Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning & Zoning
Meeting Type
Planning & Zoning
Location
Tyler, TX
Meeting Date
July 1, 2025

Transcript

26 sections

6:46 – 8:45Speaker 1

only one this is not supposed to and they don't just I've been last meeting here comfortable. I watched it on TV the other night and it was fine. It was okay. is all right. Uh ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this meeting of the city of Tyler Planning and Zoning uh Commission meeting for July uh the 1st. I'll just uh say something that's not on my on not on the agenda. This is my granddaughter's birthday. So, say happy birthday to Sophie, please. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to Sophie. Uh, so, uh, the first order of business, we're we are in session and the first order of business is a roll call. Whoever is doing that, I can see. Yes, sir. Carlen Dark Baz, present. Clint Childs, present. Philip Humber, present. Christina Davis, present. Michael Carmichael, present. Roy Martinez present. David Hudson present. We have a full commission here here today. The planning con and zoning commission makes recommendations to the city council. Any item approved today, excuse me, will be heard by the city council at its regular meeting on Wednesday, July 23rd, commencing at 9:00 a.m. If you received a notice for this meeting, you also received a notice for the city council meeting. If any item is denied, the applicant has 10 calendar days to file a written appeal with the planning department. The appeal will then be acted upon by the city council.

8:43 – 10:43Speaker 1

If you're here to speak for or against an item, please state your name and address for the please come to the podium and state your name and address for the record. Comments should be limited to five minutes or less, although extensions of time may be granted by the chair upon request. Then we always have a meet a workshop after this meeting to discuss next month's business. And that meeting will be on July the 15th at 1:30 in the Tyler Development Center across the street at 423 West Ferguson in the large conference room. And that meeting, like all of our meetings, is open to the public. The next item on our agenda is minutes from the June 3rd meeting of commissioners had an opportunity to rem review those any changes, corrections. If not, is there a motion? So move. Second. Motion's been made, seconded to approve the minutes from the June uh what day was that? uh third June 3rd meeting. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Those minutes are approved. First item on our agenda is zone zoning PD 25 to01 Genico West Mud Creek LLC. Uh Anna. Good afternoon, commissioners and everybody here present. Um I do want to state uh for this case um it was one of our cases that was submitted at the beginning of the year. Um it was held at our May meeting for PZ and it was denied. Um the reason that it's being presented today is because it's a different layout than what was originally submitted in May. Um so I'll kind of go over what the case is requesting.

10:39 – 12:39Speaker 1

So this request is for an R1A single family residential district to a PUR plan unit residential district. It is located at west um the west interse west west of the northwest intersection of Cumberland Road and Plexi Drive. The oblig is requesting the zone change to develop detached single family homes with private streets. The surrounding properties are zoned with R1A, PMXD1, plan mixed use district, PMF, plan multifamily district, agricultural district, and light commercial district and RPO um restricted professional office district. Majority of the adjacent properties are undeveloped. Um some of the adjacent properties to the south and west are developed with single family homes. The sing the future land use would consist of single family, medium, low density. For this proposed um site plan, they are proposing 40 single family homes at a density of 1.48. Um the site plan shows two access points, one connecting to Wilder Trail and another connecting to future development to the east. The proposed 40 lots and the existing 13 lots within the subdivision to the west um only require one access point given given that there are fewer than 60 lots. The second access point to the west to the east sorry exceed minimum requirements. However, it will allow for alternative access for residents when the the addition of that future development is added. The proposed development we would would create a lower density than what would be allowed in the R1A zoning. All other development standards including setbacks, density, height, landscape, and parking will comply with the R1A

12:36 – 14:33Speaker 1

regulations. The site plan proposes a culde-sac which exceeds the 600 ft length. The proposed private culde-sac will have a lower traffic volume as the lot sizes are larger and only 20 lots will street front along it. Of the seven notices, um, one notice was returned in favor and three were returned in opposition to the request, bringing the total pro protest calculations to 18.47%. The opposition stated concerns of privacy, traffic, and density. Staff has performed a technical review of the request and finds that the request is generally consistent with the approval criteria and staff recommends approval of the request. Thank you Anna. Any any questions for city staff? Any questions for I if not uh I know nobody signed up to to speak on my pad but I know the persons here who are interested. So, uh, if you're here to speak for against an item, this item, will you please come to the microphone? Um, I know Wesley uh is in is is not for this. So, uh, I'm sorry, say it again. Wesley um Hamilton the guy that's that shows he's not against it. He is against it. But uh anyway, um I was hoping that y'all were gonna that that Genico was going to do a larger

14:30 – 16:28Speaker 1

comprehensive plan so that we would know what uh what the future impact would be on the C Cumberland Road residents. We still have the concerns of the road congestion, the additional traffic that's going to be going on Cumberland Road. Um, there is also a concern of the development. It's it's a common known thing that when you do a development, the runoff that goes into the creek is is going to cause additional drainage problems. And I was coming down Cumberland Road on July on June 4th and uh water was going across Cumberland Road. I've got a video of it. I would like to Would I be able to let y'all look at it? Uh can we can we do that, Kyle? You have do we have the capacity to do it or not? No. Evidently, we don't have the technology. I mean, I could I've got it right here. Could I show it to you? Yeah. Let let everybody see it. Jim, while we're doing that, Jim, would you just identify yourself for the uh Jim Clark, 1418 Cumberland Road. I'm sorry. I've been up there several times. Um, but this is actually a higher density than what they originally were putting in. And um, you know, we were wanting the Genico group to do like a one acre minimum. And

16:25 – 18:24Speaker 1

these are going to be How many How big are the lots? What how big are the lots though? between half and one. From what I can tell, they're between half and one. A half half acre lots. The developer can probably tell us to be for sure. Um, but again, uh, the congestion on Cumberland Road, the future of what they're going to do after this, how do how does that work when they decide to add on to that? Is that already approved? No. No. Okay. Um, if if you guys have y'all I mean, are y'all not concerned about the water runoff at all? We're we're Jim, we're concerned about every aspect of this proposal. So, I would just think that there needs to be a study because that the water's coming over the road and with this additional uh development, it's just going to be worse. So, anyway, I'm against it obviously. And if you all would like to pass that around to look at that, I think we can see it. And earlier you referred to another gentleman, Wesley Hamilton, right? And and are you representing that? He has he he's against it. Mr. Mr. I have I have a petition that he signed against it. Okay. Well, passure on pass that around. Is Mr. Hamilton here? No, he's not here. Okay. Uh there's several people that wanted to be here that aren't able to be here because of future commitments. So, any questions for Mr. Clark? If not, Jim, thanks for your time and thanks. I I would like for the other people to see that. I think we can see

18:22 – 20:22Speaker 1

it. I think we all I think we all saw it. Okay. I do have a a question. Is this petition regarding this newest plan or is this from an the previous site plan? Uh that's from any plan that doesn't meet those requirements. Their one acre minimum is what we were requesting. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Are there are there others I don't I'm sure there are others here who'd like to speak on this. John John Souls. Good afternoon. John Souls, 1401 Cumberland Road in Tyler. Um, I'm just um I've lived there 25 years. I've seen the water over Cumberland on other occasions. I've never seen it as wide as it is under this current film. Uh, which to me indicates that there's more paving been done and that creates more runoff. Uh my primary concern is uh over the years I've become more involved in environmental issues and I see this terrain map and from from going from a 1acre plot to a halfacre plot or from a halfacre plot to a multi- dwelling. The more people you have in a certain area, the less green space there's going to be. green space is what it mitigates the water runoff, absorbs it, and allows it to repercate back into the soil. So, uh, I would just ask the council to, uh, or the commission to to please consider

20:18 – 22:17Speaker 1

every time you reduce the the amount of green space for for a family or you increase the number of families within green space. the the inevitable uh result of that in this very slope drainage terrain is going to be that you're going to have a higher accumulation of runoff water and that's going to adversely affect people. Uh and Cumberland has become uh 25 years ago it was kind of a lazy little road. Uh it's not lazy anymore. It's very full of traffic. Uh times very often in mornings and afternoons, it's a 105 minute wait to get pulled out from your driveway out onto it. So we can as residents, we can only imagine what how much worse it's going to be uh with with additional building, but we're not opposed to the building. We just want it to be done sort of um in conjunction with the original design of the homes that are already out there and have been for several years. And uh and we would ask that you please take into consideration with this extreme terrain. Uh the smaller you make the the family dwellings, the greater the chance for adverse runoff uh water. I mean, that's it's just going to be inevitable. So we we really think at the bare minimum acre lots will provide enough grass and greenery and absorption area that the heavy rainfall is not going to flood that road out uh much more. It would have been impassible. I saw Jim's copy beforehand of the of a couple of cars not turning around. They they went through it. Uh if it had been u much more runoff there uh could have

22:14 – 24:13Speaker 1

been swept off into the to the creek which is a that's a pretty deep on the uh what is that the south side of Cumberland. It's a pretty deep ditch right there. So I think it would have been pretty dangerous had there been very much water going over that road for that vehicle to drive through it. So, u you know, if if this area continues to develop, I think we're going to be looking at maybe needing a a bridge crossing there. So, I I would just uh I would ask you please to take all these different concerns in consideration for this decision. Thank Thank you, Mr. S. Any questions for Mr. Sols? Thanks again for your your time and presence. Are there others who'd like to speak? Good afternoon. Uh my name is Trey Brewer. I'm the vice president of real estate at the Genico Group. Um I want to first thank uh Kyle Keema and Cameron Williams and Daryl Cots of the city of Tyler for working with us on this on this development. Um this is something we've we've been working with them closely on the last several months and I want to thank the internal Genico team for for working hard on this project. Um our our primary desire here is to develop a first class um high-end residential neighborhood here in this section of of the former Manzel farm. We're running out of property over in Legacy Bend to to keep going there. And so we see that this is is the next u the the next best place to develop in Tyler. Um, our restrictions that we've already filed of record are identical um to the legacy bin restrictions. Um, the current zoning allows that we have right now without getting any approval from this body allows developing four to five units, housing

24:10 – 26:08Speaker 1

units per acre. And what we're proposing here is a gated residential development with a density of less than one and a half units per acre. And so we feel like we're we're taking steps towards the neighbor uh the neighbors wishes of of having the the lots larger than what's currently required and was currently passed by this uh committee over a year ago. Um within the last year we've we've been working on a traffic study that the city required for a development that's this large. and the the study came back and showed that the traffic was adequate on Cumberland Road and Paluxy to to carry the traffic additional traffic that we're generating from this development. Um the additional traffic, so with this 25 acres or so, that's about 100 or 125 houses that we could fit in this in this area and we're proposing less than 30 here. Um Mr. Sauls and Mr. Clark have valid concerns about runoff and we want to work closely with our engineers and the city engineering staff to make sure that those are adequately addressed and we we'd love to to meet with them outside this meeting. Um, but I I would urge you guys to to pass this. We've already been here several times and the city is is recommending approval and um so I'd love to answer any any questions that you guys have. Thank you, Mr. Brewer. Any any questions for Mr. I have one. So in addition to looking at the traffic, have you looked at water runoff? What have you guys come up with some sort of plan for that? Sure. So that that process hasn't happened just yet. Our engineers are finalizing their um their calculations and that would be presented to to Daryl Cotter, the city, the city engineer for this and make sure

26:05 – 28:05Speaker 1

it's in keeping with the uh with the Tyler statute. So we we very much want to make sure it's that's addressed. Any other questions for Mr. Brewer? If not, thank thanks for your time and presence. Are there others who would like to speak on this item? All right. Any any questions for city staff? I have a question about the the traffic. Was it were we doing part of that study or was that a separate study for this specific subdivision or the the traffic study was for the entire 300 400 acre uh area. So um I think the you know the whatever changes here is actually less dense than the current zoning. So if anything it would reduce uh that that overall trip generation within the entire development. So um if that traffic study was being conducted and they were requesting to go higher in density then that might have you might have to tweak uh tweak those calculations. But um but yeah, that's that's occurring concurrently, but like I said, it's a lower density, so it should not impact that study. K, you want to address the culde-sac? Is this a normal way to deal with an a long culde-sac or does it normally have to have a variance? Um with them being a plan development, it can be uh approved through this this process. Um

28:02 – 30:00Speaker 1

and one of the the main things there is that we actually will have with it being a plan development, you have the site plan, you have the uh the size of the lots that are on it. You know how many are on there. And so um you're looking at it as a complete development and you can make that approval for this process. Any any other any other questions? Any other person here who'd like to speak on this side? All right, commissioners. Is there commissioner like to make a motion? Mr. Keane, in the in the absence of a motion, there will need to be some type of action by the commission either for or denial. Could it be further study on the option as well? Denial would set them way further back. Correct. If there's a denial, it could be appealed to the city council. There's that avenue. wishes, we need a need some some some sort of a some sort of action. David, I I'm going to move to approve um item PD25-011. Motion's been made to approve. Uh your motion dies for a second. I will

29:56 – 31:56Speaker 1

second. I'm understanding it. I will second. We we We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Uh, all right. Uh, will somebody call the role? Carlen Dark Baz. Hi. Clint Childs. I, Philip Humber, I. Christina Davis, nay. Michael Carmichael. Hi. Roy Martinez. Hi. David Hudson. No. What? Can you tell me what the uh vote was? Five to two in favor. Motion was five. The motion passed five to two. Um good good luck. U the next uh next item on our agenda is She's all right. [Applause] Is it is it uh Drake Equity? Is that the next one? Drake Equity Z25-016 Drake Equity Partners. All right, sir. Uh the applicant is requesting a zone change. Uh let's see. Sorry about that. Uh the applicant is requesting a zone change for future commercial development. Uh the land is located at the northeast intersection of Oak Hill Boulevard and West Grande Boulevard.

31:53 – 33:51Speaker 1

Uh the adjacent property to the north is zoned AG Agricultural District and is undeveloped. The adjacent property to the east is zoned C2 general commercial district and is developed with commercial uses. Properties to the south are zoned AG agricultural district and C1 light commercial and are undeveloped. To the west the properties are zoned AG agricultural district and uh PMF plan multifamily district and are undeveloped. Uh the future land use guide identifies this property as mixeduse medium center. Uh, the request would amend the future land use guide to general commercial. Uh, as of Friday, June 27th, 2025, of the four notices mailed, no notices were returned in favor or in opposition to the request. All other departments have reviewed the application and anticipate no significant impact on services and facilities by the proposed resoning request. Uh staff has performed a technical review of the request and finds that it is consistent with the approval criteria and staff recommends approval of the of the zone change. All right. Thank you. Any any questions for city staff? If not, are there persons here who'd like to speak on this item for or against? If not, if is there a commissioner who'd like to make a motion? Staff recommendation is to approve. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we approve blank on my Z25-016.

33:51 – 35:46Speaker 1

Second. Motion's been made and and seconded. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Items approved. Next is uh S25001 Drake Candy Park. Yes, sir. Uh the applicant is requesting the a special use permit to allow for a wireless communication facility with a monopole communications tower up to 150 ft in height for uh AT&T mobility. Uh the land is located at the uh north of the northeast intersection of Robertson Road and Bennett Avenue and the property is currently zoned M1 Light Industrial District. Uh the adjacent property to the east is zoned INT Institutional District and is developed with an early college high school. The adjacent properties to the north, south, and west are zoned M1 light industrial district and are developed with commercial uses and industrial uses. Uh the future land use guide is uh currently a business office park and would not be amended. Uh per the applicant site plan, the applicant will be using the extra space to build two accessory equipment buildings for the telecommunications facility uh 10 ft from the property line. The applicant has received a variance approval for an additional 15 ft to the rear yard setback of 25 ft. Uh the applicant has provided the necessary information that collocation within 500 ft is not feasible on on the lot.

35:47 – 37:43Speaker 1

Uh, as of Friday, June 27th, 2025, of the 11 notices mailed, no notices were returned in favor or in opposition to the request. All other departments have reviewed the application, anticipate no significant impact on services or facilities by the proposed SUP request. Staff has performed a technical review of the request and finds that it is consistent with the approval criteria. Staff recommends approval of the special use permit to allow the construction of a monopole communications tower of 150 ft in height. Thank you, Hunter. Any uh any questions for city staff? Uh I do. What's the proposed term for the special use permit? It mean uh indefinite. Indefinite. Any other any other questions for C staff? I'm a little confused. Is this how does that connect to the the tower that we recommended uh two or three months ago or is it completely completely different issue? Uh there's no no connection. That was for I think a radio tower. This is a a cell tower which we approved and has never been built. That's correct. All right. Uh there are the persons here who'd like to speak on this item. Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, uh commissioners, my name is Vince Heinger with Vincent Gerard and Associates representing uh the land owner, the tower owner, and AT&T Mobility. I've got a real quick wireless 101 slide presentation. If you don't mind, I'll show you a little bit about how things are going to go. I love to be entertained. So, go right ahead. It is there's a there's a huge

37:41 – 39:40Speaker 1

push recently by the carriers to provide infill services because of capacity. This is a location that staff is talking about. It's in the middle of an industrial park. Oh, thank you. Um the star represents where the site would be. It is in the back. Um, it's all zone industrial except for behind us is the school and that's basically open space. We did get a variance approved for the equipment cabinets only in that last 15t of that area at the board of adjustments because there's more buffer in there. There's a Dove Avenue that's unbuilt and and unconstructed with which is more buffer in that area and plus the uh the tenant could not use and operate the gates unless we push them back further. They have large 40 foot uh trucks that go in there. But that was approved. This is where the site is. A perfect location on the industrial complex that is pretty far from the roadway, pretty far from vis visibility, pretty far from everybody's view. As we know, we love to use our cell phones. We just don't always want to look at the cell towers. Um, a study was done by our office where the closest towers were. We found three over a mile away. So there wasn't any collocation opportunities and in this industry now the carriers play better together plus all the tower companies are building towers for them. So they look for vertical facilities first before they come in and say hi Tyler I want to build a new build here and this is why um they do provide some RF maps. These are like the Doppler radar maps but this is a current coverage for AT&T mobility. You can see where their sightes are is also in the big blue crosses there. Um green is great in

39:36 – 41:36Speaker 1

building coverage. Um yellow and and and lighter green is in vehicle coverage where you see white are really really poor coverage as well. So you can see this the site you can see the hole in the gap of coverage. Um, preferably we would have been uh a little bit further to the to the west, but that's what it looks like when you turn Whoops. End the story. Sorry about that. That's what it looks like when you turn that site on. We're having problems. Anyway, you could see the green expand quite a bit and we didn't get all of that area, but that's very unpopulated areas of of the part of Tyler over there as well. Um, capacity is driving a lot of these things. Uh, you know, when you're downloading a something on your phone, an attachment, it's going and going and going. That's RF power. That's what capacity is doing. Those sites are pretty much overloaded with videos and and phones and pictures that that were now state-of-the-art for the iPhones. I blame Apple on all that stuff. But capacity is a major problem. You see the graph there where it's over overgrowing the red line where that site is already over capacity as well. And that's what the neighboring sites are doing. On the left side you see a standard monopole picture. Um, if they've modified everything to the most extent structurally and antennas, 5G's up there, AT&T FirstNet's up there, and it's completely maxed out, then that's that's when the RF engineers call for a new search ring. And this is what happened in Tyler. Um, my closeout slide. Uh, we run so many apps. Um, I know I' I've got so many apps running on

41:34 – 43:28Speaker 1

my phone as well. All that's coming from the tower. You're constantly talking to that tower as well. So, um I'd be happy to answer any questions on this, but it's a it's a much needed facility for Tyler. We've got a great location. Um and everybody's going to be pleased with the better coverage. Thank you. Thank Thank you. Any any uh questions for this expert? Does the new tower relieve or make the other towers more effective? some of that grabs that traffic that's currently going on those other towers that you saw on that one screen. Best server is picking it up as well and provides better service and it just show goes smoother after that. Plus that gap is is covered too with inbuilding coverage. Again, thank you. Thank you for your time and presence. Are there other persons here who'd like to speak on this item for or against? Uh yes sir. Come to the come to the microphone. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chairman. Good to see you. Good to see everybody. My name is Otis Webster. Uh I was asked to be here today once I received a call about this gathering. I think one of the things that I'm a little concerned about, I can certainly understand what this communication tower is all about, but I'm wondering for those of you who are really involved with it, have you given any thought to

43:26 – 45:25Speaker 1

or is that the possibility of limiting the emission of radiation? That's one question. Uh it's easy to see that where we where this is proposed to to be built and you said 150 ft high communication tower and I can understand that this area is becoming somewhat of industrialized corridor. With that in mind, I can see the need for it. But it's also approximated very closely approximated where people are living and you might know that radiation in the air is very harmful. So the question is whether or not if it's going to be established is there any way to moderate the emission of radiation? That's the question. Thank you, Mr. Worster. Carl, yeah, I'll just mention that the uh the tower will be regulated by the F FCC and FAA and all those other federal uh agencies that that kind of have preeemption on on that discussion about radiation and RF waves and things like that. And so um so that's that's something I think maybe the applicant might also have some some expert you know uh uh input on that as well but uh the the radiation and all that would be uh subject to federal regulation not to local regulation. Uh yes sir. Could we maybe tell us tell us a little bit about radiation? Uh, it's not radiation. It's

45:23 – 47:21Speaker 1

nonionizing radio waves and it's been around since AM uh radio's been introduced. It's a send and receive, but it's back and forth. So, SEC does regulate the the amount. Um, this gentleman's no there's always somebody asking about this and it's always a fair question. We have to explain it. um they control the amount basically by by the regulatory process and we can't exceed that amount period. Um we also have to uh file that paperwork with them before we go on air. Um you get more radiation or not radiation nonionizing radio waves in front of your microwave about 10 times more like you do like me. I'm warming up my coffee again standing in front of there. more 10 times more than standing below the tower itself. So these things are safe. Um these things are not uh radioactive radioactive in any way. They're nonionizing. Thank you. Thanks both of you. Thanks. Are there others you'd like to speak? How you doing? Glenn Johnson. Uh I'm here uh as a private citizen. Um I have been involved with this group from the area where I was raised up in uh from birth. U I've been in Tyler practically all of my life other than going leaving for military duty and other things. But my concern uh is trying to figure out um what is it I can do as an individual? Um, and then I I thank Dr. Wester for

47:19 – 49:18Speaker 1

bringing up the question about radiation. Uh, because I have uh taken some interest in maybe uh investing in some some of the properties over there in that area. Uh we all know just south west of of where you all project where the project is going on uh they're doing some major developments and that's what posed my interest in trying to make some investments. So, my major purpose here as an individual is basically to kind of get involved and just try to find out uh what I can do as an as an individual, what our group can do as a group uh to uh make sure that we're uh aware of what's going on and what we can do to to make that that area the best that it can be. Uh so that's uh that's my take. Uh I don't have any yay or nay. I don't know where my group stands on this right now, but I I was invited. I'm just uh look forward to coming and just getting an idea of what's going on. We appreciate your time and presence. Yes, sir. Or are there others who'd like to speak? Yes, ma'am. Hello. Good afternoon to the commission. Uh, I'm Brenda Dear and I live in the community and I know that the LCC may regulate the regulations regarding uh the cell tower radiation. Uh, but within there was a study in Germany within five years of towers the community there was cancer

49:16 – 51:12Speaker 1

related illnesses in the community from the cell towers radiation that's within five years. So even though you're saying it's not letting off enough radiation within time there will be a buildup of radiation and it will affect the community. Uh any questions for this lady? So we appreciate your time and that's what I found in my studies. So there is a risk for radiation and it is a residential community's elderly. I I do appreciate your testimony. Okay. Thank you for your time. Are there others? Any any questions for C staff? What's the distance from this site to the nearest residential the school notwithstanding? And is there any water supply nearby that could be somehow affected? Yeah, there there are some homes to the well, there are homes on to the north west that might be five under 1,000 ft, I would say. Not immediately. 500 700 ft. Yeah, not immediately adjacent. No. Um, in terms of water, I'm not sure if there's any surface water that's going to be um at rest or even groundwater. But thank you.

51:14 – 53:12Speaker 1

Any other questions for city staff? Any any other person you'd like to speak? If not, the uh the planning department's recommendation is to approve. Mr. Chairman, I move we approve S25- Z001. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to uh approve uh the special use permit. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. Any opposed? Items approved. Next is uh C25002 Samuel Banks. An unimproved portion of is that Buddy Street? Yes, sir. Sheila, this is a request for a closure of an unimproved portion of Buddy Street. Uh the request um is to replant the right of way into their adjacent property. The adjacent properties to the north, uh, east, south, and west are all zoned R1B. The future land use guide identifies this property as single family, medium, low density. You see the building to the west of that is also a school uh early childhood center. The applicant is requesting the closure to replant the right of way into their adjacent properties. The street that the applica applicant is requesting is um is unimproved and uh does not appear to have ever been utilized as a street.

53:13 – 55:10Speaker 1

This request would um help facilitate the development of infill housing. The applicant will also be required to dedicate utility easements as necessary. As you can see, there are existing utility lines located within the right of way. Of the 11 notices mailed, no notices were returned in favor or in opposition to this requested closure. All other departments have reviewed the application and anticipate a positive impact on services and facilities by the proposed request. Staff recommends approval of the closure of the right of way subject to uh the right of way being replanted within six months. Arida, thank you. Uh any questions for city staff? Just a clarifying question. Is there any impact? I see where Jennifer Banks has both the plots to the looks like the east of it and no access to that back one. I know she owns both of those, but would there be any impact if one of those was to sell? Um, what the applicant is uh uh their plans is to um develop single family homes and create two new lots by that. um by the bank's property. Could y'all go to the aerial? Sure. I believe they the banks lots on the south, they plan to flip those to be uh towards Patrick and so replat those two lots to go north and south. Yeah. They are in the they are asking for the request. So that is aware of it. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Is the applicant here? somebody represent the applicant.

55:12 – 55:56Speaker 1

All right. Any other questions for city staff? If not, the staff recommendation is to to approve subject to the rideways being uh replanted within six months. Any any commissioner like to make a motion? I move that we approve C25- Z002. Second. Motion's been made and seconded to approve this item. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor say I. Any opposed? Items approved. Um, are we done? Yes, sir. Then we stand stand in German. Thanks to everybody.

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