Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We're going to call the City Plan Commission meeting to order and ask staff to update us on the rules.

Sir, good morning and welcome to the October 15th, 2025 in-person meeting of the Fort Worth City Plan Commission. The commission meets monthly in open session to conduct public hearings on advertised cases. Specific rules and procedures governing these hearings include the city subdivision ordinance, city plan commission rules, regulations and bylaws, and related provisions of the state law. The commission's primary responsibilities are to review and act upon subdivision plans and plots, streets and alley right-of-way vacations and closures, annexation, comprehensive planning, and other land development issues affecting the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction area. The commission is made up of 11 Fort Worth citizens, each of whom are appointed by the city council. A quorum of six of the 11 members must be present in order to conduct the commission's business. Nine members are present today, therefore we may proceed. Seated at the center of the table is Mr. Jim Tidwell, the chair of the city plan commission. Other commission members present today are Commissioner Kranz, Commissioner Lamberth, Commissioner Johnson, Commissioner Turner, Commissioner Henderson, Commissioner Sims, Commissioner Reed, and Commissioner Gillette. Staff present today are Alex Sparks, Paul Rodriguez, Christine Ross, Alex Johnson, Michelle Pena, Barbara Soltero, and other development partners. My name is Stephen Murray, Interim Planning Manager and facilitator of today's meeting. Copies of the meeting agenda and staff reports are included in the Commission's docket and are available on the City's website. The staff reports have been compiled by the City's Development and Review Committee to inform Commission and applicants of the City code requirements and technical issues associated with the cases to be heard. Today's public hearings are being held documented by cable television, and streamed on the internet. To achieve an orderly and timely hearing, we request that you observe the following rules and procedures. All cases are called. Applicants and others in support will be asked to present their testimony for a total of five minutes. Opposing testimony will follow and will be given a total of seven minutes. The applicant will be allowed a two-minute rebuttal. Each side will be allowed a collective total of seven minutes for initial presentations. We have Christine Ross keeping time today. Clearly state your name and city prior to addressing the commission. All dialogue will occur between the speaker and the commission. Upon the commissioner's initial closure of the case, the commission will remain in open session to discuss and vote upon the case. No further public testimony or commentary will be allowed. Be advised that the commission's decisions on planning matters are final. Action on the other document items constitutes a recommendation to the city council. If you need additional information about a particular case, please call the Development Services Department at 817-392-8027. Thank you for your attention. Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, the first order of business is the approval of the minutes from the October meeting.

Has everybody had a chance to review the minutes?

I do. I just have one question on the record, just to make sure this is accurate, because it lists Chair Don Boren as absent. I just want to get clarification to make sure that that is what we should note rather than The council did the day before put somebody in effective term and set it on the paperwork October 1st.

It's actually correct. He continued to serve until his successor was sworn in. Thank you for that.

Any other questions or comments on the minutes?

No, but I will move to approve.

Second. Second.

Second to approve the minutes. We call the roll. Let's just vote. All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? None. So that's unanimous. You want to call the first case?

Yes, sir. First case, FS25200, Santa Roa Edition, Lot 2R, Block 3, Lot 1, Council District 11. General location is north of Fitzhugh Avenue, south of Crenshaw Avenue, west of Miller Avenue, and east of Donnelly Street. The applicant is Maria Carrillo.

Is the applicant here? Would you like to tell us about it? Sure. Are you Mr. Reeves?

Yes, Mr. Chairman and Commission. I'm David Reeves with Grant Engineering, 2751 Park Hill Drive in Fort Worth, and this is the owner of the property, Mr. Carrillo. Thank you.

The reason we're here today, we were asking to go ahead and be able to ask for a variance on Donnelly.

You want to get a little closer to the microphone? They're recording this.

Sorry.

If I may, David Reeves again. We're here asking for your consideration of this plat, and we do realize that a successful approval of our variance request as to lot width has not yet occurred, but we would please ask that it be approved on that condition.

Thank you, sir. Thank you. Anyone else speak in favor? Any opposed? Any questions from commissioners? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and entertain a motion. Mr.

Chair, I'd like to make a motion to approve FS25-200 with an additional approval of the final plot, approval of the width and lot area variances by the Board of Adjustment, and meeting the planning comments and staff report.

I second. Thank you, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Can you call the roll, please?

Yes. Krantz, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Sims, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Turner, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Reed, how do you vote? Yes. Vice Chair Tidwell, how do you vote? Yes.

Vote passes. Next case, FS25201, Sunrise Addition, Lot 8R1, Block 11, 1 Lot, Council District 5. General location is north of Cox Street, south of Turner Street, west of Salt Cup, east of Mount Horem Way. Applicant is Santos Beltran.

Is the applicant here? No applicant. Is there anyone here to speak in favor?

My apologies, Mr. Chairman. I wasn't paying attention. I'm sorry. Yes, David Reeves again, Grant Engineering. And we, similar to the last case, we ask that the commission please approve this pending another, or in this case, a successful approval of a waiver as to lot width.

Thank you. Is there anyone else to speak in favor? Anyone opposed? Any questions from commissioners? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we approve FS25-0201, Sunrise Edition, Lot 8R1, Block 11, pending approval for the variance for the Board of Adjustment and all platting comments in the staff report.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson.

Second.

Thank you, Mr. Gillette. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, would you call the vote, please?

Commissioner Krantz, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Sims, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Turner, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Reed, how do you vote? Yes. Vice Chair Tidwell, how do you vote? Yes. The vote passes.

Thank you.

All right, next case, VA 25011, vacation of the portion of East Morphy Street and portion of Bryan Avenue and St. Joseph Court, Council District 9. General location is north of Allen Avenue, south of East Magnolia, west of Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe Railroad, and east of South Main Street. The applicant is Tarrant County Hospital District.

Thank you. Is the applicant here? You, Mr. Gibson?

Yes, sir. I'm with Teague Nolan Perkins. We're civil engineers in Fort Worth. Here representing Texas, or excuse me, Tarrant County Hospital District in the vacation request for the right-of-way of Brian, Morphy, and St. Joseph's Court. This is in conjunction with the replat that we plan to come forward later on and for the development of the hospital.

Thank you. Are there any questions of the applicant? Is there anyone else here to speak in favor? Anybody opposed? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion, please. We do not have the commissioner here representing that area.

I'll make a motion to recommend to city council a vacation of a portion of Bryan Avenue, a portion of East Morphy Street, and all of St. Joseph Court. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, would you please call the vote?

Commissioner Krantz, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Sims, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Turner, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Reed, how do you vote? Yes. Vice Chair Tidwell, how do you vote? Yes. The vote passes.

Thank you.

Next case, VA 25018, Vacation Valley, located within Baker Brothers Addition Subdivision, Council District 11. General location is north of State Highway 121, north of Noble Avenue, west of Riverside Drive. And east of Chandler Drive, applicant is Audrey Buckley. On behalf of Sammy Ibrahim.

Thank you. Is the applicant here?

Audra Buckley, 1414 Bellevue Street, Suite 150, Dallas, Texas, 75215. Here representing Sammy Ibrahim. They own the property all the way around the alley. It doesn't serve any purpose and has no utilities, so we'd just like to clean this up and go through the plot process.

Did you fill out a green sheet? I'm doing it now. Oh good, thank you. Are there any questions of the applicant? Mr. Johnson?

I actually do have a question just to clarify. Is that true that there's no utility easements needed, because there's no utilities in that alleyway space?

If there's no utilities existing in the alley, then we won't require them to retain it as an easement.

Thanks. Any other questions? Anyone else in favor from the audience? Is anybody here opposed to this? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion. Mr. Lambuth.

A motion to approve a recommendation to the City Council for VA25-018 for the vacation of an alley located within the Baker Brothers addition subdivision between lots 33 through 40 and lots 65 through 72. Second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, would you call the vote, please?

Commissioner Krantz, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Sims, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Turner, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Reed, how do you vote? Yes. Vice Chair Tidwell, how do you vote? Yes. The vote passes.

Thank you.

Last case, VA 25019, Vacation of Portion of Apparent Prescriptive Right-of-Way for Engel Avenue, Council District 2. General location is north of Estrella Street, south of Marine Creek Boulevard, and east of Northwest Loop 820. Applicant is CH Realty XCE1 Fort Worth MC 820 Logistics LP.

Thank you. Is the applicant here, please?

Hello, I'm Taylor Mitchum, 1280 East Levee Street, Dallas, Texas. I'm with the ownership and development group behind the project. I think basically what's happened here is that after a number of discussions with city staff during review of the project and Engel Avenue itself, it was decided that it was easiest to abandon the right-of-way at this point and make it private, still allowing for public access, obviously. Happy to answer any other questions too.

Anybody have any questions? Is this going to be dedicated as an easement? Is that your understanding?

There will still be public easements, utility easements, and there will still be public access, yes, sir.

Thank you. Any other questions? Seeing none, anyone else in favor?

Mr. Hedges? I was just here to support him. We're Manhart Consulting. We're the civil engineer on the project. All right, thank you.

Is there anyone else in favor in the audience? Anyone opposed?

Thank you.

You wish to speak? Okay. Are there any other questions from commissioners? Seeing none, we will close the public hearing and ask for a motion.

A motion that we approve DRC's recommendation of VA 25-019, the vacation of a portion of a parent prescriptive right-of-way for Angle Avenue Council District 2, the approval of subdivision ordinance waiver to the requirement to include the vacated right-of-way again, and approval of recommendation to City Council for the vacation of the portion of the prescriptive right-of-way Angle Avenue.

Second.

Thank you. Would your motion include the, what I'm reading, approval of a waiver included? Sorry, I guess the agenda says something a little different than the screen does.

I think she read the recommended motion that's on the agenda, which includes a waiver to not require the submission of acceptable report.

It did. Okay, very good. Thank you. Sorry, Commissioner Turner.

Okay, any discussion on the motion? Hearing none, would you call the vote, please?

Commissioner Krantz, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Henderson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Lambert, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Sims, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Turner, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Gillette, how do you vote? Yes. Commissioner Reed, how do you vote? Yes. Vice Chair Tidwell, how do you vote? Yes. That vote passes.

Thank you. There being no further business to come before the planned commission, we will adjourn until our next meeting, whenever that is. Two weeks I think.