Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

630, and it is Monday, June the 1st, 2026. We have a certification of a quorum of five others. We have two commissioners missing tonight. Jennifer Ordino and Commissioner Jennifer Hendricks. Alrighty, and that will take it to staff.

evening, Commissioner. Sorry about that. Tonight, the format of the hearing will first be the call to order followed by a staff report, and then an opportunity for the applicant to present on behalf of the application. Following their presentation will be public comments in support or opposition to the application. If you are giving public comment, please state your name and address for the record. Be brief and to the point within a three minute timeframe. And be polite to all in the room. Then is the commission and staff discussion surrounding the item, and then a vote will take place. The commission will vote to either recommend approval as presented, approval with conditions or denial of the request, or table the application if they feel that they don't have enough information. City Council's consideration of the zone change, which is on tonight's agenda, will be on Monday, June 22nd for first reading. On the consent agenda, we have the excused absences from May 19th, as well as the meeting minutes from May 19th, and a plat for welcome Kirby replat number one. On new business, there is a plat variance for the creation of a flag lot in the domain at Smith Ranch Plan Development, as well as the preliminary plat that is associated with the same variance. And then there is a zone change from general business to general commercial at 6831 Broadway. and the five-year capital improvement program from 2027 to 2031, and that is for recommendation tonight.

Thank you, Katie.

All right, I will entertain a motion and a second for a consent agenda.

Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve minutes. And consent agenda, I apologize.

Commissioner Knight, seconds.

All right, any discussion? Seeing none, call for the vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those opposed, same sign. Passes five to zero. All right, that takes us over into... Items removed. We had none. Goes right into new business. Consideration of possible actions. VAP 2026-0141. Variants for the creation of a flag lot in the domain at Smith Ranch Plan Development. A request by Robert Neese, Kimberly Horn applicant on behalf of R.G. Smith. Ranch LLC and Alimas Properties, LTD, owners for approval of the variance submitted in Section 3.1.1.6F of the Unified Development Code and Ordinance No. 2000-T from Section 2.6.1.1B1 to allow for the creation of a flag lot in the domain at Smith Ranch, planned development on 16.373 acres, located at east of Smith Ranch Road, north of Broadway Street, south of Hughes Road, Ranch Road, Pearland, Texas. Can I have a motion and a second for approval?

Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve. Commissioner Cummings, second.

Okay, thank y'all and that will take us to staff report.

Good evening commissioners. Tonight the request before you is for the variance of a creation of one flag lot in the domain at Smith Ranch Plan Development. The flag lot is proposed to have a frontage of 75 feet. A flag lot is required to have a minimum of 50 feet of frontage in order to be considered for creation of a flag lot. The intent of it is to provide access to the rear lot You can see it here on the screen. This is the access that would provide access to the rear lot, which is the multifamily portion of this development, as well as providing cross access to the other parcels within the development. You can see on the screen here it is surrounded by M1 to the north, BP 288 to the west and south, and R3 to the east. And staff recommends approval of the requested variance as it does meet the requirements for the flag block creation as you see on your screen and in your report.

Thank you, Katie.

All right, that takes us to the applicant presentation.

All righty, seeing no movement, I'm gonna ask if a person wishing to speak for or against this. Seeing no one moving in that direction, gonna ask one more time, person's wishing to speak for or against this. Seeing none, that's gonna take it to commission. So does anybody wish to say anything? All right, no discussion. So that brings it to a vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. Those opposed, same sign, passes five to zero. All right, that takes us to our number two on the new business is a consideration of possible action, CPL2026-0026 Preliminary Plat of the Ranch District, a request by Robert Neese, Kimberly Horne, applicant on behalf of R.G. Smith Ranch LLC and Alimas Properties, LTD, owners for approval of the Preliminary Plat on the Ranch District, creating three lots and one reserve on 16.373 acres of land located east of Smith Ranch Road, north of Broadway, and south of Hughes Road. That is the location. I'm not going to read it again. All right, I'll entertain a motion and a second.

Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve.

Commissioner Knight, second.

All righty, take it away, staff.

Good evening again, commissioners. This is the preliminary plot that was associated with the plot variance that was just approved prior to this application. Here is a screen grab of that plot on the screen. I am happy to answer any questions that you have. We do recommend approval.

Okay, I'm gonna ask, does the applicant present wish to make a presentation? Okay, all right, persons wishing to speak for or against this item? Seeing no one moving in that direction, I'll ask one more time, persons wishing to speak for or against this item? Seeing none, I'm gonna open it up for commission discussion. Anybody?

Okay. Commissioner Knight, I've got a question for staff. I noticed on the plat it shows Wooten, road over here on the west side. And when I originally went to look for it, there's a north-south Wooten Road. Is this going to actually tie in? Is that why this is shown through the property?

It will tie in through the property. So if you want to speak more to it, I'll pass it to engineering for more.

So at the moment it's Smith Ranch 2, I believe, and so it would take from current Wooden and transition over, curved into Smith Ranch 2.

Okay, so that's gonna be a route that's gonna take you off of 518 Broadway all the way over to this?

Eventually, yes.

Question. What type of buffering is required or is being required for that eastern edge residential?

Through the plat, there is no buffering required. Through the development, multifamily is required to have a buffer against the adjacent single-family residential of 25 feet with a masonry wall. or 30 feet without the masonry wall, both of those buffers do require landscaping. I cannot speak specifically to if they have had any reductions in the plan development specific to that buffer. However, that is the standard, so that is the base of what would be tied to this should it default to base zoning.

Do we know the multifamily density?

I do not off the top of my head. Give me just a second and I can potentially find that answer for you. For the plat, I do not know the answer to that.

If I'm not mistaken, this was approved, the PD was approved close to a year ago. So all those details were worked out at that time.

Okay, that ends discussion for us. I'm going to call for the vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those opposed, same sign, passes five to zero. Moves on to item number three, which is consideration of possible action on a zone change application. ZON2026-0215, public hearing and request by Rise Group Management LLC applicant on behalf of Jason Ridenbaugh. owner for approval of a zone change of an area of land approximately 280 feet by approximately 245 feet, being a portion of the 1.098 acre track one and .9022 acre track two, further described below from general business to a general commercial district. located at 6831 Broadway Street, Pearland, Texas. Can I have a motion and a second, please? Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve.

Commissioner Fuertes, a second.

All righty, that will take us to staff report.

This request, as was just read into the record, is a request for a rezoning from general business to general commercial district. As you can see highlighted on the screen here, I'll make it bigger in a moment, there is a portion along Broadway here that has a Split zoning so this lot this flag shaped lot here along with the rectangular lot at the front Have been identified as split zoning and has dated back to as far back as 2003 and before that it was zoned similarly where it was split on the property prior to the 2003 zoning map The intent is to rezone it to allow for the uses of the general business district to be used throughout that entirety of the rear building, but rather than leave the entire thing, or leave just this portion, which would leave even smaller portion of the lot zoned GC, it is a request to make this one cohesive zoning district. We did notice this in accordance with our requirements and we did not receive any public comment in opposition or in favor of the request. You can see it on a little bigger scale right here. About two years ago, this property here came in for a rezone from the GB to the GC and left the remainder here from the corner to this location, which is approximately the remainder of the 200 this is 280 feet and 245 feet of the properties this remainder portion which Is identified only by the distance on the zoning map? Has been this zoning since as far back as we had zoning with the city of Maryland and To the north, it is undeveloped in office professional. To the south, you have automotive tire shop and undeveloped land. To the east is undeveloped. It used to have an auto repair service here, so in the area you're still seeing that. It has been demolished at this time. And to the west is an automotive shop as well. On the future land use map, this is identified as the commercial center, which does have primary land uses with retail, restaurant, multi-tenant commercial, which is what the site is being used as today. With this request, they are not intending to put any more structure or concrete or anything like that on the site. The intent is to just be able to have tenants that are reflective of the building as they were constructed. It was annexed in 1995. And then track two, that front portion, the rectangular piece, was constructed in 1999. And then the office warehouse on track one was constructed in 2001. That would have been under our former code, not under the current UDC that we use today. And then in 2015, the retail building was constructed, and that is the building that is on the flag portion of, the pole portion of the flag lot. Staff has found that this does align with the criteria for a zone change. on all counts and recommends that it is approved.

Okay, thank you, Katie. Does the applicant wish to do a presentation? Okay, that's great. Man, I like it in time. That leads me to ask, is there anyone wishing to speak for or against it? Seeing no movement, asking one more time, anyone wishing to speak for or against this item? Seeing none, that's going to move it on to commission. Anybody have anything to say?

I appreciate the applicant coming in, and I appreciate staff. with this zone change consideration. This is one of those items, for me, it's like when we have an NS zoning the old movie theater, for example, that entire center, and every time they wanted to lease to somebody, they had to come back to the city, and we had to go through the process, and you lose tenants in that time frame. So, appreciate that you're coming back in, getting the GC zoning. Appreciate staff's recommendation and consideration. Katie always does a great presentation. So, thank y'all. I'll be for this.

Okay, that wraps it up. So I'm going to call for the vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those opposed, same sign, passes 5-0. That takes us right on down to the fun time. Consideration of possible action. No, we're just going to talk about it. Mr. Chair, this is.

Are we gonna vote on this, Katie?

Yes, this is for recommendation tonight.

Okay, all right, all right. Then I will entertain a motion and a second on this.

Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve.

Commissioner Cuomo, second. Okay, that is for a five-year capital improvement program, FY2027-2031, presentation of a five-year capital improvement plan program, 2007 to 2031. Fabiola, I guess the floor is yours.

Yes, thank you. Good evening, Planning and Zoning Commission. I'm Fabiola de Carvalho, Assistant Director of Capital Projects within the Engineering and Public Works Department. It is my pleasure to be in front of you once again to present the City of Pearland five-year CIP from fiscal year 27 through 31st. Since we covered the five-year program with detailed information and presented to you on May 19th, tonight the presentation will be brief. We'll cover the city charter section that pertains to P&Z Commission role in the Capital Improvement Program We'll show the recommendations for the five-year CIP from fiscal year 27 to the 31st, and we'll open up for discussions and questions at the end. So starting with the city charter, according to the city of panel and city charter section 7.01 subsection D in paragraph six, that speaks to the power and duties of the planning and zoning commission, which reads as follows. Submit annually to the city manager not less than 90 days prior to the beginning of the budget year, a list of recommendations for capital improvements, which in the opinion of the commission are necessary or desirable to be constructed during the forthcoming five years. Such lists shall be arranged in order of preference with recommendations as to which projects shall be constructed in which year. As mentioned during the previous presentation, the creation of the five-year CAP Improvement Program is an in-depth, year-long process involving every department within the city. The CIP from 26 through the 30th was finalized in September 2025, and the planning process for the fiscal year 27 and 31 CIP was initiated in October of 2025. Currently, we are in the third quarter of the CIP process, We presented you with the draft five-year CIP on the May 19th, and tonight we will present you the final recommendation for the five-year CIP and are seeking your recommendation to City Council. With your recommendation tonight, we will present the five-year CIP to City Council for consideration and adoption. Council will adopt the budget in September. We now talk about the projects that are included in the drainage category for the fiscal year 27 to 31st. Commissioners, here's the list of the proposed drainage projects we are seeking funding for fiscal year 27-31st. There's a total of 15 drainage projects we are recommending and listed in priority order. The following slides will have the facilities projects included in the fiscal year 27-31st CIP list. There are 11 facilities projects we are recommending funding for fiscal year 27-31st. In front of you is our recommended list for facilities projects in priority order. On the parks projects including the five-year CIP, we have seven projects we are recommending funding for fiscal year 27-31 as listed. The seven parks recommended projects in front of you are also listed in priority order. Now on the streets and transportation five-year CIP projects, We have 22 projects recommended within the five-year CIP, also listed in priority order. And here additional street capital projects for the 27th, 31st, making a total of 22 projects. We now discuss the water projects included in the five-year CIP. We have several water projects being recommended, a total of 25 projects. And here's the rest of the water projects being proposed for the fiscal year 27-31. This is the last asset on the presentation, the wastewater. This slide and the next slide shows 26 wastewater projects being recommended within the five-year CIP, also listed in priority order. And here's the rest of the list of the proposed wastewater projects. Commissioners, we are approaching the end of our presentation. Before we open up for questions, I just want to let you know that the QR code that connects to the capital projects webpage where anyone can access information on active projects has been restored. We encourage anyone interested in learning more about city projects to check out the webpage and sign up for any project they would like to get updates as they get posted. I truly appreciate this opportunity to have presented the City of Pearland five-year capital improvement program to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and with that, we can open up for discussions and questions, if any. Thanks again.

Just one quick question. I thought The last time, maybe last year, or in some zone change we discussed, water or sewer line going north on Cullen from, oh goodness, the cemetery going northward to McHard. And I'm seeing a questioning look on your face of maybe that was never a project and I dreamed it up. I thought what I recall was a gentleman that came in for a zone change. Remember that? A zone change. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, he has the warehouses, two warehouses, and he had mentioned that the city was going to be putting... So then they've pulled it since then? I was just wondering, because I didn't remember seeing it here, and I saw something on social media. The gentleman is active, my understanding, and so I just, for my own sake, wanted to understand what was happening, or if it was going to be on, if it was removed, whatever the case is.

So that project did exist in the CIP several years ago. And similar to what you guys are voting on now, that first year of projects that gets approved by council is what we typically move forward with. years four through, or years two through five, are actually planning level years. So that project really never reached a year, really never reached a level that was beyond a planning level. And typically, if you read through some of the other codes, some of the other development requirements, the developers are responsible for providing the infrastructure that's necessary for the development of those properties. And so at some point there was a shift in going back and addressing existing infrastructure needs versus extending utilities to a site that didn't currently have utilities. And leaving that up to the developers as the code requirement exists.

Appreciate that response, thank you.

I just want to thank staff for working through this. I know it's not easy, especially when you're prioritizing these types of projects. A lot of times we think Pearland is a new city. It feels like a new city because we keep it up so well. But it's also aging at the same time. And so being able to identify those projects that are crucial to our continued growth and redevelopment is important. So thank you for your work.

I, too, want to thank y'all. Fabiola, fantastic. Well, you know, we try to not make it as hard on you as we possibly can. We want to make it easy. And you did a great job. All right. I'm going to call for a vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those... same sign for no and uh it carries five to zero all right that brings us to discussion items uh city council update good evening everyone

the last city council meeting we had was held on monday may 18th and there were three items the first item was the first reading of the zoning case that was wanting to be included into the l r clear creek plan development off of kirby frugia road and hooper road and City Council's motion to approve the first reading was successful with a vote of seven to zero. And so second reading will be placed on the June 8th City Council agenda. Next was the conditional use permit for the sheltered care facility off of Industrial Drive. And City Council's motion to approve the request was successful with a vote of seven to zero. And then finally, the conditional use permit for the convenience store located off of McHard. City Council's motion to approve the request with staff conditions was successful with a vote of seven to zero.

Second reading is the first meeting in June, which is what, June 8th, I'm assuming?

Next City Council meeting is June 8th, correct. And chair, I can transition into the city council and PNZ joint workshops. Okay. So there is a joint workshop also on June 8th. There is one for the unified development code update. We are going to be discussing the triggers table, triggers table that currently exists in chapter four, as well as the Broadway expansion nonconformities and the potential trigger table related to that. In addition, we have a plan development workshop for a build-to-rent townhome product south of Broadway in between Smith Road and Over Lane. And then the next regular meeting is on June 15th here at 630. Thank you. All right.

Yeah. Definition of trigger tables. I read the I have something in my mind, but I don't think it's the right thing.

Yeah, trigger table that we have today here in Chapter 4 is basically incremental conformance to our Unified Development Code standards based on a certain action. So if you were going to be increasing your paving area by 5,000 square feet, there are certain triggers, either facade screening, parking, setbacks, dumpster screening, parking, that may be triggered. as well as changing use, changing of occupant, and the triggers table that is currently in Chapter 4 is on your screen right now. So we're going to be discussing that in a sense of, is it working? What feedback have Council and Planning and Zoning Commission heard through residents, community members, business owners that might, require some modifications with this unified development code update we're going through as well as Broadway expansion project is here and happening and so what sort of incremental compliance standards should or should we not be requesting of property owners who go through a change of use, who decide to build onto their existing building or add 5,000-plus square feet of paved area for parking? Where should we come to terms with or work together on having those incremental changes and having those incremental things put in place. Landscaping, parking, what other things are important to council and P&Z?

Okay, does anybody know that they're not going to be able to make the June 8th meeting? It starts at 3.30 to 6 o'clock. Anybody here know they're not going to make it?

Okay, looks like everybody here's gonna make it.

And then also, does anyone on the June 15th, does anyone know that they're not gonna be able to make that meeting? Okay, I will not make that meeting. I'm gonna be out on LBJ, so I'll think about y'all. From what I understand, I don't think Jennifer Ordino will be back by that time. And so Henry is gonna chair that meeting.

I think what we have to do, the first action item is typically an election of that chair. That's what we've done historically. Is that okay with that? Is that correct? I'm looking at the city attorney for advice.

Deputy, important qualifier. Yes, if the chair is not here, then you need to choose your replacement chair for the meeting.

Okay. All righty, well, being at that, and we're going to adjourn this meeting at seven o'clock. Okay, what was the over and under, Katie?

I said it was a wild card.