City Council - Regular Meeting

e e we to heard agenda ande time of course I'd like to say thank you for holding another meeting obviously I wish this was last week I think our turn out would have been much better I'm not sure citizens here we prepared tonight to come in and discuss all the issues otherwise I might not be the only speaking obviously there's a lot of concerns that I have about the zoning and one of them is the fact that my street on my side all the way down is an excuse commercial well my challenge you to go down at least to the first stop sign before the church Methodist Church stops and look at all those houses and see if you really believe that that's the way they need to go they need to go mixc commercial I I I really I I I don't believe in that I don't believe that's fair there's a lot of things about the

way this is being done I don't think that's there I don't think citizens of cwell are being served correctly by this um this zoning I passed all of you out some information heard zero back from you again every time I do something ask you information and I get no feedback you've told me what you think about me by what you don't do and all I've got to say is I'm probably the only one B fetus be up here tonight speaking and I mean that uh I'm really disappointed in this in in in the way you handle this and again cam with you at the Le I I don't know where we're going this is not my city anymore when I moved here 35 years ago and brought my family here it was for a quiet City it the most busy part of the traffic was Sunday when the churches let out and I bragged about that to everybody that's the most traffic I ever seen I don't even recognize my city anymore it's become so busy out there that no matter what time of the day there's just so many parts and I'm looking to retire and we continue to build more and more and more subdivisions without proper plan we're talking about now a $115 million sewer sewer system that we're going to need to accommodate all these systems I understand we probably needed one anyway we probably not not going to need one as large as we're going to have to build now because you probably should plan for future growth now that you're in the middle of it but I'm just disappointed at the way

you've taken the little town that I used to love and turned it into the big city which I moved away from and I'm looking for a quieter Place either that's better managed or that maybe doesn't have so many people so I will say this to you that you really have dropped the ball on this and I I know you're going to say well it's a pity party but look you guys have heard about and you want to hurt somebody's feelings just ignore especially when they know they've got something have in the city and that's a wealth of knowledge that people pay good money for and I'm sorry right now to have to stand up here and say this this is sad this is a sad day for me and Kevin after 6 months of you come in here when when we had the Monument of of mismanagement down there start was under your watch and I've watched this city go down ever since and you say it's going up well I say in my opinion from a small town person raising his family here this is not the city I moved to this is not the city I wanted and if I know it was going to go this direction I would have moved farther out I really wouldn't and that's really all I have to say we to the consent agenda we've got some items to approve ad from meeting on 1029 and reg meeting on December 17 and worksh meeting de 1 the appoint of to Library

boal of election for municip elction to be on May welcome to come up and speak however if someone has already shared their idea get up and speak or say start build c number 12125 toate building Cod most Rec edition of the interational construction and to ad local and standard construction procedures for the region and to provide theability may counc we have Nick with be presen item us as the contract fing so we presentation and then good okay uh so yes there

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so all my concern is quality and because we have structures that are allow to area um so yes ma'am um existing structures and even if you were to do like an addition on an existing house you know you if if the structural components don't meet current standards as long as they're in good condition and they're not being messed with or you know they're not broken or anything like that they're allowed to exist as is and

that's appr that concerns me is how we what appears to be unequally across theity if we know Jo and we him then one of his relatives take over we just allow it to go on we don't you know try to make it better or improve it and so that's kind of a weak stance that you just cons when I became a state War agent and mo into a building 35 40 years ago I was made to according to electrical El see that's why the inequality concern she to higher but some ownerships are two big different and I would like to have a way that you could assure us that thise that sounds so good on you're prepared to enforce like Tom C would say in small town because that equality Prevail lady here inquality not after whatever

of and I know that they're heing Tom because they love Tom all I ask is that regardless of race religion you treat us the same and that is not the case I have witnessed it personally so again who is the inspector and you will be able to have enough M to enforce this yes ma'am um yes ma'am I was an inspect not a long time but six years before this that was in college you know I'm proud to say when I remodeled the office I had one of the toughest inspectors and he couldn't find but three things with a GFI plug a SL on the door and um a label a so we expect that performance from you absolutely um when things exist they're not being remodel then as long as they meet the code that that they were installed then they're allowed to continue to exist even if you know further codes have come in that say that that way is not allowed anymore there is a property maintenance code that does set some boundaries for existing properties that are not being remodeled so that essentially holds a homeowner or a business owner a property owner liable their property set to a certain standard and so um yes we can even go into not go into

without and okay well this doesn't need the proper so you have to uphold at least this minimum standard for safety or CL safety or structural safety and so and if they come on a weekend and they work they [Music] have okay and at what point does the ownership make a difference in that DD grandf yes ma'am I mean is whe whether there's things that are wrong or whether there everything's right Associated then there's very little purpose in this because a lot of our problems have to do with the safety of old proper and we at Christian Care which I direct now have done utmost best to make our sa and I would expect you to uphold the same standards regardless of who owns it or who absolutely thank you for listening to Meely ien to live on the corner where I get to see a [Music] lot please let me know [Music] thank you

so any structure that has not been andard [Music] think process now EST and sir just one more thing um in these codes the property maintenance

I um there is a substandard structure section in that as well and so we currently the property maintenance code adopted we just have the 2018 version adopted and now we're adopting the next code cycle of it so there's very little change in that property maintenance code from 2018 to 2021 so we do have that yes sir and we have a code enforcement department and they do work very hard on getting a lot of buildings I've got quite a few you know we've got there was a house was that on quter we just got one on quter done do you know how many that we got you got done in2 yeah so there's definitely still for a lot of in this and so I can tell you that particular of

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stand for the of structures from flood related hazards to expand the applicability of 100 year and 500 year FL plan to require additional due diligence for development in the 100 and 500 FL to clarify the of responsibility for the enfor ofin and toensure consistency with a comprehensive and to provability um so very Sim again as the second of the r Grant we are recomending ad amendment to be blood ordinance uh the grant stipulates two things specifically the first is that has the ordinance has to follow one of the model or provided bya relevant condition well your existing ordinance was already that model orance so the only other required Amendment from was to raise theboard requirement that the minimum elevation of Bas of structure above uh the flood line from 1T to two feet and so increase in the elevation but um we also this opportunity to increase the standards um make sure standard structures are protected and are protected so we expanded this ordinance to cover the 100 year and 500e flood planes uh we added

some Provisions to designation of individualid administrator as the plane administrator make this or force and uh we heighten U some additional standards for uh ofage so again really the intention behind this is to protect structur protect your homes and to ultimately protect you that is the most important thing the day and then again there is a very strong connection between these updates and the comprehensive plan specifically the comprehensive plan singles out flood plane protection and flood plan development restrictions as important aspects of protecting residents and is the natural function so we have strong protction FL planes to that EV ofes or fling events that these planes can function the way supposed to and then we on development so that no structure can go into the bud plane uh without commission from the city following a study certifying that the structure is not going to impose a risk on properties and that is not going toit and so am will benefit through these higher safety standards but also if uh FL planes are allowed to function as supposed to there's a lower risk of flooding events simp flooding expanding Beyond those FL and then AMS also City systemer how insurance premiums are set

and so higher could lead to lower Insurance I'll open up for any questions that you may have blood L on your specific Zing now are you zing any kind of resal please I work okay I've been licensed to work in my PL for 30 years I work with the S special flood has every day I work with flooding all over the nation and been involved in more dister please bear me current property is residential or commercial are you allowing building in being as our expert over here seems to know a lot about flood can you tell me the majority of flooding that takes place in structures are they in a special flood Hazard area Okay are the majority of floods D structure America 48 continuous things that occur every year are are they occurring in

special and I'll tell you the answer is no okay just so you know so what I'm trying to say is we put a lot of attention on special flood he the the issue is is that what causes the flooding into the non special experience is the build up of subdivisions and infrastructure covering up the normal brass lands that these sleds are able to be absorbed so what we have is to create these waterfalls Rivers down in these these rainfalls you're not going to know the impact fully of these new subdivisions that you're building around town until we really get some significant rainfall and then you're going to find out what you did right and what you did wrong now I can tell you right now that that I am working trying to get with the new Administration to increase the flood standards in a special flood two foot above BF base flood elevation is what everybody's shooting for to try to get their their houses so that they don't flood I I am proposing now we we can always make make a situation with our ordinances that we're greater than the flood plane what they're requiring to protect our citizens and our businesses that come and decide to build in a special blood Hazard area or or we can say we're not going to build in a special blood Hazard area which is probably the savest thing to do so I'm just saying I want you to think about yes and whatever you do you're going to do anyway but I'm just telling you that I deal with it all the time and I'm I'm not as worried about

the people that are that are trying to build up above the base flood elevation 2 ft what I'm worried about is the people out there that don't have to build up at all that are in a Zone x and by the way a Zone X is pretty much anything that's outside of a special flood housing area so what what I'm wanting people to do to understand is that building a house in a Zone outside the flood area does not protect you in the flood since what I'm telling you right now is absolute fact that the majority of houses inst stru that blood Nationwide are outside of a special place that's all I'm thank you for your appreciate yourse um is um development in the pl also have an overlay District in the ordinance that is reinforce strong on that development we're also updating the city subdivision ordinates devel just to make sure that any of these areas that are as an area are anyf from I thank you for your

anybody else about Dage prevention I'm not saying on an individual basis but you Sayer than about aw definely Works ATA SOA is slowly pushing forer Ander rest and so as those are being worked out that Federal buildings tical infrastructure facilities stand roll other builds is IDE

just outside pretty but allision building you can build can put [Music] can do that build half my of Myer is to be how many times how many times Walmart and brother be from rain coming down and water coming off those fields is the expert that's going to make sure that these contractors these subdivision class and these the proper thing because after it's built and done she so my concern is who is going to be in charge who is the expert who is the cont you know so the plan Department which is the one that handles that so our department is so department and plans that come in so as we update all of these ordinances and code requirements and making it better practice standard will then go through our department to Beed when they get submitted and then also have that review

time to make sure that it's being built to what the new standard is are going to take the liability for all the possibility of this flocc and when it curs we're going to come find Y and Y are going open discussion like this so that folks can come in and see done and we can have experts that can come and look at everything and I mean I don't know what your qualifications are I'm not qualified if I'm doing something I really have somebody that's going to guarantee it so when we have willes um the way that it's done right now is not the same way that it will be done going forward but opport to come and Vis and See's going on whatever we want let me pick you back on what you just said we got some H&H studies for all these out there already some water studies you you pay for engineers to come in and do H&H studies on the subdivisions figure out how much you you're going to need in C size to expand the dig to handle this water right do you have them in hand before you issu the permit okay so they're they're available for public me okay so B I think he's got some could you bring those maybe to the next

meeting I'd like to see those myself thank you remember trying to think what year it was maybe 17 wheny happened in Houston those people weren't allowed to because their home and that was an act I think that will never happen again in our life the most rain I've ever seen in in one day was 18 in at that time not house and not aing house development is happening yes it sure is and it is the responsibility of the city to protect all of the properties all of the businesses and all of your homes and that you speak of are they Noahs AC Gods maybe so I'm not sure what you're talking about but again 18 in one day and not a single home called FL so trying to protect you um doing the best we can and um have Engineers to support everything we do so anyway when you said going for

yes so the current standards have in place not higher standard that beating the that we have right now what what they've already submitted has already gone through process the current standard if the application expires then they have to

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from to building permits until the codes are updated and amended ACC to make sure that the development is following the so the city could adopt a moror on development which would halt all development from what has either you know already if it's already been approved or it's in the process still something what they're saying is that they're P the per they started the subdivision there's nothing we can do about it but in the future he is saying to you and all the gr that they can the city council can vote on a moratorium to not put any more sub and they can they can establish a DAT start and end and it's going to be and that's how it's going to be or the G over here can all those areas out of residential construction and now all of a sudden uh they have to come before the council get a variance but in a subdivision and that would happen forever and that's a better ask

the way would work has to be a concern or problem so if was there has to be a legiate cause for to be instituted I'm not an Atty so don't quote me on it but that is I have to check this video to see if there is something to this common real estateel statement if someone wants to keep property vacant they need to buy the property the owner of a property has the right to make a

proper ordinances and codes have been met it would be considered regulatory taking that means state government it doesn't matter just with Texas it would be government it's a law that went into effect in 1922 it's highly IL now the developer is already to you and say okay if you're willing to compensate me for what I'm going to be able to make and you want to put that money up and he accepts it you can keep that but once ordinances in codes are done the state of Texas says that we must approve now I think the developer for white is wanting to meet with the people that all on r stre or is that right or the people that sign talk about that subject is okay so he's willing to talk with those people so that was put off so we're sending out one more letter that we had to to the meeting was canell on the 21st and when is the next meeting February 18 we'll be talking zoning again with that same issue but this will be the fourth letter it's starting back in August so people saying We that haven't had time to talk that's not true and yes uh I am always looking to try to make things better so

anyway we cannot taking people's 100 I if anyone would like toet with me to learn more about the overall development process I to to teach you about process it is a and inth process too long to but if you want to meet and Le more and appreciate the comments and we do listen because you mentioned your

streen and we we fixed it so so and also we do have a s repor problem report on our website and if you send it in goes to a work order and it has to be checked off no longer get lost I don't thank you have to next agenda item administ C request proposal for the 2025 Texas Department of Agriculture Community Development November to RP the program um we got two responses back from RFP one is from Trailer Associates and the other from gr work she do a lot of our breaks with um so this funding for this project be match all in2 bud, that amount for theant total has

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