City Council - Regular Meeting

good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the regular meeting of the irving city council for september 24 2026. it is a pleasure to have each one of you with us janae do we have any organizational and amount announcements at this point no sir we do not okay thank you let's see we are invocation Please stand. The invocation this evening will be given by Bishop Chaplain Kent Hayes from the Highest Praise Church of Irving.

Okay, may I ask my colleague and member of the City Council, Pastor Dennis Webb, please.

At this time, I'd like to ask our deputy mayor, Mark Conaway.

Proclamation announcements. We do have one. Okay. Our code enforcement director, Shane Diller, will join me up here. Shane, where are you? There you are. Come on up here. Ladies and gentlemen, this evening the City of Irving Office of the Mayor will deliver a proclamation. Proclamation is, whereas code enforcement officers provide for the safety, health, and welfare of everyone in communities across the United States through the enforcement of building, zoning, housing, environmental, property maintenance, and other codes and ordinances. And whereas these officers are dedicated, well-trained,

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. OK, city manager Chris Hillman. Do we have a city operations update?

We have consent items from our consent agenda items 2 through 35. The next item on tonight's agenda is the consultant agenda. Is there any council member wishing to pull an item from the consent agenda?

Yep, thank you. Okay. Is there a second? Thank you. Show your vote. Okay. We have also, as part of this... have asked that item 15, which has been pulled, will then decide at a later at the end of the evening. So we'll go from there. Thank you very much. Okay, zoning cases and companion items 36 to 39. At this time, we will ask anyone wishing to speak for or against any of the zoning cases to stand and be sworn in by the city secretary, Shanae Jennings.

Okay, ordinance item number 36 is 2026-195-ZC-Zoning Change from SP1 to C-C, Generalized Site Plan, Community Commercial, to SP1, CC, generalized site plan community commercial and our dash 3.5 two-family residential 3.5 to amend the car wash site plan and rezone for a duplex at 5 2 6 and 6 0 0 North MacArthur Boulevard Shanae do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

James, would you please come up? Are you here?

Would James Widener please join us this evening? Okay, Jim, go ahead.

And that's it. Okay, thank you. Any questions from any of the council members?

Yes. Abdul? Abdul? Okay. Is there any other comments? Is there a motion?

Okay. Show your vote, please. Okay. Passage and entry. Thank you. See if you can get that site cleaned up. Item number 37, Ordinance 2026-2025. 220-ZC zoning change from SP1C-C generalized site plan community commercial to SP1C-C generalized site plan community commercial for improvements to a drive-through restaurant at 502 North O'Connor Road. Shanae, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

Was there, I didn't see, did you second? Yes. Okay, good. Show your vote, please. Pass is unanimous, thank you. Item number 38, ordinance 2026-237. dash ZC zoning change from R-7.5 single-family residential 7.5 and State Highway 161 overlay to SP2 R-3.5 generalized site plan two-family residential 3.5 and State Highway 161 overlay to add duplex as a permitted use to overlay district. Sinead, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

Is there anyone else, Sinead, to speak on this?

Okay. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to deny. Second the motion to deny. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Please show your vote. It is denied. Item 39, Ordinance 2026-245-ZC, Zoning Change from SP2, ML20, Generalized Site Plan. Light Industrial 20 to SB2ML-20, generalized site plan. Light Industrial 20 with variances for outside storage and screening on the east property line along Multi Road 324 North Nursery Road. Let me go back and say that as Light Industrial 20". Thank you. Sinead, do we have anyone signed up to speak on this item?

Okay, thank you. Okay. Justin? refreshes on the discussion that I think that the gentleman and the owners have agreed to on some of the not changes but additions to, I think, this passage. Can you recount that, please?

Okay, you agree to this, I assume? Yes, okay, thank you. Okay, we've got the last item in front of us. Is there a motion?

Fine, we have a motion and a second. Please show your vote. Okay, passes unanimously. Thank you very much. At this time, if anybody would like to get prepared to make a few comments to us in our public comment forum at this point, or if you want to go ahead and head on home.