Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. The July 15th, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting of the city of Long View is now called to order. Commissioner Heath Hamlin will now lead us in the invocation and pledge of allegiance.

You bow with me. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight to conduct business of the city. We we pray for the discussion, dear God, and we pray for your uh divine wisdom uh as we contemplate our decisions here tonight. Dear God, we lift up all those that all those families that are suffering uh in central Texas and we just uh ask for for your comfort to to be bestowed upon them, dear God. And we just ask all these things in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Join me in the pledge.

I aliance 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. Thank you. Next item, approval of the June 17, 2025 minutes u from our last meeting in June. Has everyone had a chance to look at them? If so, are there any corrections? If not, I will now entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Motion approve. Is there a second? Second. All those motion is second. All those in favor say yes. Any opposed?

Motion approved. We have now reached the citizen comment portion of our meeting. The portion of this citizen comment or comments made other than the public hearing items we have on the agenda tonight. If you wish to speak on an item on the agenda, please wait until the time to speak. Please begin by stating your name and address for the public record. On the consent agenda, we are now to the consent agenda. The items on the consent agenda are plats that meet the requirements of the city of Long View subdivision ordinance. These items will be approved with one vote unless any member of the planning and zoning commission, any member of the public or applicant would like an item removed from consent and placed on the regular agenda for discussion. Would anyone like for an item removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda for discussion?

Being none, uh, I will now entertain a motion. So moved. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say yes.

Any opposed? Motion carries. On to the regular agenda. The purpose of this meeting is to hear all pertinent testimony of those in support of and opposition to the applications before the commission. Tonight is the first of two public hearings required to approve a change in zoning. The commission are also considered plat. The procedures for public hearing items to be followed tonight will be the public hearing will be opened and testimony will be heard in the following order. First, staff. Second, the applicant. Third, the general public. Those in support of and in opposition to the request. If you are part of a large group with a common interest, we ask that you appoint a spokesperson rather than have each individual restate the same information. When addressing the commission, please begin by stating your name and address. Try to limit your comments to 5 minutes. When all sides have spoken, the public hearing on the matter will be closed. No further public discussion will be entertained. After each public hearing is closed, the commission will vote on the request. zoning requests and the planning of zoning commission's recommendation will go forward uh to the second public hearing which will be conducted by the city council on August 14th, 2025. Now on to regular agenda item A. Angela,

thank you. Uh consider application P25-03 Grace Acres Subdivision phase 2 followed by ETR Development LLC to plat approximately 8309 acres of abstract 66 of the William Engle Survey track 9-02 into 19 residential lots located on the west side of McCann Road north of Wellington Lane. Um, so the applicant is requesting to plat uh this property into 19 residential lots located here on Macan Road just north of the post office. Uh there are several outstanding items on their punch list that needs to be completed and those items are listed in your packet. Uh they have not finished those outstanding items as of this meeting or provided an estimate for the required infrastructure with security prior to this meeting. Uh staff recommends a conditional approval with the following requirement that all punch list items are completed or the applicant provides an estimate and security for the outstanding items. Once all of those conditions are met, the plat would be considered approved. I would happy I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

Anybody have any questions? Does the commission have any questions for Angela at this time? All right. If there are no additional questions or comments, I will uh now entertain a motion. Okay. All right. Actually, there should there be a citizen comment on this one. It does not require citizen comment. Yes. Oh, does it not? Okay. Just wanted to make sure. So, okay. Good deal. So, we have a motion and a second. Correct. Okay. Do we need a second? Okay. All right. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed?

All right. Motion carries. On to regular agenda item B.

Thank you. Consider application P25-04 Gilmore Road Commercial Development filed by Henson and Wallen Ventures LLC to plat approximately 5.57 acres of Abstract 186 D. Sanchez Survey Track 43-03 section 7 into five commercial lots located on the southeast corner of Gilmer Road and Spring Hill Road. Uh so the applicant is wanting to um is requesting to plat this property located on the southeast corner of Spring Hill Road and Gilmer Road into five commercial lots. Uh the applicant has not installed any of the infrastructure that was required per the approved infrastructure plans. Uh the outstanding items are listed in your attachment pack uh in your uh packet. Uh the applicant has not finished any of these items or provided an estimate uh with the required security prior to this meeting. Therefore, staff recommends a conditional approval with the following requirement that all items on the punch list are completed or the applicant provides an estimate and security for the outstanding items. Once all of those conditions are met, the plaque would be considered approved. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

All right. Does the commission have any questions for Angelo at this time? I do. Uh, didn't we see this same plaque? Uh, y'all saw a zoning change. Zoning change? Yes, sir. So, they reszoned it from, I believe, residential to general retail. Yes, sir. Okay. So, you saw a zoning change and then this is the plat. This is the next step. Okay. Yes, sir. This is the next step to divide the property. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

Any other questions for Angela? All right. Commission have any questions for the applicant on this item? All right. Any additional questions or comments? There are no additional questions or comments. I will now entertain a motion. Move to approve. All right. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right. On to regular agenda item C. Angela,

thank you. Consider application RP25-06, French Oaks subdivision, filed by Scatteren Real Estate Alternatives LLC to replplat Lot 1, block 21, Thomas Manor, Unit 6 into 20 residential lots located east of Ruby Lane, north of Ala Street. Uh so the applicant is requesting to plat this property um into 20 residential lots uh located on French Drive just north of Ala Street. Uh there are a few minor outstanding items on their punch list that needs to be completed um prior to plat approval. uh the applicant has of course has not finished uh these outstanding items prior to the meeting um or provided an estimate uh with a security uh before this meeting. So staff recommends a conditional approval with the following requirement that they complete the punch list items or provide an estimate with security. Once all those items are uh completed, the plat would be considered approved. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time. Anyone have any questions for Angela at this time? This item. All right. Anyone have any questions for the applicant on this item?

All right. There are no additional questions or comments. I will now entertain a motion. Move to approve with the recommended stipulations. Okay. Second. Second to that. All right. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right. On to regular agenda item D. Angela, thank you. Mr. Hammer, Commissioner Hamlin is going to refuse himself from from this one.

So, this is a public hearing. be held to consider application Z25-15 filed by the Martin House requesting a reszone from multifamily 2 to office zoning district for lot 2 block 2 Garfield edition located at 601 West Avalon um Avenue. Uh so the applicant uh which is the Martin House is requesting a reszone of the property seen here on this zoning map. Uh the current property is zoned multifamily. Uh they were requesting to reszone this property to office to allow for the Martin House uh to be located to build construct their new offices at this location. Uh West Avalon is classified as a local street and is maintained by the city of Long View. This type of development is appropriate along these roadways as long as access management is followed. Staff finds that the proposed zoning change is consistent with adjacent uses. Therefore, the request does not constitute spot zoning. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

All right. Thank you, Angela. Any Go ahead. I was just going to say, does anybody on the commission have any questions for staff? Is that the is that the piece of land that's west of the building? So, it's it's currently I believe the Martin House is to the north of it. Um Paula Martin Jones is directly to the east. This is where the track is if you driven down Avalon. Yeah. That dates you. Yeah, it does. It does. Any other additional questions for Angela from the commission? All right. Is the applicant present?

Hello. If you could state your name and address, please. Good evening. I'm Roxanne Stevenson. I'm the CEO of the Martin House Children's Advocacy Center. My home address is PO Box 823, Harlton, Texas. Thank you. Does commission have any questions for the applicant on this item? I want to see your picture.

Okay, I'm happy to show it. Uh we are super excited to announce we're actually doing a public launch tomorrow announcing our capital campaign to build this beautiful new 10,000 square foot facility. Um we are in the business of child abuse prevention and intervention. Um, we feel like the children that need the safety and healing services that we can provide deserve a center like this. It's going to be um a boon for our community as well. I think it's going to speak volumes that we are a community that takes uh taking care of our children seriously. Um, our our board and staff and capital campaign committee have worked for the last three years um on fundraising efforts. Our uh total goal is $6.25 million and tomorrow we'll be announcing how far we've accomplished uh to achieve that goal.

Awesome. Thank you, Roxan. Appreciate it. Any additional questions for applicant at this time? What's your other one look like there? This is the floor plan. I do want to state that um children and families would come here for services as needed. They would never be housed here. We're not any kind of daycare facility or housing facility. Okay. All right. What do you guys provide? What are some of the things that you do there?

So, thank you for asking. So, when children are reported to be victims of sexual or physical abuse and investigators have started looking into a potential crime, the first time we meet a child and their family is when they come to our center for a forensic interview. And that is so that the child has an opportunity to tell their story about what may have happened to them and they're talking to a trained professional at our childfriendly child focused office rather than being interviewed at the police department by a detective or a CPS case worker at their office. So, while investigators are sitting in the adjacent room watching the interview live, the child is only talking to one person, but the investigators are getting all of their information and their questions answered while the child is only talking to one person. So, after that forensic interview, that's when investigators can focus on the needs of the case while we turn our focus on the needs of the children and family. So ongoing advocacy support, counseling, medical exams, referrals to other resources as needed. We want to walk beside those children and families for as long as they need our assistance.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Anybody else? Awesome. All right. I will now open the public hearing. Are there any in support of this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Are there any in opposition to this request? If so, please come to the podium, state your name and address for the staff. All right. Any additional questions or comments? There are no additional public additional questions or comments. I will close the public hearing. I will now entertain a motion. Move to approve. Second. Second. Okay. All those in favor say yes. Yes.

Any opposed? Motion carries. On to regular agenda item E, Angela. Okay, I'll wait for Heath to come back in. All right.

Okay. Okay. Item E, a public hearing will be held to consider application Z25-16, followed by the city of Long View requesting a reszone from multifamily 2 to town home zoning district for lots 1 through 17 block one, Cotton Place subdivision located along Flagstick Park. Um, so staff is requesting a reszone of these properties seen here on the zoning map from multifamily to town home zoning district uh located along Flagstick Park. Uh, currently there are several single family homes in this neighborhood um and one town home located in this subdivision. Uh, previously in 1974, this lot was reszoned um from single family 4 to multifamily for the construction of town homes. Um, however, both single family homes and town homes were constructed within this subdivision. Uh, the previous zoning ordinance uh did allow uh single family homes and town homes in multif family zoning district. However, the current UDC does not. Uh therefore these properties are considered nonconforming. Uh in order to correct this, staff is requesting a reszone of these properties to bring them in compliance. Uh in regards to zoning, uh town home zoning district would allow for town homes and single family homes within this zoning district by right. Uh this resoning would alleviate issues with any future permitting and possible sales of these properties. Uh staff finds that the zoning change is consistent with surrounding uses. Therefore, the request does not constitute spot zoning. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

Thank you, Angela. Anyone on the commission have any questions for Angela on this item? All right. Is the applicant present? Oh, staff, we are the applicant. Yes. So, yes, I'm just checking to see if you were

Does commission have any questions for the applicant at this time? again. No. So, okay. I will now open the public hearing. Are there any in support of this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Are there any opposition to this request? If so, please come to the podium, state your name and address for the staff. Any additional questions or comments? Being none, um I will now close the public hearing. I will now entertain a motion. Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right. Item approved. Angel on to item F.

Thank you. Public hearing will be held to consider application Z25-17 filed by VNN Investments requesting a reszone from office to single family for zoning district for abstract 186 D. Sanchez survey tract 15-01 section 5 located on the southwest corner of Gilmer Road and Blaine Trail. Uh so the applicant is requesting to reszone this property seen here on the zoning map uh located on the southwest corner of Gilmer and Blaine Trail from office zoning to single family for zoning. So in 2008, this property, the developer reszoned this property along with the neighborhood behind it from agricultural uh to single family for an office zoning district. Uh however, the current uh property owner would like to reszone this to single family 4 to build a single family home. Uh Blaine Trail is classified as a local street and is maintained by the city of Long View and this type of development is appropriate along this roadway as long as access management is followed. Staff finds that the proposed zoning change is consistent with the future lane use map and surrounding uses. Therefore, it does not constitute spot zoning. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

Thank you, Angel. Anybody on the commission have any questions for Angela at this on this item?

All right. Is the applicant present? All right. Um, and I guess the commission didn't have any questions for the applicant. I will now open the public hearing. Are there any in support of this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Are there any in opposition to this this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Any additional questions or comments? If there are no additional questions or comments, I will now close the public hearing and I will now entertain a motion. Motion to approve. All right. Is there a second? Second. All right. All those in favor say yes.

Any opposed? All right. Item approved. On to regular agenda item G. Angela.

Thank you. Public hearing will be held to consider application Z25-18 followed by Parker and Suns Investment LLC requesting a reszone from office to single family 5 zoning district for lots five and six block 7 New block 19 Northcut Heights located at 209 Northcut Avenue. So, the applicant is requesting to reszone this property from office to single family 5 located at 209 North Cut Avenue. Uh, currently there is a single family home located on this property. Um, and the property owner would like to keep it as a single family home. Therefore, they would like to reszone this property to single family 5 in order for it to be compliant with the current UDC. staff finds that the proposed zoning change is consistent with our future lane use map and surrounding uses. Therefore, the request does not constitute spot zoning. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

All right. Thank you, Angela. Anybody on the commission have any questions for Angela this time? All right. Is the applicant present? All right. I will now open the public hearing. Are there any but Okay. Okay. If you want to come. Yeah, absolutely. I don't I think if you have questions absolutely but anyone have any questions? All right. Thank you.

I will now open the public hearing. Are there any in support of this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Are there any in opposition to this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Any additional questions or comments? There are no additional questions or comments. I will now close the public hearing. I will now entertain a motion. Approve. Motion to approve. A second. Second. All those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right. Item approved. On to regular agenda item H. Angela. Thank you.

Thank you. A public hearing will be held to consider application PD25-01 filed by RB Sandrini Farms LP requesting to reszone approximately 1.2644 2644 acres of abstract 258. PP range survey track 47, section 7 from general retail to plan development general retail for a gas station with convenience store located at the southwest corner of West Loop 281 and McCann Road. Uh so the applicant is requesting to reszone this property seen here at the southwest corner of West Loop 281 and McCann Road from General Retail to Plan Development General Retail for a gas station with convenience store. Uh the applicant is proposing to construct a fi approximately 5,000 square foot convenience store with gas station. Uh the store will have a 10 foot front setback from Loop 281 with the rear of the building facing Loop 281. Uh the UDC does require that a 25- ft front setback um is required in general retail zoning district. The applicant applied for a variance in May but was denied due to a lack of a hardship. uh the applicant does have more parking than what is required by the UDC and self-imposed hardship should not be considered when granting variances. After further discussions with the applicant, uh they inform staff that they need the extra parking for staff and customers. So, the best option to move forward would be to reszone this property to a plan development for general retail. This gives them the flexibility for setbacks while providing greater development standards than traditional zoning regulations would require. Uh in 2015, the city of Long View adopted a comprehensive plan with great

deal of citizen input. In 2024, it was updated. Throughout the comprehensive plan, it was discussed um strengthening uh throughout the comprehensive plan, it discusses strengthenings strengthening Long View's image, identity, and character to foster a distinctive and appealing place to visit and live. It further mentions promoting aesthetically pleasing design for retail and commercial land uses located at our major intersections. In order to follow the guidelines outlined within our comprehensive plan, the applicant is proposing a false entrance feature with windows on the rear uh and an eyebrow awning over it so that it will ha not have the appearance of a rearfacing building. The applicant will provide cross access as shown on the plans for any future cross to both adjacent properties. Additional landscaping will be provided along Macccan Road and Loop 281 to mitigate the appearance that the rear is facing Loop 281. The site will follow all of the other general retail zoning regulations such as sign regulations, landscaping, and parking. And throughout the development process, the site will meet the requirements set forth in the UDC and all other City of Long View codes. Macccan Road and Westloop 2181 are classified as principal arterial roadways and are maintained by Tex DOT. Access management is essential to avoid traffic congestion and delays caused by turning movements for vehicles entering and exiting driveways. Staff finds the proposed zoning change is consistent with the future lane use map and surrounding uses. Therefore, it does not constitute spot zoning. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time.

Thank you, Angela. Does commission have any questions for Angela on this item? So with that with that square footage, is there not another way to place that building like like say north south with the rear facing to the to the west? I think the applicant is here and they can probably better explain. I believe there may be a little bit of grading issues on that property. Um, and so I think their engineer or uh Tariq, their uh the QT rep can explain this better.

I Yes. The re reason I asked that is because you're going to you're you're in one of the if not the most visible intersections in town and you're going to have a building facing the rear rear facing to the to the loop and and I'll I'll also or will you not get rear deliveries?

Yeah. So, um yeah, I definitely understand where you're coming from. Um in regard to the the rear facing that's um we we worked with staff quite a bit to you know to beautify the rear of the store um as she mentioned um you know the the awning the windows and you know um you know quite a few things to make the store look much better um in the rear. We've also provided a lot of landscaping in order to you know accommodate those um those features. Um we have tried to originally we wanted to to go with the building on the um I guess on the south of the lot um which would have been facing Loop 281 but um due to grading challenges we couldn't make that happen. So, um this is the best um site plan that we could come up with in order to, you know, mitigate um the grading issues and to, you know, make the best flowing site and the the safest site for

Yeah, that's why I was asking about the if it if it was going um east west or I'm sorry, north south with with the rear of the building facing to the west. That wasn't Yeah. due due to I we have our civil engineer here as well to be able to speak more to I mean I know obviously we all know where the grade is because it drops off in the front and it's a you know even with when Red Lobster was there still is or whatever you didn't see a great deal of the front of the building because it was uh because of that grade but I just wonder if you know what it's going to look like with trucks you know in the rear of it all the time and

so with the way the site is laid out there won't be any trucks in the rear the delivery crew will be in the front of the store and will get brought through the store, but um there a truck wouldn't be able to access the rear of the store. So there there will be not will not be any trucks in the rear. Trash pickup is going to be in the rear front side where you all going to have all that. Um so I believe the trash enclosures over there on the bottom left of the screen. If you see there, it's going to be at on the furthest corner away from Loop 281 or Macan Road. Makes better sense. Yeah, we just don't want to have a, you know, an eyesore that's going to be there for 45 years, you know. Yeah, of course. Looking at it as a consumer, you know, and someone that's from here.

Absolutely. And we love to be a good neighbor. We don't want to, you know, be an isore, be a sore thumb. So, um, we we definitely want to do our best to accommodate the the intent of the code and, um, you know, beautify the community. Angela, can you explain exactly what the plan development would allow versus the general retail? Explain that again. So, the plan development is allowing them to have a front 10-foot setback that

that's the only difference between this particular plan of element and what the UDC would require. Well, besides that, we are asking that they pro that they build the store to look like this with those elevations. So, that's why we recommended doing the plan well or well, we came to an agreement that the plan development was the right track

cuz if you got a variance or if they went with general retail, they could still technically face that rear towards towards loop 281, they would just have to meet the 25- ft setback. Um, and so they could put the rear towards towards loop 281, face it with a 25 foot setback with this there. They would be allowed to have a 10- foot setback off of Loop 281, but we would get this elevation. Okay. So, go go back to the the the plat the site map there. So, we're just saying that it's 10 foot off of that line right there. You're still what 70 80t from the actual loop. That is correct.

Yeah. Angela, do you see any negatives from that by having a 10- foot instead of the 25? I know it's a very large ride ofway, but do you foresee any issues in the future?

I don't foresee any issues. My biggest concern was just making sure from a comprehensive plan standpoint, um, aesthetically, you know, you don't typically want to see the rear of buildings. that I think that was our biggest probably biggest concern. Um you know uh like I said in the staff report they really didn't have a hardship um from a variance standpoint. Um and I think this was the best route in order to get um you know for them to get the 10-ft set back and for staff you know we would get a better rearfacing building that would look aesthetically better um and comply with our comprehensive plan. Well, from looking at the plat, you don't have a whole lot of room behind the building facing Loop 281 either. So, no deliveries, no trash, no It's just like a fake entrance, right?

That's I believe that's correct. Yes. It's just a there I think there is a door there. Um but they have 10 foot. It's a 10-ft setback. So, they've got 10 foot from the their building to the property line. Okay. That's the bottom left. Yes, that's correct. windows or are those real windows? They're they're faux windows. Um that's really the back of the store where the employees um you know have equipment back there. So it's it's not actually going to be visible through there. So really really other than I mean it's going to be the back of the store with a little awning and three faux windows. It essentially looks just like the front of the store only you you can't see through it. Signage on it. Yep.

How far is how far is the current building, the Red Lobster? How far is it off of? I'm not sure exactly how far it is. Um, but it definitely meets the 25 cuz they've got a lot of parking. Look, go to the aerial. Um, they're pretty far off of it. I would say at least at least 40 foot because you think about uh drive probably 20 to 25 and then the parking spaces are 18. Uh, so they're probably Yeah. I mean, I would say 50 or 60 feet off the property line. It's going to be up there. So looking at a sight line, they'd be closer to the loop than anything else. Yep. Along there. Yes.

On Mac Road, too. But closer to Macan Road. Yeah. And then up here on Mac Road. Yeah. And with that said, there is roughly 94 ft from Loop 281 to the property line. Um and that we still would have a 10ft set back off of the property line. So, um, we we would be essentially meeting that intent with that 94 ft of, um, ride ofway that that separates us from the road. So, we wouldn't be, you know, right up on there. You believe that right on top of that hill. It's going to be visible, very visible, highly visible at one of our at our probably arguably the most important intersection in town really. But

there any other questions for the applicant on this item? Any other plan B's or C's regarding placement of the building? Um, let our civil engineer speak to that, but I do have a presentation as well if uh want to see that.

So, I'm Tommy Vilvig, 1700 Almond Drive. I'm the civil engineer that has worked on this project. So, we've looked at at multiple different site layouts on this one. And the first one that we had was a more traditional layout and it looked fine two-dimensionally and then we started to to do the grading plan for it and it didn't work. Um, this site has about 25 ft of fall from one side to the other. Makes it very challenging and it's a relatively small site to to make everything work. There's a lot of special considerations with a gas station over the existing use of a restaurant. Biggest one is that the canopy has to be relatively flat. Um, so that way cars are fully pumped up if they're at a steep angle. Also, just for the customer, so that way doors aren't flying open and hitting the pumps when they're getting out. So, it makes it a lot more challenging to fit the things that need to be flat on a site like this. The other one is the fuel deliveries. The tanks have to be relatively flat. Um, and if you've been to that Red Lobster site, I know we've been to it. It's steep. The parking lot on that site is steep. when you parked in some of those parking spaces and go to open your door, that door is going to go flying open into the car next to you. So, that's one of our goals with this site plan. And the reason that it worked well is because the wing drive off of Loop 281 is much longer.

So, currently it comes right into where the Red Lobster parking lot starts. And here we were able to lengthen that but still provide good circulation through the site and good access to the customers. So really unique challenge on this site and kind of a unique um you know opportunity here um to to have something different, but it's uh it's it was a big challenge to get it to lay out correctly. So, we've looked at a lot of different site layouts for this property, and this is far and above the preferred option for QT. And we have other options, but they're not nearly as preferable as this one, because of the pitch, because of the grading and the regulatory you got to do with your gas.

Mhm. Is it going to have loop access or just Macan? We've got an existing driveway on the same as Red Lobster. And and that was one of the other challenges is those both of those are textile roadways and so our driveway locations are are kind of fixed. Um textile wouldn't let them us move them any closer. It wouldn't help grading either way but we can What about ingress and egress? Um the loop has a barrier in the middle does not. Right. So we'll be a right in right out on the loop and then we'll be a full access drive there on Macan Road just like it is today. Would that hill be graded? Graed down any?

Uh, no. Since that's Tex rightway, we don't have any plans to to change the grades there. There's also a number of utilities there um in that area. And we do plan to y'all's point about it it being up on the hill and visible. We do have additional landscaping planned there that should help shield kind of the back of that store and help beautify that corner. And I know Textile has a big landscaping uh island in the rideway there that they maintain as well.

Thank you, Tommy. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm now open the public hearing. Are there any in support of this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Are there any in opposition to this request? If so, please come to the podium. State your name and address for the staff. All right. Any additional questions or comments? I have one more question. All right. How many people do y'all normally employ at a location like that?

So, with each of our locations, we u create roughly 22 new jobs. Um and um store managers can make anywhere from 80 to 100,000 a year. And starting off, managers can make anywhere from 40 to 60k a year. Um, so they aren't just, you know, any regular old job. They're pretty good paying jobs. Um, and yes, 22 jobs per per new store is the average. What about hours of operation? Hours? We are 24 hours. So we have morning shift, evening shift, overnight shift. Um, and we have security measures in place to, you know, make sure everyone runs smoothly. Thank you. Thank you. Any additional questions or comments? You said you had presentation. Yes.

Is there anything in that presentation that we should know? Um really just um let me stand up. I'm really just talking about who quick trip who we are um and you know what we bring to the table and how we aren't just you know a regular gas station and um you know how we we take care of our stores in order to make sure that you know 45 years down the road we're still a good-looking store and we aren't just you know another old gas station. So, um really just talking about how who we are and um some of the the challenges with this site. So, how many stores do you all operate today?

Um we have over a thousand stores in operation. Um 30,000 employees. Um so, we've we've started with one store in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and have grown up to, you know, be a pretty pretty large store. Here we go. Yeah. I've been in your stores before. Yeah. You maintain them pretty clean.

Mhm. Yeah. We are a private company, so that helps. Um, our largest expense is maintenance and um, you know, taking care of our stores and making sure that we have the same offer across the stores. Um, and here's just a few of the things that we do. Um, we've been on Fortune's list of 100 best companies for, you know, 15 plus years. Um, we're we regularly stay on um, Forbes's 100 top um, top 100 privately owned companies. Um, we're number 20 right now um, in the nation. So, um, you know, we try to be the best. That's our one of our our main mottos. Um and we really want to, you know, be a good neighbor and take care of you all. So, um like I said, we are a private owned company, so we can take better care of our stores than just, you know, the regular old gas station. Um and we, you know, we we intend to do that. So,

still headquartered in Tulsa?

Yep. Corporate is still in Tulsa. Um that's where I started actually. I moved down here a couple years ago, but um here's a little powerpoint on our um security. um got 360 degree footage of the store at all times, 4K cameras. So, um police a lot of times love to come to our stores even if nothing happened there to, you know, talk to us and see if they can see something on our cameras. Um another slide on that. We do offer really good food. I don't know if you guys have ever stopped by Quick Trip, but you know, grab and go if you're in a hurry, or you can stop and order something. We got pizza, subs, um all kinds of good stuff that you can grab and you know, get back on the road. So, um, here's our site plan as we already saw. Um, here's the rear elevation, which we beautified, which is, you know, we we think it looks really good. Um, and like I said, we are privately owned, so we like to uphold that image and, you know, make sure everything looks good. Um here's an elevation which yeah um this was created before um we went ahead and added extra landscaping at the rear of the store so it will be um even more um blocked off and there will be more landscaping behind the store.

Would y'all be utilizing the existing Red Lobster sign? Yeah, we'd use ex exact same size um and and we wouldn't be doing anything different. It just have our logos on it. I was wondering if the existing sign is higher than it uh I I don't know the information on the existing sign, but they would have to be compliant with current codes. Okay. It'd be the same 35 ft. So, do you see the green space being used? This green space here? Yeah. So, that is textile rightway. So, we we can't really use that.

I mean, just in general for uh I mean, I'm thinking about picnic tables or, you know, just thinking out loud. Mhm. No, I mean we would saw it. Text typically does require that, so it would look really good, but um as far as us using it, we we wouldn't can't do that. Okay. Wouldn't be allowed to. Um I think the next slide is also another um image there. Um and like I said, we're just trying to make it look the best we can um with what we have there. And we're really trying to, you know, be a good neighbor and um provide a good looking store. It looks like that one. I hope it looks like that one.

Oh yeah. Oh, jobs to go around and set these things up and then you're on to the next town and I'm like, man, we're going to be stuck with a convenience store. If it looks like crap, it's going to be really disappointing. No, it should look like this because of the plant development. Awesome. Yes. And so awesome. We're all living here. Yeah, absolutely. And like I said, we we have a really high maintenance expense. So, um we do intend to keep this building looking just like that. So, um we are we like to do the right thing. So, I'll make sure to take care of you guys. Typically, I would from my days of traveling,

I would picture the stores and actually I've been in your stores quite a bit from traveling. I from what I can remember, your stores are on major traveling highways. How many of these stores or not how many do you have many of these stores like in not necessarily the center of town but in the uh traffic area of town like he's saying, you know, we drive by every day. would see it every day.

Yeah, absolutely. Um, our business model actually started off with, you know, smaller stores like this in in the city. Um, so if you go to Tulsa, there's stores all over the city. Um, and it's kind of changed over time, but this is a site that, um, I'm not in the, you know, the business of selecting the sites, but, um, this is a site that we, you know, ran the numbers and looked at everything and saw fit for, um, a good location. So, um, I I don't have too much info on that, but this is a a site that we've done before. No trucks. No trucks. No. That was going to be my next question. Yeah. No trucks on this one. This is a smaller footprint store. So um like the other one over um that we're building is that's a truck stop and it has not a truck stop but a travel center. It's got trucks and you know the full nine yards. So this one is a much smaller footprint.

Very good then. Thank you. Any additional questions? All right. If there are no additional questions or comments, I will now close the public hearing. I will now entertain a motion. Move to approve as presented. All right. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say yes. All any opposed say no. I'm going to be a no. All right. Motion carries. No. Heath. Yes. Yeah. Keith. All right. Thank you all. Angela will now provide us with a staff update.

Uh certainly. Uh we haven't had a council meeting. So, the one item for the drive-thru window um will be brought to council next week uh cuz they canceled a council meeting. However, we did accidentally skip one discussion item um at the beginning of the agenda. So, I'd like to bring that one up. Absolutely. Um and we need to discuss and appoint a planning and zoning commission vice chairperson. Um, so city council appoints the chairperson of every board and commission, but uh they it's upon, you know, uh y'all will appoint yourselves vice chair.

And so typically we go off of seniority, but uh it's up for discussion for y'all to decide who you who wants to be the vice chair and who wants to volunteer to be the vice chair of planning and zoning commission. All right. I think Heath would make a great vice chair. And Heath is Yes. And he has ran the meeting before when the chair and vice chair has been out. So yeah. All right. So I will need a motion and a second. Make a motion to approve. Second. All those in favor?

All right. Abstain. All right, great. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you, Angela. That no include concludes our meeting. Thank you. and Q.