City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. ANY POINTS YOU WANT TO DISCUSS BEFORE I?

Thank you. Thank you. Through the chair.

Go ahead. Ms. Mejia, you passed this out, right? This is a rendering. Does it look like what they showed us?

I'm sorry. Can you speak to the mic, please? Because it does not look what the applicants have shown us.

How long is a carport? 24 inches I believe I mean 24 feet under a carport like that I'm sorry how many cars would fit on their carport like that like that would say With that with maybe two to three vehicles depending on their size that you have two to six and any time At your house to three to six vehicles on any one time They have the capability of putting their vehicles some six three to six at any one time at your house No No? Okay. So, I mean, what I'm saying is that at any one point, there will be a car exposed, whether it is a carport or not.

I want to make clear that, you know, we're all talking the same thing.

That's to my earlier point about the gravitation anomaly. I'm just wondering, I mean, overall, just just in general for protection from cars, there will be a car at some point that will be hit by something. You can't protect every vehicle that comes to your house. Understood. And then I just think that this cannot be unique to this property. I mean, I don't know if we're looking at a wider question of something applying to all the homes eventually on Deer Run because, I mean, I think anyone could possibly claim a hardship like this moving forward. I mean, even your neighbor, Mrs. Walton, could... possibly claim that same hardship.

So just wondering if a variance is really what we're, we should be looking at here. Maybe we're looking at a bigger, a bigger question. Is there, some type of condition? Because this is not unique to their house. I mean, I would say that it applies to a lot of the other properties on Deer Run. So is the variance the property channel for them to come to? Or are we looking at some type of, I don't know, some type of special zone or something for homes around golf courses?

All right. OK. Our options are to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the variance. Unless you guys have any questions, I'd like to entertain a motion to do one of those three.

Yeah, so my I like the design agreed is in keeping with the architecture of the House. My concern is which I didn't realize until was brought up last time that it's a 77% encroachment on the setback just significant, you know, I know. And we've had to deny people for one foot and such a letter in here somebody at the night for a foot so I understand. I was hoping for a compromise that if we could reconsider, it could be reconsidered to be put in the other side, smaller, so it's less of an encroachment. I do believe that I understand maybe the geometry of the tee box, et cetera, does create a s

Still a significant encroachment, but yeah.

Sure. Right ahead. was reasonable as they come and i've been thinking about this as much as i could because obviously i think sometimes variances for a reason and they do set an unreasonable hardship on people and then of course to me aesthetically like councilman lamas mentioned they did a great job i think it's different than a lot of the carports that we see out there and yeah definitely code enforcement I think work if I see those edges those are the ugliest things I've seen but overall the encroachment is is big but more importantly to me was there there wasn't if there wasn't a reasonabl

Kevin, you're not the one hitting the balls into their yard, are you? No, no.

I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO EITHER APPROVE THE VARIANTS, APPROVE THE VARIANTS OF CONDITIONS OR DENY.

Anyone? I guess I'll motion. Oh, I'm sorry.

Well, then I'll motion to deny the variance for 381 based on a lack of hardship.

So we have a motion to deny the variance. Do we have a second? I'll second. OK. We have a first and a second. Call the vote.

OK. All right. Thank you. All right, so we move on from the public hearing. Turn our attention to the consent agenda. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

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Okay. We have no previous or unfinished business. We have no new business, but we have other business. A request by me to discuss the Northwest 36th Street corridor height limitations map. There was a map that was created and shared with us. It's in the backup of today's agenda. it is a map that shows all of Northwest 36th Street and it shows that area that is the buffer for residential so you guys remember that the Northwest 36th Street district currently has height restrictions as part of the zoning there and it is basically ANYWHERE WITHIN 150 FEET OF RESIDENTIAL, WHICH ON THE MAP THAT'S IN

And we can't, we wouldn't, a future council wouldn't be able to change the boundaries?

Okay. All right. So the ballot language has been posted. We voted on it. This map that we're going to be getting in a couple of days is going to be very useful, I think, for the city to be able to Read what's on the ballot, look at the map, have a better understanding of what it is that they're being asked to vote on. And then there's going to be more information that we put forward and events to try to answer any questions that residents may have leading up to this vote. So do you guys have any comments, questions, concerns?

I'm still hearing comments from residents. I'm still reading comments. I'm getting people coming up to them saying, you're destroying the city. You're putting buildings all over the city. Folks, please be informed. Listen to what the mayor said. Look at the map. Please inform yourselves. Don't believe everything you read. Don't believe everything you hear. Look for yourself. This is it. this is what this is the proposal there's not going to be condos you know in the bird section this is not it so please be informed and don't fall for click bait and the algorithm that rewards the negative comme

Okay. Any other comments? I have a comment. Sure. Go ahead.

I, too, get stopped or calls all the time about how we don't want condos. We'd rather have hotels. High-end hotels is what we need. Perfect. Bring them in. That use will not be taken away. You can still do it at any time. To date, we haven't been able to draw any. If anybody has a personal connection, please bring them. I'd rather have them, too, but they're just not coming. So all we're trying to do is raise the height and give more options. to better the edge of the city, and really, we need the income.

And Mayor, please, all of you who are not familiar with this area of town, go take a walk. I did it. It's eye-opening. Go take pictures. Go. Go on a Friday night. See how you like that. Go ahead. Get out of your comfort zone and go see for yourself what's there and tell us that you're okay with this. I mean, we keep kicking this can down the road. Let's finally do something about it.

I'D LIKE TO JUST CLARIFY FOR THE VICE MAYOR. HE SAID THAT TRYING TO RAISE THE HEIGHT. SO AGAIN, THE NORTHWEST 36th STREET DISTRICT IS ITS OWN ZONING DISTRICT. IT HAS ITS OWN CHARACTER. THAT'S WHY YOU CREATE DIFFERENT ZONING DISTRICTS. It has always had its own character because of its location in the southeast part of the city Abutting a major thoroughfare right across the street from the airport. It's always had its own character And that district has its own zoning as it relates to how high Buildings can be built FOUR STORIES WITHIN 150 FEET OF RESIDENTIAL, 12 STORIES BEYOND THAT. THAT IS FO

I think there's a misconception in people's thoughts about zoning and city planning. It's not about preserving a use. The reality of it, their initiative is to see what complements, what's a good benefit to the community itself. And obviously for over 30 years or more, zoning is the same one that we're not even going to change. But I think it's our responsibility to look for alternatives, that are going to be more helpful to an area that obviously has been detrimental as of the last 30 years in reference to the tax base to crime so it's our responsibility to look for alternatives there's i mea

OK. Thank you. Go ahead. I think it got touched a little bit that you mentioned it, Mayor. We have huge guardrails that no other city, no other municipality in this county, whether at fault or not, you can say, somebody have an argument about the group of people that ended up putting this on the ballot, which obviously the state preempts it now from ever happening again. But ultimately, the people spoke. They voted. This is exactly the point here. We've carved out, that's one thing I've heard from a lot of the residents. I know a lot of different groups of residents, and I talk to them, is tha

so i'll i'll just uh refer to what you mentioned uh councilman santine that um so it the state has disallowed what they call uh zoning by referendum which is what happened back in 2006. uh they have since disallowed uh that um but hours from 2006 is still in place I THINK THAT IT'S WORTH ALL INTERESTED PARTIES CONSIDERING WHAT THE EFFECTS OF THAT DECISION BACK THEN HAVE BEEN AND WHAT THE EFFECTS MIGHT POTENTIALLY BE IF WE WERE TO MAKE A CHANGE AND THAT'S WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT AND IS BEING PROPOSED. AND THE MAP THAT WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE IN A COUPLE DAYS WILL HELP. AND, YOU KNOW, THE CITY WILL

Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Okay, so we move on to reports and recommendations. And we'll start with our esteemed City Attorney. Take it away, Roger.

Thank you. OK, move on. Report to our city manager.

Awesome. Thank you. All right. Reports from our city clerk?

Fabian, we'll start with you. Reports from city council.

So Mayor, Council, I want to thank, from Friday night, Omar and Chief Sandoval, we were out there getting the monument ready, cleaning it, doing what we, everybody pitched in to get this thing ready. You know, I think back before I was elected, the origins of the statue. and all that drama behind it. And it kind of seems so past, right? We made it. We did it. And I just credit to you, George, for pushing through. I mean, there was up. There were highs and lows. The Centennial Committee switched a lot of ideas at the last minute. But they did it. We pulled it off. And we should celebrate our su

Vice Mayor. Just want to echo everything that's been said. Beautiful events. Everything was great. Thank you to the police. Thank you to everybody on staff. But in particular to George. I know he gave birth this weekend. He suffered through this for over a year and great job. Thank you.

Councilman Santun. Thank you. Well, as many of you already have said, the staff was, this definitely was a team effort. Understatement, big understatement. Staff was remarkable, every single department. So I'm not going to go through individuals on everyone, but I am going to mention a couple of people that at least were instrumental, especially Legati, who, after Juan stepped down, was put in there to help. She knocked it out of the park as well. You know, Michelle helping me daily calls all the people and make sure we didn't miss anybody and then the actual inscriptions on the sponsorships.

Cheryl Mikey Appreciate it and Jamie and Yvonne who worked a lot of a lot of you know events to get to this point and A lot of people that also tried to help before, and I can't say that they haven't helped. I think Kathy Doyle, Alex, and Mary Jo. And there's a team out, even Seth was there. helping out a little bit. I think he got a little bit bothered that Ken was the one that we took the lead with as our historian. But aside from that, everybody has helped tremendously in a centennial effort. I said maybe in the time capsule we might have to put a little, like the next centennial group or I

It's not too late to start the bicentennial committee.

For sure, we'll be ready for the next 100 years. Yeah, so that's going to be tough. And as mentioned before, I think our city manager mentioned, Lynn Brooks helped me tremendously. There's no way, no way. And I wanted the best of the best for this community, and she helped me as well as obviously staff, but her being a volunteer. is also a testament to her commitment to this community. But the music, I said, I want the best. And she's still hustling, trying to get the best prices for everything. And then the vendors as well. So she did an enormous job to help me. There's no way I could have do

All right, thank you. All right, yeah, I mean, I have to echo those same sentiments. Members of the community came together as part of the boards, the centennial committee, just volunteers. Members of the community staff, staff went above and beyond. This was so much coordination and so much in terms of logistics. And every single department came together. And obviously the benevolence of donors and sponsors That made it happen And I have got to shout out councilman Santee. I think that it demonstrates your I've been up here a lot of years now with a bunch of different members and You came in