City Council - Regular Meeting

Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Temple City Council approved the Community Development Block Grant 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan and Budget and recognized July 2026 as Parks and Recreation Month. Several rezoning requests were also approved, including changes for residential and neighborhood services developments.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Temple, TX
Meeting Date
July 2, 2026

Transcript

82 sections

5:34 – 5:52Speaker 19

All right, good evening, everyone. I want to welcome everybody to this regular called meeting of the Temple City Council. It's currently about 10 minutes after five. Please rise for the invocation, which will be led by Liz Carraway and the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge, which will be led by Janet Lou Ellen.

5:54 – 7:35Speaker 5

Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you today on the cusp of our nation's 250th birthday celebration with a grateful heart, thankful for the opportunity each of us have, both as citizens and employees of this city, to serve our community and for the many blessings that you, God, have bestowed upon our city and our nation. Father God, I ask for your guidance and wisdom for our mayor and every member of this council. May you be ever present in each decision made tonight. I also pray for our city staff from each and every department, division, and position. Bless their work, protect them, and strengthen them as they carry out their responsibility. God, I also lift up the citizens of our city. May our community be filled with unity and respect for one another. Help us to work together for the common good and to be faithful stewards of the opportunities you have given us. Father, what a special moment and witness to history we will see on Saturday. As our nation celebrates Independence Day and begins commemorating America's 250th birthday, we thank you for this precious gift of freedom and for the generations of brave men and women who had sacrificed to preserve it. May we never take these gifts for granted, including the freedoms we have to assemble and to speak freely. Continue to guide our nation with your wisdom. Strengthen our leaders and inspire each of us to uphold the ideals of liberty, justice, and service that has shaped our country for nearly two and a half centuries. May God bless this great city, and may God bless our great nation. In your holy name, I pray. Amen.

7:36 – 7:59Speaker 9

Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, with liberty and justice for all. Please join me in the Texas Pledge. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state,

8:13 – 8:58Speaker 19

Thank you, ladies. Next item is public comments. Any citizens who desire to address the council on any matter may do so. We just ask that you signed up prior to this meeting. We ask you please limit those comments to three minutes. No discussion or final action will be taken. And at about, I always ask that you watch the monitors if you're speaking. You got through three minutes. When you get to about 2.45 or so, I'd ring the bell. I'm just asking you to to finish your thought wrap it up so we can move on to the next speaker we have a few speakers tonight we'll just start at the top of the list one's mr david rowe you're up sir and then cj you're on deck i was uh here last meeting and uh

8:59 – 10:28Speaker 3

I just want to reiterate the problems I've had with trying to get the city to take care of the alley situation that bothers me. My garage is in the middle of the block. My block's three blocks long. I'm 82 years old. And I don't think I should be having to trim three blocks of alley to keep from driving through brush to get there. The city attorneys gave me an opinion of what the rules are. It says it's from the curb to the center of the alley is my responsibility to maintain to the same level as the rest of the property is. And in the front, I don't have a tree. And in the back, I don't have a tree that's close to the alley. And I don't see the city comes and trims that street and hauls it off. It's the responsibility of the property owner to do that. But the city decides that it's OK. They'll take care of it. If you want to do it, you can do it. But you don't have to. I don't see how this is a reasonable response.

10:29Speaker 19

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rowe. It's good to see you. It's been a while. CJ, you're next, and Alan, you're on deck.

10:41 – 13:49Speaker 14

All right. First of all, happy 250th to the greatest country on the face of the earth. May it ever be that way. I want to preface this with saying I have no tickets that are outstanding. I haven't gotten any tickets that are outstanding. Last time I had any legal trouble with temple was 2013 when the police officer tried to kill me. That's it. So I'm not saying this because I'm personally being affected, but we need to fire our municipal judge because these courts and the reason I became an attorney is to make sure that the rule of law is followed. We all know that if we do something wrong, guess what? We're getting hauled before either the municipal court or the county court or the district court. We're getting thrown in a cage. Money's being taken from us. They got to spend it on people like me. But what happens when government doesn't follow the law? All we can do is come up here and talk for three minutes. I'm not going to go into what I've already emailed each and every one of you about our municipal judge and why she needs to be fired. But what I want to do is read article one, section 13 of our constitution. This is the Supreme law of Texas open courts. All courts shall be open and every person for an injury done him and his land goods, personal reputation shall have remedy by due course of law. I challenge y'all at any time to go to the municipal court and try to watch a trial. You can't because she locks the door. You can't get in there to watch an open court. So it's not open. And I went to watch a trial recently and I had to go out to go to the restroom during a break. They, you know, the parties, the two attorneys were talking to the judge. So I was like, okay, I'm gonna go to the restroom real quick. And then I tried to get back in, but the bailiff is way over by where the judge is and I'm knocking. There's other temple police officers in there just looking at me funny, not opening the door for me, but the door's locked. I should be able, anybody should be able to go in there. And what I had to do was interrupt a proceeding in court in order to get their attention so I could come in and watch what I have a legal right as a citizen to watch. So in addition to all the other laws that she's breaking and the rules that she's breaking that I've already briefed you on an email. And if anybody wants to know what that is, they can do an open records request. She's violating the constitutional right of each and every person to go and monitor an open court, because if she's doing the kinds of things. when there's an attorney present and an attorney representing somebody and an attorney that's monitoring that court, what is she doing to people who can't afford an attorney? I mean, she doesn't know the basic rules of evidence. She doesn't know the basic rules of when you can talk to a jury and not. And so in addition to that and the fact that she keeps her court locked, she really needs to be fired for incompetence. And I ask that you do that.

13:51Speaker 19

Thank you, CJ. Mr. Lytle, Sarah Royer, you're on deck.

14:04 – 14:33Speaker 2

Alan Lytle lived here in Temple. And for the first time that I can remember, I have seen a bunch of my friends from the Parks and Recreation here in one place. Normally, they're not here. Normally, they're out there in the hot, blistering sun, mowing our grass, taking care of our bushes, taking care of watering our parks. They do a fantastic job, and I'm just proud that you're going to recognize them. Thank you.

14:34 – 14:52Speaker 19

By the way, they'll be out there July 4th when all of us are enjoying whatever's going on at Crossroads. They will have spent hours putting all that together so we can go enjoy it. They will. That's why we honor them now. We butter them up now because we know we're putting them to work in a couple of days. Mr. Royer and Joe, you're next.

14:54 – 16:21Speaker 6

Hello, Sarah Royer, District 2. A couple of things is we found out that the minimum state requirements to have the data centers open for fire safety has not been even tested or completed. So there shouldn't be an occupancy rating. I know I'm working with Judge Blackburn and Hillary Hicklin right now on this. We also went to the resource, which is a huge thing, by the way. This is for our first responders. We went to the resource committee in Austin to talk about our water and realized that best case scenario, we are so low on water, we're gonna go out of water in the next 10 years and it's not including data centers. And best case scenario, it's going to take $154 billion to fix. That's $5,300 for every man, woman, and child in Texas. And more likely, it's going to be $200 billion because we don't have the people to put it together or the counties ready to make the changes immediately, which is a huge concern, especially when Meta's got unlimited water and Nestle is using up to a million gallons a day. We also have reports that the aquifer has been hit. So these are all massive. These are huge, massive concerns. And I would really appeal to you in our leadership to take this seriously. Thank you.

16:23Speaker 19

Thank you, ma'am. Joe Royer and then Carly Bird after that.

16:32 – 18:19Speaker 16

I'm Joe Royer. I live in District 2. I'm also here to talk about data centers one more time. I know you guys like to vacillate between not my job or I don't have the authority, so I just want to point out one more tool that you do have that maybe you weren't aware of. As Sarah mentioned, we went and spoke to the Natural Resource Committee in Austin last week, and we networked with 44 other counties around Texas that are also fighting data centers, and so we've been sharing notes, and we're finding lots of new ways and tools and creative things that we can do to help with this, and so maybe you're not aware, so I thought I'd come and bring a new tool for your toolbox. Texas Government Code Chapter 391. This is how Uvalde beat their data centers. This allows two city councils neighboring, not necessarily in the same county, you could be in an adjacent county, but allows two city councils to work together and create new land use laws that are not subordinate to state rules state law they are equal to state law so you can't say oh the state doesn't allow us to do that because if you work together with another city council belton for example you can actually make your own rules you can have more authority over how your our land is used you don't have to be at the mercy of a tax abatement agreement and the limited powers that that gives you So I just wanted to point this out in case it's something that wasn't already on your radar. And like I said, we're, we are now getting more organized and working at this a lot smarter. We're working with, I said, 44 other counties across Texas. This is going to be quite an interesting election year. And, uh, I'll be back with more tips next time. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Hello.

18:23 – 19:13Speaker 7

Can you hear me? Okay. Hi, I'm Carly, and I wanted to speak on the Freedom of Information Act request that I sent on June 30th regarding the City of Temple 2014 Charter and its amended documents. I got a reply back from the city with an attachment stating that The city requests a ruling from the attorney general's office whether a portion of the responsive information and representative sample of which is attached, which means that information wasn't going to be presented to me and that they have to review it in order for you to give it to me. Is that how that works? Do you know the purpose of that?

19:14 – 19:35Speaker 11

Yes, that was in reference to some draft documents which are accepted from disclosure. Those documents, the draft forms of those charter amendments were sent to the Attorney General for a ruling. The Attorney General has 45 business days to rule whether that exception applies to those documents in draft form.

19:39 – 20:05Speaker 7

they'll get back to us about whether the applicability applies the executed and final versions of those documents will be released to you got it okay thank you um also i wanted to ask how many data centers that you all know of that are being built as of right now that is a that's a moving target and um i think that

20:07 – 20:39Speaker 19

in temple, I personally, and whenever I'm in planning meetings, we look at one project as, or I, I, I won't say anybody else. I look at one project as a data center now. So. For instance, the current, uh, meta facility is operating now. It has three separate data halls on it. So is that three data centers or is that one data center to me? That's one to some that may be three. So what I know now is that there are, um, four projects.

20:40Speaker 7

Okay. Do you know how many within each there are?

20:44Speaker 7

You just said there were three in one of them. Do you know how many there are in each of all of them?

20:49 – 21:00Speaker 19

No. Because that also, they will, the number of data halls will be dependent on the amount of electricity that they're allotted. So that's always a moving target until they know their allotment.

21:01Speaker 19

So it's more complicated than just, you know, counting buildings or counting projects.

21:07Speaker 7

Got it. Okay. Thank you. That's all.

21:08 – 21:26Speaker 19

Thank you. Ms. Thomas, for my own clarification and edification on her original question about charter amendments, is that charter amendments from 2014 that we're talking about?

21:27 – 22:18Speaker 11

I believe Ms. Byrd's open records request, and I'm sorry I don't have it pulled up in front of me, asked for some documents regarding the 2014 charter amendment. Part of what was pulled from that charter amendment was some draft versions, which is what we sent to the Attorney General for an exception to disclosure because that wasn't the final form that was reached and is subject to an exception under the Public Information Act. Again, I don't have it pulled up in front of me, so I'm unsure whether the final version of the documents she requested. I can't remember if she requested prior versions in addition to the 2014 documents or or not.

22:19Speaker 19

But anything that is in final form will be released to her final form ultimately is what the voters voted on and approved.

22:28Speaker 11

Yes, and the 2014 amendments are what is currently posted on our website.

22:36 – 23:12Speaker 19

as the city charter okay okay this is this was just me addressing the the city attorney Um, so we don't open a can of worms. Um, I think that it'd be maybe more appropriate that you just ask that maybe privately after the, after the meeting, just because then now I've opened up a forum on, you know, a bunch of discussion that that's not been posted.

23:12 – 23:44Speaker 11

We can't talk about anything that wasn't on posted for the open meeting. And, um, We're allowed to talk about this one because Ms. Byrd addressed it in her public comments. So the mayor was commenting on Ms. Byrd's comment, asking me a separate issue that I didn't address in the first. But the question is, yes, I can talk to you after the meeting. And I was told it. I'll tell me.

23:46Speaker 11

No, Mr. Oh, I can't talk to you about it right now because that's not part of the posted meeting.

23:51Speaker 3

Tell me they had any information in the city. All right.

23:55 – 24:16Speaker 19

Thank you, sir. Okay, so I will close the public comment section and we'll move on to item three, which is a public hearing. It's to consider adopting a resolution approving the Community Development Block Grant 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan and Budget, including the funding recommendations. Ms. Chopine.

24:18 – 24:29Speaker 13

Thank you, mayor and council. I presented the annual action plan in its entirety at the June 18th meeting. I had the presentation available. If you would like to see it again, if not, I'll ask you to start the second public hearing. Okay.

24:29 – 24:52Speaker 19

Very good council. Do we need, uh, Michelle paying to go over that again? Okay. Then I'll open the public hearing on this item. Anyone wishing to speak may do so. As you step to the podium, state your name and state your comments or questions. Anybody? Even Alan.

24:55Speaker 19

Very good. Then I will close the public hearing in council. I will entertain a motion on item three.

25:02Speaker 9

To approve item three.

25:05 – 28:08Speaker 19

We have a motion by Council Member Grant. We have a second by Council Member Pilkington. Council, please cast your vote. Item three passes four votes to zero. Moving on to the next item is special recognition, and we'd like to recognize July 2026 as Parks and Recreation Month in the City of Temple. Kevin? Chuck? Parks? Everyone get a good look at them now before they're sunburned on Saturday. Except the golfer, he's always sunburned. Yes, sir. Let me read that. here they come i forgot to come up with a question this year y'all come up with something right quick how fast can you plan a marathon okay uh this this proclamation is from the office of the mayor of the city of temple The proclamation reads, whereas parks and recreation programs are an integral part of communities throughout this country, including Temple, Texas, and whereas our parks and recreation are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in our communities, ensuring the health of all citizens, and contributing to the economic and environmental well-being of a community and region. And whereas parks and recreation programs build healthy, active communities that aid in the prevention of chronic disease, provide the therapeutic recreation services, and improve the mental and emotional health of citizens. And whereas parks and recreation programs increase the community's economic prosperity, increases tourism, and adds to the attraction and retention of businesses. And whereas parks and natural recreation areas improve water quality, protect groundwater, prevent flooding, improve the quality of life of the air that we breathe, provide vegetative buffers to development and produce habitats for wildlife. And whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and to recreate outdoors. And whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month, and the City of Temple recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Recreation resources. Now, therefore, I, Timothy A. Davis, Mayor of the City of Temple, Texas, do hereby proclaim the month of July 2026 as Parks and Recreation Month in the City of Temple, Texas, and encourage all citizens to get out and enjoy our local parks and recreation areas in testimony whereof i witnessed my hand in the seal of the city of temple texas on the second day of july 2026. thank you all very much thank you mayor

28:13 – 29:36Speaker 17

It is a true privilege to be here tonight to celebrate Parks and Recreation Month. Other than serving the privilege of serving our citizens, the true privilege is working alongside of these amazing coworkers we have as part of our team. At this time, I'd like to recognize some of those people. In our Parks Division, I've got three of our foremen here, our three foremen here. We have Gary Kozel, if you'd raise your hand, please. Donald LaPointe. and Logan Broadwater, and these gentlemen, the three of them are in some form or fashion in charge of every single thing you see in regards to park maintenance, mowing, forestry, horticulture, chemical applications, you name it, they do it all, and we thank you so much. To my left, we have Jeff Ward. And Andrew Johnson Jeff is the general manager of the same as golf course and Andrew's assistant general manager. If you didn't know the past three years we have broken the course record for rounds three years in a row. So congratulations to the hard work that y'all do out there. The course is immaculate. We appreciate all you do. It is also hot at the golf course not just in our park so. And with that, we also, one more person I'd like to recognize is David Milos. He's our park development manager. So all the playgrounds you see him coming in, the new trails and everything, David's over that project from our perspective. So he's been very busy, and he's also getting a little suntan out there as well. And with that, I'm gonna turn it over to my counterpart, Leah Anderson, who's over the recreation division, and she wanna introduce some of her people.

29:38 – 30:14Speaker 10

Thank you. All right. So on recreation, we have Susan Krause, who is our recreation division director. And then our other recreation staff is we have Terry Holloway, who is a Sammons program coordinator. And Josh Laudig is the summit program manager. Austin Chick is the athletics program manager. And Travis Hauvermael is the Wilson program manager. These folks on our team run all of the recreation side of things, so while we may not be outside and getting as hot and nasty as the rest of these guys, we're still working really hard to make sure there's lots of really fun things for us to do, too. What's your name?

30:16 – 30:59Speaker 17

Thank you, Leah. Unfortunately, our director, Kevin Beavers, could not be here tonight, and it is sad because he has worked so hard to create this amazing culture for us to work within, and it just builds such a great team, and I'm just proud to be part of it. The final thing I'd like to say is National Recreation and Parks Association each year comes with a slogan for the month. This year's slogan is the power of, and it's the power of community, the power of gathering, the power of open space, the power of play and recreation, One thing I'd like to say to add to that is the power of team, because with this team we have in front of you and the team we have behind us at this table, we're able to do so many things to create wonderful experiences for our citizens. So, again, thank you very much, and we look forward to next year.

30:59Speaker 19

You bet. Look forward to Saturday.

31:01Speaker 17

Look forward to Saturday.

31:02Speaker 17

Happy to look you up.

31:15 – 33:21Speaker 19

So y'all know we have a tradition. playing stump the chunk stump the Kevin and I think Leah spoiled it last time so me you cannot answer this but what is the at Public Works Brynn gave out days off for people so can I give up give out days I'm just I'm just I wonder if I can give days off if somebody gets it right oldest Park in Temple okay i know that's why i said you couldn't answer because i wasn't prepared i wasn't fully prepared for this and my other go-to is the oldest lake in temple oh holy but goody where's warden you should know this it's on your property lake polk is the golf course yeah very good thank you all for everything you do we appreciate you thanks Those guys really do have a tireless job. Every fun, cool thing that the community does, Parks and Rec is involved with it, and they're working overtime to get it done, and it's always when it's hot. So thank you all. Okay, moving on to item five is to consider adopting a resolution setting the date, time, and place of the public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2026-2027 budget for July 16th, 2026 at 5 p.m. in council chambers right here. So just to reiterate, July 16th, 2026, which is our next regular called council meeting, we will have an extended presentation of the budget. So council, I will entertain a motion on item five.

33:22Speaker 15

I'll make a motion to approve item five.

33:26 – 34:19Speaker 19

We have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. We have a second by Council Member Grant. Council, please cast your vote. Item five passes four votes to zero. Next item is consent agenda. All items under the list of consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council and may be enacted by one motion. If discussion is desired by any council member, any item can be removed from the consent agenda at the request of that council member and be considered separately. Council during workshop, we decided that we needed to pull item six T, T as in Tom, from the consent agenda for a separate voting consideration. So at this time, unless something is changed, council will entertain a motion on item 6A through 6W, less item 6T.

34:19Speaker 4

I move to approve item 6A through 6W, less item 6T. Second it.

34:27 – 35:11Speaker 19

We have a motion by Council Member Pilkington. We have a second by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. Council, please cast your vote. The consent agenda passes four votes to zero. Moving on to item 6T is the second and final reading to consider adopting an ordinance authorizing a rezoning request from two family dwelling to office one on point three seven plus or minus acres in the Bentley's home addition subdivision block 21 lots nine and 10, city of Temple, Bell County, Texas, addressed as 1018 East Avenue A. Council, any questions on that? Okay. At this time, I'll entertain a motion.

35:12Speaker 15

I'll make a motion to approve item T. Second.

35:15 – 35:55Speaker 19

We have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. We have a second by Councilmember Pilkington. Council, please cast your vote. Item 6T on the consent passes three votes yes, zero votes no, and one abstention. Moving on to the regular agenda is the first reading in a public hearing to consider adopting an ordinance, authorizing a rezoning request from ag to neighborhood services on 0.6 plus or minus acres in the Nancy chance survey, abstract number five city of temple bell county, Texas identified as bell county appraisal district parcel ID 5 4 3 5 5 0. Courtney.

35:55 – 38:43Speaker 8

Yes, sir. Hi. Nice to meet everyone. Courtney Paris, principal planner. Uh, thank you for the introduction. Mayor Davis this evening, we've got case 26, 29 ZC rezoning from ag to neighborhood services here. You'll see this on our location map adjacent to old Waco road zoning map showing that in its vicinity is primarily ag with SF one to the north. The rezoning area is primarily an undeveloped piece of property. You'll see here that looking south along Papaw Lane is the proposed development where there is existing single-family residential immediately adjacent. Some background on this property. It's approximately 0.6 plus or minus acres. Request from Ag zoning to Neighborhood Services. We currently have a subdivision plot under review for this. It's within that subdivision plot we determined the applicant as well as city staff would see that neighborhood services would be more in line with the future land use development or land use plan within the comprehensive plan. The subdivision is referred to as Wilma's Way Phase 2 with Wilma's Way Phase 1 being the adjacent property to the north. Our future development plan does identify this area's corridor mixed use where we're looking to see higher density and intensity in development, both commercial and residential mix should be within this area. Some appropriate zoning districts specifically in S are applicable and appropriate for this. Our thoroughfare and trails master plan identifies primarily Old Waco Road as one of our major arterial roadways. Majority of that construction has been completed. So if you're driving in that area, you'll see that there is a divided median, as well as some improvements to sidewalks and paths. Public utilities are available in the immediate vicinity. There is a six-inch water line, as well as an eight-inch sewer line. Staff published in the newspaper June 17th to notice this public hearing, as well as six notices went out to properties within 200 feet. We received one response in favor and zero in opposition of this request. Staff recommends approval, and on June 15th, the Planning and Zoning Commission also recommended approval from this rezoning request from Ag to Neighborhood Services. That does conclude my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

38:44Speaker 19

Thank you, ma'am. Council, anything for Ms. Perez? Is it Perez or Paris?

38:49Speaker 19

Okay. That's not how it's spelled up here.

38:54 – 40:06Speaker 19

Council, anything for Ms. Perez? Paris? Nothing? Okay. Then this item is subject to a public hearing. Anyone wishing to speak on this item may do so. We just ask that you step to the podium and state your name, please. All right. There being no responses to the public hearing, I'll close that public hearing and council entertain a motion on item seven. I have a motion by council member grant, have a second by council member Pilkington council, please cast your vote. Item seven passes four votes to zero. Item eight is the first reading in the public hearing to consider adopting an ordinance, authorizing a rezoning request from ag, the single family dwelling one on 1.5 plus or minus acres in the Nancy chance survey, abstract number five city of temple bell county, Texas identified as bell county appraisal district parcel ID 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 0.

40:08Speaker 8

Thank you, Mary Davis.

40:11 – 42:24Speaker 8

All right, moving right along. These two cases are immediately adjacent to each other, separate applications. So we're seeing this as a separate request for AG to SF1. So this is the remainder of the property. Our previous rezoning was just immediately adjacent to Old Waco Road. So the proposal does pull an additional 60-foot right-of-way off of Old Waco Road and also adds another right-of-way to connect to Papaw Lane to the north. So again. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Okay. All right. So some background, we've got about 1.5 plus or minus acres. The proposed is to divide this lot into this tract into three lots for the purpose of residential development. A subdivision plot is under review. Ultimately, we did determine that this would be a good transition from neighborhood services providing uses into single family though single family can be approved in each and that the identification of single family sf1 is consistent with the properties to the north that are also zoned the like again old waco road is that major arterial that provides connectivity and transportation both pedestrian and vehicular there are water and wastewater as we've noted at the Beginning of the subdivision and along old Waco road, uh, due to sloping topography, the applicant and property owner have requested to have access to septic systems for the rear three properties. And so that is going to come before you in time as a plot exception. Public notice went out to all those within 300, 200 feet. Uh, one response was received in favor and zero responses were received in opposition. Staff does recommend approval of this rezoning from ag to single family one. And on June 15th, the planning and zoning commission voted six to zero to also recommend approval. That concludes my presentation. Happy to answer any questions.

42:24 – 42:44Speaker 19

Thank you. Counseling thing for Ms. Paris. Okay. As stated earlier, this item is subject to a public hearing and anyone wishing to speak may do so just step to the podium, please. There are no one speaking during the public hearing. I will close the public hearing, and council, I'll entertain a motion on item eight.

42:45Speaker 4

Move to approve item eight as presented. Second it.

42:50 – 43:09Speaker 19

I have a motion by Councilmember Pilkington, and we have a second by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. Council, please cast your vote. Item eight passes, four votes to zero. Ms. Paris, this is your first presentation in front of us?

43:09Speaker 1

Yes, the previous two were.

43:11Speaker 19

Very good. Thank you. Welcome aboard. When did you come on board?

43:15Speaker 8

Beginning of February. Okay.

43:18Speaker 19

Very good. Happy to meet you. Nice to meet you. Ms. Paris, P-E-R-E-S?

43:22Speaker 1

Yes, sir. Okay.

43:23Speaker 19

Kind of stumped me up here.

43:25 – 43:55Speaker 19

All right. Thank you, ma'am. Moving on to item nine is the first reading in a public hearing to consider adopting an ordinance authorizing a rezoning request from plan development single family attached dwelling three to plan development single family attached dwelling three with a PD on 11.77 plus or minus acres in the Mary Cherry Survey, abstract number 175, Bell County, Texas, addressed as 4202 Shallow Ford Road. Mr. Stewart.

43:55 – 46:54Speaker 12

And even though it does look unnecessary that we're going from PDSFA3 to PDSA3, it's more so that we're amending the PD to adjust some of the conditions that were on it previously. So this is North Alliance Park. This is phase two of the Preserve Alliance Park development. And it's about 11 acres. And it's being platted currently with a plaque case 2644 that hasn't been finalized yet. But when it is, it will go before PNZ to have all the utilities and everything finalized. The applicant was requesting the change to the PD to allow for single-family detached homes to be added into the PD. In the original PD, it kind of just called out only townhomes to be allowed on the 52 or so lots. So locationally, it's just North Alliance Park, and then it's to the east of phase one of the preservate lines. And then the zoning map, there's agriculture around, but it matches the other phases of the preservate lines being SFA3. Here are site plans that they've given to us and will be attached to the PD Just site plans of how they plan on developing where they have sidewalks located for this part of the phase currently, it's undeveloped land so it's just open land and For our future development plan, it's designated as residential and neighborhood services, so allowing single family detached homes actually bring us back more in line, so with our comprehensive plan and our future development plan. We did send out public notifications. We had three responses in agreement, one response in disagreement. And staff does recommend approval of the changing of the rezoning subject to the following conditions that there's substantial compliance with the site plans that I had previously shown. That in addition to the permitted uses under PDSFA3, that single family detached homes would be allowed as long as they meet the SF3 dimensional standards from our UDC, which is a 40 by 100 lot size. Town homes should still be allowed, and then they're just going to meet the other requirements that are already called out in the UDC, but we just made them conditions in the PD. The maximum lot coverage for the single-family dwellings should not exceed 50%. The total number of lots shall not exceed 52, but currently on the plat what they have proposed at around 39, so they're meeting that. Duplexes and single-family attached dwellings with two units per building are gonna be prohibited, and then the shallow-foot road improvement should be constructed at the entrance, and then a six-foot sidewalk trail should be, constructed on the north side of shallow foot road in lieu of the udc required sidewalk and then on june 15th pnz did recommend approval of this request with a vote of six to zero are there any questions thank you sir counseling thing for mr stewart okay item nine is subject to a public hearing anyone listening to speak may do so please step to the podium

46:58Speaker 19

All right, so no respondents. I will close the public hearing. And council, I'll entertain a motion on item number nine.

47:06Speaker 15

I'll make a motion to approve item nine and to also thank Mr. Scott for working so well with staff. We appreciate that. It's been very easy to work with. Thank you.

47:28 – 47:54Speaker 19

We have a motion for approval by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. We have a second by Council Member Grant. Council, please cast your vote. Item nine passes four votes to zero. That is the end of our agenda. I want to thank everyone for attending tonight. Have a fun and safe Fourth of July. It's currently 10 minutes until six, and this meeting is adjourned.

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