, TRUCK THAT DELIVERS SOMETHING. BUT IT'S VERY RARE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING. OKAY. AND I, I KNOW YOU'RE PULLING UP SOMETHING, BUT I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION ABOUT THE OUT OUTSIDE STORAGE, UM, THAT YOU REQUESTED. I THINK JUNE. UM, SO WHAT, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU TRYING TO STORE OUTSIDE? UM, IT'LL USUALLY, IT'LL BE EQUIPMENT OR ADDITIONAL TRAILERS FROM MOST OF THOSE SITES. SO IT COULD BE A TRUCK, UH, A REPAIR SHOP FOR TRUCKS. COULD BE EQUIPMENT, UM, GENERALLY MAYBE SOME MATERIALS. YEAH, JUST FREE STANDING OUT THERE. FREE FREESTANDING. THAT'S CORRECT. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU SIR. AND THAT'S JUST REALLY KIND OF THE ONLY USE, GIVEN THE PROXIMITY TO THE AIRPORT, THE FLIGHT PATH. WE WOULD LOVE TO DO A FOURTH BUILDING THAT LOOKS AND FEELS THE EXACT SAME AS THE OTHER THREE. WE JUST CAN'T. GOT IT. YEAH, IF YOU PUSH IT FURTHER NORTH, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN'T HAVE A BUILDING THERE, SO THANK YOU. I WAS TRYING TO FIND THE ADDRESS, BUT I'LL, I CAN EMAIL IT OUT. JAMIE, CHRIS, FRANK, ANY COMMENTS? WE, AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, UH, COMMISSIONER SHAMAN, WE, WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER EXAMPLES. THE OTHER ONE THAT COMES TO MIND IS, UH, PART NORTHEAST. IT'S IN RICHARDSON. IT'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY RESIDENTIAL. IT HAD SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS ALONG THE WAY. WE ULTIMATELY WERE BUILT A PROJECT AND IT ACTUALLY WAS AWARDED COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROJECT OF THE YEAR IN 2020. UM, AND AS FAR AS I KNOW, AND THE SAME WITH PART 20, I DON'T BELIEVE, AT LEAST I'VE NEVER RECEIVED, RECEIVED ANY COMPLAINTS AFTER WE BUILT THE PROJECT ABOUT NOISE OR TRASH OR TRAFFIC. UM, CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE COULD CHECK WITH OUR LINKEDIN STAFF ABOUT, BUT I'M NOT AWARE PERSONALLY. MOST OF THOSE NEIGHBORS HAVE MY CELL PHONE. OKAY. AND AND THE OPERATIONAL TIME PERIOD THOUGH, WHAT, IS IT 24 HOURS OR IS IT IT'S GENERALLY ALL OF OUR, I CAN'T THINK OF ONE TENANT, AND THIS IS ACROSS SEVERAL MILLION FEET ACROSS TEXAS THAT IS GONNA HAVE HEAVY OPERATIONS OUTSIDE OF THAT NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS. OKAY. BUT THEY, THERE ARE SEVERAL TENANTS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAY GET A TRUCK ON THE WEEKEND, OR AGAIN, EMPLOYEE WORKS AFTER HOURS, BUT IT'S VERY LIMITED ON NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS. OKAY. SO I'M, I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE OTHER QUESTION. SO IF THEY GET A TRUCK ON THE WEEKEND, AM I TO ASSUME THAT THEY GET THAT DURING THE DAY THEY DON'T GET IT AT NIGHT, RIGHT? CORRECT. YEAH. CORRECT. YEAH. RIGHT. SO I THINK TO THE VICE CHAIR'S POINT, I THINK IF YOU COULD GIVE ON THAT TIMEFRAME, WE'D BE GOLDEN. YOU KNOW, IT WOULD IT, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT BEING DURING THE DAY AND YOU RECEIVING A DELIVERY. SO YOUR STAFF GETS TO COME IN WHERE IT BECOMES A PROBLEM IF THERE'S THE PROPENSITY OF SOMEBODY TO COME AT TWO IN THE MORNING AND WE ARE BEEP BEEP BEEPING. DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? I DO. I I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. ABSOLUTELY. AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE I WOULD, I WOULD DIG INTO THE, THE NOISE MODELING THAT WE'VE DONE IS YOU ACTUALLY WOULDN'T HEAR THAT AS A NEIGHBOR, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT GONNA HEAR THE TRUCK. IT'S, IT'S, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE THE LIGHTING. UM, I'M TRYING TO AVOID THE SITUATION WHERE A TENANT'S, LIKE, I WANT THAT FLEXIBILITY. I WANT TO BE IN GRAND PRAIRIE, BUT, UH, I DON'T WANNA SIGN A LEASE. 'CAUSE THIS BUILDING OVER IN ARLINGTON, FOR EXAMPLE, PROJECT WE BUILT, THEY DON'T HAVE THAT LIMITATION. UH, AND THAT COULD RESTRICT THEIR ABILITY TO DO BUSINESS. SO. UNDERSTOOD. MAYBE YOU COULD, THANK YOU. VERY FAMOUS. YEAH, OF COURSE. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTIONS. I GO BACK. THANK YOU, MR. TERRY. VERY, UM, YOU KNOW, INFORMATIVE AND THE PRESENTATION WAS, WAS REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY WAS, YOU KNOW, I'M ACTUALLY ON THE FENCE AND THE ONLY REASON I'M ON THE FENCE IS BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE NOISE FACTOR. YOU [01:25:01] KNOW, TRULY AT THIS POINT, UM, YOU KNOW, BUILDING AND THE TOP OF A BUILDING THAT YOU'RE BUILDING, IT'S, UM, WOULD GO VERY WELL IN THAT AREA, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S BEEN EMPTY FOR SO LONG. UM, BUT GOING BACK TO YOUR NOISE STUDY, DOES THAT REPLICATE SOMEBODY GOING IN AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND A TRUCK AND, AND DOING SO IS IT, YOU KNOW, STILL CAN IT BE HEARD, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, FROM THE RESIDENTS? DOES THAT THE, IS THAT PART OF THE NOISE STUDY THAT YOU'VE DONE? SO, SO THE NOISE STUDY, UM, I THINK I'VE GOT THE SUMMARY HERE. UH, THERE IT IS, BUT DOESN'T HAVE THE, I NEEDED TO INCLUDE, BUT THEY PUT UP THIR 12 OR 13 NOISE METERS AROUND THE PROPERTY AND IN THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD. OKAY. FOR I BELIEVE SEVEN DAYS DIRECTLY. AND THEY MEASURE EXISTING SOUNDS, TRAFFIC, OBVIOUSLY AIRPLANES, CRUISING BY, YOU KNOW, HORN, YOU KNOW, HORN HONKING. AND THEN THEY MODEL IN H VS ON THE BUILDINGS THEY MODEL IN, UM, TRUCKS BEEPING AND BACKING UP, UM, DOCK DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING. AND THEN THEY MODEL THAT AGAINST THEIR THIR 12 OR 13 DIFFERENT STATIONS AROUND THERE. AND OF THE, THE 13, I BELIEVE 11 SAID IT WOULD BE, YOU WOULDN'T HEAR IT AT ALL. AND THEN THERE WAS TWO THAT IT'S LIKE LIMITED TO, VERY LIMITED. I FORGET THE EXACT TERMINOLOGY THAT THEY USE THAT YOU MIGHT HEAR A BEEPING, BEEPING OF A TRUCK. UM, SO IN CONCLUSION IT'S LIKE, IT'S VERY LITTLE IF ANY ADDITIONAL NOISE. UH, AND FORGIVE ME THE TERMINOLOGY, I'M, YEAH, I'M, I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, NAILING IT HERE, BUT IT BASICALLY SAID IT'S, IT'S VERY MINIMAL IF ANY SOUND THAT YOU WOULD HEAR ON THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD OR, UH, HOMES THAT ARE THERE. SO RASHADA, MAYBE IT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU, IF THAT'S NOT THE CASE AND WE HAVE A, ALL THE RESIDENTS COMPLAINING, WHAT'S A RECOURSE HERE? SO WE'VE, AND Y'ALL MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH ANOTHER SCENARIO WHERE WE DEALT WITH THIS. UM, SO IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THEY WON'T HEAR IT, BUT THE DECIBEL LEVELS MAY NOT EXCEED WHAT WE, UH, HAVE AS FAR AS LIMITATIONS IN THE CITY CODE. SO THAT'S WHAT WE RAN UP AGAINST IN A SIMILAR SITUATION SOUTH OF 20, UH, WHERE RESIDENTS WERE COMPLAINING, THEY COULD STILL HEAR IT, BUT THE NOISE STUDY DIDN'T QUALIFY AS A NUISANCE. SO THIS AS, UH, MR. TERRY IS SAYING, IS PROBABLY A SIMILAR SITUATION WHERE THEY MAY HEAR SOME THINGS, BUT IT MAY NOT QUALIFY AS A QUOTE UNQUOTE NUISANCE PER THE CODE. THANK YOU. RASHAN. CHRIS, JANIE, ANYTHING? I THINK THAT'S, I HAVE A QUESTION. OH, I'M SORRY. GO RIGHT AHEAD PLEASE. UM, MAYBE THIS IS FOR RASHAD AS WELL. UM, SO WHAT I'VE HEARD MULTIPLE TIMES IS THAT THIS PARTICULAR PARCEL OF LAND HAS BEEN VACANT FOR A VERY LONG TIME. MY QUESTION IS IN, IN THE, UH, IN THE PAST, DO YOU KNOW LIKE IN THE PAST MAYBE 10 YEARS, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO DEVELOP THIS QUESTION? WE CAN LOOK INTO THE CITY, UH, HISTORY ON THIS, BUT TO YOUR POINT, UM, ANY PROPOSAL WOULD NEED ITS OWN CHANGE BASED ON, UH, THE APPLICANT'S VIEW ON THIS IS NOT A VIABLE USE FOR THIS AREA. SO A ZONE CHANGE, NO MATTER WHAT IT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED. SO THAT'S GONNA BE A DECISION THAT'S MADE BY PENZ AND COUNCIL. IF THERE'S BEEN PRIOR, AND I'M SURE THERE'S BEEN PRIOR PROPOSALS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS FOR THESE PROPERTIES ALONG MAYFIELD, UM, THEY JUST HAVEN'T BEEN APPROVED. UH, I THINK THERE MAY BE, UM, AN ASSESSMENT NEEDED TO SEE HOW MUCH RETAIL IS NEEDED FOR THE AREA. 'CAUSE THERE ARE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THIS AREA. UH, BUT, UM, WHETHER OR NOT THAT DEPTH OF RETAIL IS NEEDED, I, I'M NOT, I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE. UH, BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I'M SURE THERE'S BEEN OTHER APP, UH, REQUESTS. WE CAN RESEARCH THAT. UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD NOW SINCE YOU BRING UP WHAT THAT PARTICULAR AREA NEEDS AS FAR AS RETAIL WISE GOES. UM, IF I AM CORRECT, THEY'RE CURRENTLY BUILDING A WHOLE BUNCH OF HOUSES LIKE RIGHT CADDY CORNER TO THIS, RIGHT? RIGHT. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, UH, GREAT SOUTHWEST, THERE'S GONNA BE LIKE A WHOLE NEW, UM, THOSE ARE THE HYBRID HOUSING THAT'S LOCATED OFF OF KIRBY BROOK AND GREAT SOUTHWEST. AND SO THE, THAT WAS ALREADY APPROVED FOR MULTIFAMILY, UM, INSTEAD OF APARTMENTS COUNCIL ALLOWED THAT ZONING TO CHANGE TO DO HYBRID HOUSING TOWN HOMES. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING BEING BUILT [01:30:01] NOW. THANK YOU MR. PRESLEY. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING, SIR? YES. I KNOW YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE COSMETICS, BUT WITH THE FENCE AND HAVING A, A, A BRICK UH, FENCE OR WHATNOT, ARE YOU JUST WANNA CONFIRM, ARE YOU GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE? BECAUSE I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT THE NEIGHBORS BEHIND THERE CAN DO AWAY WITH THE BRICKS THAT, UH, NOT THE BRICKS BUT THE FENCES THAT MAY BE A LITTLE OUTDATED. SO ARE YOU GUYS, UH, IS YOUR COMPANY GOING TO MAINTAIN THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE MAINTENANCE OF THAT? ABSOLUTELY. IT'LL SIT ON OUR PROPERTY, SO IT'LL BE OUR RESPONSIBILITY. AND THEY ASKED FOR, THEY'VE GOT SOME SPECIFIC STONE THAT RUNS THROUGH FORM OF ESTATES AND THEY WANTED US TO DO A STONE THAT, THAT MATCHES IT. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE MORE THAN WILLING TO DO. YEAH, I WANTED, I WANTED THAT'S FINE. I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ON DEFENSE, SO. OKAY. OKAY. I THINK, I THINK MR. TERRY, THAT MIGHT BE IT. BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT WAS VERY THOROUGH AND, UH, GOOD PRESENTATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE TIME. UM, BRIAN WYRICK, WHICH IS TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM, RYAN WYRICK, UM, WITH KIMLEY HORN. UM, ADDRESS IS 2,600 NORTH CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY, UH, RICHARDSON, TEXAS. SO, UH, ENGINEER OF RECORD ON THIS ONE. UM, THE ONLY THING THAT I WANTED TO MENTION IS KIND OF DIGGING INTO THE TRANSPORTATION. WE DID A TIA ANALYSIS FOR THE TRAFFIC ON SITE. UM, CURRENTLY THE PROPOSED OR THE EXISTING ZONING ALLOWS FOR A USE THAT WOULD BE EQUIVALENT TO COMMERCIAL, WHICH IS A DEPARTMENT STORE, WHICH IS ROUGHLY A FLOOR AREA RATIO OF A 0.1 THAT IS A CONSERVATIVE FLOOR AREA RATIO FOR THAT. AND THAT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY, UM, 8,500 TRIPS A DAY FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT. UM, AND THE DEVELOPMENT THAT WE ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT, THE TIA, UM, SHOWS ABOUT A THOUSAND, UH, TRIPS PER DAY. AND SO THOSE ARE OBVIOUSLY, UH, THIS IS SPECULATIVE DEVELOPMENT. SO, UM, BUT THOSE ARE ROUGH ESTIMATES. AND ALSO THE DEVELOPMENT ITSELF, UM, INDUSTRIAL TYPICALLY RUNS OFF OF PEAK HOURS AND SO YOU WILL NOT, UH, TYPICALLY SEE ANY SORT OF INDUSTRIAL TRAFFIC SHOWING UP, UM, FROM THE 8:00 AM HOUR IN THE, TO THE AM AND PM PEAK HOUR. SO THAT'S ALL I, UH, HAD TO SAY. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS. ANY QUESTIONS? WELL, THANK YOU SIR. APPRECIATE IT. NIKKI MOORE WISHES TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. SO, NIKKI MOORE WITH MMA, WE'RE LOCATED FIVE 19, UM, EAST BORDER STREET IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS. WE'RE KIND OF HELPED TO HIRE, FACILITATE THIS ZONING CHANGE. I JUST REALLY WANNA DRIVE HOME, UM, THE POINT OF THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS LAND USE, UM, IT DOES HAVE A FANTASTIC LOCATION WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT, UM, THAT LAST MILE OF E-COMMERCE. YOU WANNA HAVE GREAT CONNECTIVITY TO THE HIGHWAY NETWORK, WHICH HERE IS 360 AND 1 21, UH, 1 61, AS WELL AS UTILIZING THE GRAND PRAIRIE AIRPORT. YOU'VE ALREADY INVESTED A LOT OF, UH, MONEY AND INFRASTRUCTURE INTO MAINTAINING YOUR GRAND PRAIRIE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. SO LET'S CONTINUE TO, TO BRING DEVELOPMENT AND TO BRING OTHER USES THAT REALLY SUPPORT AND ENHANCE THAT, THAT CITY ASSET AS WELL, UM, IN TERMS OF JUST ECONOMIC VIABILITY. UM, ALSO TOO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT BRINGING A LOT OF VALUE HERE IN TERMS OF JOBS, UM, HEADQUARTERS, UM, PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN GRAND PRAIRIE, THEY CAN DO ALL OF THAT IN THIS AREA AND REALLY ATTRACT NEW RESIDENTS, NEW RESIDENTS WITH DISPOSABLE INCOME, AS WELL AS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO WORK AND BRING THEIR KIDS HERE TO GO TO SCHOOL. UM, I ALSO THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT COMMERCIAL IS ALREADY ALLOWED HERE BY RIGHT. UM, SO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS ALSO TO HAVE DELIVERIES THAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT ODD HOURS DURING THE EVENING, STOCKING STORES AND THINGS LIKE THAT ALREADY ALLOWED BY, RIGHT. WHAT YOU'RE GETTING HERE IN THIS ZONING CHANGE IS A REALLY, UM, COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT. IT'S 38 ACRES. IT WOULD TAKE A LONG TIME AND PROBABLY A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT USERS TO COME IN HERE AND OCCUPY 38 ACRES, AS YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN, IT'S STILL UNDEVELOPED AND IT'S BEEN UNDEVELOPED SINCE GOD CREATED THE EARTH. AND SO NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING COMPREHENSIVE, UH, COHESIVE [01:35:01] DESIGN ACROSS A LOT OF ACREAGE, UM, WITH CONSISTENT LANDSCAPING AND A CONSISTENT LOOK THAT WILL REALLY ENHANCE THIS AREA OF ARLINGTON, OR SORRY, GRAND PRAIRIE AS YOU DRIVE THROUGH, UM, THIS MAJOR THOROUGHFARE THROUGH GRAND PRAIRIE. UM, ALSO IN ADDITION, SO WE DID A LOT OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH. UM, BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WE MET WITH SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS LEADERS. WE DID A PRESENTATION AT THE GRAND PRAIRIE ROTARY CLUB AT RUTHIE JACKSON CENTER. UM, AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY ON THE 10TH. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING WAS ON APRIL 14TH. SO THERE'S A FEW EXTRA DAYS IN THERE. UM, BUT WE, WE GOT TO PRESENT THIS AND THE ECONOMIC VALUE THAT IT WOULD BRING TO, TO THE ROTARY. SO SOME OF THOSE ARE YOUR CITY LEADERS WHO WERE IN THE, THAT ROTARY PRESENTATION AND ALSO GAINED SOME MORE LETTERS OF SUPPORT, WHICH ARE NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET BECAUSE THEY ARE OF COURSE OUTSIDE THAT 200 FOOT RADIUS THAT'S PERTAINING TO THIS EVENING. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, MR. MARSHALL WARD, DR. CAROLYN WICKER, UM, MS. VELLA MANIFE, SO THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY, UM, A PART OF YOUR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND THEY SEE THE ECONOMIC VALUE TO, TO DRIVE, UM, DEVELOPMENT HERE IN THIS AREA AND TO MAKE USE OF A CITY RESOURCE. SO AT THAT, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT. ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. YES, GO RIGHT AHEAD. UM, THANK YOU MS. NIKKI FOR THAT. UM, DID YOU GUYS, I KNOW YOU SAID THAT YOU SPOKE WITH A LOT OF CITY LEADERS, BUT DID ANYBODY EVER GET IN TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OPPOSING, OPPOSING? SO TODAY YOUR PROJECT MM-HMM . SO THE PERSON, THE, THE NAMES THAT WE SAW IN OPPOSITION, THE FIRST TIME WE SAW THOSE WERE TODAY, THEY WERE GIVEN TO US BY STAFF. AND SO, UM, ONCE AGAIN, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN. 'CAUSE LIKE I SAID, WE'VE PROVIDED LOTS OF DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES. WE SENT OUR OWN LETTERS OF NOTIFICATION, UM, PRIOR TO THE CITY'S NOTIFICATION GOING OUT AND WE WENT, WE EXPANDED THAT. WE USED A GIS SYSTEM TO PULL ADDRESSES WITHIN 500 FEET. 'CAUSE WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ADEQUATELY CAPTURING THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY. UM, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH, UM, REACHING OUT TO THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, GOING TO THE ROTARY CLUBS. SO LOTS OF OTHER DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PRESENTATION AND GIVE PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS. SO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY ENCOURAGE, LIKE I SAID, UM, MY CELL PHONE NUMBER, MR. TERRY'S CELL PHONE NUMBER WAS ON THAT FLYER. AND SO AT ANY POINT IN TIME, THOSE RESIDENTS WHO HAD AN OPPOSITION, UM, COULD HAVE REACHED OUT TO US AND HAD THAT CONVERSATION AND WE'RE STILL OPEN TO DOING THAT. 'CAUSE MAYBE SOME OF THEIR MIS UH, COULD HAVE JUST BEEN MISUNDERSTANDING OR NOT FULLY UNDERSTANDING AND THEY THINK, OH, INDUSTRIAL. RIGHT. I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF NEGATIVE CONNOTATION. THEY THINK IT'S GONNA BE OBNOXIOUS, USE A SMELLY USE KIND OF TYPE OF MANUFACTURING. AND THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE PRESENTING HERE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CLASS, A BUSINESS PARK, BRINGING A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT USES. UM, SOME OF THAT IS WAREHOUSE, BUT A LOT OF IT'S GOING TO BE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS, HR, AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS TOO THAT ARE NOT OBNOXIOUS. THEY'RE JOBS THAT PEOPLE REALLY WANNA HAVE HERE IN GRAND PRAIRIE. OKAY. I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER. JUST THAT IT, I MEAN, MAYBE IT MIGHT BE ENCOURAGING BEFORE YOU GO BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE ONE MORE MEETING TO TRY TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HAPPY WITH IT. BECAUSE I KNOW AS A RESIDENT SOMETIMES YOU SEE THESE NOTICES AND YOU JUST DON'T ALWAYS FEEL, YOU KNOW, LIKE, OKAY, IF I CALL THIS PERSON, ARE THEY REALLY GONNA LISTEN TO ME? YES. OR, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY REALLY GONNA HEAR ME OUT? SURE. ABSOLUTELY. BUT, UM, JUST FOR BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR TO THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, ESPECIALLY THE RESIDENTS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND A LOT OF CITY PEOPLE APPRO, I MEAN, ARE HAPPY WITH THIS, BUT ULTIMATELY YOU ARE GONNA BE A NEIGHBOR TO ALL THESE RESIDENTS AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT THAT EVERYBODY JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HAPPY WITH IT. YES. AND I THINK AT THIS POINT, NOW THAT WE HAVE SPECIFIC ADDRESSES OF THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSING, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO YEAH. BETWEEN TONIGHT AND THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, WHENEVER, WHERE WE CAN ABSOLUTELY HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND, AND GET IN TOUCH WITH THOSE FOLKS. YEAH. JUST TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR. YEAH. I, I AGREE. ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, JANIE. ANYBODY ELSE? NOPE. THANK YOU MA'AM. VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. WE HAVE NO FURTHER CARDS. AND COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, UM, THEY DO HAVE 30 FOOT BUFFER. UM, THEY HAVE ABOUT ABOUT 74 FEET DISTANCE, BUT THEN THEY HAVE A 45 FOOT TALL BUILDING. SO I CAN YEAH. SHOW YOU, BUT IT'S ABOUT THREE AND A HALF STORIES. I'M NOT GONNA LET YOU ESCAPE. I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION FOR YOU. OH, YEAH, OF COURSE. YEAH. SO, UM, IF YOU COULD PULL UP THE MAP WHERE IT'S MAYFIELD AND, UH, YEAH. UH, WHAT IS IT? WHATEVER THAT OTHER STREET WAS. UM, FORUM. YES. FORUM. MM-HMM . YES, SIR. MM-HMM . SO HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, THE, THE, NO, GO BACK ONE MORE. MM-HMM . THAT ONE. YEAH. YEAH. SO [01:40:01] THE CITY IS OKAY WITH A CAR ENTRANCE WHERE YOUR CURSOR IS, OR ON THAT SIDE. SO BRETT, DO YOU WANNA SPEAK ON THAT? YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, OPERATIONALLY IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE A DRIVEWAY THERE. THE RECOMMENDATION FROM TRANSPORTATION WAS THAT IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR TRUCKS OR THE POTENTIAL FOR COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC USING THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR INGRESS, EGRESS, YES. THAT THAT COULD BE REMOVED TO FURTHER REMOVE THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING TRUCKS THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YES. BUT IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS SEEMINGLY OKAY WITH THAT DRIVEWAY THERE, THEN WE DON'T REALLY HAVE AN OPPOSITION TO IT. BUT CAN WE MANDATE THAT IT HAS THE HEADACHE BAR OR, 'CAUSE I, I, I SEE TRUCKERS ALL THE TIMES, NO TRUCKS HERE, AND THEY, THEY, THEY GO, SO THE HEADACHE BAR, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO PUT ON THEIR PROPERTY. WE WOULDN'T WANNA PUT THAT IN IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. NO, NO. BUT THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE SIGNAGE, ANYTHING, ANYTHING ALONG THOSE, WE COULD HANDLE THAT DURING THE SITE PLAN PHASE. UM, THE ONE CONCERN THAT I HAD WAS IF WE NEED TO PUT LIKE A TURN LANE IN AT THAT MEDIAN BREAK, THERE'S SOME LANDSCAPING, LIGHTING, A MONUMENT SIGN, UH, SOMETHING'S THAT THE NEIGHBOR PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE IN FAVOR OF IF WE NEEDED TO DO THAT FOR THE TRAFFIC. UM, BUT WE MAY NOT NEED THAT. IT'S, IT'S, IT WAS GENERALLY JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NEIGHBOR WAS COMFORTABLE WITH THE USE BEING ADJACENT TO IT, NOT NECESSARILY AN OPERATIONAL, UH, CONCERN THAT WE HAD. I HEAR YOU. BUT I, I ACTUALLY, ONE THING THAT HE DID SAY THAT I KIND OF AGREED WITH IS THE IDEA OF HAVING 18 WHEELERS AND CARS COME IN IN THE SAME ENTRANCE. MM-HMM . DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. MM-HMM . YEAH. I, I AGREE. AND WE HAVE SITUATIONS WHERE THEY DO SHARE DRIVEWAYS. WE TRY TO AVOID IT. SO YEP. THINK OPERATIONALLY IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE THE DRIVEWAY AND FORUM IS MORE JUST A SEPARATION OF USES, UM, AS A WAY, IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THAT, THAT WAS AN OPTION THAT WE'D BE OKAY WITH. THAT'S, THAT'S ALL IT WAS. I'M, WE'RE COMFORTABLE REMOVING THAT RECOMMENDATION IF, UM, IF THE APPLICANT WANTS IT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T HAVE OPPOSITION TO IT. OKAY. THAT'S GOOD. MR. PERRY, I, I GUESS YOU CAN COME BACK UP. YEAH, GO AHEAD. I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, UH, IF IT PLEASES THE, THE COMMISSION, WE'D BE HAPPY TO INCLUDE THAT HEADACHE BAR AND INCORPORATE IT IN THE VERBIAGE. UM, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE. AND I THINK WE DID HAVE A PRIOR VERSION THAT GAVE YOU A SNIPPET OF, THERE YOU CAN SEE ON LOT ONE, THIS WAS THE ALTERNATE LOCATION THAT WE WERE PROPOSING MOVING IT FURTHER NORTH, SO IT DID NOT CONNECT WITH THE MEDIAN BRAKE. AND THAT WOULD MAKE IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT FOR A TRUCK TO EVER TRY AND, YOU KNOW, DO IT. THEY'RE, THEY'RE FURTHER AWAY FROM IT. SO THOSE ARE THINGS WE'RE COMFORTABLE DOING. AND THEN YOU'RE COMES, YOU'RE OKAY WITH DOING THAT WITH THE, THE FARTHER NORTHERN ENTRY WE ARE, YES, SIR. YEAH. IF THAT WOULD, UH, PLEASE, UH, PLEASE THE COMMISSION, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR ASKING THE QUESTION. SO I HAVE A QUESTION. OH, GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. UM, SO FOR RASHAD OR JULIE, WE HAVE A REQUEST IN FRONT OF US. WHAT IF WE WANTED TO ADD AN HOURS RESTRICTION TO IT? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO? UM, WE TYPICALLY DON'T RECOMMEND ADDING AN HOUR A RESTRICTION WHEN YOU HAVE A SUP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YOU CAN IMPOSE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS, BUT FOR A ZONING CHANGE, IT'S NOT GOING, IT'S NOTHING THAT WE CAN, BUT THERE'S NO SUP ASSOCIATED WITH THIS, ESPECIALLY IF HE GETS HIS CORRECT THING BY. RIGHT. THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING AT. SO THERE WOULD BE AN SUP ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPEN STORAGE, DEPENDING ON, HE WANTS THAT TO GO AWAY DEPENDING ON HOW YOU ALL VOTE. RIGHT. BUT JUST FOR THAT SPECIFIC USE, SO, SO THE OVERALL ZONING, UM, IT'S NOT GONNA HAVE, UH, HOURS, NO. YEAH. I WOULD RECOMMEND AGAINST PUTTING A, A TIME RESTRICTION AT THIS TIME JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE USE IS. ANY TIME RESTRICTION OR TIME CONDITION REALLY NEEDS TO BE REASONABLE, AND IT'S HARD TO MAKE AN ARGUMENT AS TO, UM, WHY THAT TIME RESTRICTION SHOULD BE PLACED THERE WITHOUT KNOWING THE USE. MM-HMM . UM, THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMME RECOMMENDATION AT THIS TIME. WELL, THAT'S NOT THE ANSWER I WAS LOOKING FOR. JUST SO YOU KNOW, MINE IS JUST A RECOMMENDATION IN OUR SYSTEM. I'M OPEN TO ANY DIS LISTEN, I THINK TY SAID IT BEST, THIS PARCEL IS SNAKE BIT. YOU GOT A, A WELL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE THAT'S GONNA BE THERE FOR AS LONG AS IT'S GONNA BE, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE TAKING OFF AND LANDING AIRPLANES OVER PART OF IT. RIGHT. THESE GUYS ARE SOLID CITIZENS. I, I, I THINK THEY DO GOOD DEVELOPMENT. UM, I APPRECIATE THE OUTWORK OUTREACH THAT [01:45:01] THEY DID. UM, I JUST, AND I'M EVEN, HE EVEN GOT ME TO THE POINT OF, UH, I'D BE WILLING TO, NO OFFENSE, JUNE, BUT I DO, I WOULD, I WOULD INDULGE HIM ON THE LANDSCAPE ISLAND THING, UH, ABOUT NOT REQUIRING THAT. UH, YEAH. I'M JUST, THE ONLY THING THAT CONCERNS ME ABOUT THIS IS THE, UH, THE HOURS OF OPERATION AND I, I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SQUARE THAT CIRCLE, BECAUSE IF IT CAN'T BE IN THE ZONING RESTRICTIONS, THEN, UH, AND YOU GIVE 'EM THIS BY RIGHT THEN, I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE THAT, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THE COUNCIL CAN DO, BUT I'M, I'M OPEN TO SOMEBODY CONVINCING ME OF MY VIEWPOINTS BEING WRONG. WELL, I DON'T THINK YOUR VIEWPOINTS ARE NECESSARILY, I, I DON'T THINK YOUR VIEWPOINTS ARE NECESSARILY WRONG. UM, I JUST THINK THAT IN, IN THE, IN THE BIGGER PICTURE OF THINGS, I'M LIKE, WELL, IF WE DON'T DO THIS WITH THIS LAND, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH IT? IT'S BEEN SITTING THERE FOREVER. RIGHT. SO THERE'S, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE. THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING IN, IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO, WHO WE, WHO EVEN WANTS TO DEVELOP IT WITH THAT BIG GAS BILL BEING THERE. RIGHT. I MEAN, WHO WANTS THAT? IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A VERY LEGITIMATE QUESTION. SO THEN WE GOING BACK TO LIKE, IF WE DON'T APPROVE THIS, THEN WHAT BECOMES OF THAT LAND? IT'S GONNA SIT THERE FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS. I MEAN, AND THEN IF YOU DO PUT SOMETHING LIKE RETAIL, WHICH IS JUST GONNA CREATE MORE TRAFFIC. WELL, WHERE'S RETAIL BEEN FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS? YEAH, PROBABLY. WHY THOUGH? IT'S BECAUSE OF THE WEEKEND TRAFFIC. I MEAN, THAT TRADE VILLAGE MIGHT, THAT GAS WILL ON THE AIRPORT, THE, I THINK ON THAT PART OF THE LAND WHERE THE AIRPORT IS, YOU CAN'T GO OVER, WHAT WAS IT, 10 FEET? MM-HMM . YEAH. YOU CAN'T BUILD A BUILDING THAT'S THAT SMALL. I MEAN, AGAIN, IT'S, I I HATE, I MEAN, I'M, I'M SORRY, I DON'T HATE GRAND PRAIRIE DOESN'T NEED MORE BIG WAREHOUSES, BUT THIS WOULD BE AN INSTANCE WHERE I'D BE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN THAT. IT'S JUST ABOUT THE HOURS. I FEEL THE SAME WAY. ACTUALLY, INITIALLY I WAS LEANING NOT TO SUPPORT IT, BUT AFTER HEARING THE PRESENTATION AND THE PRODUCT, I MEAN, UM, AND, UH, BEING LANDLOCKED, I WOULD JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL BE GOOD, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING ALL THE OPTIONS. THERE'S NO COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, WILL NOT BE, UH, HASN'T BEEN, YOU KNOW, UH, WOULD HAVE TO HAVE HIS ZONE CHANGE ANYWAY. NOBODY WANTS TO BE AROUND A, SO, I MEAN, UH, I WOULD SUPPORT US MOVING FORWARD AND MAKING THE RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THIS. THIS JUST, THIS IS JUST ME. SO WHAT ABOUT HIS, UM, WHAT ABOUT HIS IDEA ABOUT NO SUP ON THE, UH, ON THE TEMPORARY STORAGE? BECAUSE THAT'S THE TEMP. THE NO, THE NO SUP ON THE TEMPORARY STORAGE AND THE HOURS ARE THE THING THAT'S GIVEN ME HEARTBURN. ME PERSONALLY. MM-HMM . NOT Y'ALL, BUT ME. JUST FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES, IT'S OUTDOOR STORAGE, NOT TEMPORARY STORAGE. YEAH. I'M SORRY, DID I SAY TEMPORARY? MM-HMM . YOU DID. I MEANT, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT CLEAR. I MEANT GONNA SAY CLEAR. IF IT WAS PERMITTED, IT WOULD BE ABLE TO BE, I'M SORRY, OUTDOOR STORAGE. YEAH. BUT EVEN OUTDOOR STORAGE, WOULDN'T IT BE, WOULD HAVE SOME CODE AROUND OUTDOOR STORAGE AS TO WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO? IT CANNOT JUST BE M ANYTHING IN EVERYTHING, RIGHT. IT WOULD HAVE TO BE, I MEAN, JUST COVERED WALL COVERED THOSE KINDS OF THINGS FROM THE, FROM THE STREETS. , THAT'S WHERE THE SUP COMES IN, WHERE WE CAN LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY WHAT THEY'RE STORING OUTSIDE AND ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES CASE BY CASE. SO YOU, YOU CAN SIT DOWN MR. TERRY. SO, SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS IF HE GETS IT BY RIGHT, THEN HE CAN STORE ANYTHING OUT THERE IN ANY KIND OF CONDITION. HE'D BE LIMITED BY CURRENT STANDARDS IN THE UDC FOR, FOR WHAT WE CAN REQUIRE WITH REGARD TO SCREENING AND ET CETERA. BUT WE WON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT PRODUCT WILL BE. SO, UM, UNTIL LI TENANT MOVES IN YEAH. THE ADDITIONAL SUP CONDITIONS THAT Y'ALL MIGHT SAY, WELL, LET ME ADD THIS HERE, OR ADD THAT THERE. WE WON'T HAVE THE, THAT FLEXIBILITY COMMISSIONERS, IF I COULD JUST SAY WE, WE WERE VOLUNTARILY, UM, AGREEING TO DO AN EIGHT FOOT SCREEN WALL AROUND THAT WHOLE AREA THAT WOULD MATCH THE ONE AROUND THE SOUTHERN PROPERTY AND THEN WRAP AROUND THE EAST AND THE NORTH OF THAT PROPERTY. SO IT WOULD BE SCREENED, IT WOULD BE SECURED, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'D BE, YOU KNOW, IT'S ON OUR SITE POINTED OUT, AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO YOU INCORPORATING THAT WITH YOUR APPROVAL. SO THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. WITH THAT, I MEAN, THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER. I JUST, BECAUSE I THINK IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THE DILEMMA CORRECTLY, IF HE GETS IT BY RIGHT THEN, THERE'S NEVER ANY OVERSIGHT ON WHAT HE CAN STORE THERE OTHER THAN THE UDC, RIGHT? WE GO THROUGH STRAIGHT THROUGH THE SITE PLAN PROCESS SHOWING WHAT THEY'RE GONNA STORE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UDC STANDARDS. RIGHT. AND IF WE GO SITE [01:50:01] PLAN, THEN ON A, ALMOST ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS, WE GET A CHANCE TO SAY WE LIKE THAT OR DON'T LIKE THAT. RIGHT. THE S-U-P-S-U-P, I'M SORRY. SORRY. SUP. UM, BUT I DIDN'T SEE, DID I MISS A JUNE ABOUT THE IDEA ABOUT FENCING? THE, SO AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT REALLY A RESTRICTION ON WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT STORE. SO YES, HAY FENCE WILL DEFINITELY HELP, BUT TYPICAL 18 WHEELER TRUCK'S HEIGHTS ARE 13 FEET AND THEY COULD STORE EQUIPMENT, AS HE MENTIONED, THEY CAN DO TRUCK REPAIR SHOP WHERE THE HEAVY TRUCKS COME IN AND REPAIR AND GET STORED. SO AGAIN, THAT'S WHY WE THINK SUP WILL GIVE US BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE OPERATIONAL WILL WORK AND WHAT ATION WE CAN IMPOSE. SO HOW DO WE PUT AN SUP TO IT THERE? JUNE? SO AGAIN, UM, STEPH WANTED THAT CONDITION FIVE TO REMAIN. AS LONG AS YOU DON'T REMOVE THAT, THAT GOES TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR FINAL DETERMINATION. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. WHOSE DISTRICT IS THIS? MALCOLM. MALCOLM. UGH, I KNOW. NONE OF OURS. CAN WE GET MALCOLM ON THE PHONE? NO. DOES ANYBODY WANNA MAKE A MOTION OR DO YOU GUYS WANT ME TO TRY TO MAKE A MOTION? YOU GO AHEAD. GO FOR IT. UM, BEFORE I DO, SO, UH, I'M CON UH, I HEAR WHAT JULIA SAID ABOUT THE HOURS MM-HMM . UM, AND I'M WILLING TO NOT REQUIRE THE LANDSCAPING ISLANDS BECAUSE I, I UNDERSTAND WHY HE DOESN'T WANT IT IN THE, I THINK HE CALLED 'EM TRUCK COURTS, BUT THE, UH, EIGHT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING THE EIGHT FOOT FENCE AROUND WHAT'S GONNA BE THE STORAGE FACILITY HELPS, BUT IT DOESN'T LIKE TO, JUNE SAID IT DOESN'T ADDRESS EVERYTHING. I CAN COMBINE SIX AND SEVEN TOGETHER. YOU CAN, YEAH. OKAY. SO, UM, MIGHT BE CLEANER. I'M SORRY. OH, TABLE IT. NO, PLEASE DON'T. NO, I, I DIDN'T WANT TO, I WASN'T, I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT TABLING IT UNLESS YOU, IF THERE'S A COMPELLING NEED THAT I'M MISSING, PLEASE CAN, CAN YOU SPEAK IN THE MIC SO EVERYBODY CAN HEAR WHAT YOUR DISCUSSION IS? THANK YOU. I ASK IF, IF THE, UM, IF IT WAS AN OPTION FOR US TO TABLE IT AND TO THE COMMISSIONER WHO, UH, IS REPRESENTING DISTRICT TWO WOULD BE HERE, YOU DO HAVE THAT DISCRETION TO TABLE IT. HOW, UM, THAT IS AN OPTION THAT THE COMMISSION HAS AS WELL. WHY AT THE 11TH HOURS, I'M GETTING READY TO MAKE A MOTION. YOU COME UP WITH IDEAS LIKE THIS. UM, I, TY I'M PERSONALLY, I, I DON'T KNOW. UM, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. IT'S, NO, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S FINE. I, I DO WANNA REITERATE THOUGH, WE DON'T HAVE A REQUIREMENT IN THE UDC. I KNOW IT'S YOUR PRACTICE THAT THE PERSON WHOSE DISTRICT IS IN MAKES A MOTION THAT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT IN THE UDC AND IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL BE HERE TO VOTE ON IT. BUT I, I UNDERSTAND. I JUST, UH, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL GO FOR IT. GO, GO. IF, IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND VOTE TO APPROVE ITEM SIX AND ITEM SEVEN TOGETHER, UM, WITH, UH, THE STRIKING OF, UM, THE DRC RECOMMENDATION FOR THE, THE NUMBER SEVEN. NUMBER SEVEN, YES SIR. STRIKING NUMBER SEVEN. MM-HMM . AND, UH, STRIKING NUMBER FIVE? NO. OKAY. LEAVE NUMBER FIVE IN, UH, STRIKING NUMBER SEVEN, STRIKING NUMBER SEVEN ONLY IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND THAT, UM, UM, BRETT DID BRING UP A POINT. DID YOU GUYS WANT TO ALSO REMOVE NUMBER TWO ABOUT THE FOREARM DRIVE? YES. OKAY. SO, BUT ALSO TWO AND SEVEN UHHUH TWO AND SEVEN, BUT HOW DO WE CHANGE TWO SO THAT HE DOES THAT ONE THAT'S FARTHER AWAY THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE THE MEDIAN CUT? OR DO YOU DON'T, YOU CAN JUST TRY AGAIN? YEAH, WE CAN, YEAH. AND THEN WE WILL DESIGN IT DURING SITE PLAN AND THEN YEAH. THAT SIDE PLAN WE'LL MM-HMM . FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE IS BEST. OKAY. WELL, THIS IS A VERY LONG AND CONVOLUTED MOTION, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU ALSO HELPING THIS REGARD. SO I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND VOTE TO APPROVE ITEM SIX AND SEVEN AS A COMBINATION PER DRC RECOMMENDATIONS, STRIKING [01:55:01] NUMBER TWO AND STRIKING NUMBER SEVEN. I SECOND THAT. I SECOND, SO I HAVE A, RIGHT NOW I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MYSELF TO VOTE TO APPROVE. WELL, WAIT A MINUTE. I'M SORRY. DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION, TY? NO. WE HAVEN'T. OKAY. UM, MOTION BY MYSELF. AND, UH, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ TO APPROVE WITH THE STRIKE OF ITEMS TWO AND ITEM SEVEN OF THE DRC RECOMMENDATIONS. ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? NOPE. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR? PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. UH, WHAT IS THAT? FIVE ALL OPPOSED TO TWO. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO TWO. WE NUMBER EIGHT, [8. CPA-26-05-0009 – Comprehensive Plan Update. An ordinance of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas adopting a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Grand Prairie, which updates all previous Comprehensive Plans, the Future Land Use Map, the Thoroughfare Map and Community Facility Plans; and making this ordinance cumulative; providing a severability clause; and declaring an effective date ] I GUESS. MR. JACOBSON, DID YOU WANT TO SKIP? SO, PNC COMMISSION WE'RE THE FINAL ITEM FOR TONIGHT, OUR ADOPTION OF THE, UH, RECOMMEND RECOMMENDATION FOR THE GRAND PRAIRIE EPICENTER PLAN. PNCS RECOMMENDATION. WE DID THE WORKSHOP AT THE LAST MEETING AND WE FORWARDED THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT TO Y'ALL FOR ADDITIONAL COMMENT IF NEEDED. UM, AND DAVID'S JUST GONNA GIVE A, A SYNOPSIS OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED LAST TIME, AND WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE A MOTION OR HEAR ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM YOU. COMMISSION. GLAD TO BE BACK BEFORE YOU, AGAIN, HONORED TO BE THE LAST ITEM ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT. I KNOW IT'S LATE, SO I, I THINK I PROMISED LAST TIME A, A FIVE MINUTE PRESENTATION. I'LL, I'LL TRY TO STICK TO THAT. UM, WE HAD A VERY THOROUGH, UH, OVERVIEW LAST TIME AT THE, AT THE BRIEFING SESSION WHERE WE COVERED IN, UH, PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DETAIL ALL OF THE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THE, UH, EPICENTER PLAN. SO KEEP IT VERY HIGH LEVEL, UM, THIS TIME. BUT CERTAINLY WOULD LIKE TO, TO HEAR ANY FEEDBACK OR, OR QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. UH, NOW THAT YOU'VE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO, TO SIT WITH THE, UH, THE ENTIRE PLAN, UM, WERE YOU TO RECOMMEND, UH, APPROVAL TONIGHT? OUR NEXT STOP WOULD BE CITY COUNCIL FOR, FOR FORMAL, UM, ADOPTION. UM, SO AGAIN, THIS IS A HIGH LEVEL PLAN. IT'S INTENDED TO BE VISIONARY. IT'S INTENDED TO BUILD ON, UM, A LOT OF THE, THE GREAT THINGS THAT HAVE GONE ON AT IN PARTICULAR, UH, IN THIS, UH, AREA, UM, THAT'S REALLY MARKED BY BIG INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, WHETHER THAT'S JOE POOLE LAKE OR, OR GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE OR, UM, EPIC AND EPIC WATERS WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING TO SEE HOW WE CAN BUILD ON THAT AND HOW WE CAN DO THE, THE NEXT GREAT THING, UH, WITHIN THIS AREA. SO, WITH THAT IN MIND, WE WORKED WITH P AND ZS, THE, THE STEERING COMMITTEE OR ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THIS PLAN, UH, TO HELP DEVELOP THE, THE VISION STATEMENT THAT YOU SEE, UH, BEFORE YOU. UH, THIS WAS ALSO WORKSHOPPED, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH A SERIES OF OPEN HOUSES AND, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS. UM, WE ALSO MET WITH, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE TO FURTHER REFINE THIS, THIS VISION STATEMENT. SO CRAFTED, SOMETHING THAT, THAT REALLY CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF WHAT THE, THE EPICENTER AREA IS. UM, IT'S, IT'S THE HUB FOR, UH, FOR COMMERCE, UH, WITHIN THE AREA. AND YES, THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE, UH, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND, AND ALSO OFFICE DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL. UM, AND IT'S ALSO OUR, OUR ENTERTAINMENT HUB, UH, HERE IN, IN GRAND PRAIRIE. IT'S A DESTINATION THAT, UH, HAS GROWN IN ITS APPEAL, UM, FOR, FOR THE AREA, UM, ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST 10 TO 15 YEARS. UH, THIS IS SUPPORTED BY THE, THE VALUES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED, UH, THROUGH OUR ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND ALSO, UH, THROUGH OUR INTERACTIONS WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. UM, THESE SUPPORT, UM, ALL OF OUR, OUR RECOMMENDED ACTIONS. SO WITHIN THE IMPLEMENTATION SECTION, UH, OF, OF THE PLAN THAT WAS INTRODUCED TO YOU, UM, LAST TIME DURING THE BRIEFING SESSION, UM, WHERE I DO WANT TO, TO SLOW DOWN JUST A, A LITTLE BIT AND FOCUS ON, UM, THE ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT THAT WE DID WITH OUR PARTNERS AT, AT CATALYST COMMERCIAL. UM, WE REALLY WANTED TO LOOK AT WHAT IS THAT DEMAND WITHIN THE AREA FOR, UH, FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF, OF DEVELOPMENT, WHETHER THAT'S COMMERCIAL, RETAIL, UM, INDUSTRIAL OR, OR HOUSING THAT, THAT WAS BROUGHT UP EARLIER. UM, BECAUSE THE EPICENTER AREA REALLY REPRESENTS, UM, THE, UH, THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY THAT'S OCCURRED WITHIN GRAND PRAIRIE, UM, SINCE 2015. BUT REALLY GOING BACK EVEN FURTHER, UM, IT'S HAD A HALF OF THE, [02:00:01] THE RETAIL GROWTH, UH, WITHIN THE CITY, UM, NOW HAS, UH, 6.9 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF, OF RETAIL OUT OF THE 9.8 MILLION, UH, THAT'S FOUND, UH, CITYWIDE. SO YOU, YOU HAVE, UM, ABOUT THREE QUARTERS, UM, OF THE, THE TOTAL, UM, RETAIL AREA WITHIN THE CITY. SO RETAIL DOES THRIVE, UH, WITHIN THIS AREA, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT. SO WE HAVE GREAT HIGHWAY ACCESS HERE. UM, IT ALSO HAS PART OF ONE OF THE LARGEST INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, UH, WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. UH, 80 MILLION SQUARE FEET. UH, WE'RE RIGHT AT THE SOUTHERN, UM, END OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST, UH, INDUSTRIAL PARK. SO WE DO THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO, TO KEEP, UM, BEING A, A DEMAND. UH, SO YOU CAN SEE DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM, THERE'S AN ANNUAL DEMAND FOR OWNER OCCUPIED UNITS, UH, OF HOUSING, AS WELL AS RENTER OCCUPIED UNITS. THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A SINGLE FAMILY MULTIFAMILY SPLIT. THAT'S JUST DEMAND FOR, UH, PEOPLE WHO WANT TO OWN VERSUS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO RENT. UM, THAT BREAKS DOWN TO ABOUT A THOUSAND PLUS, UH, OWNER OCCUPIED UNITS A YEAR, AND THEN ABOUT 729 RENTER OCCUPIED UNITS A YEAR. UM, THERE'S ALSO SOME OFFICE DEMANDS, UH, THAT MAY REPRESENT A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE BUILD, UH, PURPOSE BUILT OFFICE, UH, RATHER THAN SPEC OFFICE. UM, BUT THERE IS A DEMAND OF ABOUT 30,000 SQUARE FEET PER YEAR, UM, THAT RETAIL DEMAND IS, IS STILL STEADY. UH, AND THEN THE INDUSTRIAL DEMAND, UH, AS WE SPOKE ABOUT BEFORE. SO THE REASON I I BRING THIS UP AND KIND OF FOCUS ON THIS IS THAT WE TOOK THESE NUMBERS WITH OUR, UM, OUR, OUR FRIENDS AT, AT CATALYST. AND AS WE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT AREAS WITHIN THE EPICENTER AREA THAT WE'RE PRIMED FOR EITHER DEVELOPMENT OR REDEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE WE'RE DOWN TO ABOUT THE LAST 3% OF UNDEVELOPED LAND WITHIN THE AREA, UM, IS OUR RECOMMENDATION SUPPORTABLE, UH, ONCE WE ACTUALLY GO OUT AND ASK THE MARKET TO DELIVER, UM, ON, UH, DEVELOPING THOSE, THOSE UNDEVELOPED PARCELS. SO, UM, AGAIN, WE, WE LOOK THROUGH, UM, A LOT OF THOSE DIFFERENT CATALYST AREAS, UH, IN DETAIL AT THE BRIEFING SESSION. SO WE WON'T NECESSARILY GO THROUGH ALL THOSE, UM, AGAIN, IN, IN DETAIL TONIGHT, UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON THOSE. UM, BUT THE REASON WE DID THAT MARKET ANALYSIS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WEREN'T, UM, OVERREACHING AND, UH, DREAMING IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS. UH, WE WANTED TO STAY WITHIN, UH, SOMETHING THAT WAS REALISTIC. YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE AREA AROUND TRADER VILLAGE OR THE I 20 CORRIDOR, UH, OR BELT LINE, UM, OR FURTHER SOUTH, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THE MARKET COULD ACTUALLY DELIVER, UM, AND BUILD ON ON WHAT HAS BEEN A, UM, A REALLY BIG, UH, EMPLOYMENT AREA, UH, BUILD ON THE, THE GROWTH THAT THAT'S OCCURRING WITHIN THE CITY. AND THAT'S PROJECTED TO GROW, UM, WITHIN THE EPICENTER AREA AT A SLIGHTLY HIGHER RATE THAN, THAN THE CITY OVERALL. UM, WE WANTED TO ALIGN WITH, UH, WITH, UH, EFFORTS THAT THE, THAT THE CITY HAS DONE, UH, RECENTLY WITH, UH, WITH THE BIKE, UH, MASTER PLAN AND ALSO THE PARKS MASTER PLAN. UM, SO AS WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR, OUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT THAT'S WITHIN THE, THE REALM OF, UH, OF WHAT'S REALISTIC. SO, AGAIN, NOT TO, TO GO OVER THIS IN, IN TOO GREAT DETAIL BECAUSE WE, WE WENT OVER IT DURING OUR, OUR BRIEFING, UH, LAST WEEK. BUT IN TERMS OF OUR, OUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP, UM, WE ARE INTRODUCING A, A COUPLE OF NEW, UM, FUTURE LAND USE DISTRICTS, UH, TO THE MAP IN TERMS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND THE MIXED USE, UH, RECREATION, UM, TO AGAIN, REFLECT, UH, THE IDENTITY OF THE AREA AS A DESTINATION, UH, AND A PLACE WHERE FOLKS CAN COME FROM ALL OVER NORTH TEXAS AND, AND DO A VARIETY OF THINGS. UH, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, YOU CAN, YOU CAN FIND IT IN THIS AREA. SO WE WANTED TO BUILD, UH, ON THAT WITH OUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP. SO, UM, AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, UH, 20 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE WHERE, UH, GRAND PRAIRIE STARTS TO APPROACH BUILD OUT, AND THIS AREA STARTS TO APPROACH BUILD OUT WHAT, WHAT ARE THOSE POPULATION NUMBERS LOOKING LIKE? UM, SB EIGHT 40, KIND OF THROUGH A KINK INTO THAT, SO THAT WE'VE KIND OF GOTTA PROJECT IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, KIND OF NOT KNOWING, UM, WHAT OUR ULTIMATE RESIDENTIAL PROFILE IS, IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. WE KNOW THERE IS A HIGH END. IT'S VERY UNLIKELY THAT THAT HIGH END IS, UH, IS REACHED. AND WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA SETTLE, UM, A LITTLE BIT CLOSER IN THE, THE 150,000 RANGE, UM, WITHIN THIS, UH, THIS PARTICULAR AREA. UM, BUT AGAIN, THAT ANNUAL DEMAND IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO, UH, TO DRIVE GROWTH. THE QUESTION IS JUST WHERE IS IT GOING TO GO? HOW DIFFICULT IS IT GOING TO BE TO, TO DEVELOP SITES? THAT'S WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PROPERTIES THAT ARE ENCUMBERED BY THINGS LIKE GAS WELLS AND AIRPORT OVERLAYS, UM, THAT, THAT A LOT OF THE EASY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN. SO REALLY THE PURPOSE OF THIS PLAN IS TO, TO GUIDE, UM, THOSE DISCUSSIONS, UH, TO HELP GIVE THE CITY SOME TOOLS, UM, TO WORK WITH DEVELOPERS, UM, TO ARTICULATE A VISION, UH, FOR EACH OF THESE AREAS, EACH OF THESE CATALYST SITES. [02:05:01] SO, UM, THIS IS TRADERS VILLAGE, WHICH WE LOOKED AT LAST TIME. UM, JUST WANTED TO, UH, PROVIDE A VISUAL OF HOW LARGE THAT THAT SITE IS, UH, THAT IS AT AND T STADIUM, UH, THERE IN THE MIDDLE, UM, TO SCALE. UM, SO WE, UH, WE WORKED, UH, REALLY HARD AT, AT AS FAR AS I'M AWARE. UM, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GRAND PERRY'S HISTORY, WE HAD A, UH, A CHARETTES, UH, A WORKING, UM, DAY LONG, UM, PROJECT WHERE WE SAT DOWN AND WE DREW ON MAPS, AND WE SAID, OKAY, WHAT CAN WE DO ON, ON THESE SITES WITH THESE PROPERTIES THAT ARE, THAT ARE YET TO BE UNDEVELOPED? REALIZED THAT THERE'S SOME MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE MADE AROUND THE TRADER'S VILLAGE SITE. UM, YOU KNOW, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT FORUM DRIVE AND KIND OF SOME OF THE ACCESS ISSUES AND SOME OF THE TRAFFIC, UH, CONCERNS WITHIN THAT AREA, EXTENDING FORM DRIVE, UM, SO THAT WE'RE CONNECTING THE NORTHERN AND AND SOUTHERN SEGMENTS, UH, WAS SEEN AS A, AS A PRIORITY, BUT THEN WHAT TO DO, YOU KNOW, ABOUT TRADERS VILLAGE, SINCE THAT'S CUTTING THROUGH SOME OF THEIR SITES. SO, UH, RECONFIGURING THAT, ALLOWING MORE, MORE SPACE FOR, UM, SOME INDUSTRIAL AND, UM, AND, UH, PRODUCTION, UM, LAND TO BE FREED UP THERE. AND YES, THERE'S SOME, SOME RETAIL DOWN THERE, UH, ON THE SOUTHERN END. UH, THE KEY TO THIS, I, I THINK WOULD BE ESTABLISHING, AGAIN, SOMETHING THAT'S DESTINATION ORIENTED, UH, RATHER THAN NECESSARILY PURELY MARKET DRIVEN, UM, THAT WOULD BUILD OFF OF, UH, WHAT THE ENTIRE AREA HAS BECOME, PARTICULARLY ALONG GEORGE BUSH. UM, AND ALSO PROVIDING PARKING. UH, THE ONE THING THAT THAT AREA HAS RIGHT NOW IS A LOT OF PARKING, UM, THAT IS SOMETIMES NEEDED, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THAT AERIAL PHOTO, UH, WHERE THAT'S A PRETTY FULL PARKING LOT. SO PRESERVING THAT, UH, WITHIN THAT AREA, UM, IS, IS WHAT, WHAT WE MADE A PRIORITY THERE. AND ALSO, UM, INCLUDING SOME, SOME HOUSING WITHIN THAT AREA TO ACT AS A BUFFER WITH THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE SOUTH. SO, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST ONE POSSIBILITY. UM, THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE LOOKED AT TO ARTICULATE THE VISION THAT THE CITY HAS. UH, FOR THE AREA. UH, WE DID, UM, DO SOME NUMBER CRUNCHING TO MAKE SURE THAT FROM A PROPERTY TAX AND SALES TAX STANDPOINT, THIS WOULD PUT THE CITY IN A, IN A POSITIVE POSITION, UM, OVER TIME AS, AS THE AREA BUILDS OUT, UM, AND THAT THE CITY COULD PARTNER, UH, AGAIN, ON GETTING THAT ROAD EXTENSION THAT MIGHT BE AN UPFRONT COST TO THE CITY, BUT THE, UH, THE BENEFITS OVER TIME WOULD, UH, WOULD, WOULD PROVE OUT. UM, SO AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO TO FOCUS ON THAT ONE. UM, IN PARTICULAR, WE LOOKED AT A LOT OF DIFFERENT CATALYST SITES, WHICH WERE PRESENTED BEFORE. UM, IT'S NOT TO SAY THAT SOMETHING SIMILAR COULDN'T HAPPEN ON, ON THOSE SITES. UM, WE ALSO DID MARKET ANALYSIS ON, ON EACH OF THOSE, UH, TO, TO SEE, UM, WHAT SORT OF DEVELOPMENT WOULD NEED TO HAPPEN TO, AGAIN, MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT, UH, ON THE CITY, UM, FROM A FISCAL STANDPOINT. UH, BUT THIS IS ONE CONCEPT, UH, THAT THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PLAN, UH, TO REALLY KIND OF DRIVE FORWARD THAT, UH, THAT VISION, UM, FOR THE AREA BUILD ON THE DESTINATION ORIENTED, UH, IDENTITY OF, OF THE EPICENTER, AND BE KIND OF THAT NEXT BIG MOVE. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S IN THE SAME VEIN AS YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IN THIS AREA FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS. UM, SO AGAIN, I, I WON'T GO INTO ANY OF THE OTHER CATALYST SITES IN, IN GREAT DETAIL UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY, ANY QUESTIONS ON THOSE OR, OR ANY COMMENTS. UM, WE COVERED ALL OF THIS IN OUR, OUR LAST MEETING, INCLUDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLETENESS PROFILES. HOPEFULLY YOU HAD A CHANCE TO, TO REVIEW THOSE IN, IN GREATER DETAIL ALONG WITH THE THOROUGH PLAN THOROUGHFARE PLAN UPDATE. WE'RE NOT PROPOSING ANY CHANGES TO THAT, UM, EXCEPT TO CONSIDER SOME FLEXIBLE DESIGN STANDARDS IN THE FUTURE. UH, BASED ON THE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT, WE INTRODUCED THREE DIFFERENT CONTEXT ZONES, UM, SO THAT AS THE CITY IS, IS BUILDING OUT IN THE FUTURE, UM, THOSE CORRIDORS, UH, CAN BE RIGHT SIZED TO INCORPORATE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MOBILITY PRIORITIES WITHIN THE NEXT 20 YEARS. WE'RE KIND OF SPECULATING ON SOME, WHILE OTHERS ARE STARTING TO KIND OF COME INTO, INTO CLOSER FOCUS ON A, A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. SO, UH, ONE EMPHASIS OF THIS PLAN IS THAT IT BE FLEXIBLE AND THAT IT ADAPT TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND, AND NEW TRENDS, UM, AS, AS WE GO THROUGH THE, THE NEXT 10 OR 20 YEARS AS WE START TO BUILD OUT THIS AREA. UM, SO AGAIN, HAPPY TO ANSWER, UM, ANY QUESTIONS. I'D LOVE TO HEAR ANY COMMENTS OR OR IMPRESSIONS THAT, THAT YOU RECEIVED FROM, UH, REVIEWING THE PLAN. UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE CAN COVER, UH, ANY OF THAT, BUT WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU FOR TONIGHT, UM, IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION. AND THEN WE WILL, UH, WE WILL TAKE THE PLAN TO, UH, TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, SOMETIME IN JUNE. ANY COMMENTS? ANY QUESTIONS? GO AHEAD, FRANK. YEAH, I HAVE A, JUST A COMMENT AND OBSERVATION, ESPECIALLY ON THOSE CATALYST SITES. I MEAN, THE, YOU POINTED OUT AT TRADERS VILLAGE AND THERE'S OTHERS, UM, THOSE ARE JUST RECOMMENDATIONS, RIGHT? I MEAN, JUST, YOU KNOW, I'M ASSUMING THE CITY DOESN'T OWN THOSE PROPERTIES, [02:10:01] CORRECT? I MEAN, THE, WHEN, WHEN THE CITY DOESN'T OWN A PROPERTY, AND, AND, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, UM, UH, I THINK IN THE, THE VAST MAJORITY OF CASES, THE, THE CITY DOES NOT OUTRIGHT OWN, UM, ANY OF THOSE PROPERTIES. UM, BUT THE ENTIRE PLAN IS, IS INTENDING TO ARTICULATE A VISION. SO IF, IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT, THAT THERE'S FORCES ON THE, THE PRIVATE SECTOR SIDE AS WELL, THAT, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES AND IN SOME CASES MAYBE THE NUMBERS WORK, AND IN SOME CASES THEY DON'T. TRADER VILLAGE REPRESENTED A PARTICULAR OPPORTUNITY GIVEN HOW CLOSE IT IS TO THE AIRPORT, UM, IN BETWEEN 1 61 AND 360, AND THEN THE EXTENSION OF FORUM DRIVE, UM, THAT IF THAT OPPORTUNITY EVER CAME ABOUT, THAT THE CITY IS COMING FORWARD WITH, UH, WITH AN ARTICULATED VISION OF WHAT THEY WANT THAT, UM, AREA TO LOOK LIKE, SO THAT THE, THEY'RE NOT JUST IN THE POSITION OF RESPONDING TO, UM, A PROPOSAL THAT'S WORKED OUT BETWEEN TWO PRIVATE ENTITIES. THANK YOU. AND, AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE, THE LEVEL OF EFFORT AND THE DETAILED PLANNING HAS GONE INTO THIS, ESPECIALLY THE FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY. THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, A LOT OF INFORMATION. I MEAN, THE DOCUMENTS OVER 200 PAGES, BUT MORE THAN HALF OF THAT SEEM TO BE JUST FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY THERE. SO TAKING THOSE THINGS INTO ACCOUNT, I MEAN, IT'S, UH, VERY PROUD OF GRAND PRAIRIE, WHAT'S WHAT IT IS. BUT, UH, WHERE WE COME FROM, IT'S BEEN A LONG WAY. SO CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE. SO THANK YOU. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. I, I KINDA, I WANNA SECOND THOSE THOUGHTS. UH, IT'S A GOOD PLAN. UM, I'M HOPING, I'M HOPING HALF OF IT COMES TO FRUITION AS YOU SEE. I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU THOUGH. YES, SIR. IT'S JUST A HYPOTHETICAL. UM, THERE ARE GONNA BE SOME CHANGES TO THE FLU THAT YOU'RE PROPOSING IN THIS. IF, WOULD YOU BE OKAY WITH, IF THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT HAD ACTIVE APPLICATIONS OR ACTIVITIES IN FRONT OF THE PE, THE, THE, THE COM THE, THE, THE STAFF CURRENTLY THEY WOULD BE GRANDFATHERED IN AGAINST THOSE CHANGES. 'CAUSE SOME PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE PUT IN APPLICATIONS ABOUT MM-HMM . SO THIS WOULD BE TREATED JUST LIKE ANY OTHER APPLICATION TO CHANGE FUTURE LAND USE MAP. AND ONCE ADOPTED BY COUNCIL, IT'LL BE SET. UM, I'LL NOTE THAT WE'VE CONSIDERED THE INPUT AS, UH, COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ NOTED FROM EVERYONE. UM, AND IN THOSE INSTANCES WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SPECIFIC PROPERTIES HERE. UH, EVEN IF WE CHANGED IT TO WHAT THEY WANT, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY GUARANTEE A ZONE CHANGE. IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY GUARANTEE, UH, ANY APPROVALS. SO WE FEEL AS THOUGH, BASED ON THE CITIZENS' INPUT THAT WE'VE GUIDED, WAS GUIDED WITH THIS PLAN THAT WHAT WE PROPOSED IS WHAT THE CITIZENS HAVE WANTED, AND WE WANNA MAINTAIN THAT. OKAY. JUST ONE OTHER OBSERVATION. HOW DO WE PRIORITIZE THIS? 'CAUSE THIS IS JUST A LOT. UH, HOW DOES THAT, HOW DOES THAT WORK? AND THAT'S THE REALLY THE ROLE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION SECTION OF THE PLAN. SO NOT THE VERY BACK 'CAUSE THAT CONTAINS ALL THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK THAT, UM, THAT YOU MENTIONED. UM, BUT THE, THE LARGE TABLE THAT'S DIVIDED UP BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT TOPICS OF, OF THE PLAN IN SOME CASES, THE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, IS INTENDED TO PRIORITIZE BASED ON IS THIS A SHORT TERM ACTION OR A MEDIUM TERM ACTION OR LONG TERM ACTION. UM, AND THAT, THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A DIRECT, OKAY, SHORT TERM ACTIONS WE DO NEXT YEAR, MEDIUM TERM ACTIONS WE HAVE TO DO IN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE YEARS. UM, IT'S INTENDED TO KIND OF HELP COUNCIL SEE THE BIG PICTURE OF, YOU KNOW, WE COULD USE SOME, SOME QUICK WINS IN THIS AREA. UM, OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, SO WE NEED TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS. UH, BUT HERE'S SOME, SOME SHORT TERM ACTIONS THAT WE CAN TAKE THAT DON'T COST A LOT, OR THAT, THAT MAXIMIZE THE, THE CITY'S BUDGET. NOW, THE ECONOMY'S DOING GREAT. WE'RE GONNA TAKE SOME BIG SWINGS AND, AND TAKE SOME OF THOSE LONG TERM ACTIONS THAT ARE REALLY TRANSFORMATIVE. SO THAT'S INTENDED TO BE A REFERENCE FOR COUNCIL AND FOR STAFF TO SAY, OKAY, THIS WAS IDENTIFIED AS, AS A PRIORITY. SO AS COUNCILS OUT THERE DOING THEIR TOWN HALLS AND THEY'RE IN THEIR BUDGET WORKSHOPS, UM, THAT THERE'S SOME REFERENCES TO THIS PLAN THAT, YOU KNOW, BOTH SUPPORT THE CITY'S GOALS AND, AND THEIR PRIORITIES AND ALSO HELP IMPLEMENT THE, THE PLAN ITSELF. THANK YOU ANYBODY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? [02:15:01] ANYBODY WANNA MAKE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION. ANY DISCUSSION? I DON'T THINK SO. I SEE THE WAREHOUSE FOR APPLICANT. SIX SEVEN WAS ALREADY ON THERE. ? YEAH. JUST A COMMENT. . THANK YOU MR. VICE CHAIR. AND, UH, I'LL MOVE TO, UH, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND, UH, APPROVE ITEM NUMBER EIGHT CPA 26 DASH FIVE DASH ZERO NINE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY, UH, COMMISSIONER GONZALES TO APPROVE, UH, ITEM NUMBER EIGHT AS PRESENTED WITH A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER OLEY. UM, BEFORE TAKING A VOTE, DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER? NOPE. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. VOTE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. SEVEN ZERO. THAT IS THE LAST AGENDA ITEM. SO WE ADJOURN AT 8 49. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.