City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we'll go ahead and get started. Uh today is January 20th, 2026. It is 6 p.m. We're going to go ahead and get started with the shirt city council regular session. We're going to go ahead and start with the opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flags of the United States and the state of Texas. Councilman uh Council Member Davis. Heavenly Father, we gather today in a spirit of respect and shared responsibility. We pause to reflect on the trust placed in this council by the community we serve. May our discussions be guided by wisdom, fairness, and a commitment to the common good. May we listen thoughtfully, speak respectfully, and work collaboratively for the well-being of all residents. We ask for clarity in decision-making, integrity and leadership, and compassion in our actions so that our work today contributes to a safe, just, and thriving community. In your name we pray. Amen.

Amen. 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.

Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you for that, Mayor Pro Tim Davis. We're going to go ahead and uh move forward with proclamations. Uh school board recognition month. Uh Council Member Westbrook. Here we go. Everybody can come up. All schoolboard members come on.

Yeah. Just around the around the lectern right here, best and the brightest among us. Whereas in the month of January 2026, East Central Independent School District, Judson Independent School District, Randolph Field Independent, Founders Academy, and Shirt Civil Universal City Independent School Districts in the city of Shirts will celebrate school board recognition month to recognize the dedication and hard work of school board trustee members. And whereas the mission of public schools is to meet the educational needs of all children and to empower them to become competent, productive contributors to a democratic society and an everchanging world. And whereas schoolboard members are strong advocates for public education and are responsible for communicating the needs of the schools to the public and the public's expectations to the district. Aaron, whereas to create an educational vision for the students, school board members work closely with parents, educational professionals, and other community leaders. Now therefore, Ralph Rodriguez, mayor of the city shirts, in recognition thereof, does hereby proclaim January 2026 to be school board recognition month, and he urges all citizens to join him in recognizing the dedication and hard work of local school board members and in working with them to mold an educational system that meets the needs of both today's and tomorrow's children. Thank you very much. Um, I'm going to hand out some proclamations and then uh an opportunity for any school board member and or superintendent if she wishes to say a few words. But board president um Leticia, my sister from another miss, [laughter]

thank you m

I'm a school teacher. So it's good gra [laughter] want me to speak?

Yes. [laughter] Well, good evening and thank you so much for this great honor to this wonderful city uh to the mayor and the city council persons and the community uh leaders on behalf of East Central Independent School District and along with some of my other fellow trustees, we consider this a real honor to have an opportunity to help uh educate the next uh future constituents of of of Texas. And so we're very excited to be here and thank you very much for this honor. [applause]

Just real quick, we want to thank the city of Shirts as well for this honor as well. Um we have a great partnership with the city and we thank them for all that they do. Um we believe that we have um some great students, a great community here and um as far as educating our students, uh the city of church plays a huge part in that and helping to protect our kids. uh and it they goes a long way as far as uh community relationships. Um so thank you for that. I am the super proud superintendent of the church similar Universal City Independent School District and I just thank these uh seven board members for everything that they do for our kids. every decision that they may make is made um with purpose with our staff people and the partnerships and especially with this great partnership that we have with the city of Shirts. We're forever grateful for it. Thank you,

Mayor Mayor. Paige Maloney and the president come on [laughter] the front. So, real quick, also for those of y'all that don't know, Mr. Westbrook used to be a schoolboard uh trustee as well. And so, I joke with him that he misses us. I know he does. Careful what you wish for. [laughter]

Come over here next to you. Thank you very much. Thank you. [clears throat] I'm going to change very well deserved. Uh a lot of thank you to the church civil independent school district board members and the other school board members from around the area. They do a fantastic job uh for all our kids. So, thank you'all for that. City events, uh, announcements of upcoming city events. Uh, Sarah.

Yes. Thank you, mayor. So, just a couple of announcements on here. Um, election information and voting information for the runoff for place 7. Last day to early vote is Tuesday, January 27th, and election day is on Saturday, January 31st. So, all information of where you can go to vote and voting hours can be found on our website at shirts.com. And then finally, our next regularly scheduled meeting will be on February 3rd at 6 PM. Thank you. Thank you. Announcements and recognitions by the city manager, Mr. Williams.

Thank you, mayor. We have a couple of announcements. U recently, uh, one of our folks in the water wastewater department named Chandler Lair, a relatively new employee, competed in the American Public Works Association rodeo. That's R O A D Yo, rodeo. And it is a competition where they drive different equipment and such. And he got first place. And so he won a plaque and a buckle and has an opportunity to to compete next month in Fort Worth and hopefully move on to nationals. So kind of a big deal there. [applause] Very excited for him. And then also Heather Davis in the Police Department, the Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center, a multi-disciplinary team. They had an an award, she's on the multid-disiplinary team. They had an awards banquet for the GCCAC and Heather was recognized for perfect attendance as well as being voted by her peers to re uh receive the award for communication. So congratulations to Heather as well. So,

and that's all I have. Mayor, thank you.

Thank you for that. Uh, right now I have uh no announcements or recognitions. Uh, so we're going to go ahead and move on to hearing of the residents. This time is set aside for any person wishes to address the city council. Each person should fill out the speaker's registration prior to the meeting. Presentation should be limited to no more than three minutes. All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a body and not to any individual member thereof. So, uh, if you've signed up to speak, uh, make sure that when you come on up that you state your name and your address, please. Uh, Mayor Pro Tim Davis. Do we have anybody signed up to speak?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. First up is Billy Langghouse. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council members, and all ye present. My name is Billy Langis. I live in Shirtsz, Texas 78154. There's an ongoing situation that still needs to be addressed. On December 8th last year, some 43 days ago in 2025, Miss Allison Haywood filed an application to run for county commissioner of Guadalupe County, Texas, Precinct 3. The application was accepted. She's qualified and her name will be on the ballot in March. On December 8th, 2025, the state of Texas via the Texas Constitution invoked resign to run automatically, which rendered seat six vacant, and no one can circumvent the ruling of the state from December 8th uh through the city is given 120 days to fill the seat through special election. 120 days will occur on April 7th, 2026. This vacancy is to be filled by special election. We know Miss Haywood is being held over in an unexpired term. However, holding over is for expired terms. She is here on the dis tonight proving this point. Under KP 351, a question was posed to the state of Texas. And although we don't know what the question

posed, in keeping with section 11, section 11, it states that a court would likely decide to the extent signs are posted soliciting votes that can be seen by the public that campaigning has begun. This has happened. A special election is pending as was stated here on January 6th, 2026. Now, let's cut to the chase. Article 16, section 17 says this holdover will stop when a successor is duly qualified. Duly qualified or elected. Are they synonymous? No. Duly qualified means the legal and formal administrative steps necessary to exercise the powers of the office have been filled. They are in place. Elected describes a political victory. It would be wise to appoint a qualified candidate to fill the seat until a winner is declared. Otherwise, you will be in clear violation of the Texas Constitution. Please give this your best consideration lest we meet again. Thank you,

Mayor Proim Davis. Do we have any other speakers?

Uh, yes, Mr. Mayor. Next up is DJ Thompson. DJ Thompson, Northcliffe 78108. And I just want to say it's so wonderful to see you all again. You all are like family. And I want you all to know that I pray for you every single day and sometimes more than once a day, but at least every single day. And I love you very, very much. And I want to um present something with great love. And I hope after I read this, and I'm going to tell you what it is in just a minute, that you feel so much love that you'll almost want to clap after I read it. Okay? And this is this is meant with love and it was written and loved. And we have about five more of these coming. So, um, it's so wonderful to see your faces again. I'm so moved. I'm so happy I got to hug a lot of you today. So, um, this is a petition and you'll understand what the petition is about in just a minute. And I'm taking my husband's three minutes and Sharon, could you wave your hand, Sharon? She's letting me. I don't think I'll need more than three minutes, but just in case. Okay. We the concerned citizens of Shirts stand together in petitioning our officials to respectfully appeal to zoning and planning and city council to halt all and any reszoning changes. voting regarding the foreign developer or any foreign developer or any new developer until after a third party is mandated to survey how the influx of highdensity housing tied to overcrowding

can alter the social fabric of our communities. Thus, our city with an already crumbling infrastructure and I'll speak to that shortly. The following are just a few of the many things that need to be addressed in implementing this mandate and what is already known that the city needs to repair correct before any developer should be considered to bring a highdensity population into our communities. Failing water pipes creating defaulting pressure disintegrating roads needed replacement years ago. defective storm drainage, flooding her homes, and just recently the summer of 2025, disruption to local ecosystems, strain on wastewater, utilities, low police presence, stressing um existing public services and so much more. Sincerely, thank you as we work together to maintain our community's infrastructure, creating a range of positive outcomes. And I hope you all receive that with great love and affection as it's presented. And I'm going to give this to Sheree. Is that okay, Sheree? And you'll give a copy to everybody. And thank you so much. And we have five more of these coming. And this is all said it with love. I remember. And uh if you allow me just a few more minutes, um maybe one or two that when I was first drawn to this community 23 years ago, it was because at the interest I was just sharing with you earlier, uh we had a fountain. Do you all remember the fountain? Anybody been here long enough to remember? You remember the fountain? And I that just I love that. I'm like, I want to live here. And so so many people they travel up and down. And that's why in 2009 we won for the best place to live. Shirts won because we were a part of you all winning. We all won that collectively.

You all did things, too. But you can see that from the freeway coming from the north or going to the north. And if we get rid of all that, if we're only interested in development and not in beauty, we've lost, we've really lost. And that and the and the people who want to come in and destroy our community have really won. So, I hope that you all would really consider. We need some beauty. We really do. We need some green spaces. We need to have you all really [sighs] just work with us. I would love to meet and Allison, I'd love if you would. I know it can only be a certain few of you all, but I would love to meet with you all and treat you all to lunch, you know, somewhere that we can talk about. We have a plan and we want to present that plan to you what we have and it means nothing other than R six. If you don't remember anything about what I've said today, if you could please remember, please don't approve anything that is not RS6 because anything that is not R six means that they get to take our community and do whatever they want to with it without any jurisdiction. And I know you all don't want that for us. We love you all very much, very much. And we hope that you all get to love us. And um I am going I want to be the change that I want to see. And I thank you each and every one of you for all for giving up your family time to come and be here. I can't imagine what that's like, but I really do appreciate you. And again, mayor, congratulations. We really appreciate you, too. And to all my neighbors, I love you all. And can you give all you yourselves a hand applause? Okay. Yay. God bless you all. Have a wonderful night. Mr. Mayor, next up, and I I'll apologize in advance if I mistake make a mistake on his last name. Clayton

Codis. I can't tell if it's an IZ or an R.

Yeah, it's my it's my writing. Mayor, council members, my name is Klay Codri. I reside at 101 Whitewing here in Church. That's the Dove Meadows subdivision where I've lived for over 30 years. And that's what I'm here to discuss today. I'm here to discuss the just incompetent way this whole upgrade improvement debacle has been handled. Starting from just the lack of communication from the very beginning to the ongoing communication. I called the project manager last week and I still haven't got a response back. So, I've had to watch and just growing anger as random crews from some unknown company comes by and just rips out as they're ripping out the sidewalk and the streets and the gutters. They rip out my irrigation system just in shatters, my sod, my landscaping. I I invested over 30,000 or around $30,000 just recently in upgrading all of that and it's just gone. It's just literally in ruins. The first time it happened, I went out and talked to one of the workers and his attitude was, "Oh, we didn't slice your irrigation. It broke when we moved the cement." You know, that that sort of give don't give a damn attitude is what's so frustrating. You know, that that attitude trickles down. It trickled down from to him from the people he works with or works for. And it trickle down to that company to the city for hiring whoever this random company is. You know, I heard a rumored uh solution was they're going to have system in place to take care of this. [clears throat] You think, you know, when I sat down with a respected landscape company and had a personalized plan drawn up, you think this company's going to care? How they going to even know where I had my stuff, what spray patterns I had, what sprinkler heads I had? You know, that's just irrigation. to fix that, they're going to have to

destroy the rest of the side that's there, you know, and that that doesn't even mention the dust that's just everywhere. My house is coated in dust. I'll have to have it washed eventually. This this, you know, going back to this proposed solution, that's not an acceptable solution. I'm I don't want I've seen the work these people do. They're not going to repair my damage. So, going back to the dust. I can't enjoy my peaceful uh backyard where I had my uh my solitude. Everything's just filthy. My brand new patio furniture is filthy. My grills are filthy. My car, I have to wash the windows every day because of the glare coming through the dust that's on the windows makes driving hazardous. And this just this is just not acceptable behavior. You know, there's a there's an ethics saying that uh goes something like if you always do the right thing, you don't have to worry about doing the wrong thing. And this was not the right thing. Next up is Debbie Peron. Good evening, council, council members, and city mayor. I'm here also. I'm Debbie Peroni and I live at 1236 Dove Meadows, Unit One. It's pro right now. It says war zone. The streets are tore up. The curb is tore up. The sidewalks are gone. We've got 16 different colors of spray paint all over. They came in, they did not, according to the CIP, CIP, they were supposed to remove existing asphalt,

sterilizing the base underneath and adding new asphalt layer on top. There's been no asphalt lifted off that road. They came in, they lay down sand, they graded it, they rolled it, they watered it. They did that for a couple of days. Then a truck came in and he laid powdered cement. Rolled it. Now we're driving in powdered muck. It's all over my car. It cannot be removed by a car wash. I'd like to know, is the city going to pay for my detailing on my car or is the contractor I'm totally upset. We've had no notification. We had one notification that came out in October. We do not have any schedule. What's going on? And I met with Brian James on December 18th asking for his schedule. I don't have it. Nobody's got it. I want to know what's going on and I want to know how long this is going to go on for. Spring of 2026 is a long way when you're looking at dust going in your house, on your shoes, on your driveway, on your car. If you drive down our street, I beckoned that you better walk because your car will be destroyed. Thank you. Next up is Mr. John Carbone. Good evening. John Carbone, 3541 Wood Lawn Farms, Shirts, Texas. As many of you already know, my name is John Carbone and I'm running for place 7. I'm running as an Air Force veteran, as

an educator, and as someone who sat on the PNZ and that chair for the last three and a half years. I sat on the most contentious board we have in our commissions. I believe leadership is of the heart and management is of the mind. I believe I have both of those things. I don't put my hat in the ring to make money, a bigger title, or to push an agenda. I simply volunteered because I saw a need. A need for candid, well-rounded representation. [clears throat] Someone who knows their why and who can articulate their stance. Early voting as was said earlier is 8 through 5 8 to 5 through the 27th of January and election day is on the 31st of January 7 to 7. Vote for John Carbone City Council place 7. First on the ballot is an easy read. Thank you. Next up is Miss Claire Leightton. I'm Claire Leighton. I live at one 2231 Lost Meadows Drive, Shorts, ETJ. This is unusual for me because I'm actually going to say something nice about you guys. Um doing work um the first thing I want to say is workshop agenda item seven. I hope the council agrees to providing a separate public meeting to discuss paragraph B. ETJs were told that the zoning regulations will be added to the joint last stud joint last use study constraints, but what I see is provoked

item seven is much more specific. A separate public meeting will allow ETJ folks to fully understand what is new and prevent possible misunderstandings which of course will come to you guys. Secondly, kudos to the engineering department. I see in their monthly update that works for leaving flooding on Main Street is actually happening. It seems the design phase should be completed by 2028. We all know that such projects take time, but let's hope construction is completed before the next flooding [clears throat] rains as so that will come down main street, but you must protect the progress made for the redevelopment main street. So that flooding process needs to be as fast as possible. I know it's slow because it's government. However, lastly, I've not lately printed out con council agendas from the city's website, but to be able to see issues involved in each item is wonderful. It allowed me to understand really what was in front of council. Thank you to the secretary staff. This is a great improvement. And thank you to council for listening to me. I may not be quite as nice next time, but you can always hope.

Mr. Mayor, that's all that we have signed up. Okay, having no other uh residents signed up to speak, that'll end uh hearing of the residents. We'll move on to the consent agenda items. The consent agenda is considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the council with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless they are removed from the consent agenda upon the request of the mayor or council member. Do I have any council members wanting to remove anything from the consent agenda? Having none, can I go ahead and get a motion to approve the consent agenda? So moved.

Second. Okay, we have uh a motion by Mayor Pro Tim Davis and a second by Council Member uh Hayward. Uh can you go ahead and cast your votes? Okay. Uh can we get the votes published, please? All right. Having six yays, no nays, motion passes. Okay, we'll move on uh to discussion and action items. Uh we have item number six, resolution 26-R11, order special election for council place 6. Uh we have our deputy city secretary Shri.

Good evening, mayor, council members, Mr. Santi, and Mr. Williams. Tonight I bring forth resolution 26R11 calling for a special election to be held April the 4th, 2026 for the purpose of electing a council member for city council place 6 with Guadalupe Bear and Komal counties and approving the Guadalupe County election contract stating that Guadalupe County will oversee the special election and other matters in connection therewith. As you know, Council Member Hayward's seat was automatically vacated upon her filing for another office on December the 8th of 2025, according to the Texas Constitution, articles 11 and 16. Article 11, section 11 imposes specific rules for filling vacancies in a city with three or four-year terms and provides that such vacancies must be filled by special election within 120 days of the date that vacancy occurred. Hence, the city of Shirts is required to hold a special election to fill the unexpired term ending November 2027. A general primary election is being held March 3rd and election code 41.001C provides that an election cannot be held within 30 days before or after the general election for state and county officers, general primary election or runoff primary election. Therefore, the special election for city council place six proposed date is to occur on April the 4th, 2026, which falls within the 120day requirement. If this resolution is approved, candidate filing will begin tomorrow, January the 21st, and end February the 2nd. Candidate packets will be available online or may be picked up from the Hal Bald Municipal Complex Building 2 during business hours. The ballot drawing will be held on February the 3. Early voting will begin March 18th and end on March 31st. It will be weekdays only between 8 and 5 at the Guadalupe County Annex building located at 11:01 Elbell Road in Shirts and also

at the Sigin Elections Office at 3251 Highway 123 in Sigin for residents of all three counties. Election day, Saturday, April the 4th, voting will be at the Guadalupe County Annex building located at 11:01 Elbell Road only. Again, this applies to Schz residents in Bear, Kamal, and Guadalupe counties. Canvasing the results will occur on Monday, April the 13th. Okay. Do I have any council members uh want to discuss this any further? Okay. Um, if we don't have anybody want to discuss this, uh, can I go ahead and get a motion to approve resolution 26R-011?

So moved.

Okay, we have a motion by Council Member Hayward and we have a second by Council Member Watson. Go ahead and cast your votes, please. Okay. Can I get the votes published? Okay, having six yays, no nazs, motion passes. At this time, we'll go ahead and move to our workshop. Item number seven, workshop on draft code amendments related to regulating land use and conformance with the Julius per the recent special election. Mr. James. Thank you, Mayor. Um, get us sort of started here. We'll we'll work off this and kind of work our way through. So, just as a reminder to folks, uh, council called as part of the November election to utilize the provision under the Texas local government code to authorize an election of the registered voters who are in the ETJ of a city within five miles of certain airport bases to allow them to vote to either be annexed into the city or to have the city be able to impose uh, land use controls based based on the most recent uh joint land use study for that base. So the Randolph Joo study um council called for that election. Uh the election was held. Overwhelmingly uh the vote as we I think anticipated and heard from folks in advance uh was to uh go for the land use controls as opposed to to annexation. Um, so what I wanted to do tonight after going through that is, uh, basically put out for folks to be

able to look at the agenda packet, uh, give an initial run through for city council of what we think that may look like. Uh, based on what council's kind of comments are and then based on some of the initial feedback from some of those property owners, uh, we'll figure out what that process is that we want to go through. Again, is it a separate meeting with just those folks or uh based on maybe the initial reaction, do we say no, let's let's do that as part of the planning and zoning commission as any of these ordinance changes go before them in advance. Um, again, this is a pretty weird one. The only places in Texas that I found that have done this were in San Antonio. So again, one of the things we'll have to do as we move forward is take this initial draft, work with the city attorney, uh make sure that the way we've done it, our approach to it, uh is appropriate because again, they're not in the city, but we set it up as if it were a zoning event, whether it stays that way because I think that's familiar with folks. They're sort of aware of how that works. And so I think to give them that understanding makes sense. But again, [snorts] we may end up pulling it out of there and do it, you know, separately from that. But I think this is the best way to get people the gist of it. Um and and so what we talked about are kind of creating a special district uh as we have with some others kind of a an overlay uh sort of structured as an overlay district. And again, I think the goal of staff at this was to um put in place those regulations that the Joo supports uh to protect the mission of the base, but do it uh without um negatively impacting the property owners residents as much as we can. Um, and so one thing I want to say on the front end that we we've approached this is unlike San Antonio, the initial proposal is to

not necessarily require people to come in to pull permits because after looking at the jail regulation, what we found is we would require folks to come in to pull a separate permit from us that they would have to pull from the county. And by and large, we think we would say, "Yeah, you're fine." but it would add sort of time and delay to their project and things like that. So what we rather do is impose the regulation um and then try to enforce if we perceive there to be a problem going in because part of the problem is while we'll have those folks who want to comply whether we require a permit or just require them to comply with us being able to enforce we think they're going to right so to be blunt the latens are going to look at this they're going to know what's in there if they're thinking of doing something they'll call us up or they would come in and pull a permit either way to make sure they're doing it the right way but again the Another problem we have are folks who are maybe not as engaged, aren't going to know this exists. They're going to know they're in the county. They're going to go through the county and whether they were required to pull a permit or not, they wouldn't know that additionally and and and have this problem. Um and so we think avoid that sort of step alto together. Now, we will work with Beay County to make sure that they are very aware of this. See if they will help us promote this for folks when they come in and and it's in this area say you really ought to touch base with the city shirts. They've got this weird deal. you you probably ought to double check you're not running a foul there. The other thing we're going to have to do is frankly do a public information campaign and it's not something we do once. It's something we're going to have to probably send out a reminder every year to folks as property owners change and turn over and just remind them going, "Hey, we have these regulations. Just want to let you know that they're there. If you're going to do work, you probably should give us a call." or hey, you may mention to your neighbor if there you see them doing work to give us a call to make sure that they don't run a foul of it. Uh and so that we can kind of catch this stuff as it happens. And and really that approach is based on

when we got into it really what it is that we're we're regulating. Um and it's probably a little tough to to see this but but I'll I'll walk you through it and we can kind of go from there. What we basically did is based on those categories of regulation that we have and they really fall to lighting regulations, vertical obstructions, uh noise contours and then sort of density and floor area ratio. That's really what the the Joo does. And really for everybody in this area and so this is this is sort of the whole area. those lighting and vertical obstructions uh apply to it. And so what we basically did is we said, "Hey, those standards that we normally have that apply in the city of shirts, that's really what we're going to do with lighting." Um, and right now with the way this stuff happens, most of it's fairly common sense, right? It's it's shielded lighting, down lighting, things like that. But the provision is they've got to comply with uh our lighting regulations in in terms of the standard. What we went with on the vertical obstruction, and this is some things we'll get feedback for, is we basically set a 35 foot cap on the height of things out there. And so if you're under 35 ft, you're good to go. If you want to do something above 35t, you've got to come into us. The process we had on that is to to go through a a an SUP kind of process and that we want to get feedback from the residents on, but we think that's the simplest way to do it. While there is this height slope standard, it can become fairly confusing and and the process of of JBSA providing feedback on those can

take a while. What we thought we'd do is generally sort of cap it at 35 feet. If you're under 35 feet, you're good to go. So don't worry about it. If you're over 35 ft, that's where we need to spend some time with you and we go through the process and we can see what that appropriate height. Maybe it's not 35, maybe it's 40, maybe it's 45, something like that. But the idea is that if we set this cap that I think for most folks out there, call it 98% of people is going to work for them. That's a simpler process for those 98%. It's a little more complicated for the 2%, but we think that's maybe a better way to go than to complicate it for everybody. But we'll see what the feedback sort of says. And then we get into the the density and the F. And the F is floor area ratio. And this is really the smallest area that's impacted, right? It's generally in the the the APZ. Uh it's a little bit of land here that's not really even developable, but it are these properties up here. um off and the biggest are are kind of right over here uh at that sort of southwest corner of 78 and 1518. And what we basically said with with that is that the density and F that falls back to the Department of Defense's uh regulation that we've included uh with regard to the FRS and the floor area ratio. So that's the DoD instruction 4165.57. Talked with some of you about it, which is the air installation compatible use zone. And so again, that talks about uses that are allowed. It talks about floor area ratio that's allowed and density that goes with that. So this again by going with this method of we've kind of got these subzones we're not impacting folks who maybe live

over in this area with a regulation that doesn't affect them. And again our balance and we've talked about staff's approach. You can try to get really nuanced with this stuff but the nuance stuff makes it really tricky and kind of confusing. It's harder to understand. it's it's a little more difficult to to implement. And so we tried to strike this balance with basically saying, hey, we've got these three different maps. Depending on what area you're in, different regs apply. So again, for the folks who live in these areas, all of these regs will apply. The density and F as well as the lighting and vertical obstruction. And then the last one is the um the sound attenuation. And generally these are the areas where those sound contours come in. And again there is a separate sound contour map. It you got to really get in there and look at which contour you fall into and which regulation apply. But again, balancing that not being so tricky and confusing and nuanced with a little more general and based on those contours, we created this area to sort of cover it. And so again, those folks basically if they're within the uh 65 dBA or greater, that's the the decel measurement, they've got to comply with the sound attenuation regulations that are in the city of Shirt. So again, for some of these folks, it's the sound regulation, the lighting regulation. That's just what people in City of Shirts have to do. It's really no different than that. Same really with with a lot of the regs. Uh but the what we thought the simplest was was to create these maps. Again, if this is what we go with, we'll put them online. We'll send out postcards with links to it. We'll do it by parcel number so folks can can find that. Uh but again, if you're if you're out here where the

majority of folks are, that's really the the fewest regulations that they'll have to. It's really that lighting. It's really the vertical obstruction and and we think it's it's not terribly ownorous o on folks. Um again, if you're the folks in this area, you've really got the most risks. You got the lighting, you've got the vertical obstruction, you've got the density, you've got the F, and you've got the sound contours. And if you're in this group, you kind of have middle of the road. You've got the sound and you've got the uh lighting and vertical obstruction. I will say on the sound contours, what we find is we we have some homes that have come in that are in the city of Shirts in that 65 dBA that this applies to. We haven't really found this to to get a lot to get very many complaints at all because generally what what folks say is hey the stuff that you're requiring on the sound attenuation it's things we already have to do to meet the energy efficiency right the energy efficiency stuff that that you have to do with insulation tends to be the same sort of stuff you do to meet the sound contour so even those folks and we can provide some more feedback we haven't haven't gotten a lot of complaints on it. And again, I want to be clear, this is not stuff that we're retroactively going to do. So, if you want to come in and you want to make modifications to your house, you're not going to have to come in and and and redo uh the insulation meet the sound attenuation. If you build, say, a separate out building, say a mother-in-law's building out back, that would have to, right? That would that's when it would have to. And so, again, what we want to do on this is see what feedback we get after tonight's presentation from council. If generally you guys say, "Yeah, stuff makes sense, your approach is good, work with the residents, then we'll held figure out how we hold meetings with the residents." We may do it with a P&Z because they haven't been in on any of these. And so it's [snorts] frankly a way to kind of get them up to

speed. We'll send a notice to residents, see where that gets. And then based on the feedback we get, we may pause it, hold some separate meetings, everybody may go, "No, this looks pretty good, fairly straightforward, just a few modifications, and we can move it forward, right?" Um, and so we'll just if council's okay, we'll approach it that way based on what we get and we'll use P&Z a little bit as a sounding board uh when we have that first noticed meeting with everybody as to what that process might need to be. But certainly take feedback from council however much you want to be engaged in this. So with that I'll stop talking and I'll answer questions from councilmen and women people. [cough] We [clears throat] have any questions from any council members.

Good. We got some council member Hayward.

My question is because you want to do it where you you don't want to talk to the residents first. You want to go through PNC and then talk to the residents. Now, we want to talk to them at the same time. Really? So, so really what we wanted to do, right, I didn't want to get too far into sending a bunch of stuff out to the residents if we missed the mark with city council, right? Not that and we know city council wants to hear what the residents say and residents of our ETJ, but I didn't want to get too far down that path if you guys said, "Wait a minute. This seems totally off." Now, if again, if you're like, "All right, this is makes kind of sense. It's kind of what I expected." Then the idea is we'll have that first one at PNZ probably um and we'll we'll uh invite the residents as well. We'll get both those groups up to speed because the changes would need to run through P&Z. But what we'll do after as that part of that meeting is we'll see what the feedback is for residents, right? And you remember a lot of times when folks stood up, I think a lot of them really were worried about worst case scenario and fair enough. I think not that they won't have ways to make this better, not they won't have some stuff they disagree with. I I just I think most folks reaction is all right that could be worse, right? I can kind of generally live with it. So, we'll just see what that process is. But what I don't want to do, and we try to do this, is have all the residents showing up here when it hits council going, "Wait a minute, we never got all our questions answered." And the whole thing gets dis derailed based on that. So, we'll see what we get at P&Z. We'll see what the feedback is and then we'll decide which way we way we want to go with it. If that that kind of makes sense. Okay.

Do we have any other questions from council me council members? Having none, we'll go ahead and uh go ahead. Just going back to the when this all started. I think uh mail outs was the initial, you know, attempt to communicate and I if I recall a lot of the residents were saying that they didn't receive them, some something along those lines.

What uh what can we do to try to prevent that from occurring again? Um is any alternatives besides the mail? I don't know. So, so I have so, so I've been collecting email addresses and some phone numbers from some of the folks uh out there. And so this is generally the direction what we'll do is in addition to the mailers, we'll send those out there. We could also look at certain locations out there uh posting some signs if that's the case. But we often hear from folks didn't see the sign, you didn't have the sign up, whatever. But we could certainly uh work where we have right of way that we can put some signs in. Again, the drawback to the sign thing, right, is now I get the room full of folks that this doesn't apply to because they saw a sign and then the residents who are impacted, their voices are are are kind of um drowned out by that. I I will say the other thing and I'll take suggestions from some of the folks who are regulars. We we at this point they've started communicating among themselves and so we would sort of rely on them to help us by telling their neighbors this is when it is this is when you need to to show up. Um you know so I think I've got about 8 to 12 email addresses phone numbers. Um but that's the drawback. We're we're certainly open to suggestions. Um, I'm not sure they want to see me knocking on their door handing out a flyer, but certainly council people from shirts, they may appreciate that, but but we'll take any suggestions. We'll take, and I mean this sincerely, we'll take suggestions from the residents. It's a challenge we have, right? All of these things that we do. [snorts] Um, and then folks still don't see it. The tricky part on this one is I don't want to have their voices get lost amongst a bunch of folks showing up. Not that folks can't show up. It's certainly

a public meeting, but who it doesn't affect them and they feel like, hey, I didn't have my say, it affects me because we we sat through an hour of folks who the rag doesn't even apply to. But if you have suggestions, we'll take it. I believe uh that area they've formed an association in that area where all the residents uh come together to discuss uh the things that are uh happening in that area. So that could be a way to be able to get connected with some of those residents. Yeah, we've got a few folks and Leighton certainly are are one couple, but Las has a big mailing list

and that's that's up in here. a woman hollering.

Yeah. So, we we can certainly take again what what we may look to do, for example, is we may work with the residents and put a sign up here where most of the folks driving through live up in the area. So, we're not doing it same thing kind of down here. Um, again, I've got my list of sort of folks and and theoretically in the street down here, we could do the same thing. Maybe if we can find somebody says, "Yeah, you can put the sign in my front yard." Uh, that that's a good suggestion. Work with those groups. Okay. Do we have any other questions? Go ahead, Council Member uh, Guerrero.

Yeah, Mr. James, I believe that the getting the word out is going to be a challenge. So, anything that you can come up with, contacting residents, doing town halls, anything to get the word out, that's going to be a challenge.

Yeah, it always is, right? All the things that we do and then folks, you know, they're busy, they've got other stuff. Same thing when I'm driving along, I look one way, look the other, throw half the mail out without looking at it. I'm inundated with emails, they get hung up in spam and things like that, right? Uh so we'll certainly do the things that we can to get the word out and then and hopefully between all of those between kind of word of mouth we catch uh most of the folks but we've had pretty good turnout of the folks who who have known and want to be engaged. Um you know same same kind of deal. So we'll see what we can do. Again if you think of any suggestions certainly email it to city manager. We're happy to take those under advisement. Uh try to get the word out. But again, the balance on this one, I think, is not stick out a message board on 1518 where I've got all of the residents with from How's Cove or Crossfine or Ryan Valley thinking this thing affects them that doesn't and and drowns out the folks impacted.

Thanks.

Okay. Thank you. Um I don't think we have any other questions uh on item seven. Uh there will there will be no action taken on item seven. We'll go ahead and move to item eight, workshop on disposition of city-owned property at 1298 Borgfield Road. It's a formal animal adoption center. Miss Harden, good evening, Mayor, Council, Mr. Williams. So, um, tonight I wanted to talk to you guys about the property located at 1298 Warfold Road. Um, this location in this highlighted teal area used to be the old animal adoption center. It has since moved to 800 Community Circle. Um, and so staff has explored several options on whether we needed to reuse this um, property. Um, but based on cost and repairs, um, it was recommended by staff that we demolish the building. So last, not last year, I apologize, February 6, 2024, city staff came to council, got an approval to demolish the unoccupied, unused city building. Um, and so with that, um, city is recommending that we sell the property because we have no use for it. We just want to make note that if we are going to sell the property that we want to sell it at fair market value. We don't just want to sell it to anyone just because they want the property. Um, and so with that, we're just seeking council's direction on what we should do with the property.

Do I have any questions from any council members on this item? Oh. Uh, Council Member Westbrook.

Yes, Miss Harden. What is fair market value? So, we'll do an appraisal on it, right? We did one a few years ago. We'll do an appraisal on it again. And then we'll likely work with the city attorney, work with purchasing department to put it out to bid. Um, and and again, as I understand, you have the ability, if you don't get a high enough price, you don't have to go through with it. Uh, but again, what what I think staff's trying to make the point is we're we're not going to sell it to somebody for $10 because they want it for $10. the property's got value. Uh but we'll do an appraisal of it before we uh put it out, you know, put it up for for bid, let people bid on it or whatever process. Uh but we didn't want to go through all of that and have council say, "Wait, what's this? I hear about y'all selling this property. I didn't hear anything about it." But obviously to actually make the sale, we would have to come back to city council. So really what we're looking for tonight is just that direction to say, "Yep, makes sense to to go through that process to to see if we want to sell it and then based on what we get back, we can make that decision to go through with it or not."

It's zoned GB. What is it zoned in and around that area? What's the zoning? It's zone GB. GB. Yes, sir. More or less. Yes. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay. We also have Council Member Guerrero who want to speak. We got you. Okay. Council member Hayward. I say let's go. My suggestion is as a recommendation to sell it but get fair market value. See what the fair market value is before we just get rid of it just because somebody wants it. I agree. Thank you. Any other questions?

Nope. Having none, uh, there is no action to be taken on item eight under under our workshop. Mayor, sorry, just just to give them that I can I can concur with that. I think we need to move on from it. Allow someone to purchase it and develop it. Okay. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. All right. At this time, uh, we're going to go ahead and go in close session. Time now is 658.

Jesus. Okay. Um, so we went into exe we went into close session uh this to under uh Texas government code 551-071 to consult with its legal council regarding the legal options and process available for possible econom economic development incentive programs for small businesses. Uh there was no action uh taken in close session and we came out of close session at 7:28 and we're going to reconvene the the regular meeting at 7:33. So since there is no action on uh item nine uh we're going to go into item 10 uh and take any action based on discussion held in close session which there is none. Uh and then now we're going to go into information available in the city council packets. No discussion to occur on the monthly update major projects and progress CIP. Uh do we have Mr. James or Mr. No, this information,

that's just information. Okay. Yes.

All right. Thank you. Um, moving on to requests and announcements. Request by mayor or council members for updates from staff. Do we have any updates? Okay. Uh, moving on. request by mayor and council members on on items or presentations to be placed on any future city council agendas. Are there any items to be placed on any future council agendas? None at this time. All right. Uh moving on to city and community events attended and or to be attended by council.

Nothing tonight, sir. Nothing at this time. Oh, just uh we've had a couple of uh Fourth of July Jubilee meetings and u we got some good things coming and I think we've made a lot of progress and uh we're excited to share that hopefully soon at some point in time. Attended the uh opening of the Dave's hot check-in.

Yes, they had the um had the opportunity to speak to the core of the chamber. Um then the opening ceremony for the um 5K polar bear plunge Dave's Hot Chicken um SSLGC meeting. Thought there was another one, but that's it. Um, I attended the Northeastern Partnership lunchon and Dave's Hot Chicken and the drive-thru line was wrapped around all the way to the front down the way and then the line out the door and it seems to be doing that every day. So, people are really loving Dave's Hot Chicken right now. And that is all. I attended uh Northeast Partnership um as well as uh the ribbon cutting for Dave's Hot Chicken, which was pretty exciting. Anytime we can get a new business in the area to give our residents a choice and to create jobs is always a good thing. Uh I was also uh extremely honored and privileged and very blessed to attend a private ceremony at uh Sipo Elementary School today uh that had Governor Abbott uh present uh along with um some House of Representative uh we had Allan Schoolcraft who authored House Bill 117 that has to do with early childhood education and care. And so, um, and we also had Senator Campbell, uh, present as well along with Representative, uh, Mark Le Hood and John Luhan. And, uh, so that's, uh, really good recognition for our school district. So, and that's all I have. Since, uh, there is, uh, no other uh, items, uh, we're going to go ahead and adjourn at 7:36.

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