City Council - Regular Meeting

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Welcome to the regular meeting of the Irving City Council July 16, 2026. It's a pleasure to have each one of you with us this evening and so hopefully we'll be able to move right through our agenda. We had a good afternoon session as well as this morning session with our two of our committees. So at this point, Shanae, do we have any comments at this point? If not, I'm going to move right to organizational service announcements. Do we have anyone signed up to give an announcement?

Yes, sir, we do. We have Usman Ghani, and you have three minutes to speak, and please state your name and address. Thank you.

Good afternoon. My name is Usman A. Ghani. A stands for agentic AI. I would like to request you to consider, I will send this around if you please don't mind, officer, to circulate this. We are doing a program for executives who really want to use AI for judgment. These days, AI is being used mostly as a support tool, secretarial tool. But executives like yourselves, especially in the nonprofit area, do not necessarily have all the benefits that AI can bring. We have organized, with the help of MIT, on August the 5th, which is Wednesday, four weeks from yesterday, a program that will be at the Brookhaven College because that is central. And I would urge you all to consider it, come yourselves, learn, help us learn, and also share it with others. Thank you very much.

Thank you. At this time, our invocation will be by the Right Reverend Shane Webb. Dear friend, good to see you. The invocation this evening will be from the Woodhaven Presbyterian Church here in Irving. Reverend Webb.

Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, esteemed councilmen, and hardworking staff. I appreciate all of you. Thank you for your leadership. And I invite all of us to lift our hearts in a spirit of prayer. Let us pray. Holy God, we thank you for this day, for the life that you have given to us, and for the wonder of this community. God, I'm thankful that we had a wonderful Fourth of July celebration with a parade and fireworks that went off wonderfully in Proves. that this city can come together and be united. I pray that we would have more togetherness, that there would be more neighbors working with neighbors, and that we could find ways to improve this city together. God, I ask your blessing upon these, your leaders, and all these people here in this community. God, that we may learn and grow together as we expand this city and that we continue to grow so that we can meet the needs of all your people. And we ask this in your holy and loving name. And all God's people said, amen.

Our Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Councilman John Block. John, please.

Please, your hand over your heart and recite the pledges with me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,

Thank you, John. Okay, proclamation and announcements. I think we have one for the National Parks and Recreation Month proclamation. Am I correct? Okay, Julia. Now what? No.

Thank you.

Joe Moses, come on down here with me please. Proclamation. Whereas the month of July in National Parks and Recreation Month, organized and launched by the National Parks and Recreation Association. And whereas parks and recreation programs are an integral part to the communities throughout the country, including the city of Irving. And whereas parks and recreation departments are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in our communities, ensuring the health of all our citizens. And whereas parks and recreation areas are fundamental to the environmental well-being of our community. And whereas parks and recreation programs improve the community's economic impact through increased property values, expansion of local tax base, increased tourism, and the retention of businesses. And whereas the City of Irving recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Recreation Program, now therefore I, Albert C. Zapanta, Mayor of City of Irving, and the City Council do hereby proclaim the month of July 2026 as National Parks and Recreation Month. Joe Moses, our Director, please receive this and it's an honor to... Present this to you. You've earned it with all your staff. Would you like to call them up?

Yeah. I'd like to invite our park board members and our staff down here to come down and receive this with me and take a photo. And so these are the folks that make it happen.

Okay, April, you got a good shot of us?

I got it. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, city manager, city operations update.

No update this evening, sir. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, public hearing, public hearing. TOGETHER INPUT ON THE 2026-2027 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN SUBMISSION FOR THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. SHANE, DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?

YES, WE DO. WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER TO SPEAK. LAURA ANDERSON, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Laura Anderson. I guess I get two years in a row of being the only person who spoke on the action plan at council. So I take my duties very seriously. Good evening, sir. I just have just a couple things. I know during budget hearing, I came down and talked to you about the cooling centers. I'm understanding that, Chris, you might have something in line for that. It used to be that the libraries... We're able to be used. Now the South Irving Library has a security guard, and so once somebody gets kicked out of the library, they're kicked out for a year. And so that is not an option. I'm understanding that people are moving down to the senior center. Those elderly are moving down to the cooling centers. After I talked on budget on Sunday two weeks ago, I was at church, and there was a 66-year-old man that came in needing food, shelter, and he wanted to get out of the heat. And so I was able to call the Salvation Army, and the Salvation Army took him in. But we need to do better for the homeless. I know I watched work session and I watched Dennis again request that that $2.9 million be placed back where it originally belonged. And that's for a non-congregate shelter for the homeless. Many Helping Hands is seeing record numbers, 90, 70, and those people are all out in the heat. And just like I said before, the really cold gays, y'all supported the non-congregate, I mean, the inclement weather shelter. We need a permanent solution for every year. all year round and so we it would help with that 2.9 million dollars to be placed back where it originally belonged so i we do have some really good news i know the mayor showed up to the homeless committee meeting with i can we've been working really diligently I went and spoke before the Housing and Human Services Board last night, and there are some really diligent people, including Justice of the Peace Sasha Moreno chairs it, and we're all willing to find a solution to help the homeless, get them where they need to be. They need the dignity. And so please consider doing that. I have some ideas on how we can make that happen, and I'll save that for another time. But thank you for your consideration.

Thank you, Laura. We will now take up the consent agenda, items 3 through 25. Tonight's agenda is the consent agenda that there are any council members wishing to pull an item from the consented agenda at this time.

Motion for approval. Second the motion. Second.

Thank you. Show your vote, please. Unanimous. Thank you, gentlemen. For individual consideration, items 26 to 27, 26, ordinance, public hearing, and designating approximately 19.247 acres of land as tax abatement reinvestment zone number 65. Sinead, do we have any person that has signed up to speak on this item?

No, sir.

Okay. The chair will entertain a motion unless there is a council person that has a comment.

Motion to approve.

Second the motion. Thank you. Show your vote. Thank you, gentlemen. Resolution 27, approving the tax abatement agreement between the City of Irving and NVIDIA Corporation in an amount uh... dependent upon annual qualifications shanae do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item does the council have a comment if not the chair will entertain a motion motion to approve second the motion as well thank you show the vote thank you unanimous at this time the next item is zoning cases and companion items, items 28 to 31. At this time, we will ask anyone wishing to speak for or against any of our zoning cases to stand and be sworn in by the city secretary, Shanae Jennings. Please stand, if those of you that will be. Thank you.

Please stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that all statements which you will make tonight to the City Council of the City of Irving will be the truth and nothing but the truth? Thank you. You may be seated.

Okay. This time, is there any comments from any on the council would like to take up or will entertain a motion? Yes. Are you doing it?

Do we have any speakers on this? No. Yes. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Yes, we do. Thank you, John and Louise. Sinead, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item? I think we do.

Yes, this is an ordinance to amend the comprehensive plan future land use map from business office to manufacturing warehouse. 4203 West Royal Lane. Our first speaker is Michael Hugh, followed by Christine Garcia. And then we have two more after that.

Good evening, council members. Good to see you all again.

Are you the applicant?

Yeah, I am the applicant. I'm based in Austin, Texas. I work for Tesla as the architecture and design manager.

And if you could please state your name and your address for the record, please.

Yeah. Michael Hugh. My address is 1700 Willow Creek Drive in Austin. I'm joined by my colleague,

Hi, my name is Christine Garcia. I live at 363 Sugarcane in New Braunfels, Texas. I am the staff lead field safety engineer for Robotaxi.

We're here to represent to you guys again about our Robotaxi hub in Irving. We really wanted to focus on three main topics. One of them being the progress that we've made with the first responders over the past two months. Two, site design and traffic. And three, some insights on how we will utilize existing Tesla infrastructure.

So as I said before, I am the lead field safety engineer for Tesla Robotaxi. Prior to coming to work for Tesla, I was a San Diego police officer in California for 15 years. And prior to that, I was a firefighter for a few years. I lead first responder engagement and outreach, as well as all of the autonomous vehicle behaviors of what the vehicle does around first responders. I had led those efforts into that system. We don't think of our first responders as an afterthought. We consider our first responders all the way from the design phase, not just with first responders within Tesla, but even with our first responder partners. So we bring in the City of Austin, because we are so close to them, to our design approach. We talk about what our theoretical designs are, what we plan to implement on the vehicle. And then we also work through that training. And even that post deployment feedback is very necessary on our end. We need to get this feedback to see if our theoretical concepts actually work in practice. While we acknowledge that autonomous vehicles do decrease our fatality accidents and decrease our severe accident rates we also want to acknowledge that there is a possibility they could become a public nuisance and a drain on police and fire resources so we also work with our first responder partners to make sure that we are not becoming a drain on their resources and that we are uh programming enough intelligence into the system to recognize and interpret semantics for certain events so that the car does the most appropriate and predictable action. I've been in the city of Irving now for the last couple of days training their fire department and their fire personnel on how to identify, how to access, how to depower an autonomous vehicle, and we even added information about our battery technology, our energy products, our charging equipment, and how firefighters can do firefighting tactics in or around vehicles or energy products, and how they can be safe while interacting with these products.

That leads us to point two, which is site design and traffic analysis. Shown on the screen here is the layout of our site. We wanted to quickly talk on how the vehicles will flow as they leave the site. Again, the building is mainly to clean the cars. If you look at step one, after a vehicle leaves the building, it either does one of two things. It'll exit straight onto the streets again, or it will head to that off-site lot, which is 200 stalls. So step two, again, the main purpose of this offsite lot is during heavy traffic, vehicles will stage here prior to going onto streets. So let's say it's 5 PM crazy rush hour midweek. We don't want our 30 cars to flood the existing congested streets. We can slowly release them to every minute so they don't congest the streets. On the same topic, this is a graph that you guys may have seen before, but to quickly explain, again, the Robotaxi facility is meant to clean vehicles mainly at night. So you see that blue line there? Between the hours of 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. is when we see the most activity there, again, because people are in the facility with vacuums just cleaning and wiping down cars. By the time it's the morning peak rush hour into midday and into the afternoon, the vehicles are already out and about onto the roads. So this assumption here, which we utilize with the max design efficiency of 5,000 fleet vehicles for this site, is what we used for our traffic analysis, which showed that the 5,000 vehicles, again, it sounds like a lot, but at night, it is very comparable to a large grocery store. And quickly going into the building, again, this is a purpose-built facility for robo-sassy cleaning. If you just focus on that big blue box in the middle, it's pretty much an open space so we can clean a ton of vehicles. So a car will come in, it'll get cleaned, wiped down for three minutes, and head straight out. There's a lot of additional extra stuff like service lifts and a car wash inside and in front of house, but the main purpose of the facility, it's designed very differently from a normal service center where You might get your car fixed or repaired because, again, half of the building is taken up just to clean the cars.

Mr. Ho, real quickly, is Brendan and Adam part of your applicant process?

We had them sign up in the case that they had any questions fielded to their way.

Okay, I just want you all to know you all have a collective 10 minutes to present. So if they want to present anything, you have five minutes left.

Okay.

Okay, we stopped the clock just so I could let you know that.

Yep, all good. Thank you. And to my last point, I wanted to talk on existing Tesla infrastructure. If you look at the map there, that is the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The subject site noted in yellow. We have existing Tesla infrastructure across the entire region. The blue dots there are six existing service facilities that we have, customer-facing facilities. And I want to make it clear that we will utilize all these facilities for these robo-taxi programs. So we don't intend to kind of flood just this subject site with a ton of cars, all robo-taxis. We intend to utilize our existing network so it doesn't congest just this subject site too much. Same goes for our existing superchargers. We have over 40 existing supercharging sites around the Dallas area. This site only has 16 stalls. We have over 500 across the region. We intend to utilize all of them. Very last point here, I wanted to share a comparison to our Austin RoboTax facility to share some similarities between the Irving site that we selected that you guys have seen versus the Austin site. They are both 36,000 square feet end cap spaces of like a new warehouse as you can see on the left there. They both have a nearby parking lot that we utilize for the staging when vehicles leave. They're both actually five minutes from the airport. And our Tesla Austin operations, the robot taxi launch was over a year ago, 13, 14 months ago. Our current fleet size today is 40 VINs, 40 cars and commercial operations. The last point I want to make is that Again, that 5,000 number has been thrown around a lot by myself, and that is the max operational design efficiency that we've designed this site for. But it will be a very long time until we get to that point, as seen by our Austin facility. Thank you, and let us know if you guys have any questions.

Any questions?

Thank you, Mayor. Just a quick question. Go back to the first slide, or it's the second slide, I think. This one.

This one?

The next one.

Yeah.

What is in the middle building? What is it in the middle?

I'm not sure who the tenant is in the middle building. All I do know is that the building that we would be occupying in, there are no other tenants yet.

Okay, but in the middle of these three buildings, this is going to be a future tenant in there, right?

Correct, yeah.

Okay. So the question which came while we were discussing it, you have building number three, one portion of it, and then the building number one, and the cars, number of cars is about 5,000 eventually, right? So when they come in for service in the evening, how they are going to, they drive it from one building to another one from this route?

So this goes back to actually this here. As I mentioned, we only intend to pretty much utilize that parking lot during the periods of heavy traffic. Overnight, there is almost no traffic on the road. So overnight, we expect vehicles to come in, clean, leave straight onto the streets immediately. Whereas during, let's say, 5 p.m., that is when we intend to utilize this parking lot the most because we can't clean that many vehicles, send them out that fast.

So in the evening, if this building, we don't know what activity it's going to be in the future, but in the evening, if the cars lined up to come for the service, would back up all of this parking area, isn't it?

We intend to bring vehicles onto the public street to connect between the two lots. I'm not sure if this answers the question, but we don't intend to cut across the building in the middle and disrupt their on-site operations.

Okay, so you're using these for the public street?

Yes. That blue line there, the way that it connects the two is Horizon Way.

That answers my question. Thank you.

I've got a question. First of all, thank you very much for this week. I had the pleasure of riding in one of your vehicles and it's really something to watch and see how that technology is actually working. I think Luis and I were together. Right, Luis? Yes. But kudos to how you all made it comfortable for us all to be there. I mean, that was my first ride in that kind of a vehicle, so it was really eye-opening, but also I want to thank you for that. One of the things that you and I talked about, because as with my colleague Abdul had basically brought up, I think, a good, not only question, but a notice, is that is the owner of the property here? Would you like to come up and make that comment?

My name is Jim Wells. I live at 1506 Crowley Road in Arlington, Texas. I represent the joint venture who owns this project, which is a venture between Foundry Commercial, who I work for, and Metropolitan Life. Sir, the building that you're asking about in the middle is leased to Shermco, who was an original tenant in Irving at Grawaller, and I believe Loop 12. They have not started operation there yet, but they are doing their tenant finish now. And so as Michael represented, all of the traffic flow will go out onto Horizon between the parking lot that you see there on the left that's highlighted in red over to their space on the east side of Building 3.

Great, thank you. I think it's important because I think... Councilman Abdul was speaking directly to the clarification on that. So thank you very much for doing that. Okay, let me then go to the comment that I really wanted you to focus on and hopefully you'll agree to it and your company, meaning Tesla, is that we did hear from our chief of fire as well as our police department and how well that you all are working together in helping train some of our firemen that are here, that are gonna be part of this effort as we go forward. I think the critical thing that we talked about is something that I'd like to hear your comments, and hopefully you'll agree, is that we're kind of breaking new ground on this new technology, and we're gonna be right in the center of a major development area called the Metroplex, a major airport. And so one of the things that was discussed was what I call either a field manual or operations manual that really talks about the vehicle itself, what's its capability, and what are some of the kind of emergency actions that it could take. But more importantly, how does a fire department, how does a police department, I mean that cross the board to include the city of Irving and how do we respond and understand? what The operations are going to be at that site. So if you can address that I sure appreciate it

I'll address the vehicle side, and then Michael can address the site side. So we do have a first responder interaction plan and an emergency response guide for our vehicles, for our driverless vehicles, as well as all of the other vehicles across our fleet. We've been putting out these manuals for the last decade. In the state of Texas, the first responder interaction plan is actually required to be submitted to the Texas Department of Public Safety, who also then will reach out to these first responder agencies. Our first responder interaction plan actually is uploaded to Texas Department of Public Safety's website. It's publicly available for you all, as well as on our website. On the vehicle itself, there's a QR code. It's regulated by the state of Texas, required to be on the vehicle. It has a phone number to our mission control facility. A direct person answers that phone number. They're able to talk to that person, as well as scan that QR code and pull up all the information for that first responder interaction plan. Our collisions are also documented on NHTSA SGO's website, so a standing general order on their website, any member of the public can go to that website and look up what type and kind of collisions, not just with us, but with any autonomous vehicle company you're being involved in, and they can read the information about that. require or ask for confidential business information from NHTSA. We don't redact those reports or ask them to redact those reports. Those are available online for anybody to read. And then as far as the site, I'll turn it over to Michael.

Yeah, not much to add on the site front. Again, speaking with Chief Conley, it sounds like we have agreed before we open the facility, he will come with his team to inspect the facility and make sure that we have agreed with them on the proper operating procedures before we actually start operations. Does that answer your question, Mayor, or do you have any other follow-ups?

No, in talking to you a little bit earlier, I thought I made it clear that we were looking for a broader, I guess I call it a field manual, that not only talks about, and thank you, that was very straightforward on what the applications of the vehicle is on behalf of Tesla. But I'm looking for something more comprehensive that can be utilized by training our young firemen, our police, and by the way, some of our key people in our public works, our transportation unit, et cetera. So I'd really like you to consider helping put that together. And it doesn't matter that it is, yes, we want the fundamentals of what you talked about. That is obviously a Tesla document. But I'm now asking you to scope it here to the city of Irving.

Yeah, absolutely. We can work with the Fire and Police Department on that. If there is something that we are lacking on as far as that documentation and making it available to them, we definitely can work on that, get that published, and get that over to them.

Great. I appreciate that because we want to be able to be conversant and being able to have across the board of our individuals that will be – tangentially dealing with this issue or maybe hopefully understanding how you operate. So thank you very much. Thank you for that commitment. That's what I was looking for. Okay. Okay.

Yes. Thank you so much. So a few questions. I did go through the data that you talked about that is posted. First of all, long-time Tesla user, consumer, since the inception. I have a Model Y. I touch my steering wheel about 3% of the time. I have a 97% rating of FSD. So very, very impressed. I'm looking at the data for last one year because that's when you started the program with Austin. It was in June. And it's impressive to see that overall there are 189 incidents, but Tesla only has seven incidents out of those 189. So that's impressive. Have you looked at those incidents to see how we can avoid those things? My concern are the ignoring the police direction was one of them. Operator running the car into a construction barricade, putting the lives of the construction workers at risk. Driving into the fence. Those are the three. And then are you going to continue allowing the mission center to control the car to move it out of the way?

Yeah, so it's a good question. So all of the collisions we do review individually and in aggregate to look at the safety metrics and the performance of our system, as well as take away any learning issues. takeaways that that occurred from this um we're very transparent with the city of austin uh if we have an issue like what you described with those failure to follow the hand signals i actually contacted lieutenant white over at the austin police department we looked at that video and debriefed what happened and we decided that we're going to go back and do more data collection with our first responders and and kind of train the car more on these hand signals we're One of the things with artificial intelligence that we can do in our end-to-end neural network is we can provide these examples to the neural network so that way it can interpret and infer what is going on in its environment and what it should do next. And so we do take all of that back. As far as our operation center or remote support remotely driving the vehicle, there are safety guardrails in place for that. There are speed caps, latency checks, autonomy health checks that are happening on our end. But the last thing we want to have happen is that we block an ambulance at an active shooter for six minutes. That is something that crosses my mind all of the time that one of our competitors did. And that's because they outsource their remote support to a different country. We do not. Those remote support staff are here in Texas. The car is engineered, manufactured in Texas, and then supported by our remote support staff in Texas. We want to give them the ability to be able to remote control into that car and move it out of the way if we are blocking that ambulance for too long a period of time. In my opinion, we shouldn't be blocking it at all. But as first responders, we always talk about plan A, plan C, plan D. Plan E, F, G, and we talk about contingency plans and what we should do next. I am constantly thinking about the worst case scenarios and providing a solution to those worst case scenarios so that we don't get caught in that same situation and interfere or block police or fire operations.

So this is good data that Austin is collecting. As you guys expand into Dallas and Houston and Irving, would you make that data available continuously, or is that specific to Austin only?

No, we make that data available for our first responder partners in all of the cities we operate in. If they want or have questions about a particular incident, we are able to bring them in and show them that video and some of the data and go over that with them so that we can debrief these incidents. NOW, WHEN WE BRING THEM INTO OUR FACILITIES, WE ALSO DO PROVIDE THEM WITH CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION SO THAT WAY THEY DON'T GO OUT AND SHARE THAT DATA. THERE MIGHT BE SOME DATA IN THERE THAT HAS PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OF OUR CUSTOMERS. WE DON'T WANT TO VIOLATE ANY LAWS THAT EXIST BY ALLOWING THAT TO BE LEAKED OUT TO THE PUBLIC. BUT AS FAR AS THE SYNOPSIS OF THIS INCIDENT, WE DO SHARE THAT PUBLICLY, AND IT'S ALSO ON THAT NTSA SGO WEBSITE.

I'm just concerned about the operator driving the car into the construction barricades. What have you guys done to make sure that doesn't happen?

Yeah, so on that particular incident, there was some conversations that were had back and forth in our mission control center, what was done and what could have been done differently. We are working on some of the video quality on our end to make sure that it is rich in information and that the remote support operator can appropriately see their environment. And so in that case, I don't wanna go into too much of the specifics publicly, But we are working on increasing some of that video quality on our end.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Okay. Excellent. I think one of the last things I'd like to mention is that because we are, from time to time, do have flooding in our city. Houston is a good example of what it's going through. That, to me, would be a key element in the manual that I'm asking you to really think about doing. because we have an emergency management services also. So we're looking for something that really, we need to help protect our citizens, also our facilities, our roads, et cetera. So if you take that into account, I'll be really pleased.

Absolutely we have an operational design domain part of that is environmental factors if the city issues out a do not drive advisory we heed that warning and we ground the vehicles we don't continue to make them go out and drive we have certain weather conditions where we feel confident and comfortable that the car can operate. So when we monitor weather in our Mission Control Center, should we reach a certain threshold that we are looking for, we have the ability to either harbor the vehicles in place or pull them back in. So we constantly are monitoring that. We also pull in information from 511dfw.org, which provides an API, so a server, that we can communicate with and bring in all of that traffic information, including some of the flooding.

Great, thank you. Okay, any other questions? Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Please, Councilman.

I'm very pleased with the comments this afternoon made by the chief, fire chief, as well as the police chief. And thank you very much for cooperating and answering all the necessary questions. Really appreciate that. I think this is something, as Irving, we look forward for it. Thank you.

I think the last comment I'd like to make is that we know that even the state as well as the state and national fire associations are looking at some of the impact on EVs. And so this is kind of a moving development for all of us. But I thank you for you being very forthright, trying to help us get to where we can understand what our responsibilities are going to be going forward. So at this point, is there any other comments?

I'd like to make a motion for approval.

Okay. Is there a second? Thank you. Show your vote. Thank you. You have a unanimous vision, decision. Thank you. At this time, I just want to be sure I've go on the record on this. That was a unanimous vote for ordinance 2026-52-CP, amendment to the comprehensive plan, future land use map from business office to manufacturing warehouse at 4203 West Royal Lane. Thank you, gentlemen. This time, item number 29, Ordinance 202651ZC-Zoning Chains from Freeway to SP1, Prenn ML-20A, close. Detail Site Plan Light Industrial 20A with an additional use of a facility for the storage dispatch service and repair of an autonomous vehicle fleet 4203 West Royal Lane. Shanae, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

Yes, the same speakers.

Mayor. Yes, sir. I'd like to make a motion for approval.

I'll second.

Okay. Wait a minute, guys. Would you like to make a comment or are you happy with what you already have said? All right, you're good. Okay, Councilman Webb, you got a motion. I'll second. Second. Gentlemen, show your vote. Thank you, it passes unanimously. Thank you, gentlemen. Item 30, Ordinance 202682CZ, ZC, zoning change from CN Neighborhood Commercial and State Highway 161 overlay to SP1, paren C-N, close. Detail site plan, Neighborhood Commercial, State Highway 161 overlay to allow an auto service center minor as a principal use within the State Highway 161 overlay. 4149 North Beltline Road. Sinead, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

We do, Mr. Jim Dewey.

Good evening, Mayor, City Manager, Councilman. I'm Jim Dewey with JDJR Engineers, 2500 Texas Drive, Suite 100 here in the great city of Irving. I'm here tonight actually in behalf of both the current owner and the developer that would like to construct a new Jiffy Lube facility at this site. The zoning was approved three years ago by this council at the time for CN zoning. Commercial neighborhood uses that benefit neighborhoods. The zoning allows our use, which is minor auto repair, and as you know, a Jiffy Lube just does oil and liquids and filters and minor stuff, which falls in that category. Any kind of major auto repair is not allowed. But I actually didn't realize at the time that this was actually in the overlay, or maybe I should have and didn't realize it, and that it's not allowed in the overlay. So that's why we're here. If this wasn't in the overlay, we wouldn't be here. But if there is a quick exhibit I'd like to show you. That will give you kind of an understanding of where this property is and how the overlay is configured in this area. It's trying. OK. Well, while we're waiting on that, the site is also designed so there's no bays facing the residential properties behind us. They will not be able to see into any of the bays, see any of the work being done, which we thought was critical to try to be as compatible as possible with the adjacent single family neighborhood.

This is an area, the property there in green is a subject site.

You can see the, I've highlighted in red, What is part of the overlay? You can see this is probably the furthest part of the overlay in this particular area.

It's over 1,500 feet to State Highway 161.

And in between 161 and this property is entirely covered with floodplain and floodway. I don't believe that the development of this property in any way will affect development or looks or aesthetics or what kind of uses you want along State Highway 161. It fronts on to one of the most major arterials in Irving, which is Beltline, and simply won't impact 161. Okay, so the other thing is the letters were sent out in... To all the neighbors in the area, I believe the staff said at work session that there was nine letters. I only have seven. These are the seven letters that I have that we received in support. And none of these are from the current property owner or the original developer. These are all from other property owners. Three on the south side of the street. are owned by a home builder, nice luxury home builder, a pretty nice builder, and he has no problems. He's in support, does not think that this use in any way will affect his sales or property values. The four along the north side are all individual property owners. I don't believe there's any homes on those. There's five houses on the south side. We did not receive letters from two of those owners, but we didn't receive any letters in opposition. So I think that helps in trying to convince you that maybe this is not as can be a compatible use and that the owners really are in support of it. So with that, I'd be glad to answer any questions you have regarding this request. And I would respectfully ask that you vote to approve this case.

Thank you, Jim. David?

Thank you, Mayor. Jim, pardon me.

Thank you for being here. We got a little bit better understanding of the overlay from previous landowner before it was all chopped up. In that regards, you should not be in the 161 overlay. In my opinion, I'll be voting for it today.

Thank you.

Abdul? Thank you, Mayor.

The question I have is the... The belt line, that area, is mostly a retail and commercial area, right? Yes. And to the south of this lot, that strip mall or that open land is also a commercial area.

Yes, and what is planned on that is a 10,000 square foot multi-tenant strip center. And you know what's coming in there, or...? I'm not aware. I'm sure he probably has some tenants already with letters of intent, but I'm not aware what those users are.

The second question I have is from this neighborhood on the north side, there is no visibility issue, right? I mean, these bays, these cars, whatever the activity they have over here is not visible.

None of the properties that are directly behind here will be able to see. The bays.

Is it because of the...

The bays face east and west. The circulation pattern is you pull around and come in the back and you leave and go out the front.

Is there going to be a fence in between?

There's already an existing retaining wall. This property is about five feet lower than the adjacent property and there's an existing wood fence on top of that. So there's about a 11, 12 foot difference from the top of the fence to the site. Mayor?

May I?

I'm in.

Thank you. Mr. Dewey, would the developer commit to tree line by that retaining wall?

If you could put the site plan back up. Well, let me see. I think I have a copy of it.

So you have a retaining wall between the residential lots and the lot in question?

Yes, we have 10 foot of separation between any paving or building or anything in the property land. We'd certainly agree to put the trees there.

Okay. Are there any particular type of trees or density of trees? I'd just like to see green fencing. I think that'll take away any kind of concern.

Okay.

So...

We will put something in that will grow to a good height for the screen.

I actually drove by that area just to get a better understanding of it, and I didn't have any concern because, you know, like Councilman Kabir said, there's other commercial businesses over there, and Jiffy Lube is more, you know, this is light mechanic shop. It's not heavy, so it's not your typical mechanic shop. So I didn't have any concern when I drove by there, so I would be in support. Mayor, if there's no other comments, I'd like to make a motion to approve.

Second.

Mayor.

Okay.

I got a question. Go ahead. You had recommended trees. Could you put that map back up again?

One just showed the site plan.

So you said you want trees. How far you want these trees to go? His property is only 138 feet. Are you saying that you want trees to go 138 feet or you want trees to go all the way to the last house?

I would say at least where the bays are, where the building is going to go. So the residents are not looking at their building.

We'll commit to putting it all across the green area. What's shown in green, we'll completely from one end to the other.

Yeah, and that's my point. I don't see no need to put trees beyond the green area back toward the back. There's plenty of trees back there as it is.

And it won't be under the same ownership should this be approved.

Okay, do we have any more comments before we vote? Okay, gentlemen, show the vote. Thank you, Jim. Jim Adams, this time. Item 31, Ordinance 2026-142-ZC, zoning change from SP1, friend R-AB, detail site plan, restaurant with alcoholic beverages, convention center, retail, entertainment, hotel, restaurant, and related uses to SP-1-R-AB, detail site plan restaurant with alcoholic beverages, convention center, retail, entertainment, hotel, restaurant, and related uses to convert parking spaces into the outer patio, 300 West Las Colinas Boulevard. Sinead, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

No, ma'am. No, sir.

Okay, I'll return it here to the council. Anybody have any comments at this point? I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Thank you, David. Second. Thank you, Mark. Gentlemen, show your vote. Okay, we have a 7-1 vote for passage. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to move to item number 32, a resolution appointing members to the Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District Decurred Board of Directors. David?

Thank you, Mayor. Do you have a motion? I move to appoint Richard Lindsey and Bobby Stewart as members of the Dallas County Utility and Reclamation District to terms expiring October 2027. Thank you.

Gentlemen, show your vote. Passes unanimously. At this time, I'd like to... Notice you all that we have now completed the work session and activities at not only appointments but also in passage of our zoning and cases. And now we're moving to public comments.