Zoning Board of Adjustment - Regular Meeting

Okay. We'll call the Wednesday, 03/04/2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to order. Cecilia, could you please call the roll?

Chair Claussen?

Here.

Vice Chair Bohm?

Here.

Alternative Vice Chair Dominguez? Commissioner Emerson? Here. Commissioner Holloway? Here. Commissioner Huckabee? Commissioner

Wen?

Here. Commissioner Zinis, could you please join us for our pledges? I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. Citizens communication pursuant to government code five five one zero zero seven. Do we have anybody signed up, Cecilia? No. Okay. Moving on.

We will consider approval for minutes for 02/18/2026. Commissioners, everybody had time to take a look. Do you think they need to be removed? If not, I will entertain a motion.

Motion to approve minutes. I have

a first. Do I have a second?

Second.

Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries five to zero. Item f one, consider public testimony regarding and recommendation concerning request filed by the Drenner Group on behalf of the property owner North Kenny Fort Bend PUD LLC for amendment number one to plan unit development number 132 Kenny Fort North to amend the mixed use development proposal generally located South of East Palm Valley Boulevard and West of South McKinney Fort Bend Boulevard, case number, PUD26-zero. Lindsay?

Yes. I'm Lindsey Darden from the planning department. The project before you is the Kenny Fort North PUD amendment. And as mentioned, it is just South Of Palm Valley and on the West Side Of Kenny Fort as shown on the screen. And you can also see down in the trees, there's a segment of the Brushy Creek Trail, and then the creek is kinda below that.

The southern part of the property, includes quite a bit of floodplain as well. It's not shown on the map, but it's there. This property is currently zoned PUD, plan unit development, development, and a major amendment is proposed because the changes that are being made exceed the scope of a minor amendment that can be done administratively. And as part of this, just to just to note, there were no red lines included because it was kind of a total reformat and rewrite, so it's gonna replace the previous PUD development plan. It would have been far too complex to be able to read through all those red lines where everything moved around.

The Round Rock Two Thousand Thirty future land use map designates this property for mixed use development, and the amendment is still proposing mixed use development. And just to do a quick overview of what's included in this amendment, and then we can go into further detail in the presentation. This is really, while it is still mixed use development proposed, it's a change from MUG Greenfield. MUG Greenfield is a district that is developed to support very high density urban development. It's kind of what you might think about for a project like the district with parking garages and, you know, that, main street orientation.

And this was approved a few years ago. The developers know more about the proposed users and kind of what everyone wants to do out there. And whenever we started looking at this, from the staff perspective, it didn't really fit into that MUG development code standards, so it would have been very difficult to force that into place. So, because of the location of this parcel, with the proximity to the trail and the location that's so close to Kalahari. It's just a really, special piece of property within the city.

It's a large piece of property. So we saw an opportunity to encourage the mixed use development to transition into a trail oriented design, also known as a trod. And it still will include the commercial uses, urban multifamily, and low density residential uses that were previously proposed. There was a request to add office warehouse as a permitted use, and I'll go into that a little bit later about where it can be located. And then, as part of this, there was also a request from transportation, to add a public street connection on the West side that would ultimately connect to the extension of Double Creek Drive.

So if you kind of see over on the right side or sorry, the left side, it's on the west side where this public street goes to the property line that would end up addressing that extension of Double Creek. So trail oriented design, for those that don't know what that is, it's a planning approach that integrates trails with nearby residential, commercial, and parks development. It enhances connectivity, supports local businesses, and creates transitions between the trail and adjacent properties through expanded amenities. As I mentioned before, this is a pretty special piece of property, and the Brushy Creek Trail extending through this property was a perfect opportunity for Round Rock to encourage implementation of our first mixed use trod design. I think that this topic was, not regarding this property, but trail or any development was brought forward, at a city council retreat not too long ago, and some of these images are from that retreat.

They were provided from parks. So, as part of this pod, the four activity areas are created, and the first one that I'm gonna go over is the Brushy Creek Trail. You can see the line where the trail is. You see it on the adjacent property through the trees, and then it goes into this property, and it looks like a double line that's kinda straight until it exits the other side. Proposed with this plan would be a relocation of the existing Brushy Creek Trail northward to be closer to the proposed residential, commercial, and private outdoor recreational uses.

And as part of this, with the parkland dedication, provisions that were included in the PUD, the developer would pay the cost for relocating that trail and constructing the city standards. And, additionally, I did mention the floodplain. The developer also as part of the parkland would dedicate contiguous land area on the South side that is equivalent to 50% of the floodplain area on-site to the city. But the Green Line is a conceptual location of where the trail would be relocated. It may not exactly be in that location because it hasn't been engineered yet, but that's conceptually where it would go closer to where the development parcels are located.

The second activity area, you see the the light green Line on the southern property line. That is the it's called the Water's Edge. This is a 50 foot wide linear dedication to the city, and it would maintain access for the public to Brushy Creek. And as part of the PUD, no private development could occur in this area without approval of Parks and Rec Department. The third activity area is actually on the private side of the development, and it is the Paseo area.

The Paseo is a linear pedestrian corridor that would extend from the relocated Brushy Creek Trail through Parcels 1 through three on the east side of the site. It would be at least 30 feet in width. By 30 feet, it's not that the paved pedestrian path would be 30 feet, but it would be the area potentially between buildings would be 30 foot minimum. It could be wider. And the location would jog a little bit where you cross the public streets to prevent the mid block pedestrian crossing.

So if you see the dotted line where it kinda goes out and back in, that is, where it's going to the edge of the block to have a pedestrian crossing that makes sense instead of a mid block. Along the Paseo, commercial and mixed use buildings would be oriented toward the Paseo, and the Paseo could include landscaping, site furnishings, outdoor seating and dining, plazas, public art. Just a whole mix of things could happen in that area. And we have some conceptual images. So you'll see the picture on the right shows some businesses and some landscaping and some outdoor seating areas.

The picture on the upper left top, I think that's kind of a vision of maybe toward the southern end of what the Paseo might look like as it opens out into that open space area. But these are conceptual. They're just to give an idea of the nature of of what that area could be. So the last activity area, and before I get too far into this, I just wanna mention the green area as shown on the map, we do not anticipate that this would be the whole scope of that activity area because as I mentioned before, there will be some additional dedication of land to the city that will happen within that floodplain area and that contiguous area to the south, but it's not known exactly where the extents of that will be and how it will how it will be aligned within that area. So I just chose to go ahead and show the whole area just to show the possibility of where those items could be, but it will end up being smaller.

There's some more conceptual imagery on here of this, but they anticipate adding a pitch and putt course, disc golf, and some food and beverage sales, a clubhouse space for outdoor markets and other events. And, of course, the floodplain will limit where some of that can go because you can't put so many structures in a floodplain area. So the green area does include floodplain and non floodplain areas. So one of the things that was very important to parks and to staff was how the uses that are adjacent to the trail would interface with the trail to create that interaction. And, I wanna go back just or maybe I can go forward.

Let me go back. Okay. So you see this green area again. Right above it is Parcel Area 4, which is where my cursor is. And in that area, it's proposed for urban multi urban style multifamily development.

So that would be next to the trail. So the interface between that multifamily was very important to parks and the city. And to make sure that there is interaction between those uses. There's a maximum of 30 feet setback from the building to the trail with some landscaping in between, and you can kinda see that in the section. And the building is required to front the trail architecturally, so it can't be a scenario where the back of building fronts the trail.

And this elevation was provided to us that would substantially, match what is proposed there as far as the architecture that faces the trail. At least 25% of the units would have balconies that are usable, not just Juliet style, and pedestrian access to the trail would be provided through sidewalk connections in between buildings and not from individual units on the ground level because sometimes individual units might have small yards or other, door entrances out to the outdoors. Another thing, there's a couple ponds that are proposed that are actually gonna be close to where the trail is, so the design of those was very important as well to make sure that they are attractive and amenitized. So, got some conceptual pictures of here of what a wet pond and a dry pond could look like in this location as far as, the amenities. So it's not just like a concrete hole in the ground or, you know, something that would not be very appealing near the trail or that can be amenity to the area.

So circling back to some of the other changes in the PUD, I had mentioned that this project transitioned from the MUG to more of a trod oriented design, so that meant Main Street went away. Main Street was previously where the yellow line is, so that's gonna be a private street now. And there's sections for the different types of streets in the PUD. So, the yellow one will be a private street and also noting that, the connection to the west that will serve Double Creek Drive. And then there's also gonna be a bike lane in the section that is the private street section.

I mentioned earlier that, office warehouse was added as a permitted use, and we were very much not interested in having this adjacent to the trail or the Paseo area just because of the difference between the the type of uses. So it is limited to six a and six b as shown in purple, which is adjacent to the railroad corridor in Palm Valley Boulevard. It is further limited, so outdoor storage and parking of fleet vehicles are not permitted. And there are quite a few uses listed here that were prohibited that would normally be allowed in that area, but, staff did not recommend that as a good fit for this area, so they are prohibited. We did the normal notifications, newspaper notice sign, and HOA courtesy notices.

We did not, in our in our list, find contact information for active HOAs, but there was some remnant contact information from previous members, so we tried to send to them. Didn't get a response, but we hope that if it is active in some way, it was received. And that concludes my presentation, and we recommend approval.

Thanks, Lindsey. Does the applicant owner agent have anything they wanna add to the presentation? Hi. Good evening.

Hi. Good evening. I'm Amanda Swartz, new group commissioners. It's great to see you. Thanks for the opportunity to be here today. I'll be brief. I just wanna kinda give a little bit of a quick background. You know, this is the same project team and ownership team that did the original PUD in 2001. At the time, we were working with the tools that we had. Fast forward through a lot of changes in the market, and we are excited to move forward with a a project that we think is going to be super beneficial for the city.

I learned the word trod. I had to save it into my Outlook and make it not autocorrect it to other things. We are very excited to be able to present the first trod in the city of Round Rock. The hours that staff worked were countless, and we give a heartfelt thank you for them getting us here. We are excited for what this project will bring and the opportunity that we have to, present an an amazing project for the city. So we're happy to answer any questions. We do have our design team and ownership team here if there's anything I can't answer. Thank you.

Thank you. We may have some later. Anybody else? This is a public hearing. I'm gonna open up the public hearing for, citizens who wish to speak. Do we have anybody signed up? Nope. That was quick. I will close the vote. Oh. Oh, wait. Wait. Yeah. Okay. I apologize. If you do have somebody you'd like to speak for against the item, if you would, there's a yellow card up there in the back. If you would fill your name out and address, I apologize.

That's alright.

I just had

a couple of questions. Sure.

A few minutes before.

Hang on just a second. She can go ahead speak. We can fill out the card later.

Yeah, yeah. Just say your name and

address for the record, that'd be great.

Christine Marguerite at 2003 And 67 Loop. I'm actually right behind the project that's being presented to you tonight.

If you could walk up to the mic just a little bit closer, that'd be great. Thank you very much.

So I had a couple questions. My first concern was because I saw how the map came right over the creek and into, like, our side of the other side of the creek. But I was told that's just a property line and nothing's being built over the creek. And then I heard during this presentation that there's going to be a 50 foot buffer from the creek inside. I guess and that the trail's being I have a bunch of questions. So the trail I guess I was just wondering why you can't just leave the trail where it's at and maybe have a walkway go to it. Because a lot of us use it. It's really peaceful. And now we're going to be I run on it. It's just quiet.

And now it's going to be buildings and everything else around it. So I'm just wondering why the trail couldn't stay where it's at and just have a pathway to where all these buildings are for those people to walk to the trail if they want to. I had that question. And then I wanted to make sure that from the bank going in 50 feet, which isn't a ton, but I'll take it, that they leave the trees and it's not going to be cleared. That's important. That floods out a lot. Was it last July or the July before? It rose like twenty, thirty feet. It was really close. So I just want to make sure the trees are going be left there.

And then Double Creek, where it ends right now I know there's those red markers. Is that where it's going to go straight back and connect to this new development? I had that question. I already brought up the flood issue. It does flood in that area right where I am. I'm the first house after the pool, so it really floods a lot. And it runs really fast. So I don't know if you want anything being built close to that. And then the traffic on Kenny Fort is horrible right now as it is. So with the Kalahari and stuff, I'm just wondering what's going to be put into place just so that it's not, I should say, like speeding.

There's a lot of speeding and whatnot. So I'm just concerned about how this new development's going to affect all of that. I don't know. Is that a valid question? I don't know if that's a valid question. So those are all my questions.

Great. Well, thank you very much, ma'am. Appreciate your time.

Do I does someone just get back to me on them? Or how does

that work?

Yes. We'll discuss. This isn't a back and forth. You can come up and speak your presentation, and and then we'll take notes. And then as we get through with the, public hearing, and then we will go in discussion. And hopefully, we can vet out some of your concerns.

Okay. Thank you. Thanks for hearing me.

Once again, this is a public hearing. If anybody wish to speak for or against this item, if you can fill out a card, bring it to Cecilia, and we'll get you up here. When you come in and you decide to speak, you have, three minutes to, speak your presentation when you're up here. Good evening. Good evening. You would state your name and address for the record, it'd be great.

Rick Jones, 922 Kinney Ford Crossing, Round Rock, Texas. I only have one question, and it's about the warehousing of how much space are they using for warehousing and what type of warehousing. Is it gonna be, you know, trucking, or is it I don't know if you're familiar with the stuff that's with the pictures they had kinda look like the stuff by the post office, where they're small individuals where a tiny store and a little bit of storage, or is it gonna be more like what's off of Sunrise where it's huge, you know, just one big building with the semi trucks delivering and taking, you know, things away? Do you know what they're asking for, or is it gonna be the bigger or the smaller for the warehousing? That was my question.

Okay. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Is there anybody else we can just wishing to speak for against? No? Okay. We will close the public hearing, and we will move on to discussion. I will start with commissioner Bohn.

Thank you. Thank you for the presentation, Lindsey. Couple of questions I did have. If I'm not going to ask you, just needing some clarification. I know multifamily or MF3, it looked like on the mock up that there was was there, it looked like max or the height of the of the mock up there was four stories. For m f three, what is the maximum height of of a m f three structure?

Give me just a second. We have it in here.

Five.

I usually know this stuff by heart, but there's so many in here, so much in this one. It's a max of seven stories.

Okay. Okay. And what about C 1 A?

C 1 A would default back to the standards of the C 1 A zoning district. We can look that up for you.

That would be five stories. Five.

Okay. Thanks, Bradley.

Thank you. Similar as I was looking at at this overlay and everything and noticing sizable amount of trees down there by by the creek side and what was was brought up. Do we know whether or not there is any any plans that that that would keep keep those trees there or or is that gonna be cleared or what what what is the thought process there?

I don't think that there will be any clearing that occurs in the 50 feet adjacent to the

Okay.

Creek.

Okay.

And I do think that there will be some of that area that is part of the dedication to the city, although I do not know exactly where that would be located on this picture. And if it is dedicated to the city, I expect that parks would want to retain those trees, but I can allow Katie to speak to that a little bit more.

I'm assuming this is Katie.

Yes. Katie, you guys don't see me very often. I'm Katie Baker. I'm with Parks and Recreation Department. So anything that will become the city property, we will do our best to maintain all trees. We like to remove kind of hazard trees, especially if we're gonna have people come back in there, but there won't be any clear cutting by any means. We are the tree huggers of the city. So we may remove some, you know, understory brush trees, you know, so we can get some view corridors to the creek. Obviously, people like to go look at the water. So we might see some of that, but there will be no clear cutting on our part.

Okay. Thank you, Katie.

No problem.

That's that's all. I wanted someone else to talk now.

Mister Witt. I'm

kinda excited about this project because I use that trail a lot. I ride my bike down there and I've also had experience with I don't know how planned it was or thought out it was, but in Northwest Arkansas using the trails up there, there's a lot of commercial development along trails since I've seen how that can work. So I'm very excited for this to happen in Round Rock and I hope this is something that we can continue to do along the trails. But I do have some questions. I'm sorry the lady that spoke, she brought up a good point because that section of this trail is heavily wooded.

That's one of the better sections of the trail. So what happens to the existing trail when the new trail is built? Does it stay there and people could still have the option of using it?

It would remain in place until such time that the new trail is done and then that trail could go away. And

But I'm more interested in Speaking about sounds like that's what the citizens are asking too.

Yeah. So I think, the PUD has provisions for the trail to be relocated to the north, but there would not be a period of time where there wasn't a trail to use. I was gonna suggest that, Katie already talked about the potential for removal of trees or not in the area that will be dedicated to the city. So I was gonna suggest maybe the applicant could speak to what their intent is for tree removal on the private area of of that whenever the trail is removed, and they use some of that area for their outdoor recreation.

So okay. Alright. Well, that that's good.

I'll give it a shot. So at this point in time, a full tree survey has not been done for the area that's in the flood plain. However, we know that that will happen. For the area that we retain, we will do our very best to design around it. The uses that do go into that floodplain area, trees are gonna be our best friend. Right? It's Texas. Their shade. It is a malleable they're malleable uses. Right?

We're not putting buildings in there. We're putting outdoor areas and go. So that's why we've not been able to say exactly where everything goes, because we haven't got gone down in there, but our intent is not to to clear cut. It's to be able to, again, clear out the the bad pieces and develop around the larger trees to be able to put the active uses in there. And as far as the trail staying through there, hard and Katie, correct me if you feel differently.

We had a lot of conversations when we started this on, you know, move the trail, leave the trail, and it was move the trail, right, because it ends up creating the activation that you were talking about that you'd experienced. From a safety perspective on some of the uses that we were contemplating, PAR did not want there to be, a trail that would run through any type of use that would go to the south of the project. And, Katie, if you I'll I'll let her go from there.

Sure. So as far as the trails thing where it is, I mean, I think you saw some of the uses proposing with the pitch and putt and the disc golf and we don't

Okay. Really And that's I was a little confused about that. So the all that stuff they were showing that's the the private recreate or the private they're gonna pay for it, but the public's gonna be able to use it. That recreational area, that's all going between the new trail and the creek in in Parcel 8. Is that correct?

We're gonna detect you. Essentially, yes. You know, the a lot of Parcel 8 is flood plain. Right. So clubhouses, any of that, that will likely go north of the trail. But any of the of the relocated trail that'll have paths that go on either side of it. But the, you know, the more passive uses, right, the pitch and putt, they would go south of the trail but north of the easement area and then north of the there's some really big flood plain in there, right? So we won't be able to go all the way to the south because we'll have to stay out of that.

Okay. So you so you do have to take the trail out in order to have those uses be added?

Yes, We would Make

the most of it.

The use would kind of come in this area, right? This being a actually area and then with the trail going up, we'd want to make sure we activate here. Right. So you'd likely see in this area.

Okay.

I think in our conversations, we've kind of both collectively said, you know, with the areas that we get at the end of the kind of land swap, we'll call it I don't know what else to call it the dedication and the private, I don't think that the trail's just gonna go completely away. It will go away as you know it today. But I think that we both have the same goal of activating that space now and making it more accessible for the public. You know, right now, other than the actual trail corridor, you can't really go very far off the trail because the the brush is so thick. The understory is so thick. And so I would imagine when we relocate the trail, at least through our portion, we have some nature trails or some side paths that you can go on and still get through there and kind of experience that tranquility while the main trail is up in the

active hub. And that's the intent for the portion that the property owner maintains as well. I don't know how much you all know about the trail, but where it sits today, it was condemned as part of it, right? The city came in and condemned the land from the family that previously owned it. So it was path of least resistance, right? It was connect the trail from point a to point b. This allows it to actually meander and put additional paths in that area.

Okay. Okay. Katie? It is Katie, right? Okay. Well, first of all, I'd encourage you to with these trails, I'd encourage you to have some sections of them that are heavily wooded because they're lot of fun.

Absolutely.

But I do have a question about the trail. I'm wanting to know this doesn't really pertain to this, so I'm I'm sorry. But when are we gonna have everything connected? When are we gonna be connected from So the gap Georgetown Street out to wherever that section is, it's out by the Round Rock and

then further on out by the Right. Right now, we as far as the city portion, we have a gap that is from, May Street to Georgetown Street. That project received a federal grant. I don't know if you're familiar with that. It was a transportation alternatives grant. It's administered through TxDOT. And so right before we were ready to go out to bid, we had to pause and go through all of TxDOT's permitting. That has been a two year process. And so, we are so close. I just submitted 100% review plans last week, and so we are on schedule for putting that out to bid in May. Good. So that's our last section. Now the county still has another section, and a portion of that section is under construction now. I don't know if it spans the full gap.

Is that the section that would connect from where it terminates now behind the QT?

That church.

That yeah. In that area.

Back over to where the where along Hairy Man?

Yes. Correct. It is going. I believe it's go I believe it it fills the entire gap, but if it doesn't, it fills at least half of that gap.

Okay. Yes. Great. Okay. I'm I talked too much. I got some other questions. If they don't get asked, I might have to raise my hand again.

Okay. Commissioner Emerson.

Thank you so much. I hope my mic's on. The lights broke. Lindsey, had a couple of questions, if you don't mind. In your report, under the history, you talk about the private outdoor recreation opportunity. What does that look like?

The private recreation?

Yeah. What does that So look

that is the area that's if you see this below the relocated trail, that would include the pitch and pet and the disc golf course and the things that are proposed by the developer.

By the golf, okay. My second question is about parking. Think on page 17 and on 20, if you can go to the map, it will there be available public parking to use the trail, or how does that work?

So there is gonna be parking proposed within the development Okay. To meet the And parking the area on the east side would be commercial development and parcel areas one, two, and three, and they would have to park to commercial standards. So, I would expect that people could park and walk down the Paseo to access the trail.

Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. Thanks for coming up.

Yeah. No problem. So the official trailhead to get on our trail in that area is gonna be at the Play For All Park, RAD Park. So we have parking. We have ample parking at that parking lot, which is just two parcels over from this. So we're not proposing as part of any of this development or anything in the PUD as any sort of trailhead or proposed parking for the trail.

Okay. Thank you. I had a third question as well. Someone mentioned about the running off the water. I'm assuming this is a 100 flood plain. Is there an issue? I saw that there's maybe two ponds, Pond A and Pond B. Is there gonna be any issue with flooding or anything of that nature?

Every development is required to retain their own runoff on-site not exceed that. Pond A is going to be a wet pond and pond B is going to be a dry pond.

Pond B is going to be a dry pond. Okay. And my fourth question is relating to something that was spoken earlier by Mr. Jones in terms of this, and I know the warehouse, the size of the warehouse. Do we have Yes. Any information on that?

Warehouse office warehouse buildings are limited to 20,000 square foot per building. And just for reference, some of the large ones that you see, on Sunrise And Chisholm Trail and and those other larger, those can be over a 100,000 square foot per building. So this is a much smaller scale than that. And, it also had the limitations for no fleet parking and other things like that that will reduce the impact of that for this site. Some of those larger scale uses just really didn't fit in with everything else that was going on.

Well, you. You did a wonderful job. For now, that's all the questions I have, sir.

Mr. Holloway?

Yeah. What is the anticipated unit count of the multifamily available on the site? Does anybody know roughly? Ballpark?

I honestly don't remember it off the top of my head, but I can find it for you. We do have some limitations on what can go in from a residential perspective before commercial has to go in, and we lowered that from what was in original PUD. The original PUD had, a thousand units by right. This is down, to eight fifty knowing that the first, phase was essentially already permitted with the city. Once that happens, the remainder of the commercial has to start construction. I'll have to look. I don't remember the actual cap.

That that helps. That's fine. Have there been any communication with, like, CAP Metro or CARTS or somebody about mass transit to this location? Why did they get it right now? No. No? Okay. Do you know approximately how much longer the trail's gonna be? I mean, I know you don't know exactly where it's gonna go.

As far as how long it will take to construct it or how Distance. I I no, sir. I don't. At this point, we worked with PAR to create conceptually where we'd like it to go to get it, mostly out of the floodplain and adjacent to the buildings, but I don't know the distance markers that it adds. Kate Katie's

And then to to par, is the distance is gonna increase. I don't I don't know how much. Is that gonna be an added maintenance cost for the city?

I think that will be the minimal maintenance cost. It's gonna be a concrete trail. Where we see our high maintenance is our asphalt and our decomposed granite trails. And so this one, you know, usually with concrete, it's the large upfront cost that you have to pay, and then the maintenance is way easier. I'm not worried about the additional mileage. I think if we have additional mileage, the the only thing that we would probably have to plan for internally is to redo all of our quarter mile markers, and that was something that we were looking at doing anyway.

Sounds good. And then I think last question. So if the pitch and putt goes in and it's relatively close to the trail, what safeguards are there for that to the people walking on the trail?

We put them in. So there's a if a pitch if a hole is perpendicular to the trail, it has to be set back a minimum of 75 feet. If it's parallel, it's 50. And then it can if it goes away, there just has to be some I think it's like 25 feet. So it's they're there and there.

Okay.

And there's landscape requirements depending on the direction, etcetera.

Okay. Then somebody brought up the Double Creek connection. So is there somebody from transportation that can speak as to how that would happen or when Double Creek is gonna be expanded?

Good evening, Ed Polushuk with Transportation. As you might recall, in 2023, we updated the transportation master plan. With that, we added the Double Creek extension from the existing where it currently ends up to Highway 79 Palm Valley. That was done because kind of in coordination with Williamson County and with our desire to have another point of access across the railroad for North South traffic. And if you look at where we are today here on Burnett Street, then Kalahari, Harrell Parkway, those are our only two at grade crossings of the railroad.

There's one private at grade crossing which happens to be very close to where this Double Creek extension would be. And we were hoping at some point we could start the process. This is a young man's game. It's going take a while of working with the railroad of activating that at grade crossing into a public street, which we could use possibly as the Double Creek extension in the future. We also have to work out with TxDOT, the old Mokan Corridor and the right of way to use that for the Double Creek extension to get up from the current location to Highway 79.

So it's going to take a while, a lot of negotiations with different parties to get that Double Creek extension. By adding this road to the west, we are basically lining up at least 200 and about two forty to two fifty feet from the rail crossing. Either it's going be at grade or over or under, we have enough separation to make that transition if we can't get an at grade crossing. It also lines up to if the property in between this and the play For All park in the Rab House, this could actually extend through that property to get to the Rab House in the future for another point of access for that. So it serves a dual purpose of making that road connection.

That Double Creek is not currently in our five year CIP for early impact fees. So we haven't even started anything work on design or working on that. And our next roadway impact fee update will be considering that as one of the potential projects to add to the pool of projects that we start working on. We consider that a long term project because it takes a lot of negotiation and agreements with both TxDOT and the railroad, If that makes sense.

It does. Thank you.

Sure.

That's all I have.

Very good. Mr. Wint, did you get your questions answered or do you want to keep going?

No, I got all of them answered and Hollis told me not to ask any more questions.

Fair enough. That's good. What is on the C1A? What can go there? I don't remember off the top of my head what can be built in the commercial as far as the warehousing. What can go there? We know we don't have any fleet, so we can't do that type of warehousing. But what can go there?

So C1A is actually the general commercial limited use zoning district, and it is the it it usually would not allow for office warehouse. They requested to add it as the permitted use just for those two parcels, but it can include a wide range of commercial uses, restaurant, retail, hotel, retail sales and service, things like that. But particularly for the office warehouse, I think the I can actually probably defer to the applicant on that, but, I anticipate it's gonna be smaller scale office warehouse, the 20,000 square foot limit. And they have some visions for what that might be like, so I'll, let them know.

That's alright. I mean, I'm just curious. I just I wanted somebody had asked, you know, concerns about the type of warehousing. And, of course, when we hear warehousing, we're thinking Amazon. And, you know, I'm I'm sure some of the things he was talking about were the, you know, big tilt wall jobs to enter over off of Eagle's Nest and some of that big stuff. It's not gonna be that. It's more, I'm assuming, like flex office type stuff. Yes. And again, this is all conceptual. And that's one thing I wanted to bring up to also the audience people listening.

This is conceptual plan. We're in a zoning deal. This is nowhere even close to development. There's a whole other five steps to go through before they can even begin to stick a shovel in the ground where you can find out more about what is really gonna happen. And you're gonna have plenty more times to talk, especially in council.

You know, if we do decide to pass this and goes to council, you're gonna have more, you know, once the plans start getting developed and you really understand what it is. But it's good to at least talk about the concepts of what of what can and what can go. The only other thing that we talked about was traffic, and I don't know. I guess once they develop at what they're gonna do, that's gonna, I guess, promote a TIA as to if there's gonna be lights or what how the in and out is gonna be?

We we have a TIA ready for this property from the original PUD. The one thing I can say is at the intersection, the southern intersection to Kenny Fort Boulevard, there's gonna be a signal installed at some point with the construction of this development. So that signal where you go into the backside of Kalahari, where they'll line up their next driveway, it'll help serve to slow down some of the traffic and provide breaks in traffic for the neighboring streets and driveways.

Would it be safe to say just to generally speaking because this and I am speaking conceptual, but the original design for this was a hang on. Forget

my It had density.

It it had a lot more traffic.

Yes.

Considering what is possibly going in now with the change of this ordinance, it's possibly based on what we understand, we think it's going to be. It's going to have significant less traffic than it would if it was back in the business development part.

Back when there was more commercial and a lot more heavy density residential, yes. Okay.

That's all I got. Anybody else, any other questions? No? Okay, great presentation. I guess with no other discussion, I will entertain a motion to approve. I'll make

a motion to approve item F1.

I have a first. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second. All in favor, aye.

Aye. Motion

carries five to zero. And we'll move on to item g one, consider an update regarding council actions related to planning and zoning items.

At last week's city council meeting, they approved the Aerco planned unit development. That's the one off of the South IH 35 Frontage Road and McNeil Road, and also at the northern end of the Chisholm Valley neighborhood. It required two readings. The first one was in January. There was some neighborhood input at that time.

They had presented a petition with some requests of the developer. After that meeting, the developer met with city staff and with the mayor. We revised the PUD to add some of those items from the petition into the PUD, and then it was passed last week on second reading. Then and, you know, as a sadder note, I I wanna take a moment to honor Bob Bennett who was the city's very first planning director back in 1976, and then he became city manager shortly after that and was city manager all the way until 2003. He passed away last week, last Thursday night. So the city had, like, 4,500 people when he started his his career here and then ended with 70,000. So a lot of the reasons why Round Rock is what it is is because of him, and so our our thoughts are with the Bennett family.

Absolutely. Absolutely. And with that, we'll adjourn.