Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

of the Planning and Zoning Commission Monday, July the 6th, 2026, 630. We do have a quorum. We have one commissioner missing as Commissioner Knight will not be with us. First order of business is to elect a new chair. and a vice chair, and I'll let, I'll recognize Henry Ferrentis to give you a little background.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just wanted to let everybody know that in the past, years ago in the past, the chair was the chair, and we had elections, and they were pretty much rubber stamp where the chair just kept the seat for, until they resigned or were asked to resign, to not be the chair anymore. But over the last, I'm going to say five years, we've rotated the chair. There's people that may have political aspirations and or just want to have that chairmanship position, chairpersonship position. So with that, I will not be nominating Mr. Eisenberg, our current chair, because we're in the spirit of that. So I'd like to go ahead and throw out, I'll nominate for a chairperson, Ms. Jennifer Ordino.

Do we have a nomination for a vice chair? Or do we have to vote? Is there any more nominations for chair?

Okay. Do we vote on that or do we?

Okay. Then any discussion? I got plenty to say about it, but I'm not. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those opposed, same sign. Passes five to zero. And I will relinquish the chair.

Six to nothing. No, I thought I have to. You have to finish your question. Oh, I still gotta do, okay. Your last order of business.

My last order of business is to, do I have a nomination for a vice chair? Nobody wants to do it. Okay, I'll, well, you nominate, Henry.

I'll nominate Henry Fortes for vice chair. Commissioner Henry second.

All right. Anybody else? Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. All those opposed, same sign. That is six to nothing. So that takes care of our elections. And so... I'm gonna turn it over to the new chair and she can redo the roll call and certification of a quorum.

While we're rearranging, Daryl, thank you very, very much. Right here, it's fine. For all you did as chair. Yes. Appreciate your leadership.

All right, let's get started. Let's do a roll call and certification of quorum. So we have six present tonight. Mr. Knight is the only one we have missing. Next is our introduction of agenda and format of hearing.

Thank you, Chair. Good evening, everyone. First, we're going to have a call to order followed by a staff report. Then the applicant will have a presentation. Public comments will then be open. Please be brief and to the point within a three-minute time frame and state your name and address for the record. Then commission and staff will have their discussion. And then the commission will vote to recommend approval as presented, approval with conditions, denial of the request, or to table the item. On tonight's consent agenda, we have excused absences, as well as the minutes from the last PNZ regular meeting. And then on new business tonight, we have a residential replat. We have a plat variance. And then we have a conditional use permit that is requesting to postpone to the August 3 planning and zoning commission meeting. And with that, I'll pass it back to you, Chair. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, we have our consent agenda. Can I get a motion for approval?

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

And any discussion? Can I call for the vote? All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. Motion passes. I didn't raise mine, sorry.

All right.

You want me to say that it passed unanimously? Is that easier for the record? I did say 6-0, but I may not have been loud enough. Either unanimously or 6-0. I would say either one of those just to make it clear for the recording. All right, the vote passed unanimously. All right, next on our agenda is we didn't have any items removed from the consent agenda. So next order is new business. Consideration and possible action, RPL 2026-0291, residential replot of track 26, block 1 of Ryan Acres. A request by Chris L. Hendrick, applicant on behalf of Sandra and Rolando Savazos, owners for approval of the partial replot of track 26, Block 1 of Ryan Acres, creating two lots on 1.487 acres of land to it. And the location of the property is 3406 McLean Road, Pearland, Texas.

All right. So this is a residential replant, as the chair just stated. Hold on one second.

I think I have to do motion for approval first. Sorry.

So moved. Second.

Second.

All right, thank you.

So the current configuration of this property is one lot, and the applicant is requesting to subdivide it into two lots. This property is zoned R1 and then requires a public hearing and public notification to go out to neighbors. We sent 15 letters to adjacent property owners and have not received any feedback in support or opposition. And with that, staff recommends approval of the residential replat. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you. All right, discussion. Oh, I'm sorry, applicant presentation. Is anyone here to do a presentation? Okay, perfect, thank you. All right, next we have discussion. Who wants to go first?

One quick question.

replanted all have it will it affect them and have to do the three-to-one rule that we're gonna have here shortly it does not thank goodness all right let's call for the vote for all those in favor sign by raising your right hand motion passes unanimously thank you guys all right next step number two consideration and possible action VAP 2026-0290, plot variance from the maximum lot depth to width ratio. A request by Advanced Surveying Inc. applicant on behalf of Impacts Flex Pearland LLC owner for approval of a plot variance permitted in Section 3.1.1.6F, the Unified Development Code Ordinance No. 2000-T from the lot design standards of Section 3.2.14, to allow the creation of a lot that exceeds the maximum 3 to 1 depth to ratio on 9.72 acres of land to wit. The property address is 1425 Main Street, Pearland, Texas. Can I call for a motion for approval?

Commissioner Haskins, motion to approve.

Commissioner Hendrick, second.

All right, as the chair stated, this is a subdivision plot to, a plot variance to exceed the lot to width ratio, and staff recommends approval of the variance. Thank you. Thank you.

Is the applicant here for a presentation? Nope. All right, discussion.

You probably already know what I'm gonna say about the UDC rewrite. So if we could put this on as an administrative function for the staff instead of bringing P&Z and maybe the variants. Or if staff were to say no, then they could come to P&Z.

That's a great comment. We'll look into that. Thank you.

It's been on the record. Anyone else?

All right.

Call for a vote. All those in favor, sign by raising your right hand. The motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Item number three has been removed. Next discussion items.

So, Chair, we may want to introduce the item, and then you all may need to vote for the applicant's request to postpone the meeting to the August 3rd meeting. And so you can speak as quickly as you need to just to throw that into the record, and then I will state that the applicant is requesting to postpone to August 3rd. Let me add that real quick.

I'm still reading it into the record? Item number three on the agenda is consideration and possible action for CUP 2026-0224, Conditional Use Permit for an Auto Rental Facility within the General Business District, a request by Justin Brumley of Ian Holdings, LLC. DBA enterprise rent-a-car applicant on behalf of Hemmingbird Trading LLC, owner for approval of a conditional use permit for auto rental use within the general business district on approximately 1.915 acres of land to it. Property address is 6906 Broadway Street, Pearland, Texas.

Am I still calling for a motion for approval for us to discuss it? So, because the applicant requested that it be postponed, you can move to postpone to a definite date. My understanding is August 3rd was the date being requested.

Okay, so applicant is requesting to postpone this until the August 3rd meeting.

If you would like for me to share the purpose, I can do that. The purpose is to continue to work with the neighbors on the request and their draft site plan.

Was there a motion to postpone it to August 3rd?

Commissioner Haskins' motion to postpone to August 3rd.

Commissioner Cuomo's second.

All right, let's vote. Everyone sign by raising your right hand. Passes six to zero unanimously. All right, now we go to discussion items.

All right, so we are bringing back the Rules of Procedure. The last meeting we presented you the current copy of the Rules of Procedure for the Planning and Zoning Commission and requested some feedback from you all. Things that anything you've noticed anything you'd like to change and so we are here tonight with the red line version that was in your packets. This is a red line that we can talk about. You can support or not support some of the changes we've made and then we will come back at the next meeting for a full adoption of the rules of procedure. And so a summary of some of the items that we fixed is starting off strong with some spelling errors. It's an easy one to accomplish. Then we updated some text to align with state law as well as current procedures that we are currently enacting today. We added conditional use permits to powers and duties to the Planning and Zoning Commission as that was not currently in the rules of procedure. We also added vacancies within the body need to be filled within 30 days. And then as a request, we revised the meeting time to be changed to 6 p.m. A discussion item that we can all have as a group is when, if you all support that, when do we want that to start? And then last two items, we combined the joint public hearing workshop and the special meetings together. And so if you were reviewing the rules of procedure, you may see this very large text that is red lined. That was because it was combined with an earlier section. And then finally, we updated the voting section to a roll call section vote as requested at the last meeting. So those are kind of the summary highlights, changes that were made. So I am opening it up for discussion.

I'm sorry, I guess if I may, I'll go first. I guess two questions, vacancies to be filled within 30 days, vacancies of this panel. Is that, I guess, physically possible with the process to which I understand that to happen? I mean, we're appointed, right?

Yes.

And then interviewed, even by appointment. and scheduling that within 30 days? It's just a logistical question. It's not a, you know, oh, some people may not like others, you know, from those that we are appointed by. So, yeah.

No, I think that's a great comment. Ms. Leninger, is 30 days appropriate, or do you think we should revise that to 45 days? Do we need to have a date identified?

For purposes of recognizing that sometimes state law changes, we could say something like as soon as practical, or in compliance with state law rather than using a specific number if you want to kind of allow some flexibility because the changes to TOMA and posting agendas and things like that have made the logistics of certain things a little bit more difficult.

I like that. As soon as logistically possible, I think it would be my change there, just because of the process that we know it takes. And then obviously, with that, I would apologize to the general public if a vacancy can't be filled. And obviously, we miss a meeting because of a quorum. It's unfortunate, but it probably will happen eventually. So thank you. Yeah, if we could add that. Updating the voting section to a roll call, all votes or?

Correct, all votes. So Ms. Haas would then state y'all's name and you would say yay or nay, similarly to how council is currently operating today.

Did that come from us as a suggestion? It did. No, I'm just joking. Didn't we have a conversation? No, I'm just joking. I think it would take longer, and I could see where, for the record, if it was maybe a record vote that needed or the public is due maybe a

So would that be me calling out their names, or? Ms. Haas would call each of y'all's names individually, and you would say yay or nay.

If you don't necessarily want to call out a roll call vote specifically in your rules, you could also call for a record vote, which can be accomplished multiple ways. and so that would maybe allow for a little bit more flexibility and not necessarily slow down the process by calling out each person's name.

Yeah, or we got three items and we can logistically be out of here in 30 minutes versus 45 because we're roll calling each vote. I know. I just don't have 20 items on the agenda either.

Ms. Lennon, could the chair have the capability to be flexible? So if they're, you know, for example, tonight on our consent agenda, it was excused absences and minutes. Could the chair at their discretion say, okay, we're going to vote in one motion, and then maybe on a CUP that we have a packed house for, we could do roll call vote? Is that up to the chair's discretion that we could describe, or do we need to be more flexible in the rules?

I would discourage having different types of votes at different agenda items. I think it's much cleaner to be consistent throughout on each item on the agenda vote the same way. I will also note, however, that whatever rules y'all approve also go to city council for approval. So another option potentially could be to, rather than outline it in your rules specifically, kind of defer to city council on how votes are done because city council also theoretically has authority over all boards and commissions to determine your rules and procedures. And so if you don't want to get to that level of detail, that would be another option.

I'll defer. I mean, I just opened it up for discussion. But I'll defer to the committee.

And on that one, I thought somebody, whoever it was that mentioned it, said that that way our votes are on the record individually, kind of so council would know. But I think council knows if there's two nays, don't the minutes reflect the persons that are voting against versus for?

That is correct.

So the purpose of it being on the record is moot somewhat, because it's already, unless it's a unanimous vote, they're going to know how we voted.

OK.

So I had written some notes. I thought that 30 days, I just felt like it's out of our control. It's up to the council. So for us to say you got to do it in 30 days, I kind of thought that was out of our control. On page six, it's under section one, let's see, B. The number two is scratched out. And this is the duties of the vice chair. You know, number one is to perform the duties of the chairperson in his or her absence, et cetera. And then number two, succeed the chairperson if that office is vacated. But the two is scratched out. I kind of thought it should stay there unless there's a reason for that. Yes.

My first thought is it was potentially due to condensing just into one large paragraph, or that two being crossed out was done in error, and we can absolutely make them two points when we bring this back to you all.

Yeah, I kind of felt like it needed to be a second, because it truly is a second duty, unless you say it's all one paragraph.

We can make that change to two points.

That's up to you all. I just wanted to point it out. I just thought it was kind of, could be a grammatical. Then I jumped to section three, regular meetings. I noticed that we went from two meetings to meet no less than once each month. Is that because our agendas are getting lighter and lighter and

There's a reoccurring theme in this discussion about flexibility. And sometimes during holidays and coordinating with council, I think there was two meetings this year that had one meeting due to holidays and council schedule. So allowing flexibility for maybe one or two months out of the year to meet one time, having that in the rules of procedure felt appropriate. Got it.

Agreed. The very next section, section four, joint public hearings. I guess I did have that question with workshops and special meetings. So the first thing I noticed is, towards the middle of that paragraph, it says the mayor or his designee will conduct the joint public hearings Okay, that's workshops and special meetings. My point with pulling that or didn't set right 100% was sometimes we have special meetings that don't involve city council and workshops. An example of that would be when we did the comp plan, when we had meetings with the mayor was nowhere to be found. I mean, that wasn't a mayoral function. That was our group. So I didn't want it. I wasn't sure if that really fit in with special meetings. In the past, we looked at, you know, as a board took on the future land use plan back on, I don't even know if we still have it. We used to call it the FLUP. And I'm not sure if when we redid that, we didn't have any council members or the mayor. So just a thought. And then the one sentence before that, it says a quorum, comma, or four commissioners, comma, shall be present for the joint public hearing. Should it say at least four members? What I was worried about, it says four commissioners shall be present. If a fifth one's there, it's still a quorum. A sixth one's there, it's still a quorum. Should it say...

Maybe a quorum of at least four commissioners?

Yes, ma'am. That's what I was... And then to jump back to that mayor, his designee, his or her designee, if you look at the end of that section, the very last statement that has been added, it says the mayor or his designee will conduct a joint public hearing workshop or special meeting. This is repetitive, I think, but...

Would it be clearer for us to kind of separate it back out rather than trying to consolidate all of these things into one section, basically have the joint meetings where you are meeting with council versus the meetings where it is just P and Z? Would that be clearer?

I need a Tylenol at this point, so I don't know, but I just noticed that the mayor doesn't apply to some things, so however we all

We can discuss internally and bring that back to y'all.

I think that was about it. Article 5, conflicts of interest. The second paragraph, it does state an adopted city council ordinance 1462-4. But I thought it was going to be the one that was at the back of the, after the affidavits, which was a different number. The attachment, or out of the 26 pages, it was like the last 10 pages was a different code of conduct. It was 2025-94. So I didn't know if that was the same thing or if there's something updated. Anyways, again, these are things that can, yeah. Certainly don't need an answer. And I promise that's it.

Thank you for the feedback.

Can you clarify the added CUPs to powers and duties to the PNZ?

Yes, I can. The conditional use permit is not present currently in the rules of procedure for the Planning and Zoning Commission, and this is something that you all recommend to City Council. So we felt it was appropriate to add it as it is part of your duties today to recommend conditional use permits.

Because our vote in the past has been really, it means nothing. All it is is that we're recommending it. That's our recommendation to city council, then they do what they want to anyway.

Yes, it was missing from the current rules of procedure, so we felt it was necessary to get that added in 2026. Is the board supportive of the 6 p.m. start time? Is there consensus or did we need to discuss the start time? If I can make a suggestion on a start date, we can do either the September 21st meeting or the 10-5 meeting, but also we have to take these rules of procedure to city council, so maybe October could be an appropriate start date.

I was going to say, the rule changes are subject to council approval, so I would say just let us know. I mean, obviously we'll know that they get approved in the first one thereafter.

Yes, we will need to update our website and inform our applicants, of course, but if council approves the revised rules or procedure, we will definitely allow you a significant amount of time before you have to alter your schedules.

Got it.

Anything else?

Did it say anything in the procedures about, you know, I may have missed it, about our... I know there are three years time served. I did see that in there. Did it say November by chance? Do we need to mention anything like that? I don't think so. I just got to thinking a good start time might be November because that's when we kind of transition if the city council reappoints those that are up, et cetera, et cetera.

That's a good point. We can look into that, especially when we do take the rules of procedure to city council. We want you all to have an appropriate amount of time to adjust your schedules. So maybe November will fall in that 6 o'clock start time, if approved.

So I just wrote down under the vacancies, where you have to be filled within 30 days, I just put in complaints to state law. so that it gives us flexibility.

Great comment. We'll make that change.

I had a question on section five under order of business. It talks about the, The length of the meeting, if it goes past 10 o'clock, the chair can call a recess. Recess and a break, is that two separate things? Can you call for a break prior to 10 o'clock?

You would have, well, the chair would have the ability to call for a break, to call for a recess of 10 minutes or 15 minutes or whatever if needed prior to 10 o'clock. I think the intent of that in the rules is more to recess to a different day rather than having a marathon meeting that runs six hours. If people were to start leaving and then quorum no longer existed, then you would just have to call the meeting. And at that point, it would just be adjourned because lack of quorum, essentially.

Yeah. Anything else we need to discuss about it?

No, we will make these changes and bring them back to you all. Thank you.

Do you want to do the city council update report?

Okay, so last City Council we had the second reading of the new food procedures adopted as well as the zoning case that you all heard with the split zoning on Broadway that was approved unanimously and we'll go to second reading at the next council meeting.

Thank you.

And I can transition right into City Council and PNZ joint workshop July 13th at 5 o'clock. We are going to be discussing hotel standards.

Okay. Does everyone think they can make that meeting?

Can I go with you?

All right. And then our next P&Z meeting is July 20th, 630. And meeting adjourned. 703.