Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

[music] [music] [music] [music] Hello, my name is Isabella Perez, recreation leader for the city of Sakuro. Thank you for joining today's meeting. Before the meeting begins, we would like to remind our guests to remove all hats and silence all electronic devices. No disruptive behavior or outburst will be tolerated and by subject to ejection and possible prosecution. is Rodriguez. Secretary Good afternoon everybody. This is the uh plant and zoning commission of the city of Sakuro, Texas. It is March 3rd, 2026, 5:31 p.m. We call this meeting to order.

Good afternoon all. Item number two, establishment of quorum. And Royos here. David Estrada here. Julie Dominguez absent. Resa absent. Yolanda Rodriguez here. Rafael Caro here. We have quum with four commissioners present. Moving on to item number three. Open forum. Alfredo. Do we have anyone that would like to speak? Not at the moment. Thank you. Moving on to item number four, consent agenda. Make a motion to approve. I second.

I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to approve. Second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion? I I.

Any nays? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item number five. Public hearing request for the proposed amendment to the city of Saporo's master plan. zoning of track five, block five, Sooto Grand located at Sooto Distribution Drive, Sooto, Texas from A1, Agricultural to ICMUD, Industrial Commercial Mix Use District, and a variance request from section 46-451 general regulation subsection D height restrict requirements to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 ft maximum height limitation to allow for distribution and warehouse facilities. Miss Rodriguez,

I apologize, Mr. Rodriguez. Good afternoon, everybody. Uh we'll open public hearing at 5:33. We don't have anyone that would like to speak at the moment. We will close public hearing at 5:34.

Thank you. Moving on to item number six. consider and take action for a proposed amendment to the city of Saporoto's master plan and reszoning of track 5 block 5 grand located at Sakoto distribution drive Sakoto Texas from A1 agricultural to ICMU industrial commercial mix use district and a variance request from section 46-451 general regulations subsection D high requirement to allow a 50 maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 ft maximum height limitation to allow a distribution and warehouse facility. Thank you. Good evening chairman and commissioners Rodriguez planned with the city of Sakuro. We'll continue with the next item on the agenda, item number six, which is in a resoning and variance request for IB industrial. We now proceed with some uh general information beginning with an overview of the property. Legal description is track five lot of photo grand property. Sakoro distribution drive. It is owned by Ban Libd represented by Sakara Logistics Land 2 LLC. Lot size 18.91 acres. It is zone A1 agriculture covering land use vacant future land use map ICU uh industrial commercial mix use. Summary of this request request is for approval of a reszoning of from A1 agriculture to ICMUD industrial commercial mix used any variance request

to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of that 45 ft maximum height limitation to allow for distribution and warehouse facilities and staff recommends approval of the resoning and variance request. Then uh we'll have the zoning map where the subject property is online in yellow followed by the future land use map. Here the property is outlined in yellow and the shading the purple shaded denotes the u industrial commercial mix use. Now we have an aerial image of the property outlet in yellow and the site is currently vacant and undeveloped near the getaway east deliver road. Then we have some pictures of the area taken from Sakoro Road, I'm sorry, from Sakoro distribution drive, followed by the public notice map highlighting the area uh within the 200 ft of the property that was notified as required by law regarding the proposed resoning. and no support or opposition has been received in person, by mail, by phone, or via email. These are the uh public notice letter letters that were sent uh mail, I'm

sorry, that were mailed in English and Spanish to property owners within a 200 foot radio radius of the subject uh property. Then we have the concept plan within the resone track five parcel and include a north uh track six parcel. And this is the development plan which provides the project uh project recap and illustrate the proposed building. And according to the applicant, the development would include private drainage ponds, automobile parking, trailer parking, and a future gas generation facility that will serve the building. Once again in summary for this request request is for approval of reszoning of a property from A1 agriculture to ICMUD industrial commercial mixuse and a variance request from section 46451 general regulations of section D height requirements to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 ft maximum height limitation to allow for distribution and warehouse facility. And at this time, staff and the applicant representative, Mr. Gera, are available for any question you might have. Thank you.

I don't have any questions. Anybody else does?

I don't have resvelics. Yes.

No, no questions. I'd like to make a motion to approve with um the variance allowing them to build 50 feet instead of 40 45. I second. I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to approve with staff recommendations and second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion I. [clears throat]

Any nays? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item number seven. Consider and take action on the approval of a repat for Balman Estates unit 2 repat being a repad of lot 10 block 8 Bman Estates unit 2 and located at 11301 Sheffield Drive Texas. Migas I apologize Mr. Uh good evening. Uh my name is Diego uh planner with the city of Sukoro. Uh we'll be moving on to the next item which is uh item number seven unit 2 request. The legal description of uh Bmanates unit 2 uh lot 10 block 8 unit 2. Uh the address is 11301 Sheffield Drive. Uh the property owner is Golden Homes JL LLC. The representative Enrial Con is 21,265.992. It's uh zoning is R1 single family residential. Current land use is residential. Summary of the request is applicant is requesting for approval of a to create two residential lots from one lot. Uh staff recommends approval of a Here is the uh zoning map of the property showing the yellow shading which is R1. the green being agricultural and the lot

being uh highlighted in red in the corner of Sheffield and well drive. Here is the aerial image again the lot highlighted in red. These are the pictures of the current uh view of the property. Here's the original flat of unit 2. The lot is located at the southwest corner of the subdivision. This is the plan will be divided into two different reiterating the summary of the request request for approval of a unit and we'll be taking questions at this time. I don't have any questions. I think each lot's going to be over 10,500 square feet. Correct. So,

correct. I don't have any questions. Anybody else? I don't either. No, no questions. David like to make to motion uh make a motion to approve. I second a motion. I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to approve, second by Raphael Caro. All those in favor of the motion I I.

Any nays? Any obstain? Motion carry. Moving on to item number eight, considering take action on the approval of a reat for La Hoya subdivision. K being a repat of lot 14 block 4 la hoya subdivision and located at 10 escalant drive Texas Mr. Thank you. The uh next item is the flat of La Hoya subdivision. Uh the legal description of will be uh lot 14 block Hoya subdivision. Property address is 100 Escalante Drive. The property owner Rosa Pala representative Calderon Engineering. The lot size is 21,6 Uh the zoning is R1 single family residential. Uh the current land use is residential. The summary of the request is for approval of a flat for La Hoya subdivision K. Um staff recommends approval of the Here's the zoning map uh illustrating the uh R1 uh residential zone. Uh the property is highlighted in red at the corner of uh drive and here's the aerial image. Here are the current views of the property. First picture showing from drive and showing from escal

with the uh property showing on the north side of the subdivision. Here is the reflex showing the sections and the The summary of the request is for approval of the la and we're not taking any questions. I don't have any questions if anybody else does. There is one in the uh corner lock and it shows in the Uh currently no the uh the existing structure uh it shows uh well in the u the

I'd like to make a motion to approve. I second. I have a motion made by Andrea Roy to approve, second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion.

Any names? Any obstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item number nine. Consider and take action on the proposed approval of a master plan resubmission section 38-7.11. Master plan changes for Soo Logistics Center being Logistics unit one. So logistics center unit 2. So logistics center unit 3. All of track 78. Portion of tracks 2 3 4 5 6 and a 8A. Portion of Messa drain all within block five. grant located at Sakoro Logistics Lane and Sooto distribution distribution drive Sooto Texas to allow for industrial development.

Thank you Yadira. Good evening chairman commissioners Judah Rodriguez. Before Judith starts, can I have Yavita repeat the motion because we cannot hear you on the Zoom. Sure. Um Consider and take action. I really need everyone to speak into their microphones because when we're watching the video online, we can't hear you. Consider and take action on the proposed approval of a master plan staff and commissioner. Repeat what you said.

Repeat the motion. So, whoever spoke right now, I did not hear you in the microphone. I hear an echo. Also, there is important to know there's a delay from when I'm hearing on the video to when you guys are speaking in the live.

I'll go ahead and repeat item number nine, consider and take action on the proposed approval of a master plan resubmission section 38. Section 38-7.11 master plan changes for Soooro Logistics Center being SKOR Logistics Unit 1, Soo Logistics Center Unit 2, Soro Logistics Center Unit 3, all of track 7A. Portion of track 2, three, four, five, six, and 8. portion of Messa Square drain all within block five Soro grant located at Sakoro logistics lane and Sakoro distribution distribution drive Soro Texas to allow for industrial development miss Rodriguez thank you Yadira good evening chairman commissioners J Rodriguez planner with the city of Sakoro we'll continue with the next item on the agenda item number nine which is a master plan resmission for Sakora Logistics Center. We'll now proceed with some uh general information with an overview of the property. Legal description is being Sakar Logistic Center unit one, Sar Logistic Center Unit 2, Sar Logistics Center Unit 3, all tracks 7A portion of tracks 2, three, four, five, six, and 8A. Portion of messes for train all within block five. Sakoro grant property owned by Sakoro Logistics Land 2 LLC represented by Jorge Graera CA Group. The lot size is 316.07

acres. It is zon ICM UD and A1 agriculture. Current land use is industrial and vacant and the future land use map is industrial commercial mix used. Summary for this request. It's an approval of a master plan resubmission for Sakura logistics center as per section 387.11 master plan changes of the city of Sakoro municipal code. Staff recommends approval of the master plan resubmission for Sakoro logistics center. Then we have the zoning map showing the property in purple indicating it is in the industrial zoning uh district within the Sakaro logistic center and the green rectangle denotes the A1 agriculture uh zoning uh penting track. I'm sorry. The A1 is the the A1 is the agriculture uh zoning district and this is the the track five which is the pending for reszoning to ICMUD. Next we have the aerial image of the property. So you can see uh the existence of coral logistics center buildings along the no wo tanks road and across the messes port train is the portion of the sides that remain uh vacant. We have some pictures of different sites that will be added to the master plan.

Then uh this is the original master plan. Now this is the updated master uh master plan. The area highlighted in orange on your uh right top in the corner is the proposed addition to the master plan. This portion of the site includes the surret land previously reszone and the current IV track 5 reszoning. Once again, the summary of this request request is for approval of the master plan resubmission for Sakara Logistics Center as per section 387.11 master plan changes of the city of Sakoro Municipal Code. And at this time, staff and Mr. Graa present for any question you might have. Thank you.

I don't have any questions. Can you do you have this? Can you show this on the screen?

This is shown in the next slides. So, okay. So, I know we can't see color on the screen very well, but it's these three parcels that are being added to the original master plan. Correct. Basically,

yes, that will be presented for each plat because the next um the next case will be sacloistic five and then six and then seven. So, we'll be in each color. So, we're going to be adding each one today or this motion adds all those or each separately.

Thank you. Uh Lorine Kimo, this is the item for the master plan which only adds these two recently reszoneed properties. If you go back to the drawing of the original master plan, you can See that top right hand corner doesn't have any buildings on it. That's the piece that's being that one right there in vacant and now highlighted. That's what's being added to the master plan. After we approve the master plan, we'll move on to the different uh plats. Okay, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

Good. Make a motion to approve. I second. I have a motion made by Andrew Aoyos to approve, second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion.

Any nays? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item number 10. Consider and take action on the proposed approval of the preliminary plat and final plat for Sakoro Logistics Center unit 5 being all of track 7A. A portion of track 6 and 8A and a portion of Messaspur drain all of all within block five Soroto Grand El Paso County, Texas. According to the reservey of said Soooro grand made by El Paso County, Texas for tax purposes and a portion of lot one block 2 Soro logistics center unit 2 Soro Texas. Miss Rodriguez.

Thank you Yadira.

Good evening Chairman Commissioner Judith Rodriguez planner with the city of Sakoro. We'll continue with the next item on the agenda item number 10. And this is a preliminary plat and final plat request for Sakoro Logistics Center unit 5. We'll proceed with some general information with an overview of the property legal description all of track 78 a portion of tracks six and 8 88 and a portion of Messa Sport train all within block five. Grand El Paso County, Texas. According to the reserve bait of Seo Cororo Grand made by El Paso County, Texas for tax purposes in a portion of lot one block 2, Sakoro Logistics Center, unit 2, Sakoro, Texas. The property address is a Sakoro distribution drive. It is owned by Sakoral Logistics Land 2 LLC and Sakura Logistics Land 3 LLC represented by CA Group and Sakara Logistics Land 2 LLC. The lot size is 33 acres. It is zoned ICM UD industrial commercial mixuse. Current land use is vacant and the future land use map is ICU I'm sorry ICMU industrial commercial mix use summary for this request is a is a request for approval of preliminary plat and final plat for the Sakoro Logistics Center unit 5 and staff recommends approval of the preliminary plat and final plat for Sakoro Logistics unit Now we have the zoning map with the uh subject property. It's outlined in yellow

and the purple I'm sorry shading denotes the industrial uh zoning district followed by the narial image where the subject is a line in yellow and it includes a portion of track six and 8A. This is a picture of the area to be uh included in SAR logistics 5. This is a preliminary plan presented by the applicant. followed by the final plaque and this is the plat exhibit. This was provided by the by the applicant which illustrate the location of the proposed units and this case the psychologistics unit 5 it's highlighted in purple for uh its identification. Once again summary of this request is for approval of preliminary platin final platforms logistics center unit 5 and at this time staff and the applicant is available to answer any question you might have. Thank you.

I don't have any questions. Make a motion to approve. I second. I have a motion made by Andrew A Royos to approve. Second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion. I.

Any nays? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item 11. consider and take action on the proposed approval of the preliminary plan and final plan and variance request from section 46-451 general regulation subsection D height requirements to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 feet maximum height limitation to allow for Industrial Development for Sakoro Logistics Center unit 6 being all of track 5, a portion of track 4 6 8A and a portion of Messa Spur drain all within block five, Sooto Grand, Ed Paso County, Texas according to the reservey of said Sooto Grand made by El Paso County, Texas for tax purposes and a portion of lot on block two Soo logistics center unit 2 Soro Texas miss Rodriguez

thank you Yadira good evening chairman commissioners J Rodriguez planner with the city of Sakoro we'll continue with the next item on the agenda item 11 and this is a preliminary plat final plaid and a variance request for Sakoro Logistics Center unit We have some general information and overview of the property. Legal description all of track five portion of tracks four six and 8A and a portion of messes for drain all within block five Soro ground El Paso County Texas according to the reserve of Sakoro ground made by El Paso County Texas for tax purposes and a portion of lot one block two Soro logistics center unit 2 Sakoro Texas. The property address is Sakoro Distribution Drive. It is owned by Sakoro Logistics Land 2 LLC and is represented by CA Group Sakoro Logistics Land 2 LLC. The lot size is 42.74 acres. It is zoned ICMUD industrial commercial mixed use and A1 agriculture. Cor use is vacant and the future land use map is ICMU industrial commercial mix use. Summary of this request is for approval of preliminary plat final plat and a variance for the Sakar logistics center unit 6. Staff recommends approval of the preliminary plat final plat and a variance request for Sakor Logistics Center unit 6. Then we have the zoning map where the

subject property zone line in yellow. The purple shading denotes the IC MUD industrial commercial mixed use zoning district. And the green shading denotes the A1 agriculture which is the pending track to be reszoned to ICMUD. That's the

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Then we have an aerial image where the subject properly its outlining yellow. Some pictures of the area that will be developed for SAR to center unit six. The preliminary plan presented by the followed by the final plaque and the plaid's exhibit where uh so corales center unit 6 is represented in blue and that includes the proposed uh building that will be the building number nine for Sakara Logistics Once again summary of this request request is for approval of a preliminary plat and final plat and a variance request from section 46451. General regulations subsection D height requirements to allow a 50t maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 ft maximum height limitations to allow for industrial development for Sakoro Logistics Center unit 6 and at this time staff and the applicant are available to answer any question you may have. Thank you. No, no questions.

Make a motion to approve with staff recommendations on the height of the buildings for from 45 to 50. I second. I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to approve, second by Yolanda to approve with staff for recommendation and second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion I I I.

Any [clears throat] nays? Any absane? Motion carried. Moving on to item 12. consider and take action on the proposed approval of the preliminary plat and final plaid and a variance request from section 46-451 general regulation subsection D high requirements to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of the 45T maximum height limitation to allow for industrial development for SKO logistics center unit 7 being a portion of track 2, three, four, and 8A all within block five, Soo Grant, El Paso County, Texas taxes. According to the reservey of said Soooro grant made by El Paso County taxes for tax purposes. Miss Rodriguez,

thank you Yadita. Good evening, chairman, commissioners. Jud Rodriguez, planner with the city of Sakoro. We will continue with the next item on the agenda. Item number 12. This is a preliminary plat final plat and a variance request for Sakoro Logistics Center unit 7. We'll proceed with general information and I'll review uh the property. Starting with the legal description. This is a portion of tracks 2, three, four, and 8A. All within block five, Sokoro Grand, El Paso County, Texas. According to the reserve of Sokoro Grand made by El Paso County, Texas for tax purposes. The property address is Sakoro Distribution Drive. It is owned by Sakoro Logistics Land 2 LLC represented by CA Group, Sakoro Logistics Land 2 LLC. The lot size is 35.28 acres. It is zone ICM UD industrial commercial mix use. Current land use is vacant. Future land use map industrial commercial mix use summary. This request is for approval of a preliminary plat and final plat and a variance for the Sakoral Logistics Center unit 7 and staff recommends approval of the preliminary plat final plat and a variance request for Sakoral Logistics unit 7. The next slide we have the zoning map where the subject property is outlined in yellow and the purple shading denotes the ICM UD in uh industrial commercial zoning district

followed by the aerial image where the project um I'm sorry the property it's aligned in Yellow site pictures of the area to be added as acistic 7. This is the preliminary plat provided by the applicant followed by the final plaque. The exhibit so called Logistic unit seven indicating in the green area at the bottom of the PL. Summary of this request once again request is for approval of a preliminary plat and final plat and a variance request from section 46451 general regulations of section D height requirements to allow a 50 ft maximum allowable building height instead of the 45 ft maximum height limitation to allow for industrial development for Soral logistics center unit 7. And at this time, staff and the applicant are available to answer any question you might have. Thank you.

No questions. Questions. Like to make a motion to approve with uh staff recommendations 45 to 50 ft in height. I second. I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to approve with staff recommendation and second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion I.

Any nays? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item 13. consider and take action on the proposed approval of the preliminary plaque for the Ohana being a portion of track 1x now known as track1. Lane Clark survey number 293 and a portion of law 17 block six de Rio unit 2 amending plat and addition of the city of Sakoro El Paso County Texas Rodriguez

I apologize um Mr. Ruiz.

Thank you. Hello. Uh Diego Ruiz, planner with the city of Sakura. Uh next item will be the preliminary plan request for the Johannes. [snorts] Uh here's the general info of the Johannes. The legal description is lot 17, block 6, Srio 2. Uh property address, Stockyard Drive and S Blanco Drive. Property owner John representative is Alonso Pis. Uh the lot size is 1.58 acres. Uh zoning is R3 high density residential. Uh current land use is vacant and the future land use suburban residential. The summary of the request is for approval of preliminary flat of the staff recommends approval of the preliminary plat of the

I'm sorry. Sir, can you speak into the microphone a little louder, please? Thank you.

Here is the uh zoning map for the Ohana subdivision. uh the subdivisions highlighted in yellow and the orange uh shade uh showing the R3 residential. Here is the aerial image of the Johannes uh highlighted in yellow. Here are the uh pictures showing the current view of the uh Ohana subdivision uh located in S Blanco Drive and Stock Drive. Here's the uh preliminary plot. Summary of the request is the approval of the preliminary plat of the ohanas. And I believe um Alberto Perez is uh available and staff is available for any questions.

I have a question. Can you tell me the size the smallest size of one of these lots? What would be the size of the all the lots that are divided. I believe there is a limit of 10,000 square feet, right? Um,

I'm turning on my mic. The The smallest one is 5,311 square ft. The largest is a little under 7,000 square feet. This is uh R3 uh and that doesn't exist in our zoning districts anymore, but there are still a few pockets of A3 R3s that are still undeveloped. Oh, so this one is already R3. It was already R3. Okay. Okay. Okay. So the so because they undeveloped then the 5,300 is susceptible. Yes, that that was my question.

What? Just just just for our info on on R3, what's the smallest? Is it like three like 3,000 or something like that? 5,000. I think it was I think it's five. I thought it was five. I thought it was less. It was small. It was small. So yeah.

So one of the one of the slides up there said future land use map. It said uh suburban residential. I think it was the opening page. Okay. So, future land use map suburban residential. Our our document that we have printed up says R3 residential. So, and so I think that's the first I don't remember seeing suburban residential, but can you define what that is? Can you find that for us? So it would be our equivalent to our current R1 similar to our

similar to our current and so suburban residential has been in the ordinance all along. No, that that comes out of our the comprehensive plan. Comprehensive the recent uh update to the city's future long-term plan, the comprehensive plan. the comprehensive. Yeah. And and maybe the hope was there that since it was vacant that it would um conver it would convert to uh something more less dense, but they did not change to zoning. That R3 is the zoning for that property.

Okay. So, from our handout to what's up there, there's is there what's the discrepancy there? Because we have R3 and that's suburban resial. in the handout. Yeah, like in our handout it says Sakoro 2040 future land use map and that one says future land use map. Up on the screen it says future land use map suburban residential but our handout has R3. That might have just been a typo. Um so I guess uh trying to clarify uh R3 is the zoning for for this area.

The current land use for for this plat is vacant. So there's no houses uh it's underdeveloped. Um future land use map will be that it will be suburban residential meaning that there will be houses uh occupying those lots. But you are correct. It it is a typo. The R3 is incorrect. The do we have the future land use map? I don't think so. We might not because we usually just put those up for the for the zoning cases. It's just zoning and then the next one is the aerial and then the images. Correct. Yeah, this is so we don't have the map.

Okay. And I don't I don't think it makes a difference here. I was just wondering because I don't recall seeing suburban residential use and I was thinking maybe that was something geared towards higher density or No, if it it's in the new it's in a new comprehensive plan and it's the equivalent to the R1 zone. R1 zone. So minimum R1 would be minimum 10,000 foot lot. Yes. Okay. So this is R3 and then our minimum here is 5,300. Right. Yeah, sure. Minimum is should be 5,000. The smallest here is 52. The smallest on this one is 53. Yeah.

And suburban suburban use is equivalent to R1. All right. I have more questions on that, but we'll go on. We can discuss it on the other. Okay. I'm good.

Okay. So, I have another question. The only access to this property here is either off of stockard and yellow road. That's those are the only two accesses to the property when the all the houses go up. Am I right or is there another road going to hit through the back side which is the front? This is so then you have some vacant property that is right there next to it. That is the uh ponding.

Yes. Can you go to the area? You might be able to see. So then Okay. So he said that's for the ponding. Okay, I got it. Okay, I'm good. Is is the ponding part of this partial? They're going to uh improve the ponding for the parcel. Right now it's it's it's very it's very steep. They are going to um um excavate and provide a rock wall surrounding the ponding. But is that ponding area a different parcel that we're going to be seeing? Yes, it was. It was cited with the um I'm drawing a blank on the name of the

Rio. Thank you. Del Rio. Yeah. So that parcel is going to be the ponding for this for all of it. So they're just going to add the instead of re building a taking up room with a new par a new pond when there's a perfectly capable pond there. needs to be estimated and they've done the engineering uh to add the additional pond. Okay. So, that pond already exists. Yes. Because of all the other houses that are there. Okay. They're going to make it deeper. They're going to make it deeper and and build a rock wall around it. Yes. Okay.

Okay. And so, so that pond is now managed by the city of Sakoro. Yes, it is a city's pond. Okay. questions. Make like to make a motion to approve. I second the motion. I have a motion made by Andrew A Royos to approve. Second by Raphael Caro. All those in favor of the motion. I. Any naysay? Any abstain? Motion carried. Moving on to item 14, planning and zoning commissioners report. Commissioners,

I have a quick question. I think I saw some I don't remember that the bridges on Vineyard and Passmore are coming pretty close to it's in the plans, right? Or in the works.

Yes. And that's a very interesting uh project that the city is undertaking with in coordination with the Isla PBLO. They have access to funding to fix uh bridges and uh address transportation needs that are in their network. So it turns out that not all of the streets in their network are actually on their property. There are roads in Sakoro that serve uh the population of the is Pueblo which makes them eligible for this special federal funding that's allocated for uh tribal um populations. So they approached the city and asked if the city had could identify some needs and it was very easy to identify some needs. We selected pass and vineyard currently the uh engineering group of CA is developing the uh all of the plans, coordinating with the water improvement district and as soon as we are able to uh finish those up and and uh submit those. We understand that construction funding shouldn't be far behind. So hopefully this will will move very quickly. Uh they won't be built together. They will they will uh build one and then uh build the next one just so that we're not tying up both roads.

That's great. Yes. I have a question. I know last year we talked about the um trying to either approve or set up ordinances for the variances um like the 45 to 50. So they be standard because I mean We do this every time. Do you have a an idea of when or how we could do that? It it'll be coming in the ordinance rewrite. We did it. We should have done it together when we redid the parking ordinance because we don't hear variances for the parking request. We don't hear those.

We should have taken the opportunity and undone the height as well. So that was um probably juggling too many too many balls at at one time but we will do that at the during our this uh ordinance rewrite. Okay. And do you know when that next one would be? Uh we we need to take care of that by the end of March. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. So I had a a request from someone to ask the following question. Um, and so this has to do with the sooral road and the the historic district office core road. And so last year there was a a request that went through the historical landmark commission. Uh, and that land owner that whoever owned that parcel is now building a I think it's a family dollar. It's under construction. So, it falls within a historic corridor. It's frontage off of Coral Road. And so, it's within the vicinity of the other older structures that are there, the other businesses that have open shop and older structures and so on. And so the general opinion of the neighbor neighbors there are is that the dollar general is out of character for that historical corridor. So when it went through the historical admark commission they only have the authority to approve or disapprove on the facade on the on the elevation on what it looks like and on the colors of the of whatever anybody's going to do out there. So when it went through there, Family Dollar said they presented their building, what it looks like, and then that's it. Historical landmark commission, they don't have any say on what they can do with their parcel. And so the question came up and it's been discussed and several people have brought it up already is why why a family dollar in that area when you have a bunch of older structures. So, for example, Windown is there and Dusty Tap and Brewery, you know, everything's in there. And then, so all the homes there

are really old, older homes. Um, there's nothing really modern or like newer franchise businesses, for example, don't exist. That's basically the first one that's coming in there. And so the question is, is there any authority that the city of Sakoro might have? And to be able to say, no, we don't want that type of business in that section of Sakoro because it's within the historical landmark area, the historic district, and it's basically, I guess the argument would be it's it's just out of character. And so the other thing that it does is that it's competition much like Walmart's competition for a lot of other small mom and pop shops. A Family Dollar is direct competition to a lot of other businesses that might consider opening up their smaller stores in that area, right? They're they're uh like where the Sakoro Mission is at, for example, they're doing sidewalks, you know, they're adding lights and and so on. And so a family dollar going in, it's basically competition for anyone else, small business owners that might consider going in there and buying parcels or renovating parcels or or just leasing out commercial space because now they have competition with the bigger franchise stores such as Family Dollar, but it could be a Starbucks or it could be a Peter Piper pizza, you know, it could be just bigger franchises. So that can question is there any authority for the city of Sakor to say no we don't want you we don't want you here

or building another site

build on another site outside of the historical landmark corridor I mean th those I mean looking back in in history that's a very significant area right and so we think that the city of Sakoro could really benefit on there. And being from Sakoro, I've seen over the last 10, 15 years, 20 years, I mean, gradual, but it's more and more people are going in there and investing in that area. Um, but it's all in keeping with the character of that district. And so now you have a family dollar that's people are like business owners, existing business owners are saying, "Yeah, we don't particularly want this here. Why why is it going up?" And so I'm thinking as a land owner, right, anybody who owns a parcel, well, can they be told what to build and what not to build so long as and this it is zone commercial. They meet all the setbacks. It's it didn't come through here, right? Because it didn't have to res be reszoned. it met what it needed to meet when it went through planning and zoning and they got their permit and they're well under construction but any thoughts

I don't believe the so where you would find that information would be the historic uh overlay for the mission trail so that's in our zoning ordinance and I don't believe it goes as far as to dictate the types of businesses for the corridor we can revisit it and look at it and see look at other examples for communities that have um stricter guidelines for their historic districts. There's if that's what's needed to help preserve, but there are already other businesses that are a little more modern like the believe there's a Circle K farther down, another Dollar General. Um but we would it would be in the historic overlay for the district. So then that brings up uh last year we had a bunch of classes or event meetings discussing uh what we would like to see. Okay. We had consultants.

So what happened to that? Did we not go anywhere with it or is that something that just didn't happen because I know we came and we drew it's in our comprehensive it's in our comprehensive plan.

Uh there are efforts uh with among the businesses on Sakor Road to try to build up activity and visibility. So um Miss Loya and Windown with their uh um kind of like artist market and the um farmers market. The mission trail alliance is having an event here soon to encourage businesses to open up in onor road encourage and support the businesses that exist on support road

but there wasn't anything in the plan to say like Mr. Estrada is saying is to control it like for instance you go to Messia you see old buildings you see old stuff you see old gift shops you see old restaurants

okay and they are I believe a historical area okay but they have control of what goes up and what goes down there so I think he's asking is if we have a historical trail then why is it that we can't control what goes up in that area like we would want to bring in gift stores even if they were from the TU Indians or or stuff that is closer to the mission because the sidewalks are going up and yes I would like to see tour buses come and drop off at the mission and go to the other mission in San and all that but I think that if we start breaking away from what is there as a historical site, then we can't call it a historical trail because that's not what it is anymore. And I think it's important that if we're going to try and maintain a historical trail, then there has to be the city has to have some control as to what goes up. That that's just my opinion. Thank you. So, so when this was discussed at the at the HLC at the historical landmark commission or or meeting, they they we're told at that point while the historical landmark commission doesn't have that authority, they don't have that perview. They don't have that say. They don't have those guidelines that can't do anything as to be able to say what can go in there. And so it's so we're put from that from that meeting we're pointed in this direction like go to go to planning and zoning right and so as a as a resident I'm I feel like it's a ping-pong ball because it's here and then there and then and everybody's like okay well who has the authority to to do something and so my so okay so then my next question would be what's the route that we need to take as

residents, right? Who who do we talk to? Where do we go? How do we get the ball rolling? So, yeah, a good place to start is uh the meeting that that they're going to have like the mixture that they're going to have next Thursday.

That's like the if you want to make the change here, those are just examples of things that are happening to encourage promote right where we don't have um where we can and private efforts to help promote development on the mission trail. But for us, and to answer your question, it would be in the ordinance. I currently don't I don't think it currently has that, but we can investigate and research to find what language needs to go in there to have more control over what land uses can uh can be um placed on the mission trail. Okay. So that's what

And so the ordinance the ordinances would be through the planning and zoning ordinances and then through the zoning historic overlay for the for the mission trail. Okay, that would be a good start. Okay, I'm good. Thank you. Nope, nothing to read. Thank you, commissioners. Moving on to item number 15, planning and zoning department report. Miss Camo, thank you Adira. I don't have anything to report just to uh welcome Mr. Rafael to the planning and zoning commission. Thank you.

Welcome. I understand you have some experience with the planning and zoning commission in the past. Look forward to meeting with you and having you be a member of the commission. Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome Mr. Karo. Moving on to item 16. consider and take action on the adjournment of this meeting. Do I have a motion? Make a motion to adjurnn. I second. I have a motion made by Andrea Royos to adjourn. Second by Yolanda Rodriguez. All those in favor of the motion. I.

Any naysay? Any abstain? Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 6:38. Thank you all for coming. Thank you.