Planning & Zoning Meeting - Regular Meeting

to the rep for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr. Did God say we'd like to do the invocation? Yes. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support. As we begin this meeting, help us to engage in meaningful discussion. Allow us to grow closer as a group and nurture the bonds of community. Fill us with your grace, Lord God, as we make decisions that might affect our residents in the city of Josephine. and continue to remind us all that we do here today. All that we accomplish is for the pursuit of truth, for the greater glory of you, and for the service of humanity. We ask these things in your name. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, item two, the approval of the minutes from the December 19th, 2024 regular meeting. Members, you have a copy of the minutes there hopefully for your review. And uh at your pleasure, you can make a motion there. All right. All right. I make a motion to approve the uh meetings from or the uh minutes from the December 19th, 2024 meeting. Okay. Is there a second? Second the motion. Okay. All in favor? I'm gonna at least read this. We Okay. Okay, I'm the next item is item 3.1. I'm

going to read it into the record. Case number two, I'm sorry, case number CA 25-00001. Consider and make a recommendation to the city council on a city initiated request to amend the code of ordinance chapter 10A article 2 section 2.2 to E1 submission timing to set a specific date each to accept the plat application each month as published in the de uh development calendar. Is there staff comment? It was working earlier. Here we go. Off yours. Okay. Are all of y'all off? Oh, okay. Um, this one's pretty straightforward. Right now, we have to accept plaques for a twoe period every month. So, we have inconsistency in submittals and review timelines. Um, all we're trying to do here is set one single date a month to accept plats for initial submittals and then another date for resubmitts because those go by a different deadline. So all the other development applications will continue to be accepted daily and that's it. We just recommend approval. Um, if this goes u if you recommend approval of this request, city council will schedule a public hearing next month for final adoption. Any questions? I guess this is just to make uh staff members lives a little easier. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Just just for the record, there was somebody trying to submit a plat on Monday for

tonight and I said that's just that's just not doable. You know, we can't we can't be doing that. So, yeah, we need to create one set date so everybody is on the same page about timelines. amendments on page seven of 68. So you you can see the motion the uh recommended motion motion and the the motion will be in the next slide as well on the PowerPoint I believe. Okay, this my Okay, I'm sorry yours is off. It should be in that package pertaining to that topic though, but I can give this to you. No problem. That is a recommend motion if you if you want. Okay. Okay. Uh, I move to recommend approval of case number CA25-00001-development calendar for plat submittals as presented. Second the motion. All in favor. Okay. All right. Second. Our next item is uh item 3.2 case number FP25-00001. Consider make a recommendation to the city council on a request by the applicant community ISD

for a final plat of the community ISD addition number two subdivision being approximately 79.833. 833 acres located at 900 Main Street. Staff associated. Mhm. Sure. I got it here. Members, do you see the uh or do you have any questions first of all? Yeah. Uh so what's on the property? Go ahead. The elementary school. Is that the elementary school there? Okay. So the elementary school is already on the ground as a middle school and I believe I guess any stadiums or anything or outdoor just school stuff. Okay. All right. We we have a before you make your motion just want to point out uh of course our engineers here and we have a letter that should be in your package here.

Um and this recommending approval from Kim Horn. Um, what is that? That square on the left there says proposed community center or community facility. What? What is that? It's on the very left side. I think you're future. [Music] [Music] school district. What you got? Okay. I move to recommend approval of case number FP25-00001 community ISD addition number two final plat as presented. Second the motion. Okay. Yes. Uh all in favor. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Gentlemen, at this time I'm going to step out uh citizens because this next item pertains to me. So the remaining members will take it from here and wake me up when you're finished. Hello. Uh I'm going to open a public hearing. Uh case number ZMA25-00001 830 East Street. Uh we're going to conduct a public hearing to consider testimony and make recommendation uh to the city council on a zoning request by applicant Lloyd D. Brown and May K. Brown to amend the zoning ordinance and zoning map of the city of Josephine. Each being a part of the code of ordinances from agric a1 agriculture to SF1 single single family residential on approximately 1 acre of land proposed to be annexed into the city of Josephine located at 8:30 East Street. Any comments from Let me um so staff will introduce the item then u the residents will be able to uh address the the commission. So uh this is pretty straightforward. The city approved the annexation of this property um on Monday. Uh it was given a temporary agricultural zoning because it wasn't done at the same time. So the applicant is requesting just uh SF1. Uh we'll go to the next slide. I believe I have the future land use designation. Um it's low density residential on the future land use plan. So the zoning request and the current land use aligned with that. We recommend approval as presented. Okay. Now any

Oh yes. Is there anybody present to speak in the public hearing? So we will uh close the public hearing. and then we will discuss consider and act to make a recommendation to the city council regarding the zoning request. Any comments from members? So, uh where's this the city line right now? Is that north of that house now? I mean, is that Josephine? This version of the future land use plan is is currently out of date. Doesn't reflect the latest city limits. The city limits currently cross the west side of of this this highway or this this road and extend a few feet into the subject property, but I want to say 10 to 15 ft. Okay. The annexation was to annex the remainder of the lot. So, the entire 1 acre lot is now officially within the city limits. Um and um that's why you see the you saw on the on that map you see the just those houses are the only parcels that are identified as low density residential because they're based on an existing land use. So those homes have been there um and we're just aligning the the new zone. Right. So the the development north of this property is that Josephine already or gap? Yeah. So, okay. So, it's just extending it down a little bit. Yeah. Okay. All right.

All right. Uh, make a motion. Uh, recommend approval of case number ZMA25-00001-830 East Street Reszoning subject to the approval of petition for annexation. I second. All in favor? Our next [Music] item would be four. Okay. Our next item is uh 3.4 for case number CPA25-00001. consider and make a recommendation to the city council on a city initiated request to amend the city of Josephine comprehensive plan uh Josephine's journey quote unquote uh by amending the future land use plan map to change the future land use topology designation of multiple parcels of land located within the city of Josephine and its ETJ or extra territorial jurisdiction. Yes, sir. Um members of the commission, um this is a uh an

initial uh amendment based on my evaluation of our future land use map. Um I evaluated what we have based on development trends and just realistic u development scenarios particularly around the farm to market 6 corridor. Um the current lowdensity residential designation adjacent to the highway is practically unrealistic. It will be extremely difficult to steer development that way because it's on a such important corridor. The um additional item regarding this is that the outer loop that is proposed by the county um which is very likely to happen will also detonate um higher intensity uses. So the intent here is to create a a mixeduse corridor that will signal to developers that we're prepared to accept higher quality and higher intensity uses um and discourage some other potentially undesirable uses in the future. So though we have limited um capacity and ability to control land use within the ETJ, we still can give some signals to developers to try to steer them towards building something that is um of a different development character. So as I mentioned um this is really an effort to begin the process to create a distinct development character for the future of Josephine. And the next slide. Yes. U the next few slides will show the um the properties that are being proposed to be um um redesated or reclassified under the mixed use. Some of these are commercial nodes that are in red on some important intersections. Um and the areas that are outlined in purple are the areas that are being proposed to be reclassified as

mixed use. Now I want to clarify that this designation is not zoning. So any parcel of land that is not zone that is not zoned for what a developer wants to do, they have to come back to you do the resoning and the reszoning if approved has to be in compliance with the comprehensive plan and not in in this map. So part of the reason this is being done, this is also a comp if we'll go to the next slide please. Um, let me see. So, so while the slide changes, the focus really on this one, the larger parcels is on the west side of the city. And then the proposed Josephine Lakeside District, um, and then the the area north of six where the Shell gas station is, those are prime areas for development. So, we want those are within the city. So, we want to make sure that when somebody comes in to develop um they bring us something that's um the greater and best use than what our current zoning would allow. And you know, our hope if we don't adopt the unified development code in time, uh we want to steer these towards planned developments like like what's coming before you later this evening. If you'll go to the next slide, you'll see the eastern part. So the eastern corridor is mostly already developed with some single family though there are some parcels that are being assembled by other developers and have the potential to be assembled by um developers. So um that's why you'll see a a slimmer area of mixed use and and also because our city limit line is is rather rather small. Mhm. Um and I think we'll go to the next slide. [Music] Um and we recommend approval as presented. If this if you recommend approval, we'll schedule a public hearing for city council on June 9th. So

the procedure in the state of Texas for comprehensive plan amendments require a public hearing only at the city council level. Right. So this is this will not be a public hearing item tonight on this one. And you you stated that this will be to the advantage of the city in the future as far as developers coming in and own land. Yeah, we constantly evaluate land use plans about once a year. Um these this one was more of an immediate one um because we are already getting interest from multiple developers for multiple parcels of land along the corridor. So, we want to tell them if you want to come here, you're going to do things a little different than what you're used to. So, that this is really what we're we're seeking here as as at the staff level and as a city level. When you say what they're used to, it's not going to restrict, you know, retail businesses. So, so yeah. So, the intent is and and you know, if you'll uh look at the region, um most developments now are mixed use. So they have a residential component that helps attract and support the retail uses that that are envisioned in our comprehensive plan that the city the citizens around here have been asking for some time. Um the reality is that the retail follows rooftops and units. So whether these are single family, you know, higher density or multif family um developments, the the the population um currently um in my opinion does not support the retail and and if it did, we would already be hearing them. They would be knocking on our door already. So we're preparing for the time when they're ready to knock on our door. [Music] Okay.

Any other any comments, members, questions? So, I guess when I hear mixed use, it's apartments, retail, right? And and you know, um part within the land within the city. Yes. So, what we're going to do as we adopt the unified development code is create a mixeduse zoning district and we're going to seek re city initiated resonings on all those parcels to make sure that restrict the developers towards a mixed use. And yes, uh, and it doesn't have to be vertical mixed use. Um, I have seen developments and and helped develop or design developments that have more horizontal mixeduse. So, um, in areas adjacent to existing single family, they may have, you know, twotory town homes and then as they get closer to the corridor, you do start seeing the more vertical or the more intense, you know, retail uses. So we try to kind of create a gradient um that that kind of from more intense along the main thoroughares to less intense you know as these approach existing neighborhoods but it um as of right now our zoning restricts buildings to three stories um so I don't foresee that changing um unless um the city um now that's only within the city limits in the ETJ we have no control whatsoever. So, um, most of the area that's being identified here for mixed use is outside the city limits. So, you could very well have a fivestory building right next to an existing single family subdivision. That's the conundrum. What uh I guess what are our plans to annex some of the we are um before that happens so we have control. Well, um we're very limited. we can no longer really do involuntary annexation. So, it would be a matter for us um talking to property owners and developing a plan as a city that that could give them benefits for them, you

know, because the first thing they're going to ask is what's in it for me? What am I getting? Because right now, they can build whatever they want. And if they come under our control, we're going to have more of a say in what they can do. you know, we're not against, you know, the the city isn't against development. We just want high quality development, right? So, and and that's the vision fulfilled in the comp plan. Um, so it's a matter of developing a plan um and and creating potentially policies and and we're exploring all options, things that we could do to entice these property owners to be annexed into the city. Though, I I will confess it is an uphill battle. So, I'm trying to do whatever we can possibly do to steer them without outright forcing them. But the next natural step would be to try to engage these property owners to be annexed into our city. But I don't have that answer right now. Any other comments or questions? Okay. I mean just uh I mean if you're talking mixed use I mean if they want the apartments or town homes or whatever to support their retail you're talking large areas that are going to be apartments or town homes or I mean yes and and it could be very well that the entire area that's outside our jurisdiction can become multif family but as it is stands right now Even if if our future land use designates it as lowdensity residential, they can still do what they feel they need to do. However, um most of these are larger tracks and developers will do a more thoughtful design process to balance things out. It's, you know, in my experience, um, you know, I would look

at the Lakeside development in Flower Mound that has a healthy balance of single family and, um, multif family that complement each other and then they complement the retail that has been coming and, um, even now there's still more retail. it's it's not fully built out in terms of the retail because some of these retailers take a long time to to to meet the site selection criteria. Um, you know, I've been as part of this I've been looking at some site selection criteria and the one I've been using the most really lately has been Dunkin Donuts, but Dunkin Donuts requires 70,000 people within 11 miles to work and in a much higher traffic volume than what our current FM6 corridor. So the Dunkin Donuts requires just that. Can you imagine the more desirable or the desired ones like you know say HB or you know or or higherend restaurants. So we have to really um shore up our our population count more so than we're at right now to be able to attract the the users. But but let me just add a comment just in general uh when it comes I think to retail or any business the the target area it's not just going to be multif family in this spot or that spot uh just imagine drawing a circle around Josephine there's other people that's going to that's going to come in depends on what's here from Leva uh you know cattle mills just like we traveled many you know years to rock wall to the Walgreens I mean Walmarts before they got the the Walmarts in Roy City. And then there's uh customers that travel through Josephine too. So the target as far as customers is is not just Josephine or apartment that we may have somewhere nearby. And believe me, in my

opinion, there's more than enough rooftops out there now to and keep a business open. If when we developed the mixed use um in my prior community, we developed a a um a provision that we called the vicinity test that capped the number of multif family compared to the space for commercial because I I share your concern. We don't want all of it to become multif family and then some other town gets the retail that we helped recruit, you know, with our population numbers. I I believe that's the concern here. So there are safeguards, but you know that would only be limited to what's actually under our zoning. So yes, the next natural step would be to try to get more land within our boundaries so that we can control and how it grows and develops. Uh well, I know about the corridor from Farmersville down I'm sorry, the the new road coming from Farmersville from 380 down to 30 or the outer loop. Yeah. So, what's the latest on Route Six as far as expansion? Um, know it was and now it's been pushed out. So, um, my understanding is there are no immediate plans for development. We're we're um scheduling a meeting with Texot for later this month, if not by next month, to discuss our corridor. So, we want to um I want to meet with them to talk about 1777 and 547 cuz 547 is um becoming more problematic than six to be frank in terms of the truck traffic that passes daily and my office is literally right by the high the road. So I see the the traffic um and and really just trying to create um a a grid with the acknowledgement that the widening project may not happen for on six for for some time. Okay. Let me mean

to be rude to interrupt but we need to maintain the focus on this this item here before we go off too far. Any other questions on the future land use map? If there's no other questions, go ahead. I just comment. I'm just concerned that, you know, with the multif family, the retail and everything, if six not isn't going to be finished for 10 years, six is going to be a nightmare. The the development code requires um traffic impact analysis for um zoning and plats. And if there are improvements required such as right turn lanes or or turn lanes that are identified by those then before development is authorized those items would need to be identified and constructed. But as far as a widening project goes, um, we really have no control over No, I I understand, but we have control what we can control. So, we do, but you know, one one of the things that that um has happened is, you know, the they they will build something whether the highway is there or not. I just drove through Highway 380 on the way here, but I believe that that we have safeguards to to ensure that some mitigation is is done prior to the construction and drive down 205 into Rock Wall. I drove 380 for the first time east of McKenna today on my way in. Yeah, it was brutal. But yeah, sorry. Yeah. Okay, members, if it's no other

discussion or questions or comment, is there a motion on this item? Yes. I'll make a motion to recommend approval of case number CPA25-00001, uh, future land use map amendment, mixed use, as presented. The second Okay. Yeah. Um, yeah, I'll second. And all in favor? And again, this is this is a map. This is a map. Okay. Okay. It's not approving anything. Okay. The next item. Yes. Yes. Item 3.5. 3.5 is open public hearing case number ZD25-00001 uh 408 East Cook Street. conduct a public hearing to consider testimony and make a recommendation to the city council on a request by the applicant Jake Singh to amend the zoning ordinance and zoning map of the city of Josephine. Each being a part of the code of ordinance from single family residential to the to a plan development with base zoning district a local retail districts of local retail and multifamily residential approximately

9.69 699 acres of land generally located at 408 East Cook. Okay. Now, as we get into the public hearing, let me just speak on a few guidelines. We're going to We read the item into the record. Okay. So, uh each person will have three minutes to speak. We're going to let the applicant prevent present his uh his uh case first and then anyone that uh in favor of the zoning change you can speak and then anyone against it then you'll speak. uh the applicant and developer at that point will come can come back to rebut any opposition to the statements that they heard or if if you would take down make notes of any questions that you may get from the citizens so you can answer those when you come back to the podium. Okay. Uh what we do not want uh when the applicant presenter comes back to the podium to address the committee is questions back and forth to the speaker or the presenter because we'll be here all night. Again, you will have your three minutes to express your opinion and uh if there's questions uh you can speak about your your questions, you know, of course within your three minutes and they will take notes and respond to those questions or respond to any statements that's uh maybe a room or just they want a rebuttal. Okay. Uh and then at that point uh the planning and zoning committee will ask also during that time questions when he comes back to the podium and then we'll make a motion and vote. So at this point

uh we can get started with the presentation. Um I'll present first and then the the applicant. Um so pretty straightforward. It's just under 10 acres. You can see the property arrow image right here. It's at the south side of uh Cook Street and on the southern end of Lloyd's Lane. Uh these are multiple parcels that are being assembled by the developer. Um seems like we lost it. That's fine. I got my staff report here. Um the the plan is to uh separate this plan development into two tracks. Track one will be multif family residential consisting of approximately 200 multif family units built over two phases. The um and if we can go to the next slide please. Um the commercial tract is track two which is directly adjacent to Cook Street and this would consist of two separate um commercial structures. Uh no end user has been identified once the constru uh site plan is approved and the the developer and the developer can speak to their time timing and schedule. Those would be built in one phase and could be subdivided into different path sites as a developer may may need. Um the um the purpose of plan development is um if we go to the next slide please. Um in your staff report you you would see all the PD concept plan, the ancillary concept plan and the specific plan development design standards that uh are being proposed for this plan development. So, as a reminder, a plan development is basically a custommade zoning district that takes from the um current code and provides departures or additional design regulations that may not be contained in the code. And the intent is to provide you something that is better than what could be allowed by the traditional code. So, a lot of people see it as cutting corners, but it's it's actually the opposite. It's to get something that's better and really enhances the

city. It's is not just a a variance request. Um, in many instances, as I was reviewing this, our code of ordinances lacked any meaningful regulations. So, for example, there is no landscaping required for anything other than single family. Um, there are no um recreation spaces required for multif family development. So, a lot of these were basically drafted from scratch. Um but um as you will look at the exhibits you will see that uh I believe they they um the the applicant incorporated pretty much everything that was asked of them. Um we also um to avoid certain undesirable uses we grabbed a list and we uh prohibited many uses to ensure that when this site develops we get um retail uses uh or restaurant uses that generate a greater degree of sales tax revenue in addition to property tax revenue. Uh if we'll go to the next slide please. Um I believe the next slide is the concept plan. Um, no, no, that's okay. No, that's all right. Um, so this is the concept plan that shows the uh proposed um multif family development on the south side of this development. Um, it has two access points through the commercial tract. Um, those will not be gated. It has an emergency entry and exit on Lloyd's Lane that will be gated and will only be used in um by public safety in case of an emergency. If they cannot access the site through the front entries, they will make um entry through this um Lloyd's Lane access. So um that was done just to have a um a necessary point of entry exit for emergency uses. Um the people in Lloyd's Lane should not have any issues with traffic because there

will be none practically. Um the southeast side has the wet retention pond um which will be um landscaped and and amenitized. So they will be adding a 5-ft wide trail around the the perimeter of the pond um benching, lighting, and a fountain. So that will be part of their open space. If we go to the um the the northern part, as you can see, track two, they're showing in concept a um drive-through restaurant building and then a shell building that could be used for commercial or restaurant uses. Um the user again, as I said, it will be determined later. But this this concept plan this concept plan is um conceptual in nature, but it anything that comes in for site plan has to be in general conformance with this. So, if there's a major deviation from what they bring at the site plan stage, they're going to have to come back to y'all for approval. Um, next slide, please. And actually, we can go two slides. Um, this is the landscape plan and and this is what it would look like at at full buildout. So, as I mentioned earlier, there was practically no landscaping required. So um the developer is adding all of this um at the city's request um to to enhance the quality of the development. You will see the the concentration of landscaping on the southeast side of the of the by the pond because again that that's going to become a recreational feature for their their residents. Um next slide please. So, I don't think they can hear me. Next, can we go to the next slide, please? Um, so this is the recreations plan. So, um, since we didn't have standards, we added a standard that they

have to provide one acre of open space per 100 dwelling units. So they need to provide two acres naturally and they can't um provide the entire space. So the areas that are colorcoded here are the areas that they're asking to count towards meeting this open space requirement and then the balance will be paid at a a rate of $2 per square foot. So, um, based on this early estimate, because it's still subject to change at the site plan, in addition to these, uh, recreation spaces for the residents, they're going to, uh, pay the remainder as a fee to the city park fund. And right now, the fee was estimated about $70,000. U, next slide, please. Um, this is their unified sign plan. So they are proposing to have two monument signs at the entries at each of the two entries of the commercial development and then um monument signage at the entrance of the multif family development and obviously there are business signs that are would be allowed under our code. So um the the change in the monument signs is to ensure that we just have we don't have clutter and also we reduced the height from what's I believe the typical allowed is 10 uh we brought that down to 8 feet which is field signage you know it's it's it's becoming less and less of a a thing now. Um next slide please. So, um, we've worked with the applicant over the past month to develop these design regulations and revise the concept plans based on our feedback. Um, they've incorporated practically every element that's been that's been required. Um, so because they did um this has been a a really quick back and forth. Um, we will do one more review prior to city council. So, it may still be subject to change. and the applicant is developing a traffic impact analysis that is required for this process and the the it'll be submitted and reviewed prior to city council. So the city

council meeting we will have the the findings of the TIA they will have been reviewed by our consulting engineer by then. Um next slide please. So um this as of right now this project does not meet the future land use plan. The properties as you can see are designated under the low density residential. So the prior item uh for the future land use map amendment. If that is approved then this resoning can be approved. The future land use map isn't amended to mixed use. I cannot recommend approval and I'll be withdrawing my recommendation of approval and city council will not be able to approve the reasonzoning. So that their companion items contingent on on this one relies on the future land use map amendment to go through. Uh next slide please. Um we provided notice of the public hearing in the newspaper of circulation here in our county in our area. Letters went to property owners located within the city limits within 200 ft and a letter to the school district required by the local government code was also sent. As of right now, we've received three letters of support and zero zero letters of opposition. Uh, next slide. Uh, we recommend approval as presented subject to the applicant addressing staff comments identified during a final review. I did amend the motion um because the one in the staff report didn't contain the caveat about the future land use map. So, that's why it's in red in this slide. Um, and I'll have that at the very end of the PowerPoint after the applicant has presented and the public if if you want to make that motion. Uh, next slide, please. So, do you have any questions for staff before the applicant presents or you can wait until after the applicant presents? And I would like to I was going to ask the applicant if he

had anything any comments. We are really accustomed to the presentation by the applicant and then a followup with uh comments from our staff uh because the way it has been presented you're making a presentation and a recommendation. We haven't heard the presentation from the Yeah. I mean so Mr. sink. Can you come to the podium if you have something to say, please, sir? Then and then we we have questions and we can ask you or follow up with the staff. But it seems like we've already it's like the city has made a recommendation. We haven't heard the presentation from the applicant. Okay, my Okay, I'm going to talk. So, my name is Je. Um, good evening ladies and gentlemen. I just like to start off by saying thank you to everyone on city staff. We've been working diligently to get this product where it is now and we feel that it's at the point where you know it it benefits everyone and we'll discuss that during this uh presentation that I have set up. So um pretty much like I said my name is Jag. Our engineers are arrive architecture and we're an associates. Next slide please. pretty much uh city staff has already gone over the site layout here and this is just a brief of it. Um we're proposing pretty much a uh multif family development along with the commercial aspect and uh we'll discuss the uh benefits of it here going on to the next slide. Um the next slides will have the renderings of the product. This right here is the clubhouse and the office. Um there's going to be multiple amenities within this. Uh we're proposing a pet spa, mail kiosks, um things of that nature. You know, o open space inside so

you know uh residents can have like birthday parties and things of that nature, resort style pool with decking area to have, you know, barbecue, grilling, all that stuff. So if we move on to the next slide, we'll see the actual building renderings right here. We're proposing three-story buildings with uh at least three different material types. So this is a concept of that here. And then uh next slide please. So these are just a few of the benefits of the project. Number one is uh we are m you know proposing a mixuse of commercial and multif family. There is a need for this type of development here in the city especially on the retail side. there's demand here for, you know, restaurant and retail space. So, we did want to incorporate that into the development here. Um, the multif family portion also helps the city diversifying its housing options for residents cuz right now, Josephine is dominated by just single family, you know, homes. So, this will help diversify that. anyone, you know, that's working in the city, you know, teachers, firefighters, if they're starting off their career, this is a really good alternative because buying a home is very expensive. You have to put like 20% down. And this will help, you know, like most of the younger generation in the city kind of kickstart their career and be able to live in a a nice upscale development. Next, it's also going to help the city generate tax revenue. This property is within city limits. So, that's one of the biggest benefits here. Um, another big thing that this is going to help the city with is we're going to partner up with the city and trying to bring a fire truck here. Um, I think there's currently 13 to 14,000 residents in the service area of Joseph, but only about

half of those uh people are within city limits. So by bringing a fire truck to the city and the fire truck and serve the service area, it's going to definitely make those 14,000 people a lot safer. So this project pretty much addresses the retail and housing needs and with, you know, collaboration with city staff, I think we worked hard and created a win situation for everyone, not just the city and the developer, but also the residents. And this project definitely aligns with the city's ultimate goals and where the city wants to head in the future. Next slide, please. So these are just a few of the amenities of each of the tracks. The multif family is going to have a onsite management company at all times. Like I said, the leasing center is going to have a business center inside kiosk, pet. These are just a few of the amenities. the the units on the insides, they're going to have vinyl flooring throughout each unit, covered balconies, energy efficient design, quartz countertops. This isn't like your typical just, you know, we thought this through thoroughly and we want to kind of bulletproof the development for the future as well. So, same thing on the commercial side. Those are just a few of the benefits. One thing I'd like to point out is on the south side of Highway 6, there is a lack of right now. So, this project here is going to help bring the sewer across the road and so all developments can start along the highway corridor. So, that's just a you know just a few of the benefits uh of the project there. Walkability is another thing. Future facing flexibility. We're offering cross access within and not only within also to the uh parcels adjacent as

well. So that's pretty much it for the presentation. If anyone has any questions uh feel free to ask away. Okay. We are sure you'll be back at the podium a little later. Thank you, sir. We're going to continue with the public hearing. So again, as I stated earlier, uh this is a open public hearing concerning this item. So is there anyone that like to uh take the three minutes to speak uh for the item and then we'll go for anyone against the the item on the agenda. You got two choice. You can speak now. That's close enough. Okay. Quiet back there. Okay. All right. The only thing that I observed in the uh development agreement or all of the little 44 pages was that um under other development considerations, the chapter 14 zoning ordinance 20.4.3.4 four um that says which contains a provision that states that the entire project is not completed within two years, city council may review the original conceptual plan to ensure its validity shall not apply. This is changing what we have in our zoning ordinance. And it was just three little words that were stuck in there that I caught and I just didn't want the developer changing our zoning code unless you guys knew that was in there. I'm sure you did. Uh, I was glad to hear about the sewer going on the other side of the highway. That's great. If we can

get it down the north side of six, that would be wonderful. But, um, I do wonder about water since we're underwater restrictions and how's that going to work with 200 apartments and all the people that go with it. Um, and the traffic study Okay, let me check that off. Water traffic commercial. We discussed Oh, the 50 foot. There was a 50 foot instead of 30 foot in our zoning ordinance. It says it can go up to 50 foot. So my question is if we're going to get this firet truck from the developer 50 a building that if it were to come back in 2 years and be 50 foot would a fire truck handle that because Okay, forget it. I'm almost done anyway. Those were my things I just wanted to bring up that I saw. four four. No. Uh that the speakers was for the I said if in favor so that was in favor. Is there anyone against or is there anyone else in favor? Oh, if you have a comment, your citizens, you you have three minutes to to, you know, to speak. It's not a problem. Okay. So, anyone against? Okay. And I think uh uh city planner, you mentioned the number of letters that went out already to uh to the residents within 200 ft. So, there's

no one else to speak on this topic. We'll uh close the public hearing and allow uh the speaker, the president's presenter to come back if there's a question on this end. If not, uh we can let the uh uh city planner also follow up. Uh so any questions on this end uh concerning this item? Yeah, I guess the water thing was a good point. So will we just order more water or how's that work? Um my understanding is that the water modeling that has been done um does ex uh expects an increase in in development and in use. Um one thing that I will touch on is that um the city as part of the unified development code will be adopting policies aimed at water conservation. Um there there's always a t a conversation about supply but there's never a conversation about how to reduce our consumption and and that's really a a a big part of the issue is you know most water consumption is grass and and landscaping. So um the landscaping that has been required of this project will be um designed to be uh less water intensive and we're for example removing the requirement of 100% saw in all you know ground cover because that really is a larger portion but um we will um bring bring back and confirm the modeling and I can have that included in the staff report at the city council um so that u that is presented to the public at that time. And then um what sewer plant would that go to? Um I do not have the answer to that at the moment. So given that this is simply um land use and determining what could be built there. The next step will be to do the engineering construction plans and the site plan which is basically the

how. So at that point that will be determined. Um I I believe it'll go to the uh southern wastewater treatment plant um near Magnolia Point or Magnolia North. Oh, sorry. North. My apologies. See, so but that will be addressed at that time and and you know site plans won't be approved or construction plans won't be approved if we don't have the capacity. And that brings me to my next point regarding the fire truck. So there is a provision in our zoning ordinance that um requires fire protection for development. So given that the scope of this development requires additional fire protection and what can be provided, it will be the developer's responsibility to enter into a funding agreement with the city. Given that there is a an ample lead time on on fire provision, we added that requirement uh in our plan development standards that says that they will not get a certificate of occupancy if we don't have the adequate fire protection to provide to this development. So if the developer proceeds with construction, it will be at their risk if we don't have the fire truck in time. Um, I also wanted to follow up on the provision of the two years for the validity of the concept plan. Um, that's really a relic. Um, state law um and and really land use law and court cases have determined that um zoning is is a permanent classification and that includes conceptual plans adopted by the by the by the city, right, as part of a plan development. So um there that is the reason why it was moved is to just provide legal certainty and for prospective developers that if they come and zone a property you know say the market crashes next month right it could take some time for them to come back but

the the zoning is still there. Um and um to to answer a concern about how we're changing the zoning code, that is uh precisely what a plan development is intended to do is it it's a custo it it customizes the zoning code to apply to a particular development. So um this plan development standards exhibit is really in great detail because we have to go through every single applicable provision of our code of ordinances. So if it's not specifically um customized here um it applies as written in our code and as it could be amended over time as well. Um and I believe there was a question about the height 50 ft. Um that's just based on the architectural design of the development and again um it is based on the on the um future requirement of the fire protection. So, we'll be able to provide that adequate protection when this is uh open. Any other questions? Yeah, there was always like that third story that would be the question as far as, you know, would the fire department be able to get to that? I think that's always been a concern. We've talked about that in the past. So um when the time comes that the developer submits a site plan to to move forward with development um at that time that's when that funding agreement and at that time we will identify what equipment is is necessary to serve to serve this development. Um and and you know a lot of the conversation when it comes to this provision is about the fire truck but it's it's also just basic you know fire sprinkling all these fire rated walls things like that. So, so that are required by our fire code uh with our local amendments. So, um North Texas uh specifically has a a a little bit more of a strict set of um requirements for multi multif family than than other

places. So, and and even within the region, some cities adopt even more uh stringent regulations. So, for example, Fort Worth, the western side of the metroplex tends to have more lax requirements than the eastern half of the metroplex when it comes to multif family. But all of those things will be addressed at the time of the of the site plan. And then the other thing would be the uh the traffic obviously on six that we'll have to you know they'll have to absorb a lot of those you know uh people coming in and out of there. So I I would think that they would probably do like the middle median like they've done on some of the other turnins and turnouts and stuff like that especially out of the property and then possibly in the middle lane going into the property. And this side was um was a little bit difficult to design because it it's basically two entries and then on the northern side there's one in the middle. Um the developers team tried to design one entry that could align but it's just based on the amount of traffic. You needed more than one entry and the developer did not want to use Lloyd's Lane because of the condition of the street and to be a good neighbor. So that is why we closed off the access on Lloyd's Lane. We just said that's not that's just for emergency only. Um it is our understanding based on the developers conversations with text dot as they were designing this project that um there will not be a full median opening for this specific development but for the existing development to the north. So there will be a uh one of the entries the one on the east side if you can go back a couple of those plan. Um, the one on the on the east side of six on the on the commercial side will be a right in and right out only. And then the one on the left will also be right in and right out, but you'll be able to get onto the turning lane and do a U-turn. So, it's going to be a little bit um little bit of a engineering challenge to make it happen, but it will have to

happen. and in and if the um TIA identifies a right turn lane for example that that would be the developer's responsibility and that would be built immediately. So, you know, traffic coming eastbound on six that are need needing to turn that will need to be required to be built as part of the site plan process and and we and we've had that happen um with with multif family in the past, but we will not be able to uh provide the requirements of what they need to be what needs to be done until the TIA spells that out for us. Thank you. Mr. Sink, have a question for you, sir. Uh in the front I think you mentioned it's a local retail retail or commercial. Uh you have two uh lots there. Uh I may I know it may be kind of early. Did you have any idea what you will hope to go there? We don't have an end user yet. We want to bring some food something food. Okay. Now this development in your opinion is not dependent upon the apartments in the back right uh I mean as far as it would help but the intention is to actually develop a front multi in the back okay that will help rec so traditionally what most developers do is they kind of disregard the commercial aspect they just go on and build They don't really care about the commercial. Okay. We're taking the complete opposite approach here. Good. Okay. Let's see. Uh the community around that that location there because I've driven down Lor's Lane and I know you said it's cut off there. So, no one from the apartments

will be going down low lane. Cut off. Okay. Only for emergency users or there. So there's a way to get in through those to those apartments from Lloyd's Lane or No, there's a gate that's going to be closed at all times and only the city will have access to be able to open. Okay. So that those residents won't be bothered except that you know they will not experience any traffic. Sure. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. U members, do you have any questions for I got a question for Mr. Ch here? Uh as far as the uh the apartments, what how many bedrooms? One how many bedrooms are you guys planning? One, two, three bedroom 20% is going to be one bedroom and then we have about 70% two bedroom and then the remaining 10% will be a threebedroom, two bath. I'm just trying to figure out what uh increase in people, water usage, traffic, all that stuff. Well, I can't just a general uh comment. I have uh met a police officer that uh would have loved to live here in Josephine if there was apartments. And I think about the teachers and we have two schools. How many of those teachers would love the take 10 minutes to get to this to the to the school instead of driving from wherever they may drive it? Uh so there's some positive things about apartments. It's it's no doubt. Uh and everybody doesn't want a house and everybody can't probably afford these homes. U so I have nothing negative to say about some apartments. That's just my comment there. Okay. Any other comments or questions for Mrs. S?

Nope. Okay. All righty. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you to city staff. We've been working for about five, six months now and they've been fantastic. Great. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you. And so our engineers hasn't gotten involved in this or Yes. No. So this is this is high level just bas basic land use. Um there is no need for engineering to be involved at this point because there are no technical materials being provided. That will be addressed at the time of site plan. Yeah. And at the time of site plan. And if for any reason there's a major deviation at the time of site plan required by say the pond needs to be bigger or and they need to lose parking or reconfigure their site. If there's a major deviation from the concept plans, they have to come back for an amendment to the plan development. Mhm. That is a safeguard that is done because you know you want to make sure that they actually build what they told y'all they would be building. So of course this is just zoning. So the water concern that people always have that will be addressed a little later and sewer and everything else from Yes. But we can answer the question about the capacity also just in in general at the at the council meeting. Okay. Okay. just answer the question in general at the council meeting. Is that what you just said? Yeah, like just like we can't get too specific about the project because we don't have that the specific details, but I can um add a section on my report that talks about, you know, water consumption and and what our capacity could handle, you know, just in in general too specific, right? Because you're I mean that's 500 people maybe potentially. Yeah. which is 25% increase in population. We're in 2000 now, right? For the city. I'm just talking the city. Uh actually, I'll my last report has a very

whopping increase that just got released. I I'll rather touch on that at the very end, but it's um 8,800 8,000 as of a year ago. [Music] Thank you. It's it's it's based on it's based on city census tract and I I don't have the full math but it's still considered city of Josephine and we have to go by that official data. Yeah. I don't agree with those numbers. Okay. But but initially as far as the council and additional information, they're going to be presented with a concept plan like we're doing. Everything that was presented to y'all is what's going to city council and then the engineers gets involved and we get into the details at the time of site plan engineering and u our engineer will be reviewing everything that is submitted by the applicant fire marshall gets involved at the same time as well those all those things are addressed. Okay. Okay. Okay. Members any other comments or statements or questions? Okay. Uh if not, I think if you did you want to or we have it in front of us or I have it uh the your recommendation Yeah. trying to get to them. Okay. Other than what we have here, it's slightly different because I've asked to add the the the a second condition being that the future land use plan has to be amended prior to adopting this plan development. Okay. Um, you could make re write read the motion that's on the staff report and just add um anything you want to add,

but just basic Oh, there it is. It's in red. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Oh, I see the top. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, I move to recommend approval of case number ZAPD25-00001, the Fields of Josephine plan developments subject to the applicant addressing any staff comments identified during a final review prior to the city council meeting and contingent on the approval of the future land use amendment. Is there a second? Yes, I second that motion. And all in favor? Okay. Um I have I'm going to let you you have a report, sir. Yeah, just very Okay, then I I go come behind you. Go ahead. Uh yeah, so um we opened up um you may have seen in the email I sent this week, uh interviews for the planning and zoning commission. Um we're expected to have those next month and then the city council will be appointing based on your recommendations at the July meeting. With that said, um Junth is next next month, June 19th. That's the date that our next uh June meeting is on. So I'm asking if we could make a change. Um can y'all decided on a date? I mean, are you going to change it from June 19th to next week or because I'm off I'm gone the the week I always leave the week after that. Um I had recommended maybe the day before June 18th. Oh, that's fine. On Wednesday, would that work for Yep. Good for me right now. Yep. Yes. Okay. Yes. And we'll we'll let and we'll let the candidates know because they're you're going to be conducting the first round

of interviews for the applicants at that time. So, um um so yes. Uh, and then that going back to the census. So, um, I'll have to look back at what they consider to be Josephine, but based on their data, they said Josephine City. And I mean, I I would imagine this is this does not include the entire service area. Um, but we are the fastest growing city in Texas over the past four years. 33% increase to 8,87 residents. I imagine that might not be entirely within the city. Uh we lost our ranking as the fastest growing city year-over-year. That went to Princeton. Uh we're number eight over the last between July 2023 and 24. Um we're fasttracking the adoption of the unified development code. As I mentioned, this shouldn't be this long. This this document of the plan development standards for the multif family. we because we have to do them from scratch. We shouldn't be doing that every time. Um we're working closely with the county on the master thoroughare plan update. I've been to a couple of public meetings. We've had um staff meetings with their county engineer as well to go over the outer loop and other thoroughares in our in our area. Um once that plan at the county level is finalized, we're going to update ours to supplement to provide a supplementary grid that that provides more connectivity between um new and established neighborhoods. We're we want to understanding the fact that textile may take a long time to widen their roads. We got to create our own pathways. And as these sites develop, the developers will be required to build these these roads, you know, and and pay the necessary impact fees to to um for their impact on on on the infrastructure. Um we're also working with the county on their regional trail plan. And then our our own parks and

trails master plan is under development. There was an public meeting last month. It was well attended. We got some really good feedback and I'm already starting to incorporate some of that in some of these plan developments that are coming in. So, um that's all I have on on my end other than just I'm really happy to be here. It's month number um it'll be two months next week. So, but I'm really happy to get to meet y'all finally and looking forward to working with y'all. Well, let me follow up on that. Uh my last comment before we close. Uh over the years, Patty Brooks has been uh wearing a lot of caps in this city. I mean, she's the person to go to. I I moved here nearly 13 years ago. I had to get with her to find out how to turn on them electricity and get the water running. And then the my other backup has always been Mr. Kurt over there right from he's right from the beginning. So the myth, the legend, the uh what what you this meeting here was the first meeting with a city planner. So uh Mr. uh Miguel in En inland, he's going to take a lot of the work off of uh Miss Brooks as far as uh what she's been doing with the city as far as the planning and zoning. So, of of course, I'd like to welcome you and I know it might have be might be a shock to everybody. This process we going we went through tonight is different than what we've done in in the seven years or so that I've been here. Uh but, you know, I welcome you, but and thank you at the same time, Patty. You're going to still be wearing those uh caps because you're always been the go-to person around here. But the uh Miguel is going to help her out a lot. So, what you seeing here tonight as far as the staff recommendation is his background information and due diligencees uh to help make this a more professional and

uh uh thorough uh process and more information. We certainly have a lot of information that you didn't see that's in our notes up here because of the work he's done. So, thank you uh Mr. Miguel and thank you Mr. sing and and your staff your uh the for the presentation and thank thank you citizens for coming out. Uh members, anything anything else? Any Okay, a motion to adjurnn. I second. Thank you.