City Council - Regular Meeting

It's 6.45 p.m. We're going to call this meeting workshop session of the Louisville City Council to order, and we do have a forum. First up is discussion of the consent and regular agenda.

I have the pledges to the flags of Council Member Green. Item C1 is a presentation of the 2026 North Texas Community Cleanup Challenge and Community Champion Award. Recognizing Keep Louisville Beautiful as well as our parks and various other folks for an award that we won from the Council of Governments. Item 2, presentation of the Louisville Police Department's Texas Law Enforcement Accreditation Certificate from the Texas Police Item D1, public hearing consideration of an ordinance in Louisville City Council amending the zoning ordinance for an SUP for a smoking establishment. Marhaba Lounge

Can you... I had a quick question about that. When I noticed they did not allow BYOB, is that... That is...

Item D2, public hearing, consideration of an ordinance amending Article 3, Development and Zoning Procedures, Volume 2 of the City of Louisville City Code, known as the UDC. This is aligning state statutes and streamlining processes that have changed at the state level. Any questions on that one? Richard Luteke is available. Public hearing three, resolution of city council to provide for the adoption of the 2026 annual action plan as required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Any questions on this one? These are our CDBG and home grant funds. Item four, continued public heari

That's item 5, 2304. That's item 6, 2316. And that's item 7, 2328.

Item E, visitor's forum. Item F, consent agenda. Any questions on the consent agenda? Kayak launch on the dam side. Professional services for South Keeley Avenue. Professional services for Timber Creek Erosion. Professional services for South Mill Street Landscape.

I think it's an incredibly hard thing to get a utility company to release an easement. You're magic. No, it's taken a while.

16 is a grant award from the governor. It's the Homeland Security Grant Program. It's $21,000 for variable message boards. 17, approval of a resolution to reappoint myself to the RTC for the southern part of Linden County. Item 18. that's zone general business 19 20 26 annual service plan to the service and assessment plan an assessment role for public improvements for lakeside crossing item H reports I have no starting public engagement sessions for the Lake Park project.

And closed session. We have on, we've got a couple things here on closed session, All right. Good evening and welcome to the regular session of the Louisville city council. We do have an agenda, um, and a quorum. It's amazing how that all works together. Uh, first up on tonight's agenda, we have our invocation with council member Brent Kirkendall.

Please stand with me. Our father is in heaven. Holy is your name. I pray that your kingdom would come and your will would be done on earth. in our nation, in our city, and in this chamber as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our offenses as we forgive those who offend us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Join us in the pledges to the flag, Council Member Green.

Please join me for the Pledge to the American Flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

Jennifer. how that was going to work. Thank you guys for being here. Appreciate it. I got the shirt too, all the merch.

I know the COG folks don't like to be in pictures, but too bad. Come on. I need my Council of Governments folks in here, too. We good? All right. Let's give everybody a hand on this one. Really thankful for the recognition and for all the hard work from our residents. It takes everybody to make these things work. Next up, we have a presentation of the Louisville Police Department's Texas Law Enforcement Accreditation Certificate from the Texas Police Chiefs Association Foundation. I have Chief Steve Stadford and presenting that to Chief Rollins.

training is working next up on the agenda is item d1 public hearing public hearing consideration ordinance of the Louisville City Council amending zoning ordinance by granting a special use permit for a smoking establishment on a portion of one point eight to eight Acres, legally described at High Point Oaks Addition, Lot 3R1, Block C, located at 2680 Denton Tap Road, Enzone Light Industrial District, provided for a savings clause repealer, severability penalty, and effective date, as requested by Nahid Valani, the applicant, on behalf of Hilltop Corner LLC, the property owner, case number 26-

I have a motion and a second. Council, if you please vote. Public hearing is now closed. Next up, I need a motion to approve the ordinance. Move to approve the ordinance. Second. I have a motion and a second. Council, if you'd please vote. Motion passes 5-0. Item 3, public hearing. Consideration of resolution of the City Council of the City of Louisville, Texas, providing for the adoption of the 2026 Annual Action Plan, as required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and authorization for the City Manager or her designee to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Housing a

I have a motion to close the public hearing. Do I have a second? Second. Motion to second. Council, please vote. Motion passes 5-0. Council, I entertain a motion on the resolution. Once the software catches up.

I've got a motion and a second. Council, please vote. Motion passes five to nothing. All right, public hearing. I got four of these guys, so hang on with me here. These are continued public hearings. So item D4, continued public hearing in accordance with Chapter 214 of the Local Government Code and Article 7, Chapter 4 of the Louisville City Code. Public hearing is required so that the City Council consider whether the structure located at 2274 South Euchre Lane, a 1.31 acre track, track 12 in the El Bourgeois Survey, abstract 52A should be declared a substandard structure. whether the struct

Move to continue the public hearing to the August 17th, 2026 City Council meeting.

Second. I have a motion and a second. Council, if you'd please vote. Item passes 5-0. We will continue this to August 17th. D5, continued public hearing in accordance with Chapter 214 of the Local Government Code and Article 7, Chapter 4 of the Louisville City Code. A public hearing is required so the City Council can consider whether the structure located at 2304 South Euchre Lane, a 1.5-acre track, Track 14 of the El Bourgeois Survey, Abstract 52A, should be declared a substandard structure, and whether the structure must be secured, vacated, repaired, removed, or demolished. This one, again

I have a motion to second. Council, please vote. Five to nothing. Motion passes. It is continued. All right. We're halfway through. D6, continue public hearing in accordance with Chapter 214 of the Local Government Code, Article 7, Chapter 4 of the Louisville City Code. public hearing is required so the city council consider whether the structure located in 2316 south euchre lane a 1.5 acre tract track 15 in the oberge survey abstract 52a should be declared a substandard structure and whether the structure must be secured vacated repaired removed or demolished we do have staff available for qu

Move to continue the public hearing to the August 17th, 2026 city council meeting.

Second. I have a motion to second council, please vote. Motion passes five to nothing to continue the public hearing. Thank you for sitting through that. All right. Item E visitors forum. Speakers must address their comments to the mayor rather than to individual council members or staff speakers should speak clearly and state their name and city of residence prior to beginning their remarks. Speakers will be allowed three minutes for testimony. Speakers making personal, impertinent, profane, or slanderous remarks may be removed from the meeting. Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stampin

And this is Custom Green Saving? Pardon me? Your organization is Custom Greenscaping, is that correct? All right. David, I'm sure somebody from staff will be able to reach out to you. Okay, thank you. Thank you for that. You thought they were all about King Arthur. No, we've got a couple of others. Next up, Jeff DeFord. This one is King Arthur. Mr. DeFord.

I do have one last email that came in. The individual chose to have their name redacted, but they are a Castle Hills resident, and they are actually in support of the changes that have happened on King Arthur. They have multiple paragraphs here, but I'm not going to get into that since we've covered most of that ground, and we'll be able to discuss that on August 19th. Thank you all again for coming out. We appreciate it. We are continuing to take that information and figure out where we can find a place where we're all excited to have a safe street for everybody. So we'll make sure to continu

Move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second. I have a motion and a second for the consent agenda. All those in favor, please vote. And you can vote if you're not in favor, too. Motion passes five to nothing. Item G, regular hearing. Consideration of three alternative standards associated with landscape standards and building materials on the IH35E corridor overlay core sub-district on .5211 acres, legally described as just wood addition, lot one, block A, located at 1844 North Stemmons Freeway, zone general business district, as requested by Mazharul Islam of Civil Urban Associates, LLC, on behalf of Myason investments llc the pr

I have a motion to second. Council, please vote. Motion passes five to nothing. Item H, reports. Reports about items of community interest regarding which no action will be taken. I do have a report from our Director of Parks and Recreation, Ms. Stacy Anaya, to have a report on public engagement sessions for the Lake Park Project. Mayor, I'm over here today. There you are. Yeah, there you are. You moved.

I can look it up, don't leave me hanging.

Thank you. All right. We also, as part of our report package, in your packet, we have the 2025 PARD partner reports. So if you're interested in what all of our PARD partnerships are doing, there's some feedback there to take under advisement. We also have announcements from our city council. Council Member Kelly, you mind? No report, Mayor. All right. Council Member Green?

So I just wanted to mention something, because it is that time of year again, where we are getting ready to go back to school. I don't believe any of the schools are actually in right now, but I have noticed in the last week that the signs have been flashing. But I just want everybody to please note, next Wednesday, the 12th, is the first day of school. Since they're flashing now, I definitely see a lot of people kind of ignoring them, knowing that we're not actually in school. But please note, next week we will be, so please pay attention to those signs.

However, if you do drive through it and they're flashing, that is ticketable. Yes, it is.

No report Just want to thank everybody for coming out to various events and whatnot I know it's starting to get into the dog days of summer and everybody's starting to pivot towards school So watch out for those littles out on the streets, but also, you know, check out your local businesses we've got a lot of great ones in the summertime usually the foot traffic starts to slow and People are starting to focus on different things, so it becomes a little harder for our local businesses. So please, if you get a chance, reach out, buy a gift card for a teacher, something like that. It'd be great.