Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Before we get started, I'd like for you to join me and remember the people that are suffering in the world due to the wars, natural disasters, and all the other happenings. And especially remember the pope that passed away today. Thank you. And now we start our meeting of the planning and zoning uh commission uh with the city council. My name is Cena Nead. I have the honor of chairing the committee and with my capable fellow commissioners, I'll welcome you here. Please make sure that you would silence your cell phones and uh when you're up here speaking, you limit your talk to three minutes and uh we have a great meeting. So with that, please go ahead and roll the call the role. Chairman Nad here. Commissioner Batty is absent. Commissioner Jabar present. Commissioner Jabia is absent. Commissioner Javeed here. Commissioner Linton here. Commissioner Min here. Commissioner Nyola present. Commissioner Sineagar is absent. Thank you. I'm sorry. Alternate Commissioner Sell. Thank you. Great. We do have a quorum. So, uh uh the minutes of the last meeting dated March 17, 2025 was sent to all the commissioners. I would entertain a motion to approve and or note any changes or uh problems with the minutes. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion to approve and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I any in opposition? The eyes have it. Great. Uh let's get started with the uh

PZ2025-47, please. Good afternoon. Good afternoon to you. Ben Tristan of Fitz and Shipman requests to amend and approve a preliminary plat of Westing Heights phase 2 Bont Jefferson County, Texas. The planning commission approved the preliminary plat with conditions on March 17th, 2025. It was identified that a waiver to the minimum rightaway width of Mumtaz Drive is necessary for phase two of the construction process to proceed. Mr. Tristan is requesting approval of a waiver to reduce the required rideway width of Mum Mumtaz Drive from 60 ft to 50 ft. While this request pertains to phase two, it is noticed that it is noted that the city and the developer discussed the importance of adequate access for emergency services or vehicles in future phases. As a result, the developer agreed to increase the rideway width of Mumaz Drive to 60 ft in phase three. An updated master plan, master subdivision plan reflecting this commitment for phase three is included in the packets. The phase 2 development is located north of Rayhonwood Street. It's a 5acre development and will include 18 new residential lots located within the residential single family zoning district. The proposed streets to hearwood and Yasmin Wood Street will have a 50-foot rideway with a 27 foot pavement width. All lots will access point via extension of Mumaz Drive and the existing Rayhon Wood Street. Water and sewer services will be provided by extension of city utilities. Planning staff uh recommends approval of the waiver and the request with the following conditions. Number one, revise the street light layout plan with the construction drawings to comply with the city's subdivision regulations. Number two, construction plans must meet all requirements by water utilities for water and sanitary sewer services, including any requirements of the city's backflow pre-treatment and/or fog program. Number three, relocate the

sanitary sewer service connections to be offset from the telecom and energy easements for blocks 5 through 7 as shown in detail of H29 of the con submitted construction drawings. Number four, submit an updated master subdivision and drainage plan prior to the final recordation of the plat. The area outlined in red on the screen is the area under review. This is an aerial image preliminary plat and also the master plan that I had discussed earlier. I believe that the applicant is present. Well, uh let me ask you a question. This is phase two, right? Yes, sir. Why is it that we're allowing them to change phase two and not phase three to 50 ft? So it again to improve the a the access for emergency vehicles. I do believe that we have um engineering here uh Julie Hammond. Um but that was the the intent is to make sure as we get um further into the subdivision that we're creating the access for um emergency vehicles. Understanding the intent, why is it when we have an ordinance, we're changing this from 60 to 50? If it's in the ordinance, we shouldn't be we shouldn't be changing it. Well, no, sir. The ordinances are in place. So, ordinances are in place and sometimes a waiver is is necessary due to certain elements, right? So, in this case, phase one was approved with a 50-ft rideway. Now, that shouldn't have been improved in past or approved in past. However, it exists and so now they're in the construction plans and it was noticed that um that should have been uh requested ahead of time. And so

to not further burden the developer, we're trying to work with him and in working with him, we we discussed the necessary rightway with um for future phase three and which he was amanable to. Um so that that's the intent but waivers exist waivers exist because not every um every parcel every plan everything um fits to your normal cookie cutter uh regulations and so that's why waiverss are there. Can you go back to that other plan that shows phase three please? So phase three. No, the one with the red there's one with the red lines on it, right? Yeah. You're talking the aerial image. That is that is the area in concern, right? Yeah. And we couldn't move that red line up another 10 ft. That who who owns the the whole property? I believe it's Dr. Careshi, but um he can correct me if I'm wrong in that. So everything above it is is belongs to the same owner. Yes, sir. So why couldn't they move it another 10 ft? What I'm trying this is not directed to you. What I'm what I'm trying to figure out if we have ordinances I we see this all the time coming through. Uh let's change the call length. Let's change this. Let's change the other one. If we have ordinances, we we should really try to stick with them, especially if the land's available. and uh they could have done it. So phase two, which is the one that you're looking at out outlined in red, that's the one that's currently under construction, they came back because they it's a expired plat that happened in March of 2025. And so whenever they came back, it was realized that after they've already begun construction, they should have se

sought a waiver to begin with. So, this is a little bit of a um retroactive approval, but we're trying to get it right so that they have no issues moving forward. Commissioner, if I may, so as it relates to the ordinances, those are essentially guidelines. The whole purpose for this board is to determine whether or not uh a waiver exists such that you can supersede the ordinance, whether or not you you feel like there's something about it that give way for you to consider something outside of the ordinance. I think the ordinance is a minimum guideline for staff. Um, but you the comm the board has the ability to review and determine if you feel like there's something that would allow for you to go outside of that either to reduce it to extend it. So that is within your authority. So if you if you feel that that it's necessary, but that that discretion is up to the board to determine if you feel like there's something that allows you to operate outside of the ordinance. Sure. Uh we do that on sidewalks sometimes when when physically is not possible but the land is there and it seems to me that well anyway yeah so just I was just trying to address the question as to like why would you go outside the ordinance uh just for the people who are watching you you that's within your authority but it's just whether or not you believe that that's a necessity you notice every time we meet is because somebody wants a variance. Absolutely. They want to see you and we might as well take the ordinance, throw it away. No, they they're coming to see you. That was a good comeback. That's a really good one. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I understand the uh the ability to have a certain kind of flexibility with respect to waiverss and that's good. And perhaps maybe we could get the property owner to tell us why we're asking. I perfectly

agree with you. I do not agree with accommodating an owner just because he doesn't want to spend the money or he wants to make the the property shorter. And and I'm I don't blame the owner. It's the engineer that's that's probably uh not advising them properly and say, "Look, this is the ordinance unless there's something really important and we shouldn't be playing with it." But with that said, uh thank you. You the city is doing a great job. I just I'm getting a little frustrated with with the uh stuff that comes through and is all just because of economical reasons. Understood. All right. So, any questions for Demi? Thank you, ma'am. Hold on. I have Oh, go ahead. On clarification, you said that this was passed before. It was, but it wasn't corrected at the time that it was passed. Correct. So, this was passed I believe. Yeah, it it started in 2022. They received their construction drawing sets at the time. In 2022, it should have received a waiver as well. Um, if this is the plan that they wanted to do. So, right now, the development's underway. Um, I believe that Dr. uh Careshi can tell you exactly how far along it is. Um, but in order to proceed, they need to renew their preliminary plat, which is what they did in March of 2025 with conditions. At the staff level, it was noticed that they should have also received a waiver. And so that's where we're where we're trying to come into compliance so that we can allow him to to complete his development. And we did speak with him on the necessity of a 60-oot rideway moving forward. And then that's why we included that uh master plan to show you guys that that is his commitment um because it shows that that right away in phase three which is not um for review today but it's just to

show a future commitment. So he didn't get a waiver in 2022 and you're looking at the waiver now but it his permit expired so he's reapplying. Yeah. the preliminary plat expired and so in our ordinances a preliminary plat is approved they have 24 months to complete it. Should that should that 24 months um elapse or or or go on then they have to come back and renew it before they can do a final plat. Final plat means that that's the final recordation at um the uh the county. So it's it's now created lots. Demi, do you have a picture of the site? Yeah. uh of like on the ground. Yes, I do not. I just need to know how far they are. I believe it's fenced off um back there because of the construction. Um but I do know that Dr. Keshi is here and he can explain how far he is. And we also have question seems like you have all the answers. Where is he? He was here. Dr. Karach, good afternoon. Good afternoon. How are you today? I'm fine. Good. If you would introduce yourself and the address. First thing I'm not Dr. Kureshi. My wife is Dr. Kureshi. I am engineer. I am Mr. Kureshi. Sorry about that. Well, buddy, you were just elevated to doctor. Just be quiet. Say okay. Thank you. People die for that. Mhm. Or people get killed for it. Right. All right. So, tell me what you have and why you're doing Did you give us your address for the for the record first? Yes. 5080 Oakmont Drive, Bulmont, Texas. And my name is Tahir Kureshi. All right. Yes. And um I'm Ben Tristan with Fitz and Shipment in Bulmont, Texas. 1405 Cornerstone Court. All right. Tell me why is it that you didn't design this to to comply with the ordinance to start with? Well, back

in uh 2012 is when phase one uh was submitted and constructed over the years. And then so on phase two we submitted the preliminary plat for the continuation of that uh deadend street which is already at 50 foot rightway. And so the next phase of phase two was continuing the 50-foot rideway up to a point where another access point was uh going to be connecting towards uh Point Parkway which rightway was extra wide 70 foot with the boulevard and so it was going to be a continuation of the subdivision. I understand that but you still haven't told me why is it 50 ft not 60 ft. uh that was submitted at the time it was uh reviewed and accepted and even constructed at that time. But that that was but now you don't have a permit. You don't have the uh whatever we're asking for in here and we should start all new, shouldn't we? I mean, right now there's a whole about 50 feet of roadway constructed already and so then more more than 50 ft two two lots. It's 140 ft. And so you have a permit to start that. Yes. Mhm. And it was constructed back in on the phase one of the phase one was accepted back in 2012. Yeah. So three three quarters of the road is already there. So it's like only one lot then the third phase is start. So just for one lot we cannot go and widen the road. We already have uh 75% of the road is 50 ft and we always widen the road. You add 5 ft to either side of it. No we cannot do it. I know you've done it. The

city is agreeing with you, but I just don't want to see engineers coming in here drawing stuff for people and telling them to go ask for a variance. That's just not good. Well, the once we get past the intersection of uh Tyer Wood and Careshi that will continue north through uh possible commercial site and even to uh connect to Northwest Parkway that will be up to 60 ft rideway to the north. All right. and the rest, you know, down south will be all residential. So, um I mean it's a small u small subdivision. I think it's still within phase one was less than 60 lots. It's only 49 lots now. All right. Thank you. Any other questions for the folks? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Demi, this doesn't require public uh comments, does it? No, sir. All right, folks. We heard from the staff and we also heard from the owner and his engineer and uh I would entertain a motion. Make a motion for approval of the wavier in addition the four conditions. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you very much, Demi. Thank you. U I hope you understand this is not pointed at you or what the city's doing. Yes, sir. We go to PZ202596. I think it's 85. Sure. 25-85.

Yes, ma'am. It is. Okay. Apologize. PZ PZ2025-85. Yes, sir. Stacy Garza of SA SAEK Surveyors and Engineers on behalf of ITEX is requesting approval of a replat of a portion of lot 2, block K, Thomas H. Langum Estates abstract 871 sorry 871 Bont Jefferson County Texas into tracks 2A and 2B th Langum Estates subdivision Bowmont Jefferson County Texas the intent of the plat is to divide one commercial lot into two uh the area outline I'm sorry staff recommends approval of the request with the following conditions number one construction plans must meet all requirements by water utility for water and sanitary sewer improvements, including any requirements of the city's backflow pre-treatment and/or fog program. Number two, the developer shall provide sewer facilities in accordance with the standards and specifications for minim minimum sanitary sewer requirements on file in the office of the water utilities director for the city. Staff did send 24 property owner notices. We received zero in favor and one in opposition. However, opposition did not state why they opposed. It was a mailin. Um, on your screen, the area outlined in in red is under review, an aerial image, and the plat. And I do believe we have the applicant present. Thank you, ma'am. Any questions? And the applicant? Yes, sir. Good afternoon, sir. How are you? Yeah. Come on. It's okay. Would you please state your name and address for the record, please? Uh, yes. Matthew Cook. My address is

6095 Ventura Lane, Bumont, Texas. Oh, you're the son of great Mr. Cook the accountant. I just recognize you. How are you? I'm doing well. It's good to see you. He's He's good. Made it through tax season. You tell him I said hello. I will. Good. Uh, tell us what you're about to do. Uh, yes. So I'm working with ITEX and we wanted to split these into two tracks and de and develop tract 2A um and that is on the agenda for later in this meeting but it would be a small office um and warehouse development to you know provide about 30,000 th00and square foot spaces to local business owners. Okay. You understand the two conditions that the city has uh stated? Yes, sir. Okay. Great. Thank you, sir. Any questions for the gentlemen? Nope. Ask him something. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, is there anybody in the audience that would like to speak for or against this case? Good afternoon, ma'am. Hi. Hi. Would you state your name and address for the record, please? Happy to. My name is Paige Ride Out and my address is PO Box 3905, Bowmont, Texas 77704. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Um, some of the questions follow I think the guidelines that are given. Um, one of my questions is it's obviously zoned for commercial. Um, if that's going to ever change. Um, I

wanted to know if that was part of it. The replat, um, is this negatively going to impact my property. We're on the other side on Langum Road. So, I would like to know um what the drainage is and the privacy that um will now be opened up to a larger audience. Um one of my main questions is what is the development plan for the drainage? I know that this area is um prone to flood. We live in a beautiful place of southeast Texas, but um hurricanes tend to disrupt things. And your property is vacant currently? Uh that is correct. Yes. All right. So, uh you're wanting to know if the commercial can be turned into something else later on and you want to know about the drainage. That is correct. And the utility lines that run through there if there's any issues that run. We have a um DD6 has a drainage easement on that side and there's also a pipeline that runs through there as well. Okay. All right. Thank you. My questions. Thank you. We'll we'll chase this down for you. Thank you. Is there anybody else that would like to speak for or against this case? Mr. Cook? Yes. Uh can you answer those questions? If you don't mind, just come up here. And if you don't, you just say no and then we'll get uh Demi to help you. Okay. I um so in our original plans um let's see we do have a plans to build a 175,000 cubic foot detention pond at the towards the let's see southeast portion of the

property. There is still going to remain a 100 foot tree buffer at the south end of the property between um Kelly High School and this track uh the east side of the property which is adjacent to her property. We are not set to clear or do any site development at this time. All all of the development that we're planning is going to be to the west along Wendellin and that's about all I have. So you have uh net zero effect because of the the pond. Yes sir. And uh your intended intent for this you say commercial but what are you guys thinking of building there? They'll be metal buildings with they'll have about a 500 foot square foot office in each and then the majority of the space would be so a warehouse space. So a typical unit would be 3,000 ft² about 5 to 600 of that would be office the rest warehouse. Thank you very much. And utility you probably don't know we need to talk to utility people but thank you. All right. Uh ma'am, they've uh good news about the drainage is that they're going to have a retention pond. So, you would not be inundated with flood water unless the rest of the place gets flooded. So, but there will they will not affect your property. Okay. Is there anybody else that would like to speak for or against this? None is heard. So, we close the public hearing. We heard from the

applicant and also the city and the neighbor and I would entertain the motion. Motion to approve of the two conditions. Second. We have a motion to approve with the two conditions and is the and the second. Is there any discussion? No discussion. All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you. Uh, now we go to PZ202596, right? Yes, sir. Good. Colobby Bracken of Access Surveyors requests approval of a preliminary plat of the Westchase 2 subdivision, Bowmont, Jefferson County, Texas. The development is located west of Sunflower Lane and east of the commercial development at 3100 North Major Drive, which is currently under construction. The 8.7 acre development will include 21 residential lots located within the residential single family zoning district. The proposed residential street Musa Lane will have a 50-foot ride ofway and water and sewer services will be provided by extension of city utilities. Uh this was not included in the packet. However, it was noteed a waiver is required to the minimum culde-sac requirement to be extended from 800 ft to 942 ft for Musa Lane. Um, you'll see why whenever I switch to the uh the preliminary plat staff recommends approval of the request with the following conditions. Number one, display the proposed street and rideway width on the plat prior to final recordation. Number two, show an exclusive waterline easement to loop the water from the end of Musa Lane back to Major Drive. Number three, add a plat note to state all property owners will be required to construct a 4ft wide concrete sidewalk adjacent to the street located 4 feet from the back

of the curb at the street intersections. If applicable, sidewalks are to include construction of a 5-ft wide landing to tie in with concret concrete access ramps. If any lot is not developed within 5 years of recordation of the final plat, the current owner shall construct the sidewalk. Number four, add a plat note to state temporary erosion control measures must remain in place until permanent measures are established. Number five, the easement previously obtained for a water line during construction of the reserve a lot will need to be abandoned prior to acceptance of the mucil lane. Number six, fire hydrants shall be placed curbside every 500 ft within the new development. Number seven, provide a copy of the approved text permit to the planning offices allowing the connection of Musa Lane to North Major Drive. The area outlined in red is under review. This is the aerial image and it's not on this because Google Earth hasn't populated yet, but um to the west of of that um red line, that's where that uh 3100 North Major Retail Strip Center is going in right now. And this is the preliminary plat. And I do believe that we have the applicant present. Tell me about the uh call the cycle one more time. So, let me see if I can get my mouse over here. There we go. So, from here, this point to here, that's about 540 ft. Um, however, technically the measurement has to come all the way down um to uh North Major Drive here. So, that's in I think it was about 384T. So altogether I got about um 942 ft is how how long that needs to be extended. Our ordinances allow up to 800

ft. Um so he will need a waiver to extend that that length to con to move forward with this plan. Okay. Mr. Bracken, would you state your name and address for the record, please? Good afternoon, commissioners. Uh, my name is Colobby Bracken with Access Surveyors, uh, located at 11025 Oldf Road here in Bumont, Texas. Um, I'd like to thank the staff for all their hard work. Um it was just brought to my attention about the I guess requirement for a waiver about the length of the of the road leading to the residential area. Um you know if that's some some sort of oversight on my part as the applicant. I should have probably looked into that a little bit more before putting all that together. But um if the commissioners here would like to uh consider that waiver request, I would also like to provide any additional information or answer any questions that you may have. So on the text do uh are you familiar with the whole textile permit thing? I am and we we actually do have that. Um I was going to wait and see what sort of conditions would need to be applied before updating my packet and the plat if necessary. So we have basically addressed all of the conditions up to date with the exception of the waiver for the extension of the culdeac. That's a tough one. You don't you don't have a choice, do you? Well, the

commercial development reserve a as you see on your monitors, it is significant. So, um to to utilize the the lot or the land that's out there for residential towards the back, um it it almost seems necessary as I'm looking at it, but um if we need to, we could remove a few lots, shorten the road if we have to. Um, I do believe the infrastructure that uh is designed for this development will accommodate uh the the lots and and the commercial property as well. Okay. I'm not following what is it you're proposing if you're short on the culdeac. What is it that you're proposing to do? Well, I right now I'm proposing to allow you to offer the waiver for the extension. Uh, we have that privilege, right? But if we do, if we're unable to be granted, you didn't you weren't here five minutes ago, were you? I was. I was. That's why I wanted to be upfront and and honest with you folks. Okay. Dr. Toé, what do you have to do with this? To Golden Triangle Consulting Engineers, uh, 85 I 10 Frontage Road, Bowman, Texas 77707. I'm the design engineer on this one. And, uh, I disagree with Colby. We do not want to shorten the scaldes and bullet lose four lots that have half million dollar homes on them for the next hundred years. So we definitely do not want to do that. And and I understand the technicality of the roads starting down at Major Drive. But in reality that culdeac starts once you pass the shopping center. In addition, this is going to be a shared access driveway as well that might serve other properties in the future that are owned by Mr. Pariji just on the north side.

So, um we would like you all to approve this variance if possible and help Bowman grow with more people living here. Demi, what what say you? You you approved it, right? You you you agree with it? Yes, sir. I agree with it. Um I don't think that there's much um wiggle room because he doesn't own the property to the north and he now technically doesn't look like he's he's able to uh even if you cut two or three lots you still has to have a turning place. Right. Correct. And you know the the way that the strip center has been built um there's no uh access to the south side either. Um it's really it's really this this area for adequate space. And if you go back um you know if they wanted to do anything with this property over here it is zoned as residential single family. So they would have to consider a reszoning if not um well they could res they could buy lot number three but the price just tripled. Right. I mean a lot of Well thank you guys. Any hold on. Any questions for the folks? Thank you. Thank you. All right. This doesn't require public comment. So, uh we have heard from the uh city and also the applicant and uh we do understand their issue. Uh with that said, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve with a set of conditions. Second. Do we need to add in the waiver? Uh, well, there's another there's another there's the conditions and the waiver. The waiver. Yeah. Yeah. So, you would need to list the waiver if you wanted to consider the

waiver. Was do I say the waiver or do I do I need to specify what the waivers's for? I'm assuming uh you need to write it down in cursive. Haven't done that in a while. A waiver. a waiver to the minimum culde-sac requirement to be extended from 800 ft to 942 feet. So, I think I just said it on record, so you could probably All right, let's try this. Motion a motion to approve with the seven conditions and the waiver that Demi just said. Yes, sir. All right, that's okay. We we'll we'll figure it out. Thank you, sir. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you. This job would have been a lot greater if the pay was a little bit better. You know, it's just All right, let's go to PZ 205202598. 97 97 97 FA Engineering and Surveying is requesting approval of a preliminary plat of Emerald Point subdivision located at 6820 Griffing Road. Conditional approval of the plat was issued in May of 2023 and the development is currently under construction. However, no final plat has been recorded and therefore prompting the renewal of the preliminary plat to be in compliance with the code of ordinances. Uh staff recommends approval of the request and the waiver that was associated with the original request. Um, and we do have the uh uh applicant present. And on your screen, the area outlined in red is under review. Aerial image and the preliminary plat.

Thank you, ma'am. Any questions for Demi, Mr. FA? Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. My name is Richard FA with FA Engineering and Surveying. My address is 5550 East Texas Freeway Sweet O in the wonderful city of Bowmont. Um we are under construction right now. Uh utilities, some utilities are in place. The uh detention pond um on the east side has been constructed. The waiver is for the two lots that you see on the right hand side of the uh preliminary plat. Um we were restricted to 100 foot depth on the lot. So we oversize the width of the lots in order to make a uh acceptable uh building area to meet the minimum area requirements for a lot in the city of Bmont. And you have those uh four pipes that are going to the retention, right? Yes, sir. Okay. If they're not there, they'll be there. All right. Great. Any questions for Mr. FA? Mr. FA. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we've heard from the owner and also the the city and uh I would entertain a motion. Motion to approve file PZ 20225-97. Second. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you. Uh PZ 2025-98. Richard Fast of Fast Engineering and Surveying is requesting an approval of a

preliminary plat of Wolf Creek of the Wolf Creek subdivision sections 2 through 4 Bowmont Jefferson County, Texas. The applicant is also seeking a waiver to reduce the rideway with requirements from 60 to 50 ft for the extension of Dylan Drive and Big Bin Drive in section 2. The 21 acre development is located north and west of Dylan Drive and extends further west to Chamberlain Drive. Construction will begin at section four and work its way backwards as to not impede with daily activity within the built neighborhood along Dylan Drive. The inner the entire development will produce 76 residential lots in total. The development will include detention and greatly improve connectivity to the existing neighborhood by increasing access points from 1 to three once completed. Planning staff recommends approval of the waiver and the request with the following conditions. Number one, construction plans must meet all requirements by water water utilities for water and sanitary sewer improvements, including any requirements of the city's backflow pre-treatment and/or fog program. Number two, add a plat note that all trees and shrubbery along I'm sorry, all trees and shrubbery located within the utility easements are subject to removal. Number three, add a plat note stating temporary erosion control measures must remain in place until permanent measures are established. And number four, add a plat note that all property owners will be required to construct a 4ft wide concrete sidewalk adjacent to the street located 4 feet from the back of the curb at street intersections. If applicable, sidewalks are to include construction of a 5- foot wide landing to tie in with concrete access ramps. If any lot is not developed within 5 years of recordation of the final plat, the current owner shall construct the sidewalk. The area outlined in red is under

review. Aerial [Music] image and this is the preliminary plat. So you'll see on the screen down here um is section 4, section three, section two. They intend to begin down here. All of this area is built um and it's also built at a 50-ft rideway. Uh we do have the applicant present. Okay. So what is our logic for allowing him to go to 50 from 60 because they they were 50 to start with. Yeah, they were 50 to start with and so to to allow the contiguous um rideway to allow it to to go and be continuous um that's one of the reasons for the rideway, but I'm sure that um the applicant can also speak more to it. All right, Mr. F have a copy of that preliminary the one that's uh the original master plan. Okay. Um, if I may approach the bench, please. This is the original platform plan of the subdivision. And as you can see, the original plan was to come all the way around to a culdeac.

We went to a uh Thursday meeting with the city with the department heads and realized that when this was approved, we only had one exit. So now if you look at your drawing on the screen, it we would have come all the way around to this culde-sac on this bottom part of the of the drawing. In our meeting, we agreed that we needed a second exit. So, my client is in the process of buying the property that fronts on Chamberlain in order to provide a second exit. In addition, we also recognize we need a 60 foot wider body, but since it was originally planned as a 50, um we talked with um engineering, not trying to put words in their mouth, they certainly have can disagree with me if not, but we agreed that it was best to go ahead and continue the 50 foot until we hit that first culde-sac or turn around there in the left top corner and then go 60 ft the rest of the way. Okay. So, we provide for 60 ft the best we could. We have some branch easements. Part of our detention pond is in the rear of the property and we needed space to put a ditch deep enough to carry the water and still maintain 3 to one side slopes and have some sort of a bottom in it. So, that was the uh discussion we had with the Thank you, Mr. F. You did great. Any questions for the gentlemen? Did everybody hear that? You're happy?

Yeah. Correct. I have a question real quick. Um, can you go back to the um the aerial where it shows like commercial residential? So, is he buying all the purple? I'm assuming he is. Um, that actually is going to be um a little bit later in the meeting. And I realized I needed to add a Thank you for bringing that. I realized I need to add a condition um that approval of this um prelim this plat is conditioned or contingent upon a successful reasonzoning of that portion of the GCMD portion um which is being considered on this same agenda at a in the joint public hearing. I'd like to see you add that to the Any questions for Mr. Past? You're going to write it for him, right? Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh, we heard from the city and also the applicant and, uh, I would entertain the motion. Anybody? A motion to approve of the five conditions adding the fifth condition being that uh, the zoning is changed to residential. Second. Well, it it's it's contentious on them purchasing the other property and reszoning it. It would be both. Yes. But Okay. He doesn't necessarily have to own it, but he would need the um the signatures which he's already received. Um so the owner is aware. Perfect. Thank you. So we do have a motion. We have a second. Yep. And is that with the waiver? Yes, ma'am. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you. Well, the honorable mayor West, I'm just about tired, so it's your turn. Uh,

we're going to start with a joint meeting with the city council, and the honorable mayor West is going to lead us into that. There there's one more agenda on the regular. There's two more. There's the parks plan, and there's also the special district. My stuff's all messed up here. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Here I found it. PZ 20225101. Uhhuh. Yeah. So, it should be next up should be PZ 2022-101. And that's for the uh a request to review and adopt the parks for all Bulmont's playbook for parks, recreation, and green space master plan. All right. Great. Check your responsibility. Chair. You've been really nice so far. Yeah. Just had to get started, right? Got to keep it lively. It's going to be 3 minutes. Oh, I'm looking at my what they give me. I'm just paging through these things. They put them in the book afterwards. They should have put this last. We're going to hear from the same people. This will be me, but this will be happening. Fantastic. Thank you. Well, good afternoon, sir. Would you guys please introduce yourself and then we get going? Awesome. Good afternoon, commission. My name is Julian Salisport. I'm with Half. My team and I have been working the past year on your parks master plan. I can't be more excited to share the final draft with you guys today. Like Demi said, it's Parks for All, Bowmont's playbook for parks, recreation, and green space. Um, I'm going to kind of go through about a 10-minute presentation with you guys. Um, kind of give a highlevel review of

the plan, and I'm going to bring on another team member of mine to describe kind of some of the improvements and vision that we have for Terrell Park. And then, um, we'll open it up for questions from you guys. Please proceed. Let's talk parks. I don't have any variances or anything like that to deal with you guys. So, it should be pretty easy. Um, this picture is pretty awesome. It made it on the cover of the plan. Um, but really this slide's about why plan now. So, park plans are multifaceted master plans that can help a lot of different things. Um, you know, this plan is going to help guide future expenditures and improvements to the park system, help programming, help the operations and uh administration of of Kenneth Regett and Jimmy Neil's departments um as well as um be a toolkit for the entire city to use to really create a new vision for the parks here in Bowmont. Um, I will add these these plans also assist in um environmental aspects and helping preserve and prioritize um the the kind of the the non-built world, our our beautiful environment that we have here in Bowmont um that everybody loves. Um these plans help to uh preserve that as well. I I got to take this picture at Ter Park playing disc golf um at sunrise um the very first day that I actually kicked off this plan with you guys. So, it was a really cool experience for me to have in the park. We took a uh kind of a four-step process to this master plan. So, we uh like I said, we started a year ago. We really got kicked off in the summer. Um I was tasked with walking every corner of every single park in Bowmont, which that's about 40 uhish properties and facilities. Um once we were conducting that, we've got our steering committee together and really started that public engagement. That took us from summer of 2024 2024 through winter of 2024. And really the culmination of those two um steps of the process um we were assessing your park system. We were listening to the residents here and that

was really what created the framework for the recommendations and the implementation plan um that you see in the master plan today. Um so we've been working on the report production for the last few months. Um I can't be more excited to share it with you guys today and we think the plan looks really sharp. So hope you guys agree a little bit of overview of the community engagement. We we got touch points with over 600 different residents in uh Bowmont over the course of of those few months of public engagement through the survey which we had uh nearly 600 respondents for. We had two community meetings. We had three focus groups that were broken up into a sports and recreation group, a city staff and local officials group as well as a um local communities group. That was really what kicked off um the visioning process for us at those focus groups and then getting to go to the Fourth of July celebration and talk with people that the survey was live and then getting to do an open house at the Lakeside Center which was really awesome. I absolutely love the event center property over there. Um especially getting to celebrate Fourth of July. But um some of those key takeaways from our engagement include a desire for better park maintenance, more inclusive and accessible amenities and enhanced familyfriendly and active recreation opportunities. I would say our um public engagement was a huge success. Um don't uh ever get bogged down on 583 numbers. That's a very very um stellar number to get for a survey. And Tracy Kinnick um with the communications department was absolutely awesome in getting uh the word out and helping us kind of market this plan um when we needed help with the public engagement. A little bit else of what we heard. Um on the right there is a um table from the plan where um we were we were looking at how many mentions of park activities and amenities were getting mentioned in question 14 for the survey. Um walking came up a lot in uh a lot of the different public engagement events. Walking, hiking, uh in park trails um the hike and bike trails um and people wanted more of that. Um some

other things that we saw were improving existing park facilities, improving the picnic areas, um and creating more active recreation opportunities. And so what we saw was there was kind of some some places there was a lack of access and so these people that are wanting things might not have it in their 10-minute walk shed from their neighborhood. Um and it was great to kind of get a list of top 10 things. Um that list goes on to 15, but um to know the top priorities that people kind of want to things they want to do and see in the parks is um a great starting point for for those goals that we're going to go through later. Um steering committee. So um we had a 15 uh member steering committee appointed by uh the mayor and city council. Uh these were all Bowmont community members from various backgrounds. We met three different times. Um their sole purpose was to help guide the plan's direction. They served as a voice of the public and were ambassadors for the plan. Um that first meeting, that kickoff meeting we had was a visioning workshop with them in August of 2024. Um it was well attended. We really got the ball rolling on what's there to what's in the park system today and what do you guys want to see to literally to get us to the um second meeting in November of 2024 where we got to debut our initial findings and then get to workshop with them the goals and recommendations which then later made it into the plan. Um the steering committee had a great part in uh in identifying those for us um with the help of of our project team as well. And we're meeting uh just in a couple hours from now for our our last meeting with them. I'm really excited. We've been doing the last two meetings at Terrell Park at the nature center and that beautiful historic building that you guys have has been really inspirational. So I can't wait to get back in there with them tonight and uh see what they think about the plan. All right. I'm going to go through a couple of the um uh key findings from some of the needs assessment that we did. The first uh big thing that we needed to look at for the city of Bowmont was where you guys size up to how much park land um you are serving to the residents here in the city.

Um the National Recreation and Parks Association sets guidelines um of all communities across the country um for all sorts of things uh parks and recreation related. For the national average of total park systems um it is 10.6 acres per thousand residents. You will see funny enough that Bowmont is sitting at 10.6 six and the total park system um acreage for communities 100,000 to 250,000 is 7 acres. So what does that tell us? Bowman is sitting well above the national average. We're above the median. We're um creeping into the upper cortile and that's great. That means we have a lot of parks. We've got a huge park at Terrell Park. We've got other large parks like Collier's Ferry, but we also have a dispersment of u medium and and small parks throughout the city. Like I said about 40 facilities. Um the big takeaway from this table on the left is that you will see uh some surpluses and some deficits. What we need to do here since we have enough parkland acreages, maybe kind of rebalance some of those. So you'll notice neighborhood and community parks are in a deficit. It's already on y'all's community investment plan of two uh new additional community parks coming online by 2030. That's going to help alleviate some of that pressure. and we have some recommendations um in the plan for um additional neighborhood parks being hopefully constructed by some of the development community that you're seeing here today. So it's a great number to be at 10.6 we um in total 1,00 almost 1,200 um acres um in the entire system. Um that's much more than I'm used to. Um, and when I say I got to walk all of them, I I literally walked all of them. And what I saw was really beautiful, um, lush and green parks that have just the ability to turn into a lot of different things, which was really cool. So, um, you guys also have a lot of class classifications, which is unique, and we wanted to preserve those, um, for you guys. So, that's why there's so many there. Some other key findings from the assessments, um, there's not enough

parks within walking distance. We found out that um on average 71% of Americans are within a 10-minute walk to their neighborhood park. It's only about 30 to 40% of Bumont residents that um have that type of access. And so there's recommendations and maps in the plan that can explain where to put these parks strategically to help alleviate some of those access issues. Um I mentioned earlier um trails was a huge um component of what people wanted to see added. The city is currently in a 9 mile deficit. um when you're comparing those NRPA standards. Um so we can we can definitely add on to those hike and bike trails. A lot of people were actually looking for some more improved in park trails which I noticed um during my assessments were really popular. People walking at Klein Park and some other parks in town that they really like the walking trails at. There was also u many parks that lacked restrooms, shade, trails, and ADA compliant features. Um there's a need for more programming and event spaces. And um we did a health assessment in the plan that uh took census tracks and kind of used a series of attributes to give a health score a health outcome to there's certain areas of town just like any city that were um kind of in a um an insufficient deficit of of some of these health outcomes. So there's definitely opportunities to use parks as tools to improve health outcomes and in some of those underserved areas that we noticed as well. All right. So the um steering committee and staff had a a big role in helping us craft these um these goals for Bowmont. Um what I've kind of been thinking about the last few months is the residents and staff that helped us um throughout the community engagement and some of the um touch points that we had with city staff really helped build this plan. Half really put it together for you guys. So these goals are really communitydriven. the uh steering committee had a great time kind of developing these four um highlevel overreaching um goals that are going to dip down into a lot of different other um categories as well with the

objectives that we have for each goal. Um but those are kind of our four main buckets there. Park system investments, park access, programming, and got to have operations and maintenance so Kenneth can have a easier time uh maintaining this big park system that he's got. I'll go through a couple of I'm going to go through the goals in a little bit more detail now. So, goal one, invest in Bowmont's park system, become recognized as a regional standard for great parks. Um, these objectives um are here to tackle this goal. There's also subsequent actions and recommendations under each objective as well. Um, sometimes up to five to eight action per objective to help tackle the entire thing. So, it's a kind of a ladder up. Um you would see things in this uh in this goal like uh park branding um beautifification efforts. Um one of the biggest things that we have in this goal is transforming Terrell Park into a regional destination. Uh not only is this plan looking at holistically the entire park system, both um parks departments um but it's also looking at targeted uh huge projects that you guys could um look to implement in uh Bowmont to kind of take you guys to the next level. So this goal is really becoming the regional standard for parks in southeast Texas. I want people to kind of start thinking about Bowmont as a place they would love to take their family to Terrell Park for an event instead of Houston like it usually always is. So uh that's what that goal is kind of encompassing. Goal two, uh Bowmont's parks will be safe, comfortable, and accessible for all throughout the public engagement. Unfortunately, we heard a lot about um safety and comfort issues with folks in town using the parks. Um we have um created this list of objectives to kind of tackle not only that concern but also some accessibility um concerns. people were looking to have some more um parks designed and maintained uh to cater to diverse uh needs and abilities. Um as well as tying in a lot of camera systems to hopefully

the real-time crime center that you guys debuted with your police department last year to have some just more eyes and a little bit more um oversight on the parks and um kind of alleviate some of that stress that people feel about it um going to them feeling unsafe or or uncomfortable. Um so I'm really excited about this plan or about this goal. Um, this guy, this one's going to really take you to a higher level of activation within the parks. Um, this will really get them activated and people out there more. Uh, this goal three is for programming. Encourage healthy lifestyles and social interactions through community events and programming. Um, this one we heard a lot about programming needing to be focused on youth, teens, and older adults and seniors. Um what these objectives are looking to um accomplish is things like community gardens and nature play and um diverse recreational programs for all ages and abilities. Um and one thing that we noticed that um Bowmont residents love was nature and you guys have incredible outdoor spaces and so that objective two uh providing programming that connects people with nature um really in Terrell Park as well um in Collier's Ferry Park with the NHS river and uh getting kids out and about a little bit more. Goal four, support efficient operations of the parks department. Um like I was alluding to before, uh this goal is all about providing um both the parks and green space department and the recreation departments with the tools that they need. Um this is going to include recommendations like staffing and staff trainings and um park um let's see uh guidelines for standards and parks uh for parks departments and the park design of certain parks that are going to be improved. Um but number one was really about um expanding public awareness. So trying to tie it into goal one two. If we're becoming the regional standard, we also need to bolster up our marketing for these parks and how we're going to um voice them to the public and and get people more to uh come to uh Bowmont's parks and enjoy exactly what the residents get to see every day. Um

I've heard a lot of great things. I only got to go to the Fourth of July event, but I heard about um so many events in town that are really popular, especially some of the ones in Terrell Park. Um okay so after our goals and recommendations follow um we have a now a new list of uh community investment plan projects. We identified about 20 of them. We have presented them in the plan next to your existing um CIP list that are parks and recreation improvements related. So when you open up the plan you'll kind of see both of those. And what we're hoping is to get some of these um projects that we've identified in our process intermingled into the um existing CIP list to make their way into um some of those improvements and get the ball rolling. What we did for our um projects that we identified was um we set them out by tiered. So they are priority one, two, and three. there is a kind of a medium or sorry low, medium and high uh maintenance level requirement, a budget um outlook and then there is um how we tied it into why it's important to be on this uh CIP list for you guys. So we took the Bowmont strategic plan that you guys currently have. We took our uh assessments that we did and we took the public survey and we actually identified where those came from whether it's aligning with your strategic plan or public survey or both or all three of them at once. Um just to tie it into the importance. Um so the the uh bulleted list you're seeing on the screen is the some of the priority one uh projects like adding security systems to all park properties and facilities and then some of those signature upgrades at Terrell Park which um I'm actually going to bring on another colleague of mine Casey Collins to go through some of those Terrell Park um visioning um and graphics that we have um now for that park. Um, but another thing that we had on there was kind of creating a master signage and branding plan for the system. When we're talking about taking Bowmont's park system to a new level, a fresh look is

going to help. You guys have already started with some of those, um, new park signs that you see around town, um, those park entry signs and and really updating everything to that standard is really going to take you guys to the next level. So, um, there's some other things on there like replacing playgrounds. We did an entire conditions assessment. Um, when I walked the parks, I was grading everything on a huge metric. um matrix that I have about uh 20 different or 15 different categories on and so we ident we were able to identify exactly which playgrounds you guys need replaced so that Kenneth can put those on a priority list and get that started. So um we're really excited for the CIP list that we we got for you guys as well. Um to wrap up and I know I'm going quick um and we'll have questions at the end but uh to wrap up for the plan um the last thing is the implementation. Um, so we have in there um every goal, objective, and action listed out. Um, I hopefully you guys got to review the plan already. Um, that is also tied into um, time frame and community uh, either organizations or city departments that can help um, execute those actions in the plan. So look, who to look for first and um, and the time frames is important. But um, at the end of the day, this plan is a huge uh, toolkit and guide. Um, and we know it's a lot. Uh we know that there's I think we have over 80 recommendations in this plan, a lot of assessments, a lot of maps to look at. Um and it's a big thing to tackle. Um this master plan is going to take you guys 5 to 10 years into the future. Um some some cities are even updating every 5 years. Um just depending on growth and development in the city. And so we are really trying to take a multifaceted approach to this. Um my planning team was the one who created this u this document for you guys with the help of the staff team and the help of the residents. Uh we had Casey's team, the landscape architecture, he's the team leader of the landscape architecture team in Houston and he was the one and his team uh tackling the concept plan

for Terrell Park. We have now brought on in the last few weeks now that we have a final draft um half we have our own grants and funding resources team and we have brought them on to kind of identify those next steps for you guys because um just handing this off and saying good luck is is not good enough for us at half and so we want to make sure that you guys are set up to really execute and implement the entire plan over the course of the next decade. Um, so we're excited to have some um follow-up meetings with staff to show them some of the information and identification of grants and funding sources um for for the entire master plan. So, and some of those key projects like Terrell Park. Um, we're going to go through the Terrell Park graphics real quick with Casey and um after that um we can open it up for questions and we'll go from there. Good afternoon. and I'm Casey Collins, landscape architect with HAF. Uh we're excited to show debut for you uh improvements that we've designed for Terrell Park. I think it's important to keep in mind that this is one large vision. Uh by the end of the day, this will change a million times. So, it's uh enough to show you what the uh full potential could be for the park. Uh and so with that, I'm going to dive in. A little bit of a synopsis. Uh this part of the park is located south of the existing golf course. And so what we wanted to do is give this a sense of place and give it its own primary uh entryway sort of destination. So you see that roundabout would serve as a bypass direct connect into this part of the park. You can see the park features many trails. A perimeter trail. Um it's really broken up into three segments. We have a passive area which is shown kind of on the plan right and then really an activated hub. Uh an area of detention separates the two uh views that you see there. And we're proposing these pods of

parking lots along the perimeter. So as you use the space, you can choose to go to each of the different parking lot pods and you see the spiral walks all tying into the more active space. The idea of the spiral walks is to provide users panoramic views of the park including uh we're proposing monument walls which would help tell a story. And so each of those spiral walks may have a theme focusing on you history of Bumont, uh famous people of Bowmont, culture of Bowmont. Uh and so trying to give it a lot of variety. I should probably say this makes the most sense to me. So, if you have any questions, just let me know. So, this is another shot of that that main entryway, the roundabout, uh, all centered up. We're proposing an observation tower to take the shape of an oil derek. Uh, and then you see to the right, we have a playground area, splash pad. You can start to see the semblance of an amphitheater, and then the existing tennis courts. This is another view kind of looking the opposite direction. And so again, you can see splash pad. The trails are all connecting. You can see the monument walls. Another bird's eye view. You can start to see that slanted monument wall which would feature a lot of text and content about the community. And we have an animation which I just click the button. Just click the button. Where'd you go? Okay. like a minute long. Sorry, there's just to help you guys visualize some of those perspectives from a more 3D view. Like Casey said, some of those uh those

different experiences I think is going to be very unique for um not only just a park in Bulmont, but in in general. I've never really been to a park, but different experiences that are running through um depending on where you park. And so that's something that we really wanted to hone in on. Yeah, that's it. That's all. Yeah, that's it. Any questions, guys? So, like when you guys are talking about like different experiences, I'm assuming for different age groups, right? Yeah. So the the intent would be, you know, for the splash pad area specifically of different age groups. Same thing for the playground, but uh the experiences as you're walking along those larger trails would be having signage that uh is all themed for say the history of Bowmont. And then another one of the those four spiral trails. Another one may be educational uh about um the context of the site itself. Yeah. So like my question would be like I mean on the safety aspect of it um I went to school in uh and everything like that and we had Memorial Park we would go to often uh the biggest thing we would see over there was that kids would you know wander off. So how would you like kind of restrict that from happening? So specifically in the active areas we would have some type of fencing some type of barrier especially around the the parking lot areas. Um, so just to sort of contain in that activated space and like the tower you're talking about is like I'm assuming it's like a as an active tower or is just like for decoration. It's an observation tower. So you would be able to climb up to the very top and get really nice views of the entire Terrell Park area. Just kind of playing off that um spindle top theme. Derek, if I could talk to the city's insurance company yet? Haven't got that far yet. Sir, if I could add uh to that, you know, we they could always as as planning goes on look at uh some kind of shrubbery or hedge, you know, or it doesn't necessarily have to be just a fence. You can always uh do some kind of

landscaping to kind of contain uh certain areas. Correct. I think parents are ultimately responsible for their children's behavior, but I've seen a lot of powerpoints in my life and many of them have no power and no point. But uh you guys have done a great job. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate impressive. Any other questions? Anybody in the audience? Yes, sir. And that that was the most southern. Yeah. If we can go back, we're using kind of that teardrop southern tip of the park and so none of the golf course will be impacted by that. Um there might be a few disc golf holes that imped but not the golf courses. Golf course entrance is on the far left. So that park users go through the golf course. We want to create a secondary which would be the primary entrance for this part of the ter. Well, thank you very much guys. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Commissioners. All right, Miss Deming. And so planning staff does recommend uh approval of the adoption or review and adoption of this plan. Um so if you guys could make a recommendation to approve approve with conditions or deny um to city council then city council should consider that in uh miday this plan. All right you heard the lady. Is there a motion? Motion to approve file PZ 20225-101. Second. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you. Okay. So, this was the 112, right? Yeah.

So, 112 is um what we're going to review next. That one that you guys just approved is 101. Okay. Okay. So um this I'm going to present um guidelines that I had drafted and do kind of a general introduction of special districts um to the commission. Um however I will ask the commission um to not consider or to table um the item so I can further fine-tune the document. Um so just really kind of a general information. So, city of Bowmont developed comprehensive guidelines for the creation and evaluation of special districts to encourage development and revitalization efforts within the city and its ETJ, which is the extr territorial jurisdiction. Special districts are financing tools to help fund infrastructure and community improvements, ensuring that development projects enhance the quality of life, boost the local economy, and protect the city's long-term fiscal health. Um, so there's four different districts that the guidelines uh contain. So the first one is a public improvement district or as everyone um refers to it as a PID. Um so the it's established under chapter 372 of the Texas Local Government Code. Um a PID allows a property owner to petition to the city uh to finance public improvements through special assessments. Um so the purpose of a PID is to create um are created to fund public improvement districts or I'm sorry public improvements such as roads, curbs, sidewalks, utilities, parks, landscaping, etc. Um usually these uh improvements are funded uh from proceeds of a bond issue sold by the municipality. Um the next is a MUD which is a municipal utility district. uh

those are created under the Texas Water Code Constitution or special legislative acts. MUDs finance water, wastewater, drainage, and related infrastructure. Um they're often unincorporated or in newly developing areas. Um the purpose is to facilitate residential and commercial development by enabling developers to recover costs through property taxes levied within the district. MUDs can also provide services such as garbage collection. Um the oversight for MUDs is regulated by the state. Um the city enforces standards to ensure that the alignment uh meets our city's goals. Um so they can create at the state level. They don't necessarily have to come through the city. Uh but it's preferred to to discuss through the city. Also for MUDs, um they levy when when we talk about all of the these things. And there's two other districts I'll cover, but when we talk about it, you you heard property taxes, you heard levy, special assessments, those don't go to the city. Um the city only uh collects the the taxes that have been voted on by council, um which sales tax, property tax, those things. But these are um assessments that would go directly to the developer and they're typically governed by their own board. Um, so the next one is a tax increment reinvestment zone or a TUR. Um, and it's enabled by chapter 311 of the Texas tax code. Uh, council just uh uh considered this for um their first ter within the city. Um, so they're they're a little bit more aware of this. Um, typically these are city-led. Um, they're not necessarily um, uh, developerled. So just just so you're aware um it's again to incentivize development in areas that would otherwise otherwise remain underutilized

without public assistance. Uh TUR funds can fund public works such as uh roadways, utilities, parks using the um the tax increment uh generated from the redevelopment. Um MMDs, those are municipal management districts. Uh those are created through legislative acts or petitions to uh TCEQ which is the state. Uh these districts allow property owners to tax themselves to fund uh infrastructure and services. Uh the purpose of them is to en enhance quality of life uh maintain and manage the improvements uh such as beautifification uh security, transit services and marketing within them. They're almost like their own uh city in a in a way. Um so the key goals of of all of those kinds of districts um is to improve the infrastructure across the city um in in whole uh diversify the economy. A lot of these incorporate like commercial um commercial uses, a lot of mixeduse development. Um encourage a high quality I'm sorry I just said that. Uh maximize the tax base uh while minimizing taxpayer burden so existing t taxpayers are not burdened by these kinds of districts. Um so that that's pretty key to understand. Um the guideline goes on to, you know, we would like to consider a $2,500 non-refundable fee. Um that would go towards administrative uh reviews, costs, uh time. Uh in the guidelines, the review team is going to be a lot of the directors. Um so it's it's ensuring that we we can cover their time as well. Um there's the evaluation process, which again, that's that review team. So, a lot of it's going to be uh the assistant city managers, myself, uh public works director, fire chief, police chief, um a

slew of of uh directors in one area to really make sure that um or one meeting to make sure that this uh is a proposal or a petition that the city should move forward with um and that it's in the best interest of the city. Um there's debt service districts um and cash flow PIDs as well um to make sure that there is no no burden to the taxpayer um if they want to establish something with a uh or if they want to establish a district that requires any debt service, they're going to have to make sure that they pay for those services. So, an escrow account would be set up with the city um and they would replenish that account as needed for the entirety or the entirety existence of their uh special district. So, like the common district um is a public improvement district that we'll probably see at um at this city's level. Um so, normally those go on for anywhere between like a 15 to a 30-year period. They kind of uh mirror a mortgage. Um, so basically they would have to keep that escrow account open with uh plenty of funds in there if we need to uh contact any legal financial um advisors to to help us through that process to make sure that the um city is covered. Um also if they're approved to form um they will have to enter into a development agreement. Um the developer must enter the binding agreement which assures the city uh delivery on assures the city delivery on the promised development and a sunset clause should the developer fault on the project. Um there's also financial uh safeguards in there such as like a cap on the equivalent tax rate. though I believe are um well the what's been proposed in these guidelines is that they cannot exceed $1.50 per $100 of

assessed value um for any debt service. Um so this document is still being reviewed by our financial advis advisors um to ensure that all safeguards are presented within it. So, um, that's one of the reasons, too, that I don't want you guys to consider this one because I want it to to really go through multiple eyes and make sure that, um, that it it's it's it's right and um, that's how we should proceed as a city. Um, all bond financed improvements must undergo competitive bidding as well. Um there's no improvement that can uh be considered in one of these special districts that isn't uh uh accessible by the public or that is a public improvement. It it can't be like a private street neighborhood with a private park. It has to be open and accessible to the public. um any so let's say for example kind of give some examples now a public improvement district um is proposed within the city um typically these these developments are highly amenized so like let's say for a residential subdivision um normally these have uh like trails in them they have uh parks they have high quality infrastructure um they have uh street landscaping um all the things that that really promote a high quality uh I'll put in quotation marks maybe a master plan community those kinds of things. Um these assessments are they're basically put across um each lot that is in there. So um you can kind of look at it as if uh like a HOA fee at the end of a year or a property tax. This tax is only to the people that buy within that neighborhood. Um and it it is only collected um the city acts as a pass through um to give that back from the

tax office to the developer to reimburse them for that development. So these aren't um I don't want you to these aren't like regular uh neighborhoods that that come through typically with these. So it's like the stuff like um like in Katy, Texas, there's a subdivision I've seen like this. Is it like where the pool there's like a private pool kind of thing for just that neighborhood? It would be private. It would it would be open to the public. To the public or just that neighborhood? Um it should be to So it would be in the neighborhood, but it should be accessible to the public. That's how if it's going to be like a public like the um city is going to endorse it, it would have to be like a public um amenity. Gotcha. Um, and so I just the the main thing with these PIDs is that we've had and the reason I'm even bringing these guidelines to you guys is that in the past year we've had uh developers come to the city asking about them if the city's interested in them and all those kinds of things. So, I've been trying to prepare ourselves for a a petition to be received and um or should a petition be received that we have guidelines or expectations in place um for these developers. Um and so I I want to be clear that these these developments need to have some kind of amenity, especially if there is a um an assessment that's levied on them um to enjoy those amenities within their neighborhood. Um, you know, one of the things it not necessarily that it it's going to be private, but you know, if it's a pocket park that's within the neighborhood, it's a neighborhood park, right? Like those those uh individuals or property owners within that area are um especially benefiting from them, right? Because they're within walking distance and you know, Julian just talked about that with half an associates ha having more um accessible uh parkland and playgrounds and things like that. So

really, these guidelines are just to um establish um establish the expectation that the city of Bulmont has when we receive these petitions. Um again, not asking for um not asking for uh you guys to consider today. Um, and I I'm not sure if it has to be tabled or not, but I would like to further fine-tune the document and bring forth something um that you guys can can uh adopt here in hopefully in in summer. Okay. Thank you. So, uh, counselor, we take this as a presentation and don't have to take any action. I don't believe that there's action being requested. No action requested, but I would I do believe that we have some developers. So, I would like to hear any questions, comments from y'all. If there's anyone that wants to speak on um special districts or anything like that. If there no one wants to speak and that's fine. Any comments? Well, as the guidelines, I I assume that as this progress forward, this is going to come before us again and individual. Yes, sir. it'll come to you guys for a formal adoption especially too because um we are going to I am looking at um impos or not imposing um assessing a um a application fee with it as well. So that will have to be considered by y'all and also uh council before I can have that um before I can assess that. So thank you Tammy. Actually I have a question. So these special districts I'm assuming there's gonna be boards on there correct like there's gonna be what? like boards like for some of the mud and all that. Is it going to be appointed or is it going to be elected? That's actually um within so typically and you know we have a uh developer here that's pretty well-versed in them but um they they they all have boards and they're appointed with that board and I believe that they have to go through the

them to uh tell them where there's a mud pen in Delaware in Don. There's a municipal management district municipal. Yeah, there's a municipal management district. Um it's not um it's not been improved yet, but um that was I don't know the timeline, but that was considered maybe two years ago at this point. Um so hopefully there'll be some movement there. Good. So gentlemen, gentlemen, ma'am, uh my name is Jerry Leblau. I'm with Binnacle Development. Um give you the backstory. So I'm the one that I currently have a petition in with the city to create a pit. Would you state your address for the record? Sure. Sorry. It's uh 11210 Bloom Avenue, Sweet 200, Houston, Texas 77034. Okay. Go ahead. So, you're talking about Katie. Uh we Binn Development, we put a lot of lots on the ground for public builders, private builders, Katy, League City, Friendswood, Parland. Uh we have some just infill, but we also have master plan communities. The So, I am Yes. Houston. I am from Port Author. Grew up most of my life at 6750 Guest Road off Old Road. So, a lot of my builders said, "Hey, Jerry, we need development in Bulmont. Would you please go to Bulmont?" Absolutely. I know most of the streets very well. I'm buying some property at Northwest Parkway and Point Parkway, and we're going to put in approximately 800 to 1,000 homes very quickly. Uh we we we believe we can chew through about eight houses a month and these homes will be in the price point of 295 to 375. what the homeowners are going to receive. It's a it's a master plan community. Masonary perimeter fencing, internal trails, internal walking trails, biking trails, golf cart trails,

parks in different locations, parks for 2 to six year olds over here, parks for 8 to 12 year olds in a different location, splash pads, swimming pools, rec centers. And the way we're able to provide all of that to the homeowners but still keep their house 295 to 375 is through a PID. And I need a glass of water to answer all your questions about a PID. But a short version is a PID allows the homeowners to take advantage of the city's financing rate. Because if we put all of that money into the lot and into the house, then the consumer would have to get a mortgage seven and a quarter% and finance everything. All they're really doing is carving out the portion of the the extras and putting and financing the extras at the city's bond rate, whatever your municipal bond rate is. That's really all we're doing. And there's different mechanisms. We can put it in a pit or we can put it in a mud. I personally prefer the pits because it costs the homeowners the least amount of money. is the most efficient mechanism because again we're wanting to give someone all of those amenities and we're you by the way all of our we we have an application for um our master plan that will come in Wednesday and all the roads are 60oot rideways there are several parks um it's it's a true master plan development and that's how we're able to give the consumers all of those amenities and still be at 295 to 375. So the money is collected by the city and dispersed or how is No, the money is collected by the tax assessor collector once a year for that location or only for that specific location. But as Demi said, Demiy's correct. Technically, everything's open to the

public. It's public streets. Nothing's gated. Somebody from Old Both Road want to come over and use a splash pad, no one can kick them out. But it rarely happens just because of proximity until the neighbors lock the gate or run them off with paintball guns. Yes. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Any questions difference between a and So, an MMD uh municipal management district, and I'm not going to call myself an expert at all in it, so I can I can definitely research it and get some more information on it and bring it to you guys at a later date, but um they're MMDs are created um in legislation or they can petition to the TCQ. So technically they don't have to go through the city. Um but it's really good to work with them to make sure that um we're getting the development and things like that that this that aligns with city goals. Um which is one of the reasons I wanted to include that in this document. Although this document speaks more towards PIDs and um TUR and things like that, I want to make sure that it's in there so that developers understand um what our expectations are. Um, MMDs work more like a uh like a city in a way. Um, they levy their own assessments um and they uh apply that to maintenance and operations where pigs um they're they're they're a little bit more structured I guess in a way. Um they stay with that property for however many years. They never change. And Jerry, correct me if I'm wrong, but they never change. I'm sorry, Mr. Leblanc, correct me if I'm wrong. Um they don't change.

they stay the same every year. So, let's say in an MMD or a MUD, um they have a certain um improvement that they need to make to their uh to their infrastructure, then those uh those rates could change for those um those property owners, but a PID stays the same um on each property. That That's correct. I wanted to speak to everybody including you but um so from a consumer standpoint an MMD or a MUD is very inefficient. Uh with a MUD you have a board uh that the board members get paid every month. You also have monthly meetings. You have to pay for the meeting site. Uh you pay the attorneys, the tax assessor, collectors, the bookkeeper. Everyone has a hand in the pot. So with a mud only about 30% of the proceeds actually go back to pay off the amenities. And with a call it a mud mud management district same they're kind of the same thing municipal district and they're different entities but they operate the same way. Yes sir. Um and what Demi was referring to is municipal utility district or municipal management district MMD. there's a tax rate. Let's say the tax rate is 1%. So if your home is valued at 300,000, your tax rate is three 3,000. But home prices double every 20 years. Homes naturally uh they they they increase 2.6% a year. So in 20 years now that $300,000 home is 600,000 and you're paying a 1% tax. Now you're paying six grand a year. With a PID, it's a fixed. It's fixed for 30 years. So, if you start off paying 1,000 in year 1, you pay 1,000 in year 10, 1,000 year 20, and your last 30th payment in 30th year is $1,000. And and and after 30 years, it goes away. Most management districts and

muds, the intentions are for them to dissolve. Very rarely do they ever dissolve anymore. uh because cities use them to maintain the tension ponds and and and you know move stuff off of the city's budget onto the utility district's budget. That that's a that's a big point. The difference between a PID and a M. Good. Thank you very much. All right, Mayor, you ready? We're going to have the honorable mayor West get us started on the uh joint meeting of the planning zoning and the city council. Please welcome everybody. today. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh, did you call the role? You didn't ask for one. I did. Why was either me or she's going to start on you? One of them. He checked for a quorum. He didn't call. Nice try. Mayor West. Mayor Pro Tim Neil is absent. Council member Durio is absent. Council member Felshaw is absent. Council member Gats present. Council member Samuel. Council member

Turner present. Thank you. Thank you, folks. Uh, we're going to get started with PZ2025-65, please. Yes, sir. Eric Ardwan is requesting approval of a specific use permit to operate a residential care facility at 2326 Roman Street. The facility will be a private pay home offering room and board in a safe, sober living environment for men in recovery. It will provide eight beds across four shared bedrooms with all common areas shared. The home is intended to support residents as they transition from treatment by helping them secure employment, participate in the 12step program, and attend religious services. The property is zoned residential, multif family, highest density, uh, and located in a mixeduse area that includes residential, industrial, and commercial uses. Uh the RMH district per permits a range of residential types with it with a specific use permit which allows for uses such as recreation, religious, health, and educational facilities. While the proposed use generally aligns with the goals of revitalization, the city's traffic engineer has raised concerns about parking. On street parking is not available and the property owner must ensure that the parking for more than two vehicles does not obstruct traffic flow or neighboring properties. Additionally, Mr. Ardon Ardwan submitted a letter with the the proposal stating that no sex offender shall reside within the home at any point in time. Staff recommends approval of the request with the following conditions. Number one, the property owner will be responsible for ensuring that vehicles do not obstruct neighboring driveways or restrict the the traffic flow. Number two, the applicants shall submit a parking plan approved by the city's traffic engineer to ensure that emergency vehicles can safely access and

navigate the roadway. Number three, shall obtain an approved certificate of occupancy from the building official should alterations or repairs to the structure be required, all construction shall comply with applicable city codes and complete all required instru inspections. Number four shall install a 8-foot wood privacy fence along the eastern, northern, and western property line encompassing the backyard to provide privacy measures to nearby single family homes. Our staff did send out 29 property owner notices. We received zero in favor and two in opposition. opposition summarizing um basically stating they hope that there's no drug use or sex offenders and uh are generally concerned for their safety with establishment of this. Uh the area outlined in red on your screen is the area under review. the site plan or the survey subject property to the east, to the south, and to the west. And I believe that we have the applicant present as well. Can you show me the prop subject property one more time? Okay. So, there's spot for what? to parking currently um in that in that driveway. That's what it appears. So, they would have to submit, you know, a uh parking plan that that conforms with the city's traffic or con what is the word I'm trying to say? Applies. Yeah. Um applies or conforms with our city's traffic engineer standards. And um it looks like it's a five- bedroomedroom home. It's just four. I'm sorry, it's four. It's okay. 35 by 39.

And again, the applicant is here. Great. Any questions for Demi? And the applicant. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Uh if you would come by and tell us what what this uh project is about so we can visit with you. Yes, sir. I'd love All right. Great. So, uh, if you don't mind, uh, state your name and address for the record, please. My name? Yeah, come on. Come on up. It's okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right, sir. Go ahead. Your name and address? My name is Eric Ardwan. My address is 2655 Harrison Street, Mont, Texas. All right. 7702. Great. And tell me what you're about to do. Well, we've we've been underway now for about four months. Uh the home was established as a transitional home. Uh I have open door policies with every treatment center in Bulmont. Uh have a connection uh with the homeless. I'm an advocate for the homeless here in Bulmont. And so this house is actually helping even formally homeless to transition. I have one that was homeless. He's working now. He has a job. He's self-employed. uh he's paying taxes, he's a productive member of this society. Um as far as the parking, we can get do three three cars. Um but to be honest with you, most of the guys don't have vehicles. They're coming out of a treatment center. Maybe they had one at one time. Maybe their license is has some issues. So not we've only had two vehicles since the start of this home. So, we've never really obstructed any driveway or any kind of, you know, traffic through there. So, so far so good on that. All right. So, you've been operating here for how long? Yes, sir. About four months. I I'm the manager is what I do. I just manage it. I oversee

it. U like I said, there's an application process that they go through. Uh we check to make sure they're not registered or, you know, we don't want registered sex offenders there at all. I'm sorry. It's just uh we have guys that have children that are trying to build a life and their kids come visit them there. So, it's a we want it to be a safe environment. Uh I see that you signed your name as Pastor Eric Ardwan. Yes, sir. Uh pastor, what experience do you have in operating this and the reason for that is I want to know what problems we're going to get into. Sure. If you don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Okay. So, uh I'm a product of a sober house. a transitional house. Uh I actually managed one on Liberty Street for about 22 months. Uh so I know all the ins and outs and how it works. We do random random or suspicion drug test. Uh they're required to make 12step meetings. I do an in-house Bible study there. Uh I make sure I do random check-ins with the guys. Uh well, to be honest with you, most of them go to the church I pastor. Uh the church that I pastor, our congregation is 85% homeless in a treatment center or in a sober home. So that's that's what I've been dealing with that group of people for a really long time now. And so I know how it works and I know how the community would think that. But I can tell you this much, the one I manage, there's a principle in this. So I tell the guys, you have to kill your neighbors with love and kindness. You just have to you have to be a good neighbor. Uh Miss Peggy lives right next door to us. Uh Miss Peggy sends canned goods. Uh we pick her paper up. If it got thrown not close enough to her door, we pick it up. We put it at her door. If we take the trash out, we take hers out. It's just what we do. I went around, I

knocked on doors. I didn't have anybody that had a problem with it. Uh, I explained to them very clearly that, you know, this house is a no drug use policy, period. Uh, if you get caught, you're out of there. We haven't had that problem. So, do you have a manager that lives here or I I I am the manager. I You going to live there, sir? No, I don't live there. I now I have I have an individual who's been there since the birth of it that is more or less kind of like an overseer. So, there is an overseer. There is someone there. Yes, sir. All right. Are you familiar with the four requirements that the city has? No sir. The the one in here about uh responsible for ensuring the vehicles not obstruct the neighbors and parking and also the fence and all that good stuff. Okay. So, uh so do I need to put a wood fence up? Is that what it is? Yes, sir. Okay. Uh, you need to look at this report that the city has and requirements for it. Yes, sir. I'll comply. You want me to reread the conditions if you don't mind? Sure. The first one is the property owner will be responsible for ensuring that vehicles do not obstruct neighboring driveways or restrict traffic flow. Uh, number two is that you need to submit a parking plan approved by the city's traffic engineer to ensure that emergency safety vehicles can navigate the roadway. Okay. Number three, uh obtain a certificate of occupancy from the building official. Um make sure you come up to a second floor so we can help you with that. Um should alterations or repairs to the structure be required, you just need to comply with all the applicable city codes and uh required inspections. Again, we will help you through that. Uh number four, uh shall install a 8 foot wood privacy fence along the eastern, northern, and western property line encompassing the backyard. And so what I mean by that, we'll go to

this one. What I mean by that is encompassing your entire backyard. So okay, all the way around here. Okay. So all three sides and maybe a gate on both sides or what have you. Okay, I understand. So now um any questions from gentlemen? Yes. Um I'm looking at this. It says uh eight beds across four rooms. And since you don't live there, they're going to manage theirelves. I assume that you could put trying to put eight people in into this facility. We've never had eight. Right now, we stand at five. We've never had eight since the birth. I don't I don't really push that. Uh I just kind of let the good Lord send who he needs there. And uh but like I said, we've never been full capacity. I don't think we'll ever be full capacity. How what's what's the size of the facility? It's a So it's a it's a four bedroomedroom house. So in each room, Huh. 1400. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a huge house, but I mean it's a it's a four bedroomedroom. All the bedrooms are same size except the master bedroom. The master bedroom has a walk-in closet and a master bath. There's two baths. Four men share one bath. If there was eight, they would share the other bath. And do they stay there all day or do they leave, go to a job, come back? I have one man, Mr. David, I say, "Man, he's he's a little he's elderly. He's kind of like the eyes and the ears of the institution. He receives a check, SSI. He is home 24/7 until unless I pick him up for church." So, for the repairs that are the conditions that have to be met, do they pay for this or you provide you pay for this? Well, as far as the fences, so let me let me reiterate. I'm the manager. I'm not the owner of the home. The owner of the home lives in Pasadena. and his name is David Gutierrez. I'm just more or less, I

guess, acting on his behalf because I managed the home. I did all the work in the home. He's an investor. And when I when I finished it, I shared my my past with him and he said, "Why do you think it'd be a good solution house?" I said, "I think it'd be an amazing place to transition." So, he pays you to manage the house. What he does is depending on the occupancy. Uh, I if I had eight in there, I could stand to make about $360. But it's I could care less about the money. I'm there because I love these guys and I want to see them get the same blessing out of recovery that I've been able to get. Okay. And the owner, how often does he visit this facility? Uh, we conversate on the daily, but coming down once every month, give or take, something like that. Jamie, does uh Mr. Gutierrez need to know about the conditions as opposed to Pastor Ardwan? The conditions are limited to the applicant, not the owner. So, Mr. Ardwan or Pastor Ardwan is the applicant. And so, if if the applicant is unable to satisfy the conditions because the property owner chose not to do it or because he chose not to do it, then they would just be an unsatisfied condition, in which case they wouldn't get the permit. be a part of the permit. And I can I can assure you that that fence will be up there within a week. Well, before you leave, I I need you to understand if I was you, I would go to the city upstairs and visit with them and the fire marshall because they're very strict requirements for uh fire alarm and fire marshall wants to know how fast you can, you know, leave the building in case of fire and all that. Before you spend any more money on this, you need to make sure that you have a permit in hand and you can satisfy those. Sure, I understand. I've got one

more. Mr. Ardwan, what's the average length that your residents stay? Well, so I can tell you. So, we've only been there four months, right? But you were at another facility, so I figured you probably had a good idea. Yeah. And I'll explain. So, we just had uh one one I call brother August. He went there uh about three and a half months ago. He stayed long enough to for God to restore the relationship, excuse me, with his child that uh and and his wife and now they have a place together. Um, some stay because maybe they're they're settled so much that they have a like a fear maybe of stepping out just yet and they want to make sure that they they're ready to go back out because it's a tra excuse me, it's a transition from either a treatment center. We don't take anybody that comes out of prison or anything. These guys are coming out of treatment centers and so it's a transition from that element to that where they can learn to stand on their own two feet and work and pay taxes and then go out and be you know live in society. So uh the length of stay varies. I mean now I was I was on the board of the house center for three years and those guys some of them guys have been there eight years living there. So but we're not set up for that. We're not longterm. I mean, we're just a transition. Got it. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. So, I have a question. So, are any of these people working right now or are they just transitioning completely? They are all working except Mr. David, but he receives a check. So, do they get picked up and dropped off or how do they get Some two have vehicles currently. They drive themselves to work to and from work. Uh the others Uber or I got we got two bikes and they ride the bike. Mr. David is your manager at this house. He's kind of like the eyes and ears.

Yeah, Mr. David's there 24/7, 7 days a week, 20 The Only time that man gets out is when I pick him up to go get some groceries or take him to church, which I'll pick him up here shortly. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you. Okay. Now, is there anybody in the audience that would like to speak for or against this case? Good afternoon, ma'am. How are you doing? You've been sitting there patiently a very long time. Good afternoon. Well, good afternoon to you. My name is Peggy Coley. Would you mind putting that picture up showing the house? Okay, if you turn around, my house is right next door to the facility. It's that gray. That's my house right there. And you can see how close it is to my house. Sure. The problem that I have, Mr. Ardwine and David Caterero, they start working on this house. Never informed the residents what kind of house this was going to be. They've been there more than four months. to my knowledge once I start complaining I get a notice from the city. Now my question is to you. My neighborhood is a black old neighborhood in Bulmont. We have six residents. You can see how narrow the street is. Okay. So, how would you

like if Mr. Ardwine and David could terrify a house in your neighborhood and move these people and you are not notified? How would you feel? Tell me how would you feel? I am totally against it. And like I said, it was done because it was in a black quiet neighborhood in North End. Now, my concern with this, you have people in general, like Mr. Ardwan say, they're in and out. There's no supervision. That's my number one problem. No supervision. We're never notified about anything. So, how could the city allow this? I pay taxes just like you pay taxes. I called him about two weeks ago and I told him at 12:30 a.m. in the morning, listen to what I'm saying. 12:30 a.m. I heard gunshots. My quiet neighborhood. So I informed him of what I heard. He said, "Oh, they're all with me. We going to Pasadena. We going to

church." I said, "It didn't happen at 12:30 p.m. It happened at 8:00 a.m. in the morning. We never had that in my neighborhood. Never. I'm not happy and I do I hope that you do not give them the permit since they took it upon themselves to move in and establish that type of facility. Thank you very much. I have a question for you. Before you get too deep into it, Commissioner Miss Peggy, can you state your address? You Oh, I'm so sorry. It's 2320 Roman. Thank you. And the house is 2326 Roman right next door. All right, we have a couple of questions. Yes, sir. How long have you lived in your house? That is uh I moved back in 2019, but that is family property and we've been there since the early 50s. Do you own your home, ma'am? Yes. Do you fear for your safety? I do. I really do. Thank you, ma'am. Any other questions? Yes, sir. Live by yourself? I live by myself. I'm a retiree. Any other questions? Thank you very much, man. Thank you. Sorry that we made you wait that long. That's okay. All right, Mr. Ardwan, you're up next. Uh, you heard the lady and she has some concerns and uh I need you to tell me you what are you going to do about I sat

in her living room. Yeah, you can you can I sat in her living room. Uh, we sat we had a very very wonderful conversation about that house. I assured her. Let me let me tell you where the problem is. Tell me when you met with her. Okay. Uh, it's been about four weeks, Miss Peggy, since we I met you in your living room. Then you brought canned goods next door to the guys and all that. Okay. So, uh, here's here's the situation. I don't own the house. When we started doing the work on the house initially, the house was going to be sold or flipped or whatever. We I didn't It's none of my business what he does with his houses. But so you were the contractor to I was the contractor. I did all the work. Yes, sir. And so I'm a painter and a carpenter and a pastor. So I did the work on the home. During that process, we he knew my my history and my past and I he asked me he said, "Do you think it would make a good transition house?" I said, "I think so." So we mold the idea around. Uh, you know, I know initially she was upset because he didn't personally tell her what the house was going to be. Uh, but and I didn't either because I didn't know that that's exactly what we were going to do with it. But when we decided to do it and she raised some concerns, we had a sit down in her house. I sat right there with her. Um, you know, at that point I thought she was fine with it. I mean, she didn't seem Her only thing was that she wasn't told what it was going to be, but we didn't even know that's what it was going to be in the beginning. What do you know about the gunshot? I have absolutely no idea about a gunshot. I mean, that house is on Roman. I mean, who could it be? Maybe the train tracks right there behind it. I don't know.

Nobody in that house has a gun. I mean, that's that doesn't even make no sense. None of my guys are walking around with guns. Mr. You never told her that uh the house was going to be used as a sober house? No, not initially. No, we didn't do it. I didn't do it. It wasn't my house. It wasn't my place to even say anything about it. But when we decide decided to do it, this has been a process going on for about maybe four months now that because it took it took me it took me three weeks to fix the house. When you decided to do it, did you let her know that the house was going to be a sober house? When we started moving in furniture, I didn't let her know, but I apologized to her for that. And I thought we were okay. I don't You never said anything any different. You can address us here. Yeah. I just don't understand what the Let's Let's go back. When you started this h this house renovation, did you have a permit? No. No, we didn't have a permit. I did f I did go through the process once I got received a letter and then I went upstairs and we got everything taken care of as far as he paid whatever it was the $600. I don't know. You being a carpenter and a painter and a pastor, how could you not get a permit to uh renovate a house? Was his home All we did was paint. Well, did I never had I've been painting in Bmont for a decade now. I've never had a bad permit. Only in Oldtown. Only in Oldtown. You don't need a permit for paint. Uh but repairs, certain repairs, you it may constitute a permit. Right. I understand that. I have a question for you. Um cuz I thought when you first present I I thought you were the owner of the property and I thought you said you had talked to the people in the area. We did when I was when I was told

to do it. I didn't know I had to do that. And y'all y'all were the one that stipulated I do that and I did it. The uh other part is um I think she said there's six uh residents in the neighborhood and you've talked to all six of them. I I door knocked on two that didn't answer and then the lady that's right there on the right did answer. I talked to the man across the street. So three out of six. And though you said they were okay with this. Yeah. Nobody said had a I'm sorry. Go ahead. Though you said that you were there for 4 months at this facility and now I'm looking at you're bringing in eight men out of a recovery to go into a house next door to a single lady, elderly lady. So I And you had no thoughts that you should have relayed that to anybody for that type of facility? Well, first of all, there's no sex offenders in that house. So there's there there would be no reason for any man in that house to violate any woman in in the neighborhood. So what kind of recovery are they in? They're drug and alcohol recovery. And so still that you you you're having a a recovery center. Yes, sir. Doesn't mean that you don't know where that's going. Well, I can tell you I'm very much connected to that house. I don't know what she means by I'm not there. I'm I get I'm a phone call away. I pick those guys up four times a week. Tonight I'll pick them up when I get out of here and bus them to the church I pastor. We're going to do a meet and eat Bible study and then I'm going to bring them home. I'm very active in their life over there. Okay. Any other questions? All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Uh, go ahead.

Mr. Oddwine, you do not live in the house. No, I don't. Okay. You see what I'm saying? He does not live in the house. That's what we're talking about. That's all right. Uh, if you don't mind, just go ahead and ask the question. We'll get the answer. We don't want this to be a debate here. It's not going to be a debate. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Someone finally listened to me because this been an ongoing situation. Now look, look, we want you to be comfortable. You have lived in that house. You're one of the neighbors. You have all the right. So I want you to make sure you understand everybody in here is listening to you. Okay. So if you look at the tail end of that house, you can see there's another driveway. Okay. long time ago that people used to use that driveway because there was a house in the back when that house was built. It was one of the first houses built from the city uh way back. I don't know exactly when because I wasn't living there. My mother that was my mother's house. That house is now overbuilt on what you call the espark. And I showed David Caterero the original house that was there in the 50s and you know he told me I had to prove whether or not that was my fence and that fence been there since the 50s. So I I'm through. Thank you. Now okay. Were you the lady that took canned goods to these folks? I had canned goods and he right he was in my house when the mayor Bulmont called him. So uh and then there is going to be a 8 ft fence between you and his house. Okay. When

you put that fence uhoh I don't want the house there. I don't want those people in my neighborhood. Okay. Well, thank you very much, ma'am. And thank you, sir. Yeah. I want to add one more thing real quick. That fence that she owns that was all dilapidated and laying over and everything. We straightened that out for her. All right. Those guys cut that grass on a regular basis. You will not pass that house and it looked like a slum house. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, folks. I hate to put this on you, but uh we will close the public hearing now. Nobody else is volunteering, right? Okay. So, uh we heard from the owner. We heard heard from the nice lady neighbor and the staff. So I would entertain a motion. Motion to deny. Second. All right. We have a motion to deny and a second. I'd like for you to vote with your hands up. All those in favor say I. I. And raise your hands. Deny or deny. Deny. Deny. All right. Thank you. So the motion's denied. Thank you. Sorry, sir. I know you have a great cause. guys that have worked hard to build their life. Uh you I'll be in touch tomorrow. Thank you. All right. Now, Demi, you are way over your record in here tonight, but we're going to do it. Let's go to uh PZ202594. Yes, sir. Matthew Cook on behalf of ITEX is requesting approval of a specific use permit to allow a commercial warehouse and office park at the property located at 1120 Drive. Commercial occupancies such as contractor's offices, retails, and professional offices are permitted

outright within the general commercial multiple family dwelling district. However, the warehousing and distribution requires a specific use permit, which is why this is this request is before you. The site is uh 10 acres and will include 15 buildings offering a total of 105,000 square feet of leasable space. Um I believe that you said one 175,000 uh leasable space earlier. Did I get that wrong? Oh no, it's 105,000. 105,000. Okay. The project is designed to provide affordable commercial lease space opportunities for small businesses that do not require heavy industrial facilities. It's aimed to support local contractors, small smallcale storage, direct shipping operations, and online warehousing for local distribution. The proposed use specifically excludes businesses that would need layown yards, 18-wheeler access, or heavy industrial equipment. Staff recommends approval of the request with the following conditions. Number one, construction plans must meet all requirements by water utilities for water and sanitary sewer improvements, including any requirements of the city's backflow pre-treatment and/or fog program. Number two, construction shall comply with all applicable building and fire codes. Number three, the development shall comply with section 28.06.06, landscaping and screening requirements of the city of Bowmont's code of ordinances. Staff sent out eight property owner notices. We received zero in favor, zero in opposition. The area outlined in red is on your screen. That's under review. Aerial image site plan subject property and north subject in west further

north east and south and I believe we have the property or I'm sorry we have the applicant present. Mr. Cook. Yes, sir. Good afternoon again. Uh, Matthew Cook, 6095 Ventura Lane, Bulmont, Texas 77706. Um, yes. So the the proposed development is to something that we're looking at doing in phases. Uh the buildings in total would be split between 10 6,000 ft² buildings. These are metal buildings. Um and then five 9,000 ft² buildings. The 6,000 ft² buildings would be ideally split down the middle with a a 550 ft² office space in it and then the rest would be used as warehouse space. The 9,000 ft buildings would be built [Music] to where you could have up to four tenants in a building. They'll have four overhead, you know, bay doors. Um, but we would be able to, you know, if an a tenant, a potential tenant wanted a larger space, you know, we wanted some flexibility with the 9,000 square ft buildings. Um, we are conscious of Kelly High School to

the south and will keep in place a 100 ft tree buffer along the uh entire you. Thank you very much. Yeah, the south part of the property. Uh and then just north of that so that there's net zero um drainage drainage will be building a detention pond and potentially uh you know have two access points to Wendellin Road as well as a new one that comes in off of um the property to the Any questions for So you only have one dumpster for the whole facility that Yeah, that's where we have we have one dumpster enclosure there now. Yes, sir. So is that for all of the is it like 10 buildings? I think 15 buildings. Yes, sir. Right now um We would we will be developing this in phases. Uh the first phase will be six buildings. The uh the four 6,000 ft buildings along the north part of the property with two 9,000 ft buildings in the middle. The second phase will be an additional six. And then the third phase would be the last three buildings at the south of the property. So, are they going to be using My question is are is the whole site using that one dumpster or are they going to have like rollway bins or how do you plan on um or is everybody going to have their

own dumpster just sitting there in that area? I wouldn't anticipate everyone having their own dumpster sitting there, but if we need to accommodate for, you know, multiple dumpsters and that's something that we can expand. Gotcha. Any other questions? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Great, folks. Uh you've heard the applicant and also the uh approval from the recommendation from the city with three uh conditions. And with that I would entertain a motion please. Motion to approve PC 2025-94. Second with three conditions. Yes. I have a motion to approve with the conditions and a second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any in opposition? The eyes have it. Uh, Mr. Demi PZ2025-102. All right, last one. Uh, Richard Faust of FA Engineering and Surveying is requesting a reszoning for the 2.43 acres, more or less located at the southern portion of the 21 acre tract located north and west of Dylan Drive. Mr. FA seeks to change the zoning from GCMD to RS, which is residential single family dwelling to develop a 76 lot residential subdivision, which you guys um reviewed earlier in the regular meeting. Uh planning staff does recommend approval of the request. We sent out 28 property owner notices. We received eight in favor and zero in opposition. Favor stating that it's f fitting for residential single family zoning and not commercial in that site. uh area outlined in red is the area

under review. Subject property or aerial image. This is to the east, to the south, to the west, and that's all the uh images that we could get from the uh public right away, but I'll go back to the aerial image. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Fast. Good afternoon again. Good afternoon. You know, we we got to do this and get that make that preliminary plant work. So, I appreciate it. I'm glad to answer any questions you have. Uh just your name and address. Oh, I'm sorry. Richard FA FA Engineering and Surveying, 5550 East Texas Freeway, Sweet O, Bulmont, Texas. Good. Do you have any additional information, Mr. FA? Um no, sir. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Uh, is there anybody in the audience that would like to speak for or against this case? The other one didn't require it. You're going to have to, you know, come in front of us next time or the time after. So, uh, so there no public comment. All right, we're going to close the public comment session. Uh, we heard from the staff and also the the applicant and I would entertain the motion. Motion to approval. We have a motion to approve. Is there a second? We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Any opposition? The eyes have it. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Jeez.

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